Jennifer M. Dodd

This feature is available when using bbPress 2.2 to provide BuddyPress’s group forums and version 0.4.3 of bbPress Threaded Replies.

I’m using the Fancy Editor option for bbPress to control that aspect; it is a bit more difficult to separate out replies from any other bbPress uses.

The good news is that threaded replies are going into bbPress core for version 2.3, so hopefully I will be able to fix the TinyMCE DOM issues that have come up without disabling the Fancy Editor.

I’ve gone several rounds with the Fancy Editor but I’ve been unable to find a workable solution that doesn’t break down in various browsers.

Ultimately, this design choice came down to the known issue of TinyMCE being incompatible with DOM movements (such as those where the comment box moves around on posts and the reply box moves around on topics). I’m still hopeful that I can get the Fancy Editor to work with DOM movements, but in the meantime, I felt it best to disable it rather than frustrate users with strange browser behaviors.

I’m running the following:
WordPress 3.4.2
bbPress 2.1.3
bbPress Threaded Replies 0.4.3

Here’s the result: https://uncommoncontent.com/forums/topic/test-topic

That’s great. You’ll need to adjust a few settings once the (old-style) group forums have been imported. In Settings > BuddyPress, uncheck Discussion Forums. In Settings > Forums, check Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums.

1. Soon. It is at 2.2-rc1 on trunk.
2. To convert BuddyPress group forums, use Tools > Forums > Import. Back up your database first. More detailed instructions are here: https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

This plugin hooks into the bbPress plugin. BuddyPress 1.6.1 currently uses bbPress (the plugin) for its site forums, and an internal (older) version of bbPress for its group forums.

BuddyPress compat was greatly expanded in the upcoming 2.2 version of the bbPress plugin. The work I did will show up once you’ve installed bbPress 2.2 and imported your BuddyPress group forums into bbPress.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

This plugin was created to allow users to turn off notifications, not to provide subscription capabilities to unregistered guests. Allowing a user to enter an arbitrary email address without verification of the ownership of that address before subscription would open the floodgates to spamming.

It would be difficult to keep the following from happening without double opt-in code: a spammer could create a topic, subscribe multiple addresses to it, then just hit reply, using your mail servers to send spam.

Taking a cue from the way comments are handled by WordPress, I’ve removed the Fancy Editor from threaded replies.

I had the same problem; my tweets were consistently coming back in Chinese (even using command-line curl), but my web host insisted that there was nothing wrong with the server setup. You can fix this in the upcoming 3.5 release of WordPress with a filter on oembed_fetch_url.

Example code: https://gist.github.com/4055427

I have tried but have been unable to reproduce it. The JS I’m using to move the reply box around is based on that used to move the comment box around in posts, so I’m not sure where I’ve gone wrong. I have an email out to a friend who does much more work in JS to see if they can identify the issue.

One more question, what theme are you using?

Does the random page scroll happen if “Use the fancy WordPress editor to create and edit topics and replies” under Settings > Forums is not checked?

Good to know. Fair warning, JavaScript is not my strong suit. I’ll do my best to track this down.

That is exactly what I needed to know. Thanks for your help! I’ll try to replicate this and fix it.

It sounds a lot like there’s an issue with the JavaScript that tries to focus on the moved reply textbox. When you click on “Reply” at the bottom of a reply, does the textbox move to that reply, or does it stay at the bottom of the page?