[Robin W]

How long have you had the forum?, and how long have you had the problem?

Have you done any additional plugins, wordpress, bbpress or other plugin upgrades, or changed css or functions recently?

What versions of wordpress and bbpress are you on?

[Robin W]

Not quite sure what you are after

There is a bbpress widget that shows latest topics which you can put into your sidebar.

Otherwise come back and explain some more !

[Robin W]

Think this thread should help you

http://wpml.org/forums/topic/conflick-with-bbpress/

[Robin W]

suspect this should do it !

https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-new-user-notifications/

[Robin W]

it’s coming from bbpress stylesheet.

there may be a quicker way to remove this, but one that should work is as follows.

I don’t think you have a childtheme, and now may be the time to consider having one, see https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/ for more details

once done you need to navigate to

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css

copy this file into a folder called css within your theme, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/mychildtheme/css/bbpress.css

where mychildtheme is the name of your childtheme

Then edit every line that has

background-color : xxxxxxx

change to

background: none repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);

NOTE it goes from background-color to background
and it is only the background color that you’ll be changing, not lines which just have color: as that’ll be text!

eg

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
	background-color: #f4f4f4;
}

becomes

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
	background: none repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
}

This will make the background transparent, but with a darker tint shading that you have in your sidebar (the amount of difference is on the 0.4 bit, 0.1 is the lightest, 1.0 the darkest).

Come back if that doesn’t fix it, or for further help

[Robin W]

the answer is probably yes – a forum post is a post

You might do better to install bbPress WP Tweaks Widget Logic plugin which gives you a forum specific sidebar

alternately (or additionally) use widget logic where you can use code like is_bbpress()or the negative !is_bbpress()to control where widgets are shown

[Robin W]

Biloute,

There are lots of ways into bbpress and wordpress. Can you post a link to the screen you’re talking about so that we can clearly see what text you want to remove.

[Robin W]

great, glad you’re sorted !

[Robin W]

ok, that all looks fine.

The error as far as I can work out says that it has an unexpected ‘/ ‘ on the evaluated code on line 4 – so for the code in the profile page line 4 is

?>/edit/">

However this may not be a line 4 error, but something that is missing or not evaluating correctly on an earlier line.

I’d try the following

Recheck that the code is pasted exactly as it should be, with no missing characters eg ‘;’s from ends of lines etc. The lines posted in my previous post go passed the visible, so did you scroll to the right – just checking the obvious first !

that your domain is spelled correctly etc.

Then I’d try removing the / from the start of line 4 – the edit bit, and the from the end of the edit bit – I don’t think that’s the problem, but try it anyway.

The just form my sanity copy the code from your page back into a post here, and I try it on my site to see if I get the error.

Then we’ll see where we go from there !
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[Robin W]

ok, great to hear, and suspect you’ll never know why it didn’t – that’s computers for you !

[Robin W]

Ok, thanks for clarifying.

Suspect this could be because your path is slightly different.

Can you go into a profile edit for me , that is into bbpress and then go into edit for a real username

The in the url you should be something like

http://mysite.com/forums/users/admin/edit

Post on here what that path looks like. You can substitute mysite.com for your site, and admin for whatever username you are using, it is the stuff around that I am after.

[Robin W]

Hey, great that you’re working !

[Robin W]

the best solution so far courtesy of Ronthai

In Dashboard>plugins>add new
Search for WP exec PHP, install and activate

Create a new page called “profile” or whatever name you want

In content of this page, add this code

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://mysite.com/forums/users/<?php global $current_user;
      get_currentuserinfo();

     echo  $current_user->user_login . "";
      
?>/edit/">

Where mysite.com is your site name

If using custom menus, add the page to the menu.

And it works !

[Robin W]

Ronthai – have just tried it for profile, and it works well

Summary of what I did

In Dashboard>plugins>add new
Search for WP exec PHP, install and activate

Create a new page called “profile” or whatever name you want

In content of this page, add this code

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://mysite.com/forums/users/<?php global $current_user;
      get_currentuserinfo();

     echo  $current_user->user_login . "";
      
?>/edit/">

Where mysite.com is your site name

If using custom menus, add the page to the menu.

And it works !

[Robin W]

hmmm…

Should work !

