[Shmoo]

That’s very strange looks like the WP Loop is going somewhere through the sidebar.php file.

Make sure nowhere in the file is this code also look in the footer or other files that will be used.

( without the * )

But why would you copy stuff form the archive-forum.php template to the page.php template ?
page.php is used to generate a default WordPress page.

bbPress has it’s own Custom Templates
https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

Those can be found in the extra’s folder. For example if you copy page-front-forums.php from the extras folder to your WordPress theme folder you can find it while adding a new Page inside the WordPresss Dashboard.

Just: Add New Page and in the sidebar on the right side you can find an option the select a different Page Template.
Pick the new bbPress page template and name your page like Support of whatever the title or (url) of this page has to be and Save it.
Visit the Page and all the forums will show on that new page.

Now if you like to add some WordPress (blog) stuff to that page copy it from whatever WordPress template inside the page-front-forums.php

Make sure you delete the sidebar() code that i showed above out of that template.
Thats the logic way of working i believe. Don’t touch the page.php because it’s a default WordPress template for making new pages on your website.

[marikamitsos]

Hello all. I am a complete newbie here so plz excuse me if I ask a totally naive question.

We have a test wordpress 3.4.2 multisite/subfolders:
http://multiroot.com, http://multiroot.com/site01, http://multiroot.com/site02, etc
The live site will also be using mapped domains: http://client01.com, http://client02.com etc

The multisite will be packed with plugins, themes and hopefully sites, 🙂
So, we want to have the bbpress v2.1.2 installed in a subdomain (separate single wordpress site) on a db of its own, handling all the bbpress plugins and themes. http://bbpress.multiroot.com

The question is this: Can we have users that log (in/out) to their sites be automatically logged (in/out) the bbpress forums as well and vice-versa?

If yes, how can we do it and what possible plugins (maybe) to use to synchronize this kind of behavior between the two databases?

Bonus question. After logging in could they create forum/s that can be linked to their sites -mapped or non mapped? (I don’t even know if this “sounds” right).

Thank you in advance,
marikamitsos

[Phill]

I, like most people using BBpress, have had an issue removing the sidebar from my new BBpress forums. I tried editing template files, adding files into my theme’s root, commenting our sidebar commands and whatever else has been recommended on these forums. Not to say those don’t work – I just couldn’t figure them out which is most likely due to my complete lack of php knowledge. I’m posting this for those of you like me, who have no idea how to do those fancy things.

Here’s how I removed my sidebar:

First, I copied over the CSS folder from my BBpress plugin folder /bbp-theme-compat to my theme’s root folder. (From your server root it should be wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/)

Then, I found the CSS class my theme was using to design the main content of my wordpress blog (should be a style.css file in your theme’s folder). Mine happened to be #main_content. Next, I found the the sidebar CSS in my theme’s style.css file which was simply #sidebar.

Note: I found the CSS class by right clicking the main content area of my website (where posts show) and selecting “Inspect Element”.

After finding those I created BBpress specific classes and pasted those into the bbpress.css file now located at {you_theme’s_root}/CSS/bbpress.css.

Here’s what I pasted in:

.bbPress #sidebar { 
width: 0px;
display:none; }

.bbPress #main-content { width: 940px; !important } 

Most likely you won’t need the sidebar’s width attribute but I added it in just in case.

And finally, after hours of trying to figure this out I went to my BBress forums page to discover that the forums fit perfectly into my theme without any sign of a sidebar.

I hope this helps!

[rsanchez1]

I’m new to bbPress, using WordPress 3.4.2 and bbPress 2.1.2. What I’d like to know is how I can add metadata to each forum. For example, I want to show a description for a forum in the forums list. Is there a way to enable this with bbPress, or a plugin that does it?

[Callum Macdonald]

Has anyone found a working solution to this? I’m considering migrating my WordPress plugin support from comments on a WP post / page onto a bbPress forum (so the history is searchable). If such a thing doesn’t exist, I’d need to create it, because the history is what’s really valuable.

I had a quick look at the basic format and it doesn’t look all that complicated. Each forum, topic, or reply becomes a new entry in wp_posts with some extra metadata stored in wp_postmeta for things like the commenter’s name, email, url, and IP. I reckon the core logic would be pretty straightforward, my biggest question is how to kick off the import process.

Anyone with development experience interested in collaborating? Or got any existing code to share?

