[Stephen Edgar]

1.) It doesn’t appear that any users where transfered. Every post in the forum has “Admin” as the author and I don’t see any users listed in the backend.

Did you check the box `Convert Users: Attempt to import user accounts from previous forums`

2.) I don’t see any of my subcategories listed on the forum home page. When I view the forum structure in the backend, it shows all the subcategories and the data was definitely imported, but it’s not showing up on the forum home page…

Did you run the forum repair tools? https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

Can you view each subcategory forum by viewing the forum in the backend and clicking ‘view’ on that item taking you to the frontend view for that forum? Does it exist?

[markafoote]

I believe you can add a shortcode to a page:

[bbp-topic-index]

It’s in the codex here:

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

[Stephen Edgar]

You should have access to the wp-admin panels when user role is ‘Keymaster’.

The ‘Moderator’ role though outlined here only has the following permissions:

Moderator – Forum Capabilities: publish_forums, edit_forums, read_private_forums, read_hidden_forums

At this stage Moderators cannot see to wp-admin ‘Forums’ panel though it is planned for a future release.

The workaround at the moment is to indeed use the ‘forum’ shortcodes.

[Stephen Edgar]

Have to you tried the bbPress Widgets?
https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

[AllenPayne]

UPDATE: I also tried disabling all plugins (except bbpress) and activated Twenty Eleven theme. Still no different..

So this means it either a wordpress or a bbpress problem.

I would also like to mention that used this method to give wordpress it’s own directory and maybe the editor can’t access something. I dont know.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

Any other ideas?

[Darren1981]

Hey again..

I mucked around with BBpress a while back and managed to use the WP “featured Image” to insert a icon for each different forum.. Now since about one month ago ive actually forgotten how i managed that.. Could anyone assist me with this again.

Thanks in advance.

If it helps i am trying to build a custom forum page (forum home page).. still unsure how i am going to achieve this, whether i use shortcodes or create a custom page im still not sure what the best method would be.. but i would like to be able to add forum title headers with custom images for each forum category.

[windaub]

Hi!
I’m running WordPress 3.5.1 with BBPress 2.2.4.
I’ve got a problem:
as a moderator or even a keymaster in bbpress, and Subscriber in WordPress(which I’d like not to change), I don’t have access to the WordPress admin panel to Add forum or Delete forum. In the admin panel I only have “New – Topic” Or “Reply”. The only way I can add a forum is creating a specific page with the add forum shortcode, and there is no way to delete a forum. Would you have an idea for me? Thank you!

[Bryan Eggers]

Unfortunately, writing some custom code is beyond me.  The question is, is bbPress converting the username or is it WP?

I just tried creating a user called “1 2 3” directly through WP and it converted the usersname to “1-2-3”.

Creating a username is pretty much the first interaction that people have with bbPress and the way it’s set up now there’s a highly probability of a problem. Even if they try to use a name like “John Smith” it’s not going to work. They’ll be unable to log in and most likely will give up and go away.

[MarjoriesDaughter]

I have a client who would like to keep participants from creating new topics. I have checked out the file bbp-core-caps.php, but when it comes to giving Participants capabilities, the code is
// bbPress Participant Role
case bbp_get_participant_role()
instead of defining the capabilities list like it does for Adminstrator, Moderator and default.

I could use a clue where to go to shut off the topic creation capability for participants.

Thank you!

[Stephen Edgar]

Details how to setup bbPress in your local language are here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[akgt]

I hadd the following error installing on wp 3.5 and buddypress 1.7 The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.

[akgt]

I tried your the in buddypress but i get the following error

The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for feedback @beggers, glad its worked for you 🙂

The forum order is already fixed for upcoming bbPress 2.3 with lots of extra tweaks also… storing old phpBB user profile fields.. ‘all the BBCodes’ are converted bbPress HTML…

[Bryan Eggers]

I recently installed Buddypress and BBpress and was thinking about how I could add all the nifty features of phpBB such as BBcodes and stuff.  Then I remembered that hardly anyone uses most of them and here’s a big reality check – Facebook doesn’t even let you use bold or italic and they have a BILLION users.

Bottom line – don’t waste time adding a bunch of stuff that you think might be cool but actually have little or no effect on activity.

[Svetoslav Marinov]

Hi all,

Just packaged Pippin’s code into a WordPress plugin

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/orbisius-bbpress-notify-me-on-follow-up-replies/

Slavi

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[Monica]

Hi,
I’m having problems getting my forum members to see my forum and the latest posts. I had set the forum to private, but that turned out to force members to log in to see the forum (most of my members don’t have one).

