[ZachMatthews]

This is the answer I came up with and provided to some other people who have asked:

Set Pinboard to 2 content columns, 2 Boxes Sidebar Columns, and 4 Footer Columns. Choose the first (farthest left) “Preferred Layout” option.

Now, this is obviously going to dictate the look of the rest of your site. I got around that by doing a three-tier Multisite layout. It’s not hard to set up but it is a pain in the ass to have to re-install Pinboard and re-set every single option so the site is all the same, but that gives you the flexibility to have multiple different layouts and formats all within the same blog. I actually have one blog running my Blog, Articles, Podcasts, Video and About pages, then a second blog running my Photoblog database (which keeps the posts separate), and then finally the third blog running only bbPress. However, user profiles are integrated in a multisite so people stay logged in throughout the environment.

One more thing to note: I moved the slider feature to my header by putting the slider section of the functions.php file actually in my search.php page, then deleting all other content from search. (My site only has search on the forums page). That makes the slider get called on each page first and you can tweak the menu layout and stuff to make it all appear up top. The only catch is the slider itself only works on the first page of a given blog (so it works on three of my pages). Everywhere else it is a static image, dictated by the oldest image chronologically amongst the slider pictures.

Here’s my CSS:

#slider .entry-title a {
	display:none;
}
.flex-direction-nav, .flex-pauseplay {
	display:none;
}
#bbpress-forums iframe, #bbpress-forums embed {
	max-width: 640px !important;
	height: 480px
!important;
	margin-left: 0px
!important;
}
fieldset {
	border: 0;
}
.fluid-width-video-wrapper {
	padding-bottom: 20px !important;
	padding-top: 53% !important;
}
.bbp-reply-content {
	margin-left: 120px !important;
}
.bbp-topic-content {
	margin-left: 120px !important;
}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-the-content-wrapper textarea.bbp-the-content {
	font-size: 15px !important
}
#bbpress-forums {
	font-size:14px !important;
}
.bbp-topic-permalink {
	font-size: 16px !important;
}

.bbp-reply-header a.bbp-reply-permalink {color: #00548c;}

a.button.logout-link {
	color:#f1f1f1 !important;
	background-color: #111;
}
p {
	font-size:14px;
	margin-right: 20px;
}
button {
	color:#fff !important;
	background-color: #555;
	padding: 6px 18px !important;
	border-style: solid !important;
	border-color: #000 !important;
	border-width: 1px !important;
        border-radius: 5px;
}
input {
	border: #9e9e9e 1px solid !important;
        border-radius: 5px;
        margin: 0 0 8px;
        box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
        background-color:#FCFCFC;
}
#sidebar-header {
	float:none !important;
	width: auto !important;
	height: auto !important;
	margin: 0 !important;
	border-top: solid 1px #333 !important;
	border-bottom: solid 1px #333 !important
}
#sidebar-header a {
	padding:0 !important;
}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
	background-color:#c3c3c3;
}
.bbp-admin-links a {
	color:#00548c !important;
}

