[ZachMatthews]

That code is also pulling only the date/time when the topic was STARTED, not the most recent reply. Any help?

[ZachMatthews]

That code kinda works. It looks like some of the timestamps are off, and the timestamps on the Forums page (as opposed to Topics) aren’t correct and aren’t updating. Anyone know how to fix that?

looks like this line isn’t working:

add_filter( 'bbp_get_forum_freshness_link', 'wpse_77441_change_time_format', 10, 2 );

Zach

[Doremdou]

I have never seen any response from the devs/leaders of the bbpress team themselves, seems only volunteers (and thank you very much to them) are answering this forum. I can understand that, because they already created this plugin in their spare time, are not paid or anything, so if they had to answer here it would be a lot of more work… that is what I think.

I think the threaded/nested replies included in bbpress are working the way it should, it is not a bug, it is just the way they wanted it to be it seems.

The only way to fix this problem is to find someone skilled enough to code /and/or hack the current code to change the way nested replies are working and add pagination to it.
I am trying to do it, but can’t figured it out yet… I am not a developper at all, so there is a lot of things I don’t understand… :/

Another solution would be to update the bbPress Threaded Replies plugin https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpress-threaded-replies to make it work with the new bbpress version (and disable the integrated system in bbpress…) but I don’t know how to do that either…

Hope we’ll find a fix soon, if someone has an idea we’ll be really grateful 🙂
Thank you,
Dorem

[Robin W]

‘The box fields are overlapping one of the widgets on my side menu’
Can you give us a url so that we can see the problem?

‘The other thing I need to change the color of the box fields.’
This would be a css change – see https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-styling-crib/ and If what you want to do is not thee, come back and tell us which bit needs chnaging

[robahas]

Hi – I figured this out. Everything under a forum category is a descendant. So based on that you can select an entire “section” of the forum. Here is the code (this is in the genesis framework, so adjustments would be needed for applying to the body class in non-genesis installations). The key is to get the ancestors of the current post, and if your top level forum is included, then apply the css.

add_filter( 'body_class', 'sp_body_class' );
function sp_body_class( $classes ) {
    global $post;
    $anc = get_ancestors($post->ID, 'post');
     if ( is_single( '1530' ) || in_array('1530', $anc) )
          $classes[] = 'custom-class';
          return $classes;
}

[Robin W]

Whilst much of this link is blanked out, it does seem to indicate a problem with conflicting page templates.

http://www.experthelp.com/question/74882/i-have-installed-two-plugins-shopp-and-bbpress-a-shop-and-a-forum-the-start-page-of-each-plugin-is-showing-up-blank-on-my-wordpress-site-how-do-i-fix-it

What I’d suggest you do is create a page template for your bbpress so that it only uses that one, leaving shop to use whatever template it is using.

https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ part 8

You don’t say what theme you are using – and in fact it could be the theme’s page template that is causing the issue.

But let’s suggest for a starter that you look in your theme, and copy then rename it’s default page template as per part 8 above.

If you need further help doing that, or it doesn’t work, come back

[Robin W]

not quite sure what you mean, but have a look at

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

and if you still have a problem, come back

[Robin W]

You would paste that code into your theme’s function file.

If you do not have a child theme you should consider creating one, just google “wordpress child theme video” and you’ll find lots of help. You’d then put this code into that theme’s function file.

If you put it in the main theme (or indeed bbpress) it will be overwriten by any upgrades to those.

[Robin W]

I have been adding to the documentation with a much longer step-by-step guide, much more still to add !

Codex

[Robin W]

1. Can admin set forums as private – by invitation only?

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

2. A search function to search for topic and keyword?
it’s there
3. A notification can be set to follow certain topics e.g. network or mobile, therefore any of these topics posted, an email notification will be sent to me?
plugin bbp notify
4. Member can upload and download files?
gd-bbpress-attachments plugin
5. Is it mobile responsive?
yes
6. Member can create new topic
yes
7. Admin or assign moderator can accept or reject new users?

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

and
plugin bbpressmoderation
8. Can admin block certainly users? on users’ email or ip?
plugin wp-ban

9. hosted on any share hosting provider? e.g. godaddy?
yes with any wordpress setup

[Robin W]

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

section 8

If you find the page template from the theme that has a sidebar, just follow then instructions above to rename it to bbpress.php and put it in the right directory

[kokocipher]

I know there is a solution to add a code snippet to turn visual text editor on from https://codex.bbpress.org/enable-visual-editor/

But do I paste that in the bbpress function.php file?

[nicmare]

mhh. as i already said i still talking about <title>! the one in the browser bar 😀
current sourcecode is: <title>| dashcamtest.de</title>
as you can see the topic title is missing!

