[Robin W]

and on the other thread Stephen Edgar has just posted that he’ll write you a patch for it !

[Robin W]

lynq who designed this starter pack does occasionally look and help on this forum, but you might do better to comment on the link you followed both in this forum [edit – oops sorry have just seen that you’ve done that!], and in the comments at the bottom of

bbPress Starter Theme

to see if he can help

[Robin W]

if the forums private, the it won’t show to non-logged in users on the list.

How do you plan that non-logged in will navigate to this, as that may provide the solution.

[Robin W]

maybe a plugin or theme conflict

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[Robin W]

quite possibly a plugin or theme conflict

try

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[Robin W]

@mycelus – if you stopped attacking those that are trying to help you, you might get further.

You need to make a choice – stick with bbPress and start ASKING for help, or go elsewhere – your choice ! 🙂

[Robin W]

forum descriptions do not show on the forums index page.

I’ll try and come up with some code to do this sometime next week

if I fail, post a further response to remind me !

[Robin W]

ok, I’m running training all this weekend, will come back to you early next week !

[Robin W]

I think you need to seriously consider taking some anger management classes.

bbPress is free, it costs you nothing, is developed and maintained by a bunch of nice guys who do this for free, and is supported on this site by more nice guys who again do it for free.

If you cared to read to documentation instead of just hurling abuse at us, you’d find fixes or tools that would let you alter what you are complaining about for instance the inline list is discussed in

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

and turning off the counts in

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

Because bbPress is flexible and all of what is displayed can be altered with either a little php or in many cases a plugin.

However in your case I’d simply suggest that you find different forum software and annoy someone else, rather than whinging on this support forum.

[Robin W]

What line did you alter in which capabilities php file?
and what did you alter it to?

[Robin W]

ok, without me spending hours digging into this, let’s see if we can sort it.

and yes you can cut the code into a functions file by renaming it, but we’ll fix that later.

For the moment, where are you registering the new sidebar? In a main theme for a child theme?

If in a child theme, they won’t register as sidebars have already been loaded. So you need to unload and reload them all in one go (no idea why, it’s just what I learnt when I tried to add a sidebar in my child theme.)

so what my child theme functions file starts with is

remove_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentyten_widgets_init' ); //necessary to replace parent theme's code which is a twentyten theme
function twentytenchild_widgets_init() {
	// Area 1, located at the top of the sidebar.
	register_sidebar( array(
		'name' => __( 'Primary Widget Area', 'twentytenchild' ),
		'id' => 'primary-widget-area',
		'description' => __( 'The primary widget area', 'twentytenchild' ),
		'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget-container %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
		'after_title' => '</h3>',
	) );

so it starts by removing the twentyten sidebar’s and then adds them straight back – my child theme for the twentyten main theme is excitingly called “twentytenchild”!. I have just shown the first widget from the parent theme, all are just copied from the parent theme. Several others follow
Then on the end you add your new sidebar.

Then after that you complete and register them viz :

	//** Register sidebars by running twentyten_widgets_init() on the widgets_init hook. */
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentytenchild_widgets_init' );

by the by in your after title you need to change the a/ to /a

Give that a go, and come back if it works, and we’ll then talk about taking the widget into a custom one.

[Robin W]

ok,

can you tell me

1. I notice the initial urls’ of the page are

http://thirdscribe.com/cafe-forums/#.Uyv4gJVF21s

what is the end bit – caching software?

2. Presume your menu is custom – what page does the “café” in the menu takes you to? or what link it is.

3. I presume http://thirdscribe.com/cafe-forums is the wp-page you want everything to link to

4. What are the various slug roots set to? dashboard>settings>forums> ‘forum root slug’, ‘prefix’, and ‘forum root should show’

5. what theme are you using?

[Robin W]

since bbPress uses custom post types, it looks very likely that you have a conflict.

Have you tried the pods support site?

[Robin W]

Try advertising it on

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

They handle projects from very simple to complex

[Robin W]

Great – glad you’re fixed !

[Robin W]

so when you are doing all this testing, has the w3 cache plugin been deactivated? and have you then cleared your browser?

As SE says working on say twentythirteen with just bbPress as a plugin works, so if this is not working for you, then you will need to look to your host provider for help.

[Robin W]

Brilliant – thanks Stephen

@stansween – confirm this fixes the issue for you?

[Robin W]

4. Nothing has changed on the site except i installed some plugins i needed.

which of the plugins have you installed in the last 10 days?

[Robin W]

“2. this is an old installation, few days back it was working fine from 10 days back i am getting this error in Dashboard>replies.

3. This error is always been there.”

Sorry but can you confirm that it was working, but started to produce the error 10 days ago – answers 2&3 seem to contradict.

[Robin W]

Good question !

I’ll take a look after the weekend if I get a moment !

[Robin W]

there are two capabilities within bbpress roles

‘delete_topics’
‘delete_others_topics’

Looks like the plugin is changing the wrong one.

I presume it is the participant role that you like delete topic on ?

If so, please come back and confirm, and I’ll cut a quick filter for you after the weekend if you know how to add some code to your functions file.

[Robin W]

if it worked before, then something has changed.

If you want to stop it using the template then create a ‘bbpress’ folder in the root of your theme, and copy

wp-content/pluigins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php across to this new folder.

The edit to remove the code that displays this – lines 47 to 55 have an if(keymaster) statement that display this info

[Robin W]

Ok, so if I understand you problem correctly, what you’d like is the main forum page to show is

1.
Category
Forum
Subforum
forum
subforum

The subforums are not currently showing?

and

2. for each to have a description?

you are trying to achieve this by using a wordpress page and shortcodes.

What confuses me is that you give a link to the page you want to use – if this is a real page, then what is preventing you form using it?

Sorry if I’m not understanding you correctly

[Robin W]

ok, lets see if it is a conflict problem

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[Robin W]

Mark,

sorry I’m not a buddypress guy – was hoping that buddypress would get you to an answer!