[Stephen Edgar]

I’m looking into this now @stickfinger, if you have any updates on the testing you did please let me know 🙂

[gothweb]

post test:

I looked at:

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

I tried to write an explanation of what I did, but flood detection seems to be deleting my posts.

Edit:

I tried to use:

If you do not permit anonymous posting, then your users will need to register with your site. It is up to you to decide which method is preferable.

Automatic registration is easier and it does allow people to quickly sign up, but by the same token gives you less control over who is contributing to your forums, and can lead to spam postings.

Manual signup involves you in more administration, but does give you complete control over who has write access.

Neither is better overall, but one will be better for you !

To allow automatic registration, go to Dashboard > Settings > General settings and under membership, tick “anyone can register”. Then in Dashboard > settings > forums tick the auto role, and ensure this is only at participant level.

To set manual registration, go to Dashboard > Settings > General settings and under membership, and ensure “anyone can register” is not ticked. Then in Dashboard>settings>forums tick the auto role, and ensure this is only at participant level.

In both cases, you will then need a screen for users to register – we’ll come back to where to put this screen later, but for the moment go into dashboard>pages>add new page and create a page. You can call this page anything you like but “register” or “registration” would be logical when users view or access its URL.

If you are doing automatic registration, then put whatever preamble you’d like (“to register for our forums” etc.) , and then add the following shortcode [bbp-register]. Save the page.

and I can register new users by the page at:

http://makers.beyondnp.com/open/?page_id=149

but I don’t know how to fix the widget. Maybe the URL of the registration page can be used as the URI.

[melanie bund]

Hi Robkk – on the test site i have deactivated every plugin (so it looks odd) and i still have the same problem – replies empty, am using twentytwelve theme so should not be a theme problem.
http://photohunters.org/photohunters-test/topic/sony-alpha-dslr-a100/#post-348
Tha only thing i have added to fuctions.php is to hide author links and profile and avatar

add_filter('bbp_before_get_breadcrumb_parse_args', 'mycustom_breadcrumb_options');

add_filter( 'bbp_get_author_link', 'remove_author_links', 10, 2);
add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_author_link', 'remove_author_links', 10, 2);
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_author_link', 'remove_author_links', 10, 2);
function remove_author_links($author_link, $args) {
	$author_link = preg_replace(array('{<a[^>]*>}','{}'), array(" "), $author_link);
	return $author_link;
 }
 

add_filter ('bbp_before_get_author_link_parse_args' , 'rew_remove_avatar' ) ;
add_filter ('bbp_before_get_reply_author_link_parse_args' , 'rew_remove_avatar' ) ;
add_filter ('bbp_before_get_topic_author_link_parse_args' , 'rew_remove_avatar' ) ;
function rew_remove_avatar ($args) {
	$args['type'] = 'name' ;
	return $args ;
}

Any ideas? Melanie
p.s. pop gone on main site, trying to sort out the problem…

[ghoush]

I have searched and put code together and tested. Now whenever a new post is created in WordPress a new topic is created in a specific sub-forum on my bbPress. This is working great. It brings over the tags and everything.

The one problem I have is that the publish_post action fires every time a post is set to published. So if a post gets set back to draft or pending review, and then published again, another forum topic is created. There are problaby 2097324907629306 ways this can be solved. I am only coming up with some pretty stupid ones I think, so I was hoping someone might have a good idea here.

Here is the code for your functions.php:

function post_published_create_topic( $ID, $post ) {
    $author = $post->post_author;
    $name = get_the_author_meta( 'display_name', $author );
    $title = $post->post_title;
    $permalink = get_permalink( $ID );
    $excerpt = $post->post_excerpt;
    $subject = sprintf( '%s: %s', $name, $title );
    $message = sprintf ('[b]%s[/b]' . "\n" . 'By %s' . "\n\n" . '[i]%s[/i]' . "\n\n" . 'View: %s' . "\n\n", $title, $name, $excerpt, $permalink );
    $tags = wp_get_post_tags( $ID, array( 'fields' => 'names' ) );

    $new_post = array(
        'post_title'    => $subject,
        'post_content'  => $message,
        'post_parent' => 691,
        'post_status'   => 'publish',
        'post_type' => 'topic'
    );
    $topic_meta = array(
    'forum_id'       => $new_post['post_parent']
    );
    $topic_id = bbp_insert_topic($new_post, $topic_meta);
    $term_taxonomy_ids = wp_set_object_terms( $topic_id, $tags, 'topic-tag' );
}
add_action( 'publish_post', 'post_published_create_topic', 10, 2 );

Take that code and put it in your themes functions.php (hopefully you are using a child theme.) The 691 is my sub-forums ID, replace that with the right ID for yours. The format of the post and its content is done on the line that starts “$message = sprintf”.

Now I just need to get it to stop creating a new post every time the same post is published. So far my ideas have been something like matching up the topics title with a string comparison, but that seems a bit heavy. There should be a simpler way and I am just not seeing it right now.

