After an update to the latest BP, I noticed that my admin cannot anymore manage forums. All the menu items – Forums, Topics, Replies – disappeared! I realized that my admin user is no longer managing forums. The only forum roles I can assign to users are spectator, moderator, participant, blocked. If I assign “moderator” to an user, the user can edit topic and replies, but not manage forums. What happened to admin or keymaster? I tried installing “User Roles Editor”, but it doesn’t show up capabilities for “Administrator” so I can’t edit the Administrator profile to change them… I’m lost.
Is it possible to replicate the theme/layout of the bbPress.org forums homepage easily?
Love the forums on the left and the latest topics layout. Would love to see this as an option in the settings for the future.
Any ideas in the meantime?
Hi everyone.
First, my system:
wordpress 3.5.1.
buddypress 1.7.1 (with bbpress 2.3.2 integrated).
I’ve changed my site from buddypress group forums to bbpress 2.3.1. The transition went fine, but now I have this problem:
Users can’t edit their own messages.
I have also set option “Disallow editing after” to 15 minutes, but still users can’t edit their own posts.
Then, I have some difficulties to understand how forum visibility settings of bbpress (public, private, hidden) correlates to group visibility settings (public, private, hidden). If I set a group as hidden and than bbpress settings to “private” or “public”, new topics of groups forum appears in “latest topics”. Users that are not members of group that try to enter the forum get 404 error, but they still can read the topic, and this is not a good thing. If a users sets his group as hidden I think he don’t want to see it visible in latest topics, don’t you? 🙂
Hum sorry, must’ve gone into the spamfolder. I tested it myself and it works. Aw well, I sent you an e-mail via your contact form, cheers.
Is something wrong with the code tags here that you’re unable to use them? I’m having a hard time following exactly what to do to duplicate the issue you’re having.
I’ve tried each permutation of posting code and swapping between editors, and it appears to work correctly for me in what is now bbPress 2.3.2. I’ve also synced up dev trunk with deploy trunk, so the beta tester plugin should have the most recent changes in it too.
(Keep in mind that the beta-tester plugin doesn’t grab the latest version directly from trunk; it gets what I merge into WordPress.org Extend’s trunk. This helps me keep what the beta-tester plugin gets stable, even though bbPress.org’s trunk might not me.)
Create a post in the visual editor it performs normally. Click “text” tab, and you see the tags as expected. Click the “visual” tab and again it appears normally.
Once POSTED, if you then attempt to edit it, you get the visual tab, and SEE the HTML tags. They are not however the actual tags, when you click the “text” tab you see they are actually & l t ; HTMLTAG & g t ;Whatever the text is& l t ;/HTMLTAG& g t ;
(I do believe that before 2.4-alpha that clicking the “text” tab would result in the same thing BEFORE posting, so it’s “semi” fixed)
WordPress 3.5.1
bbPress 4.2-alpha
bbPress – Mark as Read 0.3
bbPress Beta Tester 0.1
bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab 1.0
bbPress Unread Posts 1.0
GD bbPress Tools 1.4
We’ve just set up a website for the over 60s and part of it is downloading health information.
I need to capture their real name but also have a ‘user name’ which is then used for everything.
I’m using the latest version of bbPress but, despite looking hard, have no idea where to go next! Does anyone know of a plugin that will do what I need? Thanks.
site is http://www.retiredandkicking.com/
Just installed the beta tester plug in and updated to v2.4-alpha and it did NOT fix this…
Can you include more(any) information on what you’re seeing? From my testing, it’s fixed in trunk and in the 2.3.2-alpha, and fixed here on bbPress.org also.
