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.
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.
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.
@kamikazeek I think if you change to the twentyeleven theme it works.. maybe
@bbpress looks like you have been spammed!
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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
Awesome !
Thanks hscoder
really useful links
best wishes
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Hello. I have some problems with the forum
(location: http://boldogics.com/home/forums/)
Some pages are working, and some pages are not visible…
I’ve tried some shortcodes, but nothing logical….
@folgerj : i’ve seen your forum. Can you please help me to configure mine too?
I believe that I have installed bbPress correctly and setup the shortcodes so that the forum displays on my site (both the topics, login, and registration). But the problem is that once I believe I’m logged in and I click on a topic to try to add something, it will not let me. It says this:
“You must be logged in to create new topics.”
Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong? I setup a new user to test it out and this is what I’m getting the problem with. I setup blank topics ok when I’m logged in as administrator so is it an issue with user rights? Here is my forum:
http://www.theheartbandits.com/forum.html
Would it make sense to have the option to allow shortcodes? Simply ON|OFF choices? I have a forum for members of a club, registration required, and using WP-FILEBASE which has a bunch of shortcodes for inserting links to files. Just an example of one good case for allowing at least a choice.
gil
Chris, thanks so much. For now, the toolbar serves the purposes. The membership is restricted and I will be providing instructions for posting.
I will be exploring shortcodes at the same time. Should I run into problems applying them, given my slow learning curve, I will return here for some excellent assistance.
@sravankumardv
I think your code should read:
[bbp-single-forum id=36]
instead of:
[bbp-single-forum id=$Introduction]
I hope this helps…
One of the worst things about a major update like this, is that we lose alot of great plugins – But, it’s better finding out now that their not actively updating it anymore than use it for a while and find out one day that everything’s broken 
what type of html did you want your users posting?
Post toolbar allows alot of great functionality – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-toolbar/
It seems to do the same thing as ‘easy video embed’ by allowing users to post videos using a ‘[video]‘ or ‘[youtube]’ shortcode.
Also, because bbpress is now using WordPress post-types. you could also easily create other shortcodes to achieve what you want.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API
Instead of letting users do img src and giving them complete control over the output of the image, you can allow them to do ‘[image]cat.img[/image]’ to achieve the same affect in an easier way, as an example.
I do honestly think that using shortcodes (search the wordpress extend, theirs alot of shortcode plugins) would be a better option as it allows you to control it’s use properly, as i’m sure you know, some humans enjoy causing trouble – and their are afew html codes that can causing a hellish experience for your users if it gets into the hands of the wrong user.
It’s one of the reasons wordpress.com doesn’t allow some html codes
Correct. There can’t be any hard coded links anywhere, because all themes are different and will want them in different locations with different URLs. You can use the Login Widget that’s included to get you some of the way there, but even with widgets/shortcodes/templates it won’t satisfy everyone.
Correct. There can’t be any hard coded links anywhere, because all themes are different and will want them in different locations with different URLs. You can use the Login Widget that’s included to get you some of the way there, but even with widgets/shortcodes/templates it won’t satisfy everyone.
Create pages, use Shortcodes or Page Templates.
Create pages, use Shortcodes or Page Templates.
hi @Mark Barnes i tried your codes, saved to file and upload it on plugin folder then activated it..
after activation i am looking for the import button or something like that … i can’t find it… can you please help me where to find it?
thank you
hi @Mark Barnes i tried your codes, saved to file and upload it on plugin folder then activated it..
after activation i am looking for the import button or something like that … i can’t find it… can you please help me where to find it?
thank you
created a log in page as well using the same process
1) created a new page named “Log in”
2) added the following code in HTML:
[bbp-login]
<h1>To Register</h1>
[bbp-register]
3) added that page to my secondary menu
http://pairmybeer.com/log-in-to-pair-my-beer/
Still working on a layout for the forum homepage/landing page and having issues with some of the other short codes for forum and topic indexes
Hi i tried using the code [bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] as
[bbp-single-forum id=$Introduction] where Introduction is the forum id, but it is not working. Please help me. Can you exactly mention what is the forum id here, is it the title what we provide for the forum .
@Hagandasz
I had problems finding this, too.
Go to Forums on Dashboard.
Hover the mouse over the title of the forum, and a link comes up at the bottom of the page. (In Opera it does, anyway)
e.g. http://pour-your-heart-out.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=36&action=edit
in this case, $forum_id is 36
you don’t use the $
The same principle works with the rest. I know it says “post=36” but I guess that’s just how wordpress stores stuff.
I can’t seem to get any of the bbPress widgets to work properly… the shortcodes function, but they aren’t formatted or anything, so if I try to use them in a text widget I just end up with messy text that is about 100 lines long, and get a bunch of Page Not Found errors when clicking on it.
I think I am having trouble because I originally installed bbPress separately, then added the plugin when it became available. I’m not sure what to do.. it is all a big mess