[tvirtual]

I have contacted aMember to see if I can get some further help as far as protecting the forum based on the user’s access in aMember. aMember is not protecting the forum as I expected. The forum is just not displaying at all for my test users. Hopefully aMember can help further. Thanks for your reply.

[NickUdd]

Hi,

I did a testinstall and imported my phpbb forum. I have since made some theme modifications.

Now I want to go live but need to re import all the topics. How do I clean up my current installation?

[project_subdomain]

tested commenting out above part several times which gave me correct titles and wrong titles when active. Did a systematic check then by deactivating plugins one after one and custom codes one after one and reversed, also refreshed the page title via backend (no caching in use). Nothing found to make the titles correct except commenting out above part.
I cannot reproduce it as well.

[Robkk]

It is weird that you got this new issue. I just tested the snippet again on my WAMP server to check with the latest version of WordPress, switched to German again, and also see if it conflicts with the last code snippet I gave you, but I do not see an issue on my side.

[lfeddern]

Hi,

I have a catagory with several different forums in it. I would like to display the most recent topics from the category. Am I right in thinking there is no shortcode that allows this?

Could I achieve this by just getting them to display some how by forum id? If I have to query the latest topics from certain forums which function would I have to use? I have looked at the docs but the functions don’t seem to be documented.

Thanks for any help;

[Robkk]

Okay I tested this theme again today and found some issues are actually in the bbPress plugin right now, but it is fixed in the latest dev version.

The user profile page being transparent is related to this bug listed here for theme compatibility.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2545

This is what the profile page and its sub pages looks like this with the modification in the bbPress plugin and without any WP Fix plugins, a custom bbpress.php, without transferring the bbPress templates into the theme.

There is also a possibility to fix the forum search, views listing, topic tag archive, moving replies, easily by either using archive and single for most of these bbPress pages to have better compatibility with these type frameworks. For example it might be best to use is_tax() for topic tag archives but using is_archive() will definitely work for most themes and theme frameworks.

Creating a bbpress.php is sort of a workaround for this. I do not have that much familiarality with the theme and framework that you have to know exactly how it needs to be to post anything to help with this quite yet.

I thought that guide would help you get most of the way there, since all you would need to change is the urls of your site, but I guess you are just transferring basically from bbPress to bbPress.

Something like this would definitely help in your case though.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2605

I guess you can try Exporting and Importing through the regular WordPress tools provided in the Tools section. I tried just exporting all the bbPress post types Forums, Topics, Replies, then run the repair tools, but that did not help and kind of messed up my test site. You can try that, maybe using ALL content instead or not running the repair tools though I recommend using a test server/local development area first.

[Robkk]

I think this is somewhat related to your other topic here.

Recently edited replies to the top

I guess you have to make sure the reply sorting is only working on the single topics and not the user profile pages.

You can try something like this to see if it works. You may not even need the second conditional bbp_is_single_user() but I was making sure.

function custom_bbp_has_replies( $args ) { 
    if ( bbp_is_single_topic{} && !bbp_is_single_user() ) { 
        $args['orderby'] .= 'post_modified';
        $args['order'] .= 'DESC';
    } 
    return $args; 
} 
add_filter('bbp_before_has_replies_parse_args', 'custom_bbp_has_replies' );' );

Since I am not 100% sure that I have the right conditionals since I haven’t tested this you can double check here.

bbPress Conditional Tags

[tw_crowther]

WordPress Version: 4.3.1
Theme: Omega
bbPress Version: 2.5.8

Issue: I installed the bbPress plug-in. Created a Forum called Forum, and created one Topic so I can test. All bbPress settings are left as default.

I created a Page called Forums and added this page to my site navigation.