[Callum Macdonald]

This might be relevant, although it’s really about converting an entire WP blog into a bbPress site I think?:

Any Way to Convert WordPress Comments to BBPress

• This reply was modified 13 years, 10 months ago by Callum Macdonald. Reason: Posted wrong link, DOH

[Callum Macdonald]

There is a plugin that might work for you:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/

[Callum Macdonald]

Any luck finding a solution for this? It’s something that I’d probably need before switching to bbPress from existing WordPress comments.

[Callum Macdonald]

Any idea when the theme directory might be back in business?

In the meantime, is there somewhere one can search for such things? I tried bbpress in the wordpress.org theme directory but that didn’t throw up very much.

[zeaks]

I converted my Xenforo forums (no mods in the xenforo) to Invision Power Board, then tried to convert them to bbPress but I’m getting an error while converting and it stops. Anyone have any idea how I can fix this?

WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘posts.post_title’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(posts.pid USING “utf8”) AS pid,convert(posts.topic_id USING “utf8”) AS topic_id,convert(posts.ip_address USING “utf8”) AS ip_address,convert(posts.author_id USING “utf8”) AS author_id,convert(posts.post_title USING “utf8”) AS post_title,convert(posts.post USING “utf8”) AS post,convert(posts.post_date USING “utf8”) AS post_date,convert(posts.edit_time USING “utf8”) AS edit_time FROM ib_posts AS posts WHERE posts.new_topic = 0 LIMIT 0, 80

[jjohns12]

Hi, Can you help? In bbpress my favorites link returns page not found. http://www.thsotestsite.dev/members/admin/forums/favorites/ the rest of forum works fine.

The favorites in BuddyPress work fine http://www.thsotestsite.dev/members/admin/activity/favorites/

And Yes running both Group and site wide forums and are playing nice together for the most part:)

WordPress: Current version
BuddyPress: Current version
bbPress: Current version
Theme: Frisco and BuddyPress Default Both have same results
all running on my dev. server (DesktopServer)

Is this a bug or config problem?

can anyone give clue how to fix this?

Thanks
James

[motionworks]

I attempted the import but I keep getting the error saying I have no forums to import:

WordPress database error: [Table ‘motionworks_wp2.forums’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(forums.forum_id USING “utf8”) AS forum_id,convert(forums.forum_parent USING “utf8”) AS forum_parent,convert(forums.topics USING “utf8”) AS topics,convert(forums.posts USING “utf8”) AS posts,convert(forums.forum_name USING “utf8”) AS forum_name,convert(forums.forum_slug USING “utf8”) AS forum_slug,convert(forums.forum_desc USING “utf8”) AS forum_desc,convert(forums.forum_order USING “utf8”) AS forum_order FROM forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100No forums to convert

Any ideas? All help greatly appreciated.

John.

[Shmoo]

If you use the bbp-theme-compat theme you can copy some template files from the plugin directory to your theme directory.

This way bbPress can get updates in the future while your custom edits will not disappear because of the updates to the plugin.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/
(read the last part.)

Only thing is, there is a template file that’s named like this: page-front-forums.php everybody thinks this is the default template that will be shown when you have an url like this.
http://example.com/forums/

But that’s not true, this template is only used when you use bbPress (the forum index page) as a homepage for your WordPress site.
If you use the forums (index) page as a separated page like my ‘example.com’ url above bbPress uses the archive-forum.php template.

What you can do very easy is copy-/paste the archive-forum.php template from the wp-content > plugins > bbpress > bbp-theme-compat > extras > directory to your theme’s directory.
wp-content > themes > your-theme-name > and edit that template file.

Now bbPress wil not use page.php but the archive-forum.php template instead and you can edit this page to all your needs.

[ricko123]

I’ve got the same issue. Topics are showing up in all forums.

Website is http://www.walkaboutwellington.com/forums.

BBPress version is 2.1.2
Wordpress version is 3.4.1.

Any ideas?

[ffadler]

Specialty question, piggybacked onto this topic. 🙂 Mr. Jacoby’s answer got me thinking.

