After creating a new forum “NFL” (as a forum, not a category) and entering a couple test topics via the admin panel it displayed on the forum index (archive) correctly and correctly showed that the forum contained 2 topics. From the admin account and a public account I could read those topics on the front-end just fine. However, from a non-admin account the single forum index (forums/forum/nfl) displayed the notice that there are no topics yet. When I created a topic from the front-end form as a non-admin it would take me to a 404.
I’ve read about the need to resave the Forum Settings page at different stages so I tried that but it made no difference. I also tried renaming the slug to nfll but it didn’t fix things either.
I’ve since deleted the forum and recreated it which took care of the problem but I’m wondering if there is an issue that comes up when Topics are added to a forum from the admin (or maybe the first Topic of a forum?), or if something else triggered the problem.
Anyone else familiar with this?
My bad, I thought he was asking about displaying topics, should have read it better. I’ve done that part as well, although it is not as straightforward an answer.
No, he actually wants to have threaded forum table so that the recent topic of the subforums is displayed too, instead of just topic and reply count in parenthesis. Am I right?
Sorry, I meant change your entire website theme to twentyten and test. I would also suggest disabling all other plugins.
If that fixes the problem then I would reactivate plugins one at a time and see when the problem comes back. If it doesn’t then activate your current theme and see if the problem comes back. If the problem comes back, then you know if it is your theme or a plugin that is causing the problem.
Actually it was quite easy to do:
Modify archive forum:
<div id="forum-front" class="bbp-forum-front">
<div class="entry-content">
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-forum' ); ?>
<br><br>
<h3>Recent Topics:</h3>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-topic' ); ?>
</div>
</div><!-- #forum-front -->
Notice I am simply calling the content-archive-topic template.
**Obviously there is more to it than simply modding a core file which is not good. I am going to assume that you are using a custom theme/child-theme and modifying the templates from there.
The latest versions now have admin settings in the dashboard that allow the admin to create additional whitelists of supported tags. It also detects Viper’s Video Quicktags and allows all those tags to be added to the whitelist via a single checkbox.
I’ve implemented a means by which other shortcode plugin developers can make their plugins get automatically detected by the whitelist, declaring which safe shortcodes they support, and giving them the same single checkbox ‘add to whitelist’ functionality that I’ve currently done with my bbPress BBCode plugin and Viper’s Video Quicktags.
You would actually need to modify theme files, particularly the forum loop and CSS files to do that. It involves a bit of time and no one has tried to do it yet. I’ll see to it when I get time. 
Thanks for the reply.
This isn’t just happening on my setup though, it’s happening over at http://www.testbp.org too.
If you get an account, sign in and favourite any topic, then click on favourites… it won’t show any topics or anything.
Same happens if you reply to or start a new forum topic. this doesn’t show up in the BP profile tab which is labelled ‘Forums’ in your profile.
I’m guessing it should, but no such luck so far.
Anyone using this with Buddypress and have a similar experience?
I know this sounds basic guys, but adding a topic to favourites doesn’t seem to do much on my install.
It adds it okay, but when you then click on the resulting link which changes to ‘favourites’ it just takes me to my BP profile.
The favourite doesn’t appear under the ‘favourites’ tab in my profile or under the ‘forums’ tab in my profile.
What is supposed to happen and what is the forums tab on my profile supposed to show?
This is happening over on testbp.org too?
Surely these tabs should be populated by my topics started and favourite topics?
Cheers guys!
Ross
Well I can confirm that the latest and compatible versions of both these plugins are now definitely available on wordpress.org
I’ve set up a test forum with pretty much just these two plugins active and you can see the results here:
http://bbpressbbcode.chantech.org/forums/topic/testing-shortcode-whitelist/
Dears,
Is it possible to show the the latest topic title in a sub forum on the frontpage? See image below for example:
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2676/schermafbeelding2011101v.png
This is normally with every forum software and i can’t get this to work.