.bbp-admin-links a:hover { 
	color:#d54e21 !important;
}
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies {
	border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log, #bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log, #bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-reply-revision-log {
	border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
}
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-reply-revision-log {
	color:#666;
}
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-reply-revision-log img.avatar {
	margin-left: 3px;
	margin-right: 3px;
}
.entry-content a img {
	padding: 0;
	margin-bottom: -3px;
}
.wp-editor-container {
	border-color:  #aaa #aaa #aaa !important;
}
.quicktags-toolbar {
	border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa !important;
}
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topics {
	border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
.bbp-topics-front ul.super-sticky, .bbp-topics ul.super-sticky, .bbp-topics ul.sticky, .bbp-forum-content ul.sticky {
	background-color: #f0f8ff;
!important;
}
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form {
	border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
#bbp_topic_title {
	box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-the-content-wrapper textarea.bbp-the-content {
	box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
}
input#bbp_topic_tags {
	box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
}
.bbp-forum-title {
	font-weight:400 !important;
        margin-left: 0px !important;
}
#bbpress-forums div.odd, #bbpress-forums ul.odd {
	background-color: #f3f3f3;
}
#access {
	background: #333 url(http://www.itinerantangler.com/global/body-bg12.png) repeat top left !important;
	padding-left: 0 !important;
	padding-right: 0 !important;
}
#access ul {
	padding-left: 35px;
}
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header {
	background: #f1f1f1 url(http://www.itinerantangler.com/global/body-bg12.png) repeat top left !important;
	border-top: none !important;
        width: 100%;
}
#footer-area {
	background: #333 url(http://www.itinerantangler.com/global/body-bg12.png) repeat top left !important;
}
.entry-content a:hover {
	color: #d54e21;
}
.entry-content a img, #attachment-nav a img {
	border: none !important;
	box-shadow: none !important;
}
.entry-content a:hover img, #attachment-nav a:hover img {
	border: none !important;
	box-shadow: none !important;
}
.onecol .onecol .entry-summary, .entry-content {
	padding: 20px;
}
.entry-title {
	margin-left: 20px;
}
.single .entry-title {
	margin-left: 0 !important;
	margin-bottom: -10px !important;
}
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.topic {
	border-top: 1px solid #eee;
	padding-top: 5px !important;
	padding-bottom: 0px !important;
        padding-left: none !important;
        padding-right: none !important;
}
#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta {
	margin: 0px 0 5px;
}
li.bbp-topic-title {
	padding-left: 20px;

}
#url, #email {text-indent: 0px !important;}

a.bbpl_button {width:25px !important;}

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum, #bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.topic {padding-top: 8px;}

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header {padding-left: 0px !important;}

li.bbp-forum-info {text-indent: 50px;}

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forum-info .bbp-forum-content, #bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-met {margin: 0px !important;}

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta img.avatar {margin-bottom: -3px !important;}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-template-notice img.avatar {margin-bottom: -3px !important;}

li.bbp-header div.bbp-reply-content span#subscription-toggle {margin-right: 10px}

div.bbp-template-notice, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies, #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form {border-radius: 5px !important;}

.quicktags-toolbar {border-top-right-radius: 5px !important; border-top-left-radius: 5px !important;}

#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form input {padding: 3px;}

[weezies]

Hello. Can you please advise which file the code above needs to be inserted in? I can definitely use this functionality. I’ve tried adding it in my theme’s functions.php but it doesn’t work there. Thank you!

[undsatca]

I am currently trying do the same thing, set newest to oldest with the original topic post remaining on the top.
I am a novice with code and CSS, and was curious where the code you provided for grex22 went. I am familiar with the .php location of bbpress, but can not find the information you posted.

Thank you

[akapope]

Hey BBPress!

I was wandering if ya’ll can help me out with this. So I have my theme styled so that each Forum gets its own background through the style.css file using the following lines:

.postid-17 {
background: #000000 url(http://alysiaworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/alysiasea.jpg) center top no-repeat fixed;
}

where postid-17 is the correlating WordPress post associated with the Forum.

The problem now is that when you visit a Topic within the Forum, the background goes back to the default image :/

I am thinking that there should be a code to pull the topics Parent Forum “postid” and then force the background to the topic.

I hope that makes sense. I can dig through code, but I am not so skilled with writing my own yet.

Thanks in advance for your help.

WordPress and BBPress are running the latest versions:

Site – htp://alysiaworld.com
Theme – Twentytwelve

[kettlewell]

@johnjamesjacoby I believe this link is the source of the problem… I think if this page is updated to be made current, it will solve a lot of confusion.

https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/

[kettlewell]

Update:

I’ve figured it out.

Part of it was my theme using the post_type_archive_title()

Part was needing to set a filter:

function test_support() {
  return 'Support';
}
add_filter('bbp_get_forum_archive_title', 'test_support');

And part of it is needing to modify the default bbpress theme by placing it in my own theme directory, and modifying the hard-coded instances of Forums and Topics.

