Welcome, and I wish everybody wrote such a clear problem definition !!
Ok, what we need to do is to get bbpress to use the correct template/part of template that has the sidebar setup you want.
This is always that hardest part of getting bbpress working, as theme authors do like to make complicated themes !
First can you tell me what way bbpress is working in step 3 below
Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1
ok, so
twenty twelve theme without bbpress.php works
twenty twelve theme with bbpress.php doesn’t work
twenty tweleve child with bbpress.php and twenty twelve parent without bbpress.php doesn’t work
twenty tweleve child without bbpress.php and twentytwelve parent without bbpress.php doesn’t work
Is that correct? or if not can you test each of the above
I’ve spit yours off, just edit the above or add your question below
for future you start one by choosing a forum, and scrolling to the bottom – hardly intuitive, but I don’t have control of this site !
how good is your php coding?
Well there’s not a lot you can do about it.
no can’t tell you why you have jumps – again I suspect spam filter taking out commenst – do you run askimet?
At least, for each topic the number for the first message should be #1 no?
no, bbpress is using wordpress post numbers. Everytime a post, page, comment, forum, topic or reply (and any other custom posts) are created or media item (eg picture) is uploaded, a wordpress post number is allocated.
Hence you could easily get large gaps in the numbers.
ok, two thoughts
1. if you put your bbpress.php into the twenty twelve parent theme, does it work ?- that will eliminate that file
2. can you create a page and put the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] in it and see how that page works or not
what are you permalink settings?
you should be able to see what has taken those post numbers if you go into phpmyadmin – you host provider should let you know how to do this.
Then look in wp_posts and click the ID column to get them into number order. You can then see what has taken those numbers.
ok, what is the main theme and how much have you changed in the child theme?
Hey really pleased – I started learning bbpress when I was asked to convert a Snitz forum in an access database to bbpress – it took me 17 attempts before I got it all working, with numerous resets and deletes in between, so I know the bizz you get when it finally works !
Hopefully it will all settle down now !
so if I understand, you have a topic in a forum, but want to use a wordpress page to allow students to post replies to this, without them needing to see or visit the forum – is that correct?
Not sure if you mean a theme.
bbpress uses wordpress themes.
If you want to style your forums use
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/
bbpress uses custom post types, so forum posts will take the next number available in wp-posts list, along with posts, pages and other custom post types.
I’d suggest that if you’ve seen a big jump, then you spam filter is probably working hard, and that the missing numbers are spam comments in wordpress.
sorry for the delay in replying, weekend and other commitments
when you say
The user registers with
Username : japs
Name : John Powell
the standard wordpress registration only asks for username and email, and then allocates the nickname as username.
What is adding firstname/lastname to your registration?
ok, lets eliminate plugins and themes as the 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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.
Then come back
The profile name is actually the page header from wordpress, and you are not displaying these.
you could add it to the bbpress template for that page.
If you have ftp access and are able to copy and paste files, I’ll come back with how !
did you try the theme as suggested above
Themes
If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.
can you go into
Dashboard>forums>all forums and then edit Mountain Club Suggestions
can you confirm that the permalink under the heading is
Mountain Club Suggestions
try
dashboard>settings>permalinks
and just click save without changing anything
This refreshes the permalinks and frequently fixes this issue
great – glad you’re fixed !
@bobey but that would stop them making replies as well
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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.
Then come back
