You should start a new thread @carzpk and explain your problem, but you should contact your premium theme support on how to add sidebars.
And keep in mind that most premium themes are not as good as the developers claim and you should always try to make your own child-theme so you are in control instead of out of control.
It seems to me you need to make a child-theme and add sidebars to your functions.php and page templates.
Took me a while but now I know about making child-themes I am in full control over what appears where.
Hi @brent0r
I made the following adjustment in my child-theme´s loop-single-forum.php and styled with CSS.
This code will place all elements in the right order to have simple CSS adjustments make it all work as expected.
<?php
/**
* Forums Loop - Single Forum
*
* @package bbPress
* Theme OrganicSquare
* Child-theme of TwentySixteen
*/
?>
<ul id="bbp-forum-<?php bbp_forum_id(); ?>" <?php bbp_forum_class(); ?>>
<li class="bbp-forum-info">
<div class="forumtitle">
<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_forum_title' ); ?>
<a class="bbp-forum-title" href="<?php bbp_forum_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php bbp_forum_title(); ?>"><?php bbp_forum_title(); ?></a>
<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_forum_title' ); ?>
<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_forum_sub_forums' ); ?>
<div class="bbp-forum-content"><?php bbp_forum_content(); ?></div>
<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_forum_sub_forums' ); ?>
<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_forum_description' ); ?>
<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_forum_description' ); ?>
<?php bbp_forum_row_actions(); ?></div>
</li>
<li class="bbp-forum-topic-count">
<div class="topic-reply-counts">Topics: <span class="ismcounter"><?php bbp_forum_topic_count(); ?></span></div>
<div class="topic-reply-counts">Posts: <span class="ismcounter"><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? bbp_forum_reply_count() : bbp_forum_post_count(); ?></span></div>
</li>
<li class="bbp-topic-freshness mob-hide-link-forum">
<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_forum_freshness_link' ); ?>
<div class="freshness-author"><span class="fresh-avatar"><?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_forum_last_active_id(), 'type' => 'avatar', 'size' => '40' ) ); ?></span>
<div class="fresh"><h2><a href=" <?php bbp_forum_last_reply_url(); ?>" class="forumpostlink"><?php bbp_forum_last_reply_title(); ?></a></h2>
<span class="forumlist-name"><?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_forum_last_active_id(), 'type' => 'name' ) ); ?></span>
<span class="widgetlistdate"><?php bbp_forum_freshness_link(); ?></span></div>
<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_forum_freshness_link' ); ?>
</div>
</li>
</ul><!-- #bbp-forum-<?php bbp_forum_id(); ?> -->
Ha ha, tell me about it, 100´s of hours here as well, but weirdly enjoyable when it starts coming together.
Nice work on a good mobile version and very impressive, I have been trying a similar path but have no coding knowledge so rely on cut and pasting.
Hi @arutam
I tried to get to that empty page but my login redirect works for me and few others, we are redirected to the activity page.
The only way to get to that page is to type that actual url once logged in.
It seems I need to do a little study on how to make that page look different when already logged in.
Thanks for pointing it out.
P.H.
Here are a few screenshots:
Category pages show titles of last reply/post.
Topics can hold images and have a like system.
Profile pages are beefed up a bit.
Activity wall with likes, images and forum list on left side.
You could use CSS to make the width of articles 100%
.article {width: 100%;}
You can use google Chrome to test/alter CSS to see what you need to do to fix things.
Use right mouse button on an element on the screen and press “inspect”, then a window opens where you can play with CSS.
You do have a child-theme I hope?
Sorry, meant to say that the little info you gave is enough, cheers for that mate.
Thanks for that guys, a bit more info from @robkk is very much appreciated and TamrielFoundry was my initial inspiration to continue with BBPress over other software, @casiepa cool… brilliant link thanks.
I love what you guys are doing.
P.H.
Give it a shot, I prefer it over phpbb as it is much easier to adjust to needs.
Just install and give it a shot, should work fine
btw, here are a few images of the theme I am working on now at http://www.seedism.nl
And I wish this forum did a bit more to sell BBPress, where are the showcases, the paid for professionals and why is this theme still sooooo boring.
