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I am currently developing a new forum site that has a conservative older target audience. I am not sure at this stage whether those users would appreciate the use of emoticons. However, I would like to test using emoticons once the site is live.

If I install a emoticon plugin (Mona Lisa for example) and then sometime in the future I decide to delete it, is there any easy way to remove the ;-), :yes:,:cry: labels that remain in the text of my user’s replies.

If these emoticon labels can only be edited manually from each reply, then removing an emoticon plugin in the future would create a huge editing problem.

The same issue would arise if, some time in the future, support is no longer provided for that plugin.

So given the potential editing risk of installing an emoticon plugin and then removing it in the future I would like to hear others comments and feedback regarding using emoticons on a forum pitched to an older, conservative target audience?

I suspect the (future editing) risks of installing an emoticon plugin on my site outweigh the benefits. I would be very happy to receive you views on this issue.

Thanks in advance for any input or feedback you can offer.

Kind Regards

Max

Please excuse the length of this post. It seeks information regarding functionality and best practice.

FUNCTIONALITY

I have developed my own functionality plugin for BBpress and would be very grateful if some one could provide me with the functions snippets for the following features:

1. Creating a header and footer for each individual forum in the index list (ala Style kit template option)

2. Removing the vertical bar that appears to the left of the sub-forum list when the following code is used:

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {display: list-item !important;}

3. Removing the commas that appear in the vertical list of the subforums. This looks odd and ugly. My links are style in orange and then at the end of each subforum there is a black comma. Can this comma be removed or can it be styled with css so that its color is the same as the subforum links? If it can be styled what is its unique selector?

4. The BBP toolkit has an option to remove all of the blue and yellow alert/info boxes. What is the snippet for this function?

5. The BBp toolkit has an option to only add css to BBP pages. What is the snippet for this function and is it necessary(or a possible conflict) if I chose to run WP minify?

BEST PRACTICE
This is the first site I have developed with a forum. What is the best practice regarding admin forum content, forum rules is a relevant example. Should I create a forum dedicated to my admin topics (included form rules), or rather, should I just create topics for admin content and make them super sticky (which I understand means they will appear at the top of every forum)

Again my humble apologies for the length of this post. And, as always, thanks very much for anyone render their valuable assistance.

Kind Regards

Max

With Robin’s valuable assistance I now have a created new topic link at the top of each of my forums.

However one forum is for my use solely and only contains locked topics such as forum rules.

1. Is there a snippet of code that I can add to my functionality plugin that allows me to selectively remove the create new topic link from atop a specific forum?

2. And,or, can the create new topic link just be hidden using CSS visibility:hidden, and if so what is the link’s unique selector?

Thanks in advance for any assistance provided.

Kind Regards

Max

There were features in both the BBp Style Pack and BBpress Toolkit that I desired.

Unfortunately when ever I installed both plugins, my site became buggy. There is a conflict between the two it would seem.

So I bit the bullet and created my own functionality plugin and used it and WP Custom CSS to create each of the features and styling I desired from the Style Pack and the Toolkit.

There are just three features that I couldn’t find any documentation for:

1. Changing the header label Freshness to other wording, and
2. Creating a “create new topic” link.

I am aware that the first of these features is also included in Robins other plugin called Latest Post (or something like that) however that plugin also includes another feature that I do not require (as I have coded my own)

And so my request. Can someone please provide me with:

1. a function snippet to change freshness to other wording
2. a function snippet to add a “create new topic” link at the top of a forum

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Kind Regards

Max

I am looking to add a button below all forum roots (under where the thread creation form sits) that is only visible when not logged in (it will be a login/register button collection).

Personally, I don’t think this is necessary, I think the notification works fine, but a friend who I am developing this for is pretty insistant of there being something down there for people.

I was wondering on how this would be done so it doesn’t disappear when updating BBPress?

I would rather do this in an external plugin so it can be managed better, but I would need to restrict it so they only appear on BBPress forum root pages, and at the bottom of threads when you aren’t logged in.

Do you have any pointers or examples on how I would prevent something like this from appearing on all pages and only in the areas I have mentioned?

Hello!

I want to create a forum where I post the news and other relevant information about the community/web, as the admin, but I don’t want anybody else to be able to post new topics in this forum, although they can still reply to the topics the admin creates.

Can this be possible?

Thank you!

Hi,

I have installed bbpress and it is working fine. The only problem is that the “logout” page is giving me 404 error message.

I went to the https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-users-logout/?rs=logout and copied and pasted
“>Logout on my custom sidebar text.

My website is http://www.aaashi.com/support/

Can you please tell me, what could be the problem? I even created a logout page, but not working and I am using Sydney pro theme.

Regards,
Ajit

I run a very small forum – is there a way that I can be notified of ANY forum submission? I know I can ‘subscribe’ to a forum post, but I’d have to know they’re there to do that. What I want to do instead is to have a quick little email alert that a new post has been submitted, any time someone posts into any of the forums.
Thanks!

I guess it is already posted similar topic like this as I search on google for a solution. I tried the plugin “Cimy User Extra Fields” but it created an error when editing the user profile that it cannot detect if password is empty or not.

I think it is not a quite very easy thing to do but if someone can point me into the right direction to solve this issue. I also want to make that extra fields to be editable when updating profiles fields.

Thanks and more power.

Any user who is not logged in can get to the forum page on my site but then if they try to click on the forum itself, it redirects to the home page. I have searched similar topics but cannot find a solution. I first set up 2 group forums. One is public and the other is private. The unlogged in user can see the public forum listed, but clicking on it takes them back to the home page. I then tried adding a sitewide forum but the same thing happens for that one. I checked that unregistered users may view and post to forums.

I tried deactivating all plugins other than buddypress and bbpress but it still happens. Tried changing my theme, same thing.