[saintjaved]

Yep the latest version of bbpress (“2.5.8”). It also does the same with buddypress but I more need bbpress.

[Robkk]

Did this happen with the latest update of bbPress??
Also do some troubleshooting and try to find a plugin or theme issue.

Troubleshooting

Blank Pages

[PinkishHue]

Sorry for the delayed reply, you could upload your screengrab to http://imgur.com and then give us the link.

Do you have some topics within your forums? Could it be that the template is saying ‘by’ as it’s trying to show the latest topic but there’s no topic there to show?

And what theme are you using? It could be that the ‘by’ has been hard coded in to the templates?

[melanie bund]

Hi Am not sure where my other 2 posts went, have posted twice with code, maybe that is the problem the code. My problem is that the replies to topics appear empty.
Am using wordpress 4.2, bbpress latest version as just updated to see if that might be the problem
ANY help wold be greatly apreciated
forum:
http://photohunters.org/forum/members-blog/
reply:
http://photohunters.org/topic/shutter-speed-cheat-sheet/#post-666

Thank you Melanie

[Robin W]

yes, use the latest activity widget in my plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

[Robkk]

There seems to be users that have gotten the same error.

Fresh install, php warning on all pages in site

A user listed a fix to surround an attribute with an array() , which I did test and it does seem to hide the error.

Might need some second thoughts from Stephen though.

[Robkk]

Thanks for pointing me to the topic.

I see that bbPress is inheriting a lot of styles from your theme

bbPress is using lists instead of a table layout so that is why you see some of the bubbles there.

I see you removed the list styles from your forum.

But you might need this additional CSS to fix some other layout issues.

#bbpress-forums .art-postcontent ul>li, 
#bbpress-forums .art-post ul>li, 
#bbpress-forums .art-textblock ul>li {
  padding-left: 0px;
  overflow-x: hidden;
  overflow-y: hidden;
}

There is some other styles being inherited from the theme, but they are just for styling text and they are quite difficult to fix the same way as above.

Oh and you can delete the account you created for testing. I don’t think I have to login to see the issues you have, unless you have gotten issues around something I would have to see while logged in only.

[Kaynechiro]

Hello,

In my forum, we see the latest author TOPIC avatar from the index page;
And i want simply to show the latest author REPLY avatar instead.

There is an example of what I would like to change:

There is a code to change in the file “loop-single-forum”?
Please help me and thank you for reading this post!

[Robkk]

any post posted by the admin suppose to show up automatically on the LATEST POST in d home page

Most of the time this is for blog posts, unless you set up bbPress for your front page??

[Robkk]

@krissieg @bursahpsamsung

read this first while I test out the login widget.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors#Internal_Server_Error

[ovbg]

Hello, I’m currently testing out a forum that I’m creating, and find that labels are not appearing evenly. It is hard to explain, so let me show. The forum is at: http://www.eyeondemand.com/forums/topic/kindle-fire/

Or, as you can see by the image below, the names and roles appear crooked on all but the first post.

What could be causing this?

[ovbg]

Hello, I’m testing out a new forum here: http://www.eyeondemand.com/forums and unfortunately the email subscriptions don’t seem to be working. Emails work with my website (for new registrations, etc), but the forum subscriptions don’t?

Any ideas?

[fitnotesguy]

We just recently started using BBPress a few weeks ago, and I will admit, I am a fitness blogger, not a programmer. A lot of what I have done has been purely due to research. I can usually get over the hump, but now I am not so sure. On my site, I began a few test topics on the forum just to see how things looked with the theme that we were choosing, and so far, so good. That was until I logged in as a subscriber/participant and tried to respond to the topic that I had already started and nothing showed up. I looked everywhere for that reply, but it was nowhere to be found. Then I tried replying again. And again. And again. And still nothing. So then I logged back into my administrator account, and I noticed a notification that told me that I had ONE reply. When I click on the notification to see the reply, nothing showed up. It simply took me to the original topic which (according to the listing) only had ONE VOICE. Which was the topic itself. Forget all of the half dozen times that I tried to reply to that thing. I tried searching for a solution in this forum, and where I found some similar circumstances, nothing else panned out. So here we are. I will provide the link to the forum and topic and question and I will let you decide: Am I missing something? Am I a total idiot? Lol. Seriously. Because I am starting to think I am going insane.

Here is the link. Check it out: http://www.thefitnotes.com/forums/topic/eat-right-eat-light/

Please let me know what I should do. Thanks

-FNG

[Solomontee]

Asin, them dont show up on the front page(index.php) as nomal, any post posted by the admin suppose to show up automatically on the LATEST POST in d home page, bt post posted with bbprrss dont show up,

[pyromaster]

Hey all,

I’m working on my first website and I have been making pretty good progress….I installed the bbPress forum plugin (latest version) and it integrated pretty easily into my theme (Sento Pro). Can somebody tell me how to turn off the page into bar on the forum? I can easily turn them off on pages by simply going to the page of interest and clicking disable page intro. There are no such options for forums….