A future enhancement / feature would be some sort of an options file to allow this text to be modified in one place somewhere…

[MJ]

Hi

I want to change the Output of the “Recent post” to make it similar as simple-press. Like this:
Forum: Forum Title
Topic: Topic Title
by: Author – Time

I found the code for widgets at:
bbpress/common/widgets.php

But I am afraid that if I changed this, it would be overwritten by the next bbpress update. Any ideas if I can I have a “child widget” or something?

Thanks

[xmasons]

Add this into your functions.php

function disable_our_feeds() {
	wp_redirect(get_option('siteurl'));
}
 
add_action('bbp_feed', 'disable_our_feeds', 1); // Disables BBPress feeds
add_action('do_feed', 'disable_our_feeds', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rdf', 'disable_our_feeds', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rss', 'disable_our_feeds', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rss2', 'disable_our_feeds', 1);
add_action('do_feed_atom', 'disable_our_feeds', 1);

[Justinvarnes]

First off, I’m an idiot when it comes to this stuff but I’m trying to learn.

I’m not sure where I went wrong, but iI have both Simple: Press and bb_press as plugins. I want to import my Simple:Press forum to the bbPress forum and delete Simple:Press. I tried following these instructions:

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

But when I tried to do the conversion, I didn’t know where to find the name of the database info, so I left it blank.

Tried the conversion anyway and it said there are no topics, forums, users, etc to convert.

Where can I find the name of the database, etc so I can fill that form out correctly OR..

Is that even what I should be doing?

Thanks in Advance!

[arohmann]

I can confirm this issue, and I believe it to be a bug with how forum threads are looked up. Perhaps one of the team here can confirm the issue?

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a thread using greek characters
2. Right click, and “copy link” then paste in new tab. This WORKS.
3. Now copy the URL directly out of the address bar and paste in new tab. This DOESN’T WORK

The difference I’m seeing is that the outputted forum URLs are encoded using lowercase a-f characters, but if you copy from the address bar (depending on browser or OS) the encoding letters are A-F uppercase.

For example:
ce%bf – accepted by bbPress and given the correct page
CE%BF – goes to 404

Normal WordPress pages can handle either just fine.

I’ve tested this for a bit and got the same results in both Chrome and Firefox on OS X. It really looks like a bug where bbPress can’t tell the difference, or it’s not an exact match. Either way, this could be a big issue! To users, the links look exactly the same, and they can have issues sharing links.

Thanks! Hoping to get some more feedback here.

Best regards

[maisdesign]

Hi, actually I’m trying to develop a WP plugin that will let users create a post and a forum with same title.
You can check and fork my code on GitHub https://github.com/maisdesign/MDPostEforumsCreator

As you can see actually one of the features I’m looking for is the equivalent for wp_dropdown_categories in BBPress.
With this drop down I’ll be able to let the user choose the parent forum for the forum he is creating.

I can’t find any documentation about it, am I missing something?

[_sushi]

I am having a bit of trouble integrating my WooTheme “canvas” with bbpress. I have read the “Theme Compatibility” article. I understand what it says but i am not sure when looking at the template PHP files that comes with bbpress where in my code i need to put the template code, and which part of the bbpress template code to use.

I also switched to the “TwentyEleven” theme and it worked fine. I tried comparing the WooTheme code to TwentyEleven using Firebug, and i can see there is an obvious difference in the code. But i am lost as to what to change.

I have setup all the correct settings in the Dashboard area.

Any help would would be greatly appreciated.
I am using WordPress 3.5.1
and bbpress Version 2.3.2

EDIT: I am having a bit of trouble with too much website traffic shutting my site down when i post the page address. So maybe if someone can point me in the direction of more info on intergrating bbpress with different themes. As stated above i have read the Theme compatibility article.

