[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

if you change your forum to hidden, then only moderators and keymasters can see it.

But I sense you need more than that, can you tell us a bit more about what you are trying to achieve?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

all topics in that forum, or just some within that forum?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

Hey no problem, do come back if you have more queries !

Great that your are fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

what shortcode are you trying to add?

html is easy just echo it in brackets eg

echo '<br>that was a break<div>a div</div></br>' ;

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

probably a conflict

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, 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 Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

This is all set in your theme’s page templates.

You can copy one of these and rename it bbpress.php and put it into the root of your theme.

bbpress will then use that one, and you can delete the sidebar from the bbpress.php

come back if you need further help

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

nothing bad in doing that

as bbpress has different custom post types for topic and reply, you could also link to the action bbp_theme_after_reply_content action and put a topic condition on
something like

function display_after_topic() {
	if( get_post_type() == 'topic') {
	$text="hello mother" ;
	echo $text;
	}
	else {
	return ;
	}
}

add_action ('bbp_theme_after_reply_content', 'display_after_topic') ;

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

I suspect this is not related, but always worth checking

Do you have a forums page with shortcode.

If not another poster did the following with success for a twentyfourteen theme.

So let me restate what you found to work:

1. When creating a menu item for forums, do NOT use the automatically available permalink that ends in “/forums/”
2. Instead, create a page that has the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] in the body. There could also then be other content or links in the body.
3. Make sure the page you created does NOT have a permalink that ends in “/forums/”. In my case I had a page Title of “Forums”, but I changed the permalink to end with “/allforums/”.

I suspect that this will not fix for you, but give it a try anyway !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

Terry, thanks from posting that – sometimes (in fact more than sometimes!) it is a small but vital bit that’s missing !

Glad you’re now fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

I am writing a bbpress specific solution at the moment – hope to publish in the new few weeks

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

ok, add this in

#bbpress-forums .status-closed, #bbpress-forums .status-closed a {
color: #000000;
}

and then come back with any others

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

yes, it was an untested change, but now I know you can do it, I’ll change it later today to catch the other ones

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

ok, you have several routes to go

If you think you will be making other changes, then it may be worth you reading this

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 2

but if you just want to get this going then download this plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/

and then put this code into it

#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content p,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content p {
color: blue !important ;
}

a:link {
color: blue !important ;
}

Obviously you can change the blue to whatever, or use hex codes to get any shade you like

http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_colors.asp

Come back if that doesn’t work, and I’ll try to help further

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

some of the code in here might help you

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

ok if it proves an issue, you could use

if ( is_singular( array('forum', 'topic', 'reply') ) ) {
    //  conditional content/code
}

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

great, glad you’re fixed

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

yes they are on your site.

If I gave you the code and said for you to add this to your style.css would you know what I was asking?

If so I’ll cut some for you to use

If not, come back and I’ll try and help further

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

another one that you can spend hours trying to solve !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

you can edit the profile page to prevent them changing it

In your theme create a bbpress folder

wp-content/themes/%yourtheme%/bbpress

where %yourtheme% is the name of your theme

then navigate to

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-user-edit.php

and copy this file to the bbpress folder you created above

bbpress will now use this one instead of the default.

edit this new file and take out lines 33 to 45

ie take out the following

<div>
			<label for="nickname"><?php _e( 'Nickname', 'bbpress' ); ?></label>
			<input type="text" name="nickname" id="nickname" value="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'nickname', 'edit' ); ?>" class="regular-text" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" />
		</div>
		<div>
			<label for="display_name"><?php _e( 'Display Name', 'bbpress' ) ?></label>
			<?php bbp_edit_user_display_name(); ?>
		</div>
		<?php do_action( 'bbp_user_edit_after_name' ); ?>

This will remove the ability to set a nickname and to change the display name.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

yes !

When they go into

Dashboard>appearance>menus

they will see a ‘screen options’ button dropdown on the top right, if they click that they will get a list of things they can see on this screen, and they need to check the ‘forums’ one.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

I suspect that you can still see it as either you’re a keymaster, moderator or wp-admin.

Private forums are only visible to logged in users
Hidden forums are only viewable by keymasters, moderators or admins

so you want to reset your forum to hidden, and you will still see them, but users won’t unless you give them privileges.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

is_bbpress()

should do it I think.

Otherwise bbpress has custom post types of forum, topic and reply.

You should also consider disabling or modifying the bbpress search function, as otherwise searches will go forum wide, giving a backdoor.

Good luck !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

glad we got there !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

Hey, thanks it looks really good !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

If you want it to look like PhPBB then the following links should help

I have created a bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel

Forums index in the same layout as other bb software