Thanks for your help in advance….

Jay

[Solomontee]

Gud day all,
I noticed thread Created with bbprrss Forum on my wordpress don’t appear on the LATEST POST in the site index.

Pls what did i need to do to set dis up.?
Your respond is highly appreciated

[Cyberdogs7]

When I edit a reply I get a white screen with a 500 error code. Refreshing the page brings the reply back up just fine.

Running on a dedicated server with plenty of memory, tested with multiple themes, including twenty fifthteen, and even made sure the wordpress memory was increased in the wp-config.php file.

Anything else I can do to get rid of this issue?

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m not sure what you pasted above is the same as the original file I worked on with @inspirationally but here is a link to the latest copy I have, maybe try this version and go from there to ensure there are no errors in the version/revision you are using.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/41b8bb57df78d1a1bd01

Next up after that though I’m going to need some MySQL information on what the differences are between the database schema of WBB3 which the above was made for versus WBB4 which your trying to use it on? Do you have a DB schema for WBB4 or link to one via their site?

[Robkk]

I thought in my search of the forums here I had found something saying they no longer supported 3.0.x conversions and now only supported 3.1.x.

It the opposite for the current version , but when 2.6 comes out 3.1 will only be supported.

And the link you sent, what is that for? Is that just showing how to amend the phpbb conversion film? I’m not quite clear.

Basically you needed to see the reply to the topic. Use the patch and see if it fixes your import.
Of course try this first on a test site to see if everything is working fine.

[Robkk]

I have found a way to hide most notices by CSS. Question is, can I keep it that way, or will there be any important notices not showing up later when the user is interacting with the form:

Well that is the thing , I would have to know what is important to you. The notice that shows when a users post is in moderation might be useful so that they know the moderator has to approve their post , but that will not be in til 2.6 of bbPress. Some plugins might hook into that , and some notices might be for post flooding and maybe some users might think their is a bug on your site if they do not know why they couldn’t post.

The Topic/Forum descriptions could also be removed with some PHP using this function and you can place it in a plugin like this.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/functionality/

It should be Plugins > Edit Functions. You can place any code snippet you might see useful into this.

You can place the snippet after the plugin information.

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_forum_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_topic_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

function ja_return_blank() {

    return '';

}

The users plugin you suggest is from 2 years ago; I would not install that. I am told again and again by my hoster and main plugin providers that old plugins are one of the greatest vulnerabilities.

It should be fine , it is a fairly small plugin and very well coded.

You can see the plugins main code functionality in the link below. There is also an empty languages folder and a readme.txt file also in the plugin.

https://gist.github.com/jaredatch/3868274

And then I had to turn off the buttons for html because they are badly formatted, barely legible in white text on light-grey background.

You can fix that with some CSS too. Here is a simple black background to fix it.

#bbpress-forums #qt_bbp_reply_content_toolbar input,
#bbpress-forums #qt_bbp_topic_content_toolbar input {
  background-color: #000;
}

I also would like to offer my clients a possibility to create a profile page with some background on themselves and the business project they are working on.

There is a bunch of plugins that add custom fields like BuddyPress some premium plugins add social features too , just like BuddyPress. The thing I am guessing you want is to highlight it on the Home of the users profile page with the forum role and user stats. This would require some PHP coding to achieve. By default the user can add a description and it would show up on the front-end , nothing too crazy.

[nmschaller]

Hello robkk,

Thank you very much for your answers. They helps me get started.

I have found a way to hide most notices by CSS. Question is, can I keep it that way, or will there be any important notices not showing up later when the user is interacting with the form:

/* bbpress */
div.bbp-template-notice.info {
display: none;
}

div.bbp-template-notice {
display: none;
}

The bbpress pages cause me headaches. The original bbpress pages for forum index and user page all come out unformatted in my theme, practically useless. I have created a forums page by using shortcodes for forum index and topics index. That is well formatted and informative. But only with one level of hierarchy.

The users plugin you suggest is from 2 years ago; I would not install that. I am told again and again by my hoster and main plugin providers that old plugins are one of the greatest vulnerabilities. Isn’t there a way to block all access to pages containing mysite/forums/users/* in .htaccess or something like that?

And then I had to turn off the buttons for html because they are badly formatted, barely legible in white text on light-grey background.

I also would like to offer my clients a possibility to create a profile page with some background on themselves and the business project they are working on. I have tried BuddyPress but it is not for me. I cannot code and this seems to be necessary to effectively use BuddyPress. So, I have not found a good solution for that yet. For the moment I have chosen to go with the wordpress.com/gravatar profiles and encourage people to introduce themselves and their project in the forum.

Nicole