Hey guys sorry to be the guy and post this I know its probably been post a milllion times. I am using the theme Shore for my Website because its just a theme that I enjoy. Bbpress & Buddypress seem to not want to work with this theme. I need a good forum and social section. I have tested by switching to 2016 themes it worked properly. I also enabled and disabled every plugin, even reverting back to early wordpress versions. Now is there anything I can do in the child theme to customize to get BBpress & buddypress working properly. I have basic knowledge of coding I did some in High School given enough time I can figure it out. Just getting pointed in the right direction would be huge.
My website http://www.wasdleagues.com/forums/
Let me know if you need more info I want to make this easy as possible for you.
Many Thanks
Mack
Hi all
I have installed the actual version of bbPress.
I am using Photolux theme and the forums are not readable
because of the color settings (font, background).
How can I change color settings of bbPress ?
Thanks and best regards
Frank Uray
It seems the theory is that reverting from 4.4 back to 4.3 still leaves “something” that is breaking things. Does anyone know what the “something” is that is unchanged in the process of reverting to 4.3? What change in the database or a file? I would like to confirm that issue exists in my current setup and test my backup/restore process.
I did indeed go back to 4.3.1 which altered to database… thats true
So in short
1) upgraded to 4.4 > problem
2) downgraded to 4.3.1 > problem remains
3) re-upgraded to 4.4 > problem remains
4) “hacked” the function suggested by casiepa > problem remains
5) re-applied all setting as mentioned above (the “hack” at point 4 is still there)
Hope this enlights it a bit more > problem solved
Unfortunately i do not have a 4.3.1 > 4.4 situation anymore coz I did the same action also on my testsite
I have a testsite were I have (ofc) the same problem – I will check tomorrow toggling public/private with do the trick. To be fair – it did that (and ofc toggling the groups on the forum but after that uses were still complaining so I toggled all the users aswell – But I will check tomorrow on my testsite)
Hi all,
I am a newbie so I am sorry if this is an easy answer however I have not been able to find the answer or in the documentation.
I am setting up a forum on a small site and have installed bbpress. I am wondering how to remove the sidebar and add the correct sidebar for the forum options (login, register, search etc.) also is it possible to place these options above the forum? I was watching a tutorial on youtube which showed the sidebar added automatically after the install of bbpress but it may have been an older version.
I am currently using the latest wordpress 4.4, bbpress 2.5.8 and the esteem template. I did try to use twenty fourteen and twenty sixteen temprorarily but couldn’t add the sidebar under widgets as there was no bbpress sidebar.
Thanks,
Tom
No, what i’m trying to say is that when I went to create a test post, I was able to post to the generic Forums page. I don’t want people to be able to do that. I want them to only be able to post one of the 3 sub-forums.
Here’s the test post
http://www.practicesuccesstools.com/forums/topic/test-topic/
I hope that helps. This is more complicated that I thought it would be, but I’m sure once I get the basic format worked out, it should be fine.
Thanks for your help,
Deborah
I run a multisite and I’ve created a support forum. I want all the users to have access to post to this forum, so I’ve installed “Join My Multisite” plugin.
With this plugin, now the users can log in and post into the forum. But I’ve noticed (on one of the test users) that they get this notification: “Your account has the ability to post unrestricted HTML content.”
They are not admins of the forum, they only have Subscriber role, and no access to the dashboard. Still, they can post html
Can anyone, please, help me. Thank you
Best,
Mario
Thanks so much for the custom CSS. That works great
I’m afraid I still don’t understand how the forums are working. I was able to create a test post to the generic Forums , rather than being restricted to one of the 3 sub-forums. I want postings to only be allowed on one of the 3 sub-forums. Can you tell me how to fix that?
Thanks. The issue was introduced in WordPress 4.4 and there’s a patch available now. Could you test it to see if it makes it work for you? https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35084
…thanks for testing Rob.
The link is created and sent by “bbPress Notify (no-Spam)”.
Another Plugin “bbPress Notify” uses the same link.
