[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

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.

Then come back

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

No, just work your way through !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

url please

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

Uh? can you explain more please, what sort of thumbnail are you expecting?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

the issue is not in creating the functionality, but in styling

for instance you get the posts column using bbp_get_forum_topic_count($forum_id)

but need styling to add that to the list of forums, which depends on how your theme does it.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

try

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-capabilities/

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

Great – glad you’re fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

ok, sorry been tied up elsewhere, and only just got back to looking at this.

I think I can get it working and would suggest you do the following

1. take a copy of page.php and save it into your theme as bbpress.php

so you end up with

wp-content/themes/%mytheme%/bbpress.php where %mytheme% is your currently active theme’s name.

Now edit that file as follows

The theme seems to be looking for a value of the sidebar for the post meta of the page ID. Since I suspect that bbpress is not having that at that point, it can’t look it up.

Now the page.php (which is now bbpress.php!) tries to set this in line 4 using

$sidebar = get_post_meta($id, "qode_show-sidebar", true);

and then the page.php (which is now bbpress.php!) later on looks for what value between 1 and 4 that is set to, which would determine what if any sidebars are shown.

therefore in bbpress.php try changing line 4 from

$sidebar = 1

save the file and see what happens

then try
$sidebar = 2
$sidebar = 3
$sidebar = 4

each should change what sidebar appears and where, so you should be able to get one working !

Do come back if anything isn’t clear, or if you need further help, or just to tell us that we’re wonderful (or rubbish!)

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

Just tried that plugin – it errored, but have lodged a supprt ticket.

It would be good to have a plugin that does the buddypress mentions stuff without buddypress !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

ok, well I’m out of ideas.

suggest you contact

https://github.com/gbanina

who wrote the fix, and seems to be a guru on optimise and see if he can help.

If you get a solution PLEASE post it here, so that others can benefit

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

thanks for that update !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

yes use my style pack plugin and the alternate forum template

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

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

and once you had transferred the plugin to your site, you did go in plugins and activate it?? 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

As far as I can see the solution is with that code snippet – it fits the problem description very well

can you amend line

if ($forumPage->post_type == 'forum'){

to

if ($forumPage->post_type == bbp_get_forum_post_type() ){

and try it again

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

ok, since we can’t see your forum – we just get a login page, what language is your site in?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

try this for topics

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

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

ok, can you paste the page.php file here please AND make sure you enclose it all as code !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

sort of

ok, so can you add a new page

heading : members
Content : [bbp-forum-index]
and set the permalink of that page to` http://www.staging1.stressebook.com/members/
`

and then tell us what you get when you view that page

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

ok, just eliminating as sometimes local (pc) installations can have url issues.

Can you tell us in

Dashboard>settings>forums

what the forums root is set to and also do yiu bave a wordpress page with [bbp-forum-index] on it? and if what is the url of that page?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

so it is on a server/with a hosting company – not on your PC ?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

just a question, but is your staging site a wamp/lamp/mamp site ?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

all themes allow a child theme – it is a wordpress thing not a theme thing. They won’t ‘support’ as in give you free help to set up and run.

see

https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/

As Pascal says, we can help with specific queries, but not in a full set-up. But googling around will fix a lot of what you’re asking.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

since it uses wordpress registration, and wordpress plugin will work

several plugins for example

https://wordpress.org/plugins/cimy-user-extra-fields/
and

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/user-meta/

neither tested just suggesting examples !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

it would be quite easy to cut a fresh version of my last post plugin especially for you that works on the date you put in the forums.

contact me via my website

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[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

that’s interesting, I hadn’t spotted that bbpress did that, I just tested it.

Let me have a quick look to see if I can work a fix for that.