[Doremdou]

Hi again,
I just played with https://codex.bbpress.org/bbp_author_link/ and adapted it to my theme.

[Rackmire]

Hi Thanks for your support and fast reply. Much appreciated,

Do I just paste this code in my header.php file?

Thanks,

[Rackmire]

Hi,

how does this work? how to implement this?

I’ve tried creating a plugin folder and putting it within a new file, it appears in the plugins area and i click activate but nothing happens. Do I need any extra code to insert in my theme files for it to relate to?

Thanks

[backpackersontrack]

http://backpackersontrack.com/forums/forum/africa/ –> this one does contain a login screen. This one shows up when clicking on forum: Africa

http://backpackersontrack.com/forum-2/ –> this one doesn’t. This one shows up when clicking on forum via our homepage.

On the forum page on my dashboard, I inserted this code: [bbp-forum-index], referring to our BBpress forum.

[Lynqoid]

If you want to achieve a hierarchy like this:

- Continent
 - Country one
 - Country two
-Continent two
 - Country one

Then I would suggest setting up the continents as categories and the countries as forums. If you hide the countries how does the user get to the country forum to post a topic? Or do you give them a direct link or something?

[dzpoa]

@netweb No, i’m not using threaded replies. and “Forum root should show” is set to “Topics by Freshness”. It looks to me now that those settings fixed the issue, not the code 🙁

[Doremdou]

Hello, thank you for your code @marky_uk 🙂
Unfortunately it does not seem to work right.
In fact, there is a pagination with threaded replies with your code, but same replies are replicated on each page (so it is always the whole bunch of replies on each page) it does not separate them.

Would be greatly appreciated if someone has another idea 🙂
thank you 🙂

[Robin W]

I’m a bit of a newbie to this area, having just created my first settings page, so of this is irrelevant, please ignore !

The following talks about needing to register

https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_API

eg “NOTE: You MUST register any options you use with add_settings_field() or they won’t be saved and updated automatically. ” – which seems to describe your problem

and

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_setting

That may not be necessary as you’re adding it as a filter??

anyway my code cribbed from elsewhere looked like

// register the plugin settings
function ui_register_settings() {

	// create whitelist of options
	register_setting( 'ui_settings_group', 'ui_settings' );
	}
//call register settings function
add_action( 'admin_init', 'ui_register_settings' );

where ui_settings was my array.

[shawlw]

Thanks Robin. I’m very interested in going through the code, so I’ll follow up on that. Cheers.

[traemccombs]

Heh, I feel bad, and I know better. I’ve been in the Open Source community since 96′ and I do know better. I just always assume all the things have been sussed out.

I’m tired, exhausted from 24hrs work in two days. I do appreciate what you’ve said and actually was able to figure out how to get a different theme to show up.

I just wish there was a less “command-line”y way of doing things for those that might not know how to deal with a shell or to get their hands dirty.

I may not be able to code, but I do know my way around a unix command line.

As far as sucky themes go, it’s really just my observation. I’m not trying to be cruel. I haven’t seen a truly amazing bbPress theme implementation that makes me go.. “HOLY COW, THIS IS AWESOME.”

Anyhoo, again, thank you so much for taking time to respond.

Cheers,
Trae

[Stephen Edgar]

@dzpoa Are you using this with threaded replies enabled on your site?

function custom_bbp_has_replies() {
    $args['orderby'] = 'ID';
    $args['order'] = 'ASC';
    return $args;
}
add_filter('bbp_before_has_replies_parse_args', 'custom_bbp_has_replies' );

[Robin W]

“I’ll read the link you posted. Hopefully it doesn’t suck.”

I wrote it, and hopefully you give me some positive feedback if you feel it can be improved. By the way I don’t consider “it sucks” to be positive feedback 🙂

In fact if you worked you way through the documentation, you’d probably gain a lot of knowledge.

“Easy of me to throw stones in a glass house when I don’t code I guess. ” Yes, basically you are taking something that people have written in their spare time, don’t get a penny for, and that you are using it for free, and you want the people who developed it to abandon taking their kids out for the afternoon (or in fact many afternoons) and write code so that you don’t have to. And then you come on this site where people like me who again do this in my spare time for free, and have lots of other things I could be doing, and slagging it off. 🙂

There is a lot of development of this plugin going on all the time and it will keep improving.

“And, I have yet to see a non-sucky bbPress based forum. Most are fairly crappy in how they present and deal with the content. ” – now you just resorting to insult.

A community (like the open source community) requires contributors as well as takers
If you want to contribute to the development of the plugin, please let us know exactly what you would like to see, and how you think it would benefit other users.

Oh and yes, I think you are now starting to sound like a troll !

Best Wishes

Robin