[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

If you page’s URL is “xx/forums” and the forum slug is “forum” it won’t appear without the shortcode as they don’t match (one plural, one singular). Also if you add any text to the page (as you have done) then again you’ll need the shortcode. But it should work with the shortcode.

Can you confirm that the site currently has
[bbp-forum-index]

at the bottom, including the square brackets.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

loop-single-reply is the template that displays posts and replies

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress

copy this to a bbpress directory in your theme (see codex for how to do this if needed), and then you should be able to put a “logged in” condition around whatever you want in this. For instance

<?php bbp_reply_content(); ?>

to make that bit conditional

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Great, and thanks for posting the solution, it’ll help other people picking up this issue in future !

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

No problems, it was beginning to annoy me as well !

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

You should set the forums to hidden, then it should work – let me know. I don’t run a set up like this, so am only going by documentation.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Ok, I’m still struggling because what you describe is not what I see as you have the “DONOTWANTTHISTOBEWHATTHELINKPOINTSTO” still set, so I am not seeing your exact problem.

You should be able to

1. set the forum root to “forums”
2. set permalinks to postname in settings
3. set the “forum” page permalink to http://mysite.com/forums
4. Put the shortcode on that page

and then you can change the actual “forum” page to whatever title you like and as long, and it should all work – mine is set up exactly that way and works.

You could try disabling seo yoast to eliminate that as a problem.

what other plugins are you running?

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

when did that appear !?

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

It is in the widgets.php file

located at

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php

start at line 1064

you should be able to find the time in there somewhere

NOTE : this file will be overwritten by bbPress updates. You might do better to fork the code into your own plugin to prevent overwrites.

I think (but am not sure) the styling comes from other wordpres & bbPress elements and has no direct bbpress.css elements

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

questions

1. Does it work apart from this?
2. Exactly where are you seeing this forum list?
3. presume you are only seeing this list as an admin seeing everything? Do users restricted to one forum see only their forums?

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Was with you al the way to

I know that if I populate the Forum Root field with the same slug as my shortcode page the forum index and page contents show up, but what I lose is my Page Title Tag.

I think I am being thick, but what does having the forum root field as forum lose you? – can you give a view of what you want to see and what it is doing.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Yes, add this code to your style.css in your child theme

.bbp-search-form {
 display:none !important;
 }

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Holly,

bbPress will work out of the box for most implementations. How much you then customise it is up to you.

Typically you might want to change a little of the styling – that depends on how much styling your existing site has – There wasn’t a link to your existing site in your original post.

Then you might wish to alter some layout – although the default is pretty standard

The documentation

Codex

will show you what you need to do to set up, and if you already have wordpress, then you could see how well bbPress would suit you in a couple of hours by following the set up guide and creating some test forums.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

You can also use hidden forums to allow only registered users to view

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

step 5

or

https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

quite easy see

Codex

where there are step by step guides, and layout examples

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

As Stephen says move the bbpress.css into your theme and you can mod it withoutn overwriting

see

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

for details of how to do this

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

see

Examples

for a bunch of examples

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Presume you are allowing automatic registration and posting?

There are things out there that will sign up and post to your forums – mainly advertising or weirdos.

They’ll just add spam to your site.

Not a problem if its occasional, could be if it becomes regular

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

I disable the toolbar for users – it always looks like an add-on and clashes with the theme style

I use a sidebar, and put the login widget on it.

I then customise the login widget as per item 3 of

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Yes use buddypress and bbPress together.

For how to do this see this excellent video

http://labzip.com/the-definitive-guide-to-buddypress-bbpress-configuration/

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

crzyhrse – I am in the process of trying to improve the documentation – I started using wordpress & bbPress earlier this year and am still learning. This is community software, and community documentation, so I am trying to do my bit by helping the documentation side, and by spending time on the forum helping others where I can. The step by step guides I am writing are designed to fit the bill of “cohesive simple directions”, but if they are failing or you haven’t found them, then they are not working as planned. Let me know and I’ll try to improve layout and/or content, but I need good feedback to do this.

The text change suggested by renai42 works (with a small change) if done to the bbpress.css.

Can I ask you to look at

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

and the styling crib

bbPress Styling Crib

I’ve just tested and added Renai’s css so look there for what to use.

If you can improve wording or content to help others – please let me know what could be better phrased.

If it doesn’t work, come back with what you did, and I’ll see if I can help further

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

bbPress can do all the above.

See

Codex

for a step by step guide.

Can bbpress be configured to require registration before posting?

Yes, and you may want to set a manual registration if you want to vet who joins. The documentation explains.

Are there additional plugins?

Yes, lots of them that’ll let you add stuff to the forum and customise it for you

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Sorry I can’t see any forums on your site now.

You can turn breadcumbs off using

function bm_bbp_no_breadcrumb ($param) {
return true;

}

add_filter ('bbp_no_breadcrumb', 'bm_bbp_no_breadcrumb');

add this to your functions file in your theme/childtheme

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Hey, Thanks for a great and detailed response, I’ll read it in detail later as off to earn a living, but I’ll be digging into it and the code tonight !

Thanks again – really helpful !

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Tested – I subscribed, but in profile it says

“subscriptions

You are not currently subscribed to any forums.”

So no that doesn’t seem to work.

@Stephen Edgar – any ideas 2.5 working in twentyten !

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Just upgraded my test site to 2.5, and with the twentyten theme I run, the profile link takes you to a page with

profile
topics started
replies created
favorites
subscriptions
edit

Just as it did before !

I use solution 1, so I have just added the oine to the new widgets file and uploaded it, and all works fine.