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

These issues will occur with different combinations of plugins, and it is nobody’s fault.
and it will never be eliminated.

Wordpress is free open source software. It allows others to hook into it using Filters and actions, as well as using templates and functions. Additionally theme developers can affect the way wordpress functions. This lets lots of other people change how wordpress works and add both functionality and looks.

So if two developers both hook into the same bit of code, the actions of one can alter or even cancel out the other’s code.

With many thousands of plugins it is simply impossible for developers to test to see if their plugin works with every other plugin out there.

bbPress is thoroughly tested with the latest version of WordPress, in combination with all of the wordpress default themes (twentyten, twentyeleven etc.) to ensure it functions. Most bbpress plugin developers will also test against this combination to give a good degree of conformance.

This is the best that you can get.

It is no more the fault of bbpress that it doesn’t work with plugin A, than it is the fault of plugin A that it doesn’t work with bbpress!

Sorry but that is life 🙂

Open source means you get lots of great FREE software but you don’t get an integration guarantee – it’s pretty damn good, but sorry not perfect.

And It’s nobody’s fault !

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

delay was only a few minutes – probably host related.

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

CORRECTION

whilst slow, I have now got a username and password so the process is working.

Suggest you get the screen display to work and you should be ok !

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

ok, you have some distinct display issues caused by lots of adverts,masking any input, which are certainly not helping, but tried it and received no email.

This is a wordpress/host set up issue not a bbpress one.

EDITED : see post below

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

ok, could be many things, and we could spend a lot of time trying to track down the exact issue.

So we’ll go for two options

presuing that the “downloaded recommended plugin” is bbpress wp tweaks then lets start with :

Deactivate bbpress tweaks
Dashboard>plugins>bbpress tweaks>deactivate

Go into widgets
Dashboard>appearance>widgets

And look at the bottom of the left hand side. You’ll see an “inactive sidebar”, with your entries on
Below this is an “inactive widgets”
Drag all the entries from the inactive sidebar to the inactive widgets area.
This then allows wordpress to delete the sidebar
I normally log out and in again at this stage – probably not needed, but I’ve never bothered to check
Then basically reverse the above
Re-enable bbpress tweaks
You see the bbpress sidebar returns
Drag the entries back from the inactive widgets area to the sidebar

let us know if that works.

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

can’t see your issue as I’m not a user, so can’t login !

You screen display seems to have some issues though.

‘Could it have something to do with changing the primary “name” profile field? ‘ – quite probably what exactly did you do to ‘change’ this?

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

can you post a link to your site so that I can try it

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

dam typo’s –

great – glad you’re continuing to get there 🙂

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

greta – glad you’re continuing to get there 🙂

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

ok, nit sure exactly what was happening , as these lines are already in the default loop-single-forum.php, but glad you’re fixed

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

the link to your site no longer works fro me – so I can’t see the issue

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

looks ok to me now – are you fixed?

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

you should be able to simply add your description to the forum content, this should the show

ie

dashboard>forums>all forums

edit the forum you wish and put the description in the content

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

ok, so in your PC create a file called bbpress.php

(you can use notepad for this)

then dump this code into it

<?php

/**
 * bbPress - Forum Archive
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

get_header(); ?>

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_before_main_content' ); ?>

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_notices' ); ?>

	<div id="forum-front" class="bbp-forum-front">
		<h1 class="entry-title"><?php bbp_forum_archive_title(); ?></h1>
		<div class="entry-content">

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'content', 'archive-forum' ); ?>

		</div>
	</div><!-- #forum-front -->

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_after_main_content' ); ?>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

save it and using ftp copy it to get

wp-content/themes/%yourthemename%/

where %yourthemename% is the name of your theme

so you end up with

wp-content/themes/%yourthemename%/bbpress.php

bbpress will then use this template

Come back and let us know how you get on !

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

you say “can no longer login”

when did this happen?
How long have they been able to login?
what has changed in between eg theme or plugin upgrades

There will be a cause, and it will be a change, either that you have done manually or some software has done automatically, you just need to work out what.

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

bbpress will use the default page template for the main index rather than the specific page template set in the page – so your setting in the forum page won’t apply.

There are several ways around this, but as your plugin is a paid one, I can’t see the code to recommend the best solution.

So first off I’d post a query onto their support site

Outstanding Support

they probably have come across bbpress before and will know the answer. You could tell them that bbpress uses ‘is_bbpress()’ to see if it is a bbpress page, that might help them.

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

I suspect your issue is with Easy WP SMTP 1.0.9

there are a couple of threads on their support site about needing to change/resave settings after the upgrade to 1.0.8 that might apply to you

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-wp-smtp

and go to support

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

1. bbpress plugins add exactly as normal wordpress plugins

Dashboard>plugins

Bbpress will try and use your theme, you may want to visit the set up guides

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

2. depending on your theme, you should see the ability to add a topic at the end of each forum.

You can add a ‘topic’ add in your sidebar using the text widget and putting

<a href="/add-new-topic/">Create a new topic</a>

in the text

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

see https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#8-make-sure-bbpress-uses-the-page-template-we-want

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

can you post a link to an example?

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

great – glad you’re fixed !

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

great – glad you’re fixed, and thanks for the info, it will help someone in future 🙂

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

keep going, it’s fun seeing what you are doing !!

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

great – glad you’re fixed

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

Sorry, but Chrome look fine on my PC as well.

I cannot replicate your issue !