Robin W (@robin-w)

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  • In reply to: Need Help Reinstalling

    @robin-w

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    dashboard>tools>forums>reset forums

    In reply to: Small ticks all over

    @robin-w

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    great – glad you are fixed

    In reply to: Small ticks all over

    @robin-w

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    ok you have css that does

    .inner-page-content article.article-content ul li::before {
    	content: "\f046";
    	font-family: FontAwesome;
    	color: #b6d91a;
    	position: absolute;
    	left: 0;
    }

    so if your theme has a custom css area, suggest you add the following

    .inner-page-content article.article-content ul li::before {
    	content: none !important;
    	}
    In reply to: Small ticks all over

    @robin-w

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    I’d need a link to a live site, but doesn’t look like native bbpress.

    @robin-w

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    if you are savvy at working puzzles, then building a version of my template using your theme authors css classes should be quite doable.

    If you care to send me the loop-forums.php from the theme I might be able to give you some clues, but I don’t have time to work a solution out in free time.

    http://www.rewweb.co.uk

    @robin-w

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    As far as I can see your theme author has rewritten some (maybe all) of the theme templates, renaming all the bbpress css codes, to harmonise in with the theme, which effectively neuters my plugin.

    It would take considerable effort to change all that to make the two work.

    I think that is as far as I can help.

    @robin-w

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    sorry, Sunday evening and trying to finish the weekend – yes you want to rename loop-forums.php

    then my alternate template should kick in

    @robin-w

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    looks like all of them !!

    since the theme then renames all the style classes, then pretty much all the styling in my plugin won’t work, although the functionality changes still should.

    But as a starter rename

    content-archive-forum.php to

    old-content-archive-forum.php

    and hopefullt my alternate template will work, and then you can style that one

    @robin-w

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    ok, thanks – can you list the files in the bbpress folder ?

    @robin-w

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    So I am trying your bbp style pack, it looks like I have a lot of options I’d like to use. Is there some particular short code I’m supposed to use? I tried:
    [bsp-display-forum-index forum= ‘46,50,52,54,56,59’]
    And in the bbp style pack settings -> Forum Templates, I changed it to “Alternative Forum Template 1” but I dont see any changes. Am I using the wrong shortcode?

    style pack will work against the standard forum code, so if you have a forum(s) displaying without style pack being activated, then it should work against that url with the changes

    ok, that is my plugin, and I’ll try to get to a resolution

    It may be as simple as closing and restarting your browser, so try this first !!

    If that doesn’t work…

    Style pack works with many/most sites, but it can fail due to a myriad of reasons, including (but no means limited to) site permissions, other plugins and most often site themes where the theme author has altered bbpress files.

    My plugin uses two different techniques to make changes.

    For some I change how bbpress sends information by changing or overwriting bbpress code, for some I change what is called css, which your browser uses to display information.

    Therefore some changes may take effect, whilst others don’t seem to.

    Additionally you may have :

    1. ‘caching’ software that speeds up the download of your site, but may not recognise and immediately make changes from my plugin
    Do you know if you are using caching software?
    2. Site permissions issues – you site might (quite validly for it) not allow my plugin to write code to certain areas
    Try
    Dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>css location
    check the activate box and set the location to
    wp-content/uploads/
    and save these changes

    For the template, are you able to look at the site files to see if your theme has a directory called bbpress ?

    ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

    where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

    @robin-w

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    you will have a plugin in addition to bbpress that is doing file uploads, that plugin author should be able to help.

    @robin-w

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    And it doesn’t end up the same, not really. Everytime bbpress is updated now I have to hope 20 different authors of 20 different plugins also update their code in a timely manner, and if any of them decide to stop the project I now lose functionality.

    not really here for a philosophical argument – that’s the way bbpress authors (which I am not) wrote it, and as free software they should be able to write what they want.

    I just write some additional plugins which again I do for free and yes I have to update for free, and provide some support here for free.

    @robin-w

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    I just hate to have to rely on plugins

    just a difference in philosophy – one big plugin or several smaller ones, it ends up much the same!

    @robin-w

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    @robin-w

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    3. bbp private groups

    Private groups

    @robin-w

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    bbpress is a lite forum which lets you add other plugins to add functionality. Therefore you can pick and choose what you want.

    so

    1. https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

    dashboard>settinngs>bbp style pack>forum templates

    2.

    dashboard>settinngs>bbp style pack>other bbpress plugins will give you a useful list, including signature

    bbPress – Mark as Read

    more follows …

    In reply to: Forum Freshness

    @robin-w

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    correct place – I was guessing at whether the code will work, I’ll take a further look at it if I get a chance

    @robin-w

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    you will have space characters at the start or end of stuff. recheck your files, amn make sure that when copying/pasting you haven’t taken any characters through

    usually Whitespace before <?php or after ?>

    and on line 7

    In reply to: Echo Subscribe Link

    @robin-w

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    great !

    In reply to: Echo Subscribe Link

    @robin-w

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    this should work

    add_filter ('bbp_before_get_user_subscribe_link_parse_args' , 'change_subscribe_link' ) ;
    
    function change_subscribe_link ($args) {
     $args ['subscribe'] = '<img src="http://www.mysite.com/image1.jpg" />' ;
     $args ['subscribe'] = '<img src="http://www.mysite.com/image1.jpg" />' ;
     
     return $args ;
    }
    In reply to: Forums & Sub Forums

    @robin-w

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    my plugin should overwrite anything you have done within the bbpress plugins file.

    but of you have amended templates and put these in your theme’s bbpress directory, then these will take preference, so have a look in your theme directory and see if you have any.

    @robin-w

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    so to clarify, this would be to let each user decide what order to put topics?

    In reply to: Forum Freshness

    @robin-w

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    suggest you try this in your functions file

    add_filter ('bbp_convert_date', 'rew_convert_date', 10 , 3 ) ;
    
    function rew_convert_date ($time, $d, $translate) {
    $d = 'G' ;
    $time = mysql2date( $d, $time, $translate );
    return apply_filters( 'rew_convert_date', $time, $d, $translate );
    }

    may or may not work !

    In reply to: 2 questions

    @robin-w

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    whilst it is old, I believe it still works fine

    bbPress Moderation

    In reply to: Forums & Sub Forums

    @robin-w

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    my style pack has a template that groups forums by categories to achieve this layout

    bbp style pack

    dashboard>plugins>bbp style pack>forum templates

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