[nadir_seen_fire]

bbp_check_user_edit() appears to use the following condition:

if ( !is_user_logged_in() || ( is_multisite() && !current_user_can( ‘manage_network_users’ ) && bbp_is_user_home() && !apply_filters( ‘enable_edit_any_user_configuration’, true ) ) || !current_user_can( ‘edit_user’, bbp_get_displayed_user_id() ) ) {

The key portion of that being:

( is_multisite() && !current_user_can( ‘manage_network_users’ ) && bbp_is_user_home() && !apply_filters( ‘enable_edit_any_user_configuration’, true ) )

This appears to be written intending to disable the ability for site admins on a network to edit users. However the code here does not seam to do any tests for what the user id is and who’s currently logged in.

This has the unwanted effect of removing the ability for a normal non-superadmin user to edit their own profile because this code activates when multisite is enabled and doesn’t take the fact they are trying to edit their own profile into account.

[aravoth]

Search BBpress plugin is not functioning now, I am using the latest version of 2.1, the error message I get is…

Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::have_posts() in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-topic-template.php on line 308

Line 308 of bbp-topic-template.php looks like..

function bbp_topics() {

global $bbp;



// Put into variable to check against next

$have_posts = $bbp->topic_query->have_posts();



// Reset the post data when finished

if ( empty( $have_posts ) )

wp_reset_postdata();



return $have_posts;

}

Not sure what the problem is here…

[maryjan]

I have one portal with 6 subdomains. All in wordpress multisite network. I have also install buddypress and bbpress all in the newest versions.

I want to have only one forum on main site where i will have forums for subdomains blogs. These forums i can create manualy.

The issue is.

How can i get the latest topics from each forum from main site on subdomain blog ?

Do I need to get it from databese or how ?

Please help me

[John James Jacoby]

Testing out the new bbPress codex at http://codex.bbpress.org.

I’ll be adding some documents and moving things around soon. Wanted to give a heads up that it’s coming and I’m working on it before officially announcing anything on the blog.

If for some reason you’re not able to edit pages and would like to, drop me a note here and I’ll add you.

[swexican]

I did what Zhen said (set Site Visibility to “Allow search engines to index this site”) and it works. Can’t believe this isn’t mentioned somwehere!

So modifying DoctorWombats 6 steps to install I would modify it like this:

1. Plugins > Add New > BuddyPress 1.5 (or install manually by uploading files)

2. Activate BuddyPress

3. Run the Install Wizard BUT leaving the Forum Component unchecked.

4. Plugins > Add New > bbPress 2.0 (or install manually by uploading files)

5. Activate bbPress

6. Make sure Settings > Privacy > Site Visibility is set to “Allow search engines to index this site.”

7. Create a forum, test topics, and test replies and see them appear in Activity Streams

I tested this using WordPress 3.3.1, BuddyPress 1.5.3.1 and bbPress 2.0.2 so no nightlies involved.

Thank you Zhen!

[swexican]

I just have to add that after looking everywhere in threads and forums and getting nowhere from the comments here I finally did what Zhen said.

Setting Site Visibility to “Allow search engines to index this site.” will make Activity Stream work for bbPress posts!

I tested this using WordPress 3.3.1, BuddyPress 1.5.3.1 and bbPress 2.0.2 so no nightlies involved.

Thank you Zhen!

Maybe you should add this info somewhere?

-swex

[SK]

Actually, it doesn’t. I think bbPress is a pretty good piece of software.

But while I have your attention, allow me to share my perspectives as someone who has been using Opensource Bulletin Board software for many years, but is just starting off with bbPress.

It’s great that bbPress can leverage WordPress’s autoupdate function to update itself and its plugins. phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com/mods/automod/), SMF (http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?topic=93) etc. are still trying to figure it out…they have some rudimentary patches, but nothing as elegant as WordPress’s system.

Another brilliant thing is the ability to use seo/pretty URLs/permalinks. Amazingly, at phpBB (http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=105&t=35616) they are fighting over whether this is even desirable!

