There are two ways for achieving what you need and it took me quite a long time to figure it out too:
1) You create a child theme just like you did but what I didn’t know is that, after doing it (not forgetting to declare the parent template and the “@import” path accordingly in the css file located inside your child theme folder), you NEED to activate the child theme in your theme section of your WordPress admin. This last part is the one I didn’t know about, which is why it didn’t work at first.
2) the easier and a little more messier technique is straight forward:
Just write your custom BBpress css styles at the end of your main theme css file. It’ll work.
And if you need to change the bbpress template files, just copy the needed files inside your main WordPress theme folder and make the changes there. These files will overwrite the default ones that are in the original bbpress template folder. As simple as that
Both will work and will not be a problem in case of a WordPress or BBpres update.
The first technique is to be preferred because you will gather your BBpress children files within a same recognizable folder when the second technique will blend the BBpress children files among the ones of your main theme. Not to mention that if you decide later to switch the WordPress theme, you will have to extract the bbpress children files and styles from the previous WordPress theme to put them in the the new one.
But ultimately, the result will be the same.
Hope it helped.
I’ve got the bbPress post toolbar plugin installed to bbPress on my WordPress site, which is a private roleplay site for myself and a couple of friends…but two out of the current three of us are feeling a bit OCD about the arrangement of the smilies.
We have emotes I have created and/or some I have gotten permission to use that represent each character we play with, a full range of emotions, hug emotes etc. for each character, which right now is probably 60 odd smilies, all characters combined.
I have worked out how to arrange the names of the smilies in the package-config file to keep the characters relatively organized, but I’ve tried adding line breaks between each of the character sets and all that does is break the entire website down until I remove them, I can’t seem to edit package-config outside adding new smilie codes without crashing the site…but what I would love to know is this:
Is there a way that I can insert line breaks or separate the smilies into tabs somehow by character rather than having them all smushed into one big group?
edit: WordPress 3.6 and bbPress 2.3.2 are running on my site, I haven’t gotten around to the WP update and refused to upgrade bbPress because a plugin I was using was incompatible with the new version and I didn’t wish to break it.
Stephen, I don’t think I ever said I had a handful of users. The actual number is over 17,000.
There are several pages in the WordPress admin where a pick list with ALL users is displayed. These pages will tend to several minutes to load and allow me to use them. I mention this because for bbPress to be useful for a volume of users (> 10000) there needs to be some adjustment to the way the user lists are created.
Here are two problem pages:
- Delete Users – the list appears under “Attribute all posts to”
- Widgets – the list of users is loaded under one or more widgets
For the same reason that /wp-admin/users.php only displays 20 users per page, these lists should do something similar. Or rather than a list, use a search.
I figure this isn’t something quickly or easily fixed, but suggest that it be considered in the future. And certainly bbpress.org has the same issue… how do you/they deal with it?
Hey.
If you haven’t created a child theme, start with doing that.
Create the file bbpress.php in your child theme.
Copy the content of your page.php file into this new file.
Remove the line
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
You’ve removed the sidebar 🙂
Now you only need to change / add some classes / ID’s and adjust your CSS file to give the forum a 100% width.
Keep me updated 🙂
hey you i am using bbpress forum 3.4.1 i am using wordpress 3.6 i have install and follow all step final the when all open form page all forum display on my page but when i click any form title there is this error “Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Post’ not found in /home/rm1969/public_html/silverandbluereport.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/theme-compat.php on line 375″
please help me
where are you all i have problem please help me i am using bbpress 2.4.1 i am using wordpress 3.6 i have install and follow all step final the when all open form page all forum display on my page but when i click any form title there is this error “Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Post’ not found in /home/rm1969/public_html/silverandbluereport.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/theme-compat.php on line 375″
i have bbpress forum i am using wordpress 3.6 i have install and follow all step final the when all open form page all forum display on my page but when i click any form title there is this error “Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Post’ not found in /home/rm1969/public_html/silverandbluereport.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/theme-compat.php on line 375”
i am waiting for answer
Hello,
I am very new to bbpress.
I have successfully convert my 54000 user vbulletin forum in to bbpress. Also converted more than 1 gigabyte contents database without issues. There were some problematic turkish characters but i solved that issue too.
But, i am sure it was a very well written document about how to modify and adding new themes to bbpress, I understand completely nothing from them. I also read forum topics about the issue, but most of them pointing the links where the docs are.
I also tried copying folders and files in to wordpress themes directory or my theme’s directory, nothing is happening. Most probably i did not understand anything from the docs here:
http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/
Can someone please explain to me what to do like explaining to an idiot.Assume my wordpress theme’s name is “wptheme” and please direct me into it by real examples like: Put your wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/bbpress folder to wp-content/themes/wordpresstheme folder. or whatever is true 🙂
Best regards
I understand it is quite unusable but as I stated previously if you only have a handful of users this is required for will it suffice, how many is a ‘handful’ in this case?
