I’m not sure if this is a problem or a setting I need to change – I’m using a shortcode to display the forums here:
http://www.redkitecreative.com/dev/ivas/member-news/forum/
But if I click through to any forum or topic, the URL changes to:
http://www.redkitecreative.com/dev/ivas/forums/forum/members/
What happened to my member-news page in the URL? I think this may be confusing for users – it’s confusing to me…
I have read here: https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/ how to do the first step.
But I don’t know if its possible to convert the group forums into “normal” forums (site wide).
THANKS for your response!
Anyone please? In the codex there is no info about this…
[bbp-topic-form] – Display the ‘New Topic’ form where you can choose from a drop down menu the forum that this topic is to be associated with.
https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
Add me to this list of bbPress needing the messaging functionality. We have over a thousand users and just moved from forum software built 9 years ago to bbPress, and messaging was considered a fundamental feature. Every other piece of competing forum software out there includes messaging.
I’ve been running this successful forum for close to 15 years and I’m a digital marketing manager for a living. It could be argued that I know what I’m talking about.
I fully understand that bbPress wants to keep it lean & mean, yet we have odd, little-used features built into core like Twitter & YouTube embedding. But really obvious items, like quoting, signature files and private messaging, require separate plug-ins? There’s some logical missteps in there. What’s up with Yahoo, Jabber and AIM still having fields? NO ONE USES THOSE SERVICES ANY MORE. Even dropping the Visual editor (in 2013?) in the latest release is a step back.
(A note on Avatars: Listen guys, this expectation of users to register an account with another service like Gravatr, and then return to their account with our site, is clumsy and far-fetched at best. Again, a separate plugin for Avatar? C’mon)
With that said, I switched to bbPress because I think the code is more pure and I think it has better longevity due to its affiliation with WP. It isn’t clunky and bloated. The SEO options for WP sites in general are more impressive, and there’s a wide support community – and I knew it would be intuitive and relatively painless for myself and my team.
Would love to get JJJ’s take and that of others.
I’m attempting to convert a phpBB2 forum to bbPress version 2.3.2.
I’ve selected the option to convert users, but it’s failing with the following error:
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'users.user_form_salt' in 'field list']
SELECT convert(users.user_id USING "utf8") AS user_id,convert(users.user_password USING "utf8") AS user_password,convert(users.user_form_salt USING "utf8") AS user_form_salt,convert(users.username USING "utf8") AS username,convert(users.user_email USING "utf8") AS user_email,convert(users.user_website USING "utf8") AS user_website,convert(users.user_regdate USING "utf8") AS user_regdate,convert(users.user_aim USING "utf8") AS user_aim,convert(users.user_yim USING "utf8") AS user_yim,convert(users.user_icq USING "utf8") AS user_icq,convert(users.user_msnm USING "utf8") AS user_msnm,convert(users.user_jabber USING "utf8") AS user_jabber,convert(users.user_occ USING "utf8") AS user_occ,convert(users.user_interests USING "utf8") AS user_interests,convert(users.user_sig USING "utf8") AS user_sig,convert(users.user_from USING "utf8") AS user_from,convert(users.user_avatar USING "utf8") AS user_avatar FROM users AS users LIMIT 0, 100
Is there anything I can do the resolve the issue?
Thank you
Oh no, poor you! Jack should be able to re-set them via the database as here – https://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password . I’m guessing your WordPress admin password and username are different to those for the control panel for account with the hosting company.
He can’t log in either, can he? I realise that’s a pretty obvious question but thought I’d ask. Good luck and congrats on the wedding! 🙂
Hi – I’d like the same tags allowed in my WordPress comments – <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> – to be allowed in my bbPress posts. In particular, I’d like people to be unable to link to images in their posts. I think the allowed tags in WordPress comments are determined by the wp_filter_kses so was trying to use that.
I’ve tried many many different things and have the img tinymce (which I’ve enabled) button disabled and the html editor disappeared, so the only way to get an image is to type in <img src="whatever" /> to the visual editor, but I’d still like it to just not be possible.
I thought this would work but it hasn’t (I’ve also tried making a custom filter function which, of course, didn’t work, so I think it’s something here):
remove_filter( 'bp_get_the_topic_post_content', 'bp_forums_filter_kses', 1 );
add_filter( 'bp_get_the_topic_post_content', 'wp_filter_kses', 1 );
Anyone know? Or just stripping the img tags somehow would be great.
I have bbPress 2.3.2 installed and WordPress 3.5.1. Thanks. The site’s not live so I don’t have a link, apols.
(have edited so I can tick “follow up replies via email”)
Copy
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/content-archive-forum.php
to
wp-content/themes/[your-theme]/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php.
Edit as you see fit. You’ll likely want to place whatever before <div id="bbpress-forums">.
You can copy any template elements that you want/need to change to a bbpress folder inside your theme and bbPress will automagically use those template files instead of the default ones.
The [bbp-topic-tags] shortcode works fine in my custom theme…but all the tags come out with the same font size. How do I get it so the tags display with different font sizes like on this forum?
Sorry for such a basic question…I’ve looked but can’t find an answer that applies to bbpress 2.0+.
I’m using wordpress 3.5.1 and bbpress 2.3.2
Thanks.
Is something wrong with the code tags here that you’re unable to use them? I’m having a hard time following exactly what to do to duplicate the issue you’re having.
I’ve tried each permutation of posting code and swapping between editors, and it appears to work correctly for me in what is now bbPress 2.3.2. I’ve also synced up dev trunk with deploy trunk, so the beta tester plugin should have the most recent changes in it too.