@Jared – WOW – that seemed to do the trick … THANK YOU … i will update my trac ticket … as fyi, part of me thinks forum permalinks should work with that option on or off but hey, it now works* with it set on so that is good enough for me … thanks again for pointer as this was driving me a bit nutty and driving me a bit towards “Now what did i do wrong … what do i no understand about flushing permalinks, configuring this yada yada” thus while my confidence might have dipped a bit during this testing experience, i am certainly grateful for helpful bbPress community and pros that nudge us forward for success results :>) cordially, chuck scott
*for others who might stumble on this thread – the working part means that now anybody who is on the network as a registered user, but not a member of a particular sub site that uses forums, with this option Jared mentions set to “on” said users when they log in to that sub site will see forums with working permalinks – in my case, they were treated as subscribers thus could not comment or create new forums …
Just installed the beta tester plug in and updated to v2.4-alpha and it did NOT fix this…
Hi Jared
I think, the Beta Tester not update from trunk. Maybe I’m wrong, someone should check this plugin.
I download directly from svn/trunk and now works fine.
Best regards
GP
I think if you update bbPress using the Beta Tester plugin it should pull down trunk, which contains the fix.
Give a try and see.
Hi
I’m interesting to when version 2.3.2. will be ready,
Now I’m using bbPress Beta Tester plugin to update bbPress
Best Regards
GP
just a follow up in that i did some additional testing on a live production site and confirmed bug behavior so i just submitted a bug ticket here ->
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2325#ticket
Hi all,
I have run into a problem when trying to activate the bbPress plugin when running a Skeleton framework’s Childtheme. After activation, I get this error message:
Warning: require_once(/customers/6/4/a/developmentbysvalander.com/httpd.www/themetest/wp-content/themes/skeleton/bbpress_functions.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /customers/6/4/a/developmentbysvalander.com/httpd.www/themetest/wp-content/themes/skeleton_childtheme/functions.php on line 89 Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘/customers/6/4/a/developmentbysvalander.com/httpd.www/themetest/wp-content/themes/skeleton/bbpress_functions.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/share/php’) in /customers/6/4/a/developmentbysvalander.com/httpd.www/themetest/wp-content/themes/skeleton_childtheme/functions.php on line 89
I’ve tried this on two different WP installations, and it crash ever time. The second one was a fresh install of both theme and plugin. As I am pretty new with PHP I don’t want to tr anything out that I know work, tht’s why I’m here.
Appreciate any kind of reply!
BR, Chris (Sweden)
@fishmilk – i don’t have an answer to your question but i too have been experiencing similar strangeness thus i suspect there is a bug in bbPress with new users ..??.. i’m outlining my issue below incase our experiences are related ..??..
i’m running tests on a multisite network and had bbPress installed on a sub site … then i installed BuddyPress and did some testing and that is when i found strangeness with bbPress as follows …
when i logged into the sub site forums with a user that was added previously to the site, then all was fine … but if i tried to login as a subscriber to the network but not to that site, then i got a series of 404 errors with forums and topics not found … these links worked to a non logged in user, and worked to a logged in registered user added to the site and worked for the admin, and these links as hover overs even showed the correct permalink structure … yet when clicked on as logged in user registered to network and not to site, the permalinks were screwy – e.g., site.com/sub-site01/sub-site01/forum/topic-xyz .. thus a double sub-site01 was being added …
so then i turned off BuddyPress and still same thing … then i turned off bbPress network enabled and enabled only on subsite as original and same thing … then i changed the network settings so that the default login for that subsite was subscriber and ditto, same thing in that a user on a network would not be able to access the forums … the only way for the new user to access forums is if i go to that subsite as admin and manually add the subscriber … then it seems to work …
my next step is to delete all my MySQL tables and try this again … partly because along my path i test the Commons in a Box BuddyPress plugin and that network enabled bbPress automatically even though i had bbPress enabled on the sub site … never thought to check that first and so not sure if something got corrupted a bit or if indeed bbPress is having issue with new users on a network (e.g., especially, if they haven’t posted, or commented in advance ??)
looping back to your error messages … i saw some of the same ones during my path … once i disabled Commons in a Box, and repaired my forums, things seemed to come back online but i noticed that one of the avatars for my test log in subscribers was missing which leads me to believe there is possible table corruption on this end ..??..