Is there a special function that I can use that will redirect the link associated with

$args['root_text'] = 'Forums';

to another location on my site. Preferable an existing WordPress page. Comes back to the link of that breadcrumb goes to an archive page. I would rather it go to an index…or a WP page which is acting as an index. Thanks.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks, it would be great to get your translations added to https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin

Go to https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/ and
login with your WordPress/bbPress username (the same one you used to login here at bbpress.org) and ask this same question you posted above and someone should be able to outline how how and where to upload your translations.

[Stephen Edgar]

As per your thread on Stack Exchange that would be the route I would have a look into (i.e. Making a custom script)

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/70350/is-there-a-way-to-import-blogger-into-bbpress

Also take a look at the ‘example’ file included with bbPress as an importer ‘reference template’.

You may be able to modify this enough to get your Blogger Posts/Comments into bbPress Topics/Replies

The file is called ‘example.php’ and is located in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/converters

Let us know how it works out for you.

• This reply was modified 13 years, 11 months ago by Stephen Edgar.

[Shmoo]

Search on the Codecanyon website inside the WordPress plugins there is a guy who has made a plugin that works with bbPress.

[Dustin Lammiman]

Is there any way to import Blogger posts or WordPress posts into bbPress? We’ve been using a blog as a forum for a while, but would like to start using an actual forum solution. I can’t seem to find any importers that will do this though.

• This topic was modified 13 years, 10 months ago by Stephen Edgar. Reason: Moved topic to 'plugins' forum

[fuzzybee]

I am using BuddyPress 1.6.1, bbPress 2.1.2 and WordPress 3.4.2

I follow the guide here.

In the end, I did the trick pointed out by Sarah Gooding because mywebsite.com/forums was blank right after the above installation

• Created a page called “Forums” with permalink mywebsite.com/forums
• Insert bbPress shortcode [bbp-forum-index] into “Forums” page

My questions are

1) How do I customise page templates for the forum e.g. Forum page, topic page etc.

My current theme is a child theme of twentyeleven and it has the following structure

> themes/bp-twentyeleven/

>

> /activity/

>

> /blogs/

>

> /forums/

>

> index.php

>

> forums-loop.php

>

> /groups/

>

> /members/

>

> /registration/

>

> header.php

>

> sidebar.php

>

> style.css

Notes

• Apparently, bp-twentyevelen/forums/index.php is being ignored.
• The reason for this set up is that I need the site to looks like TwentyEleven and has BuddyPress’ functionality at the same time

2) How do I make sure that bbPress functions will work for my site e.g. do I copy and past all the functions in functions.php of bbPress’ default theme over my theme’s functions.php?

3) How do I ensure that whatever I will get from 1) and 2) (probably from bbPress experts somewhere) will not conflict with BuddyPress’ functionality or my theme?

BuddyPress setting screenshots are here and here.

bbPress settings screenshot is here.

[zeaks]

I’m using the bbpress WordPress plugin on one site. I want to move it to another site. I looked at the database thinking there would be some wp_bbPress tables or something but didn’t see any.

Is there a way to do this? It woudl be a move from one WordPress site to another, both using updated WordPress and bbPress plugins, with no forums or threads on the new site.

[concon3]

I have found that the file form-topic.php (located in bbpress/mytheme/bbpress/form-topic) controls a topic form.

Ideally what I would like to do is duplicate this and edit it for my needs and call it on on my WordPress page that I need the custom form for.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks.

[zaerl]

The function doesn’t accept an array. See get_avatar: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.4.2/wp-includes/pluggable.php#L1583

bbp_topic_author_avatar(0, 80);

[mighty_fox]

Hi,

I have installed BBPress from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/
to the latest version.

Ideally what I want to do is create custom pages which uses BBPress, an example of doing this I found is http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-how-to-show-bbpress-info-inside-wordpress-without-full-integration/page/2/

If I create a custom template and page from WordPress BBPress functions do not work. Other forums have mentioned including bb-load.php but from the download link from above there is no bb-load.php in the zip file.

From looking at the second link there suggests that new tables for BBPress would be in the database, however I have no new tables just standard WordPress ones and BBPress posts stored in wp-Posts

Is this correct?

I am trying for example to create a page (customized page) where a user can enter their post and then choose what topic etc. they want to post from a drop down box. However I don’t know how to go about this.

Thanks in advance.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for this, sadly the code you have posted has been stripped in your post.

Could you try posting it again and/or post the code to pastebin.com, a Gist on GitHub

Better still you could create a ticket over at Trac and submit your patch directly for us.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/