[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Developers: please… design a simple plugin for people like me. A very-simple-plugin that allows me to change colors, fonts and two or three things more. I would be help a lot to BBPress users than don’t know how to use CSS.

It’s on my list of things to do when I get some time – agree it would be really useful, but I need to learn a bit more about how to get plugins to write css !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Ok, you’ll need to copy this and rename it bbpress as per the above

As this is a theme file, I’m having to guess a bit about what it is doing, so this may or may not work.

So once you have this as bbpress.php

delete

$is_page_builder_used = et_pb_is_pagebuilder_used( get_the_ID() );

and replace it with

$is_page_builder_used = TRUE ;

come back and let us know if that works

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Great – glad you’re fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Sorry, no immediate way to style it, the words use the font size and other styling from the bbp-reply-author class.

I’ll look to add this ability in the next version

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

You need to get bbpress to use the full width template

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

click a forum subject on the left hand side

eg installation, troubleshooting

Now at the bottom of the page there will be a new topic area.

Yes I know a ‘new topic’ button on the left would be great, I’m just a humble contributor here !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Try

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

which I pretty much wrote following this and other requests for that sort of functionality

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

great – glad you’re fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Great – I do hate that them authors won’t write variants of themes for no-sidebar/1 sidebar/2 sidebar, it would make life so much easier 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

ok, I downloaded the theme and had a play

you need to create this file as bbpress.php

<?php global $theme; get_header(); ?>

    <div id="main">
    
        <?php $theme->hook('main_before'); ?>

        <div id="content2">
            
            <?php $theme->hook('content_before'); ?>
        
            <?php 
                if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
                    /**
                     * Find the post formatting for the pages in the post-page.php file
                     */
                    get_template_part('post', 'page');
                    
                    if(comments_open( get_the_ID() ))  {
                        comments_template('', true); 
                    }
                endwhile;
                
                else :
                    get_template_part('post', 'noresults');
                endif; 
            ?>
            
            <?php $theme->hook('content_after'); ?>
        
        </div><!-- #content -->
    
        <div id="sidebar-primary">

   <?php
        if(!dynamic_sidebar('sidebar-bbpress')) {
            /**
            * The primary sidebar widget area. Manage the widgets from: wp-admin -> Appearance -> Widgets 
            */
            $theme->hook('sidebar-bbpress');
        }
        $theme->hook("sidebar_primary_after");
    ?>
    
</div><!-- #sidebar-primary -->
        
        <?php $theme->hook('main_after'); ?>
        
    </div><!-- #main -->
    
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Then in your style.css you need to add the following to the bottom just above the

/* =END

#content2 {
  float: left;
  overflow: hidden;
  width: 630px;
}

That should do it

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 3 months ago]

sorry…

<? get_sidebar(); ?>

should read

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 3 months ago]

try using the method shown here

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 3 months ago]

you have a smart theme that is displaying that, which someone has customised.

can you look in your theme and see if you have a folder here

wp-content/themes/eighties/bbpress

If you have can you list the files held there

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 3 months 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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 3 months 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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 3 months ago]

Try method 2 !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 3 months ago]

how are you accessing this page – which of these is it?

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 3 months ago]

ok,

In your theme create a bbpress directory

wp-content/themes/%yourtheme%/bbpress

where %yourtheme% is your theme name

Then copy the following file to that folder

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/template/default/bbpress/form-topic.php

So you end up with

wp-content/themes/%yourtheme%/bbpress/form-topic.php

You can then edit this file, and bbpress will use this version.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 3 months ago]

@editor-mike – sorry do you have a problem after deleting 100 replies at a time?

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 3 months ago]

I think this should do it. It’s from my library of code and haven’t used it in a while, so come back if it’s not what you want

You’ll need to add it to your functions file

Functions files and child themes – explained !

//This function adds descriptions to the sub forums
function custom_list_forums( $args = '' ) {

	// Define used variables
	$output = $sub_forums = $topic_count = $reply_count = $counts = '';
	$i = 0;
	$count = array();

	// Parse arguments against default values
	$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
		'before'            => '<ul class="bbp-forums-list">',
		'after'             => '</ul>',
		'link_before'       => '<li class="bbp-forum">',
		'link_after'        => '</li>',
		'count_before'      => ' (',
		'count_after'       => ')',
		'count_sep'         => ', ',
		'separator'         => ', ',
		'forum_id'          => '',
		'show_topic_count'  => true,
		'show_reply_count'  => true,
	), 'list_forums' );

	// Loop through forums and create a list
	$sub_forums = bbp_forum_get_subforums( $r['forum_id'] );
	if ( !empty( $sub_forums ) ) {

		// Total count (for separator)
		$total_subs = count( $sub_forums );
		foreach ( $sub_forums as $sub_forum ) {
			$i++; // Separator count

			// Get forum details
			$count     = array();
			$show_sep  = $total_subs > $i ? $r['separator'] : '';
			$permalink = bbp_get_forum_permalink( $sub_forum->ID );
			$title     = bbp_get_forum_title( $sub_forum->ID );
			$content = bbp_get_forum_content($sub_forum->ID) ;

			// Show topic count
			if ( !empty( $r['show_topic_count'] ) && !bbp_is_forum_category( $sub_forum->ID ) ) {
				$count['topic'] = bbp_get_forum_topic_count( $sub_forum->ID );
			}

			// Show reply count
			if ( !empty( $r['show_reply_count'] ) && !bbp_is_forum_category( $sub_forum->ID ) ) {
				$count['reply'] = bbp_get_forum_reply_count( $sub_forum->ID );
			}

			// Counts to show
			if ( !empty( $count ) ) {
				$counts = $r['count_before'] . implode( $r['count_sep'], $count ) . $r['count_after'];
			}

			// Build this sub forums link
			$output .= $r['before'].$r['link_before'] . '<a href="' . esc_url( $permalink ) . '" class="bbp-forum-link">' . $title . $counts . '</a>' . $show_sep . $r['link_after'].'<div class="bbp-forum-content">'.$content.'</div>'.$r['after'];
		}

		// Output the list
		return $output ;
	}
}

add_filter('bbp_list_forums', 'custom_list_forums' );

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 3 months ago]

Live and learn 🙂

Maybe a theme or plugin issue?

with

wp 4.0
bp 2.5.4
theme : twentyten
Yoast SEO

I get

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 3 months ago]

usually putting #bbpress-forums in front does the trick eg

#bbpress-forums .entry {
background-color: #f4f4f4;
}

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 3 months ago]

there is a setting for this

Dashboard>settings>forums

Disallow editing after….

change this to whatever you want

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 3 months ago]

Ok, I created the changes needed – go to my site and download the changed files – instructions are there

bbPress – Making Profile Pages Private

Come back if you have any queries

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 3 months ago]

@peterwsterling

Are you saying that you get this issue with

wp 4.0
BP 2.5.4
NO plugins apart from bbPress
Twentyfourtenn theme

?