My issues are 3 fold.
1) When I click on “Forum” in the site navigation to access the page I created I do not see any forum imbedded on this page, all I see is are the words “Archives” then the title “Forums” in the main body of text.
2) If I click on the title Forums this does direct me to the bbPress Forum I created – How do I integrate the Forum directly onto the “Forums” custom page I created?
3) I notice the Forum URL is <sitename>/forums/forum/forum/ is there a way to remove 2 of these levels so the URL is simply <sitename>/forums

I hope this makes sense and you are able to help.
Kind regards,
Tom.

[Robkk]

1) Are Private forums visible to all logged in users? I thought for sure it restricted access to only moderators and keymasters, but when I did some testing I noticed they’re very much visible. I didn’t see anything about it in the Layout and Funcionality article, so any tips on having a truly private forum for me and my forum staff?

Hidden Forums are only seen by Mods and Keymasters. Layout and Functionality article is basically a code snippet collection not something explaining how bbPress works.

The information you need to know are somewhat in here.

Creating Content

2) I wanted to prevent users changing their display name, so they would be forced to display themselves as whatever their username is, however, when editing form-user-edit.php they still had access to do so in the WP-Admin. Following the steps in Restricting access to WP Admin did nothing. The WP Admin Bar was still visible, and Participants or lower still have access to it.

Deny Ability To Change Display Name

[Robkk]

Use this PHP Function. Add it to your child themes function.php file or in a functionaility plugin.

function rkk_last_reply_link() {
	?>
    <a class="rkk-last-reply-link" href="<?php bbp_topic_last_reply_url(); ?>">Go to latest post</a>
    <?php
}
add_action( 'bbp_template_before_replies_loop', 'rkk_last_reply_link' );

[leo-l]

Ok so not sure this is the best approach but it seems to work well.

// Run query to get all the published replies for the topic
$widget_query = new WP_Query( array(
			'post_type'           => bbp_get_reply_post_type(),
			'post_parent'		  => bbp_get_topic_id(),
			'ignore_sticky_posts' => true,
			'no_found_rows'       => true,
			'post_status'		  => 'publish',
		) );

// Get the replies per page setting value and the count of the total replies + 1 for the initial topic
$posts_per_page = get_option('_bbp_replies_per_page');
$total_posts = $widget_query->post_count + 1;

// if the total replies is greater than the per page setting pagination is used so need to structure url with page number
if($total_posts > $posts_per_page)
{
	// Work out last page number and build url using topic link and last reply id
        $total_pages = ceil($total_posts/$posts_per_page);
	$url = bbp_get_topic_permalink()."page/".$total_pages."/#post-".$widget_query->posts[0]->ID;
}else{
	// Same url as above but without page number as not needed
        $url = bbp_get_topic_permalink()."#post-".$widget_query->posts[0]->ID;
}

I then added the following where i wanted to place the link

if ( $widget_query->have_posts() ) {
	echo "<a href=\"".$url."\">Go to latest post</a>";
}

[tkse]

I’ve been going through Layout and Functionality today, trying to fix some issue I’m currently experiencing with my bbPress forum. There are some things I can’t quite figure out:

1) Are Private forums visible to all logged in users? I thought for sure it restricted access to only moderators and keymasters, but when I did some testing I noticed they’re very much visible. I didn’t see anything about it in the Layout and Funcionality article, so any tips on having a truly private forum for me and my forum staff?

2) I wanted to prevent users changing their display name, so they would be forced to display themselves as whatever their username is, however, when editing form-user-edit.php they still had access to do so in the WP-Admin. Following the steps in Restricting access to WP Admin did nothing. The WP Admin Bar was still visible, and Participants or lower still have access to it.

[leo-l]

I’m looking to add a link at the top of a topic that will jump the user to the last reply/post in that topic.

I’m assuming i can do this by building a link to /#post-[ID OF POST] but im not sure how i can get the ID of the last post to insert into the link

Any help will be greatly appreciated

[fagworio]

I´m using the latest bbpress version.
My problem is:
When i’m replayed a topic in bbpress the page start to reload and still reload.
The page dont be update and i need to press f5 to reload the page to see my topic replay.
I don’t have a lot of topics and users.

