We have an HTML5 website using SimpleCMS, and a linked WordPress blog. I have installed the WordPress bbPress forum plugin on that blog site. When it seemed like it was lacking what appeared to be some pretty basic controls, I also installed the bbPress Toolkit plugin.
Since that also seemed to lack what to me should have been basic components of a working forum, I also installed the bbPress WP Tweaks plugin. It amazes me that a tool that is this popular seems to lack simple ordinary functions like clear login and registration tools that link directly to the forum.
Using the shortcodes, I created separate pages for login, registration and lost passwords, but once logged in, it still does not take the user to the main forum page. In fact, it goes nowhere. I would think that there should be a simple field for adding the path to the forum to which the user would be registering or logging in, but there isn’t. Instead, it just states “You are already logged in.” on the login screen with no link to anywhere else.
Can someone please explain to me how I can get the login to take the user to the actual forum page after they login? To me this should be automatic, but for some reason it is unnecessarily complicated.
Also, is there not a way to manage the subscription without requiring the user to have a WP or bbPress account? All I want is a private forum with users who can create their own usernames and passwords to login and share information, without that user data being shared with anyone else. For some reason, this simple task seems to be too much to expect.
So unless I’m doing something completely wrong (which is entirely possible), I need a way to resolve this with the tools available in bbPress. Any practical solutions are welcome. Thanks.
Hello
I just want to allow moderators to create topics.
Normal users can only reply to previous existing topics.
It this possible?
I’m about to embark on a BuddyPress/BBPress installation on my site. I would like to allow our users to upload pictures in forum posts and also in BuddyPress but am worried that this will eventually fill up my available storage. My host also does not want sites to be used to “warehouse” data. So, is it possible to automatically delete old posts and their media attachments and have the media files completely removed from the site? The intention would be to remove stale content that is say more than 3 months or 6 months or perhaps a year old and to have this limit selectable. If something is made sticky then it’s left alone.
Thanks for any info.
Hi,
Over the past few weeks I’ve been customizing bbress to my liking using the live css editor in wordpress.
I tried moving it all to a stylesheet within my child theme in a folder called css.
I’ve named the file bbpress.css.
Everything was working fine in the wordpress editor, but after moving it to bbpress.css a lot of things no longer work.
Even when I try !important, a lot of things still don’t to work.
I should note that some of the code does work which is why this confuses me.
Any suggestions?
WordPress 5.2.2
BBPress 2.5.14
https://flippednormals.com/forums
Okay so I started by adding a Super Sticky topic that included an embedded youtube video. When I saved it and tried to visit it, the topic wouldn’t load. I can’t remember the error message that I got but something like “the host is not responding.” The rest of my forums were fine. I could edit the particular topic that was giving me trouble, but there was no broken HTML or anything like that. I poked around a bit, then got busy, and I left it.
A few days later, I came back to my site, and noticed that the “Right Now In Forums” widget on the dashboard was displaying incorrectly. It told me that I had X Forums, Y, and Z Replies. So the word “Topics” was not displaying.
Then I tried to go to my admin Topics page and I couldn’t get there. When I clicked on the link in the sidebar, the page wouldn’t load. But I could get to Forums and Replies fine.
So then I tried the repair tools. I had no idea what was causing trouble, so I tried running them all. Eventually, I could load the Topic that was causing me trouble, but it just shows the header, not the content.
Then I noticed that the Forums, Topics, and Replies menu options in the admin sidebar are gone. They don’t exist. Which is odd, I thought. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin, but they’re still not displaying. The “Right Now in Forums” dashboard widget is displaying, but when I click the link to, for example “Topics” (or “Replies”) I get the error “Sorry, you are not allowed to edit posts in this post type.” Then I checked and I now have the Participant role, but I’m the only admin, so I don’t know how to fix that.
The front-end seems to be displaying just fine, except for the one Topic that was causing me trouble before.
Help plz! Thx!
I want to show topics created/last activity in 7 days. I can filter topics by last 7 days, but, if a user write a reply in an older topic, this topic don’t enter in that list.
I don’t know why bbpress has micro small avatars??? Is it from a time when the internet was dial up? How can I make the Avatar images larger on all the forums posts and all places it shows up.
Hi,
I have setup a WordPress site with bbPress and trying to find if I can manually Subscribe/Unsubscribe users to particular Forums or Topics,
Or is it even possible to at least see what the Forum Participants/Users have subscribed to?
Thanks,
Hi there,
i have installed the plugin topics for posts,
but the system didnt created a topic for each of my posts (in particular listing items),
in order to create them i have to modify each of the listing item – otherwise it doesnt not activate that option.
As this is a very long procedure (i have around 900 listing items) does anyone knows how i can do this kind of work in less time…is there any bulk option?
One more thing, each listing items has a category (which i already created also in the forum).
Can i automatically assign that category respectively the forum topic for each item?
For example:
Item: “Ford – Focus” (category: “Ford) -> Create and assign this topic to the forum: “Ford”
I know it possibile to do it singolary, i need this kind of option in bulk.
thank you for your help.
Andreas
