[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/

[Stephen Edgar]

There are a couple of weird things happen with bbPress and setting them to ‘private’ from the backend, we just haven’t tested it thoroughly enough.

There is a ticket on Trac somewhere, can’t find it at the moment though 🙁 https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org

There is also a plugin that gives each user their own forum that no other users can see, I am not sure if moderators have access to this forum or just the user and the keymaster.

The name of that plugin? I have no idea, I can’t remember the name of it, what I do remember is that this feature has nothing to do with the name of the plugin nor is the feature even included in the description. It is an idea not fully implemented and approx 75% of the code is just sitting in the background doing nothing. So if I remember what it is I’ll come back and update this. 😉

[Robin W]

Not a buddypress expert, but suggest you try with all plugins except bbpress and BP deactivated. If that fixes, re-enable one at a time to find the problem.

If plugins doesn’t fix, switch to a default forum such as twentytwelve, and test again.

Come back and let us know if any of that helped.

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

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]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

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.

[Adonismoet1608]

theme: Analytical Lite
the latest version of wordpress and bbpress

my font,background, and reply background is white
so all text is hidden.

i have tried applying the codes from styling crib into my theme css but it still dosent work.

does anyone have anycode to change the back ground

[Robin W]

could be hundreds of reasons – most are to do with small errors in coding.

That latest version of my profile info is now on wordpress, suggest you crack that open, and see if you can alter it for a dropdown.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-profile-information/

[elaborate]

Hi,

Is there an established way to show a short excerpt of the latest post in a forum, category, etc. under the “Freshness” title?

Other software like vBulletin support this: Steam Forums

If not, then I would love a point in the right direction of which hooks and functions, etc. I should start with.

I’m developing a custom WordPress theme which I have now extended to cover a custom bbPress theme, but I don’t really know PHP, so any help will be appreciated.

Thank you.

[aquapan]

Hey @ps3hero

How did you go with that role scoper setup?

I have been testing it on localhost to see if i can make this happen sensibly and make it play nice with a membership plugin so that I can create subscriptions to different levels and I am a bit lost.

Did you write up anything about this at all you could share?

Thanks
Aquapan