[dailycdev]

When I create Testimonial Pages on my site, I am not getting the expected results.
I do see my forum page and it looks good.

Forum

However, clicking on any of my forum pages, I get a title and a summary with a Continue Reading button.
Clicking the title or Continue reading brings me to the same page.
I am expecting the page to open, where users can write testimonials and such and post them.
Anyhow, this is not happening and screenshots of my issues are below…
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtzxGqXDzsbBiLcoDclhspyQlmV7Yw

Let me know what I need to do to fix this.
Also, if my theme is not compatible, please let me know.
-Paul

[Robin W]

for

[bbp-subscribe-link forum_id=’557′]

this code (untested) should be close

function bp_subscribe_shortcode($attr) {	
//must have a forum_id or we just return !
  if (empty( $attr['forum_id'])) return	;
  else $args['forum_id'] = $attr['forum_id'];
  echo bbp_forum_subscription_link($args) ;
} 

add_shortcode( 'bbp-subscribe-link', 'bp_subscribe_shortcode' );

[Robin W]

ok, I think you will need to do some more testing

so it could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Robin W]

dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>group name settings
set up a user group called whatever you like
set up a moderator group called whatever you like

dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>assign groups to roles
click add group on first or no group login
assign subscribers to the user group

dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>topic permissions
click to activate

dashboard>forums>edit forum
in each forum you want to show this, add the user and moderator groups and then save. You will then see topic permissions and can make users only be able to create/edit/view own topics

Then TEST to ensure it does what you want

[tapiohuuhaa]

Last time I tested pasting url it converted as clickable link. That is then partially ok.

[tapiohuuhaa]

Well this works better than by adding some extra function to the functions.php

The problem was that pasting text add unwanted HTML:

Suomen Kuvalehti 50/2018

I tested using this plugin. I didn’t get unwanted HTML. so in his plugin this issue has been solved.

But I would like to get transforming http://… into format, which has been used in my previous post. Can that be achieved with this plugin?

[phil1ooo]

Hello
New to bbpress “to be honest I have always used wpForo” and I am finding it to be far far easier than this bbpress option and a much cleaner appearance, where I would of had wpForo up and running in less than 30 minutes, I have been working on this bbPress for 2 days now and still now where near making it usable to frontend members”

But here I am giving you guys the benefit of the dout as my current needs require something a little different.
My issue not displaying the profile page as that is childs play to do but to get the /user page edited so that it all properly aligns https://support.ozy.net.au/support-forums/users/dummy/

Now click on this link https://support.ozy.net.au/support-forum/ to login.
I have created a dummy account that I will leave active for a few days giving you change to have a look
UN – dummy@yours.com
PW – 1dummytest1

I understand/know these are widgets but my issue is not being able to access this USERS page to make any changes and i can’t seem to find it anywhere in the system or cPanel file system.

I also have the same issue with another plugin but just can’t find it right now.
This “bbp Topic Count” plugin also doesn’t work as no shortcodes displayed here actually work
Thi scan be seen here https://support.ozy.net.au/top-users/ at it should appear above the profile you see there “considering you do see that profile from your end that is”

Having said this I have spent the last 2 days looking online at options and ways around all these things but most of what you find is so outdated and the rest in most part doesn’t work.

I am creating this for a network which means just setting it up is a big job without the hassles this plugin is giving me and the last thing I need is constant maybe’s and what if’s so either this plugin works or it doesn’t. Not trying to be rube just very direct in my needs.

Hope you can help.
Cheers

[Robin W]

latest BBPress – do you mean 2.5.14?

[spaceman_qc]

I have the latest WordPress (5.0.2) and latest BBPress. I enabled the visual editor with the bbPress tweak plugin and then every time I tried to edit a reply it will not let me submit it again. The page would just like reload and my text was gone. No error in the console but saw thing flashed there.

But if I login, logout, return to bbPress and uses the text editor and kept the visual editor in the back, everything worked ok. So I disabled it and since then no more bugs.