But what’s pure genius is the ability to use any WordPress theme! bbPress ships with a bbPress TwentyTen theme, and if your active WordPress theme does not have special support for bbPress, that is ok, because bbPress will use bbPress TwentyTen’s styling to present the forums in your active theme. Genius! Pure genius!

Add to this the fact that because bbPress is a WordPress plugin, there are additional benefits such as: SSO with WP, ability to use WP plugins (like Use Google Libraries), extendability, lightness, etc.

It is a massive shock to me that the number of people are using bbPress is incredibly smaller than what it should be.

I’ve thought about my experience, and think that the following factors could be critical in this regard:

1. Discovery: Discovery is an issue. I don’t know what the relationship is between Automattic/Wordpress/bbPress/BuddyPress, but I am sure you have considered putting bbpress.org link in wordpress.org’s “See also:” footer and decided against it. But what I do struggle to understand is wy wordpress.org would not even permit you to put a credit line (Powered by bbPress) in wordpress.org forums. That is a bit harsh. To add insult to injury, if I search for forum on wordpress.org forums (http://wordpress.org/search/forum?forums=1), Mingle is at the top and Vanilla forums show up on page 1, but bbPress doesn’t.

Google SERPs aren’t much better. bbPress is not on 1st page for any of “forums script”, “opensource forums script” and “php forums script”. I’m sure that would change if you could convince wordpress.org to show you a little more love.

2. Freshness: Even if someone chances upon bbPress plugin on wordpress.org (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/), there is little joy. The bubble is burst as soon as the explorer clicks on forum posts (http://wordpress.org/tags/bbpress?forum_id=10). There doesn’t seem to be any support and users appear to be completely lost without a paddle.

Of course the main reason for that is that you handle most support here at bbpress.org but the poor visitor doesn’t know that. He looks at wordpress.org forums for bbpress, concludes there is lack of support and goes away.

I think unifying support in one place (at wordpress.org forums), will be good for the community. You can have a clearcut, loudly stated division – bbpress WP plugin support at wordpress.org forums, legacy bbpress standalone support at bbpress.org

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/why-separate-forums

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-why-separate-forums

3. Migration: bbPress needs to face the fact that most people who want a forum, have already had a forum. The *new* market for forums is much smaller than the *installed base* of forums.

Consequently, most of the people who would want to use bbPress probably are already using another forum script and need help migrating. It is collossal mistake to leave this for community plugins.

If I have a forum software in a production environment, then one of the major factors influencing my decision regarding migration is whether or not there is a robust, stable, tried and tested and reliable migration path to the target software. This is extremely important for me. In fact, I would suffer a somewhat inferior software willingly rather than move to a better software if there is no clear migration path or there is a high degree of risk in migration.

It is a mistake on part of bbPress to leave migration to community plugin developers. Even if there were some plugins out there that did the job, it would be much less reassuring to prospective users compared to a migration/import path created by the bbPress team. As it happens there are only 2 import plugins (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forumconverter/ and http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbconverter/) out there and both of them are broken and not supported.

WordPress does it right in building an importer directly into the core.

I think it would be greatly beneficial to the project if the bbPress team build a bbPress importer that supports the top 4 forum software: phpBB, Invision, SMF and vBulletin.

Over the next 18-24 months, I expect to see a mass exodus from phpBB as they rewrite the software from ground up (http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=41583). If bbPress provide a good migration path, it stands the chance to capture some of fleeing population.

4. I18n: 80%+ translations of bbPress are available in 13 languages, which is nothing to be scoffed at. But delivery is shambolic.

It is a nightmare trying to figure how to get bbPress working in a language other than English, even if you do the translation yourself.

There are 2 places to find translations: http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/ and http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin

You can also use the .pot file found in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-languages folder to create a translation, or you can translate at http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin with proper access.

It still doesn’t work. Very frustrating.

As it turns out, what you need to do is go to http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin, download language file by exporting to .po file, use poedit to covert to .mo, and upload it to wp-content/languages/bbpress/ (not to /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-languages which has the .pot file or /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/languages as most other plugins would). And the name of the file should be somewhat like bbpress-de_DE.mo not the standard de_DE.mo

Who would be able to figure that out? There’s not a single word about this in the documentation.

What a mess!

