[Robin W]

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.

[KBonaker]

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

[leopolds]

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.

[Robin W]

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.

[Robin W]

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

[davidkooo]

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.

[Kx]

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.

[MarkFreebs]

here is the link to the test site
link here

[MarkFreebs]

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.

[tharsheblows]

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.

[tharsheblows]

I can see how that would work. I mean this:

Another idea would be allowing the user to add an RSS feed to his profile and get the latest content from that rss feed

I used this to make a widget to pull in rss feeds – this post was very clear and helpful:
http://perishablepress.com/import-and-display-rss-feeds-in-wordpress/

You could do something similar – make a new user meta field where people could put in their rss feed links, then, if they have filled that out, display it on their profile page somewhere or make a new tab for it (like “topics” “replies” etc).

[MaeCana]

Hello everyone, I gotta say you’ve done an awesome job with the SMF converter. I already test it and it seems to work perfectly. The only problem I have is that it is not converting the categories, is this just happening to me or is it that that feature is not included in the SMF.php converter file yet?

Thanks you all,
Abraham

[Robin W]

weird, I’ll try it on my test site when I get a moment !

[lasmanis]

Hi all,

I have a function tied to the filter bbp_theme_before_reply_form_submit_wrapper and I noticed that this function was called twice every time I refreshed the topic page. This happens only when pretty permalinks are on (/%postname%/) and only on FireFox.

After investigating bbpress and WordPress source code I found out that the template_include filter (found in wp-includes/template-loader.php) is applied twice.

It only happens on bbpress pages, only on FireFox, only with pretty permalinks on.

I’m using WordPress 3.8 and bbpress 2.5.3

I’m using a custom theme but I already tested on TwentyThirteen and I experience the same problem.

Any help would be appreciated!!!
Thanks!!

[Stephen Edgar]

I should have included in my rant that aside from the issue of fonts I have no problems writing topics or replies 😉

Switch your theme as Robin points out and test with same version of Chrome your users would typically be accessing your site with.

[Robin W]

I’d check to see if two plugins are conflicting or theme issue, or if it is server related.

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.

Come back and tell us if any of those speeded it. If so then you know the problem, if not contact your service provider as it should be a few seconds at most.

[Robin W]

I’ve had a look, but I can’t find what is doing this – must be buried deep

If you keep toggling the | comes back, so my original code isn’t doing anything.

The codes resolves as

<span id=”subscription-toggle”>
|
<span id=”subscribe-2072″>
Click to receive an email notification when a member responds below

so it’s in the subscription part, but not part of the url.

[Majijiboo]

Sure, go to this link http://www.manupmyhealth.com/forums/topic/test/
Thanks.

[Robin W]

‘…as I am not really firm in php code ‘ – your coding skills don’t look at all bad to me 🙂

Without testing, that looks fine to me – give it a go.

You could choose to just edit that file, but if you do, keep a note of what you changed, as bbpress updates will overwrite it – purists will say you should never alter core files, but as this is already a plugin, I am less fussy (expecting to be criticised for this!), but do know what you’ve changed.

To do it “properly” you’d need to either

create these as new widgets by copying the code to your functions file and renaming it.
create this as a plugin.

If you need help in how to rename come back, and I’ll make a list of what you need to change, but you’ll need to be a bit patient, as I have loads of queries os, and you’ll need to join a queue !

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested against all the common browsers, so unlikely that it is a default issue (indeed mine works fine on all those browsers)

Could be any number of things, but as always start by eliminating plugins and themes viz ;

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.

Come back and let us know if that helped, and what the issue was, or if still happening.

[Robin W]

Try

function annointed_admin_bar_remove() {
        global $wp_admin_bar;

        /* Remove their stuff */
        $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('wp-logo');
}

add_action('wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'annointed_admin_bar_remove', 0);

(stolen from the wordpress support forum, so haven’t tested)

[Robin W]

You’ve been busy with this site, hope it’s getting there !

First I’d eliminate plugins and themes

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.

If still doing it – come back.

[Robin W]

If you set them to wp role -no role for this site and bbpress keymaster and give them toolbar access then

They cannot access the dashboard, but do have tools at the top of the page, including new forum/topic/reply

When viewing any forum or topic/repy, they get “edit” at the top, so they can change all this stuff, and also can amend tools etc.

Set up a test user and see what you get !

[Robin W]

I’m tinkering with a plugin as a challenge (by the time I’ve finished Stephen and JJJ will have written it into the core!) which I hopefully will finish in a week or so.

In the meantime I documented a version that uses a Justin Tadlocks’ members plugin and Tehnik BBPress Permissions

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/creating-bbpress-groups/

This seems to work, but I would suggest you test the bbpress search functions (it’s on my list to do) to ensure it hides posts from search results. If not, and you can live without search, then just disable search in forums

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[KWMHoldingsLLC]

My bbPress site will be a network of people, many that already have their own wordpress sites.
I want an option or plugin so that when a user creates a blog post on his own site- it will auto post to BB Press as well. Just like there are plugins to post from WordPress to Facebook.
Does this exist?

Another idea would be allowing the user to add an RSS feed to his profile and get the latest content from that rss feed.