Is there other WYSIWYG editor that I can use? Is there something I can do to make it work correctly?

[Robin W]

ok, that is quite ambitious, so well done for getting so far.

As I think you are doing, you should only change files in the templates and then only by copying them to a bbpress folder in your child theme. The originals can (and should) stay in the bbpress plugin file. bbpress will see your files in the child theme and use them instead.

to move the topic content – the word ‘test’ in your example

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-content, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content {
	margin-left: 0px !important;
}

[Robin W]

not sure why that would be – bbp_get_forum_title just does a check and then executes get_the_title

the full function is

function bbp_get_forum_title( $forum_id = 0 ) {
		$forum_id = bbp_get_forum_id( $forum_id );
		$title    = get_the_title( $forum_id );

		return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_forum_title', $title, $forum_id );
	}

It seems to work fine on my test site.

Is there a particular circumstance or is it consistently wrong on your site?

[Robin W]

I cannot replicate that on my test site, and from its positioning I suspect it is theme related rather than bbpress as it seems to be within after an <article> div that bbpress doesn’t use, and I cannot find ‘comments-area’ anywhere in the bbpress plugin.

If you want to prove that, switch to a default theme and check that it disappears.

[rgilman]

Apologies for the delay in reporting back. I was able to modify the (style pack) latest activity widget to meet my needs. Thank you!

Along the way I found what may be a bug. On line 255, bbp_get_forum_title($forum) gets the topic title but get_the_title($forum) gets the forum title.

[conte001]

Hey,

I use the Woffice theme with bbpress forum. The widgets for latest topics and replys have two hover effects.

1. Underlining of the link
2. Moving the link a few pixels to the right.

I want to remove the second one as it cause the link to sometimes jump around like crazy.

Any ideas how I can do that?

[tekgazet]

I want to limit the number of characters in the Topic Content Text Area in bbPress to a maximum limit (of say 500 characters). How can I do it?

I tried to do it by using the maxlength attribute of textarea (bbp_topic_content) in the stylesheet file, but this attribute is not working (may perhaps be because this attribute was included in HTML5 version only). However, if I use this in Developer Tools in Chrome while inspecting the text area for Topic Content, it works fine; but that is only for testing and I am not able to make a permanent change by editing the source file or through any plugin.

Other two methods could be javascript to check on local machine the number of characters being entered, but I understand that this can easily be cheated by disabling javascript. Moreover, I am not fully sure how to do it.

Third method could be to use for action or filter hook. Can you please suggest me which hook to be used and sample code, if any?

Thanks in advance.

[wpturk]

@robin-w , No, I realised this as my forum was already 2.6. I was wondering why users don’t answer the topics. After testing I saw that all subscriptions are gone, since I update tags of all topics.

[mrwassen]

One quick follow-up:

I just realized there is an checkbox option for a user to subscribe to replies to an individual topic. I tested this and also in this case no reply email notification was received, so just to summarize the issues:

1) user1 subscribed to a forum – user2 posts a new topic:
new topic notification is sent out to user1 (good)

2) user1 subscribed to a forum and user2 replies to a topic in that forum:
reply notification not sent out to user1 (maybe good if 3 worked)

3) user1 subscribed to a topic (checkbox) and reply posted by user2:
reply notification email not sent out to user1 (not good)

Thanks

Dennis

[Gregg]

Resolved!

Grab a cup of coffee and a seat and I’ll tell you the story of how you might be able fix this. It may take several hours so be prepared…

Situation I was in:
Older version of phpBB 3.1v and wanting to port all topics, replies, and users to bbPress (latest version at the time). A handful of issues existed that were causing more trouble than they were worth. Host of the old site is GoDaddy. The new site is on WP Engine.

Forum Stats (approx)
Users: 2200
Topics: 7800
Replies: 22500

Outcome:
Successfully ported all topics, replies, and users to bbPress.

