And I wish this forum did a bit more to sell BBPress, where are the showcases, the paid for professionals and why is this theme still sooooo boring.
Why not integrate more with Buddypress forums, as I can not believe people only using BBPress on its own, I want a better profile.
Why not have the option to test plugins on this site with live demos.
Why not have a clear donation button on your site, or do anything to receive funds to spend time improving the BB line.
Perhaps charge people 1 euro to download BBPress first time then free for life through account, perhaps the free model gives more awareness but BBPress is good enough to compete with expensive forum software.
Why not compete with codecanyon and offer premium plugins that work without conflicts.
Why not hire me as vice president of BBCorp and pay me lots, I accept jellybeans as currency.
Anyway, as mentioned before loving BBPress.
P.H.
Yeah I need to look into that, tried a few years ago but really did not understand how to, even with lots of tutorials.
I do actually have a test site where I keep most of my clients sites during production, url is http://www.my-latest.com and I should use it more…lol
Really not a webdeveloper by trade, just a hobby and being anal about controlling everything myself.
onlijn.com is more of a fun project that had no time allocated for a while, but I am getting to understand BBPress better every time I use it.
Now just completed a BBPress forum at seedism.nl and very happy with the outcome once again.
link here
Ofcourse it is a lot easier now that BBPress and Buddypress have added some core functions that took a lot of hacking a few years ago.
Still loving BBPress and convinced it is the better option for forums.
Peace
Peter
Okay, now I’m very confused. It appears to be the WP Spamshield plug-in–but I have another install with both bbPress and Spamshield and it works fine (which is why I didn’t bother testing it at first).
I’ll check the support page for the plug-in.
bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes
It could be a theme or plugin issue
Plugins
Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
Themes
If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.
Then come back
bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes
It could be a theme or plugin issue
Plugins
Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
Themes
If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.
Then come back
Fresh install of WordPress 4.5.2
Fresh install of bbPress 2.5.9-6017
Only other plugin: WP Spamshield
Theme: Moon
Site: GeekNiche.com
All settings left at default.
As Admin/Keymaster, I am unable to create new topics or reply to topics already posted, when in the forums. I can post a new topic from the dashboard.
The error (when trying to post from the forums) reads:
ERROR: You do not have permission to reply.
To test, I created a new user with the “participant” role. That user can create new topics and reply to topics. It’s only the Keymaster who is forbidden from posting.
This would appear to be a problem. 🙂
The images might depend on what you are doing on the original site, I have tested it out on my local server and it works fine then doesn’t every now and then. Right now it works fine.
Yeah, I just updated and it works as well as before 🙂
It was a pleasure to support you by testing the plugin. Thanks again for your great work and fast solution!
Regards
Thomas
Great – thanks for that.
So with the new version you got exactly the same bug – that’s annoying. I’ll try and work a better solution.
But I’m glad it works in a wider sense.
Once I have fixed that I’ll release it as a final live version with a version number one greater so that you get it.
Thanks again for testing for me.
Thank you, great job! I just donated 😛
First it didn`t work and gave me the same error message as before. So I updated the server to PHP 5.6 and activated the rc successfully. It works perfectly! After activation of the new feature I created a new group “common users” and assigned all subscribers to it. Next step I did was to set up the forums I wanted to be visible to all. Done in 5 Minutes…
I tested it with a few different test users and found everything working properly. The only cute lil bug I found is that the permission “Create/Edit Topics and Replies” appears twice in a row in the menu of the forum pages.
This is just an amazing Plugin!
Cheers 🙂
Thanks a lot for your fast work.
Unfortunately it doesn´t work on my test system. Activating after installation causes an error. It says it can´t be activated and gives me that error message:
Fatal error: Can’t use function return value in write context in /hp/bk/ab/vq/www/TR/wp-content/plugins/bbp-private-groups1/includes/meta-box.php on line 88
Apparently bbPress doesn’t recognize or work out the latest post (freshness tweak) when you have:
category -> category -> forum -> topic
Unless…there is a reply attached to that topic, then the latest post/topic will show up.
I am using 2.59 and the latest version of WP. Resetting the forum leads to the same result.
I somehow cannot open any topics. Frontend doesn’t work at all – when saving a new topic, it just reloads the page, nothing happens. In the backend, I can add a new topic, but its not displayed.
Any ideas? I disabled plugins one by one and tested, no luck. Disabled Cloudflare, nothing.
Hello
I’m trying to create a website which is only a forum. Therefore most recent topics posted will be on the homepage. It’s not being used yet, so there are just a couple of test topics.
I wanted to add a column called ‘Views’, so that there are the headings: Topic + Posts + Views +Voices + Freshness
Can anyone help me to do this? As you’ll see from my website (http://psychiatryadvice.com/), I’ve got the ‘Views’ heading in every topic, and not in the grey box where all the other headings are. This is skewing all the info.
I’ve added the Views information by editing loop-single-topic.php and using the plugin WP-PostViews.
I’m presuming it is a CSS issue I’m not addressing?
using:
WordPress 4.5.2 running twentysixteen-child theme
bbPress 2.5.9-6017
Many thanks.
Hello,
We have a problem on our site with loading shortcodes on /topic/ pages, as you can see in the link below:
http://www.futsverige.se/forums/topic/test/
However, the shortcodes work everywhere else. So the problem seems to be within bbPress suppressing the do_shortcode() calls from the theme.