If been looking for this a couple of weeks now on this forum and Google but with no results.
Can anyone please help?
Thanks in advance!
Bump & Update
I’ve looked into the possibility a plugin is causing this, disabled one by one, testing after each is disabled, no change.
I’ve also tested removing all custom functions with no change.
I would really appreciate some help with this, it has really been annoying me, I can’t figure it out.
Thanks.
A new host! That seems like a rediculous constraint.
BTW, with bbPress 2.0 plugin (site wide bbPress), it does not use a separate DB or separate tables. It uses custom WP Posts inside the WP dB.
As far as I can tell, BuddyPress does not use bbPress 2.0 plugin for group forums, instead, it uses an internal version of bbPress 1.x. It also uses separate dB tables.
If you are using bp 1.5 with group forums, you should have a set of db tables with the prefix that includes bb_. You should also have a file called bb-config.php
The file bb-config.php has settings for the bbPress (1.x) database name, user, and password, and table prefix. I’ve not tested this but conceivably you could create a separate db for your bbpress tables and modify the config file accordingly.
It does not appear that the buddypress tables themselves are so easily separable.
I would strongly recommend that you not try separating the databases until you have successfully done it in a test environment. Also, as always, do a site and dB backup before you do anything just in case.
joe
Travis,
Thank you for responding to my earlier question eventhough it’s a mute point now since I am beta testing another forum plugin.
Our team needs a simple forum that can be plugged right into a full-width page. The template we are using was built with that in mind.
The only problem we found with BBPress was it’s lack of one shortcode for the entire plugin. Why implement short-codes for bits and pieces of a software package and not the whole?
We implemented BBPress into a full-width page. Looked good until we clicked on any link inside the forum. When it was redrawn, it would leave the full-width page and revert back to a normal width page with sidebar widgets being displayed.
Modifying our template to fit a plugin is out of the question. Our template works with every other plugin we have installed and should not have to be modified to make a plug-in work. The plugin should work, regardless. If we start modifying a template everytime we load a plugin, we would be in trouble.
In other words, you need a short-code for the entire forum, not section.
We are currently beta-testing simplepress which uses one shortcode for the entire plugin.
BBPress has a lot of potential but doesn’t quite meet the requirements for a seamless forum plugin.
-Mark
Hey Andrew,
I took a look at bbPress Post Toolbar but it seemed to add bbcodes either by hand or by clicking a button. With “normal” wordpress, and inside the buddypress group forums, if you just enter the url as text, with no added adornment, it just shows up as embedded video. I believe the same is true for image urls but haven’t tested recently.
Also, I’m confused. On both the WPplugin directory as well as the master501 website, it shows the latest version as being back in August, not today???
Thanks,
joe
OK, after a bit of testing this seems to work in my site-wide bbPress 2.0 forum but it does not seem to work in the bbPress froums embedded in budddyPress 1.5 groups.
to get the groups to show the editor I tried several different element identifiers including #topic_text which is the ID for the text entry area for new posts… no joy!
Any ideas as to what could be causing the difference in behavior would be greatly appreciated!!!
joe
Joe thank you so much for your info pasted above to help assist people. I just want to let everyone know I have a new version 1.2 coming out probably tomorrow which will speed up everything IF your mysql account for WP has access to add tables. It will also fix issues with non UTF8 WP tables. Also fixes cleaning to be faster.
Now onto smf my advise is to look at invision and other examples in the convert folder that showing the tags grab which uses the join tables code.
If you give me the two names OR dump me a database for SMF I can do the convert file or tell you what to put within minutes. These convert files I can create within 30min. It is the testing that is more time consuming. Once I release the next update I will start creating more convert files. Sorry again for the delays. I am ALWAYS available on skype and other messengers for immediate help.
I believe I may have found a solution to this problem… Woot!