(Keep in mind that the beta-tester plugin doesn’t grab the latest version directly from trunk; it gets what I merge into WordPress.org Extend’s trunk. This helps me keep what the beta-tester plugin gets stable, even though bbPress.org’s trunk might not me.)
buddypress roles:http://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/group-settings-and-roles/
bbpress roles: http://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/
I have an understanding of the roles within each plugin, but when running both, how do they mingle? Since you can only assign someone to one role, what roles take precedent over the other?
For example if someone is an admin of buddypress, does that also make them a Keymaster? Or vise-versa?
Just need to know what role to assign a new user when they purchase a membership to my help forums. They would be either “members” (buddypress) or “participants” (bbpress).
It would be great if there was a tree structure diagram.
Current Setup:
Bbpress: Version 2.3.1
Buddypress: Version 1.7.1
WP: Version 3.5.1
Thank you!
What you want to do is tweak the bbPress CSS. However you don’t want to tweak the copy in the plugin because when you update it will get overriden. Here’s what you’ll want to do.
Copy:
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css
to:
wp-content/themes/[YOUR-THEME]/css/bbpress.css
Then edit and make tweaks to the bbpress.css as needed to match your theme.
I would like to display bbpress topic tags on top of each forum. I tried several template tags:
bb_tag_heat_map()
bb_get_topic_tags()
bb_list_tags()
None of the tags worked no matter where I inserted them (sidebar, bbpress templates, wordpress templates). Usually the rest of the code in the template won’t be executed anymore if I insert one of these tags.
The short code [bbp-topic-tags] works and everything else about tags works too.
Can someone tell me how to display topic tags? Is there a documentation for this template tags?
After recent upgrades (not sure if 2.3 or 2.3.1) all my “participant” users can’t reply to or post new topics. I tried many things based on user role post, but I’m still stuck.
– Ran the repair tool to ensure all subscribers are mapped as forum “participants”
– Used the “Members” plugins to enable subscribers to post/reply to forums
– Re-installed bbpress
– When through the code, and it appears participant don’t get granted to the proper rights.
Even though it was not independent from the “blog” privileges before, it was way easier to use a visual permission editor.
Any idea what to do?
Thank you for your reply!
I’ve added
function invert_subscribe( $is_subscribed ) {
return ! $is_subscribed;
}
add_filter( ‘bbp_is_user_subscribed’, ‘invert_subscribe’ );
to my functions.php file, but it doesn’t seem to work…
My users still don’t get email notifications for some reason.
Any suggestions?
Please, I’m waiting a response to set up my site… And I can’t find anything on bbpress codex.
oh sorry, I forgot to mention that I unchecked the ” prefix the forum slug with forums base ”
so mine would be only domain.com/forum/topic/
so aside of links conflict is it okay for performance?
It’s probably not great to have domain.com/forum/forum/foo/
Think of what your community is about, and do something creative instead.
domain.com/discussion/about/foo/
hmm, the other plugin i listed earlier seems to have been pulled from the wp plugin directory, authors page for that plugin is here – http://www.vinojcardoza.com/cardoza-wordpress-poll/
this poll plugin is still avail and also works fine w bbpress 2.3.1 via shortcode
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-polls/
note that shortcodes in bbpress may create other probs as jared mentioned above, using plugins like these will allow you to specify allowed shortcodes via whitelist and exclude [bbp_login] etc
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-bbcode/
and this one will allow shortcodes by user role
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-bbpress-tools/
sam
Hi Jared, and thanks for your reply! Well, the child theme’s is supporting bbPress it seems, and function file read the following from row 73 to 93:
/*———————————————————————————–*/
/* Initialize the Options Framework
/* http://wptheming.com/options-framework-theme/
/*———————————————————————————–*/
if ( !function_exists( ‘optionsframework_init’ ) ) {
define(‘OPTIONS_FRAMEWORK_URL’, PARENT_URL . ‘/admin/’);
define(‘OPTIONS_FRAMEWORK_DIRECTORY’, PARENT_DIR . ‘/admin/’);
require_once (OPTIONS_FRAMEWORK_DIRECTORY . ‘options-framework.php’);
}
if ( class_exists( ‘jigoshop’ ) ) {
require_once (PARENT_DIR . ‘/jigoshop_functions.php’);
}
if ( class_exists( ‘bbPress’ ) ) {
require_once (PARENT_DIR . ‘/bbpress_functions.php’);
}
require_once (PARENT_DIR . ‘/shortcodes.php’);
The strange thing is that this problem appeared after using the childtheme (unmodified) for a while. The first week it rolled just s expected.
Hmm…
It sounds like your child theme is trying to load bbpress_functions.php which doesn’t exist.
Go to your child theme’s functions.php file and comment out line 89 which is portably the culprit.
Unless your theme was specifically designed to support bbPress (which honestly, most themes are not) it shouldn’t be trying to include said file so you can comment it out.
Look into the bbPress shortcodes that are available.
https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
Ack – that’s not right. Here’s what it looks like in the email:
<p>Hello, this is a reply to the test.</p>
I’m using the latest versions of both WordPress and bbPress.
I’ve set things up so that you get the regular TinyMCE editor for making posts, and for MAKING posts it works great, but when you attempt to edit the post you get the HTML back in it’s “sanitized” form.
By which I mean (JIC I’m using the wrong term) you get ‘Test‘ rather then seeing Test as you’d expect in the text box.
The code comes back the & l t ; and & g t ; rather then the < and >.
