[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.

[Robin W]

and to answer Nino’s Q

If you’re into coding, then yes

the widgets code is held in

bbpress/includes/common/widegets.php

you could customise these and create them as new custom widgets

For instance the topics widget starts on line 669, and line 811 does bbp_topic_permalink( $topic_id )

You could add an if statement to create two different outputs logged in vs not logged in and alter not logged in to topic title.

Not something I have time to do, but would be fun if you have the time

[Robin W]

As my mother said “I WANT – doesn’t get” – please ask nicely 🙂

bbPress is written by volunteers and supported by volunteers, you get it for free !

If a feature is requested enough, then the writers (who do this in their spare time and are not paid) will add it.

If someone already knows how to do this, they will post in due course.

Thanks 🙂

[janiceandcompany]

BUMP- I WANT THIS

[nirgalo]

Hey, I want to set up the same kind of design bbpress support forum has for my site’s forum:
– main page with latest topics (and page navigation), and forums as widgets on the left pane
– when opening a forum : page with forum topics and forum info as widget on the left pane
– topic page: topic as page and Topic info as widget

How can I do that? Shortcodes do not seem to be enough. Like [bbp-topic-index] is only displaying the last 15 topics.

[Stephen Edgar]

Nice, sad I missed this thread up until now 😉

Starting from @adressler 2nd post here are my thoughts:

@adressler wrote…
My crazy idea that I had was to import these “old” authors as, effectively, name placeholders. Bogus/null values for user_pass and user_email, a php-generated user_login (something like “judygarland-old”, “abcdef12345-old” or similar), user_id (unique Auto Increment #), display_name (“Judy Garland”), and maybe user_nicename.

I’m with you here and I’ll come back to how to do the above shortly.

@adressler wrote…
These would only be used to show the Authors first + last name next to all of the old topics and replies I just imported from Lotus (they will not be logging in). When users re-register, they would create a completely new WP user (I’m using s2member to handle subscription info).

Still with you, I think this is a good plan.

@adressler wrote…
I realize that “new” users will not be able to see their “old” user’s topic / reply counts, and total user counts will not be completely accurate, but that’s okay and manageable.

Still a good plan, we can fix the above ‘after’ they registered their new account.

@adressler wrote…
At least they could create their new user accounts themselves, and I wouldn’t be responsible for making s2member link up properly with these old users.

Correct, let the users do that themselves.

@robin-w wrote…
The real issue here is whether you can get email addresses. If you can, then if you import users as per my previous, they can use “password lost” to re-do their passwords, and then it’ll all be fine.

As per my first comment of what I will come back to shortly, we don’t need actually need an email address for this.

@robin-w wrote…
Additionally logon names need to be unique so they can’t register with any existing username !

I’m going to have to check that my solution doesn’t break because of this, it is ready to be committed and ready for bbPress v2.6 😉

@robin-w wrote…
I’d do as previous and create a user table to import, but call each user ‘old_xxx’ – you can do this before import, effectively your placeholder.

Again, I shall return and no need for the old_ prefix on the username.

@robin-w wrote…
As each user registers, you can run some code around the posts to remap them. You’ll get a registration notice, so if you cut some code, then you can just run this each time someone registers. Basically you would just enter there old username and their new one. The code would look up the old ID, the new ID, and then run through posts to remap to the new user. If you’d like help with that, just let me know and I’ll try and cut a quick loop code that you can run straight on the website (pw protected of course)

90% of this is actually built into bbPress and again I just need to test this against my solution, as I type this I am thinking maybe a custom one will be needed but shouldn’t be too hard to write a tool for it to integrate with my proposed solution as no doubt others would probably also require this. 😉

@adressler wrote…
I was able to export users from Lotus into a new users table. The table structure is:

That table looks fine, it shouldn’t matter what the old user_login name is as we will primarily use the user Display Name and/or User Nicename.

@adressler wrote…
I linked up my custom converter and was able to import users successfully into BBPress without the need to include a bogus email or password. In the WP database, all of these “old” users have an auto-generated password, and no email address. Now, at least all of these old user display_names are showing next to the posts they authored (instead of all “anonymous”).

Cool, though my plan is to purposely make them Anonymous 😉

With a couple of tweaks as we get closer to what I propose I think we can adapt your importer to use the code I have already written.

@adressler wrote…
Is it still possible to write a loop to link these old user accounts to the newly registered users even though there’s no email addresses? I’m okay with the forum working the way it is now, but if there’s a way to link newly registered accounts with the old ones, I’d sure like to try. I’m guessing the only way to do it is to match by the old user display_name, which, from what I can tell, is unique to the users db; no two people have the same name. It would just depend on people remembering the name they used to registered on the old site (some people are registered as “John and Jane Doe”). And if someone signs up who coincidentally has the same name as an old user, there could be some confusion.

As per what I wrote above, part of this is already built into bbPress and a little bit of testing in what we need to do to handle this properly then tweak the code we should be good.

@adressler wrote…
I just had a thought, what about a checkbox during registration like “Attempt to link my old DynamiteOnline account”, and when checked it would try to link up the names?

Maybe…

@robin-w wrote…
If auto the system won’t let you have two usernames the same, so you’d need to change your existing usernames to say have a character in front eg x_john smith (sql loop through user database would do that). Then brief your users to register with their existing username eg just john smith.

We don’t need to worry about this because each user would be Anonymous 😉

@robin-w wrote…
The real solution if you don’t have tons of users is to go for a manual registration process, you can of course let then use the same username, as you can then generate a user with a php programme straight into the database.

Let the users register whatever name they want as long as it is not already in use they will do the registration and sign up.

Automating this would be a pain for the high chance of abuse that could occur.

As there isn’t old email addresses for the old users verifying who’s who really should be a manual verification process in my opinion.

Nothing pretty or easy !

It took me ~7 months to come up with my solution with a few tips and advice from others who first floated the idea but I think it is relatively pretty now. 🙂

But a solution is there somewhere !

Yes it is 😉

I’ll go dig out now and have a quick read and post it shortly 🙂