Updated phpBB
REMOVE ALL MODS, STYLES, anything that’s not a part of the out-of-the-box install. Then follow the upgrade instructions. Make backups (I kept a copy of the existing site on my local machine and duplicate database on the host). I found these instructions most helpful: https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3.2/ug/upgradeguide/upgrade31/

The Issues
There were two issues I ran into (in different flavors but it turns out they just stemmed from these two). 1st – utf8 formatting and 2nd missing fields. These issues are with the import and NOT the upgrade for phpBB. I was able to resolve those issues by making sure I followed the instructions on that link to the letter.

The first error (I don’t remember the exact error string but it was either utf8mb4 or just utf8 but it simply means the database holds the data in an older format. The solution is to export the date from the database then create a new database and restore the data into it. By creating the new database the fields will use the proper format and when the restoration is complete this issue should be resolved.

The second error was a little more mysterious – as in I’m not sure why it happened but essentially the import routine is looking for fields that don’t exist in the phpBB install even after I successfully updated it. The solution was to create the fields needed. How?

How to create the fields to get rid of the missing field errors
Note I created a copy of the functioning database on my phpBB install so I could screw it up and not hurt the functioning website. So here’s an example.

The error I got basically said the script couldn’t find “users.user_from” in the database I was trying to import from. That’s not an exact quote but the gist. So I edited the copy of my database and added the missing field (user_from) to the table it was looking for it in (users) using datatype VARCHAR and length of 255 (all else was left to default). I had to do this about a dozen times between the users, topics, and forums tables.

I should note I imported all of my users as well. I had to try this whole process several times. I’ve spent 40+ hours trying to figure this all out (I’m not that familiar with phpBB or bbPress) but the actual process once I figured out the issues – took about 6 hours – mostly waiting for the script to process the data. If your import bombs – read the error and look carefully at what it’s looking for or doesn’t like. Most likely it’s looking for something that’s not there.

I was worried that the connections between topics and replies and users would somehow be messed up. But in the end, it looks like it all came out fine. I’m pretty sure I’ll find something amiss – that’s my cynical side but maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Good luck!

[engin1984]

<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if IE 7]>
<html class="ie ie7" lang="en-US" prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]>
<html class="ie ie8" lang="en-US" prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if !(IE 7) | !(IE 8)  ]><!-->
<html lang="en-US" prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#">
<!--<![endif]-->

testing some code…
edit: YEP! Code tag is working .

[Robin W]

I’m just a user who helps out here, and I haven’t tested it. Most authorities (eg Yoast, Wordfence) recommend holding off on 5.0 until 5.1 with bug fixes probably around January is likely to be released.

I’ll do my test site then

[Foliferous]

Hi people,

look here.

I noticed that’s there one space in front of “Admin” here:

This forum contains 2 topics and 2 replies, and was last updated by Admin 9 hours, 17 minutes ago.

You can also see it on the right hand side under “Latest forum posts”.

Best regards.

[Robin W]

I am author of the style pack plugin, and 4.0.3 shouldn’t have anything that would affect your site, but please as a test, deactivate it and check that it is not causing any issue, you will not lose any settings, and as soon as you have looked you can re-enable it.

Then come back

[Wasca]

I should also not that this is only happening in Chrome not Firefox. I’m seeing this in the console. (sanitized)

Uncaught DOMException: Failed to read the 'cssRules' property from 'CSSStyleSheet': Cannot access rules
    at et_core_page_resource_fallback (https://mydomain.com/topic/test-video/embed/:12:160)
    at HTMLLinkElement.onload (https://mydomain.com/topic/test-video/embed/#?secret=HEI33yuPgo:158:289)
et_core_page_resource_fallback @ (index):12
onload @ VM2025 :158

[Wasca]

Testing a link back to this thread.

Only Allow YouTube and Vimeo oEmbeds

On my forum, this would have rendered the post here and not just created the heading.

[Robin W]

you should have version 2.5.14 which is the latest authorised release.

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