[Stephen Edgar]

All the BBCodes and Magic URL’s are fully converted to HTML in the upcoming bbPress 2.3

There is no current way to rerun it though to convert existing sites.

[wisemonkey]

Hi

I have done a search here, but nothing seems to come up.
I have installed BBpress/BuddyPress and migrated a small phpBB forum on my site http://www.wisemonkeysblog.com but the phpBB shortened URLs (and actually all the phpBB shortcodes) didn’t convert. I have tried to use a couple of plugins (eg bbPress2 BBCode ) to no avail.

I notice that the actual URL is still there in the markup, so I have converted a few of them manually…but there must be a better way. A plugin or a SQL fix perhaps.

Does anyone know of such fix?

TIA
fernando

[Shashank Shekhar]

Hello,
As per bbpress doc I found by default it uses page.php in wordpress theme to render all its contents. But since I have to use different template with a different sidebar and widgets I created forum.php copied from page.php in my wp-theme and luckily it worked. Dont know why its not mentioned in bbpress docs. Also, forums.php working fine, so I am in more doubt which file naming conventions is correct. Is it something missed to mention in bbpress docs? Please let me know.

Further, for the bbpress user pages, like profile, edit profile, topic started etc. I need to use a custom template file in my theme. In bbpress templates as per documentation, I have checked all user templates inside are just contains the content part only not including header, footer, sidebar etc. And by default it also renders by page.php.

How can I make a custom user template file other than page.php or forum.php which control all user related contents, so that I can have different template for forum or other pages?

Suggestion:
BBpress should have capability to use different template files for different kind of pages, or their should be settings in bbpress admin to select which template to use for what kind of pages.
This is somewhat, wp-members, woocommerce and other plugins do for better integration in wordpress. These plugins have the ability to create different pages in admin editor having selected particular template to render and putting inside their shortcodes to render various types of contents. And also have the settings in their admin to set different pages/template for different stuff.

Please let me know if this possible with bbpress 2.2.4 with wp 3.5.1 currently.
If not possible please let me know how I can achieve the effect, with some sample custom code hints. Currently I dont need help to create bbpress admin side settings dropdown etc., becoz these are the thing I mentioned as suggestions to make bbpress better theme compatible.
Right now, just need help how to use different template for user pages than other forum pages.

—
Thanks
Shashank

[rtrelfa]

I am a “noob” too. So, will bbPress work with ANY theme, or should I buy a theme designed for it? I know very little about editing code but I can hire someone to help me.

I wanted to use the Sophis theme from Theme Forest but the author says he has zero experience with bbPress and he doesn’t think it will work. It is any older theme.

Any advice?

Thank you,

RT

[Stephen Edgar]

Customizing the example.php file is what will map your existing SQL database tables and fields to the required bbPress tables and fields to import your data.

I am slowly getting some docs up on the codex, though these need updating.

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

[Shane Gowland]

Create a page and use the `[bbp-topic-index]` shortcode to display all topics from across every forum.

[Stephen Edgar]

I would look updating whatever it is holding you back from upgrading to WordPress 3.5.1 for the security fixes 3.4 & 3.5 have introduced at a bare minimum.

That said give it a try on a test site and if that works use the builtin WordPress Import/Export tool to export all the forums, topics & replies and then import them https://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#WordPress

[Phill]

Hi Lynq,

I tried adding that first code from pastbin to my homepage box which is supposed to show the latest 5 topics from our bbpress forums – unfortunately it’s not showing anything. Is there something else that needs to be added?

[dday76]

I’ve tried to look around but you’ll see the search terms on this are a bit generic.
I just installed bbpress and what I found is that non-Admin can’t see the forums.
I’m using the Advanced Access Manager plugin.
All the forum-related options are checked in capabilities and none are excluded under posts and taxonomies.
The forums/topics/replies section on the dashboard navigation (under pages) isn’t there.
If I switch the user from Super Admin to just Admin, the forums re-appear. If I create a new role “Admin2” with full permissions, the forums disappear again.
I see all the “is_admin” functions in the plugin code, but I’m not sure how that works. Is there some way to adjust the code to look for capabilities rather than roles?

[Shane Gowland]

1:
Take a look at Widget Logic or Sidebars. These are plugins specifically made for adding different sidebars/widgets to specific pages. Manipulating widget areas is outside the scope of bbPress and is something you will need to implement yourself.

2:
This is a theme specific issue. bbPress could do more to accomodate different primary content area widths, but it’s quite easy to fix with a bit of CSS.

3:
You can create page templates for specific bbPress functions/pages by creating a /bbpress/ folder in your theme directory and copying your edited bbPress template files into it. It’s briefly mentioned in the codex, but I concede the documentation could be improved significantly.

Further I expect from bbpress authors to work on these issues and release a fixed version.

bbPress is an open source project (largely) developed by volunteers. To expect anything reeks of self-entitlement. The best way to make these things happen is to ask for help on specific issues, fix those issues and then contribute your fixes to the project.

