bbPress plugin messing with Meta Data – Website Title and Tagline
Can anyone help me figure out why the bbPress plugin is doing this on one of my websites but not the other.
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WordPress 3.4.1 — bbPress Version 2.1.2
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WordPress 3.6 — bbPress Version 2.4
On one… the browser page title shows the title of the page, and the other shows the url.
I’d really love to fix the problem but having a hard time figuring out what the solution could be.
Would love it to look normal and show website title and tagline at the top of browser when on homepage, and other pages..
Also as I’m posting to Facebook its also ruining the metadata and just wants to post the url as both the title and the description.
If I deactivate the plugin the problem goes away.
Thank you
It appears that it could be this bug which is fixed for 2.4.1 but not yet released: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2429
Perhaps try patching with the change (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5109) and see if it works.
You’d need to ask the Genesis folks about bbPress compatibility 🙂 Are you using https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/ ? No idea if it’d help though.
Hello,
I am using WordPress with bbPress(2.4) an buddyPress(1.8.1).
Trying to change the image when I am in the forum.
Trying it with : <?php if ( is_bbPress() ) : ?> in my content.php under my theme…
No effect !
Are there other ways to change the appearance?
Greetings,
Tobias
It took a little longer than usual for the 2.4.x branch to go up:
If you find some obvious translations missing in the 2.3.x branch try the /dev branch as this is also ‘typically’ updated for most languages and you could also install the Dutch translations from there.
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev
You are a life saver, thanks again for all your help!
Pick the template you want to use and make a copy of it called bbpress.php (in your child theme folder) and bbPress will figure out the rest.
My wordpress page has a few php page templates, the bbpress is using the default one, where would i change it to one of the others?
Wonderful! I have activated the child theme and all is well! Thanks much for your help!
THanks :), I’ll double check it and give it a shot!
Your child theme needs to call your normal WordPress theme as its parent. It will then use your normal theme and add your child theme customisations on top.
If you have followed the instructions there, especially Step 5 (including the bit where it tells you to follow the ones here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) then activating the theme should still use your normal theme as well.
I have followed this guide http://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/
to create a child theme containing the default bbpress theme files. It appears in my wordpress admin CP themes but I don’t see how this lets me apply it to only the bbpress.
If I were to make it active it would retheme my entire wordpress site.
What are your WordPress permalink settings?
The breadcrumb uses the default Forum Index even if you use a shortcode to display your forum so it will always link back to the automatically created Forum Index.
If you only need the shortcode method because of the template problem then let’s fix the template so you don’t need the shortcode.
From: https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/
On a plain vanilla install of bbPress using a “normal” wordpress theme, the plugin looks for the following templates from the active wordpress theme and “injects” the forum into (i guess) the first one it finds:
‘plugin-bbpress.php’,
‘bbpress.php’,
‘forums.php’,
‘forum.php’,
‘generic.php’,
‘page.php’
I’m guessing your theme doesn’t have one of those so bbPress appears to be using some kind of archive template.
You need to give bbPress a theme template to hook into. In your theme folder (or in a child theme if you want to do auto-updates with your theme) create a bbpress.php template, you can probably just create a duplicate of one of your theme templates and change its name.
Here’s my bbpress.php template: http://pastebin.com/ZquKQfmw (Adept is my theme name, hence @package Adept). I took my theme’s full width template and duplicated it, called it bbpress.php then changed the header information. bbPress will figure out the rest.
Running the latest versions:
WordPress: 3.6.1
BBPress: 2.4
This is a question for the creators of the plugin. The plugin page has lots of information https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-layout-extras/ and also links to their support forum if you have further questions.
Sounds like you want some sort of membership plugin, have a look at https://wordpress.org/plugins/
Something like https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/ or https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/ might do what you want but there are lots of different WordPress plugins for this, just check for one that is recently updated and compatible with bbpress.
You can see news about it in the trac thread that was linked earlier, this enhancement has now been moved to 2.6: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1958
You can also see how other people are achieving this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forums-index-in-the-same-layout-as-other-bb-software/
I have a follow up question on the above topic. In the old BB we had each topic showed with a short summary field of the post content (usually just the first X characters of the content). Is there a way to do that with bbPress Forum topics? I do not see any existing widget that does this. In fact, is there even a field mapping for such a thing?
In WordPress terms this is known as ‘the_excerpt’ and is a function that will only show ‘x’ words of a post, this is not something you can transfer, it is a ‘display’ function in WordPress.
Oops, forgot another item. I want to bring in topic tags as well. How do I do that.
These are a little tricky mainly because understanding how they are implemented in WordPress is not an easy task as they are distributed throughout three tables.
Upload a csv file to http://gist.github.com or http://pastebin.com with a couple of examples of how your data currently has ‘tags’ associated to the topics and I will try to come up with something that is a little clearer than mud for you 😉
You took them from https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.4.x ?
It says Dutch is 0% complete therefore there are no translations in those files, just the framework for future translations.
Hey there,
This is about a WordPress installation with bbPress installed as a plugin.
The WordPress language is Dutch, also accordiong to the wp-config.php file.
On this website we downloaded the languagepack for dutch language, I exported it as .mo and named it bbpress-nl_NL.mo and it is uploaded to /wp-content/languages/bbpress/
I downloaded the right version ( 2.4 ), the wp-config is configurated dutch and I do not understand why the language of bbpress in font and backend is still english.
The backend doesn’t really matter, but since it is a dutch website it would be weird to have an english forum.
Does anyone know what we did wrong?
This functionality is now available in WordPress core. If you edit the post using the WordPress Admin area you can edited the Published date.
View post on imgur.com
(Your post editing screen may be arranged differently than mine)
Yep – I’ve just installed an old version of BBPress and it’s working – I’ve got a default forum again.
It’s also fixed the bug where page meta titles don’t work on WordPress blog posts.
Hey my friend, I found this other plug in by bbpress for that goal
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-protected-forums/
But I have to say that is giving me problems with the provision of some elements of my site. My main menu now appears on the bottom of the page 😮
Cheers.
