[EastDevonAlliance]

I deactivated all bbpress related plugins except bbpress itself, and the problem remains. IN the back end I have one topic in one forum, in the front end it says:

“This forum contains 1 topic, and was last updated by East Devon Alliance 4 days, 23 hours ago.

Oh bother! No topics were found here.”

Given the number of other plugins which are essential to my site and cannot be deactivated, I am not sure how to proceed now.

[Food Research Collaboration]

Hi there,

I updated to the latest bbPress today and now Participant users are not able to edit their own posts and replies anymore (the Edit option doesn’t appear next to the posts). All other roles seem to be doing fine. I’ve tried deactivating all plugins and switching to the Twenty Fifteen theme but the problem persists, so it does seem to have been caused by the update. I’m running WordPress 4.1.1.
This is the website:

Home test

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

[awpt]

Hi,
I have wordpress 4.1.1 installed and bbpress forum was working fine until I updated wordpress and bbpress.

So in admin Area I dont have more the tabs forum or replies, I have nothing as tools > forum etc

The forums are there in the frontend but I cant post and I get instead this messagge:
ERROR: You do not have permission to reply.

Before posting this topic I saw all forum duscussions about this issue I tried everything.
I created another user and I installed bbPress Advanced Capabilities
With the new keymaster created I posted one time but it doesnt work more 🙂

Im confused because I cant understand where can be the problem.

ohh before I forget I installed also a plugin called bbpress wp4 fix wich I found here in a forum reply.

Anyway I exported xml files for topics , replies etc and went to phpmyadmin to remove all data in database about bbpress for a new installation but I cant see any bbpress table there.

How can be possible ? if anyone got the same issue and knows what to do please but please tell me what to do.
Thanks!

[Robin W]

I would start with

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

this will give you private forums per group, so you can have a user allocated to a group, and a forum allocated to a group. so you would just have a different group for each user, and just one forum allocated to that group.

Then on registration, you would need to

create a forum
create a private group – probably using the $user_id, so that it is unique
Allocate the private group to the forum
Allocate the private group to the user

you’d use an add_action to user_register to do the above, the example below comes from

https://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Registration_Form, but you can in effect get wordpress to do anything when the user hits the submit key

 //3. Finally, save our extra registration user meta.
    add_action( 'user_register', 'myplugin_user_register' );
    function myplugin_user_register( $user_id ) {
        if ( ! empty( $_POST['first_name'] ) ) {
            update_user_meta( $user_id, 'first_name', trim( $_POST['first_name'] ) );
        }
    }

so you would need to look at putting code into that function :
create forum – what’s updated in the database when you create a forum – start with bbpress\includes\forums\functions.php and look at what function bbp_new_forum does, you’ll probably need to write a version for the above function.

create a private group (for that one see the private groups plugin includes/settings.php and look at the group settings – and for info $rpg_groups = get_option ( ‘rpg_groups’) 😉
allocate private group to forum – (for that one see the private groups plugin includes/meta-box.php and look at $meta = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘_private_group’, false );
allocate the user to the group – see includes/user-view_post.php it’s looked up using $check=get_user_meta( $user_id, ‘private_group’,true);

Since I’ve now written so much, I am expecting in the spirit of community software, you to share the solution when you get it going, and post the result back here !

[jtstables]

I received an email from my host stating that WordPress had been updated to 4.1.1. Now even though people are logged into my site the forum tells them that to reply to this topic you must be logged in. The system even tells me this as adimn. So I tried I logged out then back in to make sure that would not fix the problem. It didn’t, the forum still tells me that I must be logged in to reply to this topic even though I am logged in. Forum worked great before 4.1.1 installed.

[jtstables]

OK, having a new problem. I received an email stating that WordPress had been updated to 4.1.1. Now even though people are logged into my site the forum tells them that to reply to this topic you must be logged in. The system even tells me this as adimn. So I tried I logged out then back in to make sure that would not fix the problem. It didn’t, the forum still tells me that I must be logged in to reply to this topic even though I am logged in

[mw360]

First, that did the job – and many thanks. It does worry me a bit though, that if this is the end-all solution then we’re left relying on a small one-man plugin that may or may not get updated with the next release 🙁 …. I guess we’ll need to keep an eye on this but at least it’s a fix for now…

Thanks again

[Robin W]

ok, do keep us updated on your progress, I am interested to see how it turns out, hope it’s you:1 the technology:0 !

[ryanlovestheory]

Hello,
I need help like something fierce.

I have installed the bbpress plugin and ensured that both the plugin and wordpress are both running the most updated versions.

The issue I am having is that registered users can not login on the front end of my wordpress site. The login widget looks like it functions properly, however, when users login with their credentials, it never actually logs them in on the front end. Please help me.

