[tflight]

I’m just getting a new site up and running and I have some setup questions.

[1] I’ve created a page, called it ‘Register’, and put the shortcode [bbp-register] in it. When people visit the page, they can fill out their username and email address and click ‘register’, but after submitting the form there is no confirmation back to the user that anything actually happened. They simply see the form again. Is this the expected behavior?

[2] When a user is logged in, by default their account allows the ‘Toolbar’ when viewing the site. This is handy so they can edit their profile, logout, etc…. but there are also links to create a new topic or a new reply. This takes them to the wp-admin section of the site which feels strange. Is there a way to force people to only create new topics and replies from the “front-end” of the site?

[3] Along similar lines, people can create a ‘New Reply’ from this toolbar without even viewing a thread. What exactly are they creating a reply to?

[4] Right now all of the forums are marked as ‘Closed’. When viewing the site from the homepage everything looks good and users cannot create topics, replies, etc. However if they use the toolbar to go into the wp-admin section they can create new topics there. Is this a bug? Since all forums are ‘Closed’ the topic doesn’t get assigned a forum and doesn’t appear on the main site, but it is still there with “(No Forum)” assigned.

[Jared Atchison]

Sorry, I can’t help you there.

It should be pretty simple however. Just create those 2 pages, paste those shortcodes, and you’re done.

[Gautam Gupta]

You might try WordPress SEO which has some support for custom post types, a feature of WordPress that bbPress uses.

[Jared Atchison]

You need to create pages and use shortcodes.

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

For example have a login page that contains [bbp-login] and a registration page that has [bbp-register] – this will allow you users to register for an account (which they need to post) and and area to login at.

Also there are plenty of plugins available on WordPress.org that let you put a login for into widget areas etc.

[superhealthyme]

To set up a forum on my blog…

That seems to have worked…

Then to have people be able to login, get an account and post.

When someone other than me goes on they get a

“You must be logged in to create new topics.”

There is no place for them to set up an account or login.

Forum is at http://superhealthyme.com/forums

Thanks for helping

[HenriKroeze]

I’m new to bbPress and I am testing it right now to see if it is a good replacement candiate for a phpbb forum I own.

I’ve set up version 2.0.2 on WP 3.3.

I’ve ‘done’ the extensive installation video on YT, which was very helpful.

Although I really appreciate the cleanliness of bbPress, my forum members really need a few addtional features, like bbCode and PM’s.

I found both plugins, but they claim not to be compatible with bbPress 2.x

Also they’re referring to an installation system I don’t get, where is ppPress ‘myplugins’ directory located?? I cannot seem to find this folder, where should it be?

Thanks for helping me out! (and a version compatible indicator in the plugin section of this site would be very helpful for beginners like me!)

Henri

[bjj_pl]

I am trying to convert phpbb3 database and it goes quite smoothly BUT suddenly stops at some point when converting posts

Screen: http://forumpokerowe.com/obrazki/bbconverter_error_screen.gif

I’ve tried various ‘Rows Limit’ (50, 100, 200)

What am I doing wrong?

I use:

WordPress 3.2.1

PhpBB 3.08

BBPress plugin 2.0.2

BBConverter 1.3

[Vili]

To answer myself and help anyone else looking for a solution, it seems that the bbConverter plugin is able to do the job: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbconverter/

I still have some issues with the conversion, like the first post of every topic showing html code, but at least I’ve made progress.

[murrayac]

@kamikazeek I think if you change to the twentyeleven theme it works.. maybe

@bbpress looks like you have been spammed!

[danielkj]

niceactor

QTTg

iftomkins

Been there and it does not work – Old threads, old codes.

Found a solution and IT WORKS

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-close-topic-trash-etc-resolved

[danielkj]

Hi BBpress.

First, all my posts about closing topics, never got answered by any. Please share!

I found a solution, so i share it.

You can let users close their topics for reply, remove their topics (trash) edit and so on. With bbpress 2.0.2 and User Role editor.

All new users are subscribers -> In User Role Editor mark these fields:

assign_topic_tags

delete_others_topics

delete_topic_tags

delete_topics

moderate

edit_replies

edit_topics

publish_replies

publish_topics

read

Now they are capable to do it! And they cannot /edit/delete/close other topics – only there own.