In regard to removing spam posts I found this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/clobber-spam-users/
This looks like it could be easily forked and adjusting the search criteria to return the results that meet your criteria to then have it delete the topics & replies for you, then afterwards you will again have users with no posts/topics/replies etc and again masss delete those users.
I finally got everything working fine together for the most part on my new site. Wow-it was an endeavor plugin by plugin hehehehe.
The one situation I am having though is that buddypress-Default theme and the logging in from the theme. In the upper right hand corner it says username and password – if you type it in It Always says wrong and fails Login. Then it brings you to wordpress login and all is fine you can log in normally.
Help Please…
Thanks…
buddypress ver 1.8.1, WordPress 3.7 tvbar.heavenboundministry.com
via https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-protected-from-pw-protected-page-titles?replies=7#post-1658659
For ‘protected’
add_filter('protected_title_format', 'ntwb_remove_protected_title');
function ntwb_remove_protected_title($title) {
return '%s';
}
And for ‘private’
add_filter('private_title_format', 'ntwb_remove_private_title');
function ntwb_remove_private_title($title) {
return '%s';
}
http://equisbono.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress
I try to “adjust” settings within wordpress for the bbpress plugin, it takes me to this link and says I “do not have permissions sufficient for this” or something similar IN SPANISH (dont know how it translates exactly into english)
Whats the problem here? Please somebody help me soon, Thank you very much!
you’ll need to disable the bbpress plugin
https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F
Just deactivate the bbpress plugin for starters.
then you’ll need to figure out why it isn’t working for you.
I’d start by uninstalling bbpress, and reinstalling it in case there was a corruption as it downloaded
Then if it still doesn’t work, I’d disable all the other plugins and if it then works add them back one at a time to see which is causing the issue.
If not plugins, then I’d try switching to a default theme to prove that you WP installation is ok.
if all that fails, come back
Embedly used to help for SoundCloud but I recently had to deactivate it as I believe a recent version of WordPress now directly supports URLs to soundcloud.com
I’m using WordPress 3.7 and bbPress 2.4.x and there appears to be no problem dropping the soundcloud URL on a line by itself.
Hooray! 🙂
Sorry, I think I wasn’t clear: the site is a wordpress site and the forum is just an addiction, so the dashboard is the normal wordpress admin pages. What I can’t see is the forum dashboard, which I don’t know how to get to.
Thanks again Robin
Apologies, snow & under are a couple of terms that come to mind.
I just imported your data into a clean MySQL database and everything imported correctly.
(The one side note is a couple of BBCodes, [align & [flash weren’t converted to WordPress ‘safe’ HTML, but that is another issue.)
Where to from here I am not sure as ‘your’ content appears fine at my end and isn’t causing the importer to miss/fail etc.
I think the next step would be for you to try this on a local install:
MAMP if you use Mac http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp-pro/index.html
XAMPP if you use PC http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
Setup and install WordPress & bbPress in this install.
Export your entire phpBB database and import it into your local setup and give that a go.
https://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/transferring-your-board-to-a-new-host-or-domain/
My theory here is there could be ‘something’ going on with your web hosts configuration and if the local import works we can then export this data from WordPress on your local host and then import this into your remote host.
Managed to resolve this myself, using another plugin, Page Security: http://www.contextureintl.com/wordpress/contexture-page-security-for-wordpress/
I would have thought that either this sort of functionality could be built in to bbpress, or bbpress documentation could include clearer help and advice that such a plug in might be needed.
i would mark this topic as closed, but can’t see how to do so…
I’ve noticed under permalinks wordpress is complaining about access to the .htaccess file; could this cause the problem considering everything else is ok? or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Hi All,
Hoping you can help; running WordPress 3.5.1 with Buddypress 1.7.1 and bbPress 2.3.2
I’ve been running sitewide forums for quite a while without issue; but recently we have needed to enable groups and group forums. I have done this successfully and I’m able to create groups and add forums to them; these show up correctly under the Group Forums Category and also within people’s profiles and the group itself.
However the problem arrives when trying to create a topic in a group forum (sitewide are still fine). You can create the topic and it is listed in the group forum after the fact; however when you click on topic to view it you get a http 500 error saying the page can’t be displayed.
additionally topics posted in both privite and hidden forums also show up in the bbpress “recent topics” widget for everyone to see (even logged out people) which defeats the purpose of being private or hidden.
I’ve tried using the forum repair option and this didnt help, anyone got any ideas what the problem might be?
Thanks!
I just noticed the same thing my self.
Basically Yoast WordPress SEO: XML Sitemaps automatically adds ALL reply url’s to the existing sitemap. This means google will index them all.
> What I’m looking for are where the single reply URL’s are being used in your theme, making them accessible and allowing them to be crawled.
I doubt they are exposed by default, however a quick fix could be adding a rule in robots txt as well as excluding them from your sitemap.
no problem, glad you’re sorted
Awesome I seemed to have fixed it then, thank you so much for your help.
