[durkk]

@danbp

Let’s be honest here. Bbpress is designed to be ok with most themes.

So yeah you are right, in absolute terms. A forum is just a grit. But if we go that route all of this is just 0 and 1’s. It’s not that productive to think like that imo 😉 Most people like to have something that looks better than ok for most themes.

https://devpress.com/?attachment_id=6504 is a theme that is just a regular forum but completely fine tuned to the theme. This is a rarity. Sadly. Some perspective on why this is I guess… https://devpress.com/tickets/social-buddypress-theme/

Standalone forums most of the time have themes, although indeed phpbb always looks very much like…phpbb 😀 BUT, it’s a standalone forum and therefore coherently themed throughout.

[Hugo Ashmore]

Fixed your links for you, they do need text string to display.

Not really clear on why you thing this may be a BP issue or that others might say that. Thus far there is no real info to debug on.

You need to start some more basic testing such as disabling all plugins, changing themes, deactivating BP, enabling php error reporting etc; start to build up something to work from narrow the issue down, as things stand there is little other help that can be offered and nothing to suggest this is something for this forum to cover really. Do report back though when you have a little more info.

[danbp]

@durkk

you seem to be affraid by the term “legacy”… ?
Read here some explanation about legacy

Like BuddyPress, bbPress is only a plugin.
Generally when you need a theme, you search a theme for wordpress, not for a plugin.

Of course some a better than other, or better tailored to do something than other, but in anyway, no theme can be perfect for anything.

And in some case, ready to use is not synonym of adaptable ready.
If you search forum themes, see first what other forum software have to propose. One of the most popular, phpbb, is desperatly identical from one site to another in 90% of case.

When you have 1 000 of WP theme and you add a bbpress or a buddypress group forum, you have potentially 1 000 different forum look.

Basically it’s a grid, so it’s a bit difficult to present a forum in a very original maner. And finally too much work for many users or considered as out of rentability (100 hours to get a nice forum and 3 topics after 2 mounth….search the error ! )

[durkk]

A guide to theming a bbpress install might be good, but I have not found one yet. Right now there is mostly legacy related stuff popping up. Somehow most theme dev’s don’t do much with the styling the forums either.

[Julia_B]

Thanks @Henrywright, I’m not sure what you mean, I have it set up so @usernames appear below the display names like in this forum here. Perhaps it was confusing in the picture because my username and display name are the same? The image was just to illustrate that ip addresses are showing, but it turns out that’s only in admin mode so that’s fine.

[durkk]

First and foremost, I am not a buddypress expert, rather someone that went through the same process you are going through now.

The forum is not easy to customize without coding. There used to be themes for the standalone I believe but that’s all legacy stuff now. If you want to start ‘theming’ bbpress you’ll need to adjust the css to taste. Shortcodes won;t help you with this.

The easiest solution is buying a theme that has extensive bbpress tweaks. Do a search on Themeforest for ‘bbpress’ and or ‘buddypress’. There’s only a view that did extensive tweaks to the forums tho.

The IP address is only visible to Admins. As far as I am aware the @ mentions are based on the username, not the display name.

[durkk]

Overall I like the way it looks. There are however a view things that stand out: When resizing the window you get overlays and the menu start the look weird. The category archives look a bit untidy with the tag spacing and amount of non content space. On protected pages the sidebar under the login aligns to the left.

I really like the group and profile banner but the little sidebar looks a bit weird when logged out imo, perhaps there is more info when logged in?

The sidebar also looks weird on private groups in chrome: http://cultivators-forum.com/groups/seedism/

Overal looking great tho, nice example of how much you can do with theming BP.

[Julia_B]

Thanks Henry. I’m not a developer and only know the basics I don’t think regular expressions is something I can really use. But I’ll check out plugins and post over in the bbpress forum. I get a bit confused about what to post there and here, though this might be a buddypress one as might be available in groups and other things across the site too.

I appreciate the response. 🙂

[Henry Wright]

Hi @julia_b

To my knowledge there isn’t anything like that available. Try searching the WP Plugin Directory. Else, if you’re good with code, something like this can be accomplished using regular expressions

All of that said, forums questions are better asked over at bbPress. You may have more luck there.

[peter-hamilton]

A few images of my latest updates to BBFacelook, did not have much time last few weeks so progress is slow.
In the meantime slowly getting more members to test the forums functionality.

This is the new profile page now the default page when clicking a member’s link or avatar.

forum list is a little updated most important function is the topic title in the freshness column.