While some of the sharpest web developers comes from non-English-speaking countries, a high proportion of non-English-speakers are quite venturesome and decide to handle the technical aspects themselves as site owners, instead of farming them out to expensive developers, who are busy charging high rates for remote work.

These are the people that greatly appreciate the simplicity of WordPress. And these are the people who are a captive audience for bbPress, only if bbPress could make life a little bit easier for them.

bbPress should either be delivered in multiple language-specific packages like WordPress, or should be delivered with all translations included like most other plugins.

The .pot as well as language .po .mo files should be located in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/languages

5. Documentation: This is another disaster area that is dragging a good software down. Documentation is just plain bad.

First of all, bbPress should clearly mention on the home page (http://bbpress.org/) and the download page (http://bbpress.org/download/) that while standalone version continues to be supported, it is not being actively developed.

Secondly, all the current documentation (http://bbpress.org/documentation/) is about the standalone version, and doesn’t say anything helpful for plugin users. This should be reversed.

6. Lack of basic features: Forum users, whether or not they own/manage forums, have come to expect certain basic features like:

– quote, multiquote

– topic view stats

– unread posts link

– Signature

– Profile photo/avatar

– bbcode

– WYSISYG editor

– forum search, context search

– uploading images

– members online

– private messaging

– smilies/emoticons

– forum moderation

– user registration approval

etc.

I understand that bbPress is built to be modular, and I think bbPress is right in leaving this functionality to plugins.

However, there are 2 problems:

– On wordpress.org plugin directory (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/) there is no good way of listing all bbPress plugins. Perhaps you should create a special nomenclature or special tag that bbPress plugins should use?

– If you look at bbPress plugin browser (http://bbpress.org/plugins/), most plugins are quite old…updated in 2010, 2009, even 2008! This is not very reassuring or confidence inspiring. Now, many of the old plugins may still be working fine, but when I see the “last updated” date is June 2010 for a plugin, I assume it is outdated, not developed and not supported anymore. I perceive that this will be a trouble plugin if I install it, and consequently end up with less functionality than I want. And I blame bbPress for it, saying bbPress doesn’t have all the features I want.

My suggestion is this: Every time there is a new version of WordPress or bbPress, the bbPress plugins should release a new version too, even if the only difference is to add a comment line that says “compatible with version so and so”. This will go a long way in reassuring prospective users that can install the plugin with confidence.

7. Forum sidebar: There is a plugin called bbPress WP Tweaks (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/). What it proposes but in my experience fails to do should be part of the core software. bbPress WP Tweaks was created so that the admin could relace the WordPress standard sidebar with a forum-specific sidebar on forum pages. This, in my estimation, would be useful for 90%+ of all bbPress users.

8. Custom fields: One of the most powerful features of WordPress is custom fields. bbPress should not disable this for forum pages.

9. Custom headers code field: bbPress should have provision for a custom header code field, wherein the admin can put in some code, which bbPress then inserts in the header on forum pages. In one flick, this would make bbPress customization so much more powerful.

To sum up, it takes a lot of persistence and determination to love bbPress. This is not great to attract new users. The software has a lot of potential, and I believe the number of installations can be increased multifold if the above issues are tackled in earnest.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings. And if you went tl;dr I have only myself to blame.

[boriskourt]

Upgrading to the latest version from track has fixed this issue.

Just a quick question about my theme, is it okay for me to leave the existing files from the old bbpress theme within my theme? Or should I recode it from your new theme files?

[Ninjamoomin]

Hi,

Apologies, I’m a total noob at this… Sorry also if this is a bit long winded, not sure how best to explain it.

this is my site: http://www.fluvaledgeforum.com

…and this is where my forums lived: http://www.fluvaledgeforum.com/forums/forum/fluval-edge-journals-and-photos/

I am getting really confused…

I had a page on the site titled ‘Forum’ which I was going to redirect, using the redirect plugin, to the bbpress page listing all the forums…

Now for the hard part.

