Just shy away from using shortcodes for forum pages , it will be time consuming. You would have to possibly create pages for all instances of any bbPress page. This includes topic pages and user profile pages.
The way you could get a non-fullwidth layout is to contact your theme author , which I think is Avada for help. Since they have more knowledge of how the theme works and I can’t just buy a theme and test it out and tell you what to do to have this layout.
You could also do this manually with my help guiding you, but you would need some basic knowledge of how WordPress templates work.
This guide will help with getting the layout , you would need to add the sidebar code back in like how the example template has. Please note that that is just an example template and is not something to copy and paste since all themes are different.
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/
I interprete your “use WordPress as CMS not as blog” as : use “show static page” instead of “show last posts” in “customization”…
CMS is an acronym content management system, and what I mean is instead of using WordPress for creating blog posts you can just use to manage your forums, users, etc.
So I should put the bbPress root template as this static page. and fix the root folder as “” ?
that what you suggest ?
You could use the forum index shortcode [bbp-forum-index] or [bbp-topic-index] and place this in a page and make that your front page if that is what you want.
Or create a custom homepage template to use like this site has.
Read this for information about that. Creating Page Templates
bbPress
I don’t want to have a “/forum” in the URL.
As for removing that I dont think you can , you can remove /forums though in settings > forums.
You can rename /forum to whatever you want though.
the reply above me is spam do not worry about that.
@oscarguy
Thanks for your input. Do I find the membership plugins on the regular wordpress site or here on the bbpress site?
I guess either one really , it is just the same data. Search “bbpress membership”
you would probably get
Paid Memberships Pro
s2Member
bbPress extension for membermouse
Premium membership with Bitcoin
Restrict Content Pro – bbPress
There are probably more but might require some searching on google , you should test them out on a test site before installing on a production site.
I already have such a WordPress Network.
I use “multi-domain” to link different domains …
I interprete your “use WordPress as CMS not as blog” as : use “show static page” instead of “show last posts” in “customization”…
So I should put the bbPress root template as this static page. and fix the root folder as “” ?
that what you suggest ?
(I’m fighting to test it, I did not succeed yet but for stupid DNS problems…)
Thank you
Thanks for your input. Do I find the membership plugins on the regular wordpress site or here on the bbpress site?
Is there then a way to merge users? So that if someone registered on the WordPress site and separately on the forums that afterwards they can be combined?
You can delete a user then attribute their content to another user
We have a members-only section for our forums. I understand these forums will be made public and we would need to hide them, but is there a way to set up users that have access only to certain sections while the general public has access to everything else? I don’t want to assign all of our members the ability to edit content on the site, just have access to a members only forum.
There are a couple of membership plugins that are compatible with bbPress, you could also use the bbPress private groups plugin.
Will this create two separate MySQL databases? Will the old phpBB still be there and operational? Can the two be used simultaneously and will content posted in one cross-post to the other once merged to bbpress?
Your phpbb data will be imported into the WordPress database where bbPress would usually be. Cross posting I’m not sure. You should test this out on a test site to make sure everything is working okay and to your expectations.
Thanks for that. I didn’t see that FAQ before. Here are some questions not specified here:
Is there then a way to merge users? So that if someone registered on the WordPress site and separately on the forums that afterwards they can be combined?
We have a members-only section for our forums. I understand these forums will be made public and we would need to hide them, but is there a way to set up users that have access only to certain sections while the general public has access to everything else? I don’t want to assign all of our members the ability to edit content on the site, just have access to a members only forum.
Will this create two separate MySQL databases? Will the old phpBB still be there and operational? Can the two be used simultaneously and will content posted in one cross-post to the other once merged to bbpress?
I think you would have to use Multi-site , there are parts of the multisite installation to include either sub-directories or sub-domains.
And you do not have to use WordPress for a blog , you can just use it instead as a CMS.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
Is there any other way to see all replies without that page on the WordPress dashboard? Is there something I can do behind the scenes to see it?
Maybe look in the database in the posts table.
Was wanguard the only security/spam plugin you added??
If you have a WordPress site , you are logged into WordPress.
with any front-end authentication form all the data is stored in WordPress.
@manni1970
I just translated my test site into German, I don’t see an issue??
As long as you have the latest active versions files it should work.
Did you get your .po and .mo files from here??
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.5.x/de/default
Hello,
I have WordPress 4.2.2 with bbPress 2.5.7, bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab 1.0.1, and bbPress Notify (No-Spam) 1.8.1 and WP SMTP.
Everything is working fine except for the Email Notifications from the forums. I really need to get this to work. I’ve tried various permissions changes, etc. WordPress itself works fine and when I send test emails, they come through, but I don’t get the auto-notifications.
Can anybody help???
Thanks
Kendell
Hi
I’m creating a site which has a green/blue background and I need to change to colours of the forums as the text is white and can’t be seen.
