Robin W (@robin-w)

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  • @robin-w

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    the bbpress login widget should just log them in, you shouldn’t get other login screens – what your url?

    @robin-w

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    you’re welcome !

    @robin-w

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    ok try the following

    Create a page called “forums”

    Put some welcome text at the top eg “hello welcome to my forum”
    Then put the following:
    [bbp-forum-index]

    If you’re using custom menus – add the page to your menus

    Then go to dashboard>plugins>add new and load in BBpress WP Tweaks

    Then go to dashboard>appearance>widgets and you’ll see a bbpress sidebar

    Load in items such as

    bbpress login widget
    bbpress forums list
    bbppress topics list

    Then view the site

    You should have a forums page something like

    http://www.gospbc.co.uk/forums/

    with a forum specific sidebar

    with normal sidebars appearing on other pages

    Welcome

    If you need help in adding any of the other items in my forum sidebar, just let me know

    @robin-w

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    Can’t see anything wrong with your code is_bbpress()works on my conditional statements

    @robin-w

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    BBpress comes with roles that you can set for each user, just go into dashboard>users and set them up – they’re at the bottom of the page

    see this article

    https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

    @robin-w

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    ok update to the previous

    If you’re using a child theme, or one of your own, you can add this to your css

    #bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
    	display: list-item !important;
    	font-size: 11px;
    	}

    and then bbpress updates will not overwrite

    @robin-w

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    If you want forums as a list, then you need to change the following

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

    Line 120-122

    #bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
    	display: inline;
    	font-size: 11px;

    change to

    #bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
    	display: list-item;
    	font-size: 11px;

    This’ll then produce the vertical list

    Now I expect to be told off for directly editing a plugin file, and if someone else knows how to get it to do the same with a themes functions.php or style.css, then I’d love to see how to do it.

    You will need to make a note of this, as every bbpress plugin update will rub it out

    @robin-w

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    congrats Stephen !

    @robin-w

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    hmmm…could be lots of things

    I see you’re using the twentyeleven theme, how have you set the forums page up?

    Easiest way is to create a page called ‘forums’ and put this short code in it

    [bbp-forum-index]

    Then add that page to your menu’s

    Then as the page is set to display the sidebar it should all work

    @robin-w

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    Ok, I’ve found that the bbpress tweaks sidebar can fail to work although populated. I have had this afger doing updates to themes and/or wodpress.

    No idea why, but the following seems to fix it, so please try and PLEASE come back and say if successful or whether it’s just my installation.

    1. Deactivate bbpress tweaks
    Dashboard>plugins>bbpress tweaks>deactivate

    2. 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 them allows wordpress to delete the sidebar
    3. 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
    4. Re-enable bbpress tweaks
    You see the bbpress sidebar returns
    5. Drag the entries back from the inactive widgets area to the sidebar

    It then seems to function again

    let us know if this works for you

    In reply to: where do i begin?

    @robin-w

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    you’re welcome

    @robin-w

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    Just by chance found a mailchimp plugin, no idea if it will help you, but :

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp/

    probably worth a look !

    @robin-w

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    you’re very welcome

    @robin-w

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    it uses the wordpress user database to store email addresses, and will mail to the email address of the wordpress user as you set them up.

    Whilst a bit clunky, you could use

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/export-users-to-csv/

    to export the email addresses to a csv, and import them from there to mailchimp maybe via a macro.

    depends on how many users you have and how often you’re emailing.

    @robin-w

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    I am trying to figure out how to make entering a username and email address mandatory for my forums

    Just unclick anonymous posting in dashboard>settings>forums

    @robin-w

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    Just create a page in your menu system called forums wherever you want it, and add the following shortcode
    [bbp-forum-index]

    In reply to: where do i begin?

    @robin-w

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    Yes there should be was fairly sure I’d posted it

    link is

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4vkOggVXfI

    @robin-w

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    Have not fund anything else that does this

    @robin-w

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    Can you explain more?

    where does ti say this – can’t see it in the link you psoted.

    and is it open when you want it closed, or closed when you want it open, or all fine but just the words wrong.

    @robin-w

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    There used to be, it was called (surprisingly!) bbpress leaderboard, but whilst references to it are many, I can’t find an actual plugin

    In reply to: where do i begin?

    @robin-w

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    Start by watching this, it’s a bit old, but will get you started.

    Then

    Create a page called “forums” or whatever you set the forums page to be when you were in settings (see video), if you are using a custom menu, add this page to it. That way your have a fourms page on your site which has all the forum stuff inc. login which we’ll add next!

    Next – install a further plugin called bbpress tweaks https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/

    This :

    Adds a forum specific sidebar to your forum page, so this can be different to the blog and static pages.

    Gives you login widgets which along with recent comments and recent topics widget makes your forum sidebar have everything it needs

    example

    http://www.gospbc.co.uk/forums/

    @robin-w

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    Works fine for me !

    @robin-w

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    I use

    WordPress plugin: bbPress WP Tweaks

    to have a separate forum sidebar – works really well.

    @robin-w

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    Is it easy for you to summarise what “extra” you found out that would help others searching this forum in future?

    @robin-w

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    There seem to be some issues with this site and remembering users.

    You can login to bbpress.org, but as soon as you try to go to the support area, it logs you as anonymous. If you click the lost password it tells you that you are already logged in. Logging out and in again doesn’t fix, and login frequently goes nowhere.

    I found two solutions

    1. logout, then click lost password, get the email, change password and then login

    2. Come to the site using https://bbpress.org/wp-login.php

    JJJ – this started for me about 10 days ago, before that it was intermittent, now it is every time I come to site – any ideas?

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