I have quite a few plugins installed, and some even hardcoded into my theme to lighten the code as much as possible.

Current plugins are:
. Invite anyone
. BBPress like button
. Buddypress activity plus
. easy sign-up
. GD BBpress attachements
. wp post filter
. bbpress
. buddypress

Plugins that I have hardcoded are:
. Background For User Profile
. BuddyPress Group Customizer Lite
. TinyMCE

As soon as I have more work done I will make another update here.

P.H.

[danbp]

@ryanjhale,

wp roles and bp capacities are two diffrent things.
bp_moderate has a specific usage applied to the site admin only. If you read what is written in bp-core-caps.php, you’ll see this comment at line 200

 * Temporary implementation of 'bp_moderate' cap.
 *
 * In BuddyPress 1.6, the 'bp_moderate' cap was introduced. In order to
 * enforce that bp_current_user_can( 'bp_moderate' ) always returns true for
 * Administrators, we must manually add the 'bp_moderate' cap to the list of
 * user caps for Admins.
 *
 * Note that this level of enforcement is only necessary in the case of
 * non-Multisite. This is because WordPress automatically assigns every
 * capability - and thus 'bp_moderate' - to Super Admins on a Multisite
 * installation. See {@link WP_User::has_cap()}.
 *
 * This implementation of 'bp_moderate' is temporary, until BuddyPress properly
 * matches caps to roles and stores them in the database. Plugin authors: Do
 * not use this function.

BuddyPress groups moderators are not authorized to enter the admin dashboard or the group admin on frontend. Group moderators can only delete, move and spam group activities or topics. If the group has a forum, they wil have the same capacities.

If you want a user to be able to access the admin dashboard, you can give him an editor role (which is a wp role).

If you want to allow him access to the group admin on the front-end, you promote him to group admin. This setting doesn’t allow that user to enter the site admin. He’s only a group admin (with a wp role of subscriber, by default) and not a site admin (admin or super-admin (MS) ).

[danbp]

@tomlandon_author,

who’s online refreshes after 5 mn.
Read more here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3590

and feel free to open an enhancement ticket on the Trac.
You can login with the same credentials as on this forum.

[danbp]

@robertne,

installing an extra site just for sharing posts is somehow a big task for… nothing and requires a multisite install. Made it simple ! Share your RSS feed…
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-social-buttons-to-wordpress-rss-feed/

Sorry If i misunderstand you. If the goal is to ADD an external link to your posts, you can create a custom post type for that or simply paste the link into a post.

If this is also not what you want, explain what kind of post, from where and how your members should use a sharing button. Even if BuddyPress doesn’t handle posts, he only shows them.

Also you can read some related forum topics here:
https://buddypress.org/support/tag/share/

[xprt007]

Hi

Thank you for all the responses.

Well, the issue of spam registrations & comments with the above mentioned plugins in addition to SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam, Wordfence Security (?), etc had worked for months & was manageable, occasionally getting something in sometimes after weeks. I also blocked all IPs of spammers who would tried to login, etc.

A few days ago, though I started getting a barrage of bot-registrations + groups with bogus content created. New registrations would come in as soon as I deleted some.

Since it was late in the night in the middle of a very busy period, I thought someone probably getting similar issues could mention some quick solution I could find the following day.

It was not my first time in the forum. Some of the above solutions were found through searching the forum, which i agree should be the first step.

So far – in addition to the above plugins I first added JP User Registration Blacklist, WP-SpamShield and also reluctantly disabled user group creation. (Is there a plugin that enables moderation of user created groups, allowing the moderator to approve user created groups?)

That stopped the group creation, but spam registrations continued coming. So like recommended above, installed Wanguard, though this being a small site which currently gets in very little income, it is not yet worth paying for it. I hope the free wanguard account can work for a while.
That since yesterday only let in one or 2 registrations by some criminals, this being one of them – details shown by some plugin:

Benutzername: clairmcconnan

E-Mail: synfhongegizi@mail.ru

Angezeigter Name: Claire McConnan

Vorname: Claire

Nachname: McConnan
….
IP Address : 107.181.70.207
Reverse DNS : 107.181.70.207
Reverse DNS IP : 107.181.70.207
Reverse DNS Authenticity : [Possibly Forged]
Proxy Info : No Proxy
Proxy Data : 107.181.70.207
Proxy Status : FALSE
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE : en

Names & emails suggest they mostly originate from Russia.

danbp suggested using .htaccess to block Ru-based submissions. I will look into BUT – on an unrelated Drupal-based site, I ever had a much more serious attack, with as many 25,000 attempted login/post attempts a day(!), which were blocked by the Drupal mollom plugin BUT that constantly filled some DB table, probably logging visits/attempts, to several 100MBs a day, causing me problems with the webhost. Source of attacks was Russia, ukraine, China & Poland.

