[risen32]

I setup bbpress with a shortcode to display the forums on a page, you can see it here: http://www.clonescriptnews.com/forums/

When you are on that page everything seems to be fine, however if you click on this:

http://www.clonescriptnews.com/forum/forums/general/introductions/

and look at the breadcrumbs, when you try to go back to “forums” by clicking on the breadcrumb Forum link, it’s linked to just “forum” and then it tries to open the forum inside what looks to be a post.

you can view that here (if you click on the breadcrumb forum link, you’ll see this) http://www.clonescriptnews.com/forum/

It seems that no matter what I do in the forum settings area with the forums base and forum slug that keeps happening.

[rsanchez1]

The filter passes the anchor tag HTML and the forum_id to your callback. To do this, you’ll have to change your filter, like so:


function remove_bbpress_forum_freshness_date( $anchor, $forum_id) {
}

add_filter('bbp_get_forum_freshness_link', 'remove_bbpress_forum_freshness_date', 10, 2);


So you can see that your filter callback would be passed the anchor and the forum id.

In the bbPress code, it basically just gets the link for the forum, gets the title for the forum, gets the last active time for the forum, and constructs an anchor tag from all this information.

In your filter callback, you can do like is done in the bbPress code:


$forum_id = bbp_get_forum_id( $forum_id );
$active_id = bbp_get_forum_last_active_id( $forum_id );

if ( empty( $active_id ) ) {
$active_id = bbp_get_forum_last_reply_id( $forum_id );
}
if ( empty( $active_id ) ) {
$active_id = bbp_get_forum_last_topic_id( $forum_id );
}

if (bbp_is_topic( $active_id ) ) {
$link_url = bbp_get_forum_last_topic_permalink( $forum_id );
} elseif ( bbp_is_reply( $active_id ) ) {
$link_url = bbp_get_forum_last_reply_url( $forum_id );
}


As you can see, this code gets the ID of the last active item in the forum, be it topic or reply. It checks to see if the last active item was a topic or reply, and gets the appropriate url using the appropriate function.

With the url, you can then construct an anchor tag, and the link would say “View Post” (or “View Topic” if you want to get specific). Then you would return that from the filter callback.

For topics, it’s much easier since the last active will only be replies. The way you set up the filter and callback will be the same, just replacing forum with topic. To get the url, for View Post, do this:

$link_url = bbp_get_topic_last_reply_url( $topic_id );

In the code, it checks this to see if there have been any replies:

$time_since = bbp_get_topic_last_active_time( $topic_id );
if ( empty( $time_since ) ) {
// there are no replies, you can return "No Replies"
} else {
// make anchor tag linking to "View Post"
}

I hope this clears things up a bit for you to try it yourself.

[Lynq]

This also works, you can specify a post parent if you use this.

http://pastebin.com/vNMrR7za

Or the WP_Query reference is here, which could help: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

Good luck!

[Lynq]

Can you use

echo do_shortcode(‘[bbp-single-forum id=32]‘);

Inside the template files, should work I think?

[on3advertising]

I’m so close using Jeff’s solution!

I added a checker to the customer ID in the initial if statement since it was passing through regardless of what I entered.
&& mysql_num_rows($result) == 1

So the complete code ended up looking like this:
function restrictForum(){
$db_name = 'dbname';
$con = mysql_connect("url","usr","password");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");
$cust_id = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['cid']);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM customer_data WHERE customer_number = $cust_id";
$result= mysql_query($sql);
if ( isset( $_GET['cid'] ) && !empty( $_GET['cid'] ) && mysql_num_rows($result) == 1) {
// cid (customer ID) is present, show the bbPress login form
echo 'Please enter your username and password to complete the login process ';
echo do_shortcode('bbp-login');

} elseif ( $_GET['error'] == true ) {

// cid entered was not valid
echo 'The customer ID you entered is not valid.';

} else {
echo ('
Enter Your Customer #
(form name="cust-form" id="cust-form" method="get")
(input name="cid" id="cid" type="text" maxlength="6" /)
(input type="submit" value="Validate"'/)
(/form));
// cid is absent so show the form to validate it
// do your custom form here that asks for the customer ID. Then if the customer ID
// is correct/valid reload this page like /login?cid=123456 which will show
// the bbPress login form.
}
}
add_shortcode('forum-login-restrict','restrictForum');

It’s weird though, whenever I enter an invalid customer ID, I get the MySQL error saying “mysql_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean”.

It’s also annoying that the bbpress shortcode I’m embedding is now showing up as text, literally “bbp-login” rather than the actual form using:
echo do_shortcode('bbp-login');

[on3advertising]

I like your method, I’m also trying to figure out a way to keep it on one page. I just noticed your post so I will have to try it, but I did something like this. It doesn’t work:

I have a login-form.php with the basic stuff (this forum keeps stripping my form code so I have to put some sloppy stuff in here:

form method = "get"
input name="cid" id="cid" type="text"

I have a checklogin.php file:

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$db_name = 'dname';
$con = mysql_connect("url,"username","password");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");
$cust_id = $_GET['cid'];
$cust_id = stripslashes($cust_id);
$cust_id = mysql_real_escape_string($cust_id);
$sql="SELECT * FROM customer_data WHERE customer_number='$cust_id', LIMIT 1";
if(mysql_num_rows($sql) == 1){
$row = mysql_fetch_array($sql);
session_start();
$_SESSION['cid'] = $row['cid'];
echo('kind of worked');
} else {
echo("worked");
}
}else {
include_once("login-form.php");
}


Then I made my shortcode in functions.php that just calls the checklogin.php file:

function restrictForum(){
include_once("checklogin.php");
}
add_shortcode('forum-login-restrict','restrictForum');

There is something seriously wrong with this method. I am studying your solution as best as I can to try and implement that as well.