[maisdesign]

Hi, actually I’m trying to develop a WP plugin that will do almost the same thing you were trying to do.
But, my lack of knowledge and the lack of documentation (I can’t find it!) aren’t helping me very much.
This is what I have actually:
https://github.com/maisdesign/MDPostEforumsCreator

As you can see in my index.php file that is here:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Post And Forum Creator by MaisDesign & Stestaz
Plugin URI: http://maisdesign.it
Description: You give it a title and it automatically create a blank post and forum with that title, that's it!
Version: 1.0.0
Author: MaisDesign & Stestaz
Author URI: http://maisdesign.it
License: 
License URI: 
*/
/* Documentazione:
	Quello che sto cercando di ottenere è di svolgere tutto in una sola pagina, sono certo che non serva richiamare BBHOST e compagnia bella per inserire un cavolo di articolo ma sono le 2.20 AM e non so più che pesci pigliare!
	In fondo a questa pagina troverai del codice commentato, se ci sono bestemmie nei commenti lasciale dove stanno, sono di buon auspicio :-P
*/
/* Definiamo la versione */

if (!defined('MD_POSTFORUM_CREATOR_VERSION_KEY'))
    define('MD_POSTFORUM_CREATOR_VERSION_KEY', 'md_postforum_creator_version');

if (!defined('MD_POSTFORUM_CREATOR_VERSION_NUM'))
    define('MD_POSTFORUM_CREATOR_VERSION_NUM', '1.0.0');

add_option(MD_POSTFORUM_CREATOR_VERSION_KEY, MD_POSTFORUM_CREATOR_VERSION_NUM);

/*
    * This example will work at least on WordPress 2.6.3, 
    * but maybe on older versions too.
    */
   add_action( 'admin_init', 'md_postforum_creator_init' );
   add_action( 'admin_menu', 'md_postforum_creator_menu' );
   
   function md_postforum_creator_init() {
       /* Register our stylesheet. */
       wp_register_style( 'mdPostforumCreatorStyle', plugins_url('css/mdpostforumstyle.css', __FILE__) );
	       wp_register_script( 'mdPostforumCreatorScript', plugins_url( '/js/alajax-1.2.js', __FILE__ ) );
   };   
   function md_postforum_creator_menu() {
       /* Register our plugin page */
       $page = add_submenu_page( 'options.php', 
                                 __( 'MDPFC Plugin', 'md-postforum-creator' ), 
                                 __( 'MDPFC Plugin', 'md-postforum-creator' ),
                                 'administrator',
                                 __FILE__, 
                                 'md_postforum_creator_manage_menu' );
  
       /* Using registered $page handle to hook stylesheet loading */
       add_action( 'admin_print_styles-' . $page, 'md_postforum_creator_styles' );
		add_action('admin_print_scripts-' . $page, 'md_postforum_creator_scripts');
   };   
   function md_postforum_creator_styles() {
       /*
        * It will be called only on your plugin admin page, enqueue our stylesheet here
        */
       wp_enqueue_style( 'mdPostforumCreatorStyle' );
   };
   function md_postforum_creator_scripts() {
        /* Link our already registered script to a page */
        wp_enqueue_script( 'mdPostforumCreatorScript' );
    };
   /*function md_postforum_creator_manage_menu() {
   };*/
   add_action('admin_menu', 'register_md_postforum_creator_menu');
function register_md_postforum_creator_menu() {
   add_menu_page( 'MDPFC Options', // $page_title
                  'MDPFC Options', // $menu_title
                  'manage_options', // $capability
                  'md-postforum-creator-menu-page-slug', // $menu_slug
                  'md_postforum_creator_menu_page', // $function
                  plugins_url( 'md-postforum-creator/images/mdpostforum.png' ), /* $icon_url*/
                  3 ); /* $position*/
};

function md_postforum_creator_menu_page() {
   /* Does the user have the right permissions?*/
   if (!current_user_can('manage_options')) {
      wp_die( 'Sorry, you do not have permission to access this page.');
   };
  if(isset($_POST['new_post']) == '1') {
    $post_title = $_POST['post_title'];
    $post_category = $_POST['cat'];
    $post_content = $_POST['post_content'];

