Has anyone been able to get bbPress 2.0 and the Thesis theme to work together?

I have tried a number of things but I just can’t get it to work.

If I do nothing and rely on the default theme the forum is totally unusable. Not only is there no styling but none of the functionality works (no links appear for a start!).

I have tried creating a child theme as per instructions on this forum, tried using shortcodes and I have also tried copying the relevant parts of the default theme over to the thesis theme folder.

This seems to get slightly better results in the sense that I get the forum functionality, but there is no styling. You can see my current attempt here:

http://www.jezza101.co.uk/forums

It seems to me like part of the theme’s framework is somehow breaking bbPress, there must be some fundamental incompatibility in there somewhere – but I really don’t know enough to debug this.

I have asked over at the Thesis support forum but there seems to be little understanding of what’s going on over there. Is there anyone over here who has any suggestions?

[GautamModerator @gautamgupta 1 year, 7 months ago]

Thesis is a paid theme and we can’t say anything about it unless we have access to its source.

[AnointedModerator @anointed 1 year, 7 months ago]

As bbPress follows all WordPress code standards, I am going to assume it is something to do with thesis.

Chris is a great coder so I am certain that he would have no problem coming up with a fix for thesis.

[letheosMember @letheos 1 year, 6 months ago]

You can use shortcodes and just add some custom css styling.

[jez101Member @jez101 1 year, 6 months ago]

@Gautam Fair point.

@anointed I hope so, perhaps the new version might have better out of the box support

@letheos I think I will have another go with bbcodes, this does now seem like the best option. I’ll post back if I have any luck.

Thanks for the replies.

[nearshoreMember @nearshore 1 year, 6 months ago]

I am also trying to integrate bbpress plugin with thesis…..Have not been able to ! The page I point to the forum from my menus shows up as the Thesis Blog, but not like the Bbpress plgun Forum……..I look forward to some guidance or I might have to look at a different option for my Forum

[AnointedModerator @anointed 1 year, 6 months ago]

Did you ask Chris about the problem?

As he is the author of Thesis, and a fantastic coder, I am sure that he has a simple solution.

[GautamModerator @gautamgupta 1 year, 6 months ago]

You all may try out a plugin made by @kristarella – http://kristarella.com/snaps/bbpress-thesis.zip and see if it works. (I haven’t tested it out myself)

[nearshoreMember @nearshore 1 year, 6 months ago]

@Anointed Do you know how to contact Chris? I went to his Blog/Forum but there are about 40,000 people that have bought Thesis and he cannot answer questions to all of them, perhaps the reason I could not find his contact info. One of the people on his team / network has worked a solution @kristarella as @Gautam suggested

@Gautam: I downloaded the plugin and installed it, and it all seemed to be going well, the Forum page was actually linked to the real forum BUT:

I got this error at the top of the forum page:

Fatal error:

Call to undefined method stdClass::have_posts() in /home/content/28/7732828/html/jkewbform/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-forum-template.php on line 117

Any ideas why or what it means and how I can fix it? Thanks

[AnointedModerator @anointed 1 year, 6 months ago]

@nearshore

Sorry I don’t know Chris personally so no special contact info. I would simply post the question on his support forums, and maybe send him a twitter message.

As kristarella is already working on a solution I am guessing that means there are a few people asking about bbpress support in his forums already.

[FrosyDMember @frosyd 1 year, 5 months ago]

http://www.kristarella.com finally got it working!!!!

Go and DONATE her some cash!!

[jwpegramMember @jwpegram 1 year, 5 months ago]

Works great too