[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

Reading through the code is actually a great way to learn.

Having a giant list of functions doesn’t help explain what they do or where they are called.

If you happen to be using bbP 2.1 beta then you can use this plugin and it will neatly show you all the hooks available.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-visual-hooks/

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

Yep unless you have a custom plugin that houses your customizations the next best place would be your theme’s functions.php.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

You should be able to filter the login form using bbp_wp_login_action.

Check out bbp-common-template.php starting at line 837. bbp_wp_login_action is what the login/registration forms use.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

If memory serves me correct, I don’t know if there is a way to get this working on bbp 2.0 – I had tried it before with no luck.

I *think* this might be addressed in 2.1 – do you know which you are running?

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

Unfortunatly I can’t give you a 100% complete answer, but what you are trying to do is definitely the right direction.

Here is something to get you started:

.forum a { color: white !important; }

.bbp-forum-info { color: black !important; }

.bbp-forum-topic-count { color: black !important; }

.bbp-forum-reply-count { color: black !important; }

.bbp-forum-freshness { color: black !important; }

.bbp-forums,

.bbp-topics {

border: 1px solid rgba(125, 125, 125, .5);

color: white !important;}

.bbp-forums a { color: white !important; }

table.bbp-forums th, table.bbp-topics th, table.bbp-topic th, table.bbp-replies th {

background-color:black;

color: white !important;

}

table.bbp-forums thead tr {

border-top: 1px solid rgba(125, 125, 125, .5);

}

#content table tbody tr.odd td {

background-color:#222;

color: white !important;

}

#content table tbody tr.even td {

color: white !important;

background: #111;

}

#content table.bbp-forums tfoot td, #content table.bbp-topics tfoot td, #content table.bbp-topic tfoot td, #content table.bbp-replies tfoot td, #content table.bbp-replies tr.bbp-reply-header td, #content table.bbp-topic tr.bbp-topic-header td {

background: black;

color: #fff !important;

}

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

It really just depends on what you want to do.

bbPress 2.x isn’t going anywhere, so if you are considering moving the bbPress that’s likely the route you will want to take.

You likely won’t encounter any problems, even for a “large” forum. The only time (from what we have seen in the past) that issues have come up is when various caching methods are in place.

The main reason there is no “definite” answer for this is because at the moment there just aren’t a lot of large bbPress installs out in the wild. If there were more we would be able to address some of the issues (like conflicts with caching) but they are so few at the moment that it just makes it hard to track down.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

Unfortunately there isn’t a shortcode for this at the moment.

bbPress by default puts the “new topic” form at the bottom of your topics listings. You could probably create a new template that uses this code for its own dedicated page, but it would require likely creating a custom plugin and some php knowledge.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

How familiar are you with CSS? This is something you will need to tweak in your theme’s CSS – essentially override the styles that bbPress is using.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

Are you having them register via a registration form generated from the bbp-register shortcode?

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

NIce!

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

Hmmm, that’s a good question. Maybe jjj will have an answer when he gets back in the office

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

Correct, PM is a component of BuddyPress and is not available in bbPress at this time.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

If you have a question, feel free to creata a topic.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

I have not personally used SimplePress or bbPress with exceptionally large installations, but there was previous discussion going on at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbp-plug-in-for-wp-scalable

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

There is no concrete release date for 2.1, however it should be “soon”.

Currently there are only a few tickets let to be addressed before it is released and they all are related to bbPress->BuddyPress issues.

Once those remaining tickets are cleared then it will be ready for release.

My completely unofficial guess would be 2-4 weeks.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

This might help a little:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbp-plug-in-for-wp-scalable

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

Great, you had most of it figured out though.

That’s totally understandable – I couldn’t remember it off the top of my head either and had to go dig through some code – but that’s the best way to learn

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

You need to enable “pretty permalinks”.

Should be able to fix that by going to Settings > Permalinks and changing the setting there.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

You are close. bbPress does not use the tag taxonomy, that is strictly for posts.

You’ll need to use tax_query as you mentioned. This is untested but should give you a general idea

$mytopics_args = array(

'post_type' => 'topic',

'numberposts' => 15,

'tax_query' => array(

array(

'taxonomy' => bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id(),

'field' => 'slug',

'terms' => 'you-tag-slug'

)

)

);

$mytopics = new WP_Query( $mytopics_args );

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

Go to Settings > General and check the option “Anyone can register”.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

There isn’t really an “easy” way to do it. What I would do:

1. Register new sidebar for this, named bbPress widget area or something similar.

2. Use bbPress hooks to place widget area in bbPress template places you desire

3. Place bbPress widget into the new widget area.

4. Enjoy.

You’ll need to have a the basic understanding of WordPress to do something like this probably, not sure how familiar you are with it.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

That sucks. If theme was done properly to begin with it wouldn’t have these issues – instead theme authors junk them up with function that change how the WordPress output is expected.

Depending on what theme you are using, sadly the best way is going to be to start going through you theme and temporarily commenting out functions that filter and/or change how the content outputs.

it’s not ideal but its just the way it goes when you are dealing with themes like this.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

Removing the sidebar on for bbPress pages is going to likely come down to editing whatever WordPress theme you are using, there’s really no way for bbPress to handle that since there are so many themes out there and they all do things differently.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

No the Genesis Framework is a theme framework you build themes on top of – http://www.studiopress.com/themes/genesis

It’s the same as other theme frameworks such as Thematic, Hybrid, Canvas (WooThemes), and others.

Unfortunately it’s not something you just dop in and activate to work with your current theme. Your theme has to be built on top of the framework.

A framework typically handles all of the complex functions such as dealing with the various layouts available.

This is why layout-specific control is not a good candidate for bbPress core. How a layout works and is controlled in TwentyEleven is not going to be the same as other themes – each work in their own way – so it’s not really possible to control *all* of them with a simple option. This needs to be done on a theme-by-theme basis so the option can accommodate how the theme being used handles layouts.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

No, there is not – at least not at the moment.

You can go through the bbPress plugins on the .org repo https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=bbpress