    $new_post = array(
          'ID' => '',
          'post_author' => $user->ID, 
          'post_category' => array($post_category),
          'post_content' => '', 
          'post_title' => wp_strip_all_tags($post_title),
          'post_status' => 'draft'
        );

    $post_id = wp_insert_post($new_post);
};          
echo '
<form action="'.admin_url('admin.php?page=md-postforum-creator-menu-page-slug').'" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="post_title" size="45" id="input-title"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="new_post" value="1"/>';
	wp_dropdown_categories('orderby=name&hide_empty=0&exclude=1&hierarchical=1');
    echo '<input class="subput round" type="submit" name="submit" value="Post"/>
</form>';
};?>

My plugin is almost complete, what I can’t understand is How to create also a forum with same title of the post created by the form.

Is there anyone who can send me to the right direction? Thank you.

[Nate]

@johnjamesjacoby …

First of all,

You can drop the attitude. I work in digital marketing for a living and have done so successfully for many, many years, dealing with everything between Drupal, WP and proprietary software, and your response in this thread is easily the most unprofessional, immature, and frankly, baffling I’ve come across.

Understand that I’m under ZERO obligation to report security flaws in codex.bbpress.org to you. I DID contact you via Facebook (evidence here: http://imgur.com/gDcoOYG) out of sheer freaking goodwill. I also tried alerting you to this on the forum. Here’s the FAQ Security that you linked to: “You should also contact the plugin developer either via email (if it’s listed in the plugin source code), or by posting in the support forum on their plugin page asking how best to send them details.”

I couldn’t find your e-mail address, and brought it up here without hesitation — with that said, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the lack of response generally shown on these forums is concerning toward a security flaw. Half the time it’s littered with spam for thai prostitutes anyway. Why would I assume that the thread would even be glanced at? Hence why I used Facebook to reach out to you.

And rather than inform you of bbPress.org login issues, I could have simply chuckled and chosen another open source platform of which to host my community. Or are you so self-righteous that you think multiple users complaining of the SAME login issues are probably just “doing it wrong” ??

In the words of the great Wayne Campbell, are you mental?

Your last question “How I managed to login” is already addressed within my post and in a post I made last week. I’m glad you did your homework.

If you’re ready to have an adult, professional conversation about this, let me know. Or check your Facebook messages from YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, when I addressed them.

[John James Jacoby]

I’ve received no message on Facebook (it’s also a poor approach to reporting security issues.)

Please read this page on the WordPress Codex.

Not fair to say I’ve ignored something I didn’t receive. I’m curious how you’re managing to login and post anything here, if logins are broken?

[Tecca]

@redknite, put this in your loop-single-reply.php file:

<?php $user = get_userdata( bbp_get_reply_author_id() );
if ( !empty( $user->user_nicename ) ) {
$user_nicename = $user->user_nicename;
echo "@".$user_nicename;
} ?>

[redknite]

@pjtna or @sambora5150 can you tell me how you got this to work? Where did you put the code? and was it exactly like above or did you have to add additional code?

[rossagrant]

I’ve been experiencing similar results for a few months now, BUT only on topics with more than a few subscribers.

It seems that BBPress is waiting for a confirmation that the email notifications have been sent to subscribers BEFORE it releases the rest of the php script and allows the page to refresh for the actual person posting.

The post is actually posted very quickly if you look at the forum on another browser whilst the browser used to actually post is still processing.

I’ve set up a TRAC ticket here and have been investigating it for a while.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2162#comment:8

I’m wondering if there is a better way to handle the notifications?

I’m no coder though unfortunately.

[Shmoo]

Yeah but they don’t wish to be like other forum software I guess.

bbPress wants to stay very clean, lean en mean I think. They hope somebody will ever make plugins for bbPress to accomplish all those tasks even history has proven Plugins aren’t the best way to go forward.

