[Robin W]

It’s picking up

some background from
.reply a {
background-color: #8A8A8A;
border-color: #FFFFFF;

from what looks
http://armada.sjebbe.nl/Discussion/topic/test-2/#3 line 57 possibly jscript related?, but something I think your theme is doing.

[Juicy87]

Hey all,

I’m trying to set up a forum using bbPress. I’ve come a long way, but I just can’t seem to get this strange background color removed.

As shown in the picture, there’s a grey-ish background color behind the avatar of people replying to the topic. The topic starter doesn’t have the background color.

Could anyone tell me how to remove this?

Site: http://armada.sjebbe.nl
Picture: http://i.imgur.com/ULb6Kgd.jpg
BBPress: Latest version
Wordpress: Latest version

Thanks in advance,

Juicy

[Zonic Mirage]

Now I’m getting a file doesn’t exist error, so it seems to be the file having the problem.

Warning: require(/site/folders/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/functions.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /site/folders/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbpress.php on line 314

Like I said, I’m running latest versions of all the systems, bbPress is the stable release 2.5.3. D:

[glyndavidson]

Thanks for taking the time to create a screenshot Stephen. Using the latest version of bbPress and TwentyEleven, I don’t have the Subscribe link.

Is it possible to provide an example of the <a href=""> tag so that I might hardcode it into a template?

Thanks again,

Glyn

[Robin W]

possible conflict with other plugins or your theme

Try deactivating all plugins except bbPress and then add buddypress back and restest. if ok, the add other plugins back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

If no joy, then switch to default theme (eg twentytwelve) and see if it still is still there

Come back and let us know how you got on

[Robin W]

I’m sure there are plenty of highly active bbPress sites, with 20% of the world’s websites being wordpress they’re bound to be. That these people don’t come to the attention of a support site – and that this site only gets 20 queries a day – is surely testimony to how good the software is !!!

[sylcollin]

Just to be clear, both files are wrong (see below). They have the same behaviour.

I updated bbpress to version 2.5.3, and I still have the same issue.
I solved the other issues reported by whynopadlock.com. Only bbpress issues are remaining, here is what whynopadlock.com says:

Total number of items: 45
Number of insecure items: 2

Insecure URL: http://test.paulkampfstudios.com/training/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css?ver=2.5.3-5249
Found in: https://test.paulkampfstudios.com/training/video-training/purchase/

Insecure URL: http://test.paulkampfstudios.com/training/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/js/editor.js?ver=2.5.3-5249
Found in: https://test.paulkampfstudios.com/training/video-training/purchase/

I found about the chrome javascript console after, but it confirms what whynopadlock.com said.

[Lynqoid]

The great thing about bbPress compared to other forum software is that you can get it up and running pretty quick, do some testing to see if it is worth while and if it isn’t just deactivate the plugin.

[Soprano]

Hello,

Recently I’ve been contemplating installing buddypress along with bbpress onto my wordpress. I want to make it a community that focuses on the same desire of self-improvement and spirituality.

I was fortunate to have a few traffic spikes and started getting 20,000 unique hits a day for a few months so I thought it would be a good time to try and capture this visiting audience somehow by motivating them to register and return to be active in a forum community to discus the topics of the articles that brought them there.

However, after visiting showcases of forum sites like http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100 and http://bbpress.org/about/examples/ I notice the majority of them, even ones with millions of members, seem quite inactive. The latest posts being a few weeks or even months old. Even these bbpress.org forums seem to only get about 20 new threads a day. I know facebook has taken away a large chunk of forum users who now prefer groups and pages.

I always wanted to create a forum community, but when I tried I failed due to lack of traffic to my site, and now that I do have traffic, it seems forums aren’t as stimulating for internet users anymore unless the niche of the forum is very specific. So is it worth going through all the trouble of setting everything up?

Thank you

[awasik]

I figured I would test out the process of signing up as a new user to my bbpress forums.

However, I never get the signup confirmation email. I have checked spam, everything.

Is there some setting somewhere that I am missing? Here’s my forum:

http://www.combatstocks.com/forums/

Thanks!!!!

[freiwerk]

Hi there,

I have a site using latest versions of buddypress and bbpress. My users can create groups that contain a forum. In addition I use the “group email subscription” plugin, to keep users in groups updated. This works as a charme.

However, some of the group users now want to have subforums in their groups, in order to have a better overview. As soon as we had created the subforums, we discovered a bug: New posts now dont show up in the activity stream of the group. In addition, it does not reset the “last active” flag of the group. Furthermore, and this is my real problem, the email notifications does not work anymore.

Anything I can do here to get subforums with groups working properly?

Thanks and regards!

[Zonic Mirage]

Hello, I help run a university student organization WP site with Buddy Press. I’m getting a fatal error when trying to activate the plug-in. I’m using the latest WP, Buddy Press and trying to install the latest bbPress.

/site/folder/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 199

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bbp_get_user_role() in /site/folder/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/update.php on line 355

Because Google searches are giving me nothing, it’s rather maddening. Thanks!

[sebbat]

Hi,

I started a bbPress to test and i have a huge problem.

My theme have a few page templates, including full width pages and pages with sidebars. bbPress, in my case, uses full width for the index and a sidebar page template for the topics.

I want bbPress to use the full width template everytime, but i don’t know if the modification needs to be made to bbPress or my template.

Maybe someone can help me with that ?

Regards.

[hitkid]

@netweb

I don’t need their role or title. For some reason the avatars will just not come up in the loop outside of the mychild/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php files and mychild/bbpress/loop-single-topic.php. So it works fine on index pages.

