[loftus49]

Migration is done (thanks to your suggestion x3). Forums are now visible. But registration is not working properly. See Site

1. access to site does not require registration (or lack of registration does not prevent access)
2. registering produces an error: user registration is currently not allowed.

I’m trying to require registration in order to help reduce spam. Once a person is registered, they should not have to register again if device is the same. I’ll collect addresses for a mailing list.

[loftus49]

I finished populating the forum with topics and now (after typing finger therapy) need to know the following.

1. How to insure the forum can only be added to or modified by “registered” users.
2. How to facilitate user registration from the website and sign-in after they have been registered. Can someone who has previously registered be recognized thereby having to sign-in not necessary.
3. Insure new topics and info entered via the website are added to the forum (Registry).
4. How to transfer the bbpress database (and files ?) from the test.loftusweb.com to the final loftusweb.com site.

I would also like to know the upcoming lotto numbers, but won’t ask for that now.

[Robin W]

that’s an interesting point.

On email addresses, users do not know each others email addresses from the website, and emails addresses are not shown (unless you are using them as usernames). It is possible that registered user George with email abc@def.com wants to post an anonymous comment alongside his real one. He can post with a username of say Fred, but must enter an email address in the form, so does he use his real one (abc@def.com) or must he enter a made up one? And if you don’t permit a real one from a registered user being used, then as an anonymous poster if I try an email address and it rejects, I know that the user with that email address is already on the site. That user might not want it know that he uses the site, but by testing and telling people that email address exists you are publicizing who is using the site. It’s almost certainly doable, but might have undesired consequences.

On usernames, it is equally possible for one anonymous user to pose as another anonymous user, so it is not just registered users who can get spoofed. Now you could add a test for registered users, and reject these, and that might be sensible, but it is beyond free help, as it would be a chunk of work to do.

If interested in email or username checking, contact me via

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/contact-me/ with a link bacjk to this thread.

[zoddshop63]

I want to enable anonymous users to post. But I noticed they can still post using registered usernames/emails. This allows for people to impersonate one another.

[Robin W]

ok these are instructions from 12 years ago, and are not applicable for the current version of bbpress.

If you just enable the ‘anyone can register’, then users can register from either the topic/reply forms, or you can use a register page – ie create a page – call it whatever you want and put the shortcode [bbp-register] in it. Then add this page to your menu.

[Robin W]

I am not sure where you are seeing

“Before adding the page, it is important to select the bbPress template page for User Register. This can be done by clicking on the drop-down Template menu on the right hand section of the screen and selecting bbPress – User Register.”

Can you say when/wher this appears eg

dashboard>settings>xx>yy

[loftus49]

I’m trying to create “Register” pages in WP (version: 6.2.2) for bbpress (Version 2.6.9). The following instructions say to access the following template.

“Before adding the page, it is important to select the bbPress template page for User Register. This can be done by clicking on the drop-down Template menu on the right hand section of the screen and selecting bbPress – User Register.”

I cannot find a bbpress template. I tried several themes (astra, neve, etc.) I used the bbpress style pack (version 5.5.5) and tried numerous priorities on “Forum Templates” ranging from 1 to 1000.

This is a practice site before replicating the issue on a staging site. So “oops” to the data or configuration is unimportant.

[momotarou]

thank you
This ‘Private groups’ plugin is a very nice plugin for group management
However, it seems that email notifications are limited to subscribers only.
All registered members will receive an email notification.
E-mail notifications for each member registered in each group cannot be sent.
Is it possible for members belonging to a group to receive email notifications from time to time on the registered forums of each group without setting subscriptions for members?
Could you please let me know if there is a plug-in that can link with “Private groups” and add email notifications for each group.
I look forward to your response.

[momotarou]

Hello
I am new to BBpress.
Is the following content possible with BBpress?
1) Group the forums and have each membership level in the group.
2) Only registered members in each forum can send email notifications (new topics, replies) to the grouped forums.

I look forward to your advice.
thank you.

[zoddshop63]

is there anyway bbpress can not interact with wp-login? Whenever a new user register it send them to wp-login screen

I just want the users to see the custom login and register pages.

[zoddshop63]

bbpress doesnt send any emails… activation emails, forgot password, subscription, etc..
the page bbp-register shortcode has register option which sends an email but since no email is sent no user can register.