So I set the forum to public. The forum is now visible when I’m not logged in. But now I discovered NEW posts won’t show up unless I’m logged in! The same happened to a forum member who does have a WP login.

The posts in question are set to public. The site can be found at here.

Please, I’m looking for any solution that’s not time consuming (I’ve spent too much time trying to get this forum to work already) and I know next to nothing about code, so that wouldn’t be a viable option for me. I hope someone can come up with a solution that finally gets this forum going.

Thank you.

[j0k]

OK, I succeeded in doing the first thing.

I checked in the database and found the custom post types in the wp_posts table:
`
if (!is_post_type(‘forum’) || !is_post_type(‘post’) || !is_post_type(‘topic’) || !is_post_type(‘reply’)){
if (function_exists(‘my_breadcrumb’)) my_breadcrumb();
}
`

The problem now is that I have to do it for all the children pages of these custom post types (forum, post, topic and reply), but I can’t find how to do it. I will try something with the get_page_children() function but I am not sure that it will work with custom posts…

[Stephen Edgar]

The instructions are here: https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

That said I cannot see any Greek (el) translations for bbPress in GlotPress for the 2.2 or 2.3(dev) branches of bbPress https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress

I suggest you try asking some of the Greek WordPress communities listed here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language#Greek_.28el.29

In particular on their forum http://wpmania.gr/forum/
(You could also ask when they are planning on switching to bbPress ;))

[Lynq]

If you go to: https://codex.bbpress.org/ and look for shortcodes, there is a register and login shortcode. Create two new pages for register and login, insert the shortcodes, then link to them from your site.

[chicadieta]

Same problem here. Also, when clicking the Edit profile link, the page is blank, showing header and footer and everything but nothing inside, not even the little sidebar at the left with the avatar picture and the other links (Subscription, Topis started, etc.), all empty and not even present in the source code.

WP: 3.5.1
bbPress: 2.2.4

Using the Thesis Theme and s2Member plugin.

[moonoi]

After having battled with this problem for a long time, I finally found out, why only keymaster users could upload images to their replies with the new media manager.

The problem is not bbPress’ fault, but rather due to a shortcoming in the WP_Editor.

When a front end editor is inserted on a page using the wp_editor() function, and media buttons are enabled, the media buttons will be automatically set up to attach the images being uploaded to the current global post object.

This is a problem, because the current global post on a forum topic page is the topic. So if the user replying to the topic (and trying to upload images) is not the topic starter, a permissions problem will arise.

The user will then in fact be attempting to attach media to the topic, which is owned by someone else. This will result in an error, unless the user has the “edit_others_topics” permission set to true.

So, what to do? Here’s my temporary solution, until this hopefully gets addressed in the future:

Because the core function that takes the post id from the current global post can’t be hooked directly into, I decided to hook in before and after it, to first change the global post id to null, and then change it back afterwards, so any logic that follows the WP_editor will not get disturbed.

This will, however, cause the uploaded image to not be attached to any post. But it doesn’t have to be. The image will be inserted into the forum reply html, regardless of which post it is attached to in the DB.

add_action('media_buttons', 'ml_pre_media_buttons', 1);
add_action('media_buttons', 'ml_post_media_buttons', 20);
function ml_pre_media_buttons($editor_id) {
    if (!$editor_id == 'bbp_reply_content')
        return;

    $GLOBALS['post_temp'] = $GLOBALS['post'];
    $GLOBALS['post'] = null;
}
function ml_post_media_buttons($editor_id) {
    if (!$editor_id == 'bbp_reply_content')
        return;

    $GLOBALS['post'] = $GLOBALS['post_temp'];
}

I created this issue on the WP support forums:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-editor-media-upload-would-like-ability-to-pass-post-id?replies=1#post-3895962

[Stephen Edgar]

See this page in the docs for instructions https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[Stephen Edgar]

Darren,

I have a problem with the ‘spammy’ domain you keep linking to as it is a ‘web host’ ad farm, if you don’t own that domain please stop linking to it here on bbpress.org. I have removed these links from all of your posts.

You can find some hosting providers links here https://wordpress.org/hosting/ that are well and truly under $5 a month.

To your question the most common that suits most people is ‘Post Name’ as outlined here https://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks#Choosing_your_permalink_structure

Cheers,

Stephen

[sdxgameband]

Sorry, I am really bad with WordPress, where do I put that code to make a link to the user’s profile?

[moonoi]

Found out that the setting causing the whole post form to disappear, following my hack to the `bbp_get_caps_for_role()` function, was `’moderate’ => true,`. Setting this to false makes the post form available.

However, still no way to upload pictures for non-keymasters.

Hope one of the bbp core coders have a tip for this one.