Anyway,
The code-snippet should go in the template that handles the form-stuff.

Find the next files.
wp-content / pluings / bbpress / templates / default / bbpress / form-topic.php
wp-content / plugins / bbpress / templates / default / bbpress / form-reply.php

Copy & paste ( don’t drag & drop ) both files to your theme folder inside a new fodler called bbpress.
wp-content / themes / your-theme-name / bbpress / ** paste them here **

Open the files and search for a line that say:
<?php bbp_the_content( …. ); ?>

Line 66 and 92 I think it is.
Change the code and Save it.

Refresh the page and you should see a Media upload button above the toolbar.

[joesed]

Hi Shmoo

Thanks for your reply. If you can let me know where this code should go (i.e. which file and approximate line number), that’d be much appreciated.

I’m really surprised that bbpress doesn’t have much better image upload functionality. If it did it would be right up there with other forum software. As it is, it seems inferior.

Once again, thanks

Joe

[Viktor Szépe]

Please help to make these plugins compatible. WPML 2.8.2 and bbPress 2.3.2

[Sat Jun 08 12:41:04 2013] [error] [client 80.98.70.185] PHP Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called <strong>incorrectly</strong>. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress">Debugging in WordPress</a> for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /home/davidprog/dev/keszul.tk/server/wp-includes/functions.php on line 2959, referer: http://keszul.tk/wp-admin/plugins.php?activate=true&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s=

wpml forum link

[Shmoo]

Well to now what file you have to get isn’t really that difficult, you just need a little understanding of what files will be loaded when view a specific page.

This is a good sheet to show you the logic, but it can be difficult te read.
https://codex.wordpress.org/File:Template_Hierarchy.png

This one explains in my opinion much better whats going.

The anatomy of a WordPress theme

But it’s not too difficult, lets say you’re on the homepage of your website.
Often the index.php is need to start. If you open the index.php you see at the top something like this <?php get_header(); ?> the funny thing about PHP is that you can alsmost read-/understand what it is going to do. Like the code tag above says get_header so on that position it will grab the header.php file and open it. Keep following all those files and you will be okay.
Think of it as LEGO – building blocks – it needs a few blocks to make a house and a webpage is the house.

—
For the forum (bbPress) side I can tell you that the homepage of the forum is the page where it shows all forums & categories. This is called an archive page and not a regular page.php what most people would think when they first start.
Normally if it’s an archive page WordPress would load the archive.php template but because we have a Post_Type created by bbPress called Forum we can add the Post_Type_Name behind the archive.php – like this: archive-forum.php

When you copy that archive-forum.php file form your extra’s (plugins) folder to your Theme folder and open it you will again see the <?php get_header(); ?> stuff and all other typically WordPress stuff.

To remove the sidebar of the main forum-page you just go into that archive-forum.php template and delete the code that called the sidebar: <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
Just like the header it’s telling you what it does -> GET Sidebar ( load the sidebar files )

It’s really just trying and not being afraid. Them ore you do it the better you get at it.

*** Never try to edit files on a working website – online ***

Install WordPress + your website on your computer locally, get a code editor – edit the files and check if everything is working. When your finished editing and everything is Fonzy cool you can upload and overwrite the files at your online-server.

You know how I got my start (years ago) while not knowing what files to edit – By just opening some files I thought could be the files I needed. Typing 55555555555 or something else inside the file – Save it – reload the page in the browser and if 55555555555 didn’t show-up on the webpage I knew it wasn’t that template I was looking for and kept searching for the right one.

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes… You gonna make some trust me, but when you have a back-up file or you can simply undo your edit inside the Code-editor ( CMD + Z ) you’re all fine.

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Try to install some Debug plugins they will give you some answers about why things take so long to load.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress
– at the bottom is a list of good plugins.

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There is an option but it’s so WordPress. (half done)

This will add a WP Media upload button above the form.

<?php bbp_the_content( array( 'context' => 'topic', 'media_buttons' => true, ) ); ?>

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Enable Visual Editor