[Stephen Edgar]

Quite sure if you have reset the permalinks as I noted in the previous post if that does not fix it then it is definitely the ‘URL Rewrite’ module settings in IIS. (Thats is if you have it installed as you do need it for rewrites with IIS)

The easiest Windows option is to use the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) and follow the guide outlined here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Easy_5_Minute_WordPress_Installation_on_Windows
http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/wordpress.aspx

If you are manually installing IIS, MySQL & PHP then you have some work ahead of you getting your environment configured correctly and need to make sure you have the ‘URL Rewrite’ module installed and working with IIS http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite#additionalDownloads

I have not tried any of the ‘WAMP’ (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) packages referenced here but that is another option.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#WAMP

[apet083]

Thanks Stephen. So it is something to do with my rewrite rules? I am using Windows 7 on IIS 7.5 so those links don’t really help me much.
I have XDebug running on Notepad++ to debug my php code, would it be worth it if I stepped through the code in which it’s creating the URL? If it would be worth it, any idea where to start?
I have already looked at bbp_get_reply_url method calls in some of the bbp files but nothing has really helped much.

Thanks
Ana

P.s. butterflies is the name of the FORUM, not the topic title. The rewrite ignores the topic title completely.

[Stephen Edgar]

Your topic replies URL should be displaying in the format:

http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/butterflies/#post-158277

When I set my bbPress settings to the same settings you use above these are the URL’s:

Forums base: forum (Note: Default bbPress setting is ‘forums’)
Topics base: topics (Note: Default bbPress setting ‘topics’)
Forum Prefix ticked (Note: Default bbPress setting ‘ticked/checked’)
Forum slug: forums (Note: Default bbPress setting is ‘forum’)
Topic slug: topic (Note: Default bbPress setting ‘topic’)

http://localhost/sitename/forum/forums/butterflies/

http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/test-topic/

http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/butterflies/#post-158277

I would try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

If you have no luck I would read up on the LAMP/MAMP (Linux/Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP) package you are using on what settings are needed for mod_rewrite to work on your local machine.

There are also a few (and a few broken links here) installing WordPress Locally
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Installation_Techniques#Installing_WordPress_Locally

[apet083]

Hi I am having an issue with my forum URL rewrite rules/slugs/permalinks.
At the moment I am testing this in my dev environment.
I have a page that is called FORUM and contains my recent topic and forum shortcodes. This page is located at localhost/sitename/forum

My slug settings are:
Archive Slugs
Forums base: forum
Topics base: topics

Single Slugs
Forum Prefix ticked
Forum slug: forums
Topic slug: topic
Topic tag slug: topic-tag
Reply slug: reply
User slug: user
Topic view slug: view

When I navigate to a forum the URL looks like this:

http://localhost/sitename/forum/forums/butterflies/

When I navigate to a topic inside that forum, the URL looks like this:

http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/test-topic/

When I reply to a topic, the URL rewrites to this:

http://localhost/sitename/forum/forums/butterflies/#post-158277

So obviously this is an incorrect URL and just takes me back to the forum home page with the list of recent topics.

How can I make the URL format be consistent? Something like:
http://localhost/sitename/forum/forum-name/test-topic/#post-158277

Thanks

[Gawain Lynch]

I’m having a problem where a number of our users are sending around URLs to discussions in private forums to other users, when those URLs are clicked, if the user is not logged in they get a 404.

I want to write a plugin that directs users to the login page if they are not already, and only then return a 404 if they don’t have ‘read_private_forums’…

Can anyone familiar with the bbPress code base point me to where bbPress evaluates this access?

[Stephen Edgar]

Run the ‘Repair Tools’ after the importer has finished importing everything

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

[Stephen Edgar]

As per the link you mention above https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

You should be able to import with these settings:

– Select the source platform that you are importing from: bbPress
– Database Name eg. old_bbpress_db
– Database User Name eg. db_user
– Database User Password eg. ********
– Table Prefix eg. bb_

[Muntasir M. Aumio]

I’d like to import my bbpress forum(with user, topics and replies) from one site to another.
Is it possible?
Both domain are in the same server. So, I see the database is same for both domain on the server.
http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/
I’m not very clear about that. And It doesn’t work for me as well.
Can anyone help me ASAP.
I’m in A SERIOUS trouble.
Please.

[erwinodendaal]

I have the “Members”-plugin installed. After updating bbPress and changing all roles of the users from “(wordpress-)”participants” into “subscribers”, the “participant”-roles of bbPress were empty. Now all subscribers can participate in the private forums. Not what I’ve had in mind…

But in my functions.php I have a script to notify users of their updated capabilities. It starts with:
function user_role_update( $user_id, $new_role ) {
if($new_role == 'bbp_participant') {

But that doesn’t seem to work anymore. Did the name of the bbPress participant role change? Will
function user_role_update( $user_id, $new_role ) {
if($new_role == 'participant') {

work?