1) install the wordpress plugin CLEditor
2) on line 25 of cle_wp.php change the line to read:
$(“#new-post textarea”).cleditor();
3) test, test, test, test, test.
this seems to be working on my test server but I’ve only given it a few minutes trial. I’ve tried it using bbpress standalone alongside buddypress, not in one of the group forums (yet).
joe
mjpg, thanks for writing up the ticket and for the plugin info. i added “read_hidden_forums” only to forum participant capabilities and now a test user forum participant can see a hidden forum in the forum index, but still can’t read it.
andre, thanks for the info. that makes sense to me wrt to user roles, groups and forums. guess you are right: need jjj to say whether bug or feature and if feature, how to properly configure and use.
I’ve figured out how to change the bread crumb separator:
<br /><br />
// Change bbPress bread crumb separator.
function filter_bbPress_breadcrumb_separator() {
//$sep = ' » ';
$sep = is_rtl() ? __( ' « ', 'bbpress' ) : __( ' » ', 'bbpress' );
return $sep;
}
add_filter('bbp_breadcrumb_separator', 'filter_bbPress_breadcrumb_separator');
I have not yet figured out how to add “You are here: ” at the start of the bread crumbs:
I’ve tried this…
<br /><br />
function my_breadcrumb_trail_args( $trail ) {<br /><br />
$args = '<div class="bbp-breadcrumb"><p>You are here: ';<br /><br />
return $args;<br /><br />
};<br /><br />
add_filter( 'breadcrumb_trail_args', 'my_breadcrumb_trail_args' );<br /><br />
…and this…
<br /><br />
function test($defaults) {<br /><br />
$defaults = array(<br /><br />
'before' => '<div class="bbp-breadcrumb"><p>You are here: ',<br /><br />
);<br /><br />
return $defaults;<br /><br />
}<br /><br />
add_filter('bbp_breadcrumb','test_args');<br /><br />
Neither work.
For now I’ve taken the hacky approach and just edited my bbPress files directly. You can see it in action here: http://www.directsponsor.org/forums/
Any assistance with the filter would be greatly appreciated.
[WORK-AROUND]
I used the WP plugin ‘User Role Editor’ (WP not bbp plugin)
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/
to add some capabilities to the ‘forum participant’ role.
These seem to be the extra capabilities required:
[v] read_hidden_forums
[v] read_private_forums
[v] read_private_replies
[v] read_private_topics
If set up without the ‘read_hidden_forums’ capability, forums are visible, but not topics. I don’t know if this is real or because I have been switching the hidden/private setting for the forum during testing.
I have done some basic testing and access/posting/replies/create topic/uploads/subscribe all seem to work OK.
I guess this could be done simply via some code in functions.php, but I don’t have the time to investigate.
I’ve found a list of hooks and filters for bbPress at:
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-core-hooks.php
I’ve also found the bbPress bread crumb function(s) at:
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-common-template.php
By combining code from the two, I’ve attempted adding a filter but it’s being ignored:
function test_args($args) {
$args = array(
'sep' => ' x ',
);
return $args;
}
add_filter('bbp_title','test_args');
< a class=”bbp-forum-title” href=”<?php bbp_topic_permalink(); ?>” title=”<?php bbp_topic_title(); ?>”><?php bbp_topic_title(); ?><?php if ( $show_date == ‘on’ ) _e( ‘af <strongBrugernavn/strong> for ‘ . bbp_get_topic_last_active_time() . ‘ siden
‘ ); ?>
Hi,
I’m not very good at this, but I somehow managed to create a decent forum (mainly thanks to a super plugin!).
But there is just one thing I can’t figure out: How can I show the latest author from a topic on the front page?
Right now it looks like this:
” title=”<?php bbp_topic_title(); ?>”><?php bbp_topic_title(); ?>
<?php if ( $show_date == ‘on’ ) _e( ‘af Brugernavn for ‘ . bbp_get_topic_last_active_time() . ‘ siden
‘ ); ?>
I want the author of the lastest post instead of “Brugernavn” – but how?
