[danbp]

bbpress is the plugin, by type was meant site wide forum or group forum.

can I provide you a link via pm or mail?

No ! You’re on a free help support, maintained by volonteers.

If you want private assistance, use the job board forum where you can hire a freelancer or a dev, but probably not for free.

[danbp]

Which type of forum ?
Are you sure your forum is correctly setup ?
Please give details: site url, theme name.

Nte that bbPress is a separate plugin. If you encounter an issue with it, it’s better to ask on their support.

[Henry Wright]

Would it be possible to include features that would enable site admins to make their sites accessible to logged-in users only?

It certainly would be possible but even though such features have been requested lots of times here in the forum, it doesn’t mean everyone would want, or welcome that particular functionality. This is a great example that highlights why plugins exist. By providing this feature as a plugin, it ensures the core doesn’t become bloated. And users that do want the functionality can simply install a plugin.

[danbp]

Read here:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-add-fields-from-xprofile-fields-groups-created-by-me/#post-187194

…and many other topics about xprofile data on forum.

[kjgbriggs]

Additional:
If I add the “Header Label” (the field I am talking about) as a Profile Field, how do I make it visible to ONLY admins, but display it’s data on the profile page and forums to all?

To show you what I mean, I have made a snapshot of the field.

http://kylebriggs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ForumField.png

It looks like this from the frontend.

http://kylebriggs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ForumFieldFrontend.png

What I want to do

I would like to :

A. Make this field ONLY editable by administrators.
B. IF the field has anything in, display it in 2 places (listed below)
B1. At the top of the profile page (as shown in the WPSymposium shot at the top)
B2. On the forum page, shown in the bottom mockup of the first image

[kjgbriggs]

At the moment, we have no list for this, or any way of displaying this, as we have a small staff list I was just going to go through them and add it manually.

I thought the best way to do this would be to have a field on the users profile (which only an admin can see) that allows for a string to be inputted which is displayed on the users profile and below them on BBPress forums.

This could obviously be done with forum roles as well but I was trying to steer clear of that as it generally means another plugin running.

[kjgbriggs]

I think this is a BuddyPress thing as it would not be limited to forums but displayable on the profiles page and users in admin, which im pretty sure is BuddyPress stuff.

[webappdesigner]

Sorry, i did not realise that this was a BBPress issue rather than a BuddyPress one….

where would i find “class BBP_Forums_Group_Extension”

[shanebp]

This is an issue for bbPress support.

Or you could try changing the display function in class BBP_Forums_Group_Extension from:
public function display() {
to
public function display($group_id = NULL) {

[creativesinside]

Ack! My bad … new to the forum!!!

add_filter('pre_post_title', 'wpse28021_mask_empty');
add_filter('pre_post_content', 'wpse28021_mask_empty');
function wpse28021_mask_empty($value)
{
    if ( empty($value) ) {
        return ' ';
    }
    return $value;
}

add_filter('wp_insert_post_data', 'wpse28021_unmask_empty');
function wpse28021_unmask_empty($data)
{
    if ( ' ' == $data['post_title'] ) {
        $data['post_title'] = '';
    }
    if ( ' ' == $data['post_content'] ) {
        $data['post_content'] = '';
    }
    return $data;
}

[shanebp]

This is possible but requires custom code.
Writing and implementing that code will probably require you to hire a developer.
You can post a job here.

[djsteveb]

@carelcadform – sounds like your question is more related to the premium plugin you purchased (?) – have you tried asking them for this support?

I seriously doubt anyone in the BP forums is going to answer this without you posting it as a paid job.

IF they have not answered, have you considered the other events plugins out there?
seems to be a lot of these in the wp plugin repo
and wpmudev has one – albeit expensive – they do have support that answers things.

[danbp]

The nearest would be BP Moderation, but from back-end mostly.

Group updates are not topics or blog post, but activities. And these can’t be moderated like topics.

If you want group members discussion, use a group forum and in that case, deactivate update commenting. This will force members to discuss on forum and not on group activity wall.

[Henry Wright]

Try asking this over at the bbPress support forums.

[Henry Wright]

Yes, I’ve seen many solutions that do just that. Try searching the Plugin Directory. If you have no luck, try searching these forums for a custom code snippet that’ll do the job for you.

