[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

Sorry, I still have no idea what ‘integration’ looks like to you, and without knowing what you wish to change, then I cannot help

Template do functionality for a major part, I suspect that changes you are after are css.

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

ah, now I can see what you mean.

Yes that’s buddypress not bbpress – try their support forum

https://buddypress.org/support/

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

hmm.. The only way I can immediately think of is to modify loop-topics

so

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

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

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-topics.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-topics.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

so in that file you will see

<?php while ( bbp_topics() ) : bbp_the_topic(); ?>

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-topic' ); ?>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

you would need to check with forum the user is in and then custom display

so something like – you’d need to write the code – this is just words !

<?php 
	if (forum == the one you want to change) {
		then make an array of the ID, and then cycle through them
		foreach ($topics as $topic) {
		bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-topic' );
		}
	}
	else { ?>
		<?php while ( bbp_topics() ) : bbp_the_topic(); ?>

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-topic' ); ?>

		<?php endwhile; ?>
	<?php } ?>

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

which of the files …I should be using to customize the bbPress topic page…which file name I should rename it to

You’ll need to say what customisation you want to do, as that will affect my answer, if you can detail what you are after, I’ll try to help, but I do need details as I said above. I’m not trying to be awkward, just trying to help !

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

Yes you can use the private groups plugin to set up different groups that can see different forums

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

@aeneas1 I don’t think that plugin should be hosted on wordpress plugins, and I’ve asked the plugin review team to see if it violates the plugin rules.

There is an import phpbb in the bbpress software – I think you may have seen it

Dashboard>tools>forums and you can select phpbb – did you have an issue with this?

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

so where did you find this plugin? can you give a link to it?

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

so are these forums within a forum list, or topics within a forum?

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

Can you provide either a link or a screenshot via say dropbox?

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

ok, thanks – now I think I understand

so within a specific forum, you want these topics to appear in that order – can you let me know if there are other topics which also need to appear below – eg these are the first 5 and then all others appear in date order, or are these the only 5 topics?

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

ok, so that didn’t work, sorry at the limit of my knowledge in search!

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

ok, I think you have may two issues here

1. styling
2. functionality

or maybe both

using template files will not fix styling, and from the link you sent, I cannot understand what functionality is missing – I can access both forums and topics just fine.

So I am not clear exactly what you are trying to fix? Is it just the page background and header – if so you a right they are theme related, but perhaps you could explain what is wrong and what you want to do to fix it by giving me precise examples

For example :

I want to not have xx
I want yy to be green

etc.

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

Try adding this to your functions file:

function amend_bbpress_search ($args) {
$args[‘post_type’] = ‘any’ ;
return $args ;
}

add_filter (‘bbp_before_has_search_results_parse_args’ , ‘amend_bbpress_search’) ;

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

sorry, but I don’t understand exactly what you are trying to do, or whether my previous response helped or not.

Can you come back please with further detail.

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

it depends what you mean by integration.

In essence if you create a page in your site called say ‘forums’ and put the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] in it, then you have integrated it.

Let us know beyond that what you want, and we’ll try and help further

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

unless wordpress.com allow it, there is no way to add plugins – sorry

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

interesting question – bbpress will add the default role you set in forums settings, so if you set this to participant this would sort the majority of users out from a forum perspective.

Which then makes this more of a wordpress question – in essence you could set up the users manually and click to not send them emails, so they would be on the live site when you transfer, but then of course they wouldn’t know their password, so it is a bit of a catch 22 !

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

In essence you get notified of a new topic, but you are not subscribed to that topic unless you go in and do so, so unless your mods go into each and subscribe, they don’t get subsequent replies.

This plugin automatically subscribes all users who subscibe to a forum to new topics and replies in that forum – they can of course then unsubscribe.

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/topic-subscribe/

and this one you may also find useful

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/reply-subscribed/

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

if you’ve copied/pasted it from your code, then you have a space after ‘my_custom_display_topic_index_query and before the closing ‘ bracket

ie

‘my_custom_display_topic_index_query '

when it should be

‘my_custom_display_topic_index_query' 

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

Use my private groups plugin to achieve this

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

This is an issue with your membership plugin, not bbpress, the ‘manage members’ panel you show is not part of bbpress

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 12 months ago]

I haven’t blocked you – I don’t have that privilege.

[@robin-w Moderator 9 years ago]

This plugin may be what you need

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

[@robin-w Moderator 9 years ago]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

[@robin-w Moderator 9 years ago]

go to

Dashboard>user>all users

under

Users Add new

you’ll see the worpdress and bbpress roles listed in a single line

eg
All (1,201) | Administrator (2) | Editor (4) | Subscriber (1,050) | Keymaster (2) | Blocked (1) | Moderator (4) | Participant (1,181) | visitor (13)

Click on the ‘blocked’ link and you’ll get a filter which just shows these