For some reason when you click on the ‘forum’ in the bbpress breadcrumb… it was taking you to the page I was going to redirect. I was thinking that should take you to the root of the forums…. i.e. a list of all of them

At first I thought it was because it had the same URL…. so I changed the page that I was going to redirect, and the assoc. link title to ‘redirect’ – just to test this theory. Alas the root of the forums breadcrumb still took you to this page…http://www.fluvaledgeforum.com/redirect/

Then I thought I might have messed a setting up, so I deleted bbpress and reinstalled the plugin.

Now I have tried adding another forum… according to the admin page it’s published at the following location: http://www.fluvaledgeforum.com/forums/forum/general-aquarium-discussion/

But that comes up as page not found when you click ‘view forum’ in the admin area.

Now I am stumped.

Questions then:

1) how do I get the forums working again with a top level that lists all the forums on the site?

2) how do I add forums to the menu?

Thanks for your help with this…

[maryjan]

Hello,

I have one question about forum bbpress on multisite.

I have community site about few games and i have the main site where are buddypress and 6 subsites in subdirectories.

On main site I have 7 forums for each subsite, and I would like to know how to show latest active topics from each section on specific subsite.

Is that possible ?

For example: main site have forums for subsites: Blizzard and EA Games. I want to show on Blizzard subsite latest active topics from specific section on main site forum.

Please help me

[george123]

I’m uploading a new bbpress theme to:

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bb-templates

Now what? I go into my admin panel of the site, and go to themes, and see these errors:

1. Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.

2. Broken Themes

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

bbPress (Twenty Ten)

The parent theme is missing. Please install the “twentyten” parent theme.

Where do I go to activate the new theme? Am I putting it in the right place?

Site is running the latest wordpress and the latest bbpress plugin.

Please help.

Thanks and god bless.

[vburnham]

It appears that in my individual forums the content is in the header and is making it full width. I need it to be placed next to the sidebar in the pagelines_content area. Anyone have any ideas why it would be doing this or how I can fix it? Here is a preview: http://proof.saamadesign.com/forum/base/forum/this-is-a-test-forum/

Thanks!

[monkey28]

im using the latest bbpress plugin for wordpress.. and the table borders is making my forum look not so pretty.. any help/suggestions?

Thanks!

[John James Jacoby]

Working on the BuddyPress Groups. Opponent right now. Probably a beta soon, to test some things I’m trying out.

[murrayac]

Hey Paul,

I’m using

bbpress 2.1 latest

Wootheme Canvas

Wordpress MU 3.2.1

It works on my local but when live it doesn’t.

[mrjarbenne]

Is there a place where I could read how these two worlds are inevitably going to collide? I currently have Group Forums enabled in a BP 1.5.3 with 200+ groups. One of those groups is a Support group, to help with navigation of the community, use, BP, WP (it’s a multisite), etc. which gets lost amidst the other active groups.

I’m tempted to turn on the Sitewide Forum option (separate from groups), but feel like perhaps the two options are really a stop-gap measure until the new bbpress replaces bbpress 1.x for groups. Currently it looks like the sitewide forum (Support) on testbp.org and the Forum Directory (global directory of all of the discussion within all of the public groups) aren’t aware of one another.

I’m patient, should I hold off on enabling Sitewide Forums until bbpress 2.x becomes THE forum functionality at work in BP.

How seamlessly will this migration be, and will it be easier if I just stick with group forums for now.

[testuserfay]

Hi. I am using BBpress to add a community component to my mostly informational site. What I want is for my forums to:

1) be hidden from nonlogged in members;

2) require members to be able to login and check the 1 forum that I assign to them for updates, WITHOUT having access to someone elses forum.

Is this at all possible through an existing plugin or through some code modification?

I am using wp-members for registration/login stuff. That plugin does have the ability to lock access to pages and posts, but currently, I don’t use those features.

I am also using latest BBpress and WordPress software.

Thank you.

[100pwd]

i have done an extensive search on this manner but i have not found anything (so i am hoping its just user error!).

i am using the latest version of bbpress as a plugin with the latest version of wordpress.

