[@aaronos Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

thanks for your help! Your codex worked for me and has now given me the basis to style the page a bit more.

Thanks a lot

[@aaronos Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

Hi there – thanks so much for your help so far. I did some more tests and I just cant get it to work (so looking forward to your template or codex changes.

To summarise:

1. I was only using WPtweaks to tell it which page to use as a template but no matter which one I told it to use – it didnt work. Have since de-activated

2. If I add the short-code to a custom page using the page.php code it works

3. It doesnt matter if the default forum uses index.php or page.php – it doesnt work.

4. I have sequentially copied pages.php and index.php and made them bbpress.php and each time I can see that the default forum is using it, and each time it doesnt work

So i guess I need a generic index.php that will work (which I think you said you were producing) OR some workaround so the generic forums page doesnt appear in the directory path

[@aaronos Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks so much – although I am wondering if it is going to solve my problem (but please do!)

The reason I say that is….

I downloaded ‘What the File plug in’ and looked at the forums page that isnt working (the default page). It ‘was’ using ‘index.php’ where as the page I built that does work uses ‘page.php’

So then I used ‘bbPRess wp tweaks to tell it to use ‘page.php’ for the non-working forums page

And now when I go to the non-working forums page, What That file tells me I am using ‘pages.php’ (same template that works on the other page) but as you can probably guess it still doesnt render!

It’s like listify is telling it to ignore whatever page I choose and just ‘don’t render it correctly!’

Another ‘not so good’ solution would be just to remove ‘forums’ from that path directory, or that entire directory (but I dont know if that can be done). While it reduce navigation for the site, at least it would remove a bogus link that doesnt work

[@aaronos Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

i did – thanks. my problem is there isn’t any page theme/template in listify that works at all. I don’t have the skill base to write a page that would work from scratch, and it’s not like there is a listify template that is ‘almost’ working that I can modify.

Quite possibly a dumb question (apologies in advance) but is there such a thing as a dummy/generic bbpress template that I could upload that would work, and then I could modify it to look a bit more like my themes?

[@aaronos Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

I have a very similar problem and I must admit I have posted it as a seperate topic, but you guys seem so close to the problem (and solving it) that I trust it’s ok to post here as well.

I am using the Listify Theme and there does not fundamentally seem to be a default template that will work with bbpress. No matter what template I choose and copy as the plugin-bbpress.php template for example – it won’t work. Here’s an example of the page not working – http://tattsamistake.com/forums/

So….I built a custom page and put the shortcode in it – and the page works. BUT when I click thru to a forum, I get my navigation path which links to the forums page that doesnt work – ie the path shown is … Tattoo Removal Australia › Forums › Tattoo Removal

and if i click on ‘forums’ it goes to the non-working page – http://tattsamistake.com/forums/

BUT if i go and change the slug from ‘forums’ to ‘Tattoo-forum’ (the customised page that does work) it goes and applies a non-working template to that page, so in effect killing the page.

I guess to solve it I need the following…

1. A way to tell it where the forum short-code is without over-writing the page template
2. This may sound very silly but is there such a think as a generic bbpress.php template that I can use and upload to my site? Sure it won’t look like my site, but it would be a starting block.
3. Can I just get rid of ‘forums’ in that path, or at a pinch just get rid of that path from displaying completely?

Any help much appreciated!