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. 😉
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.
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.
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.
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
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/
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.
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
Hi. as i stated in the title, i don’t know why i got that problem, ive tried disabling every plugin or such, but still got the problem.
It wont let me create, or answer anything from frontend.
i can just create or reply from the backend menus.
i got the latest WP version
Bbpress 2,5,3
regards
If this challenge I am having is beyond the scope of help in the bbpress forums, then I understand. The below code is a function that allows the user to submit a search request for a book title via the google books api. When the user clicks “search”, the function works great and returns results in a Jquery window. The problem I am having; it triggers a submit of the bbpress topic, and I get the errors “cannot submit a topic with the subject line blank.”
If there is a simple fix I am not seeing, can someone please help me?
function book_search_google () {
//set API version for Google Book Search API
$v = isset($_POST['v']) ? $_POST['v'] : '1';
//set user API key for Google Book Search API
$key = isset($_POST['key']) ? $_POST['key'] : 'key goes here';
//set user IP for Google Book Search API
//$ip = isset($_POST['ip']) ? $_POST['ip'] : $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
//set default value for query to Google Book Search API 0307387941
$query = isset($_POST['q']) ? $_POST['q'] : '0307387941';
//set default value for search type to Google Book Search API
$type = isset($_POST['type']) ? $_POST['type'] : 'all';
//check and assign page of search results - are we on the first page?
$start = isset($_POST['start']) ? $_POST['start'] : 1;
//set default value for number of results
$limit = isset($_POST['limit']) ? $_POST['limit'] : '10';
switch ($type) {
case 'all':
$params = 'q='.urlencode($query).'&startIndex='.$start.'&maxResults='.$limit;
break;
case 'isbn':
$params = 'q=isbn:'.urlencode($query).'';
break;
case 'lccn':
$params ='q=lccn:'.urlencode($query).'';
break;
case 'oclc':
$params = 'q=oclc:'.urlencode($query).'';
break;
default:
echo '<p>You must specify a search type such as "all" or "book". Check the url to make sure "type=" has a value.</p>';
exit;
}
//set URL for the Google Book Search API
$url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/books/v'.$v.'/volumes?key='.$key.'&'.$params.'';
if(isset($_POST['q'])):
//build request and send to Google Ajax Search API
$request = file_get_contents($url);
//decode json object(s) out of response from Google Ajax Search API
$data = json_decode($request,true);
$totalItems = $data['totalItems'];
pagination mainHeading
if ($totalItems > 0) {
?>
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>jQuery UI Dialog - Default functionality</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//whosgotbooks.com/jquery/jquery-ui-1.10.4.custom.css">
<script src="//whosgotbooks.com/jquery/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
<script src="//whosgotbooks.com/jquery/jquery-ui-1.10.4.custom.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="dialog" title="Google Books Search Results" style="display:none;">
<script>
$(function() {
$( "#dialog" ).dialog({
height: 550, width: 450});
$( "#returnvalues" ).click(function(){
$( "#dialog" ).dialog( "close" );
});
});
</script>
<strong><p style="font-size: 16px; text-align: center";>Top 10 Results for "<?php echo @$_POST['q']; ?>"</p></strong>
<strong><p style="font-size: 14px; text-align: center";>choose a book to select as your topic</p></strong>
<table style="width:400px">
<col width="325">
<col width="75">
<?php foreach ($data['items'] as $item) { ?>
<tr>
<td>
<strong><u><div style="font-size: 14px";><?php printf($item['volumeInfo']['title'])?></u></div></strong>
<strong>Author: </strong><?php printf( $item['volumeInfo']['authors'][0]); ?><br />
<strong>Published: </strong><?php printf( $item['volumeInfo']['publishedDate']); ?><br />
<strong>Page(s): </strong><?php printf( $item['volumeInfo']['pageCount']); ?><br />
<strong>Publisher: </strong><?php printf( $item['volumeInfo']['publisher']); ?><br />
<strong>Category: </strong><?php printf( strtolower($item['volumeInfo']['printType']).', '.strtolower($item['volumeInfo']['categories'][0])); ?>
