[cavenewt]

‘This questions sound a bit silly, but is it helpful if someone tag a spam topic as “spam”, “spams”, “spamming”, or “spammer”? (I always do this when I see a spam topic)’

That explains why, when I come here looking for spam-fighting solutions, I turn up so much spam.

[Nate]

Problem: Remove sidebar from bbPress

Solution: My theme has a Full Width option

I know that if I input my shortcode into a Page, it will display the forum in the Template of my choosing. Presto, the forum index is within Full Width.

Yet when the user decides to choose a forum, they’re relegated to the Theme’s default Template, which includes the sidebar.

Meeeeh.

Is there a quick and dirty way to tell bbPress to use the Full Width template that’s already available?

[Sniper Kitten]

Looks like you accidentally add unnecessary line in your style.css

Find the following lines:

.reply {

float:right;

margin-left:18px;



}

Remove the “float:right;” from it, leaving:

.reply {

margin-left:18px;



}

This should solve the problem.

[Sniper Kitten]

I recently noticed that when I try to start a topic or posting a reply, it’s taking about 30+ second before the topic/reply is show up. If you try to tell me there may be a “bad plugin” and try to disable all of it except bbPress, save it. I have tried the following:

1. Using different browser.

I find out that when I try to use Firefox 12.0 to post, it’s loading extremely slow. But this is not happening in Internet Explorer 9 or Google Chrome 18.

Try to start Firefox in safe mode? Yes I have tried to do that but it doesn’t make a difference.

2. Using different user/computer.

It’s still the same.

3. Try to post a comment in a normal post.

I was able to comment a post without any problems, so I think it may be a “bad plugin” problem.

4. Disable all plugin (except bbPress & BuddyPress)

But the same thing happen. FYI I don’t edit either the bbPress or BuddyPress files.

5. Using different theme.

I replace my modified custom community theme with BuddyPress Default theme and see if I putting bad codes in my theme. But this doesn’t solve problem even I tried other themes.

6. Change permalink structure.

It doesn’t make any changes, and I don’t think it will help.

7. Reinstall WordPress, bbPress & BuddyPress

Still doesn’t make any changes.

8. Create a new install in another domain.

I use http://scirefs.com/ as my main and http://www.scirefs.org as a sandbox (with the same configuration as in SCIREFs.com) with only bbPress and BuddyPress activated. But everything works fine in SCIREFs.org with either bbPress 2.02 or 2.1 and I have no issue with Firefox 12.

9. The Cloudflare……

Since I have Cloudflare as my CDN for SCIREfs.com but not SCIREFs.org, I tried to remove SCIREFs.com from Cloudflare and add SCIREfs.org to it and see what happens. The result: The issue with Firefox at SCIREFs.com disappear but SCIREfs.org is now facing the old issue.

Do anyone here have any ideas what’s wrong with it? Or someone here is facing the same problem? This seems to be the first and the only problem I can’t figure it myself.

You can login to SCIREFs.org using the following information:

Username: demo

Password: demo

URL of the forums: http://www.scirefs.org/test-forums

And try to start a topic or post a reply using Firefox and see if it’s happening to you.

[pimarts]

If you know your way around Javascript / jQuery: You could do a workaround with that to tick that box automatically upon page load and hide it immediately… It’s a dirty fix though

[ZedsDed]

Hello! I’d love to see some examples of sites that utilize WordPress for its blog and bbPress for its forum/messageboard. I’m poking around this forum now for examples but would love to see any that you may know of. Thank you

[Stephen Edgar]

The page /forums is a generic page part of bbPress.

You can create your own page/s and use the bbPress Shortcodes

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

Go to Appearance > Pages and give it a title (Discussion, The Teams, Leagues etc)

Then in the content of that page use the bbPress shortcodes with how and what you want on that page.

This for example would show what you currently have on /forums plus add the ‘new topic form’ below that list.

[bbp-forum-index]

[bbp-topic-form]

You could also create a page called ‘New Topic’ and just have [bbp-topic-form] on that page and then using the same method from Jarad above add those pages as menu items.

[kennymcnett]

Thanks mattsimo and jaredatch. Worked the charm.

Here are all of the $args and the defaults, FYI (pulled from bbPress core file: bbp-common-template.php)

// HTML

'before'          => '<div class="bbp-breadcrumb"><p>',

'after'           => '</p></div>',

'sep'             => is_rtl() ? __( '&lsaquo;', 'bbpress' ) : __( '&rsaquo;', 'bbpress' ),

'pad_sep'         => 1,



// Home

'include_home'    => $pre_include_home,

'home_text'       => $pre_front_text,



// Forum root

'include_root'    => $pre_include_root,

'root_text'       => $pre_root_text,



// Current

'include_current' => $pre_include_current,

'current_text'    => $pre_current_text

[damjtoh]

I edit the template.php bbp-forum, although I do not sound right to modify the core.

I changed bbp_list_forums function () original:

function bbp_list_forums( $args = '' ) {

[...]

// Build this sub forums link

$output .= $link_before . '' . $title . $counts . '' . $show_sep . $link_after;

}

// Output the list

echo $before . $output . $after;

}

}

by:

function bbp_list_forums( $args = '' ) {

[...]

// Build this sub forums link

//$output .= $link_before . '' . $title . $counts . '' . $show_sep . $link_after;

$output[] = array(

'permalink'=>$permalink,

'title'=>$title,

'count'=>$count

);

}

// Output the list

return $output;

}

}

and I returned:

Array

(

[0] => Array

(

[permalink] => http://localhost/wpv1/foros/seccion/dota2/torneos-y-competencias

[title] => Torneos y competencias

[count] => Array

(

[topic] => 1

[reply] => 5

)

)

[1] => Array

(

[permalink] => http://localhost/wpv1/foros/seccion/dota2/dota-chat

[title] => Dota chat

[count] => Array

(

[topic] => 0

[reply] => 0

)

)

)

The only drawback is that I can not get the last comment of each forum.