[Shashank Shekhar]

Hello, I am using lates bbpress 2.2.4 plugin with wordpress 3.5.1, php 5.4.3 & php 5.3.2.
This plugin is showing me many issues specially for user pages (profile, edit, etc.)
I am using twenty twelve theme, very little customized.

1) I wanted to set a different sidebar for bbpress forum pages than other wordpress pages, so I checked and found the default template used by bbpress is ‘page.php’. I copied it, renamed to ‘forum.php‘ and added a new dynamic sidebar and commented default sidebar. It worked fine and now I can set any widget to this sidebar. I have checked that either I place ‘forum.php’ or ‘forums.php’ both working fine similar. Not sure which one is more correct.

2) On the bbpress users pages the profile content and edit form is not displaying full in widht cutting as its width overridden by sidebar, breaking layout. The content area ‘primary’ div is given a width in theme and having ‘secondary’ as sidebar. All other contents properly adjusted on every bbpress pages, but only this bbpress user profile edit page have the issue. The form should also be adjusted within the content area. Ex. url: http://mysite.com/forums/users/testuser/edit

3) Now, suppose to fix the issue mentioned above in point 3), I want to remove sidebar from users pages and give the primary content area more full width, how I can do it? One way is to forcibly hide the sidebar with css and make primary content wider with !important. But I want a way to change user pages template. Is it possible to have different template for user pages than bbpress other pages? I found that users pages also generating using ‘page.php’, in my case ‘forum.php’ template now. I tried alot by copying and changing ‘page.php’ to ‘user.php’, ‘users.php’, etc. but its not working. Please let me know how can I set user pages to use a different template file and rest bb pages use my forum.php or forums.php whatever.

4) For any user when I click ‘topic started’ or ‘replies created’ link, both show counts properly but the table didn’t appear. I checked in firebug, it present there but hidden somehow. Same issue mentioned here http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/profile-topics-or-replies-posts-not-being-displayed/ , I tried with the same thing, but till now no proper solution there. Please let me know proper way to fix it.

5) If suppose I want to completely hide the user-profile links on all bbpress forum/topic authors, on all bb pages, I mean want to display only author gravatars and usernames but want no link on them, so other people cannot go to their profile pages, how can I do that? A little help given here http://forum.graphene-theme.com/graphene-support/show-the-author-but-hide-its-link, but its not working properly. But I think it can be done with right filters in the same way. Please let me know with sample code.

6) Used the official facebook plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook/ , and displayed the like button, like box for my facebook page using it in my site footer, header etc. But I found that on the user pages like edit profile, profile view etc. facebook widgets are completely disabled and not visible. On other bbpress forum pages they are displaying well. I checked with page source and found even facebook sdk is not embeded in page source. Their must be an conflict on bbpress user pages with facebook sdk which stopping it to be enqueued. This need to be checked and fixed.

These all issues mentioned here are serious issues with bbpress specially for user pages and must be solved and have proper solutions.
I dont expect from a single person to answer or fix all of above points, but hope different people will help me for different points (just mentioning points in their replies).

Further I expect from bbpress authors to work on these issues and release a fixed version. May be some of above points just because of lack some documentation, so they can mention some solution in its FAQ itself, so people having same problems can get help without searching or posting here in forum.

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Thanks
Shashank

[LaurenceAtFree]

For people like me new to php this is how to make a plugin with John’s code :
paste this code in an editor and save the file as teenybb.php :
<?php

/*/
Plugin Name: Teenywithbb
Plugin URI: https://bbpress.org/
Description: Enable Teeny Mce in bbpress
Version: 1.0.1
Author: John James Jacoby
Author URI: https://bbpress.org/
/*/
function foo( $args = array() ) {
$args['teeny'] = false;
return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'foo' );

copy this file in your plugin directory where you usually copy other plugins.
You can see the plugin named Teenywithbb in wordpress you juste have to active it.
and then you have tinyMCE Advdaced as editor in bbpress 2.2. 🙂

[Erlend]

I’m not asking for something that’ll work out of the box. Some pointers on what pieces of code to look at to have a go at this ourselves would go a really long way. Same goes for excluding forums and topics from default index.

[Unsal Korkmaz]

FirmaSite Social

How to download:

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/firmasite

Theme Features:

• Its GPL and free 
• Based on Twitter Bootstrap  and all WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress files using only bootstrap css. That means you can use custom bootstrap styles and all of your site will use same theme style. There is already 13 custom bootstrap theme is included in theme from Bootswatch. In future, i will explain how you can add custom bootstrap styles
• Using Bootstrap Responsive so all your site will be mobile ready. BuddyPress and bbPRess too!
• Using Theme Customization API for theme options. It means you can see changes on live edit and you can easily extend options with wordpress functions directly. A video on action: http://youtu.be/F95TngS9er8  (Its a bit old version of theme but a good example for main theme options)
• Google Fonts! lots of! You can choose google fonts from theme options ( watch example video from above)
• 4 different layout:

1. Content – Sidebar
2. Sidebar – Content
3. Only Content (Long)
4. Only Content (Short)

• Unique 2 feature: ShowCase and PromotionBar. ShowCase letting you show your special post in home page header like: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/examples/carousel.html and PromotionBar is letting you promote your posts in content header, footer or sidebar. You just marking your posts from your post panel. Both feature is using Bootstrap’s carousel component so there is no extra  javascript. An example post panel screenshot:
  
• You can upload logo,disable comments, activate facebook comments, activate sharing buttons (facebook,twitter and google+1), upload custom background and option to remove responsive for fixed width if you want.
• Supporting Post Formats! Formats have special template parts with get_template_part  and video,audio formats calling necessary js that need to play video or audios. System supporting oEmbed links too.
• Ready for translation. Theme’s default language is English and Turkish translation is included. ( You can send me your translations if you have). You can use Codestyling Localization for translating theme.
• I will add lots of filter and action (already have lots of) so you can use it as starter theme for your projects. I will explain how you can keep your customization while keeping theme up-to-date.

Themes are in review for publishing on WordPress.Org Theme  Directory but in meantime, you can download and try it from links above. Please share your opinions on theme in this topic.

[captjones]

^ A bit, I removed some stuff from original code, as you can see from the website & also changed fonts.

I created the theme from scratch using Artisteer.

Btw, I also tried with TwentyEleven & TwentyTwelve theme, the green hovering box like here on this forum, doesn’t display 🙁

http://www.kadunud.com

Btw thanks for replies brahs, I’ve seen you replying to many threads here and been helpful :O

[aberglas]

You say “Capabilities are saved in the database, per user, per site”. That is clearly NOT the (normal) case. The wp_usermeta table wp_2_capabilities row stores ROLES, not capabilities. Those roles appear to index into the wp_2_options tble row wp_2_user_roles row which contains a list of capabilities.

I have no idea what “Dynamic” roles are nor why bbpress contains a vast amount of capability fidling code, including no less than three files called capability.php. If someone could explain it in terms of actual table rows and colums that might help.

I want a simple setup where Authors can access Private forums but only in the site which they are an Author. The simple coupled set up that JJJ says is too simplistic. But now it cannot be done at all?

By default private sites are hidden to users. There is a weird “Auto Role” option that can adds bbp_participant to all users. But that means that users get access to all forums on all sites. Is that the “Dynamic role” feature?

So turn that off. Try to add bbp_participant role explicitly using action ‘add_user_to_blog’
$user->add_role(“bbp_participant”);
However, that failed to add the user. WordPress really only supports one role per user, certainly set_role() only accepts a single role and purges any others. So I think something is resetting it.

Then I try simply
get_role( ‘author’ )->add_cap( ‘read_private_topics’ ); // for bbpress.
That successfully updates the database (wp_2_user_roles), but has no effect on bbpress. I suspect because one of the capability.php files in bbpress has
case bbp_get_spectator_role() … ‘read_hidden_forums’ => false,
rather than just leaving it out. So capabilities do not merge properly between roles.

I am new to WordPress/bbPress, and having spent many hours in this mess am getting very frustrated. How hard can it be? Users/Roles/Capabilities.

Anthony

[Stephen Edgar]

I see you have a ‘register’ and ‘login’ page using the shortcodes, if you want something in the sidebar you could use the login widget https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

[Stephen Edgar]

See the docs here https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#adding-a-topic

[Stephen Edgar]

See the docs on ‘Creating your First Forum’ here and you set the order from withion the WordPress Admini Forum Panel.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum

[knussear]

Ah – I spoke too soon. You saved me at 18:33 with the short codes! Thanks a bunch @labsecrets

[Stephen Edgar]

Sounds like we need a bbPress widget for topic tags…

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

Maybe create a ticket in trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

Ask your host Hostpaedia if they have any instructions on installing WordPress (if not here is the generic Softaculous info) and once you have WordPress running then you add bbPress as a plugin.

Full instructions on installing bbPress are here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

Create a new WordPress page called ‘New Topic’ and add the shortcode [bbp-topic-form] to the page content.

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

[bob marteal]

Hi,

I need to make a list of forum members to display like http://stackoverflow.com/users. I can’t for the life of me find a way to do this. It seems like something that should be pretty obvious. I’d hope to get a plugin or at least some pretty well documented code to make a template or some such. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I’m on WP 3.5.1 and bbPress 2.2.3

Thanks so much.

[moebis]

Good News All!!! Ok…. I have sub forums working in buddypress with a small hack to group.php (in latest trunk of bbpress 2.3). @johnjamesjacoby was right, it looks like they started building this functionality into bbpress and so-far it works. The only thing left to do, is maybe make it display a little more intuitively (I’ll continue to work on that), and on the buddypress side allow sub forum posts to be added to the activity feed of the group it belongs to. I was wrong before, sub forum topic posts do not show up on group activity feed, but I think I’ve already isolated the code to fix that.

Here is how to play with my hack in the latest trunk:

EDIT: /bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/group.php

Delete lines 609-614 and add “?>” back to line 609.

This is how the forums in groups looks now (you can see all topics from the group forum and the bbpress sub forum of that group forum). Also, the post box has a drop-down select to chose the forum or sub-forum to post to: