[slprof]

Yes. I need this also. I would like:

Initial post
– reply 3
– reply 2
– reply 1

Maybe there’s a better way for me to do this. I post topics like “Write a journal entry” — I’m an English teacher. I don’t want to have to scroll down forever or page over. I want the latest reply by the student minus the other student’s comments to show up. Now THAT would be cool. Hm. I should post this elsewhere but I think it’s kinda related to blg002’s post.

[Stephen Edgar]

@jakoblanglois has it right, to fix the last issue he describes when just need to modify the breadcrumbs behaviour a bit…

Uncheck the ‘Forum Prefix – Prefix all forum content with the Forum Root slug (Recommended)’ in bbPress settings and then the last bit…

Upon further testing, I noticed that this will not edit the breadcrumbs and will show Home > Forums (linking to domain.com/forums).

Tweak the settings of the breadcrumb using some custom arguments, this is based on the code here though what I have below just removes the ‘forums root’ from the breadcrumb…

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: bbPress - Custom Breadcrumbs
Plugin URI: https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7781901
Description: bbPress - Custom Breadcrumbs
Version: 0.1
Author: Stephen Edgar - Netweb
Author URI: http://netweb.com.au
*/

add_filter('bbp_before_get_breadcrumb_parse_args', 'ntwb_bbpress_custom_breadcrumb' );

function ntwb_bbpress_custom_breadcrumb() {

	// Forum root
	$args['include_root']    = false;

	return $args;
}

Copy the above into a file named ntwb_bbpress_custom_breadcrumb.php in your plugins folder 🙂

[Jakob Langlois]

If I understood you correctly this is what you’re after.

When in the dashboard, navigate to Settings > Reading.

Change the option that’s called Front page displays to a static page and choose the home page (assuming you’ve created a page to be the front page).

Now navigate to Pages > All Pages and edit the page you selected to be your home page (usually “home”).

Enter the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] and then publish.

For a full list of available shortcodes, visit https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

Upon further testing, I noticed that this will not edit the breadcrumbs and will show Home > Forums (linking to domain.com/forums). I also tested this by changing the forum root slug in Settings > Forums to “home” (the page I have set to be my front page) and it now shows Home > Home

I am unsure as to how this would be fixed though…

[carterlongbeach]

I don’t know if it is the most efficient solution, but I found something that works.

I created a new profile field with Register Plus Redux (new field called rpr_testfield).

I then modified bbp profile information with the following code, starting on line 26…

$usermeta = get_userdata( $user_id, 'rpr_testfield' );
echo $usermeta->rpr_testfield;
if ($usermeta->rpr_testfield == 'school name from profile')  
echo "<a href="http://www.hyperlink?pID=19" target="_blank">School web page</a>";

Now all posts include the name of the user’s school with a hyperlink to the school webpage.

[Stephen Edgar]

Here is a custom plugin for custom KSES, specifically it adds support for tables and class names for a and img though you most likely don’t want people adding classes to these normally.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7797990

And I am glad your up and running now @matoca, TinyMCE v4 is a big upgrade and as you point out there are vast improvements and vast breakages with existing plugins, hopefully the authors of these plugins will get this sorted soon.

I also look forward to seeing and checking out a few of the plugins that really take advantage of TinyMCE 4 as I have already spent a fair amount of time testing it already, specificly pasting from Word, Excel PDF etc and it is pretty awesome what you can throw at it.

[Matoca]

Update. Monday I asked my iPad, iPhone moderator to see if she could get a keyboard to come up, see what she was typing and actually post to the forum. She reported that it was working perfectly! No kidding! So after the WordPress 3.9 upgrade, the tinyMCE 4 upgrade has improved interaction with iPads and iPhones.

See: http://www.tinymce.com/index.php
Also: tinyMCE 4 has a presentation that explains what is different.
http://www.tinymce.com/presentation/index.html#/

I did a little research about tinyMCE because honestly it sounds like the name of a toy. So once I found the name, Tiny Moxiecode Content Editor, it made more sense to me. Wikipedia describes it as “platform-independent web-based JavaScript/HTML WYSIWYG editor control.” So, in a sense, this is the core element of WordPress (and other CMS platforms), giving the user the ability to get content on the blog without having to necessarily understand anything about HTML.

After browsing some forums I better understand that this upgrade of WP and tinyMCE has rendered many previous plugins dead in the water. It means that users need to do some serious spring cleaning and get rid of any plugins that have not been specifically updated for use with WP 3.9.

A lot of plugins have necessarily cropped up over time to add back lost functionality in tinyMCE as functions were removed. So the bbPress plugin I was using in the past that added back the visual tab to the forum message field was just one of many. Luckily I did disable it prior to the release of 3.9 but it clearly was already unstable with 3.8.

I made a mistake when I posted earlier, enabling the tools in the dashboard does give them to everyone who is not registered or logged in, not just those logged in as moderators. So I have rethought having the text editor tools on the open forum. I don’t like the ability of non-registered posters to add images directly nor do I like them adding links. These people don’t register so I have removed all editing tools from the forum in forum>settings. I have asked moderators to use the tools in the dashboard for adding images and links. Perhaps there will be a plugin in the future that will allow moderators with administrator rights to have these tools directly in the forum, but not have them accessible to the general public?

So if you do want your moderators to have undo, redo, add link, remove link and insert/edit image in the forum then enable this in forum>settings, it standard with tinyMCE 4, and looks exactly as it does on this forum

I became interested in more functionality and I installed TinyMCE Advanced plugin this afternoon to play with. I realized the many things I could do just with tables! So it’s a versatile plugin and they claim has been tested with 3.9.
my best, matoca

[ryanric]

Hello Forum,
My bbPress forum is displaying all of the replies instead of showing just a few replies per page.

WHAT I WANT: I’m trying to set up a single-topic forum on my website on this page (http://learn.serve-smart.com/topic/the-secret-to-service-reflection-learner/). Right now I’m using this short code: [bbp-single-topic id=2073]. I want users to get a prompt, see the responses of three or so other users, and respond to the prompt themselves.

WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW: The page is displaying every single reply to the topic on a single page. This is despite changing the bbPress settings to “3” for “Topics per page” and “Replies per page” under the “Topics and Replies Per Page” and Topics and Replies Per RSS Page.”

WHAT I’M RUNNING:
Database: Latest WP
Theme: WP-Forge
Key Plugins: Latest bbPress plugin, Latest LearnDash plugin

Thanks in advance for your help!
-Ryan

[landshark]

I’m having some issues converting an SMF forum to BBPress. The SMF forum has about 7,500 members, 7000+ topics and 45,000+ replies.

It seems the links to images are not being imported, my guess it is a problem with the [img] bbcode? But not sure.
I understand that I won’t be able to get attached images imported but i would think that linked images would not be a problem.

Also some of the posts are being truncated. I might get the first sentence but the rest is dropped. But not on all of them.

I tired slowing the import down to 50 items at a time with a 2 second pause but still same results.

I’m on a dedicated server. Latest bbpress version, and SMF version is 2.0.4

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Robin W]

ok I would suspect that it’s related to this plugin, you could prove this by deactivating the plugin on your test site (or live site briefly if you don’t have a test site)

As this is a paid plugin, you should then contact them for support.

come back and let us know what they say.

[chetan0412]

I looked at this when you first posted and you were working on it so I came back to it before I went to bed and it was all working correctly – now it’s not, of course. – Right at that time my server was using old hosting and my name server was not updated thts y at that time it was showing correctly, after some time it was updated and got the issue.

There is something that is causing your css and js directory paths to be incorrect. Your files are there but it’s getting confused about where “there” is. – Right, Need to check, or i ll ask to my hosting service provider to check with firewall.

I know it’s frustrating (I’d be frustrated at any rate) but maybe go back and disable all plugins and then make sure you’ve cleared your browser’s cache completely using eg Chrome->Tools->Clear browsing data to test.- Did same thing but no luck.

[tharsheblows]

I looked at this when you first posted and you were working on it so I came back to it before I went to bed and it was all working correctly – now it’s not, of course.

There is something that is causing your css and js directory paths to be incorrect. Your files are there but it’s getting confused about where “there” is.

I know it’s frustrating (I’d be frustrated at any rate) but maybe go back and disable all plugins and then make sure you’ve cleared your browser’s cache completely using eg Chrome->Tools->Clear browsing data to test.

[Matoca]

I was using a specific bbPress tinyMCE plugin, but I disabled that over a week ago when you mentioned that there may be some issues with it. Was it successful? I don’t know, you can read my moderator’s varied results above. When I had originally added the plugin it was specifically so moderators could edit photo size in the forum and not have to go into the dashboard to do that. I still ask my moderators to always be logged in when they are posting. If it is as simple as asking my moderator with the iphone issues to not log in when she needs to post replies or start topics, that is what we will do.

The latest upgrade WP 3.9 has ver 4.0 tinyMCS in it. See:

TinyMCE 4.0 is in core

So, rather than confuse my troubleshooting, I have no tinyMCE plugins installed. Whatever tinyMCE capabilities 3.9 has is what I now have.

When I am logged in, on the text tab there are the standards plus insert/edit link, url img, code and close tags, the same as we are seeing on this forum.

On the visual tab, logged in, in addition to the standards there is undo, redo, add link, remove link and insert/edit image. Perfect, exactly what I wanted for the moderators.

When I am not logged in there are only the standard fields for name, email and website and add message. There are no text or visual tabs. I have the Nextgen gallery plugin for Upload Photos so that solves the issue of users wanting to post photos. They go directly into a specific gallery and I get an email telling me that something has been uploaded and needs approving.

I have Post Formatting in the forum tools settings unchecked for “Add toolbar & buttons to text areas to help with HTML formatting.” So that is probably why they are not allowed to have visual or text tabs. I do not require registration for posting. If I have trouble with someone I can put their IP on a blacklist. Akismet works well.

But it’s only been a couple of days since I upgraded to 3.9. The developer of the theme I am using has notified me that he is also reworking his theme so that may change things as well.

Once my moderator gets back in touch with me I will post here. Perhaps this WP upgrade has solved the problems with iPhone and iPad?
my best, matoca

[bustel]

It works for the topics but not for the replies, I don’t know why it doesn’t work…

I have tested with
1)
$uri = ( '/?edit=1' );
in the topic: http://www.mysite.com/?edit=1
it isn’t correct
it go to the home of the site, that’s it.

2)
$uri = bbp_get_reply_edit_url( $r['id'] ) . '?edit=1';
in the topic: http://www.mysite.com/map/map/1827/edit/?edit=1
and it isn’t correct eather…
it says: The page you requested could not be found.

[bustel]

So you have to edit 2 files:
1) wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php
2) wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php

normally it should work, i have tested and it’s working fine for me… maybe the newer version should be adapted with these new functions?

[leopolds]

Hi,

I am using the latest WordPress (Twenty Fourteen theme) and bbPress.

There is a problem with my forums root page. Besides the regular forum listing section, all forums are also listed like posts below the regular section.

How can I fix it? Thanks

[Sascha.H]

Well the problem isnt that i cant install it. Actually i had installed both plugins but i dont want to rewrite the plugin code because when the plugins will be updated my code will be overwrited thats why i want a child-theme but i dont know which parts from the plugin in which folder.

1. Thank you
2. The Problem is the basic URL is http://www.myurl.de/forums/forum/test and when i disable the thickbox its http://www.myurl.de/forum/test. But i want zero tags before. And when i delete the forum field and save than it appears again.

[foxden-vixen]

The site is back up today and I tested it out. It did not work the way you wrote the code.

.forum-archive DIV.sidebar.right, .bbpress .single-forum DIV.sidebar.right, .bbpress .single-topic DIV.sidebar.right {
	display: none !important;
}

should be

.forum-archive DIV.sidebar.right, .bbpress.single-forum DIV.sidebar.right, .bbpress.single-topic DIV.sidebar.right {
	display: none !important;
}

Just taking out the spaces between bbpress and single worked. The syntax was incorrect.

One other stupid question…at the bottom of the main page, which I guess now is called the archive page, there is the “read more” tag. How do I get rid of that? Doesn’t that have to do with the loop?

[dice2dice]

Hi folks,

The forums on my site don’t stand out. They typeface, borders and just general appearance is dull, it’s not bold enough.

Is there perhaps a plugin that would smarten up the appearance of forums?

I can’t find one or another solution.

My forums are here: http://www.whichinvestmenttrust.com/better-investor-forums

I’m using the latest version of everything WordPress/BBPress/Buddypress.

Thanks

[foxden-vixen]

Thanks again Halo. I will have to wait to test this out as bluehost.com has my site down…in fact a bunch of sites are down. Once the site comes back up, I will test it!

[bustel]

I have tested the permalinks, I set it to “standard”, then the problem is solved and the url shows: “http://www…../?topic=ah-les-belles-bacchantes-versie2&edit=1”. When I set the permalinks again to “/%postname%/%category%/” the problem is back, it show the follow url: “http://www…./…/…/edit/”.

[batmanfan]

Oh, what did I do? what did I do? it seems fine now, search can’t find the hidden/private topic now. Still can’t believe what happened especially on the ‘private’ topic, I tested and tested it showed to anyone searching for it. But now it’s ok.

Stephen, thank you so very much for the great support. You must have helped me to changed something by accident to make it work now. Thank you thank you!

[MaeCana]

I was able to fix that issue by deleting an attribute called _bbp_class directly in the database from the user_meta table, I just tested it with a few users. I wonder if there’s a better way to go. I would really like the users to be asked to change their password when they try to login for the very first time and not promped with a “wrong password error” and then intuitively hit the “lost password” option in order to have access to the forum.

[Matoca]

Update. Last week as soon as I read that there had been trouble with tinyMCE, I disabled the bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab Version 1.0.1 plugin I had been using. I was using it mainly so moderators could do a bit more in the forum but it wasn’t critical.

The results were that, -perhaps-, this was part of the problem but it’s not that straightforward. The moderator tried to post using her iPhone and responded:

“I could put my name in and e-mail address AND it did show up as I typed. But, when I posted, the typing was transparent. I knew it was ‘typing’ because the auto word finish worked and came up. And then when I hit ‘submit’ the post did show up.”

So then I needed to know if she had tried this while she was logged in or not. I have the forum set for no registration so anyone can post, but I don’t allow them to input html. If she was not logged in then she wouldn’t be able to post in html. I thought perhaps her iPhone or iPad has text attributes set that wouldn’t be allowed.

So I quizzed her:
> So the keyboard came up for you this time, no problem? That was the important thing.
Yes, it came up.
>
> So then next, you could see what you were typing in the name and email fields?
Yes.
>
> But then when you were typing in the message window, the text was not visible?
Right, NOT visible.
>
> And finally when you hit submit you could see that you had posted.
Yes, it was then visible and posted.
>
> I can see what you posted and besides the fumbled spelling cause you couldn’t see, it works.
Right – my fingers on the tiny keyboard are not conducive to proper spelling, punctuation. 😜
>
> So I need to know, first are you logged in when you are adding your message?
No, I’m NOT logged in.

> Do you see a message that says “Your account has the ability to post unrestricted HTML content.”
No, i don’t see that.
>
> And then when you are at the message window, look at the tabs on the upper right. Were you on the visual tab or the text tab when you were writing?
Visual, couldn’t get into Text.
>
> Try typing another message with the other tab selected. I suspect you were in the visual tab so try the text tab this time.
Doesn’t work. 😣

Then a few days later we were back at it again. She tried this logged in.
“Logged in. Using iPad. This is what I got from ‘Text’

Hi. This is a test – now is the time for all AIHA/IMHA doggies to be well.

<strong>bold</strong>

<em>italics</em>

And this is what I got in ‘Visual’

Hi. This is a test.

Now is the time for all AIHA/IMHA doggies to be well.

Bold: </strong>

Italic: <em>

Then later that day she tried logging out and posting:
“I logged out and tried to post again to my Sadie:Weaning post. I seemed to have lost a word or two from the post, once I hit submit, but it WAS in sequence and I COULD type AND the typed showed as I typed. This was the first time in months that it’s worked. Yeah!!!!!”

And yesterday she reported (logged out):
“Okay – just posted to Joe. First, had to tap hard to get the keyboard to come up. It finally did and I could put in name, e-mail, showing what I wrote. But once I tried to actually post, again, after tapping hard anonymity (“on it?”)five times, the cursor would move with each letter I hit, but I could not see shat (see what?) I was writing.”

WP just updated to 3.8.3 (without my input…) so would that have some version of tinyMCE in it? I thought that they had removed it completely a while back and at that time I lost the text tab in the forum when posting as a moderator. So that is when I installed the tinyMCE plugin.

I wish I could say that this seems resolved, but it seems that she is still having erratic behavior from the keyboard when she is trying to enter text either logged in or not logged in. It is significant that she can get the keyboard to come up at all, that was not happening before.

I am trying to make sure my site is responsive and is usable by most phones and tablets. On my Google Nexus I have a bit of trouble scrolling down the page, it’s erratic and resistive. But that may have more to do with the page loading slower over wifi.

I hope this thread stays open so there can be further input?
thank you, matoca

[Stephen Edgar]

Keymaster -> Forum Capabilities

publish_forums
edit_forums
edit_others_forums
delete_forums
delete_others_forums

Moderator -> Forum Capabilities

publish_forums
edit_forums
read_private_forums
read_hidden_forums

What this allows for is the ‘keymaster’ has control of all the forums.

A ‘moderator’ can create forums and edit their own forums created but not edit any other forums created by other moderators or keymasters.

Probably the main issue you are seeing is ‘how to’ actually do this in the front end and we can (and will) implement this a little better in a future version of bbPress.

To edit a forum from the front end simply add /edit to the end of the URL for example if you have a forum named test-forum this will take you to the edit forum form /forum/test-forum/edit/

To add a new forum add the [bbp-forum-form] shortcode to a page that moderator can access or add a function like this one to hook the forum form onto a moderators user profile page.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/10701087

[Stephen Edgar]

It shouldn’t have done that 🙁

I’d suggest going to ‘Tools’ -> ‘Forums’ and resetting your forums which will delete all forums, topics and replies and optionally imported users and have another go at it.

You would probably be best setting up a test install of WordPress and bbPress to make sure the import finishes successfully.

If you find it keeps doing this please create a support ticket in Trac and I’ll take a look at why it isn’t working. https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/