[Stephen Edgar]

Basically your users shouldn’t be logging into to backend in the first place, thus they should never see that to be even tempted.

You can add a login widget to a sidebar or create a page with a shortcode, up to you which way depending on how you want your site to look etc.

https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/ https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[Stephen Edgar]

Would I be better with a ‘site-wide’ forum rather than the private All Residents group?

I think this is now sorted based on your reply.

Can I make a site-wide forum private?

Same this is now sorted.

How do I modify the formatting of the forum postings?

If you want custom templates then follow the steps outlined here to make copies of the templates in your theme so they don’t get overridden when you update bbPress.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

Where do I look to troubleshoot the ‘threading’ function?

You state you are using ‘bbPress 2.2’, threaded replies were introduced in bbPress 2.4 so you should upgrade to the latest bbPress 2.5.2. You can then enable them in bbPress settings per https://codex.bbpress.org/forum-settings/#forum-features

[Stephen Edgar]

So far no go. Only my admin user can click on these.

This is correct and is by design, users should only be using the ‘front end’ user interface and not the ‘back end’

Also check the codex docs here to help you on your way 🙂

Codex

[Stephen Edgar]

Maybe try making a copy of your themes page.php or page-no-sidebar.php or page-sidebar.php depending on the type of template you want your forums to display with and rename the file to bbpress.php in the root of your themes folder.

[Stephen Edgar]

If you want widgets above your topic list you will need a theme that supports putting a sidebar at the top of your page, otherwise will one of the shortcodes work?

[Stephen Edgar]

You can make a copy of bbPress’ templates and put theme in a subfolder bbpress in your theme and edit the templates to any style you wish 😉

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen Edgar]

That example I used was using the Glyphicons Font

Probably taking a look at this will give you a rundown on what you can use in CSS with before, after & content

CSS Content

[Stephen Edgar]

You could add some custom code with a filter before and after the tags section and apply some custom CSS rules using:

bbp_theme_before_topic_form_tags & bbp_theme_after_topic_form_tags

Or make a copy of form-topic.php in your themes /bbpress folder and edit the template to exactly how you would like it.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen Edgar]

I am pretty sure it is a theme issue your having in that it is not playing nice with bbPress for some reason.

You could try adding a template wrapper for bbPress.

Make a copy of your page.php or page-sidebar.php theme template file and rename it to bbpress.php in the root folder of your theme.

Have you looked to see if there are any resources on your themes support site for using bbPress?

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress might not have many settings but it does have this one 😉

https://codex.bbpress.org/forum-settings/#forum-features

Topic Tags
This will disable topic tags site wide and will no longer show topic tags associated with each topic or the topic tag input form.

[Stephen Edgar]

The ‘User Role Editor’ will not fix this issue, it has nothing to do with bbPress and will probably hinder your troubleshoot rather than helping.

Have you tried running the ‘Remap existing users to default forum roles’ repair tool?
https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

[Stephen Edgar]

As per https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

You can set the forum/category ID in the widget but only a single ID at this stage.

(bbPress) Forums List – A list of forums with an option to set the parent.

Options:
Title: Here you can set the title of the widget as it will be displayed in the sidebar.
Parent Forum ID: “0″ to show only root – “any” to show all

[Stephen Edgar]

Add some custom CSS to your theme:

Eg. For the ‘Notícias’ forum

#bbp-forum-709 .bbp-forum-topic-count, 
#bbp-forum-709 .bbp-forum-reply-count {
display: none;
}

Yes, that was spam, now deleted

[BelleO]

Hello everyone! Thanks in advance for your help,

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get my root forum page to show properly

This is my site: http://www.ladiesbalance.com/forums/

I have created a page title forum and inserted the code [bbp-forum-index],
when i go the forum page, it works fine but in the breadcrumbs, the root page shows up incorrectly. I have tried changing the page name but that doesn’t work. Can someone help please! thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

But eventually I got rid of them all and the Topics display returned to normal.