[zoddshop63]

The bbp-login shortcode page has a register button. That register button takes you to /wp-login instead of bbp-register

The bbp-register page has a button on the buttom to complete registration. But the button does not have enough padding on the bottom and is cut off on most browsers.

[emmanuelle64]

Hello,

The subscription to forums used to work. Mails were sent to subscribers.
I did some changes by using bbp style pack and I registered new subscribers. It seemed to work.
I also loaded Health check and Trouble shooting but then uninstalled it.

After some time, It suddenly stopped working. No more notification for the new posts… I am not sure it is related to the changes I made, but I have no idea where it could come from.

Can you help ?

[Robin W]

if you users are registering, you’ll capture their email address in that part of the process.

If you are allowing anonymous posting, then the ‘create topic’ form has an email field which is not shown apart from to you as admin.

[dozza]

I have a memberpress/bbPress/Wordpress site with about 100 members. I was trying to make a user a moderator of a particular forum. I was able to change her role to a moderator by editing her user profile OK. But when I add her username to the moderator field within the edit forum screen it spins on update but never registers the username as moderator.

I then notice the username in question is of the format ‘firstname dot space secondname’

I didn’t think WP allowed usernames with spaces or dots (periods) but apparently, it does and the username is created when they register via a Memberpress form. By default, they are made forum participants upon registering. I want to upgrade this user to be a moderator of a specific forum.

The user HAS managed to post a topic in a forum already as a participant.

So i’m assuming that the problem lies in bbPress NOT allowing spaces in usernames when you try to assign them to be a moderator of a specific forum?

I was reading a 15 year old thread here where @howtogeek provides some plugin code. I tried saving this to a zipped .php file and adding it as a plugin but Wordfence said that wasn’t a good idea, so I’m not confident using 15-year old code is such a good workaround.

There was another old thread from 8yrs here ago where @joop.stringer suggests tweaking permalinks but I can’t seem to figure that out either.

I’ve come across this which will maybe help me prevent this from happening again.

But can anyone confirm that the space in the username IS the reason I can’t assign a moderator
role user to be the moderator of a specific forum, and if there is any more recent knowledge on this issue? i.e. does bbPress actually allow spaces in usernames now?

[Robin W]

it would, but I am just a man in his kitchen, I’m not a bbpress author.

Style pack is much more than just styling (it may have been mostly that when you tried it), and you don’t need to use the styling bits to take advantage of the functionality.

Anyway it’s free and what I write, so that’s where the blocks will be.

If you just want to use blocks in the custom post types, then just add this filter

add_filter ('bbp_register_forum_post_type', 'rew_gutenberg_editor') ;
add_filter ('bbp_register_topic_post_type', 'rew_gutenberg_editor') ;
add_filter ('bbp_register_reply_post_type', 'rew_gutenberg_editor') ;

function rew_gutenberg_editor ($settings) {
	$settings['show_in_rest'] = true ;
	return $settings ;
}

If you want to impose blocks on your users in topics and replies, then use the ‘blocks everywhere’ plugin.

If you want block widgets, that is what will be in style pack when I have finished writing it.

If you want bbpress in FSE themes, that will also be in style pack in due course

[emmanuelle64]

There it is:

for the user:
dashboard>users>all users, and then select ‘les abonnements’ (the subscriptions) for the chosen user then select option ‘subscribe selected forums’ and apply

and for the subject:
dashboard>subjects>all subjects, and then select ‘les abonnements’ (the subscriptions) for the chosen subject then select option ‘subscribe selected users’ and apply

and for the setting by default I followed your instructions. I selected the folder “gestion de l’abonnement’ (subscription management), then I selected ‘activate’ and chose the forums to be subscribed by default. Then I ‘registered’ the modifications

Sadly none of the 3 actions worked. It only worked with the setting of forum subscription for several users

[enkoes]

Hi, here is my test site. Still under construction.

I found that most of the time WordPress display correctly in “display name publicly as” using NICKNAME. But there are times where it displays USERNAME in “display name publicly as” even though users have already registered their nickname in Ultimate Member profile.

[enkoes]

Hi, I would like to display nickname (and not username) in the whole bbpress forum.

For topics list, I modified the code from a previous topic Show username instead of full name / display name and it works well so far.

