[Pavle123]

@Robkk

Thanks, I will check out and see which one works the best. I am trying to use simple plugins that will not influence my site speed and overkill my site.

[Pavle123]

Hi,

I am still struggling with this.

Can someone help me out please?

[Pavle123]

I tried getting in touch with JJJ and Yoast about this addition or whatsoever , but had no success..Perhaps someone else will.

[Pavle123]

@robkk

I will do that. But this is something that John M. a man in charge of Google WebSpam team said. He said that in order to have forum and good SEO, you need to make sure that no spammy links are posted, that content is good, and if possible to make sure to show or index only what is relevant. If possible find a way to show only popular or lengthy topics.

Honestly, would you like to have “meet and greet” topics and those sort of stuff indexed?

Google wants from us only the best, and it would be good if Yoast and guys from BB could find a solution for this. I am sure it´s not something that complicated.

What do you guys think?

[Pavle123]

Code above should be added to your functions.php file in your theme folder.

[Pavle123]

I have been using this piece of code to call the default bbPress breadcrumbs.

/**
 * Filter to call default bbPress breadcrumbs
 */
add_filter( 'bbp_get_breadcrumb', 'myfix_bbp_get_breadcrumb', 1, 3 );
function myfix_bbp_get_breadcrumb($trail, $crumbs, $r){
        // This will remove wordpress-seo filter to disable bbPress breadcrums by default
        remove_all_filters("bbp_get_breadcrumb",10);
        return $trail;
}

[Pavle123]

@Robkk

Certainly, each site is a story for itself, but I really like the UI and this “little” details you added. It would made my site much better, even without the customization.

Keep up the good work Robkk!

[Pavle123]

Great news, looking forward to all this 🙂

[Pavle123]

@Robkk

Hey there Robkk, I was just wondering how are progressing with this layout?

Looking forward to the news, I hope all is well 🙂

[Pavle123]

@robkk

I understand that man, I would rather have this as a plugin or just a template for my forums opposed to a theme, as I do not want to change a theme.

But anyway, great job.

I know this info about quicksprout because I am an active member of a community and it has been mentioned by the owner (i think there is even a sticky post about forum cost since many people ask this over and over).

What I do not like about their theme is that you have to click on the subforms in order to see if there is a latest post already there.

Really looking forward to it. If you need any help with testing it, let me know, I might be able to help you out.

[Pavle123]

@Robkk

I´d be willing to pay to have a better forum, I think lots of people would.

If I was you I´d sell it. But selling means you´ll have to deal with the support issues.

Anyway, you should focus on creating this to be even more awesome. If I get any idea I´ll let you know.

I am member on quicksprout you mentioned, and their forum cost 12000$, and its far from perfect. I am sometimes annoyed with the limitations of the mobile version.

Somehow I think they are using a service for making this look mobile, perhaps a plugin. I know I´ve seen it already, but I can´t remember the name.

[Pavle123]

Any progress on this?
I really love the design and how useful it is. Once again good job, bbPress deserves something like this 🙂

[Pavle123]

Stephen and Robkk, once again thanks for everything you do here.
I will continue improving my bbPress and will post some codes once I´m done.

[Pavle123]

Okay, figured it out.

I added this code
<a class="bbp-new-topic-button" href="#new-post">New Thead</a>

right after
<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_topics_loop' ); ?>

And now I need to float my button right and add a bit css to it!

Thanks so much guys!

[Pavle123]

Thanks guys, you were really helpful.

I do have a new thread link which as @Robkk suggested looks a bit messy in this location. I´ll try to either find it a new location, or stylize it so that it looks better.

Thanks a lot! You can check out how it looks on my forum.

[Pavle123]

Thanks for all the help @Robbk.

Unfortunately I pasted the code correctly, but I still do not see a link anywhere, will try to figure out why. Any other ideas perhaps? Sorry for bothering you man.

[Pavle123]

Okay I am here with “New Thread button”

1)Downloaded folder content-archive-topic.php from my bbPress plugin folder.
2)Uploaded whole folder to my child theme
here is how it looks now

On top of the code in that folder I added this code :

<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_topics_index' ); ?>

<a class="bbp-new-topic-button" href="#new-post">New Thead</a>

So now my folder looks like this

<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_topics_index' ); ?>

<a class="bbp-new-topic-button" href="#new-post">New Thread</a>

<?php

/**
 * Archive Topic Content Part
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

?>

<div id="bbpress-forums">

	<?php if ( bbp_allow_search() ) : ?>

		<div class="bbp-search-form">

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'search' ); ?>

		</div>

	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?>

	<?php if ( bbp_is_topic_tag() ) bbp_topic_tag_description(); ?>

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_topics_index' ); ?>

	<?php if ( bbp_has_topics() ) : ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',       'topics'    ); ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

	<?php else : ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback',   'no-topics' ); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_topics_index' ); ?>

</div>

Unfortunatlelly I am unable to see new thread link anywhere, what am I doing wrong guys? @netweb @robkk ?