I LOVE IT!

however…

i have a privet area (category) in the root of my forum with private forums within. sounds reasonable!

but when i navigate to my forum root, my privet category shows 0 topics and 0 posts (yes i have added topics and posts). even worse, when i click on my privet category, it just says “This category contains 0 topics and 0 replies.” and doesn’t show the forums that live there. (sadface)

even more curious, if a make one of the privet forums with in my privet category, public… then they all show up (both in the root and in the category view)!

this is the case for all roles and accessibility.

can anyone shed some light on what i may be doing wrong?

mike

[Vayu Robins]

I have a similar problem. I cannot view the forums with any user role other than “Administrator”. I even tested with the Memebers plugin and gave the role “forum participant” rights to eveything in WP, more than the Administrator, and stil I cannot see the forum.

http://rebeccapersson.com/klub-sunde-born-forum/

All forums and topics are public and open.

What could be blocking this?

Cheers

Vayu

[Raziel_LOK]

After finding a lot I have not found a solution for showing more than 1 depth sub forums. So I made some coding.

I changed “<?php bbp_list_forums(); ?>” on file loop-single-forum.php to:

<?php

$before = ‘<ul class=”bbp-forums”>’;

$after = ”;

$link_before = ‘<li class=”bbp-forum”>’;

$link_after = ”;

if ($sublist = bbp_forum_get_subforums($forum_id)) {

echo $before;

foreach ( $sublist as $sub_forum ) {

// Get forum details

$permalink = bbp_get_forum_permalink( $sub_forum->ID );

$title = bbp_get_forum_title( $sub_forum->ID );

echo $link_before . ‘‘ . $title . ‘‘ . $link_after;

if ($sublist2 = bbp_forum_get_subforums($sub_forum->ID)) {

echo $before;

foreach ( $sublist2 as $sub_forum ) {

// Get forum details

$permalink2 = bbp_get_forum_permalink( $sub_forum->ID );

$title2 = bbp_get_forum_title( $sub_forum->ID );

// Build this sub forums link

echo $link_before . ‘‘ . $title2 . ‘‘ . $link_after;

}

}

echo $after;

}

}

echo $after;

?>

So my question is, Is there any way to do that little easier ? Or someone who is looking in the same issue and want give a hand to clean up this code.

A example of the struture I’m looking:

TEST

-TEST_CHILD_1

-TEST_CHILD_2

–TEST_CHILD_CH1

–TEST_CHILD_CH2

-TEST_CHILD_3

Any help will be aprecieted. Thank you.

[ArronC]

Hello,

I decided to test out bbPress; unfortunately, I was unable to post a new topic in the first forum I created. I kept on encountering this error each time…

Fatal error: Call to undefined function akismet_get_user_roles() in …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-extend-akismet.php on line 146

Is there any reason this is happening?

[zachshallbetter]

I’m having a problem where Admin is able to see their user information and all forum data but all other accounts are directed to a blank page.

This is the “local” address users get sent to http://pcocs/forums/users/skingsford/

This is where admins are directed. http://pcocs/forums/users/admin/

They have “gform_full_access”

I’m using the latest version of wordpress(3.3.1) and bbpress (2.02). I nuked everything related to bbpress including the db entries. reinstalled, and the same issue is occurring.

Disabled all plugins, and re-activated the plugin. Still unable to access user profile as another user. Able to access profile in dashboard.

Rebuilt the permalinks.

No themes, no plugins, just default data.

Any thoughts on what would cause this to occur?

[bingles]

I found my problem. I had created a forums page in wordpress when I was testing some things. I had trashed it, but not permanently deleted it. Looking in the database, I noticed the entry. Once I permanently deleted it from my pages list, my forums list showed back up.

[psupps]

I’ve also just noticed that if you go to:

http://www.proteinsupps.co.uk/forums/forum/test/

In the breadcrumb trail, there are two instances of ‘Forums’ link.

Really would appreciate help on this!

[John Conners]

Is there anything I need to do to get the aforementioned caching plugins to invalidate topic pages, forum indexes and so forth when a new reply is posted?

I’ve tried both 2.0.2 and the latest bbPress plugin version from svn and as it stands, posting a new reply does not clear the topic page (or any other forum pages) from the cache so you and nobody else sees your replies.

Just wanted to check if it’s currently a bug / feature or I’m missing something obvious!