Ack – that’s not right. Here’s what it looks like in the email:
<p>Hello, this is a reply to the test.</p>
I’m using the latest versions of both WordPress and bbPress.
I’m using the fancy editor (via the bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab plugin) and in notification emails we get characters like:
<p>Hello, this is a reply to the test.</p>
Is there a way to either send HTML-formatted emails from bbPress, or to strip out these characters and still use the fancy editor?
One more time…
By which I mean (JIC I’m using the wrong term) you get < s t r o n g > Test < / s t r o n g > rather then seeing Test as you’d expect in the text box.
I never know how to write so tags will show up….
By which I mean (JIC I’m using the wrong term) you get < s t r o n g > Test < / s t r o n g > rather then seeing Test as you’d expect in the text box.
I’ve set things up so that you get the regular TinyMCE editor for making posts, and for MAKING posts it works great, but when you attempt to edit the post you get the HTML back in it’s “sanitized” form.
By which I mean (JIC I’m using the wrong term) you get ‘Test‘ rather then seeing Test as you’d expect in the text box.
The code comes back the & l t ; and & g t ; rather then the < and >.
Workaround in place:
i am using the “Redirection” plugin as a work around for now.
The broken “forum” will go to the top of the forums regardless of where you are at
and am making a new page to use the latest topics shortcode in to direct the broken “topic” link to (so it at least has some sense in where it brings the user to).
would rather remove these lines though.
Hello,
I manage a website (missdots.com) and I’m having issues with my bbpress forum. I’m using wordpress 3.5.1 and bbpress 2.3.1
My issue is that whenever a new user registers to use the forum, they are sent an email with their password as is usual; however, when they go on the site to login, entering the login information does absolutely nothing. The topics and replies still carry the disclaimer “you must be logged in to create a new topic/ reply to this topic”. I’ve tried logging in using the test user I created on both the login page I created and a login widget, both to no avail.
Even when I’m logged in as the admin and can edit pages/posts/etc, it’s still telling me on the website that I must be logged in to use the forums.
I have the forum settings set so that the default user role is “participant” and the general setttings set so the default user role is “contributor”. (Also to keep my forum up and running right now, I have it set so that anyone can post w/o registering, although I’d like to ultimately not use this method)
Does anyone have any clues on how to fix this?
Important Upgrade Notice: Version 2.0.0 only for bbPress 2.3 or higher!
Download the plugin from here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/
Version 2.0.0 of this plugin was released recently, and it has the requirement of bbPress 2.3 or higher in order to work! That’s because bbPress 2.3+ comes with built-in search functionality.
My plugin now builds on top of that and this brings the end to theme & template issues for the search results, finally!
The plugin’s widget is now like an extended version of the regular search widget – you get up to 13 options for the widget and/ or search form – which are really cool, not only for support forums 🙂
Also, now there’s an additional SHORTCODE with a bbPress search form! You can add this Shortcode anywhere Shortcodes are supported. See FAQ for parameters and usage examples.
Further, a new feature I am really, really proud of, is a new Widgetized Content Area for “Not found” forum search results. This means you are not shown this lame & tiny “Oh bother…” message any longer but can customize this whole page via widgets! How cool is that? — This is optional! If this additional widget area has active widgets placed in it then it shows them on the frontend, if the area is empty, bbPress default behavior is displayd.
I hope you like the refactoring and the new features.
If you didn’t upgraded yet to bbPress 2.3+ you really should consider it’s worth it!
Thank you all users for using my plugin, for testing it, for all feedback! You guys rock!
–Dave 🙂
Even more problems … now linking isn’t working from the Visual editor.
When I click “Add Link” in the display box, it refreshes the page with the following URL:
http://lionsreport.com/forums/topic/testing-again/?_ajax_linking_nonce=3402f6c235&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blah.com&linktitle=&wp-link-submit=Add+Link
Awesome.
Just awesome.
These features worked fine in 2.3.
