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In reply to: Edit My Profile link
Personally I hate the toolbar – it should only be there for admins !
I switch it off and use a menu item
In reply to: Syntax Error in admin/functions.phpnot sure what you’ve done, but it will be as simple as a comma or ; missing somewhere
I’d suggest you
download a copy of bbpress to your PC
and then FTP the functions file to overwrite what you have messed up 🙂
Then nose around the files on your PC rather than your site !
Don’t worry I used to do what you’re doing until I did much the same, now I look at a copy not live !
In reply to: I can't get my forum to functon at all.ok, so now you need to go into
wp-content/themes/divi
and look through the page templates, hopefully one is called ‘left sidebar’ or ‘right sidebar’ if not you’ll need to open them up and look for
*Template Name: left sidebarThis is the template that you now want as bbpress, so follow the instructions
In reply to: bbPress Mods Wishlistbbpress has a number of templates which you can alter
these are found in
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress
Start with
content-archive-forum.php
this is the index page.
you will see that it calls other templates
eg
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'forums' ); ?>which calls loop-forums.php
a look through and you should be able to work out what most of it is doing.
If you want to alter any of these, make a new directory in the root of your theme and copy any of these template files to it (only the ones you want to alter)
so for instance if you wanted to alter content-archive-forum.php you’d create a copy to get
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-archive-forum.phpyou can then alter these copies, and bbpress will use them instead
They will also show you what css is being used, so that you can amend your style.css file with those that you want to change, or you can copy the whole bbpress style file viz https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/#5-copyingcreating-a-bbpress-stylesheet-in-your-child-theme
at the finer level you may need to use something like firebug to work out how to say ‘bold’ the forums names to see what css each part is using, so that you can alter it.
Firebug is downloaded to go with the Firefox browser. There are loads of firebug tutorials eg see
In reply to: I can't get my forum to functon at all.ie exactly what does it say !
In reply to: I can't get my forum to functon at all.Changing these won’t change the forum, but it should let me know if you have a sidebar page – can you list the alternatives.
yes, but what I wanted was for you to list the alternatives, so that I can assist you in getting the right template
what are the alternatives?
In reply to: I can't get my forum to functon at all.ok, understood
The issue is that your ‘page’ template that bbpress is suing doesn’t have a sidebar, and wp tweaks won’t work until it has.
In essence you need to either find an existing template within your theme that ahs a sidebar, or create one.
When you go into edit on any page, under page attributes on the right hand side what templates do you have the choice of? – Changing these won’t change the forum, but it should let me know if you have a sidebar page – can you list the alternatives.
In reply to: I can't get my forum to functon at all.ok, on 2 above, if your following the guide, what is happening/not happening, and what have you been trying. The guide gets most people there, but you’ll need to give me a bit more than ‘I have been trying to figure that sidebar set up without much luck ‘ so I can help you 🙂
In reply to: Cannot import forums!suggest you keep going, and see what you get at the end.
Repair just repair relationships, it doesn’t delete entries
In reply to: I can't get my forum to functon at all.ok, do you know what FTP is and how to use it? Can you copy files and make changes to them?
In reply to: Cannot import forums!suggest you run the forum repair tools
Dashboard>tools>forums>repair forums, and run one at a time
In reply to: I can't get my forum to functon at all.Genius is overstating.. 🙂 but I’ll take thanks, always good to get a result !
1. To get a sidebar you need to be using a template that has a sidebar. https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#8-make-sure-bbpress-uses-the-page-template-we-want At the moment your page is full width.
2. Yes, but you need to be clear what you want eg manual vs. automatic registration
3. I think you are using my ‘last post’ plugin – yes? If so then yes it could be modified to also show title, but I’m pretty tied up at the moment
In reply to: I can't get my forum to functon at all.when you hover over the forum link it says
http://www.thecatholicwoman.com/page_id=60/forum/prayer-requests
I would expect it to say
http://www.thecatholicwoman.com/forum/prayer-requests
what are your permalinks set to?
Dashboard>settings>permalinks
In reply to: bbpress custom user role ?great – glad your fixed !
In reply to: I can't get my forum to functon at all.ok, try method 2, I think your system is having trouble with the permalinks (don’t worry what they are !)
In reply to: bbpress custom user role ?hhmmmm…
Quite a lot of info, and not sure if it is affecting
The middle paragraph starting ‘My initial setup was a template file called…’ is worrying.
Basically you should not be adding stuff to your main theme, instead you should use a child theme.
Within this you will have a functions file (not a bbpress-functions file), and you would put the functions code for the custom role in the functions file.see
The your styles should work, and the custom role should work
In reply to: I can't get my forum to functon at all.None of the links work I followed all of the steps indicated here https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#3-%C2%A0creating-a-forum-page
Did you use method 1 or 2?
In reply to: Cannot import forums!ok, funnily enough there is no ‘importer’ for bbpress 2.x – it is in plan, but not yet written
You can use
on the old site
tools>export and select forums topics and replies
on the new site
tools>import (and select wordpress if needed)But this is not perfect – if you don’t have the users matching between sites, then this will/can/may (not sure which) fail.
How have you set users up on the new site?
In reply to: I can't get my forum to functon at all.Ok, you are certainly not stupid, and we’ll work you through to a resolution 🙂
ok we have 4 elements in bbpress
1. A forum that is a type called category – this contains other forums
2. A forum that is a type called forum – this will contains topics and repliesThese forum types are set in dashboard>forums and on the top right hand side
3. a topic – this will belong to a forum
4. a reply – this will belong to a topicCan you confirm that you’ve set up a topic in any of the forums.
If not go into Dashboard>topics>new topic and create a test topic.
If your forums are all just forums, then without topics, they have nothing to list.
If you think you have created a topic go into dashboard>topics and see if you can see topics in there, and which forums they belong to
In reply to: I can't get my forum to functon at all.As @pinkishhue suggests, try
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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.
this should get you to a working platform from which you can work out where the issue lies.
In reply to: Help with functions.php mod for bbPressOk, thanks and yes we can fix that.
1. the code is missing ‘);’ by mistake, it should read
function mycustom_breadcrumb_options() { // Home - default = true $args['include_home'] = false; // Forum root - default = true $args['include_root'] = false; // Current - default = true $args['include_current'] = true; return $args; } add_filter('bbp_before_get_breadcrumb_parse_args', 'mycustom_breadcrumb_options');The extra ‘);’ is right at the end
I’ve fixed the documentation
2. as stated in https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/
you should not be adding code to the end of a main theme’s functions, but should be creating child theme. By all means leave it there and test that it works, but then create a child theme and move it there or you risk losing the change on an update. I’ll try and make this even clearer in the documentation – it is a first version !
Hope that helps you, and please come back with any further issues ! 🙂
In reply to: Reply Trouble with Montezumasuggest you try their support forum
you’ve paid for this theme, and it says it bbpress compatible, so take this up with the support forum. you should get what you paid for.
In reply to: Where do I find/modify theme/childtheme?Ok, good questions, and I’ve been meaning to write something on this for a while, as I’m always saying ‘drop this in your functions file’
so new page in the codex
Feedback welcome on what is clear/not clear !!
on registration, you will need to have auto-registration completed in
dashboard>settings>general and under membership check the anyone can register tab
you’ll then find register is added to the login boxes, and you can add ‘/wp-login.php?action=register’ to the login widget
on your breadcrumb issue see