See https://paste.pics/MVA62

The modified codes that I use is as follows:

add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_author_display_name' , 'rew_reply_change_to_nickname', 10 , 2 ) ;

function rew_reply_change_to_nickname ($author_name, $reply_id) {
	// Get the author ID
	$author_id = bbp_get_reply_author_id( $reply_id );
	$nickname = um_get_display_name( $author_id );
return $nickname ;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_author_display_name' , 'rew_topic_change_to_nickname', 10 , 2 ) ;

function rew_topic_change_to_nickname ($author_name, $topic_id) {
	// Get the author ID
	$author_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id );
	$nickname = um_get_display_name( $author_id );
return $nickname ;
}

Note: I use Ultimate Member (UM) plugin to display user details.

However, when comes to user profile, I’m struggling on how to force display nickname right above the avatar. Hope you can help me with that.

See https://paste.pics/MVA6A

Note: It’s very tedious to modify “display name publicly as” from the WordPress dashboard for every registered user. Thus hopefully codes may well do the job for me.

[bertroode]

We encountered a severe problem. A couple of weeks ago we converted our PHPBB forum to bbPress.
The converted forum was doing all functions as expected. Since three days ago users who where already member on the PHPBB forum cannot login after renewing their password when they donot spell the nice-name correctly.
Then they get the message: Warning: register_shutdown_function(): Invalid shutdown callback ‘BBP_Converter_DB::__destruct’ passed in E:\wamp64_bert\www\forum\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\admin\classes\class-bbp-converter-db.php on line 35
So far we have traced that it must have something to do with the information stored in the table usermeta with meta_key ‘_bbp_class’. When we remove that record the user can login as expected.

The only change to the systems has been the update of WordPress. May be that has something to do with it. Our knowledge of debuging is rather limited so we need urgent advice on how to fix this problem.
We have seen that similar problems have been reported in the past but no solution other then removing and reentering the user was mentioned. That is not a reel solution because the orignal name of the author is lost.

Wo can provide us a solution or hint to solve our problem.

Best regards,
Bert

[madorac]

In the forum. When you hover over the user’s name, there is an option to “View Zach Smith’s profile”. When I click on it, below is an example of what shows up next to their profile picture.

@fakeemailgmail-com
Profile
Registered: 7 months, 1 week ago
Hi, I’m Zach. I’m a new member at the athletic club.
Forums
Last Activity: 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Topics Started: 3
Replies Created: 4
Forum Role: Participant

[Sergio De Falco]

My step up, also install/update Gutenberg standalone plugin to the latest version and add this to your own plugin / theme functions.php

function envireit_bbp_register_forum_post_type( $args ) {
	$args['show_in_rest'] = true;

	return $args;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_register_forum_post_type', 'envireit_bbp_register_forum_post_type' );

function envireit_bbp_register_topic_post_type( $args ) {
	$args['show_in_rest'] = true;

	return $args;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_register_topic_post_type', 'envireit_bbp_register_topic_post_type' );

function envireit_bbp_register_reply_post_type( $args ) {
	$args['show_in_rest'] = true;

	return $args;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_register_reply_post_type', 'envireit_bbp_register_reply_post_type' );

With this you will be able to build via site builder, your own forums, topics and replies page. Just replace the content loop with the article content block.

[3dbyte]

Hi Robin, your bbpstyle plugin is very nice but unfortunately it’s breaking my theme. (Jannah premium) So I couldn’t use. On the other hand Ian Stanley’s moderation plugin very nice. I’m using it for test site but last updating 9 years ago. I’m confused to use in real site. No code for function file? I want to approve for replies and topics not registered users.

[Robin W]

ok, try

dashboard>settings>permalinks and just click save – this resets the permalinks and may help

also check

dashboard>settings>forums and check the Roles > Automatically give registered visitors… is checked

[zandros3]

Greetings.

I have installed bbPress on a website.
AR Member Plugin is also installed.
Buddypress Plugin is also installed.

I created a forum page.
https://presley.rockmedia.gr/forum/

I created a new user. ( *Users are registering through AR Member Registration Page )

When I click on a Forum name to go inside the Forum, the page refreshes but I cannot create a new topic. The only new element displayed is a “subscribe” link.

What am I doing wrong?