[stunna42]

bbPress Version 2.3.2 & WP 3.6

Hello! Sorry for the newbie question 🙂 I’d like to customize the registration experience for my instance of bbpress. Specifically, I’d like to specify the content:

1. In addition to the username and password fields on the sign-up page
2. In the “you are now registered email” users get
3. In the forgot your password page
4. In the forgot your password email

Is this possible? If so, how? Thanks again!

Note: I know we can specify custom URI’s…but using the registration short code creates a page with the following content…I’d like to change that text etc. “Your username must be unique, and cannot be changed later. We use your email address to email you a secure password and verify your account.”

[Yusri Aleazy]

go to ur kingsize style
style.css
in line 324

Modify this

#content ul li li {
    margin-left: -35px;
}

into

#content ul li li {
     margin-right: -33px;
 }

[Stephen Edgar]

Make sure you have the correct fields for ALL of the values:

• Database Name: Name of the database with your old forum data
• Database User: User for your database connection
• Database Password: Password to access the database
• Table Prefix: (If converting from BuddyPress Forums, use “wp_bb_” or your custom prefix)

I am 99% sure that your issue is the last item above, you need to make sure you have the correct database prefix, you can open up phpMyAdmin from your webhost control panel.

If you are unsure of any of these contact your webhost to confirm them.

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vbulletin

[Stephen Edgar]

Try accessing example.com/forums instead

Also to get the forums on your front page of WordPress setup a custom page and add a shortcode:

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

[MoniqueR]

On my website I use the shortcode [bbp-topic-form] for displaying the ‘new forum form’.

What I think is odd is that the dropdownlist has no “Please select forum” option. It just displays all of the forums with the first one selected. I know many users are not good readers (sorry 🙂 ) so, when they type the title and message they just hit the submit button and forget to select the correct forum, so many topics are put in the wrong forum. Can someone please help me how to add a ‘please select’ to the dropdown and make it required?

Regards,
Monique

I use BBpress 2.3.2. and WordPress3.6

[volvo_owmer]

Hello

I have make a lot of different custom filed in dashboard.
And now I whant to display them in the add of the plugin…

I have manage to display allmoste every one exept för the dropdown list for Car brands.

To show one of the cars that i´m using i have :

<?php $carbrands=get_post_meta($post->ID, 'wpcf-carbrands', true); echo $carbrands; ?>

But I whant to show them all…..

Becuse the members need to see them, when they add a car.

[bigboytony09]

Hi,

I’m currently trying to use the shortcodes:
[bbp-register]
[bbp-login]

For some reasons, these plugins don’t appear on the bbpress forum pages but works perfectly fine on any other page.

Am I missing something?

Thanks.

Tony

[Anonymous User 5853594]

You could create a page and call it “help”. Using the bbPress shortcodes you can show the forum index on that page.

You can change the slugs in the settings page (Settings>Forums). There you can change the base slug to “help”, so that all topics show up under /help instead of /forums.

Just make sure that you don’t get conflicts between your pages and the slugs.

[marksedgwick]

Bump!

I know this would create another DB call, but surely this option should be a no brainer for the users. this appears to be a un-popular issue for users..

is bbpress not listening or addressing this request?

[NeilJ]

Yeah I am looking at how to import them myself. I was trying the following just to even get the categories into the database but it does nothing:

$this->field_map[] = array(
	'from_tablename'  => 'categories',
	'from_fieldname'  => 'id_cat',
	'to_type'         => 'category',
	'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_type'
);

Not that the forum I am importing has a lot of categories but it would be nice if we could import these as well.

[Stephen Edgar]

Open up your WordPress users admin eg. http://www.whichinvestmenttrust.com/wp-admin/users.php

I presume this is because your existing WordPress users before you installed bbPress do not have a ‘forum role’, set these users as ‘Participants’ and I think you will be good to go.

There is some more detailed role info here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

[dice2dice]

Gosh this is so frustrating.

When I click on ‘WangGuard Users’ it states I have 89 verified members. How does WangGuard connect with BBPress?

The 89 definitely includes members who registered on my site before I installed BBPress.

I’ve found a tool to import members it is here….. https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

But it doesn’t seem to include WordPress members. It is just members of other forums software.

A solution might be to uninstall BBPress and install something that works better but if I uninstall BBPress will it delete my members?

I see others using http://disqus.com Maybe that would work better?

[KenTheriot]

I just set up my first bbpress forum (WP 3.6 and bbPress 2.3.2). I’m using Genesis with the Eleven40 child theme. I also installed the bbPress Genesis Extend plugin.