[kc9wwh]

And the fun part is I can get into the topic level…but can’t see any posts and/or replies…

Welcome! › Forums › Introductions

Subscribe
This forum contains 1 topic, and was last updated by Profile photo of KC9WWH KC9WWH 2 weeks, 3 days ago.

Oh bother! No topics were found here!

[Deleyna]

I *think* I’m going about this the right way — but I may not be, so any advice will be appreciated.

I’ve moved a long-standing forum group onto bbpress. We’re loving it, but members have asked me to make it work more like our old program. I’ve seen a lot of chatter about view-unread elsewhere. I’m using the plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-unread-posts/ — that hasn’t been updated in forever, but works nicely and gives us what we are used to. It creates a meta-key for each topic, each user: bbpress_unread_posts_last_visit_$user-id with the associated value being the unix timestamp.

Combined with the plugin to go to the first unread post, this works. I’ve also created buttons where the user can reset that meta-key to mark forums as read / unread.

Now I want a custom view, “Unread View”, that will look for topics where
_bbp_last_active_time > bbpress_unread_posts_last_visit_$user-id

Since $user-id is dynamic, I’m thinking that I can’t just specify the view in the functions.php file and be happy.

What I’ve done:
added:
—–
// adding custom view for unread
function my_custom_views_init() {
$args = array ();
bbp_register_view( ‘unread-view’, __( ‘Unread View’ ), array( $args ), false );
}
add_action( ‘bbp_register_views’, ‘my_custom_views_init’ );
—–
to my functions.php file.

created
unread-view.php based on loop-topics.php with the logic to test if
_bbp_last_active_time > bbpress_unread_posts_last_visit_$user-id
and only show the topic if it is… (I’m not sure if I have the logic right yet, or if this is even the right loop to put the test…)

Added a page with the short code
[bbp-single-view id="unread-view"]

But there’s clearly a link missing. I need something to tell the system that I want to use my unread-view.php instead of loop-topics.php for “unread-view” ONLY.

And I’m not sure how to do that. I’m clearly missing more than a little bit of the logic here. My programming skills are pretty basic, so any help you can give me would be appreciated.

[jtstables]

Ok. Made the changes but now the topics won’t come up. The only thing is shows in the forum a box that says, “This forum contains 3 topics, and was last updated by admin 13 seconds ago”. But I can’t see the 3 topics that I created.

[jarrod1975]

Stephen, I too am getting errors while trying to import my phpbb forum into bbpress. I updated phpbb this morning to most recent version, no mods (v. 3.1.2). I just installed bbpress today in my WordPress site.

When I use the import tab under Tools > Forums, I enter my info, and here’s what I get:

*******************
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘forums.forum_topics’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(forums.forum_id USING “utf8”) AS forum_id,convert(forums.parent_id USING “utf8”) AS parent_id,convert(forums.forum_topics USING “utf8”) AS forum_topics,convert(forums.forum_posts USING “utf8”) AS forum_posts,convert(forums.forum_topics_real USING “utf8”) AS forum_topics_real,convert(forums.forum_name USING “utf8”) AS forum_name,convert(forums.forum_desc USING “utf8”) AS forum_desc,convert(forums.left_id USING “utf8”) AS left_id,convert(forums.forum_type USING “utf8”) AS forum_type,convert(forums.forum_status USING “utf8”) AS forum_status FROM phpbb_forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100
*******************

Please help, thanks!

[raytronx]

It looks like my issue with the BCCs is being caused by the wpMandrill plugin I use to send emails through the Mandrill service

The Mandrill API previously couldn’t deal with BCC emails, it has been updated but it’s WP plugin hasn’t.
I tried this code offered by a user but it ended up sending two emails. One with no BCCs showing and one with the same BCCs showing problem. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-contribute-fixed-bcc

[Robin W]

ok, gentle response !!

your forum is sitting within a class of .entry-content which is set to max-width: 474px;

so you need to add

.entry-content {
  max-width: 100% !important;
}

to your theme style.css at the end

Strictly speaking you should add this to a child theme

Functions files and child themes – explained !

but if you add it to your main theme, juts keep a note of it, as you will need to re-add it should your theme be updated

Come back if anything not clear, and I’ll help further !

[apexpredator]

We are evaluating bbPress and I was hoping to get some help on validating if WordPress and bbPress can achieve what we are looking for. We are looking to have the following functionality:

1. One WordPress instillation that links to several bbPress forums. So when a user registers at the main WordPress website, they have instant access to all bbPress installations on our other websites via multisite.

2. I wanted to make sure when we add new bbPress forums, all of the main websites resisted users have instant access to the new forum.

3. We would also like any user that signs up for a class to have access to a special locked section of the related bbPress forum. I am not sure if bbPress has a locking or restricted section option.