[on3advertising]

I like your method, I’m also trying to figure out a way to keep it on one page. I just noticed your post so I will have to try it, but I did something like this. It doesn’t work:

I have a login-form.php with the basic stuff (this forum keeps stripping my form code so I have to put some sloppy stuff in here:

form method = "get"
input name="cid" id="cid" type="text"

I have a checklogin.php file:

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$db_name = 'synoptix';
$con = mysql_connect("url,"username","password");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");
$cust_id = $_GET['cid'];
$cust_id = stripslashes($cust_id);
$cust_id = mysql_real_escape_string($cust_id);
$sql="SELECT * FROM customer_data WHERE customer_number='$cust_id', LIMIT 1";
if(mysql_num_rows($sql) == 1){
$row = mysql_fetch_array($sql);
session_start();
$_SESSION['cid'] = $row['cid'];
echo('kind of worked');
} else {
echo("worked");
}
}else {
include_once("login-form.php");
}


Then I made my shortcode in functions.php that just calls the checklogin.php file:

function restrictForum(){
include_once("checklogin.php");
}
add_shortcode('forum-login-restrict','restrictForum');

There is something seriously wrong with this method. I am studying your solution as best as I can to try and implement that as well.

[Andreas]

To demonstrate the dilemma – groups are all here, including group forums:

youthpolicy.org/community/forums/

But then you go to any group and their forum, and it says ‘This group does not currently have any forums.’ We are on bbPress 2.2-bleeding, as suggested in the codex here.

Weird.

[Bowe]

Details

Install: WP 3.5  (Multisite) + BBPress 2.2 Bleeding and BuddyPress 1.6.2
Guide used: http://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/

Procedure: We’ve ran the importer to import from BBPress 1 to BBPress 2. The migration wizard went fine and all the forums/topics and replies have been set. We’ve followed the guide and made sure BBPress 2 is set to be used as the BP Group Forums. For some reason this does not happen. We tried using the various Repair Forums tools, but they do not have effect.

So right now we have working BBPress 2 Forums that do not integrate with the existing groups. Any suggestions on how to “remap” BBPress 2 forums to BP Groups?

Thanks in advance!

[0kee]

Hi, since updating everything is working fine except the reply box for the forum isn’t re-sizing. I think it’s the wp-bbp_reply_content-editor-container. Sorry, new to this.
I’m using wordpress 3.5 and bbpress 2.2.3 with the standard bbPress (twenty ten) theme. Anybody any ideas?
http://userdrivendesign.org/?topic=music-assistive-technology

Thanks
Karl

[John James Jacoby]

This is a function of BuddyPress, that turns profile data into searchable links. Google around how to remove this; there are a few tutorials, and a page in the BuddyPress codex.

[Alexander]

I guess it would be something like this (still not working though – incorrect loop?)

Code example: http://pastebin.com/FnX6cfRK

[Darren1981]

Hey all,

Since there is no support for “Categories” so to speak.. what i would like to do is create a custom main forum page and insert the forums manually… Now i know this can be done with shortcodes in posts and pages like as follows:

[bbp-single-forum id=32]

But what i am wondering is how would one go about inserting single forums into the BBpress .php template files.. for example the template content-archive-forum.php has the following php code which displays all forums:

I would like to edit this file and insert forums manually.. is there a php version / code like the shortcodes to insert single forums ?

Regards, Darren

[bruceleebee]

Hello,

I am using skematiktheme.com wordpress theme, which is also styled for buddypress. I also have the lastest version of buddypress, bbpress, and wordpress installed.

Not sure if I should be asking this in the buddypress forum or not, because most of the changes are related to bbpress forums which are integrated with buddypress.

I want to change the font size. In general I just need to change the font size for the text in the body of posts, but it would be good if I could bump everything up by 4px. How do I change that?

Can someone help me by explaining it in simple step-by-step language?

For example: go here, then type this code here, and then change this, etc….

Thanks,
Ben

[Kyle Burnett]

i am using another plugin (codepress admin columns) that calls do_action(‘load-edit.php’) to load all the plugins to get some info – namely custom columns. since and update to both – which, ironically both updated today – i get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::add_help_tab() in /home/content/…/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/forums.php on line 118

And if I get past that error, it’s the same thing for admin/topics.php and admin/replies.php.

What I have traced it to is this:

private function bail() {
if ( !isset( get_current_screen()->post_type ) || ( $this->post_type != get_current_screen()->post_type ) )
return true;

return false;
}

For some reason bail() is not bailing. I – the user – am on options-general.php?page=codepress-admin-columns, and yet bail() thinks the current screen’s post type is ‘forum’ (or topic or reply).

