Dangit, should’ve subscribed. That’s great news, I’ll be checking it out.
I’ve made some good progress with TinyEditor. It’s indeed very fast and implementation has not been super complicated (so far).
But again; mobile browsers are not the greatest browsers.
Typing and submitting works fine on iOS. Formatting however is lost somehow.
Kindle (Android) still claims it can’t load wp-comments-post.php.
With both selecting text, and applying formatting is a disaster. Often the selection “hint” (Select, Select All, Copy, etc) overlaps the buttonbar of the editor.
Note: At this moment (to keep things easy) I’m only testing this in WordPress comments. Once that works OK I’m going to try to use it for bbPress posts.
I agree; this is more something bbPress inherited from WordPress I’m assuming, since WP brings us tinyMCE. The issues at hand appear common knowledge in the tinyMCE community – and it appears that most WYSIWYG editors have similar problems.
2 WYSIWYG editors stood out so far for me to consider doing some testings with:
– TinyEditor (super small and very responsive)
– Redactor (little bigger but much more functionality, yet still responsive
As for a bug/issue ticket; where do we do that? and wouldn’t this a bug/issue for WordPress?
I agree we need to look at this a bit more… I was using copy and paste with ‘Note’ on the iPad (3rd Gen) the other day to post here as noted above for Android ‘it will let me type, but nothing appears in the editor’ was the same behaviour I had with the iPad.
Can you create a ticket on trac so we can start to get some detailed device tests on how the editor is behaving for WordPress, bbPress and bbpress.org and go from there… It may be a core issue with WordPress that bbPress then inherits.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/
Android devices appear to be very slow here as well, and selecting text is a challenge – I completely agree.
The MyTouch and the Kindle both report to be a regular Linux (Kindle) or Macintosh (I couldn’t believe it, and tested this numerous times in different ways) AppleWebKit browser – no notion of “mobile” or “Android”.
Also on the myTouch, when pressing a button on the menubar of tinyMCE behaves very odd.
These findings basically tell me that Fancy Editor is useless for mobile visitors (thanks for bringing it up!).
So either we have to revert back to “just text” for mobile users or find an alternative editor that actually does behave properly.
Well, Here’s a test from my nexus s. Seems to work, but it’s slow and there’s no proper text box, so I’m quickly writing outside my screen.
OK, I’ve been testing Android a little more intense than before; boy that’s a drama on it’s own.
So the first problem I noticed (T-Mobile/HTC myTouch 4G): Android does not like tinyMCE. It will let me type, but nothing appears in the editor, instead it ends up in the email input (not sure if this is a generic problem or maybe just my theme).
Adding elements through tinyMCE plugins works but the FancyBox appears to be not working all that well.
Submitting works – but of course none of the typed text in the message, only what I added through one of the tinyMCE plugins.
Next I tried a Amazon Kindle Fire HD (can’t really recommend this tablet – great hardware, crappy software). Things work better here, including entering text.
However … submitting the comment ends up in a “Webpage not available – The webpage at http:///wp-comments.php could not be loaded because: Unkown Error”.
Is this in anyway familiar with the situation you run into?
I tested it on bbpress.org right now (which btw is definitely not mobile-friendly overall).
Seems to work better than before now, maybe it’s got to do with the chopped down editor functionality. One big problem still is that you can’t easily highlight text for special formatting, since that’ll just zoom you out. Different interaction models like that just makes the wysiwyg tools rather redundant for mobile.
I haven’t had any problems on smartphones,… yet … iPhone/Android; they all work fine.
I’m sure there are other platforms (Windows,BlackBerry) but I do not know anyone who has either to test.
What problems do you run into?
I’d be very interested in your feedback on where it goes wrong/misbehaves (so I can adapt my website as well).
– Does tinyMCE misbehave?
– Or simply not work (lack of JavaScript)?
It might be difficult to determine if a visitor uses a phone or a regular computer, specially since the gap between the two is getting more narrow by the day.
Some examples are discussed here: Stackoverflow.
There is an example of browser sniffing (not my favorite) and some other techniques.
However … they all rely on JavaScript (which would be too late for doing something in PHP).
I did find some PHP code that could do the trick here: php-mobile-detect.
I have not tested it though.
If a cellphone is detected call (untested):
bbp_the_content( array( ‘context’ => ‘reply’, ‘tinymce’ => false ) );
Monica,
Sorry nothing new to report on a fix yet…
Btw, I’ve set this as private b/c I didn’t see a way to have people log in, so this would only be available to members. Don’t know if this is part of the issue.
With that above from your first post in mind, is it important your forums stay private or having them publicly accessible would not be an issue? If public is not a problem, try this:
If you leave the ‘category’ set as ‘private’ but change the two forums you have under this category from ‘private’ to ‘public’, I just tested this and it appears to be working.
(You can also change the parent category to public also and it won’t trigger the bug)
Back to the quote above you can use the `[bbp-login]` shortcode ona page or the login widget in your sidebar.
hello
Here I start and I installed the latest version bbPress.
Can you give me a link to the French language translation please.
thank you in advance
bonjour
Voila je me suis lance et j’ai installe la derniere version bbPress.
Pouvez-vous m’indiquer un lien pour la traduction le langage francaise s’il vous plait.
merci d’avance
Traduction s’il vous plait
Dear All,
as I read in documentation can only read topics and replies.
I have tested it in my forum and it works, but the Spectator cannot read Forum page. Is it normal?
The spectator can read and not http://mysite.com/forums/topic/topic-name/ http://mysite.com/forums/forum/forum-name/
In this way it’s impossible to be really a forum spectator. Is there a way to make him read also forum pages?
