[Lynqoid]

Hi Mycelus,

I would recommend trying to gain a little css knowledge if your up for the challenge as it can get a lot done with WordPress and bbPress. Even just by hiding things with display:none or positioning things absolutely to get them in the right place.

If you want to try and get the look and feel of phpbb or ipboard then you could take a look at the bbPress starter theme I created. It gets you onto a good footing with the layout and then you can go onto styling the colours from there.

http://www.epicwebs.co.uk/bbpress-tutorials/bbpress-starter-theme/.

You can also find the topic about it here on bbPress: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/i-have-created-a-bbpress-starter-theme-with-a-phpbb-look-and-feel/.

Good luck! 🙂

[Robin W]

Ok, I had misunderstood.

The site you link to has these in their nav menu, they’ve just moved the nav menu to the top of the screen.

Most WP sites only give admin toolbar visibility to authors and above, as the backend is clearly different from their theme.

They then use sidebars to handle register, profile and login or use nav menus for these.

If you wanted to use the standard admin toolbar, then you’d not get a login, as the toolbar doesn’t show unless you are logged in, so it becomes self defeating !

If you want a login at the top right of your screen, you can use the php code in your theme’s header.php (or indeed anywhere you want to show it). You could add a background to make it look like a button

ie

<?php add_modal_login_button( $login_text = 'Login', $logout_text = 'Logout', $logout_url = '', $show_admin = false ) ; ?>

“in the code i pasted to the function.php, there is a note on the top saying it uses a plugin named “WordPress menu admin” i didnt seem to find it do you know what plugin he is using i dont want to download somthin wrong and mess this up.” – I didn’t see this, can you point me to which bit of code you are talking about.

[Mycelus]

Hey guys. So I’m used to the regular forum format like phpBB and IP Board where it looks like this: http://imgur.com/XlyR6cc

So, where it says Welcome to IPS, that’s the category name.

Under that, you have News and Information, and Pre-Sales, those are your FORUMS.

Then you have a space underneath the categories as can be seen in the picture.

This makes sense because your CATEGORIES are SEPARATED from each other, and the FORUMS, are listed underneath.

The way bbPress it, you can click a category. This makes ZERO sense, there is NO reason to click on the category.

Also, as can also be seen in the picture, the amount of topics, and replies are to the right side, with the recent reply, time, latest thread, and time to the right.

This can be done by anyone with some moderate CSS knowledge and WordPress know how, unfortunately I possess little of both.

So I’m here for your help. Please share your wisdom with me and help me get this layout. This is a layout SO many people have asked for, yet I have found no tutorials on getting anything like this and it just astounds me considering how popular bbPress is, I don’t know why bbPress has a god awful layout.

Note: Please do not make any “well this is how bbPress is supposed to look like so you should deal with it” comments. I’m not here to hear that.

Thank you in advance to anyone who helps me achieve this. I really appreciate it.

[Stephen Edgar]

* What are the best plugins to make bbpress mobile responsive?

bbPress included CSS is responsive, a few tweaks maybe needed if your theme is overriding these.

* I need as much facebook integration as possible, what plugins are there for bbpress?

No idea, I don’t have a Facebook account 😛

Have a look in the WP Plugins repo https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=bbpress+facebook

* Is there any @mention/quote functions that can be added to reply to people?

bbPress includes @mentions, i.e. @soprano linking to the user profile, if you want email notifications and the like add BuddyPress and enable the ‘Notifications’ component.

BuddyPress Components and Features

[danieldude]

thanks again robin.
i think im missing a plugin
the one that lets me choose this manu to be as a admin-bar menu…
in the code i pasted to the function.php, there is a note on the top saying it uses a plugin named “WordPress menu admin” i didnt seem to find it do you know what plugin he is using i dont want to download somthin wrong and mess this up.

[Robin W]

oops, sorry thought I’d posted the link

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-in-navigation-menu

[jslom]

Thanks @Robin W. I understand this is free, just like the millions of other scripts/software online.. What I don’t understand is how such a popular script has no developers support on their forums, or even documentation on how to achieve certain things within their script. I have used plenty of open source scripts, and have always had some type of reply or documentation from a person who knew about it.

I would of course post the solution if I had at least the right documentation to achieve it.

Here is what the wordpress documentation on how to insert a post, and I believe it would be somewhat the same within a bbpress post, but have no idea since it is not documented anywhere that I see.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post

[iol2014]

Thank you a lot robin-w, I made what you wrote and it works but there is one thing that did not work and it is this:
‘bbp-breadcrumb-current’ it shows ‘Forums’
but I changed the ‘ Forum Root Slug’ and the ‘Single Forum Slugs’, do you know what I have to do more? because I tried to change the name of the directory in file manager but it creates a mess and it stops wordpress to work.
Thanks in advance.

[iol2014]

Thank you a lot robin-w, I made what you wrote and it works but there is one thing that did not work and it is this:
‘bbp-breadcrumb-current’ it shows ‘Forums’
but I changed the ‘ Forum Root Slug’ and the ‘Single Forum Slugs’, do you know what I have to do more? because I tried to change the name of the directory in file manager but it creates a mess and it stops wordpress to work.
Thanks in advance.

[BenM]

Hi,

Here is what I see using codestyling localisation :

Loading Issue: Author is using load_textdomain instead of load_plugin_textdomain function. This may break behavior of WordPress, because some filters and actions won’t be executed anymore. Please contact the Author about that.

