[Robin W]

Can I just clarify what you are after

I presume you are allowing anonymous posting?

– if the author is not anonymous, use the user_url
– else use the comment website url

so for the first – as it is now?
and for the second, can you give an example of what you want it to link to (and what it does now to save me having to alter my site to find out!)

[Robin W]

This could be an issue with your rewrite rules. To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings>Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

[Robin W]

try resetting your permalinks

In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings>Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

[Robin W]

this is a buddypress question I reckon – try their forum

[Robin W]

if they then decide to use the forum it appears that they must register again.

not sure where you are getting that from.

If you set the default role in settings>forums, then on registration they will get that rile when they log in.

[Robin W]

thanks, wondered where that one went – meant for a different topic, trying to do too much at once ! I have removed it !

[Robin W]

🙂

[Robin W]

either add this to your functions file

add_filter('protected_title_format', 'ntwb_remove_protected_title');
function ntwb_remove_protected_title($title) {
	return '%s';
}
 
add_filter('private_title_format', 'ntwb_remove_private_title');
function ntwb_remove_private_title($title) {
	return '%s';
}

or use

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-style-pack

[Robin W]

my site advisor doesn’t recommend visiting your site !

[Robin W]

thanks for posting back, and hope you are now ok !

[Robin W]

if you have edited a core file, then it may well be that the file is checking a capability that your user doesn’t have.

[Robin W]

long and complicated to explain css, divs and all that, and I’m a newcomer to css, so I won’t try.

but in essence any css element can be nexted.

so

input would apply to any input field anywhere on the site
input[type=”submit”] would just apply to submit input
submit would apply to any submit
#bbpress-forums .submit would apply to submits within bbpress only.

any/all of these might work for a particular case, it would depend on how your theme author has set out his theme.

so can’t say why it didn’t work without me spending lots of time looking at it.

There is no single right/wrong with this, just right for your site with its theme and plugins !

[Robin W]

try

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

[Robin W]

Not seen that before – have you just upgraded buddypress?

[Robin W]

ok, I still think that the import topics still have the old site forum id’s which won’t be correct

As bbpress uses wordpress posts then on import it should have allocated new postid’s for both forum and topics and linked these. The following work will be to see what it has actually done, then we can work out what to do next !

so on the new site

1. go into dashboard>topics and pick a topic without a forum, and edit it.

The url at the top will give the post id

eg

http://mysite.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=15602&action=edit

make a note of this as the newtopicid (I’ll refer to it later as that)

2. Then go to the forum that it should be, and again edit, and use the url to get it’s post id, and note this as newforumid (I’ll refer to it later as that)

Then go into the OLD Site and

3. go into the same topic and note the topic id as oldtopicid,

and

4. go into the it belongs to and note the number as the oldforumid.

So now we have newtiopicid, newforumid, oldtopicid, and oldforumid !

Then go into phpmyadmin on the OLD site (where it worked), and go into the sql tab and enter

SELECTpost_parentFROMwp_postsWHEREID= xxxxx

where xxx is the oldtopicid you noted above

This should come back with the correct oldforumid as the entry under post parent

Then go into phpmyadmin on the NEW site (where it doesn’t work) and enter the same query, and see what that comes back with

then come back and tell me what that reveals !

[Robin W]

install

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

this will let you style that and many other things

[Robin W]

thanks for posting this, and yes you are right that you need to copy that file accross, otherwise it will get overwritten by updates.

You can also achieve the same result by putting

function retina_avatar ($args) {
$args['size'] = 160 ;
return $args ;
}

add_filter ('bbp_before_get_reply_author_link_parse_args', 'retina_avatar'  );

into your functions file, of course ‘As long as your CSS specifies a width of 80 (or whatever you prefer), you won’t see any change in the size of the avatar in your browser’

Thanks again for a useful post

[Robin W]

yes, you should see that you are using a child theme in the editor (it will say ‘This child theme inherits templates from a parent theme xxx’ under templates at the top right, and after the templates you should see style.css.

if you’re going to get into css in a big way, then you would do better to use FTP and an editor such as notepad++ – see

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Robin W]

sorry, and that’s just anything you need to change (ie your code above), not the whole bbpress.css file !

so put the stuff above in your child theme style.css and ignore bbpress.css !

[Robin W]

just put it into the style.css of your child theme at the end

[Robin W]

sorry brain fade, what I meant to ask is do you have access to the MySQL database via phpmyadmin, so that I can get you to look a value up?

[Robin W]

do you have php access?

[Robin W]

I presume you’ve followed the set up guide in the documentation

[Robin W]

I presume you’ve refreshed your browser, as if you have removed as you said it should be back to normal

[Robin W]

I’ll answer this just to let you know that someone has read it.

This would require I think a ton of work to make it work, and I have no idea on how it would affect preformance