Still an odd issue but glad you have it sorted now. If you see this again a couple of screenshots would be great to try and work out what exactly is going on.

I am not sure why Akismet didn’t get block them. Perhaps it can only respond to certain language texts?

Akismet handles any spam irrespective of the language in use or being used for the spam.

Is your Akismet API key up to date and valid? /wp-admin/plugins.php?page=akismet-key-config

[Josh Zandman]

I’ve got it!

I copied the bbpress.php file to my child theme.
Copy/pasted my full-width.php code into the beginning of the bbpress.php code and it works perfectly.

Thanks!

[e-motion]

Hi.

I am still running bbPress v1.0.3. I have not upgraded it since due to complexity and lack of time. I am now all full at it.

I am running a copy of my site locally (on WAMP2) due to obvious reasons.
I have tried as per <fontadoni> instructions to update to v1.2, which was successful. Now I am trying to import everything to newest bbPress plugin (v2.5.2) via included import tool. What I get is:

Calculating forum hierarchy (0 - 99)
Converting forums (0 - 99)
Starting Conversion

And it hangs there (on hierarchy calculation). When I check the forums, I can see that forum categories are there, but no subforums, no topics and no users present.
I do reset and recalculate everything before importing. I have tried various checkbox combinations …
I was running bbPress integration btw (common users between wp and bbPress v1.2).

help…

[RyanSSealey]

Site: http://dubiousdata.net/forums/forum/news
WP Version: 3.8
bbPress Version: 2.5.2

I would like to modify the new post form that displays below the current topics in a forum. I was trying to do it with only CSS, but I have run into a problem.

I want to remove the “Topic Tags” field below the body area. I initially tried with the following CSS:

label[for=bbp_topic_tags],
input[id=bbp_topic_tags] {
display: none;
}

This removed the form and label themselves, but there is a <p> </p> tag around these with no Class or other identifier, leaving a noticeable space.

What is the best way to accomplish this or modify the form?

[Josh Zandman]

Thanks for the reply.

Do I copy the template code and paste it into the bbpress.php file? Or do I copy the template as a file and add it to a folder in the bbpress folder nested under plugins?

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you tried the ‘Remap existing users to default forum roles’ repair tool?
https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you set the forum slug to forum? (i.e. the same slug as your page slug)

https://codex.bbpress.org/forum-settings/#forum-root-slug

[Stephen Edgar]

A quick look at the source code…

It should be convert on the topic admin links where you see edit,close,stick,merge,trash,spam etc

[Stephen Edgar]

Copy whatever template your theme uses for the full width template eg page-no-sidebar.php to bbpress.php in your themes folder 🙂

[Aqeart]

I’ve been using WordPress for a long time but I’m new to bbpress. I’m trying to figure how to add sidebar to my forum so that users can login or check out the latest posts from the forum. Hence I’ve decided to create a page with -forum slug so It won’t overlap default -forums slug of bbpress. I added the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] to that page and edited. Everything was working fine until I clicked on any of the forums I created. It redirected me to a page with -forums slug and breadcrumbs was on the same direction, as if shortcode was just a decoy. Unfortunately, I wasn’t very successful at altering bbpress files as I wanted. My question is about those slugs. Is there any way to override bbpress’ own page system and force it to use the page I inserted the forum code.

Thank you

[WPDragon]

Hi @netweb – I am trying to do exactly the same thing with adding a small image icon next the Forum name.

I tried to follow your CSS example, but im abit confused….Can you please help with how to get it working properly.

Your Example:

.bbp-forum-34 i:before {
  content: "\e112"; /* glyphicons_ */
}

So – .bbp-forum-34 <— this I change to the name of my forum id.
– content: "\e112"; <— what is this & goes here?
/* glyphicons_ */ <—- what is this & goes here?

Any type of response would be appreciated! Thanks!