Thanks.

[Juicy87]

Hey all,

I’m trying to set up a forum using bbPress. I’ve come a long way, but I just can’t seem to get this strange background color removed.

As shown in the picture, there’s a grey-ish background color behind the avatar of people replying to the topic. The topic starter doesn’t have the background color.

Could anyone tell me how to remove this?

Site: http://armada.sjebbe.nl
Picture: http://i.imgur.com/ULb6Kgd.jpg
BBPress: Latest version
Wordpress: Latest version

Thanks in advance,

Juicy

[freiwerk]

Created a bug report here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2548

[Robin W]

Yes that is really quite good looking, I’d like to copy that also !

The inloggen is in the menu, so it is a call from menu item.

The site is using wordpress twentytwelve, but I don’t know whether it’s a plugin or they have coded it for themselves.

I have contacted the site to see if they’d tell us how they did it. If I get a reply I’ll let you know !

Maybe another support person on here knows how to code this – it’s actually a wordpress rather than bbPress solution.

[Kyborg2011]

I have created a site using WordPress 3.8.1 and bbPress 2.5.3. Search page don’t work. This is an example: http://dev.nesiditsa.ru/forum/forums/general
I use standard bbPress search form, but on a page of results I see content of main page of site. How solve this problem? Any idea?

[iejigna]

Hi,
In our site,
Topics with the status – pending are counted in topic summary text but not listed in topic list(as its pending,)
Topic count is stored in table name wp_postmeta with meta-key – _bbp_topic_count.
_bbp_topic_count is count of all topics including ‘pending’ topic.

How can I get count of topics with status ‘open’ in my summary?

We are using bbpress version 2.5.3 and wordpress 3.8.1

[Asynaptic]

@hillofbeans with respect, I don’t think that is what’s happening exactly. The bbpress team is not jumping up and down with joy to tackle this issue but as jjj said:

bbPress and WordPress are designed to allow those with specific needs and wants to customize the codebase, and contribute the changes they needed up-stream to the parent project. If this is something multiple people would like, I suggest you group up and build it. If it works, and more people want it, we absorb it into bbPress core.

This is why I searched and found previous discussions in the forum and a solution which was arrived at several years ago via a plugin (See above). It doesn’t seem like the creator of the plugin took it anywhere though, other than sharing it on the bbpress forums. They didn’t create a plugin officially at the plugin.wordpress.org or update it, etc.

If I could make a constructive suggestion to the bbpress team, it would be that while they are very busy and it can seem like we are just throwing constant suggestions, critiques, etc. at them, it would be wise to set up a method to gauge the community’s interest or desire for specific issues.

This can be done very simply with something like uservoice or similar ‘suggestion box’ apps where suggestions are shown and community members here can vote on them to show their interest towards them and move them up the priority list.

I made a similar suggestion to the buddypress team and I read from jjj or boone that this inspired the recent survey (hopefully we’ll see the results of said survey soon!)

That was great, btw! at the same time, a survey is a very short lived ‘snapshot’ whereas a uservoice type idea collector and sifter would be continuous

of course, I’m not at all suggesting that we convert the bbpress or buddypress projects to ‘mob rule’! nope. just that when we have such a communication channel, things like this specific issue would be addressed (rather than linger for 7+ years) because there would be transparency and a collaboration between the wider community and the dev team

🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

If you are using custom templates then adding <?php bbp_forum_subscription_link(); ?> should be all you need 🙂

Here is the original source depending on what templates you are using: /templates/default/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php#L26
and/or
/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.php#L16

[Stephen Edgar]

This is fixed in the next release of bbPress 2.5.4 and/or 2.6

See https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2518 for more details and a patch/fix if you want to implement it.

[HillofBeans]

I’m with all the non-coders here. This url situation is nuts from a UX and SEO point of view.

Having built over 200 WordPress sites in the last few years, I’m really surprised to find that bbPress has these fundamental structural flaws when it comes to url organization.

This topic was raised 1 year and 9 months ago.

Have we got any further with this?

[Stephen Edgar]

There isn’t such a feature yet, most likely we will add it in a future release as part of #459/#1721.

[Stephen Edgar]

This is a known issue, please see bbPress#2412 and we need to wait for the issue to be fixed upstream WordPress Core per WP#24169

[Robin W]

I’m sure there are plenty of highly active bbPress sites, with 20% of the world’s websites being wordpress they’re bound to be. That these people don’t come to the attention of a support site – and that this site only gets 20 queries a day – is surely testimony to how good the software is !!!

[Soprano]

That’s what motivated my choice with bbpress, its ease of installation. I’m not really interested in money, I’m just asking the question because I would really like to have an active forum community but apart from a few exceptions (like the studiopress, wordpress etc communities) many forum communities, well established and with large amounts of members seem to have gone inactive.

So it’s all a bit discouraging, and I was hoping to see a few examples of successful ones 🙂

[e1ght]

Hello,
I have been trying to replace topic-tags with the default wordpress post_tag for a long time without success. For my purpose, having two different tag systems isnt´t user-friendly. Is there any possibility to achieve this?

[Robin W]

We could do with a bit more information than just the error!

Have you just installed, or is this an existing bbpress site that has gone wrong?
What were you doing at the time?
Have you added any plugins or done any upgrades recently?
Does it work at all?
Does you site work but bbpress not?
What versions of bbpress and WordPress are you on?
what theme?
what plugins are you using?