[Lynq]

If you want to do it yourself then I would recommend looking here first: https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development – It tells you a bit about getting to grips with wordpress themes in general and then you can move onto bbPress which sits inside your wordpress theme.

Good luck.

[josephmiddleton]

Greetings all, I hope everyone is having a safe holiday season.

When I upgraded to 3.5 and I go to the page that houses bbpress forums, these are the error messages my browser is displaying…

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET4.0C; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; BRI/2; BOIE8;ENUS)
Timestamp: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:41:19 UTC

Message: Object required
Line: 191
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://joseph.heavenboundministry.com/jjblog/?forum=discussion-forum

Message: ‘length’ is null or not an object
Line: 2
Char: 14331
Code: 0
URI: http://joseph.heavenboundministry.com/jjblog/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.8.3

Message: ‘length’ is null or not an object
Line: 2
Char: 14331
Code: 0
URI: http://joseph.heavenboundministry.com/jjblog/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.8.3

Message: ‘length’ is null or not an object
Line: 2
Char: 14331
Code: 0
URI: http://joseph.heavenboundministry.com/jjblog/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.8.3

Message: ‘length’ is null or not an object
Line: 2
Char: 14331
Code: 0
URI: http://joseph.heavenboundministry.com/jjblog/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.8.3

Message: ‘length’ is null or not an object
Line: 2
Char: 14331
Code: 0
URI: http://joseph.heavenboundministry.com/jjblog/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.8.3

Thank you all for helping me fix my web site, Thanks and happy holidays…

Joseph

[Hansaplastique]

I have no idea – it seems that this is a tinyMCE plugin?
I haven’t played with 3rd party tinyMCE plugins yet – but if you tell me how to install it, then I wouldn’t mind testing it for you.

Bottomline is that you’ll have to look for the “keyword” to get the button to become visible (in this case “preview” according to this link). Add that keyword to the “array_push” list.

One plugin I use (WP Smileys) requires that I make a few minor modifications;

In functions.php (in the code above, just below “add_filter(‘mce_buttons_2’, ‘add_tinymce_buttons_2’);”), I had to add:

// Restore the smileys plugin
add_filter(“mce_external_plugins”, “s4w_tinymce_addplugin”);
add_filter(‘mce_buttons’, ‘s4w_tinymce_registerbutton’);

[Hansaplastique]

I guess the code formatting didn’t work again … wish I could edit.

[Hansaplastique]

Thanks Stephen – and here I thought the “code” button would do that for me 😉
I’ll paste the code again, as you can see I removed some buttons (that have no purpose anyway) and added some …


add_filter('tiny_mce_before_init', 'tinymce_other_css_for_content');

function bbp_mce_override( $args = array() ) {
$args['teeny'] = false;
return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_mce_override' );

if (!is_super_admin()) // remove/add buttons for non admins
{
function add_tinymce_buttons($buttons)
{
$arr_size=count($buttons);
$remove_these=array('blockquote','wp_adv','fullscreen','wp_more');

for ($counter=$arr_size; $counter>=0; $counter--)
{
if ( in_array($buttons[$counter],$remove_these) )
{
unset($buttons[$counter]);
}
}

array_push($buttons,'separator','cut','copy','paste','separator','undo','redo','separator','sub','sup','forecolor','backcolor','charmap');

return $buttons;
}

function add_tinymce_buttons_2($buttons)
{
unset($buttons);
return $buttons;
}

add_filter('mce_buttons', 'add_tinymce_buttons');
add_filter('mce_buttons_2', 'add_tinymce_buttons_2');
}


For some of these to work I had to expand the allowed_tags in WordPress (be carefull when doing this) using the following code;


function my_allowed_html_tags_in_comments() {
define('CUSTOM_TAGS', true);
global $allowedtags;

$allowedtags = array(
'a' => array(
'href' => array (),
'title' => array ()),
'blockquote' => array(
'cite' => array ()),
'cite' => array (),
'code' => array(),
'em' => array(),
'strong' => array(),
'pre' => array(
'class' => array()),
'p' => array(
'style' => array()),
'span' => array(
'style' => array()),
'sup' => array(),
'sub' => array()
);
}

add_action('init', 'my_allowed_html_tags_in_comments', 10);


Hope it’s helpful to someone 🙂

[Lynq]

I am not sure of any plugins, but you could create one.

You could use the post_publish action – https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/publish_post

And then check the post type using https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_singular and then the email after grabbing the contents of the topic that was just posted.