I dont use cache plugin because the forum have only 3 topics and i fell relpays.

So, how to speed up the bbpress topic or what kind of issue is this?

[fagworio]

I´m using the latest bbpress version.
My problem is:
When i’m replayed a topic in bbpress the page start to reload and still reload.
The page dont be update and i need to press f5 to reload the page to see my topic replay.
I don’t have a lot of topics and users.

So, how to speed up the bbpress topic or what kind of issue is this?

[project_subdomain]

How does bbpress differ users and so their replies and topics under “my replies/topics”?

I’m just checking my site and recognized that for regular users at “My replies” the replies of all users (instead of the one currently logged in) are displayed. As I created all users as admin for purpose of testing only, they have different usernames but all the same IP.

[IkerMB]

I forgot to ask one think, when i want to access to my control panel in my blog, WordPress User and pasword, in this area appeare “LOGIN WITH”.. and logos of facebook, twitter and google.

But i do not want to appeare there, because it is only when I login in my control panel. I want to put on the page of my blog.

The thinking is that, at first when i made a test with the plugins, i could to put, and see the login in the page, but desinstaled and reinstaled and now it is imposible to see. (EVEN IF I PUT OTHER LOGIN PLUGIN).

I delete the cache already.

[mihirpatel7410]

Sorry for trouble,
Since i deleted your test account from my site, Keymaster role is removed from category of forum role. and Participant cant see and ask question in forum. and admin also cant take role as a keymaster.

[Stephen Edgar]

Do you have a wp_bb_terms table at all?

You should have a table setup similar to this:

(This is my BP 1.6.x database I use for testing bbPress imports, it should be pretty much what I’d expect your setup should also look like)

[KeithAdv]

Thanks for responding, Stephen!

Yeah, I agree that the converter is a pain! I was excited because I had gotten past that step (I think). My unexpected brickwall is between BuddyPress and bbPress.

The complete process I used is one that I originally documented here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-i-got-import-from-ning-to-work-for-me

tl/dr answer: I used BuddyPress 1.6.1 and the latest version of bbPress. I installed only BuddyPress during the Ning migration. After that was complete and looked good, I let BuddyPress update to its latest version and installed the latest version of bbPress. All topics AND replies existed at that point. I did the final migration from BuddyPress to bbPress and all replies disappeared.

I don’t know either of these two plugins well yet but the only clue I have is the wp_bb_terms error message. Perhaps the migration is failing at that point and causing the replies to become disconnected. I just don’t know.

It’s so frustrating to be THIS close!

[fictionaddictionnf]

Thanks for the reply. I made a test account and did register via the Forum register page and it works as it should. These users (again likely all bogus) just registered as blog users (subscribers) so that works as it should as well.

Be nice to be able to not allow blog registration and allow forums but not a huge issue.

Thanks again.

[Robkk]

Works when I tested it on my test site.

Try some troubleshooting to see what could be causing the issue.

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

Downgrade that testacccount user I created on your site to a participant so that I can see if there is still an issue.

[Robkk]

Subscriber makes sense for a default WordPress role since WordPress was just for blogs, so the default registrant role would be a subscriber to see your blog posts.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

Try creating a test user by manually doing so with an additional email you may have in the WordPress Register form. Then see what the forum role is. If it is blank still, make a test forum post to see if it changes.

You can also try some troubleshooting if something is messing with the forum role being set.

Troubleshooting

[regeisle]

I’m having all sorts of html code show up as part of bbpress email notifications. Worst when the text is pasted in from other webpages or emails, but that’s unavoidable with lots of people using a forum.

Even random   characters when someone types directly in the editor.

I’m using wordpress’s built in mce editor with only visual mode available. Latest versions of wp and bb. Are there any solutions to fix this?

Example:

Thanks in advance! Rich