[Pavle123]

Haha I am not that confused 😀

Joking, I would be totally lost without you man, thanks for everything.

I just had to add !important; thingy to the css of my child theme.

.bbp-stats .bbp_stats li {
    margin: 0;
    display: inline-block <strong>!important;</strong>
    padding: 5px;
}

Now my stats look neat. Any idea how this forum I sent you a link to has them with these icons,etc?

Even now my stats look neat. Will try to move on to the “new thread button” now, and post what I did 🙂

[Pavle123]

It would be useful if you could share the link or something.
Have you pasted the forum shortcode on a page?

Forums

[bbp-forum-index] – This will display your entire forum index.

[Pavle123]

Oh crap, do you mean I should copy the whole folder content-archive-topic.php inside my theme? Well that makes sense 🙂

Here is what I did :

1) Uploaded content-archive-forum.php to my child theme folder.
2) Added this piece of code at the bottom

<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_forums_index' ); ?>

</div>

<?php echo do_shortcode("[bbp-stats]"); ?>

3) Added this CSS in my style.css of child theme (CSS is not working unfortunately, not sure why?)

.bbp-stats .bbp_stats {
    list-style-type: none;
    display: block;
    text-align: center;
    margin-left: 0px;
    float: none;
}

.bbp-stats .bbp_stats li {
    margin: 0;
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 5px;
}

So, now stats are shown at the bottom, but CSS is not targeting the stats.

Okay about “new thread button” I was unable to make it work. Here is what I did.
1) I added content-archive-topic.php folder from my bbPress plugin content-archive-topic.php into my child theme folder.

2)Added this code

<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_topics_index' ); ?>

<a class="bbp-new-topic-button" href="#new-post">New Thead</a>

At ABOVE the content-archive-topic.php

<?php

/**
 * Archive Forum Content Part
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

?>

<div id="bbpress-forums">

	<?php if ( bbp_allow_search() ) : ?>

		<div class="bbp-search-form">

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'search' ); ?>

		</div>

	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?>

	<?php bbp_forum_subscription_link(); ?>

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_forums_index' ); ?>

	<?php if ( bbp_has_forums() ) : ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',     'forums'    ); ?>

	<?php else : ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback', 'no-forums' ); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_forums_index' ); ?>

</div>

<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_forums_index' ); ?>

</div>

<?php echo do_shortcode("[bbp-stats]"); ?>

But its not working for me.

Any ideas?

[Pavle123]

Wow, this looks nice!

[Pavle123]

Hm, okay I did not know where elswehere to put it.

<?php

/**
 * Archive Topic Content Part
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

?>

<div id="bbpress-forums">

	<?php if ( bbp_allow_search() ) : ?>

		<div class="bbp-search-form">

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'search' ); ?>

		</div>

	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?>

	<?php if ( bbp_is_topic_tag() ) bbp_topic_tag_description(); ?>

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_topics_index' ); ?>

	<?php if ( bbp_has_topics() ) : ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',       'topics'    ); ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

	<?php else : ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback',   'no-topics' ); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_topics_index' ); ?>

</div>

So this obviously does not go into css, so do you know where inside my child theme should I put the content-archive-topic.php code?

[Pavle123]

@Robkk

Hey Robkk,

Okay I started customizing ,and I started with new thread button.
I did this as you suggested

copy content-archive-topic.php into your child theme right now then

And I copied it into my child theme functions.php, but it all looked messed up, is the functions.php the place to copy this code or not?

Thanks again, you are amazing.

[Pavle123]

@Robkk

Thanks so much. I will do that tonight.
I was ready to give up on this idea of improving my forum, but I got fired up by your knowledge that I will start implementing what you shared with me here.

I will be posting updates and what I did shortly.

[Pavle123]

Robin that´s absolutely correct.

I was using BuddyPress login widget into my “Forum only” sidebar.
I removed that widget and added bbPress login ,and it works.

My theme : Genesis Sample
Plugins used : BuddyPress, bbPress, BuddyPress Extender, BBpress Extender.

Hope this will help someone.

Everything works now for me. Thanks for the help.