Can anyone point me to where I need to go to change this please?
Link to my site
Thanks
BBPress Version 2.5.7
WordPress 4.2.2
Hello!
I successfully implemented the code put up here – New Topics so as to show a new tag next to a topic in forum. But as per this link, the new tag will flash until 3 days. I would want to modify it such that the tag disappears once a user replies to the topic. Is there any function to get this functionality?
Thanks!
Can someone help me?
I just downloaded and installed bbpress.
I have set language in wp_config.php to de_DE.
In WordPress unter Settings/Language is set also to German.
Why does backend and frontend still show up in English?
What else do I need to configure?
The title pretty much says it all. I would like to replace the forum role (ex: Participant) with the WordPress role (ex: Member) when a user starts a new a topic or replies. I want the bbPress roles to barely be seem by any of my members. Keep in mind, I am very limited with my coding skills so please be as detailed as possible, thanks!
Just a follow-up
I was recently able to solve the BCC showing problem by using the plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/postman-smtp/
Thank you all for your replies.
I have found this solution https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/screenshots/ which works perfectly!!
Regards,
Andreas
I just saw this reply because I didn’t get an email for some reason. It is the “All Replies” page in the WordPress dashboard.
I will move my most recent image to staging and try the plug-in deactivation. I have a highly customized theme and I am not sure what will happen if I try to switch that. I already ran the repair processes to no avail.
I have noticed that one of my replies has disappeared and I am wondering if it is causing the problem. Is there any other way to see all replies without that page on the WordPress dashboard? Is there something I can do behind the scenes to see it?
I am pretty much out of ideas as to what to do.
Our website is http://www.geekgirlpenpals.com
We have Godaddy managed wordpress hosting. I call their customer support and they have no idea what’s wrong.
We were using the Hueman theme for a long time, and suddenly yesterday the BBpress plugin began acting up and causing a 500 internal server error. It caused those errors on both Posts and Forums. The error only appears to people who are logged in.
Once I deactivated BBpress, the error was gone (but so were the forums)
Since I knew it was BBpress, I uninstalled and reinstalled BBpress plugin. That did not fix it
I turned on the Twenty Fourteen theme and that seems to show the forums fine. So I went ahead and installed a new theme, thinking it must be a theme issue.
The theme worked great for about 5 hours and showed the forums and blog (while logged in, which is when the problem was occuring) but now as of 5 minutes ago – exact same problem.
Feel free to use username jimbob and password jimbobsauce to test the Internal Server Error
HELP 🙁
Revival!
It gets hilariously worse when running a MultiSite – Calling a SubSite “Forum” – then working around this issue. The bigger your site, the less you want everything to weigh for User loading and Server handling. There’s now an option in the bbPress Settings called ‘Prefix all forum content with the Forum Root slug (Recommended)’ – I’ve unchecked it. I’m willing to bet I run into *at least* one hundred different user issues now that I’ve done so. This was definitely designed for the smaller blog, even with it’s latest updates I’m having unrelated issues not addressed in documentation.
I’m an advanced User, too. As cool as BuddyPress is, it’s pretty much useless without bbPress integration. As much as people would like to pretend (yep, you’re dreaming) their running their own “social media website”, it’s an unrealistic dream compared to running a Forum. Financing that dream over the Forum is poor form, but w/e.
By the time it gets addressed, the advanced users with thousands of of hits a day wont change it. Why? Because of the Social Media Integration like Facebook, Twitter, and G+ – NOT BUDDYPRESS (which I run for other much different *fluffy* reasons). Likes and Shares are gold, it’s networking and sales. We will weigh our links; SHARING LINKS and LIKES; over making the url pretty for SEO at that point… no matter how terrific the fix.
8 years too late pretty much. I know it’s community driven – and that’s respectable. Doesn’t change the bigger picture, though, and imo this plugin outweighs BuddyPress in importance concerning the current evolution of WordPress itself.
WIthout mysql though
Use something like this , or wait til 2.6 when this feature should be added to core.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-topic-count/
@rashedfoundation
Also, small second question. It happens often that I’m on a site that I *think* I’ve registered on, but haven’t. If someone enters a login that is not correct AND that username doesn’t currently exist, is there a way to redirect to the registration page WITH that username?
So, for example, I type in username: MyFaveUser pw: 1234, and it doesn’t exist in my user table, so the user is redirected to “Hey, MyFaveUser doesn’t exist, but you can register with it! It’s available!” and then autofill the username field with MyFaveUser and leave the pw field blank?
This is some custom development , I suggest you hire a developer if you need help.
As for the login shortcode issue , it might be best for you to link to the default WordPress login page if you are experiencing issue with it. Or just use a better front-end authentication plugin.
@kellygree
You can use https://wordpress.org/plugins/basic-user-avatars/
or let your users change by directing them to gravatar.com and make sure they use the same email they used on your site.
