[thecatholicwoman]

I now see what you mean. Also I got the font to change in both the test and live site.

About the title color I probably did not use the right term. I meant the latest topic title under the column latest post that also shows up on the sidebar under recent topics. It would be if I could change the color of both of these titles to be different that the date time stamp and user name if possible.

Thanks again

[Robin W]

No 2 did not seem to work on the test so i did not add it live. I added it to the bottom of the style.css so I am unsure if that is the issue.

No 2 changed the font colour and size of the forum list – look at ‘prayer requests’ in you test and live sites to see the difference.

What else do you want to change?

[thecatholicwoman]

One more thing Robin and I am only asking it now because I am not sure if it is easier to do it when changing the font type. I was wondering if it is possible to change the topic title color under latest post and for it to also show up in that color in the sidebar. I was just asking so that visually it does not look like all one item but it clear what the topic title is with one glance. Let me know. Thanks again.

[thecatholicwoman]

Robin I did both. No.1 worked both on my test and live. Fantastic outcome 🙂

No 2 did not seem to work on the test so i did not add it live. I added it to the bottom of the style.css so I am unsure if that is the issue.

[thecatholicwoman]

Robin,
Hearing someone as successful as you say that is very heartening and speaks well of your character. So often success leads to people thinking that there is nothing more to learn. It is the mark of true wisdom to know that exactly the opposite is true. I doubt that I can show anything to you but I think that the statement attests to your humility and that is even more impressive than your accomplishments. Also another true sign of character is willingness to help when there is nothing to gain for yourself. You have been helping me so selflessly out of pure desire to help and that is something that you do not see often in today’s world. Don’t ever lose these things because combined with your skill it will ensure that the sky is the limit for you.

p.s I also noticed your name ( now I know to look for name 🙂 ) on the private groups plugin I am using to provide restricted forums for women dealing with special issues to find support. Thanks for that one too.

I am working on these two tasks in my test site and will let you know once I implement them.

Per your questions.

Registration

user does this – Fills out form and chooses his/her own password
what user info you want- name, username, address, country, home parish (optional to display in the forum), hobbies (also optional)
emails goes from..to…saying – going to user thanking them for signing up for the forum and giving forum rules and online safety guidelines from noreply@thecatholicwoman.com
Site manager does that… I am not sure but if necessary approves of registration

etc. ie design your ideal process 🙂 not sure what is possible but would like the registration o look similar to registration at a regular social media site with the ability to rescind membership if need be. Hope that helps.

[Stephen Edgar]

Drupal v7 is supported, I have had a quick play with Drupal v8 alpha/beta but I have never looked at Drupal v6 so what the database tables look like I have no idea 🙁

Two options:

1) Can you copy your Drupal v6 database to a test server and upgrade it to Drupal v7?

2) We create a new Drupal v6 import tool

[Robin W]

@zdev1 – yes thanks, I’ve responded to you on my plugin page.

Any testing help you can give me to resolve would be appreciated !

Let me know if you can help !

[thecatholicwoman]

I am getting bluehost to restore my site which fixed things and I set up a test site. http://162.144.36.76/testing/ . That was some great advice. Talk about creating peace of mind???

[Robin W]

ok try

Deactivate bbpress tweaks
Dashboard>plugins>bbpress tweaks>deactivate

Go into widgets
Dashboard>appearance>widgets

And look at the bottom of the left hand side. You’ll see an “inactive sidebar”, with your entries on
Below this is an “inactive widgets”
Drag all the entries from the inactive sidebar to the inactive widgets area.
This then allows wordpress to delete the sidebar
I normally log out and in again at this stage – probably not needed, but I’ve never bothered to check
Then basically reverse the above
Re-enable bbpress tweaks
You see the bbpress sidebar returns
Drag the entries back from the inactive widgets area to the sidebar

As soon as you’ve got the site vaguely going again, you need to STOP !!!! YES STOP!!!!!!!!!!

Then take a breath, and create a test site – you cannot continue to develop your site in live, and you need a child theme. So you’ll need to read.

Functions files and child themes – explained !

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

Once you have a test site, you can change things there first and then when you are happy put it into live.

[Stephen Edgar]

It might be a cache issue, can you try another browser or flush your browser cache as I can’t reproduce the issue locally on my test site.

[Tom Dyer]

@robin-w The new test doesn’t appear to have fixed the problem, I still can’t view a topics page without it returning a big white screen… so I guess this suggests that the post__not_in doesn’t make a difference, right?

[Type Historian]

I *need* a plug-in for my bbPress-driven forums site that lists/links topics with the most recent replies [Hottest Topics]. For this purpose, I have tried both the “Recent Replies” widget and the “Recent Topics” widget configured to display/link “Topics with Recent Replies” selected from the drop-down menu.

First I tried the Recent Replies widget. It worked perfectly for several months, successfully weathering upgrades of both WordPress and bbPress to the latest versions. Suddenly [outta Nowhere!], it broke the visitor experience: Content of the main navigation sidebar following the first “hot topic” disappeared, and a second [variable] sidebar disappeared completely.

Even worse, admin access to replies went nuts [more below]. When I disabled the “Recent Replies” plug-in, the problem disappeared instantly.

Next I tried some “third-party” plug-ins that either didn’t work or required coding beyond my experience.