<strong>ISBN: </strong><?php printf( $item['volumeInfo']['industryIdentifiers'][0]['identifier']); ?></td>
<td><p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Select" id="returnvalues"/></p>
<img src="<?php printf( rawurldecode($item['volumeInfo']['imageLinks']['smallThumbnail'])); ?>" />
</td>
<tr><td style="width:420px"><p><strong>Description: </strong><?php printf( $item['volumeInfo']['description']); ?><br /></p></td>
</tr>
</tr>
<?php } }
else {
?>
<p><strong>Sorry, there were no results</strong></p>
<?php }
/* for testing purposes show actual request to API - REMOVE when finished
$apiRequest = $url;
echo '<p>API request: '.$apiRequest.'</p>'; */ ?>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<?php
else: //show form and allow the user to check for Google Book search results
?>
<p><form id="searchForm" name="searchForm" method="post">
<fieldset id="searchBox">
<label>Search for a Book:</label>
<input class="text" id="q" name="q" type="text" value="Powered by Google" onfocus="this.value=''; this.onfocus=null;" />
<select id="type" name="type" size="1">
<option selected value="all">Book Title</option>
<option value="isbn">Books by ISBN</option>
<option value="lccn">Books by LCCN #</option>
<option value="oclc">Books by OCLC #</option>
</select>
<input class="submit" id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="Search" />
</fieldset>
</form></p>
<?php
//end submit isset if statement on line 73
endif;
}
Hi @peterwsterling I just bought your plugin and will test it out. Hope it works and does not conflict with WP Polls!
Sure – this is what I did on a test install. The current menu item class in mine is “current-menu-item” and I added a custom class “forum-class” to the forum menu item in my custom menu. I *always* forget that I need to unhide the css class input by ticking the box in “Screen options” at the top of the “edit menus” screen in admin. You probably don’t but I thought I’d mention. 🙂 Then I use that for the jQuery.
So:
1 – add “forum-class” to your forums menu item in your custom menu
2 – add this to your js file with YOURURL = the url of your site and forums = your forums slug :
$(function() {
var forumURL = window.location.href.indexOf("YOURURL/forums/");
if(forumURL > -1){
$('li.forum-class').addClass('current-menu-item');
}
});
nb: addClass won’t add duplicate classes so no need to test if it’s already there.
UPDATE: I used Theme test drive plugin and found out:
TinyMCE works on Twenty Eleven and Twenty Twelve WP themes, but I can only use the “text” tab buttons. In fact there’s no “visual” tab at all.
When I switch back to WildCommunity (my current theme), I see this blank area with no buttons at all. Visual and text tabs are useless.
By the way I can type inside the blank box but text is white and I need to select (highlight) it to see what I wrote. If i hit “post” I’m perfectly able to post a topic. Text and links look fine. No problem. Now THAT is weird!
Any clue?
For the topics archive showing all topics, you can use the shortcode [bbp-topic-index] on a normal WordPress page.
“All replies” is slightly different. You could use the Recent Replies widget (https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/) if you had a page with a widget for the content but if you wanted a proper archive page, I think you’d have to make a new template for it. I think it’s one of those things that if enough people ask for it, it might get prioritised for future versions but that’s just a guess. If you are comfortable making page templates, I can post how I did a “latest posts” page (posts = new topics + replies).
I’m not sure what part of the menu you mean, I’m sorry. Do you mean how “support” (with a link to /forums) is highlighted above even when you’re on a topic page? They use a custom nav file:
https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/bb-base/header-nav.php
If I were trying to replicate that, I would use jQuery to add the current-menu-item class to the top forums list item – not that it’s is the right way to do it, it would just be the easiest for me to do and to maintain. You’d need to add it to a javascript file in your template or make one and then include it. If you’re interested, I can post that code – you will need to add a custom class to your forums menu item too.
Sorry, I know that wasn’t too terribly helpful!
I had a problem with a user who couldn’t post from her iPad – it was an issue with tinyMCE and I ended up disabling it. Also, someone who used tinyMCE on a different platform had problems as well – he read about her problem on our forum and emailed me with the same issue.