I’m thinking this is a naming convention problem? Why else would get_current_screen return as a ‘forum’ post_type when I’m no where near the forum – I’m just loading it to read some data.

Thanks for any info.

[AllenPayne]

Managed to make it work using this 2 functions:

function remove_bbpress_forum_freshness_date() {
return '';
}
add_filter('bbp_get_forum_freshness_link', 'remove_bbpress_forum_freshness_date');

function remove_bbpress_topic_freshness_date() {
return '';
}
add_filter('bbp_get_topic_freshness_link', 'remove_bbpress_topic_freshness_date');

But now i’m thinking to do something else. Instead of removing the date i want to rename it to something like “View Post”. The freshness date already links to the last post by default so i just want to rename it.

Do you know how can i do this?

[AllenPayne]

I tried to use div.forums-topic-datetime with display: none; but i can’t get it to work. Can you please post the whole code? I’m fairly new to CSS.

Regarding the PHP filers…I’m not sure how to do this either. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Jared Atchison]

There is a plugin that addresses the first issue.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-private-replies/

Not sure of an easy way to restrict posting a thread without a few chunks of custom code.

[AllenPayne]

Hi everyone,

I want to remove the last post date from my bbpress forum and topic pages:

I want only this to show up:

Freshness

[AVATAR IMAGE] Username

Basically i want to get rid of the date. I tried using CSS with this code:

li.bbp-forum-freshness a,
li.bbp-topic-freshness a{

display: none;

}

But it hides both the date and the username.

So, how can i hide only the date and leave the username?

Please help.

[inliving]

Hi,

I have a section of my site where I list recent forum posts on the page (among other things) What I’d like to do is add another section that’s more specific, i.e. listing recent posts to a specific forum.

Is it possible to modify the code below to look in specific forums?


$args = array('post_type' => 'topic', 'posts_per_page' => 5);
$forum_topics = new WP_Query($args);


[dFactory]

Hi,

I saw somwhere a topic about Forums, Topics and Replies somwhere in the forum and want to confirm that it exists even in just releases 2.2.3. In admin and on frontend bbpess post types labels don’t get translated (tested on 2 different sites, translated in 2 different tools, my language uses extended latin chars).

Another issue is with the User profile rules (permalinks, line 873 in bbpress.php). It’s possible to filter rewrite rules for user favorites and subscriptions but topics and replies (and it’s pagination) are hardcoded, even if there are functions available to use instead (and filter if needed)

[zeaks]

I want to change the output of the “Code” editor button of the bbpress plugin to use my custom shortcode for posting code in the forums. How can I do this? I’m unable to find any reference to the buttons in any of the templates.

[Jared Atchison]

Ah in that case, I think thats great. Since the author is the primary content creator of the thread, all things considering, I think it will work well.

You should considering polishing up that code and releasing it as a bbPress plugin on the WordPress.org plugin repository 🙂 You’d have to dynamically hook into the user edit page and maybe a few other changes, but the base of the work there is probably done.

[Jared Atchison]

So here is how I would do it (I think) if I wanted something easy yet half way elegant.

I’d create a /login page in WordPress that has a custom page template (page-login.php) that contains some custom stuff. It still breaks the process up into two parts, which is not ideal, but its the easiest way without putting in some time to get around that.

Essentially, it would be something like this. First ask for the customer ID. They enter that in and submit it. If it’s valid then reload the page and show the bbPress login.

if ( isset( $_GET['cid'] ) && !empty( $_GET['cid'] ) ) {

// cid (customer ID) is present, show the bbPress login form
echo 'Please enter your username and password to complete the login process';
echo do_shortcode('bbp-login');

} elseif ( $_GET['error'] == true ) {

// cid entered was not valid
echo 'The customer ID you entered is not valid.';

} else {

// cid is absent so show the form to validate it

// do your custom form here that asks for the customer ID. Then if the customer ID
// is correct/valid reload this page like /login?cid=123456 which will show
// the bbPress login form.
}

Another option would be on the first form to ask for the username. Then you could take that and have it auto fill in on the login form using the WordPress login form function (wouldn’t be able to use the bbPress shortcode for this).

[on3advertising]

Jared, thanks for the feedback. The more I thought about it, about a thousand different ways to do it popped into my head as well (spun my brain into a scrambled egg). At this point, I’ve basically started to write the custom login from the ground up. I’m going to create a shortcode out of it at the end.

I just started it but so far I just have the basic connection and query going:

function restrictForum(){
$db_name = 'dbname';
$con = mysql_connect("URL","username","password*");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");
$cust_no = $_POST['custno'];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM customer_data WHERE customer_number = $cust_no";
echo('Customer #');
}


I previously had this small bit into a shortcode that just checked if the user was logged in then provided the bbpress login form if they weren’t:
function restrictForum(){

if(!is_user_logged_in()){
echo('You must login to access the forum');
echo do_shortcode('[bbp-login]');
}
}

add_shortcode('forum-login-restrict','restrictForum');