Thank you,
Andrea
Smileys & Open/Closed Topics are done, stickies we can’t do for now and that will have to wait.
Grab the latest again with https://gist.github.com/4534229/download
I’m still not sure why the extra blank post is turning up 🙁
Cool…. Everything should work…
With the two posts above of your errors.
Case 1. You used `wp_forum_` on that first revision when I used forum , threads, posts & user as the from_tablename’s, the error you posted was `’str1210409063589.wp_forum_user’` and that is correct as the importer was trying to find `wp_forum_user` which indeed does not exist.
Case 2. You used `wp_` on that second revision when I used forum_forums , forum_threads, forum_posts & users as the from_tablename’s, the error you posted was `’str1210409063589.wp_forums’` and that is not what I would expect to see here, it should be forum_forums.
Can you confirm by downloading the latest revision with this link and replacing Mingle.php with the version extracted from this zip file and use `wp_` as the table prefix.
https://gist.github.com/4534229/download
Can you create a ticket for this over in trac for this please: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/
(Adding some ‘numbers’ would also help eg #subscribers & #posts so we can test this ourselves.)
I am having a similar problem….
Using WP 3.5 BuddyPress 1.6.3 and bbPress 2.2.3
I have the “Yes. I want this group to have a forum.” CHECKED when creating the group
but I am NOT seeing the forum tab or the group shown in the forum
Any suggestions?
PS.. I followed the latest video tutorial on Labzip.com http://labzip.com/the-definitive-guide-to-buddypress-bbpress-configuration/
hey,
i would like to show a list of the 4 or 5 most recent topics / replies in my header.
like title / author / time
i’m currently using rss, which doesn’t give me the author though.
also i thought there must be a much simpler solution somehow…
if not. how can i change the “Reply To:” in the rss feed, that is put in front of the topics if there’s a response?
thanks a lot for any help
I am using the latest version of worspress.org and bbpress I am trying to link the forum page into my navigation bar but when i click new page it does not link both of them together. I am very very new to this and I am doing this for a school project.
Thank you in advance for your help.
I’m not getting anything to work to add TinyMCE buttons in my bbPress. I pasted Sunriseweb’s code in my functions.php. Nothing. I have updated WP and bbPress.
How do I force TinyMCE into “teeny” mode?
I’ve recently installed the bbPress plugin on AppGlobe. When testing the different settings, I greated a private forum. Should only be visible to administrators and moderators I thought, but it seems participants can both view and add topics to this forum.
Maybe I’m doing something wrong. The settings for this forum is:
Type: Forum
Status: Open
Visibility: Private
Wow. Stephen I just read your post about trying the past versions of bbPress to isolate the issue. I started at 2.0 and the redirects WORKED! I moved up each time my tests were successful. 2.0 – 2.0.3 work perfectly.
As soon as I upgrade to 2.1 and upwards, the redirects break again!
I think it is safe to say it is a bbPress issue. Hopefully someone can look into it 🙂 I will try to examine the redirect differences between 2.0.3 and 2.1 and will post if I find anything useful.
For now I will use bbPress 2.0.3 and hopefully the issue will get sorted 🙂
Thanks so much for your help!
Ana
Hi
New to Buddypress/Bbpress and trying to test it on a localhost installation
I have all the latests versions and the installation seemed to work smoothly
I have enabled both group forums and site wide forums (even though my problem is consistant even when disabling the group forums)
The problem:
I’be opened several forums from the admin panel but can’t find them on the site!
when I get on my Forums page (http://localhost:29138/forums/) I reach to a “Forums Directory” page with an ability to add new topic, and a list of topics (from the groups forums!?) but no track to the list of my desired site-wide forums.
I tried to edit the forums page and insert the forum index shortcode but it had no effect
any help would be appreciated
I have just been updating the bbPress importers to support mentions eg. @rossagrant over the past few days and have had ~500,000 posts go through the DB and test site and maybe 1% would have a quote or mention, maybe less, it’s still quite a few and I have don’t see any of the SQL errors you @mention.
Is your site title issue a URL that is displaying like this?
‘http://www.mysite.com/members/dave/’
If so it is because the URL is wrapped in single or double quotes and will be fixed in the next version of bbPress, if not could you give us some more detailed info, what it should be and what it is sending in the email.
Edit: Ha, I cant force the error in that URL above, does it look like the URL with the ‘& # 8217’ at the end like your first post here in this topic?
Well… in fact I had to do the opposite and force TinyMCE into “teeny” mode to make bbPress 2.2.3 with WP 3.5 and Ultimate TinyMCE 4.0.3 to work. The TinyMCE toolbar forced the entire editor table to be wider then the content area of my theme and it was getting hidden behind the right-hand-sidebar. This could be a theme incompatibility, but I’m guessing some issue with this combination of plugins and WP version.
At any rate I used the code in this thread to the opposite effect (I put it in my theme’s function.php file, although a plugin is the proper thing to do).
`
function marconf_bbpress_mceallow( $args = array() ) {
$args[‘teeny’] = true;
return $args;
}
add_filter( ‘bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args’, ‘marconf_bbpress_mceallow’ );
`
Hmm, not sure its a “really dirty grimy hack”.
Removing the sidebar means you no longer have access to it, should you require it on certain pages, or if like some themes you want to access it on topics so you can show latest discussions, but not on full forum pages.
Otherwise you have to go through and remove it from all bbPress template files, if you ever want it back, you need to revert that process.