The “spam” field is still visible – But it is possible to remove it from the .php files somewhere (Notepad++ and Search all files does the magic of finding it!)

Thats all

[Dan Milward]

Hey John. Sorry just spotted your reply….

We’re getting nailed by spam and its not good. Michelle was going to post the following but I decided to copy it here instead:

We have a huge problem with spam! (40+ posts a day) We have tried quite a few things to try and get rid of this problem but nothing seems to be working.

Currently our site is running the latest version of BB-Press we have the Akismet plugin activated and running we also have the Stop Spammer Registrations reCAPTCHA plugin for new user registration.

We have in the past tried the reCaptcha for bbPress 2.0 this didn’t make much difference and we couldn’t use this plugin with the spammer registration one so have removed it for now.

We are running out of ideas and things to try so are reaching out to you guys for some help or suggestions, have we missed something or can anyone recommend a solution to all this spam.

My solution and best thinking involved finding the spammers in the real world and removing their hands as punishment

[tnwinn]

anyone?? should I delete the plugin and start over??

[iftomkins]

Hi! I’m a little late on this one. Using bbpress 2.0 but the above code still kinda works. When I add it, I get the edit button, but no delete button. Any tips? I want all users to be able to edit and delete their own posts. Also, I’m confused whether assigning someone the role Forum Participant vs. Subcriber has anything to do with it, but I’ve tried both. Here’s the code I was using from above:

function delete_own_post($retvalue, $capability, $args) {

if ($capability=="delete_post") {return bb_current_user_can( 'edit_post', $args[1]);}

return $retvalue;

}

add_filter('bb_current_user_can', 'delete_own_post',10,3);

[drewdavid]

Hi Zofar,

Thanks for your guidance.

I was hoping to be able to set this without the use of another plugin, but I will use both for now.

…Until the documentation is updated this (hopefully) will be a working solution!

Best Regards,

Drew

[Csaba.io]

Site: http://boldogics.com/home/forums/

Working links:

1. http://boldogics.com/home/forums/

2. http://boldogics.com/home/forums/topic/

3. http://boldogics.com/home/forums/user/csabilazar

4. http://boldogics.com/home/forums/reply/

NOT Working link:

1. http://boldogics.com/home/forums/forum/viccek/

2. http://boldogics.com/home/forums/topic/pistike/

SO! The topics and forums are not visible

(I’ve created some pages with shortcodes (ex: http://boldogics.com/home/forums/topic ))

[zofar143x]

I don’t think you fully understand what roles and capabilities are. Furthermore, did you try the plugin I suggested? It’s quite different from the “WordPress Access Control” plugin which doesn’t provide you with the ability to modify the capabilities different roles have. The documentation is indeed outdated since the way people register has changed in bbpress 2.x.. The same functionality that the user role map appears to have had (I never used bbpress before 2.x), can now be found under General > Settings > New user default role.

[highexistence]

How can I alter the output of the pagination template tag? Specifically bbp_topic_pagination_links();

From the source, it appears not to accept any parameters directly.

[juneman]

Awesome !

Thanks hscoder

really useful links

best wishes

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[juneman]

Yes i use bbpress for Rpg

because it’s fun to b a young

_____________________

any comment

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[lindevi]

I’m using BBpress for my L5R writing/roleplaying community, though it’s still under construction. I would also be interested in a dice roller with the kind of functionality Myth-weavers has for theirs. If anyone knows of any, I’d appreciate it as well. Otherwise, I may just have to break down and figure out how to write my own.

[Csaba.io]

Anybody? Suggestion?

[drewdavid]

Hi again,

…Am I overcomplicating this? Should I just make the default new user a “subscriber”?

Thanks.

EDIT: Subscriber doesn’t seem to work.

[drewdavid]

Hi,

Thanks John.

Yes doing three private forums on a single website WP installation.

I’d like to create users who can pretty much only access (and post to) the forums as a part of their user privileges.

How would you tackle this?

Thanks again.

Drew

[FTPpass]

Sorry – the file is form-topic.php

and you have to remove the same code from form-reply.php