[markf1]

thank you for your reply Robin.

I tried what you suggested but it did not fix the problem. Do you have any other trouble shooting advice?

I need to get this working.

I originally had set this up over 1 year ago. The site owners wanted to have the forum but didn’t want to let anyone register or join. The forums and topics I put in worked correctly. I think that I had added the forum to the site nav menu as a category versus a page. Now that they want to enable the registration and etc I have followed the bbPress docs and made a page for the forum and I’m using that in the site nav menu.

I have tried making some new forums and topics (test 4) with this new config but neither the older forums/topics or the new test forums/topics seem to have the links working correctly. Not sure if this is relevant or any help in figuring this out.

thank you.

Thanks

[Adrian Pop]

Hi,

I am a validator from the Romanian team. We completed the translations for BuddyPress and bbPress in Romanian language and I wanted to try a live test. When I have install the BuddyPress in the Romanian WordPress 4.1, the Update from Dashboard immediately notified me that I can install the translation for BuddyPress, and the installation of the Romanian translation went smooth. But after I install the bbPress, nothing happened 🙁 Is there an error?

Then I exported the .po and .mo files from the GlotPress project page (https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress), rename the files as bbpress-ro_RO.mo and also for .po and manually uploaded via ftp in the wp-content/languages/plugins/ folder. Now after refreshing the Dashboard screen I have the bbPress in Romanian.
But still – the description string that is displayed on the Plugin Screen “bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.” is in EN. I tried to find it but it seems to be missing from the GlotPress collection for bbPress.
Can somebody fix this?

Many thanks and keep up the good work!

Adi

[gimmiefreebies]

I had this problem and there seems to be no easy answer – until I tried a different browser (!!)

In Firefox, the LINK button does not look the same as it does in CHROME!! In Google Chrome’s web browser you can check a box under the link title and the link will OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW! 🙂 That checkbox is not visible in Firefox.

If you’re running the latest version of bbPress (right now it’s Version 2.5.4), that should work!

Chrome:

Firefox:

[Robin W]

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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Shaped Pixels]

I’ve seen this with others, and it appears to be an issue going back 5 years with bbPress. When I have bbPress installed and activated, then I go to log into the admin dashboard, I am redirected to the front of the site. If I didn’t have the admin bar active, I would have to manually type in the browser address bar the dashboard url. This has been an ongoing issue and I am experiencing it yet again. It does this even with a default WP theme active and it does it locally on my XAMPP development, as well live.

So when bbPress is active, it does this redirect to the front of the site. This happens to me every single time I try it out when testing themes. I’ve even seen this happen with no other plugins, just bbPress and WordPress.

Any official solution to this? I know there are some who posted they cannot replicate the issue, but I have found a lot of people who experience the same issue. Would this be considered a bug?

My WP version is 4.1
bbPress version 2.5.4
Demo site link: HERE

My live site location is setup with WP as a network (multisite) to demo all my themes.

Thanks in Advance.

UPDATE: Forgot to mention this happens only when I log directly into the admin and not through the forum login.

[Robin W]

If you have FTP access then :

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress
find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-reply.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/form-reply.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

then you need to chnage the line

<?php if ( bbp_current_user_can_access_create_reply_form() ) : ?>

to do a check for keymaster and author

something like

<?php if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster())  || bbp_get_reply_author_id() == bbp_get_current_user_id() : ?>

bbp_get_reply_author_id() might need to be bbp_get_topic_author_id() – you’ll need to try it to see

Give this a go, I’m very short of time at the moment, so haven’t tested !

[Robin W]

ok, I’ve had a look.

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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Robin W]

The link to padelstar works

the link to EVELYN PADEL just seems to go to another page

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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Deleyna]

I *think* I’m going about this the right way — but I may not be, so any advice will be appreciated.

I’ve moved a long-standing forum group onto bbpress. We’re loving it, but members have asked me to make it work more like our old program. I’ve seen a lot of chatter about view-unread elsewhere. I’m using the plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-unread-posts/ — that hasn’t been updated in forever, but works nicely and gives us what we are used to. It creates a meta-key for each topic, each user: bbpress_unread_posts_last_visit_$user-id with the associated value being the unix timestamp.

Combined with the plugin to go to the first unread post, this works. I’ve also created buttons where the user can reset that meta-key to mark forums as read / unread.

Now I want a custom view, “Unread View”, that will look for topics where
_bbp_last_active_time > bbpress_unread_posts_last_visit_$user-id

Since $user-id is dynamic, I’m thinking that I can’t just specify the view in the functions.php file and be happy.

What I’ve done:
added:
—–
// adding custom view for unread
function my_custom_views_init() {
$args = array ();
bbp_register_view( ‘unread-view’, __( ‘Unread View’ ), array( $args ), false );
}
add_action( ‘bbp_register_views’, ‘my_custom_views_init’ );
—–
to my functions.php file.

created
unread-view.php based on loop-topics.php with the logic to test if
_bbp_last_active_time > bbpress_unread_posts_last_visit_$user-id
and only show the topic if it is… (I’m not sure if I have the logic right yet, or if this is even the right loop to put the test…)

Added a page with the short code
[bbp-single-view id="unread-view"]

But there’s clearly a link missing. I need something to tell the system that I want to use my unread-view.php instead of loop-topics.php for “unread-view” ONLY.