Here was her initial report – I am not sure if it’s the same problem your user is having:
there’s something very odd going on with the cursor control when I try to input text using a stylus and the onscreen keyboard of my iPad2. If I touch the screen to move the cursor way from the latest word typed, perhaps to edit a phrase or correct a typing error, then the whole thing seems to freeze. To release it, I have to touch the key that moves the keyboard offscreen and then touch the screen again to place the cursor wherever I need to amend the text – the keyboard reappears, I type in the amendment and then the cursor is fixed at that point again. Every time I want to move around the text in any way, I have to repeat the keyboard-disappearance-and-touch-the-screen-to-place-the-cursor trick.
It wasn’t a problem across all iOS devices – I never did figure out exactly what combination of things on hers was causing it and I was going to disable tinyMCE anyway, so didn’t try all that hard to figure it out.
I don’t know what version of tinyMCE WP uses – I see that WP 3.9 is using tinyMCE 4 but not sure if it’s going to be 4.0.11:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18629341/cannot-type-into-empty-tinymce-4-area-on-ipad
I didn’t know what “post on the forum” means – after 30 years in IT support it could mean anything from the battery has run out to a very very specific set of circumstances, and anything in between.
Therefore it was only an attempt to see if your user had a bigger issue, like she couldn’t get forum access. If you don’t think it will help, and you will know your moderator, then ignore it, I just got it from a google, and given that no-one else had come back, thought it was worth a try.
It would be worth you seeing if this is a theme or plugin issue.
Check other plugins
Check that no other plugins are affecting this.
Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.
Check themes
If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.
I have the same problem.
There is no BB Press on the side menu bar although it says it installed correctly.
On the side menu bar there is no Forum listed, so if I wanted to add a new test forum this is not possible
KB
Hi,
I have just installed bbpress on my site, which is using the latest Twenty Fourteen child theme (only some simple css modifications.)
I want the forum listing page http://leopolds.com/discussions/ to look like this http://leopolds.com/bbs/ (created using shortcode).
There should be:
– No right-hand sidebar and centered content. I created a bbpress.php in my child theme folder and copied the full-width page template code to it. But it still looks different. Contents are not centered.
– No post-like forum listing. All forums I created are displayed under the usual forum listing section like posts.
Please help. Thank you very much.
probably a conflict
Check other plugins
Check that no other plugins are affecting this.
Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.
Check themes
If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.
yes, it was an untested change, but now I know you can do it, I’ll change it later today to catch the other ones
Hi, I tried your “bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel” (downloaded from github), I have placed all files in my theme folder, but I have several problems:
1. On forum index http://batman.scifi-guide.net/forums you can see title of the last Forum on the very top.
2. If there is no topic in forum section, freshness link is displayed and heads to the Category
3. sub forums page looks very strange http://batman.scifi-guide.net/forums/forum/arkham-seria when compared to http://teamoverpowered.com/forums/forum/general-forums/
I am using latest WP and bbpress.
How to fix these issues?
Thank you.
KxParticipant
Hey @ravisharma911,
I’ve been testing using Paid Membership Pro (free plugin) and it seems to be working so far. The integration doesn’t seem to be terribly tight, but it’s functional. You’ll need the Paid Membership Pro plugin along with Paid Membership Pro for bbPress. I hope this helps.
here is the link to the test site
link here
This is a fantastic change, just what i was looking for, having recently moved from a Webwiz forum, I was looking to gove my users a similar experiance to what they had there, BUT……
My avatars are looking strange, and the Catogories are not lining up properly.
Most are correct, but some are different widths.
Please have a look at and let me know what I need to change. This is a test site, running WordPress 3.8.1 and the Klein 2.0.2 theme and bbPress Version 2.5.3. with Buddypress Version 1.9.2.
Thanks once again for the fantastic work you have done.
I definitely need to sit down and learn how to submit a patch on Trac. This is in my list of things to do.
I have a system* for keeping track of core changes on plugins – I’m pretty used to doing upgrades then adding back in my own changes.
*it involves notes to myself in shouty capital letters and exclamation points in the plugin description. It is not the greatest system.
