Hey muffin, the theme is kind of like a jump start to get people going, it’s not a fully complete theme. Descriptions currently are a little difficult but should be able to get them sorted.
Have you tried creating all the forums, and then visiting the forum page to see what it looks like?
From the sound of it you want the forum to take on the theme of your site, which if your using the plugin it most likely will do.
The bbPress theme is inside the plugin and inherits your wordpress themes styling.
If you wish to change that then you need to copy the theme files out of the plugin and into your wordpress theme. The theme files are inside templates/default I believe.
Copy them out into your wordpress theme and then edit those files to get your preferred look, good luck!
If you need to create a register page, then you can add a new page via wordpress and then put this shortcode inside it: [bbp-register] – this will allow people to register for the forum.
You can add in a bit of CSS to help put them onto a new line, if you have firefox + firebug you can right click and inspect element. You can then see the list, it just needs to have some display:block added onto the list items.
good luck!
Hey all, great to hear people are working with the theme more and more, I will work on an updated version for you all to get stuck in. Hopefully I will get more of the issues resolved and sort out some of the profile pages too.
Generally the main forum page is the only one that is done to give you a good start, but I have changed a lot on teamoverpowered.com/forums so I will try and bring that across into a better starter theme, hold tight!
Hmm, doesn’t look like that url is going to the right page?
In your theme you have some CSS which is targeting
.reply a { // some css styles }
This is turning all of your links inside .reply into blue buttons, which I guess is somewhere else in your theme.
Topics are custom post types. When you save a post in wordpress and then rename it, the permalink doesn’t change, it stays the same.
This is the same for bbPress.
What you could do is check is_user_logged_in() around your bbPress template files, this would hide the forum.
You could also do this whenever you show the link to your forum, this would mean the forum is never show to anyone who is not logged in.
Then you could do a custom WP_Query to fetch some topics to display on the front of your website.
Also as a nice little touch you could do an else { } at the bottom of your is_user_logged_in() check and state that they need to be logged in to view the forum.
If you add the code in you get a Division by zero and if you take it out you don’t get it, is that correct?
Have you tried taking it back out?
I am just wondering if it is a recently updated plugin causing the division by zero.
You might be better off asking this on the wordpress forums: https://wordpress.org/support/
You will need to copy over the bbPress theme files from the plugin directory and into your theme, then you can add in the get_sidebar() function into the theme although it should be there already.
Try that and see how you get on, a good reference is: https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/
Good luck!
Are you running any caching plugins?
Well it depends on what your theme uses as it’s sidebar container.
.bbPress is a class which is applied to the body tag so you can tell if it is on a bbPress page.
.sidebar is a guess at what the sidebar container is on your theme.
stack them together and then use display:none to hide the sidebar on all bbPRess pages.
You can add this into your bbPress stylesheet or your wordpress stylesheet (it is usually nicer to add it into your bbPress stylesheet so that all bbPress styles are contained in one place).
Good luck!
Hmm, not sure its a “really dirty grimy hack”.
Removing the sidebar means you no longer have access to it, should you require it on certain pages, or if like some themes you want to access it on topics so you can show latest discussions, but not on full forum pages.
Otherwise you have to go through and remove it from all bbPress template files, if you ever want it back, you need to revert that process.
For future reference, if you want to remove the sidebar just from bbPress files you can use something like…
.bbPress .sidebar { display:none; } // depending on your theme.
Good luck!
You could just use css maybe? It allows you to quick switch back in case you need it, or if you need it on certain bbPress pages maybe.
Because bbPress is using custom post types you could use: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query.
See the part about taxonomy parameters, you can set the post_type to whatever you want.
The best way to remove a sidebar is probably to just use CSS to .sidebar { display:none } (depending on your themes markup) – it is quick and allows you to quickly add the sidebar back in should you need it later on.
Or you can go through all of the theme files and remove get_sidebar.
Good luck!
Create a page and call it something like forum registration.
Add the registration shortcode: [bbp-register]
Then link to the new page.
(You can find more shortcodes here: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/)
The only thing I can think of is that there is some template files that are overriding the default bbPress theme and they are erroring because of some custom function or have no actual code in them.
Have you had a look in your theme folder to see if there is a bbpress folder, is there any files inside that folder?
I had that exact same issue…
Try something like this: http://pastebin.com/hX5NCJnv
Good luck!
Just to clarify, your wordpress permalinks are already set as /post-id/{id} and bbPress is not using this permalink structure? I am not sure if bbPress is setup to be able to use a different permalink structure…
Have you tried switching to a default theme to see if the theme is causing this issue? It looks it is going to be a plugin or theme issue.
When I have any issues I try and replicate my forum on a local test, then I disable plugins one by one to see if that fixes it, then I try switching to a default theme. Usually that gets me a lot closer to finding out what is causing the issue.
Good luck!