And I’m not sure how to do that. I’m clearly missing more than a little bit of the logic here. My programming skills are pretty basic, so any help you can give me would be appreciated.

[Robin W]

ok,

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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Robin W]

if it’s not a plugin issue viz

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.

the it is likely to be a a theme issue

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Rosa Parker]

This is my website: http://ecoperate.com, WordPress version is 4.0.1 and bbPress version is 2.5.4.

I noticed that the little avatar icons displayed in bbPress widget areas (e.g. to show recent posts or comments) don’t have any margin on the right and appear as though they stick to the text. In my case, this is a footer widget that displays the latest topic. I would like to add margin-right, but the problem is that the avatar icons in the actual forum area fall under the same CSS selector and appear to have enough margin already (they also have a border). So, when I add margin-right, it affects not only the widget icons. How can I do that, though? Is there a way to separate them, so that the icons in the forum area remain the same?

Many thanks in advance,

Rosa

[terence.milbourn]

I have installed the latest version of BBPress on a WP Multisite install, on in its own subdomain, which I guess I could map with a cname if it would help solve this problem.

I did this so that I could theme the forums differently to the primary domain.

The url looks like this now… http://forums.domain.tld/forums/

Is it possible to run BBPress as the forums subdomain, and not the subdirectory?

[Robin W]

sorry just reread your post and you want the latest reply !

I’ll come back !

[Twist360]

Thanks once again Robin, one final question, how do I have a second orderby for say freshness (_bbp_last_active_id).

I would like to show topics > 19 replied but also order by latest reply.

Been playing for hours and cannot crack this.

Thank you.

[Robin W]

Hey thanks for responding – I’m a testing team of 1, so knew there would be bits that weren’t right or missing.

yes can you send me screenshots, that would be very kind.

Contact me

[Steve]

It’s simply a link to the thread/post on the forum.

http://www.morayfoodnetwork.org.uk/forums/topic/testing-notifications/

If you click it, you’ll see the error; however if you were logged in it would take you direct to the thread/post. I’m assuming it should show a more meaningful error and a login prompt?

To be honest, the thread title is probably a little incorrect however I didn’t know how else to identify the issue.

[Robin W]

seems they are helping you on the trac ticket, but first step would be

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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Robin W]

◾

When viewing http://thewritepractice.com/topic/test/ as admin, the Edit link is there in the box. When viewing it as the author of it however, not seeing Edit.

The above are wordpress roles (and useful info) but can you tell me what bbpress roles you have set for this user.

[Martyn Chamberlin]

Weird. Problem still persisting when I just now deactivated all plugins and activated Twenty Ten theme.

Now here are some interesting things though:

1. When viewing http://thewritepractice.com/topic/test/ as admin, the Edit link is there in the box. When viewing it as the author of it however, not seeing Edit.
2. I’ve set Edit in forum settings to 99999 minutes so that’s not the problem.
3. Also, when logged in as author of the topic, I can load http://thewritepractice.com/topic/test/edit/ just fine and edit the topic. So it does recognize me as the author on the edit screen, but somehow not on the actual “view topic” screen.

Because of this last observation, I conjecture that we must be using different logic for “is the current user the author of this topic” on the View versus on the Edit screen.

Really appreciate your help on this.

[Robin W]

ok, it’s back to looking at this aspect specifically.

1. some themes only show the edit when you hover in the topic/reply content, this is theme specific not bbpress.

2. I know you have already tested the below but please try again as bbpress is tested with default themes. Try twentyten as I know it gives a firm edit box :

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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Then come back.

[peter-hamilton]

So here is my latest addition to Onlijn.com.
Something to separate it more from facebook, and I hope in a positive way.

I can now promote members to authors, who can create content for the site through the front-end.

For authors there is a new link in their menu from which they can access their “Onlijn.com Blogger” page.

This is the actual Blogger page I just finished creating
with lots of thanks to the maker of the Front End Publishing plugin

[Robin W]

Just shows how much we don’t play with – I’ve never hit that link.

By the way I’m not part of the plugin team, just a humble user !

But after a bit of testing, for a topic called Test Topic :

Within the post you’ll see an edit which takes you to

http://www.mysite.com/forums/topic/test-topic/edit/

which allows a user to edit

But the EDIT link at the bottom goes to

http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=18358&action=edit

which is a wordpress supplied link, which a user isn’t allowed to edit as it is a backend function, unless they have privilege to access topics on the backend which only moderators and keymasters can do.

So participants see this link which they can’t use !!

Well spotted – I’ll take a look when I get a moment at whether this can be switched off in wordpress for bbpress pages, or the link changed.

[Robin W]

did you actually paste this line

background-color: “the color you see”!Important;

ie the real words “the color you see”

This would be ignored as it’s not proper code

And if you put this into your child theme, and you’re no longer using your child theme, then it wouldn’t matter anyway.

And if you go to the forum, the background of the actual site under the top nah bar is a light tan. Then if you click on the test forum to go into it (though there aren’t any topics), you will notice it gets darker.

Not sure what ‘the top nah bar ‘ if you mean nav, then I can’t see any tan in my browser, or anything going darker?????

Put an image on photobucket or similar please

[Seo45]

And if you go to the forum, the background of the actual site under the top nah bar is a light tan. Then if you click on the test forum to go into it (though there aren’t any topics), you will notice it gets darker. I actually tried this on more than one device, so I doubt it’s browser cache.