[landonritchie]

Ok found a good fix for this!

in bbp_signature.php

in function bbp_reply_content_append_user_signature & function bbp_topic_content_append_user_signature

change

$signature = bbp_get_user_signature ( $user_id );

to

$signature = xprofile_get_field_data( ‘Signature’, $user_id );

Then in Buddypress profile fields add a field called Signature.

Bam fixed.

I even went ahead and added a bbcode parser to the plugin so it works real nice. you can download the full fix here

http://vigilsoft.net/bbp-signature_buddypress_edition.zip

[Andekvakk]

Thank you very much

[NFLpigskingirl]

I had to change the theme for that to work — but I’m totally okay with that

How do I allow people to post?

[Jared Atchison]

You need to adjust the width of parts of the table.

.bbp-reply-author { width: 20% }

is a start.

[Jared Atchison]

bbPress is very much under active development. You can see that in the trac timeline – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/timeline.

The spam periodically gets to a high level on the forums because

1) There are only a handful of moderators at the moment

2) The spam is human generated and most of it does not get caught by akismet

Hope that helps

[Jared Atchison]

As a moderator here (and this runs pre 2.x bbPress) there is a *lot* of spam that gets through. Every morning I go through and delete everything that has popped up over night

[NFLpigskingirl]

Hi everyone! I’m new to BBPress and I’m quite the technology newbie, so please be as simple and specific as possible when answering my question otherwise I’m liable to not get it

Here goes: I have WordPress and installed BBPress. I have the Piano Black theme. My site is called Pro Football Chick (profootballchick.com/forums if you want to see what I’m talking about). Anyhow, I want the forums to have a tab on my front page at the top — like the About, Home, and Contact pages. I also noticed that there’s no way for someone to add a topic — how can I fix that?

Thank you SO much!

[Andrew]

Thanks Lynq! I placed this bit of code into my page.php template file and it’s working like a charm. I didn’t know there was a ‘forum’ post type.

Great! Thanks so much for your help!

[Andekvakk]

The url is; http://kunnskap.net/forum/

I shall try firebug now, thanks

[Sniper Kitten]

There’s seem to be some unnecessary line in

f5666014.527a5f.css located in “.reply a, .reply a:visited {” and “.reply a:hover {“

Try to remove these lines in your f5666014.527a5f.css:

.reply a, .reply a:visited {

display: inline-block;

background: white;

color: #333;

font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

font-size: 11px;

text-decoration: none;

margin: 4px 0px 0px 0px;

padding: 2px 10px 2px 10px;

border: 1px solid #DDD;

-moz-border-radius: 5px;

-khtml-border-radius: 5px;

-webkit-border-radius: 5px;

}

And this:

.reply a:hover {

background: #09C;

color: white;

text-decoration: none;

border: 1px solid #09C;

}

[Sniper Kitten]

What are your hosts using as web hosting control panels? cPanel, vDeck or something else?

Take me as an example (I’m using vDeck 4), in your control panel, navigate to “File Manager” (or similar name). If your install your website in root directory, then navigate to /wp-content/plugins/ and upload your bbPress zip file there. For sub-directory, navigate to /”sub-directory”/wp-content/plugins/ and upload it there. Uncompress the zip file.

In your wordpress dashboard, go to Plugin section. You should see the bbPress in your plugin list. Activate it and you’re done.

Actually there’s an easier way to do this. Navigate to Plugin > Add New. Search for bbPress and click “install now” and activate it.

You can also refer:

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/2/#bp-sitewide-forums

[Miniflowers]

Thanks, sniperkitten. I didn’t realize the bbpress developers were still active. I’ve been searching everywhere for answers and everything I read said they weren’t going to update. I’m glad to hear this isn’t the case .

As far as hidden forums, I found a work around b/c we’re going to protect our content through Wishlist Member – but what I was referring to is when you create a forum, it can either be set to “private” (which is for admins), ‘hidden’ which is supposed to be (from what I’ve read) so it’s visible to certain members and not others – like membership levels. It doesn’t seem to work though. When I set the forum to “hidden” it still shows. I looked around on various sites and the last thing I could find on it was posted 6 months ago saying it was a bug, and it would get worked out. But as far as I can tell it hasn’t.

Thanks for responding!

[Sniper Kitten]

Looks like you ask in the inappropriate place. You should ask this in WordPress or BuddyPress Support Forums.

You’ll need to create a custom page template for those pages, but there’s no easy way to do this unless you have some knowledge about PHP.

For a quick start, you can refer:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages

To create a page template:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

[Jeaz]

Yeah, I’d really enjoy an easy way for users to add images to their posts. Find a bit odd that there’s a parser for Youtube links and a lot of of other media types, but not normal images.

Preferably it would would just as adding a Youtube link does, meaning – just add a link ending in .jpg, .png, .jpeg and .gif and it would show the image.

[Andekvakk]

Hello.

In my bbPress forum the username and IP is standing right for the avatar, and I want it to stand over it.

Is that possible on an easy way?

Here is an screenshot of the problem:

http://i.imgur.com/qrAw2.png

And here is how I want it to be:

http://i.imgur.com/7wVK2.png

Thanks

[NickMackz]

Is there a way to let normal users post images on bbPress 2.1? Just discovered only admins can use <img> tags in replies.