Then I tried the Recent Topics widget configured to list only “topics with recent replies.” This solution worked [with reservations, more below] for several weeks until July 1. Just as suddenly, this choice created some of the same problems experienced with the “Recent Replies” widget.

So I’m trying the Recent Replies widget again.

When I use it now, the visitor front-end works as it should.
However, admin access to replies has the same problems as before:

The dashboard link to this function is
http://forums.typeheritage.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply

When I click it, this is what I see:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/78278455/bbPress/Replies-01.png

Note that the “Filter” button has disappeared. By selecting June 2014 and clicking the “Apply” button instead, I can view all replies PUBLISHED last month.

What I CANNOT view:

ALL replies regardless of publication date or status
Complete lists of replies published in months before June 2014
Private replies including my own input in progress
Drafts
____

In terms prioritizing visitor experience vs admin control, it seems safer to use the Recent Topics widget configured to list “Topics With Recent Replies” selected from the drop-down menu. My complaint with this option is that it lists/links to brand-new topics with NO responses.

Is there a way to tweak either the Recent Replies or Recent Topics With Replies plug-ins to do the job?

Many thanks for your help, Anna

[thecatholicwoman]

I was not the one who had installed them but I am pretty sure that the names are login-logout and
Custom Login Logo. I am thinking that it has to one of them because the admin bar was there and after I deleted them it is on my admin panel on word press but not on the site itself. I will try to find someone to test for me on the user side. Thanks again.

[thecatholicwoman]

Robin I have a new issue which is not traditionally for this forum so I understand if you say that i I have move it.

Last night I deleted two plugins. A logo plugin and a log in/log out plugin because it was causing a pop up that people who tested the site did not like. Well for some reason after deleting them when I returned to the site to test it my admin bar was missing. I did some research on that issue and it said to check the footer.php file to make sure that <?php wp_footer(); ?> is right above the body and it is there so I am not sure. I deactivated most of my plugins until I can figure it out but even with everything but bbpress deactivated the admin bar did not come back. Not sure what to do.

[Leonyipa]

I created a test account and created a topic, he can move the topic too :/

[Stephen Edgar]

WPML make their own ‘bbPress WPM’ plugin, though it is not publicly available.

You need to ask them really nicely to get a copy 😉

If you are using the official ‘bbPress WPML’ plugin is it the latest version?

With all that said though any issues with the ‘bbPress WPML’ plugin need to raised with the WPML support team.

[SeeingBlueS2]

First issue I ran into is the example at the bottom of this page is no longer valid, but I did find the correct edits.

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 3

Second issue I am currently having is I am unable to find out how to change the “New topic” and “Reply To” backgrounds that show up at the bottom forums and topics.

Lastly(for now) is that I am unable to change the reply header despite having added this to my css.

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
background-color: #111111;
}

My forums are located here: http://test.greatarchitect.us/forums/

Thanks for any help.

[DarioZ]

Also I would like to know if there is a way to show only the latest…

[Stephen Edgar]

@fasttimes Do you have any custom phpBB custom mods installed that may change some things in the phpBB database? I just tested my phpBB imports and they all worked fine, no errors for ‘reply_to parents’. In fact phpBB does not have ‘threaded replies’ included by default thus the reason I ask.

[dzung]

@leonyipa, thanks for that but I’ve done it already. “in bbPress setting, the default role is “Participant” I meant I set the auto default role to be Participant.

So here are steps that I do:
– In stall, WP and Go to Dashboard-Setting-General – Set New User Default Role to “Subcriber”
– Install bbPress, go to Dashboard – Setting – Forums – Check the option for Auto Role and set it to “Participant”
– On front end- I create an account for test!

– In Dashboard – Users List: The Forum Role of the newly created user is “Participant” – The Site Role value is “Participant” which I expect should be “Subcriber”.

If I un-check/disable the Auto Role in bbPress setting, then when someone create an account the Site Role value of that user would be “none” and the value for Forum Role would still be “Participant” – I don’t know what wrong!

[Robin W]

to do the second you need to put the following in your functions file:

//take away the role display
function hide_role ($args) {
$args['show_role'] = false ;
Return $args ;
}
add_filter ('bbp_before_get_reply_author_link_parse_args', 'hide_role') ;

this removes the existing text,

then you’d need to add some image depending on role, so something like

add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details', 'add_image' );
function add_image () {
$role = bbp_get_user_display_role( bbp_get_reply_author_id( $reply_id ) );
if ($role == 'keymaster') {
echo "<img src='/snippet_theme/img/error.gif' title='Error' alt='Error' />"; 
}
if ($role == 'participant') {
etc.
}

This is not tested – sorry but limited time !!

[Topher Jamero]

Using the most recent version, able to order topics by latest posted topic and not by latest topic activity

bbpress>includes>topics>template : (line)154

I didn’t remove it but commented it as I don’t know what to replace with the _bbp_last_active_time to achieve ordering by the latest posted topic.

[Robin W]

probably a theme or plugin problem

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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

I believe this is an issue for anyone since even non-logged-in users would be able to see this topic if they had the URL for it, which could be generated from a sitemap or something – yet to be confirmed.

just re-tested this, and no they get a 404 error or whatever page you send then to in the settings

[Robin W]

@trymedo – ok try this version, it should determine if it is the resultant list being queried, or the process of getting to the list that is causing issues. Basically it does your suggested post__not_in.

private groups tom test

This is only for Tom, and is just a testing version

latest live version is here

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/