I’ve tried all of the but nothing

Here’s what the code looks like right now:

<?php $args = array( 'post_type' => 'topic', 'posts_per_page' => 10 );
			$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );?> 
			
<?php if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : ?>

  <!-- pagination here -->

  <!-- the loop -->
  <?php while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
   <?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_forum_last_active_id(), 'size' => 32 ) ); ?>
	
	<a class="bbp-topic-permalink" href="<?php bbp_topic_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php bbp_topic_title(); ?>"><?php bbp_topic_title(); ?></a>
  <?php endwhile; ?>
  <!-- end of the loop -->

  <!-- pagination here -->

  <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

<?php else:  ?>
  <p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.' ); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

This worked for getting the original post author, but I need the latest active poster to appear<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ), 32 ); ?>

Is there a wordpress function equivalent for this function: bbp_get_forum_last_active_id() that I can use with get_avatar() ?

What file do these functions reside in? Maybe I could copy the functions out and make new ones in mychild/functions.php or see if something wrong and replace the file?

Thank you for the help!

[shearamariz]

I have a concern to say… My bbpress installation is on the latest installation.
Okay here it is: Whenever I add a title that has a max length of 80, it still saves.
May you please check it?

Thanks.

[jmessick]

I ‘think’ I tried that but will give it another test and report the results.

[jmessick]

The forum was just a few days old when it stopped working and only had a few forums and topics. It’s on a new website that I’ve been working on. All my software and plugins are the latest version I have the following plugins.
Akismet
bbPress
Category Reminder
Jetpack
Limit Login Attempts
myRepono Backup Plugin
New User Approve
Post Expirator
Simple Notices
System Snapshot Report
TinyMCE Advanced
TinyMCE Spellcheck
Updater
WangGuard
WP Display Header
WP Super Cache

[alkesh_14]

Hello,

I installed bbpress all is working fine except 2 pages

1. http://www.investoo.com/forums/topic/alkesh-topic/

2. http://www.investoo.com/forums/forum/alkesh-test/

Those page are coming blank only header part is coming.

Please help me

[Robin W]

Not quite sure what you are after

There is a bbpress widget that shows latest topics which you can put into your sidebar.

Otherwise come back and explain some more !

[Robin W]

it’s coming from bbpress stylesheet.

there may be a quicker way to remove this, but one that should work is as follows.

I don’t think you have a childtheme, and now may be the time to consider having one, see https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/ for more details

once done you need to navigate to

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css

copy this file into a folder called css within your theme, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/mychildtheme/css/bbpress.css

where mychildtheme is the name of your childtheme

Then edit every line that has

background-color : xxxxxxx

change to

background: none repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);

NOTE it goes from background-color to background
and it is only the background color that you’ll be changing, not lines which just have color: as that’ll be text!

eg

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
	background-color: #f4f4f4;
}

becomes

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
	background: none repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
}

This will make the background transparent, but with a darker tint shading that you have in your sidebar (the amount of difference is on the 0.4 bit, 0.1 is the lightest, 1.0 the darkest).

Come back if that doesn’t fix it, or for further help

[craftersuniversity]

I never get any errors, just a blank page. But only if i reply to some other members forum thread, if i reply to a forum thread i have started, then this problem doesn’t appear…. Also i just noticed that my admin account receives notifications via mail, but not my moderator account…both are subscribed.

I tried deactivating all plugins except bbPress, but the site crashed completely, showing me empty gray pages. I then activated BuddyPress, and the website started working again, so BuddyPress must be activated for some reason. I also tried repairing the forum, and reinstalling entire bbPress, but still the problem remains. However, when i reinstalled BuddyPress, then it started working again. And for some reason BuddyPress latest version is working, the last time i tried to update, it broke my entire site….

At any rate, i think it is working now…

[theone-deano]

i think they should try to include some extra settings for forum roles. it saves time editing the php file.

I have a community part of my forum which is open & visible and a clan part that is private & hidden, i hade to modify the capabillities.php file and add my own role Clan Member and give correct rules.

I tested it on an account and it worked , standard users can only see community forum but if i change a person role to clan member they can see all forums and post etc…

[JacobWard]

Okay, so if you click my website then go to News & Update then Go to Weapons Update you will see It is not showing what I Posted I tried different browsers I tried uninstalling bbpress and budypress and reinstalling them even just tried bbpress alone that still did not work I have all the latest versions and everything can someone please help me I cant figure this out. I purchased my Template so I’m really not looking to change it but when I tried other templates it still did not work as well what am I doing wrong????

http://wwww.naruto-mmo.com/

[Stephen Edgar]

@kris35 wrote… There are 68 replies to replies and 68 of them are locked this way

This shouldn’t be an issue unless edit_lock has incorrect timestamps.

@kris35 wrote… I had to go into the backend and edit the “Reply To” box to zero.

We have just done some testing trying to reproduce “Incorrect Reply To’s” but couldn’t.

Setting them to 0 will force the replies to be ‘Not Threaded’ and sorted by date (default)

@shanebp wrote… …any edit to a reply pushes it to the bottom and destroys the threading. Any threaded replies become ‘flat’.

I can’t reproduce this, any edit I make to a ‘threaded reply’ in the frontend or backend keeps the correct ‘replyto’ value and works as expected.

[crzyhrse]

You are welcome, and thank you… I’ll watch out for ways to help out as I bounce around the WordPress world… I’ll also offer that I have what seems to be pretty good test site set up, in case it is helpful…