Are you changing it in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-forums.php?

or in your child theme?, and if the latter can you detail the path from wp-content/ onwards

[Robin W]

I’m sorry that you feel that something for which you paid nothing isn’t for you.

But I don’t think that abusing the people on here who are trying to help you by saying it sucks is really the way forward.

I hope you are able to find some free software that works precisely as you want.

Whilst most people use sidebars and widgets to perform these functions, I shall continue to see if there is an easy way to get this into a menu and add it to the codex if I work it out.

Best wishes

Robin

[Robin W]

Just had another thought. Since the error is occurring as part of the submit, it could be an issue with the database.

I’d suggest you run the repair functions for the forums

Dashboard>tools>forums

I’d run them all, BUT ONLY ONE AT A TIME! as they use a lot of resource

[Robin W]

Steady, wasn’t accusing you of doing anything wrong ! A programming error can occur in plugins, or as a result of a combination of plugins. “You have a programming error” is very different from “you created a programming error” ! That you have an error doesn’t mean you created it !

I still find that when I submit I get a http500 error, but the post has posted. If I click refresh it then works fine.

As you have tried this with all plugins except buddypress disabled, and you have tried it with just twenty-eleven, then I’d suggest you try without buddypress to eliminate that.

If you still have the problem, the suggest you delete and reload both bbpress and buddypress plugins in case they glitched when loading.

[Robin W]

@crzyhrse

Hey thanks for your kind words, very much appreciated.

I have added you submit button at the bottom of the styling guide, and happy to add any others people will think useful.

I am trying to write a filters and actions guide – but keep getting diverted to other things, and a “creating a test site” guide as well, so hopefully will get these onto site in the next few weeks !

[Robin W]

your last question is easy, .org have customised, just as you are trying to do by adding it as a menu item – we all like it to look slightly differently to others.

I have tried from my little knowledge to get it to work but can’t. The best I can get is

// Filter wp_nav_menu() to add profile link
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_nav_menu_profile_link' );
function my_nav_menu_profile_link($menu) { 	
	if (!is_user_logged_in())
		return $menu;
	else
		$user      = get_userdata( $user_id );
		$name      = esc_attr( $user_name );
		$user_link = '<li><a href="http://www.mysite.com/forums/users/' . $user . '/edit">Amend profile</a></li>';
		$menu = $menu . $user_link;
		return $menu;
}

But this just returns

http://www.mysite.com/forums/users//edit

Sorry, I have given up.

Can someone else get this working? – it is now annoying me !

[Robin W]

I am still playing with this, and it doesn’t currently work, but it’s something like adding the following to your functions file

// Filter wp_nav_menu() to add profile link
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_nav_menu_profile_link' );
function my_nav_menu_profile_link($menu) { 	
	if (!is_user_logged_in())
		return $menu;
	else
		$profilelink = '<li><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); edit" >Amend Profile</a></li>';
		$menu = $menu . $profilelink;
		return $menu;
}

Syntax needs sorting

I’m out most of today, but if you or someone else cracks this, then paste the solution here, and it’ll save me repeating the work.

Solution is based on

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/adding-dynamic-profile-link-to-main-menu-item/

which does the business for buddypress.

[Robin W]

Think that’s pretty well how it was intended, and agree that some bits could be clearer.

If a user clicks their avatar they will be taken to their profile and can amend it.

I have downloaded the enhanced text widget

https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-text-widget/

and then I have a text entry of

<p><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>edit" >Amend Profile/Change password</a></p>

in my widget sidebar to make it obvious for users.

[Robin W]

John,

Thanks for this – I have been playing with WordPress for less than a year now, so still consider myself to be a newbie at this, but one who is keen to share stuff I have learnt, and one who has spent many hours googling for solutions.

I try to write for those with little knowledge, so if you think the wording can be better on any post/documentation entry, please come back. What is clear to an author is often not clear to everyone else, so please add to improving the codex and posts where people like me are not clear, and as you learn more, please visit the support forum and see if you can help one or two others with their problems.

All the support people on here are volunteers, no-one is paid and we give back time as we got the code and support for free when we needed it. Join us in helping others !

[Robin W]

Thanks lee990, that looks like a smarter way to do it – I give it a try when I get a moment !

[Robin W]

ok think I understand now. If you make a copy of your custom page template eg. page.php file and rename it to bbPress.php then all your bbPress pages should use this template.