[Antipole]

OK – in the absence of anyone enlightening me, I set up a test site with just WP, BuddyPress and bbPress, together with the plugin ’email log’. I determined that emails are not sent by bbPress.

I have now installed BuddyPress Forum Notifier, which seems to do the job.

I am presently experimenting with cron to ensure the batching of comments works reliably.

[b2marketing]

Hi Shane

Thanks for quick reply.

Its because I am using a badge plugin that requires Buddypress to be active before the badge plugin will work for bbPress.

I will check in the bbPress forum. Thanks

[shanebp]

Why are you using BuddyPress if you use Ultimate Member ?

Have you considered turning off the xprofile component in BP?

You might want to ask on bbPress forums about how to filter the author links in forums.

[oliver_rub]

@danbp
Sorry for not writing that earlier. It seems that I need to work on my problem description skills. I enabled the visual tab already through an addon called bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab, but since I used that for quite some time I forgot that the visual tab is switched off by default.
So my setting is: I have BuddyPress groups, with bbPress forums. I have the visual tab enabled (easier to use for non-techi persons). I have the @mentions feature enabled, but it only works in the text tab (the ‘quicktags’ argument on the bbPress link you gave me). So what I want is now somehow enable the @mentions feature also for the visual tab.
I thought that @oakcreative has a similar approach, thats why I joined the thread. But I´m not sure how to replicate his approach with bbPress…

[shanebp]

Can you create a topic in a group forum front-end if you created the group?

Are the Forum Attribute settings ‘Forum, Open, Public’ in wp-admin > Forums > [some forum] ?

Did you check the settings here: /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress ?

Are you running any plugins that affect roles / permissions / capabilities ?

Does the same problem occur in a site-wide public forum?

[donalconlon]

Hi Shane,

Group forums. It appears i can create topics through the wp admin page, but no-one can reply through the front-end.

I probably should have started in bbPress support; but last time i posted similar topics on both places, i was charged with “cross-posting”.

Appreciate the help.

[shanebp]

Are you talking about Group Forums or site-wide forums?

Are you aware of the bbPress support site?

[pihla]

Yes, this is exactly the case, it does not create the second group, because the id is 0 so the auto-increment is not working (and the first one created a row in the database, but does not show in the front end)

Yes, there is nothing wrong with the id 0 with the forum, I was just wondering why does it give duplicate entry warning with this:
WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry ‘0’ for key ‘PRIMARY’]
INSERT INTO wp_bp_groups ( creator_id, name, slug, description, status, enable_forum, date_created ) VALUES ( 22, ‘Vanhat talot’, ‘vanhat-talot’, ‘Vanhat talot’, ‘public’, 0, ‘2015-06-16 08:25:16′ )

and the only 0 in this insert is the enable_forum which should not be primary, but well this might just refer to the group_id field that is not auto incremented.

I even updated the themes Buddy Press and bbPress files (Kleo-theme) and updated again Buddy Press, even though it was in version 2.3.1, did not help…

@shanebp where did you find the information about the non-BP reports where WP 4.2.2 $wpdb->insert_id returns 0? I could try to find the info from there.

[shanebp]

Re group name length: I was just guessing, since I cannot duplicate the error.
‘Vanhat talot’ is short, so that shouldn’t be the issue.

So you created a group – and the id was 0, correct ?
Then the next group failed due to the duplicate entry 0, correct ?
If so, then the group id field is not being auto-incremented.

The enable_forum field should be 0 if you did not select ‘I want a forum’ when you created the group.
If you did select ‘I want a forum’, which version of bbPress are you using?

[pihla]

I emptied these three:
wp_groups
wp_groups_groupmeta
wp_groups_members

I managed to create one group (which does not show in the public side) but the next group I created gave this error:
WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry ‘0’ for key ‘PRIMARY’]
INSERT INTO wp_bp_groups ( creator_id, name, slug, description, status, enable_forum, date_created ) VALUES ( 22, ‘Vanhat talot’, ‘vanhat-talot’, ‘Vanhat talot’, ‘public’, 0, ‘2015-06-16 08:25:16’ )

I can not understand, this seems to say that enable_forum would be primary key which it can not be…