[davidschwartzer]

Pascal:

Thanks for your note. I was about to attempt your recommended change when I saw that an update to the plug-in had been released. I installed the update and all now seems to be working correctly. The Oh Bother text can be modified and I now have the ability to remove it completely.

Thank you for your help and for providing such a useful plug-in. I think a lot of WordPress users will find this helpful.

Regards,

David

[davidschwartzer]

Robkk:

Thank you so much for all your help. This has solved numerous problems for me and I think the slug issue (which I didn’t even realize was a problem) is now fixed also.

I still have a lot to learn about all of this so I suspect you will see me back in these discussion boards from time to time.

Regards,

David

[davidschwartzer]

Robkk:

I think with your help I am making real progress. Here is what I have done so far.

1. I put the bbpress.php file you created into the bbpress directory in my child theme.
2. I removed the Apple Tech Talk Forums from the Forums list
3. I removed the Forums menu item created by bbPress and created a menu item as a Custom link.
4. Maybe I said it wrong but I agree that Hardware, Software, etc. should be categories and OS X, iOS be the forums. I think I had a problem setting them up originally. In any case, I deleted those top levels and created new categories and moved the forum topics into the new categories.

Based on all of that, I think this looks much cleaner and the slugs seem to be what was originally described but you may want to take a look and let me know if I need to do more.

The full width forums look nice but it does remove the ability to register and/or log in to the forums and also removes some of the display ads. (I am using a plug-in to change the look a little bit as the css I originally used to make the forums show vertically isn’t working anymore. Would yu be able to tell me what line(s) in the file I would change if I want to go back to a right side bar like the rest of the pages?

That said, with the forums being full width, what is your suggestion to provide a way to log in or register for the forums while on those pages?

I do have a plug-in called “Bbpress Login Register Links On Forum Topic Page”, which does as it says but it now causes everything to be duplicated across the top as you will see if you look at the page. (this is new behavior). Do you have a suggestion for how to deal with this?

Last question (I think), you said the bbpress.php you wrote corrects a problem with this theme. If I ever want to change themes will I still be able to use this file? I suppose I can see if a new theme has issues. If not, I guess I am OK. If I do, can I use this file as is or does it need to be modified for each theme?

Thank you again for all of your help. You have made the forums look 100 times better and the Oh Bother box is no longer, well, a bother. I appreciate your help.

[davidschwartzer]

Pascal:
I am happy to do that but I am going to wait until I try to address what appears to be a bigger issue with the overall structure of the forums as I’m not sure there is an issue with the plug-in until I get that addressed.

regards,

David

[davidschwartzer]

Pascal:

I installed and activated your plug in which looks very interesting, but it does not seem to have any effect on the main forums page. Perhaps it is because of the way I have set up the forum.

Regards,

David

[davidschwartzer]

Dear Pascal and Robkk:

Let me explain how I set this up and perhaps you can tell me where I went wrong.

For the top level I created a Forum called Apple Tech Talk Forums.

Under that, I have forums for General Discussion, Hardware and Software. Those forums point to the Apple Tech talk Forums as the Parent.

Within those forums I have set up categories like Desktop, Portable, etc. It’s within those categories that topics would be created.

I tried to remove the Apple Tech Talk Forums from the Forums list but then I get a 404 error if I go to the Forums tab on the site.

Does that information give you any clue as to what I did wrong?

Thanks,

David

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Pascal:

Thank you for your feedback. I will certainly try your plug-in. That said, I am concerned that I have a major error in my bbPress set-up. I want it to be right and if that means staring over I am willing to do that.

I did not change any of the slugs when I set up the Forum. Perhaps I added a page or category in a way I wasn’t supposed to. I tried to follow the step by step guide on the bbPress site but clearly I did something wrong.

Can you provide any guidance on what I need to do to fix this problem or, if I start over, what I should do to configure it properly?

Regards,

David

[davidschwartzer]

Robb:

I shoulkd have also added that I did not change or add to any of the slugs that are set up in the Forums console within WordPress.

[davidschwartzer]

Robkk:

Thanks for your note. Let me respond to some of your questions with what I know (which isn’t much).

I created the forum by trying to follow the steps in the Step by Step guide provided on the bbPress site. I have not done any editing of the template other than adding some css to make the topics flow in a list, rather than horizontally as is the default layout and also to change the comment text to black instead of gray. I am also using a couple of plug-ins. One is called bbPress New UI which changes the basic layout but doesn’t seem to otherwise change the forum plug-in. The other is called Bbpress Login Register Links On Forum Topic Pages, which does what the title says.

I am not using a child theme currently but I have deactivated all of the plug-ins so what you should now see is the default bbPress forum that is created.

I hope this is helpful. Let me know if you need anything else from me to help figure this out.

I am new to WordPress and bbPress and clearly have a lot to learn. I appreciate your assistance with all of this.

Regards,

David

[davidschwartzer]

Pascal:

Thank you for your response.

You are correct that this message appears at the top most level of the forums where there are no topics (and will not be).

Regards,

David

[davidschwartzer]

Stephen:

I have gone through this topic thread and I still can’t change the text in the Oh Bother box.

My site is appletechtalk.com. If you click on the Forums taband look at the bottom of the page, you will see the Oh Bother! text.

I have modified the feedback-no-forums.php file so that the text line reads “Please select a topic”. I thought that would be easier than trying to remove the box completely (which is what I would rather do).

I placed the file into my child theme. First I put it in the root of the bbpress directory and that did not help. I also recreated the directory structure in my child theme:

bbpress/templates/default

and that didn’t help either.

I am new to WordPress and bbPress as well as css and php files so I have a bit of a learning curve but I’m wondering if you have any thoughts on why this isn’t working.

Thanks,

David

[davidschwartzer]

I think I have resolved this and want to share what I did in case it can help others.

Switching themes did not resolve the issue which indicated to me that the offending text was not associated with the theme’s function.php file.

As is often suggested for many issues, I deactivated all of the plug-ins and saw that the offending text went away. I then re-activated the plug-ins one by one and eventually found that the Subscribe2 plug-in was generating the offensive text (even though I still can’t find where I might have added it in). A reset of the plug-in using the provided reset function seems to have cleared the problem.

Thanks to everyone who offered assistance in this issue.

regards,

David

[davidschwartzer]

Robkk2.0

Thanks for your response.

I don’t recall doing that but perhaps it happened in connect with I plug-in I tried. I took a quick look in the theme folder and do not see that file. Can you point me to where it might be?

Regards,

David