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Hi,

I just restored a very old bbpress 1.x install to use bbpress 2.0 plugin, and it worked great! Thanks so much.

There are a few issues though, that I could use help with. Here they are:

1. I’m getting a ton of spam. Some of these get caught by akizmet, but most get through, and there’s no way to do a “rescan for spam” thing like there is in wordpress comments. Is there any way to clean this up, to reduce the spam (I’ll continue to troll the forums to find solutions, but I’m not sure how most of the suggestions there work, until I know how registration and new topics work)?
2. If not logged in, I can’t see any way to post to the forum, or any register links in the forum area. Is a setting for this (I have it set at defaults, only registered users can post, and anyone can register), or do I have to add theme support? (I’m using 2011.)
3. Does registration go through normal WP reg process? I can’t find it from the forums, but the spam bots sure can!
4. there is no preview button – here or in my forum – I hope the formatting I put in here works!

On an unrelated note, I couldn’t get my old account to work here on bbpress.org (CaptainN) – When I try to log in it says my username doesn’t exist. But I can’t register with either my old username, or old email – they both exist! Also, when I start the reset password process, I get the link to click, but when I click on it, it says I can’t change my password.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Kevin N.

This is a fresh install of the bbpress plugin on a WP 3.2.1 multi-site. The Author role cannot see either the list of topics in the sidebar widget, or the topics themselves. All forums and topics are public.

An Author can see the forums list, access forums and sub-forums, but clicking a forum with topics will yield a page indicating the number of topics and then:

Oh bother! No topics were found here!

The Administrator confirms the topics are there. I’ve even globally edited all forums and topics and set status to public.

Have used the User Role Editor to add privileges to Authors to read and edit edit all posts and forums.

I had installed the User Access Manager to try to give protection to pages and posts but have uninstalled it. I fear something may be a leftover protection.

Looking at the database at one of the entries, the Post Status is “inherit” versus “publish” — is that an issue?

I’m stuck. New at this, but fairly conversant with WP basics. Help!

gil

Hello,

Does anyone know if there is an easy way to export a forum (all topics, replies and users if necessary) and import it into another bbPress site – essentially move the forum to another site?

I am using the letest version of bbPress plugin on both sites.

Thanks in advance for any help…

I am trying to get one forum to show up on a separate page than the normal forum index. I know the shortcode is but I do not know where to find the forum_ID at and I have tried everything I can think of to get it to work. I believe this question was asked in the Sticky Shortcodes topic at the top of the page but it wasn’t answered, just linked to another page that had the same information as the topic post with no examples or explanation. Thank you in advance.

jake

Hi!

I want to get the forum appear on the front page of my blog. I have installed it successfully to a sub directory. I don’t care about the blog, I just want to use the forum.

How can I get it to show up on the front page (root of WordPress installation)?

Thanks!

EDIT: I’m using the latest plugin version.

Hello,

i used wp 3.2.1 and a theme called wp-basis,

but after installing bbpress no Forum content is visible.

There is some generated forum-text in the header of the site

“<meta name=”description” content=”Topic: DISKUSSION ZUM FILM …etc”

below is the code of my header.php

“<meta name=”description” content=”<?php if ( is_single() ) { wp_title(‘-‘, true, ‘right’); echo strip_tags( get_the_excerpt() ); } elseif ( is_page() ) { wp_title(‘-‘, true, ‘right’); echo strip_tags( get_the_excerpt() ); } else { bloginfo(‘description’); } ?>” />”

i hope somebody can help.

thx and kind regards

Daniel

I have started a forum at my webbsite but the web theme colors makes the text impossible to read, how do I change the forum colors?

I have made a new forum.php and edited it as instructed here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/theme-compatibility-plugin-wont-recognize-my-custom-full-width-template

But it seems that this same template is used in forum AND in topic views. I’ve edited the file to function as a forum startup page, but I would like the Topic-pages to have a slightly different look. Renaming to topic.php or topic-single.php does not seem to work.

These files are located in my theme folder. How do I name the single topic template file, for bbp to recognise it?

Hi,

these might be basic questions.. sorry about that.

So I installed the bbpress 2 plug-in and I am able to create forum and topics, but how can I enable people to logon to the forum and create new entries ?

how can I manage what users are allowed to do ?

is there an admin area ?

thanks

ingo

One thing i’ve noticed is the formatting of posts. On all other forums (or even blog comments, or similar), when you type a post, and hit enter twice you get a new paragraph (like you would in Word, notepad or virtually anything else you use online or otherwise).

On BBPress (im using v2.0), that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Is it possible to make an adjustment to allow for this? I really don’t want to ask my users to use html paragraph tags just to make their posts look tidier. It looks messy with all lines of text with no spaces between them.

And in saying that it seems to work fine on this forum yet not on mines, so it’s possible? Can anyone tell me how to do it?