4. I noticed it recognized my WordPress.org login information, but my Forum Topics Started from that site do not show up in my profile. Is this a limitation or something that may be available in the future?

5. I see the last release was June 6, 2014. IS bbPress rarely updated?

Any assistance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[TSW]

Hi Robin,

We have just started using the plugin you provided and we are having an issue with the topics and replies that I am hoping you can shed some light on.

We see a list of topics. When we lick on a topic, what we see is the title of the topic but not the body. See below for what I hope is a clear explanation. The text entered for the topic of “What is Next” does not appear.

Any thoughts? We switched to the Twenty-Twelve theme to see if it was a theme issue however we get the same display.

SLP Home Page › Forums › 21CL – Group A › What is Next

This topic contains 0 replies, has 1 voice, and was last updated by WPQueen 3 weeks, 3 days ago.

Reply To: What is Next

[Robin W]

as far as I know it is a minimum of four

see

https://wordpress.org/plugins/network-username-restrictions-override/

Whilst this hasn’t been updated it probably still works !

Otherwise this is a wordpress thing rather than bbpress, so post in

Support Forums

[geeorgegeorge]

And when I click into a topic directly, still no detail content show on the page, but with the line bwloe.
–
This topic contains 0 replies, has 1 voice, and was last updated by george 2 hours, 31 minutes ago.
–
I have checked the backend, all the topics are not in hidden mode.

Thanks,

[geeorgegeorge]

Hi, Sorry that I post my question here as I can’t find the button to create my topic.
My question is very similar to this one. In all my forum, no topic shows, but with the 2 lines.
–
This forum contains 1 topic, and was last updated by george 2 hours, 5 minutes ago.
Oh bother! No topics were found here!
–
I use wp4.1 and bbpress 2.54 . Previously before I upgrade to 4.1, It works alright!

george

[jsantana]

Hi there, thanks for the code, I haven’t tested it but the installation went smoothly and now I have it active in the plugins section.

But this isn’t what I’m looking for specifically. What I would like is to have it close after X amount of days even if it has been updated. This code just do it but after it hasn’t been any replies, right?

Thanks for taking time in answering, really appreciate it.

[Robin W]

no problem

copy this code into a new notepad/notepad++ page

<?php 

/*
Plugin Name: BBPress Close Old Posts
Description: Close BBPress 2.0+ posts that haven't been updated in X days. 
Author: Raygun
Version: 0.1
Author URI: http://madebyraygun.com

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/ 

register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'bbpress_topic_scheduler');

add_action('bbpress_daily_event', 'bbpress_close_old_topics');

function bbpress_topic_scheduler() {
 wp_schedule_event(time(), 'daily', 'bbpress_daily_event');
}

function bbpress_close_old_topics() {
	// Auto close old topics
	$topics_query = array(
		'author' => 0,
		'show_stickies' => false,
		'parent_forum' => 'any',
		'post_status' => 'publish',
		'posts_per_page' => -1
	);
	if ( bbp_has_topics( $topics_query ) )
		while( bbp_topics() ) {
			bbp_the_topic();
			$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
			$last_active = strtotime( get_post_meta( $topic_id, '_bbp_last_active_time', true ) );
			if ($last_active < strtotime( '-10 days') )
				bbp_close_topic( $topic_id );
		}
}
?>

Change the -10 days right near the bottom to whatever number you want

Save this file as ‘close_old_topics.php’

Compress/zip this file, so you have a zipped version.

then in worpress go to

Dashboard>plugins>add new and click ‘upload’ and then upload the zipped file you saved above, and then activate.

Come back if you have any issues, the code is not mine and I have not tested it, but others have used.

[ttmt]

Hi Robin

I haven’t used your new beta version but the errors seemed to have cleared now.

Do you think it’s best to use your updated beta version anyway ?

[Robkk]

@editor-mike

you can try it , if it doesnt work deactivate it/uninstall it.

if it doesnt work then you might need some custom development

post a job at http://wordpress.net

mention that plugin though say that you just need an updated/customized to all your needs version of that plugin.

[Robin W]

Like many plugins the documentation is not great, and as a humble user I have added to it as I have learnt, a good deal of the documentation is mine.

bbpress is a complex plugin, and I sympathise that it is not great to grasp.

With templates, all functions are written to allow you to filter what is there, this is a standard wordpress/php process, so you’re sort of expected to know about it as part of wordpress! I did try to explain it in

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 5

you can filter many bbpress functions using ‘parse args’ capability – a standard wordpress technique or just filter the whole function, you’ll see a return apply_filters in all template functions and this is the hook that you use.

so for you you could us the code in your other post

Display the last topic updated in the forums loop

If you’d like to help with documentation, just find where something is poor and write what you think it needs changing to, it is newcomers like you that can really help improve what is there