Why not integrate more with Buddypress forums, as I can not believe people only using BBPress on its own, I want a better profile.
Why not have the option to test plugins on this site with live demos.
Why not have a clear donation button on your site, or do anything to receive funds to spend time improving the BB line.
Perhaps charge people 1 euro to download BBPress first time then free for life through account, perhaps the free model gives more awareness but BBPress is good enough to compete with expensive forum software.
Why not compete with codecanyon and offer premium plugins that work without conflicts.
Why not hire me as vice president of BBCorp and pay me lots, I accept jellybeans as currency.
Anyway, as mentioned before loving BBPress.
P.H.
Will look at that plugin, sounds good if it does not create conflicts with my custom theme.
Had to google Bootstrap
I am almost ready with mobile version of my theme, actually not too bad to do with minimal css coding.
Will have a look at that bootstrap thingy, perhaps I can copy and paste my way to integration, give me a few years and it will be done…lol
I guess Php and Java should become easier over time for most, I get how some hooks work and understand the logic of a certain line of code, but do not know to write a line of Php or Java if my live depended on it, start to panic when databases are mentioned..lol
More like a blind guy trying to finish a puzzle, keep banging pieces together until they stuck.
But I must say that peoples reaction give me a warm gooey feeling inside, and should show everyone here that BBPress can be whatever you want it to be, if I can do it so can you…
P.H.
And the WordPress/BBPress combo is actually quite easy to play with, took me a while (2 years almost) to understand the code but now like a puzzle that is relatively easy to manipulate.
Only big issue I always find is the massive amounts of javascript and css queries, trying soon to combine a bit more.
Lol, yeah it is not very smart of me to update templates on live sites, but try to get close to being done before they go live.
I do not make many sites as my regular job keeps me very busy, and the site I do run do not get massive amounts of visitors so errors and bugs are quite minimal for them, although I do get people reporting access problems every now and then due to my updates.
When I grow up I hope to be more organized and structured..lol
Peter Hamilton
Yeah I need to look into that, tried a few years ago but really did not understand how to, even with lots of tutorials.
I do actually have a test site where I keep most of my clients sites during production, url is http://www.my-latest.com and I should use it more…lol
Really not a webdeveloper by trade, just a hobby and being anal about controlling everything myself.
onlijn.com is more of a fun project that had no time allocated for a while, but I am getting to understand BBPress better every time I use it.
Now just completed a BBPress forum at seedism.nl and very happy with the outcome once again.
link here
Ofcourse it is a lot easier now that BBPress and Buddypress have added some core functions that took a lot of hacking a few years ago.
Still loving BBPress and convinced it is the better option for forums.
Peace
Peter
So after updates with BBPress and Buddypress my site is currently broken but will have it up and running soon again with a much improved code.
In dashboard remove the “forums” slug
Easy, just install bbpress and activate plugin.
From dashboard you create a forum and publish
Then go to appearance => menus, and add forums to your navigation.
But the link Pascal gave should give you a good start
Is this BBPress though, I see xenoforo code only
wanguard works best for me…no more spammers at all
But out of the box BBPress does not separate forums in different categories.
This needs to be achieved with a few hacks.
TamrielFoundry was my model as it is the better looking BBPress forum on the web.
After trying a few hacks, like the “epicwebs” snippets from GitHub I decided to create a simpler loophole.
I created a page (see here) on which I added the following text to create categories with a forum list of each categorie under it.
<strong>Creative</strong>
[bbp-single-forum id=63]
<strong>Healthy Living</strong>
[bbp-single-forum id=164]
<strong>Entertainment</strong>
[bbp-single-forum id=58]
The lines “bbp-single-forum id=XX” has the ID for each category with the forums of that category displayed under them.
Good luck
P.H.
I think (correct me if I am wrong) you can use this snippet in your functions.php
function login_redirect( $redirect_to, $request, $user ){
return home_url('forums');
}
add_filter( 'login_redirect', 'login_redirect', 10, 3 );
I use this on my site onlijn.com and works good for me.