Anyone knows what could cause this or point us in the right direction on how to circumvent it?
Thanks
I am currently developing a new forum site that has a conservative older target audience. I am not sure at this stage whether those users would appreciate the use of emoticons. However, I would like to test using emoticons once the site is live.
If I install a emoticon plugin (Mona Lisa for example) and then sometime in the future I decide to delete it, is there any easy way to remove the ;-), :yes:,:cry: labels that remain in the text of my user’s replies.
If these emoticon labels can only be edited manually from each reply, then removing an emoticon plugin in the future would create a huge editing problem.
The same issue would arise if, some time in the future, support is no longer provided for that plugin.
So given the potential editing risk of installing an emoticon plugin and then removing it in the future I would like to hear others comments and feedback regarding using emoticons on a forum pitched to an older, conservative target audience?
I suspect the (future editing) risks of installing an emoticon plugin on my site outweigh the benefits. I would be very happy to receive you views on this issue.
Thanks in advance for any input or feedback you can offer.
Kind Regards
Max
Well in the end this issue beat me. It remained with all plugins deactivated and nothing in a mu-plugins folder. And yet I could find nothing amiss within WP core files. Started again from scratch for testing purposes and in the end just keep working with my vanilla version.
As I reported in my other thread it would seem that Robin’s Style Pack and the BBP Toolkit no longer play nicely together. That is unfortunate, given those plugins are perhaps the two most popular within the BBP stable.
Although I could not pinpoint the cause of issue that prompted me to create this thread, I suspect that it was created by one of the following plugins:
1. EDD
2. Super Socializer
3. TML
I have active support threads open with EDD and Super Socializer requesting a fix for the bugs I identified.
As for TML I would advise users to avoid it as it appears to mess with core files.
Thanks for the valuable support offered to try and resolve my problem.
Kind Regards
Max
bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes
It could be a theme or plugin issue
Plugins
Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
Themes
If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.
Then come back
I am currently developing a new forum site that has a conservative older target audience. I am not sure at this stage whether those users would appreciate the use of emoticons. However, I would like to test using emoticons once the site is live.
If I install the Mona Lisa plugin and then sometime in the future I decide to delete it, is there any easy way to remove the ;-), :yes:,:cry: labels that remain in the text of my user’s replies.
If these emoticon labels can only be edited manually from each reply, then removing the Mona Lisa plugin in the future would create a huge editing problem.
The same issue would arise if, some time in the future, support is no longer provided for that plugin.
I look forward to your reply and thank you in advance for your input.
Kind Regards
Max
There were features in both the BBp Style Pack and BBpress Toolkit that I desired.
Unfortunately when ever I installed both plugins, my site became buggy. There is a conflict between the two it would seem.
So I bit the bullet and created my own functionality plugin and used it and WP Custom CSS to create each of the features and styling I desired from the Style Pack and the Toolkit.
There are just three features that I couldn’t find any documentation for:
1. Changing the header label Freshness to other wording, and
2. Creating a “create new topic” link.
I am aware that the first of these features is also included in Robins other plugin called Latest Post (or something like that) however that plugin also includes another feature that I do not require (as I have coded my own)
And so my request. Can someone please provide me with:
1. a function snippet to change freshness to other wording
2. a function snippet to add a “create new topic” link at the top of a forum
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Kind Regards
Max
bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes
It could be a theme or plugin issue
Plugins
Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
Themes
If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.
Here are the most common errors I’m seeing…
[09-Jun-2016 23:17:18 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined index: salt in C:\wamp\www\oshh_testing\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\admin\converters\phpBB.php on line 720
[09-Jun-2016 23:17:18 UTC] PHP Stack trace:
[09-Jun-2016 23:17:18 UTC] PHP 1. {main}() C:\wamp\www\oshh_testing\wp-admin\admin-ajax.php:0
[09-Jun-2016 23:17:18 UTC] PHP 2. do_action() C:\wamp\www\oshh_testing\wp-admin\admin-ajax.php:89
[09-Jun-2016 23:17:18 UTC] PHP 3. call_user_func_array:{C:\wamp\www\oshh_testing\wp-includes\plugin.php:525}() C:\wamp\www\oshh_testing\wp-includes\plugin.php:525
[09-Jun-2016 23:17:18 UTC] PHP 4. BBP_Converter->process_callback() C:\wamp\www\oshh_testing\wp-includes\plugin.php:525
[09-Jun-2016 23:17:18 UTC] PHP 5. BBP_Converter_Base->convert_users() C:\wamp\www\oshh_testing\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\admin\converter.php:371
[09-Jun-2016 23:17:18 UTC] PHP 6. BBP_Converter_Base->convert_table() C:\wamp\www\oshh_testing\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\admin\converter.php:885
[09-Jun-2016 23:17:18 UTC] PHP 7. call_user_func_array:{C:\wamp\www\oshh_testing\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\admin\converter.php:1070}() C:\wamp\www\oshh_testing\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\admin\converter.php:1070
[09-Jun-2016 23:17:18 UTC] PHP 8. phpBB->callback_savepass() C:\wamp\www\oshh_testing\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\admin\converter.php:1070
You could use the private groups plugin, which lets you control who sees what forum, and then the widgets that come with that (recent topics, recent replies and latest activity) would display only those topic related to the group.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/