For what it is worth, this problem does NOT happen using the Twenty Twelve theme. So it is likely related to the Genesis and Eleven40 child theme combo.

The problem I’m having is that the url “mysite/forums,” leads NOT to the forum index, but instead to a strange page that pulls a graphic from my theme and puts the following text on the page:

“Search for: Living With A Urinary Catheter › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness General Discussion Introduce yourself and talk about all things catheter related. 2 2 26 minutes ago Ken Theriot Urethral Strictures And Their Treatments Discussions about urethral strictures, their symptoms, treatments, success rates and surgery recovery. 0 0 No Topics”

Here is a link: http://livingwithacatheter.com/forums/

I have set up a page called “Community Forums” on which I have put the index shortcode, and the link to that, which I have in my NAV menu, works great. It leads here:

Community Forums

It would be an issue except that there is a clickable link in the breadcrumbs that leads to the weird /forums page (Living With A Urinary Catheter › Forums › General Discussion) – the “Forums” part of the breadcrumb path.

Is there a way I can at least correct the link destination of “Forums” in the breadcrumbs?

Thanks!

Ken

[Xevo]

You can however download 2.4 already.

bbPress 2.4 – Release Candidate 1

Unfortunately bbPress is still in its early active development which means that a lot of wanted features are still being fabricated as we speak.

[johni33]

That may well be the reason, but what is the solution?
surely bbpress needs to send commands to wordpress such that it produces the desired result, i.e. selecting a navigation link in a bbpress widget should navigate to the desired page in bbpress, not jump to some random news page.
If it’s fixed in 2.4 as indicated above, that’s great but that’s not released yet.

[Xevo]

Je bedoeld de activiteiten pagina van Buddypress?

In dat geval moet je bbpress ook z’n vertaling nog geven, gezien Buddypress en bbPress compleet aparte vertalings bestanden hebben.

Je kunt hier vinden hoe.
https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[Xevo]

The reason for this is simple, when wordpress reads “?paged=2” it reads the second page of your posts, not the second page of your topics.

[Stephen Edgar]

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

Adjust your Forum attributes. These are:
Types: choose whether you are creating a Forum or category.
Forum – can contain topics and be the parent of other forums.
Category – can only contain forums (no topics). Use for organizing your forums.

…

You may, for example, have a Category “Open Source Software” with the Forums “bbPress” and “WordPress”.

…

Parent: Forums can have a hierarchical structure. If your forum is a sub-forum of another Forum or is the child of a category, add the Parent here.

[nvkodde]

Not sure of the actual cause but bbPress 2.4 RC 1 seems to of fixed my problem.

[Tecca]

In your bbpress.css file you’ll find something like this:

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta img.avatar, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-reply-revision-log img.avatar, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topic-revision-log img.avatar, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-template-notice img.avatar, #bbpress-forums .widget_display_topics img.avatar, #bbpress-forums .widget_display_replies img.avatar, #bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta img.avatar {
    border: 3px double #DDDDDD;
    float: none;
    margin-bottom: -7px;
}

Add display: inline; to it, and that’ll fix it up for ya.

[mgoon11]

Hello, I’m building a website with forums at . However, I’m having trouble understanding why it looks the way it does? I thought it would look like you know, an actual forum with the various forums and sub-forums in a “tree-like” format etc. I’m confused as to how to make it look an operate that way instead of the way it is currently with this weird “archive” format. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Btw, I just created the page with the default “forums” slug and I’ve tried the shortcode too with same results – I just have no idea why it looks the way it does.

[tinfoiler]

It just appeared when the plugin was activated and nowhere else. It doesnt seem to affect anything as the ad codes i have added are appearing in the forums and in the correct locations specified.

Edit: I dont know what this notification message means.

[tinfoiler]

I just installed this plugin in wordpress 3.6, when i enabled the plugin i got the following message:

The plugin generated 50 characters of unexpected output during activation. If you notice “headers already sent” messages, problems with syndication feeds or other issues, try deactivating or removing this plugin.

This doesnt seem to have had any effect on the plugin though as it still inserts ads correctly into the forums.

[tinfoiler]

Im in need of this code as well, however when i add it to functions in my wordpress theme folder it crashes my website. I tried adding to bbpress functions as well but same problem. Any advice? :/

[Stephen Edgar]

The SimplePress converter is already included in bbPress and is the latest version available, you should not need to download and upload it to your server.

The settings are critical to getting the importer working correctly, sadly at this stage there is very little error messages displayed if you get any of these settings wrong and this is the most common issue with importing.

Ensure your settings are correct for the fields noted in the docs here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/#configuring-the-importer

You may have to check with your webhost to ensure you are using the correct values.