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Hi Guys,

we’re happy to say that an UPDATED video has just been released that covers all aspects of bbPress 2.2.2 and BuddyPress 1.6.1, including:

http://labzip.com/the-definitive-guide-to-buddypress-bbpress-configuration/

– Installation of bbPress as the BuddyPress Group Forums
– Turning off BuddyPress Forums
– BuddyPress settings in Settings/Forums
– Pitfalls to avoid during installation and setup
– Roles and Capabilities (both for WP and bbPress)
– Use of the Membership Plugin (Justin Tadlock) and bbPress Tools for legacy members
– Child Themes and bbPress
– Two ways to setup a bbPress forum index page and make it a landing page of your site
….and much, much more.

This is a WHOPPER … clocking in at 29:00, but I GUARANTEE it will help solve many of the questions and issues that folks have been having with the new combination of bbPress & BuddyPress.

If anyone has any questions, please post them here, or you are welcome to post them to our forum at LabZip.com if they are not directly related to bbPress alone.

Cheers!

Spence

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editor here was not playing nice with my code… should be “echo do_shortcode…”

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aaclayton, couple things:

1) Justin Tadlock just updated Members plugin to address the fatal error warning. Should work now.

2) If you have custom WP roles, we’ve found you can use Members plugin (Role Editor) to add the appropriate capability to an existing custom role. Participate and Spectate being the relevant capabilities for most visitors. This is how we gracefully merge WooCommerce (which has default role of “Customer”) with bbPress. We modify the Customer Role to add “participate” to it, so that anyone who visits site and purchases as a customer or registers free with WP (because we’ve set this as our our default role for WP under General/Settings) has the ability to post to bbPress.

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Likewise, I have found it doesn’t work, or at least I cannot determine what if any effect it is having.

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1) Create a new page
2) Add the bbPress ShortCode for forum index: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/  which is [bbp-forum-index]
3) Save the page
4) Go to Settings/Reading and choose this new page as the default home page (instead of your blog).

This will get you a bbPress Forum index on your home page.

To make a “mix” of your bbPress and blog posts, you need to modify your home page template file. This differs per theme, but may be called home.php or index.php (it’s in your theme folder). You would add the bbPress shortcode above the WP loop that displays blog posts. Use the do_shortcode method shown here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode

so it would be (within php tags): do_shortcode('[bbp-forum-index]')

If you do this, then you won’t need to  create a page and modify your Settings/Reading as elaborated in steps 1 to 4 above.

Good luck!

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Hi Sydney,

I’ve beendoing extensive testing this week to prepare anupdate to the video, and find I get similar results regarding group forums. I will be releasing my results and suggestions in a new video here ASAP.

 

In the meantime, I suggest you consider leaving legacy group forums “as is” for now.

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Sorry iPad…”in your theme that doesn’t “

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No,

the solution is to fix the one page template in your parent theme spit doesn’t hijack the content area and force an excerpt to appear (because there is one with bbPress!)

likely there is a conditional on the page.php template in that theme looking if page is single… See my other post link above.

 

Im from Chicago, but many of my pals are Serbian 🙂

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One more thing:

User profile was causing a problem where navigation was pushing down summary of topics and replies. Add this CSS to fix:

#bbpress-forums .bbp-user-section {
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
}

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I ran a test site and figured it out for you… or anyone who is having same issue.

It seems that the bbp-user-section class needs the attribute of “inline-block” in order to properly float to the right of the profile navigation. Also I had to force it to go 100% width (it picked up the 68% from somewhere else)

Use  this CSS:

#bbpress-forums .bbp-user-section {
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
}

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Zdravo!!

Ok, that helps.

First suggestion:

What happens if you use shortcodes to create a forum index?  https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

Take the shortcode of: [bbp-forum-index] and add it to a blank page.

Does that create a visible forum index?

If so, then  your problem imho is that your theme is hijacking the content area in a way that prevents the new bbPress code from working. As such, the solution would be found most likely in your theme’s page.php or similar, where the default archive pages are created. I don’t have access to the Gonzo theme since it is on ThemeForest ;-(

but you can see in my recent post, we fixed a similar solution for Canvas 5 from WooThemes. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/non-functional-index-page-when-bbpress-2-1rc4-is-used-with-woothemes-canvas-5-05/

If not, then please share the link to the page where you posted the shortcode so I can see the underlying output.

