There’s a lack of documentation at the moment because the site is being redone (slowly) and the individuals responsible for the majority of the documentation are also the main developers, who are busy writing code 😀
The location of the forums on your site depend on the settings you have set in Settings > Forums. Take a look at the documentation for basic settings.
You can also manually place the forums index on any regular WordPress page by using the [bbp-forum-index] short code. Short code reference.
Can you give a list of the active plugins you have installed?
How do users register? Default WordPress registration form or a plugin?
When you say the template doesn’t appear, are you referring to the Template drop down in the page editor?
Go to Settings > Forums and enable “Global Access” to see if that fixes the problem.
Yes, the option to disable Topic Tags removes the tags meta box.
Pietro,
Alright that is definitely a problem with your theme then. It sounds like the theme has not added support for custom post types to the background image feature. You should contact the theme developer and see if they can help.
I’ve just tested this on my local bbPress and only the first snippet is needed. The meta box was added automatically and everything worked fine.
It might be a theme conflict, have you tried switching to the default theme?
I don’t think ti’s accurate to say that 99% of the bbPress community uses child themes, at least not in the normal sense of the phrase.
I, for example, have copied the bbPress template files over to my active child theme directory for most sites. The site is running a child theme, but it is not explicitly a child theme for bbPress: it is a child theme of my regular theme that I have added full bbPress support to.
This question relates to BuddyPress, not bbPress.
You have posted on the bbPress forums. Please post your questions to the BuddyPress forums.
Looks like you have a 404 error. If you still have the plugin installed, make sure you have gone to Settings > Permalinks and clicked “Save Changes”.
Drop this code snippet into a custom plugin (you can use Pluginception to easily create one)
function pw_bbp_auto_checK_subscribe( $checked, $topic_subscribed ) {
if( $topic_subscribed == 0 )
$topic_subscribed = true;
return checked( $topic_subscribed, true, false );
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_form_topic_subscribed', 'pw_bbp_auto_checK_subscribe', 10, 2 );
Hmm, that’s strange. Could have been a random bug because I see people reply to their own topics all the time.
Anyhow, glad it’s working for you!
I’ve never tried adding featured images to forums, but the first thing that comes to mind is that you do not need to add the meta box. The featured image meta box should be added automatically by WordPress when you add support for the images.
I may be wrong, but I don’t think you can explicitly create a child theme of the bbPress Twenty Ten theme, not in the usual way anyhow, simply because that theme exists inside of the plugin, not inside of wp-content/themes.
I’d suggest that you copy the entire bbPress Twenty Ten theme to wp-content/themes and then tweak it.
Can you show me a screenshot of the interface for adding the backgrounds? If it is a custom feature that the theme has added in, it will be much more difficult to determine why it doesn’t work, at least without being able to play with the theme myself.
Ah, yes, sorry, Dave is right. I run my local development site on the bleeding edge version and sometimes forget things there are not available to everyone yet 🙂
Sorry, I definitely told you wrong before.
Setting a forum to private will make it so only logged-in users can view it. Logged-out users will get a 404 error.
You can also adjust the permissions that any individual user has for the forums by going to the user’s profile editor in the admin, as shown in the screenshot below:
That is not possible out of the box, only with custom modifications.
See the attached image. It’s the Global Access setting you want to adjust.
The taxonomy ID for tags is “topic-tag”. You don’t want to set the meta_key, however.
You can do it in a couple of ways. One is to use the “tax_query” parameter.
You could also pass a parameter like the following to your query:
'topic-tag' => array('tag-1', 'tag-2')
Does that help?
There is an option in Settings > Forums to control which user types have access to post in the bbPress forums.
When a user is created in bbPress by registering, they are always added to WordPress.
Are you trying to append to the content of the main topic content (the lead), or to all replies within a topic?
Are you using a custom background image feature from your theme, or the built-in background feature provided by WordPress?
