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In reply to: Advanced user registration.
Try this one, I haven’t used it, but seems to cover what you want
In reply to: change forum sidebarOk.
I’d suggest you create a page called “forums” and put the code
[bbp-forum-index]in itYou can then style this page to have no sidebar
Otherwise with widget logic, you would still have a sidebar, but could alter what is displayed in forums and your blog. As stated above, just add a widget to your sidebar, and use the codes above in the widget logic box
In reply to: "Last name" profile field in Edit Profilefirst name & Last name are included in my bbpress profile, can you post a link to yours so we can see?
Good, I might give it a go, was on my list of things to try when I get a moment !
yes, there’s a plugin that does this for you
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-notify/
Haven’t used it yet, let us know if it works for you
In reply to: change forum sidebarok, I can see your problem
Not sure why the plugin isn’t picking this up – would be worth a post on the authors support site
However lets also try a different approach.
Download “widget logic”
https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/
This plugin lets you specify conditions for when widget items are displayed.
You would then put all the widgets for both the blog page and the forum page in one sidebar
Against each of these you then specify whether you want it to appear on the forum page, on any page with a sidebar that is not the forum 9ie your blog), or on both forum and other sidebar pages.
you do this by putting the following code in the widget logoc box that you will see appears against each widget
For a forum sidebar you put :
is_bbpress()ie is this page a forum page
For any other sidebar you put :!is_bbpress()ie is this page NOT a forum page
For any item to appear on both, simply leave the logic blank.Give that a try and come back and let us know how it works
In reply to: change forum sidebarCan you post a link please?
In reply to: How to display Forum as a Menu Item?Create a page, and put the following shortcode in it
[bbp-forum-index]or if you want to get more specific then look at all the shortcodes
In reply to: Display all forumsVkymunir, you should really start your own topic, but as you’ve posted here, go to the following link
In reply to: Display all forumsUnfortunately it’s css and php files that you will need to amend
Quickest change would be to add the following to your style.css
#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
display: list-item !important;
font-size: 11px;
}or to amend the display line in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css line 121
That’ll get your list vertical.
Add descriptions to your forums (dashboard>forums>edit and put something in content) and you’ll have the next part.
Then if you want to alter the display, you’ll need to look at loop-single-forum.php
or the main forum display loop-forums.php
It’s quite simple to get ti up and running – just work you way through the following resource
If you are using a default core theme, it’ll be going in a couple of hours. if you have a custom theme, the functionality will be there, but the look and feel might be a little different from your theme, and you’ll need to style it – not that hard to do, but does require some knowledge of using FTP and a code editor.
I’ll be finishing this article during the next week.
In reply to: Online / Offline user statusis_user_logged_in()is the function you want
$user = ( bbp_get_reply_author_id( $reply_id )) ;
will get you the username, so probably
is_user_logged_in($user)should get you thereIn reply to: Can't access admin pagesI’ve just created a fresh wordpress site 3.7.1 with theme twentytwelve, and added bbpress 2.4.1 to it.
I am able to create forums, set up users, tools etc. etc.
In reply to: Losing Genesis Prose SidebarYes totally.
You can create a full width page forum if you wish – if your theme has a full width page option then just create a full width page, put the index shortcode within it
[bbp-forum-index].But it may be better to have a separate sidebar, so that you can have login and latest posts – see http://www.gospbc.co.uk/forums for an example.
Once you have installed bbpress, then install a plugin called bbPress WP tweaks. it gives you a forum specific sidebar, so you can add login and latest posts widgets
You can also use a plugin called “widget logic” with your normal sidebar to control what widgets are seen on what pages. For instance a widget will not appear if you use the logic
!is_bbpress()m or will appear if you useis_bbpress()In reply to: Layout errors and 404Yes, create a page called say “foumsd2 and put the following shortcode in
[bbp-forum-index]
There’s a full list of shortcodes at
In reply to: ErrorsOne a day, lots every day?
Can you post your url?
In reply to: Can't access admin pagesOK, when I get a moment I’ll create a new site and try it from a blank canvass.
In reply to: Can't access admin pagesOK, try going into
Dashboard>users>
and edit the username you’re looking at
at the bottom there should be a setting for level of forum access. For full rights it should be keymaster.
Come back and let us know what it is set at, and if not keymaster change it to that and try again
In reply to: Can't access admin pagessuggest you uninstall bbpress and then re-install it.
Come back if that doesn’t work
In reply to: I need to enlarge some font-sizesI just took a look at my forum
On a single topic display, my css is from line 575
#content .entry-title { color: #000000; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0; }and when I view a topic title in a list of forums it is from line 475
#content, #content input, #content textarea { color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; }Have you tried either of those?
It is frustrating that I can’t directly see what you’re looking at 🙂
In reply to: Can't access admin pagesPrecisely what are you doing to get this message
example
Dashboard>settings>forums
and at what point do you get it?
In reply to: I need to enlarge some font-sizesok, would be worth a double check with firebug as to which css is being used.
is it definitely bbpress.css? and on what directory are you using it (ie is it the default directory or a copy you have made, and if the latter which directory have you put it in?
In reply to: Users Cannot View Own Repliesgreat – glad you’re sorted!
In reply to: Colors used in Topic list very hard to seegreat, glad you’re sorted !
In reply to: Installing & Activating A bbpress ThemeYes, and I totally agree, the documentation is woeful, unfortunately those that know the answers won’t update, and the rest of us work out bits that function, but are never sure whether these are the best ways.
Anyway onto your question.
bbPress is a plugin, and out of the box it works well with twentyten, and I understand twentyeleven.
Beyond that you’ll need to style it.
This consist of two elements :
Functionality
StylingFunctionality
I create a page called “forums”, and then put whatever forum text at the top followed by the forum shortcut
[bbp-forum-index]See http://www.gospbc.co.uk/forums/ for an example
Then loading a plugin called bbPress WP tweaks adds a forum sidebar to your widgets area.
I have loaded this with a login widget, forum list, recent topics and recent replies, as well as some other stuff from my website. See link about for what is in there.
This then gives you a basic forum area.
Then onto
styling
bbPress using the default bbpress.css as it style doc unless you tell it otherwiseYou can customise look and feel – fonts, colours, background quite easily by using one of two methods, knowing what to change is the hard part !
If you have an existing child theme, you can override the bbpress default for elements by adding them to your own child theme style.css BUT you need to put !important into them to prevent the bbpress plugin from loading later and overwriting them with the default
As an example if you wanted to change the font-size of the forums list you’d put the following into your css
#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li { font-size: 11px !important; }The alternate method, and perhaps better if you want to make lots of changes, is to copy the default bbpress.css from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css
to /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/css/you can then edit it there to your hearts content, and you don’t need the !important bit.
OK so how do I know what to edit?
You’ll need to get familiar with using something like firebug with firefox. This lets you examine sections of your website and see precisely what css element is styling it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdIk2PztcL0 gives the start of a tutorial on this
When I get a moment, I’ll start to add this to the bbpress documentation.
I only started with WordPress and bbPress in March, and am still learning the basics !