I know it is still possible to make a post, it is just complicated to first go back to the topic then scroll down dozenzs of replies before one can stake a new one.
Do you know of any way to notify a group of registered users about new topics and replies with an email that allows a direct reply?
I use Firefox but IE is not different.
Haha sorry I didn’t notify you that your post has been split.
I assumed it is different from the topic you posted in, that is why I split it it into a new topic in the first place.
The refreshing when you click the reply link I think is normal. And when I tested it on your site, it does indeed drop down to the reply form to create the reply.
The link you posted of the reply, only leads to a single reply post not inside of the topic or near the reply form, so the reply link of course would not work in that case.
… of course I also tried deactivating all CSS rules AND all plugins besides bbPress at the same time with no effect.
Here is a “reply to:” link:
rover.swiftease.de/reply/325/
I activated the reply button (“Antwort”) again for your testing.
Guys some devs and I are having a hard time duplicating this issue.
This is how I tested it and come across no issues.
WordPress: 4.4
bbPress: 2.5.8
I tried these default WordPress themes
2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016
I tried these forum structures.
Category > Forum > Forum
Category > Forum > Private: Forum
Category > Forum
Category > Private: Forum
Forum > Forum
Forum > Private: Forum
Category > Category > Category > Forum
Category > Category > Category > Private: Forum
Category > Category > Forum
Category > Category > Private: Forum
With the postname permalink structure (since it is most commonly used and I want to try to duplicate it)
Other things I like to ask is if this is a theme side 404 message being outputted or the normal no topics/forums found here message bbPress outputs like the one below (it could be different if you are using a different language than English for bbPress of course).
Oh bother! No topics were found here!
If you guys can help ask a few questions like the ones that @casiepa asked and these additional ones.
What is your bbPress version?
Have you already tried troubleshooting for a possible plugin/theme conflict?
Are you guys using BuddyPress groups for group forums?
Are the issues only happening on private forums? (Like @kpdub has said)
Did you try the postname permalink structure?
Another thing I may suggest to help try to gather information for the developers, is to try to duplicate the issue yourself. Try to duplicate the issue again on a local installation on your computer. If you can tell us step by step to duplicate it.
Creating a Test Site
Hi Guys,
I know that people are testing in the background, but please keep your findings coming. I was unable to reproduce the issue myself, but others are busy investigating…
Let’s hope to have a workaround soon.
Pascal.
Yeah a rollback worked for me
In regards to user permission mods, I’ve used a combination of the following (but all were deactivated) and still had the problem.
Advanced Access Member by
AG Custom Admin
Restrict User Access
User Role Editor
However, didn’t test this on WP4.3 but my forums were originally created through buddypress, then added extra ones. The group with the subforums was private as were the forums. I was struggling to see them even after the rollback, but making them public solved the problem. This might be a solution here, although I think not as I’d of expected it to find the page but show nothing
Hello Bbpress geek,
I’m Kit and NOT a Robot!
i really need your help! I registered a test user in my forum. however it will be redirected to my website homepage http://www.mysite.com how can i make them redirect to http://www.mysite.com/forums after they register?
Please help
thanks
Hello,
I have a problem with bbpress.
a couple of days ago a problem started with making accounts on my site.
When a new user is making an account he receives an e-mail with an activation link in that mail.
When he clicks that mail he is comming on a page with an box where he needs to add an activation code.
But in the mail there is no activation code. only a link like: http://website.nl/activate/79d6b96dbaaf352d993dafae852f9b26/
So looks like the account should be activated direct from that link but this is not working.
Also when i enter the code 79d6b96dbaaf352d993dafae852f9b26 again in the field where is aked for activation code this is not working.
So people can not make new accounts at this moment on my website.
Who can help me solve this?
Kind regards
Daniel
latest wordpress and bbpress version installed
Hi all,
Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can provide! I am trying to migrate forum data from another platform (I believe it’s a homegrown ASP.net-based forum). I have all the data in spreadsheets/csv files and am trying to put together the SQL statements I need to move it into bbPress.