The only solution that worked was adding literally several 10,000 lines of complete IP(blocks(?)s from those countries I got from some site to the .htaccess that blocked them out. Only that helped.

Later on, though – months on, the web host removed that .htaccess file, because my site account was supposedly overusing server resources. I am not sure that had anything to do with the IP address lines in the .htaccess file, but the good thing is that a similar attack has not happened again.

An .htaccess solution that only involves naming a country ( … ^(.*).ru/(.*) …) & not its thousands of IPs would of course be great & preferable, but I will do a search & see. My site does not need a single Russian & so can do without the country.

Ultimately, for the time being – what I would need is a functioning free solution until the currently small site can pay for itself, later on. This particular site had not had anything similar in over a year, assuming Wanguard cannot be used …

Anyway, thank you all.

[giggio]

Yes, the files are in correct directory but the translation not work. Before the 4.0 update of wordpress there was not problem … Here is the site – http://pokerspirit.net/forum/new-topic/

[danbp]

hi @netsector,

read first the documentation of your theme and anything about theme on the codex, then search the forum.

Additionnally read also here and give at least your theme name.

You obfuscate your pages source code, so it’s difficult to help you anyway.

[danbp]

hi @rundall,

welcome to this forum !
Before asking, it is good practice to search if a similar subject was already handled. Login redirection is a common question here.
See here, you’ll find over 300 topics related to your question:
https://buddypress.org/support/tag/login/

Read also here.

Have a nice day!

[danbp]

Indeed !
The Tag Widget should be renamed to something like:

Increase your chances to get the right information by 500% by searching in the tags!

Will certainly need an extra horizontal uberwidget with longtext format for the title, but other than that little detail, searching by tags is much better and efficient than the usual “Search the forum”.
For those who search the forum before posting, of course. 😀

i know, i’m off topic but a little humor doesn’t hurt.

[danbp]

Over 170 topics are tagged with “spam” on this forum.
https://buddypress.org/support/tag/spam/

[Hugo Ashmore]

@xprt007 What else have you tried before asking this question here?

#1 would have been searching the forum archives for possible solutions from past threads (one of great benefits of forums are ever increasing db of information and help derived from questions & replies)

#2 would be to check the WP plugin repo searching one something like ‘spam’

In addition to danbp’s advice try installing Wanguard which seems to do a fairly good job along with perhaps a simple registration submission question – believe something called ‘BP-humanity’ might work.

btw I edited your topic title to remove ‘urgent help’ that’s not considered an appropriate phrase to enter on subject titles 🙂

[danbp]

@kagami,

this support is in english only. Please don’t post in your native language. FYI, i’m french.

If you prefer dutch, see here:
https://nl.forums.wordpress.org/forum/buddypress
http://www.wplounge.nl/

I close this topic. Feel free to create a new one in english.

Dank u voor uw begrip.

[ElectroMagnetic]

Hello danbp.
I understand your position totally and thank you for your honest and frank reply.
I have posted this question on other forum sites including Buddydev and wpmudev and essentially they all point me back to buddypress ” this is a buddypress issue you should seek a solution there”

So, I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Anyway, thank you for your time and advice. Although this problem might take me a bit longer to solve I’ll continue to scout this forum for other smaller issue I need solved

[danbp]

I understand, but i’m not here to help supporting premium themes. You paid the theme and for support.
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

If you don’t know how to do this, you may want to consider hiring a developer.

[danbp]

hi @ks2-problema,

maybe time also to contribute ! 😉 Do not hesitate.

Or browse through the forum. For example this topic, 3 days ago.

[ElectroMagnetic]

Hello danbp, thank you for the feedback.

I have the register.php in my child theme, but am unsure where to place

<p class=”description”><?php bp_the_profile_field_description(); ?></p>

in the file to get the description below all the field labels.

I’m not that familiar with HTML and would really appreciate your help here…and this would also help the others on the support forum for the Sweetdate theme…this problem has been asked a few times but with no resolution..