Good luck! 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Wrap the code in <pre><code></code></pre>

[Hansaplastique]

If anyone can tell me how to properly post code I’ll try again. 🙁

[Hansaplastique]

Sorry that the code looks a little messy, the code-tag didn’t do a very good job at keeping the indentation and there is no edit button …. hmmm.
I’ll just give it another try.


function bbp_mce_override( $args = array() ) {
$args['teeny'] = false;
return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_mce_override' );

if (!is_super_admin()) // remove buttons for non admins
{
function add_tinymce_buttons($buttons)
{
$arr_size=count($buttons);
$remove_these=array('blockquote','wp_adv','fullscreen','wp_more');

for ($counter=$arr_size; $counter>=0; $counter--)
{
if ( in_array($buttons[$counter],$remove_these) )
{
unset($buttons[$counter]);
}
}

array_push($buttons,'image');

return $buttons;
}

function add_tinymce_buttons_2($buttons)
{
unset($buttons);
return $buttons;
}

add_filter('mce_buttons', 'add_tinymce_buttons');
add_filter('mce_buttons_2', 'add_tinymce_buttons_2');
}


[Hansaplastique]

I’ve used the following code to remove some buttons for non-admins.
This will keep your normal editor in the admin pages as they should stay, yet visitors of my bbPress forum can only use a few buttons.
You can find a list of “standard” buttons in tinyMCE here.

Place this code in the functions.php file of your theme.
(ps. I’m no expert and pretty new to bbPress – but this worked like a charm for me)

function bbp_mce_override( $args = array() ) {
$args['teeny'] = false;
return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_mce_override' );

// *********************** CUSTOMIZE TINYMCE BUTTONS FOR BBPRESS *****************************
if (!is_super_admin()) // remove buttons for non admins
{
function add_tinymce_buttons($buttons)
{
$arr_size=count($buttons);
// remove blockquote, kitchen-sink, full-screen and the more-button
$remove_these=array('blockquote','wp_adv','fullscreen','wp_more');

for ($counter=$arr_size; $counter>=0; $counter--)
{
if ( in_array($buttons[$counter],$remove_these) )
{
unset($buttons[$counter]);
}
}

// add the "image" button
array_push($buttons,'image');

return $buttons;
}

// Erase the entire 2nd button bar
function add_tinymce_buttons_2($buttons)
{
unset($buttons);
return $buttons;
}

add_filter('mce_buttons', 'add_tinymce_buttons');
add_filter('mce_buttons_2', 'add_tinymce_buttons_2');
}

[Hansaplastique]

I’m no expert (and pretty new to bbPress), but this is how I forced tinyMCE for bbPress 2.2.3 to use my stylesheet for content.

You’ll need a CCS file with your preferences of course, and add the following code to functions.php found in the root of your theme – in my case I’m using the CSS of my theme.
This will also apply the selected CSS to the editor in your admin pages (for Posts etc).

function tinymce_other_css_for_content( $init ) {
$init['content_css'] = get_bloginfo('stylesheet_url');
return $init;
}

add_filter('tiny_mce_before_init', 'tinymce_other_css_for_content');

[rewindcaz]

In any theme file (preferably header.php), how can I check if the current page is a bbp-user-page, the pages that show info regarding the bbp-user. Using bbp_is_user_home() I can see if the current user is on his user-page, but I need to check if the user-page is current regardless of who is viewing it. Anyone know how? Thanks

[AllenPayne]

@John James Jacoby

Ultimate TinyMCE buttons show up now after using your code but they don’t work.

I just created a new bbpress post and used the Ultimate TinyMCE’s buttons to make some text bold, change the font size, color, underline, etc.. and when i submitted the post only the bold text remained unchanged. All my other formatting (font size, color, underline) was not preserved and was lost after submission.

Please help.

[rewindcaz]

I’m running into an odd problem, I need to apply some custom changes to the base forums page/index, which would be easy except for this issue: If I try to get the url, title, or any value of the index page, it uses all the values from the last Category in that forum. To further clarify, if my 4 main categories of my forum index are:

– Forums –
Basketball
Football
Volleyball
Tennis

And on this index page wherever I use echo the_title();, it will show “Tennis” instead of “Forums”. It does this for ANY wp variable/function etc. The Forum Index simply uses the values of the last category. If I change the order of the categories, or add a new forum, the forum index values will change to the last descending forum. This is making it impossible for me to print specific information out on the forums index page.

Anyone have any idea what the issue is that’s causing it? I’ve played around with permalinks, pages, posts etc… it always does the same thing.

[rewindcaz]

The closest thing I could find is:

echo get_the_title($post->post_parent);

However, that only grabs the parent from one step back in the bread crumb. I need to get the “main” or “base” parent of all pages/threads under the parent. Say the forum structure is like this:

Forum > Tennis > Tutorials > Thread Name 1

The set “parent” in that is “Tennis” (bolded above). Is there a way I can print that main parent for all bbPress pages?

[rewindcaz]

All I want is a way to print the name of the parent category for any given bbPress page from the header.php file of my theme.

I need something as simple as:

echo forum_name($forum->forum_parent);

Although that doesn’t work for me. Anyone know how to get the parent name? Thanks!