I put together a small test import (a single post to a single forum) for ‘wp_posts’ that looks like it mostly worked: the imported data is visible under Topics in the WordPress admin but it doesn’t show up when you browse to the Forum it’s assigned to on the front-end.
I noticed that when I create a topic in the traditional way (through the front-end) that it creates several entries in ‘wp_postmeta’ also (like _bbp_topic_id, _bbp_forum_id, _bbp_author_ip, _bbp_last_active_time, etc).
Does anyone know if it’s the absence of post meta for my imported data that’s causing it not to display on the front-end? If so, how much of this info is required?
I have 4300+ posts across 1400+ topics that need to be imported. Some of the post_meta data (like forum and topic id) will be easier for me to cross reference but other data (like reply_count, last_active_time, etc) would be a very manual process to try to include in my import.
Any suggestions or advice on the best way to get this data into my database?
I forgot to mention I am using the latest wordpress version and the latest iFeaturepro5 theme.
I just tested out the code and it seems to work fine. Make sure that you copied over the whole bit of code and did not miss anything. I put the code on a gist file so maybe it will be easier to copy over.
https://gist.github.com/robkk/b24443ad53ece6d2b7c9
I tried Tiny MCE Advanced and it caused alot of issues – half of an individual post showed up in my black background – half in the “white” text area
Maybe this is a CSS issue?? Not sure really.
still did not allow proper showing of the above formatting (showed code when published)
The code fixes it whenever you make a new post, it might not work for existing posts that have not parsed everything, it might need to be republished on the old posts.
really a mess so I went back to WP Edit
I have come across an issue that was present using WP Edit.
Also – all buttons are working fine in my other areas (like Sabai directory) for front end users – just BBPress?
bbPress tries to be secure for frontend posting for users, so that they do not post harmful javascript. It might be a little too secure.
I’ve added BBPress to my site and for the most part it is fine. I’m using a genesis theme and I’ve got the bbPress Genesis Extend plugin too. One problem though – when looking at the forums main page and an individual forum (eg. ‘General Discussion’) some of the text gets squished up too soon when resizing the window. The text ‘Topics’ ‘Posts’ and ‘Freshness’ start overlapping because the content of bbpress gets too small too fast – leaves a big gap on the right too, between bbpress and the right column. If I make the window even smaller, the right column moves below which is fine. And of course if I make the window even larger its fine. But there is a range where it shouldn’t be so squished.
On an individual forum page, the text voices, posts and freshness get squished. On individual posts pages, the responsiveness works as expected.
The site is password protected so I don’t know how to post a url here, I have a screenshot, but don’t see a way to upload it.
I’m using the latest versions of WP and bbpress.
Any idea how to fix this? Do I need to edit something in the bbpress css file? If so, what do I need to edit? If not, how else could it be fixed?
Thanks!
Trisha
@robkk,
I thought the exact same thing when they sent the code. Hopefully we see this as a core feature in the future updates of bbpress.
One can make the button visible to logged in users only by using the
<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?> button code here <?php endif; ?>
@adventureridingnz,
I’m not sure, I’ll have to do some testing on my site to see if it will work with forums.
help please?
My group forums suddenly disappeared, but get this, only the active ones (if that gives any clue) I get this message now when I visit the forum:
This group does not currently have a forum.
I tried fresh installs of bbpress, nothing is changing.
When I go to the backend of groups, I can select the forum name, and save settings: but the forum is still not on the front end.
In the dropdown menu on the frontend of the group, the default shows now as “No Forum”, then there are other group forums in the dropdown menu, but none of the ones listed are that group’s forum name.
site: http://planetgirlworld.com/wordpress
everything is updated to latest version.
we use theme “Kleo”.
I want to add additional infomation and help test to the regsiter page.
I have added [bbp-register] to my register page but it does not show the additional content outside the shortcode.
With the latest version of BBPpress how do I do that? (if its adding a file to my theme what do I use as a basis and what file structure does it need to sit in my theme? (i.e does it sit in the theme folder or does it need to match the structure of the defualt theme)