Hvala!

Spence

 

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URL of site?

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the URL of site would make it easy to help you…is it online?

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Sydney,

what happens if you try to change the privacy setting of a legacy group forum? Save it as private (or opposite of what it was), and then change it back. Save permalinks just for good measure, then reload.

This is a long-shot idea…

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Hi Gang,

well…. this one through me for a loop today as well, when moving our WooThemes Canvas for bbPress & BuddyPress site for a test drive on bbPress 2.2 ( http://labsecrets.com/demo/canvas-commerce )

The individual forums would work fine, but the main forum index was rendering what looked like a post excerpt, with everything jumbled into a single paragraph.

Solution was actually rather simple. If you are using a child-theme in Canvas (you ARE using a child-theme I hope?? 😉  ) simply make a copy of the content-page.php file from parent, and put it into your child-theme folder.

Next, change the entry div as shown, to modify the current conditional check to ALSO see if you are on a bbPress page. Without this extra bit, it assumes that you want the page to show the_excerpt() on every page other than single.php …. not true. We want full content on bbPress pages as well 😉

<div class="entry">
<?php
/* If this is a bbPress page show full content not exerpt */
if ( ! is_singular() && (! is_bbPress()) ) {
the_excerpt();
} else {
the_content(__('Continue Reading &rarr;', 'woothemes') );
}
wp_link_pages( $page_link_args );
?>
</div><!-- /.entry -->

With this simple mod, all is well and now the native forums index works, and so does building a custom page with shortcode. Ta da!

See: http://labsecrets.com/demo/canvas-commerce/forums/

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Sydney,

in our experience…you simply go to each pre-existing group and toggle the “allow group forum” for each. Save. Then turn it back on. Save again.

That has worked for us.

cheers!

spence

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This video is indeed out of date for 2.2+ … but only insofar as the new features are concerned.

The issue you asked about, however, was the problem of “This group does not currently have any forums.”

the “fix” for that does seem to remain the same (deleting the bb-config.php file and resetting the option boxes).

The issue isn’t about “turning on” the group forums… it’s about the fact that there is a “quirk” that can block the normal activation from working unless you cycle the config file.

If you haven’t tried that, I encourage you to give it a shot… you may find it works 😉

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Ok,

next idea is to re-save your Permalinks under Settings/Permalinks (just click “save”).

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Have a peek at our quick fix for this problem… follow step by step and you should be fine:

http://labzip.com/the-definitive-guide-to-buddypress-bbpress-configuration/

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In many of our client custom setups, the fix was on line 78 of the default css:

See our post here for potential quick fix to the CSS:

bbPress 2.2.2 released

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Between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2, we found that the profile pages suddenly “vanished” (but the code was still there). It was a CSS issue.

For our clients and personal sites, the fix was on line 78 of the default css:

We changed “clear:none” to “clear:both”


#bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper ul.bbp-lead-topic, #bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper ul.bbp-topics, #bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper ul.bbp-forums, #bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper ul.bbp-replies, #bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper fieldset.bbp-form {   clear: both; }

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For those <= 2.1.3 what parts should I focus upon to make them 100% accurate?

I’m happy to update the video to improve it for folks who need the same. Based on the comments to the video, it seemed to have been useful to the community and helped many folks out.

Just trying to help…

your feedback is greatly appreciated

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Mmmm…..

Maybe want to hang on to the sticky for a bit longer?

2.2 seems to have unleashed a wave of calls and emails to our office from folks having some troubles with the update… especially those running any plugins that worked with <= 2.1.3 … many of those plugins aren’t playing nice with 2.2

I’m going to be doing a bunch of testing and experimenting in the meantime, but for now many folks have a nice safe place to go with 2.1.3 while the new stuff shakes out on 2.2+

When our new video is ready, I’ll send it over to help out anyone with these growing pains.

Cheers!

spence

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What do you mean mendesites?