[nwcountry]

this example?

http://www.seniorforums

It doesn’t need to be full-screen though. I just want a simple forum, although I do want to be able to have some color, and some control. I have a host, and have downloaded WordPress (to Hostgator) and now I have added the plugin for bbpress. I am just a bit leary of what I am going to “get”. I would love to just install a vbulletin template, but looks like folks are having trouble uploading forum templates from other sites etc.

Thanks in advance for any help;) denise

PS I don’t plan on any other content, and don’t plan this as a business, just a site for seniors so they can visit and have a place to go online:)

[Robkk]

a thing you could do is hide the search button and add a placeholder so users know what it is, and also make it kind of like wordpress search in terms of looks.

copy form-search.php into your child theme and overwrite the code with this.

<?php

/**
 * Search 
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

?>

<form role="search" method="get" id="bbp-search-form" action="<?php bbp_search_url(); ?>">
	<div>
		<label class="screen-reader-text hidden" for="bbp_search"><?php _e( 'Search for:', 'bbpress' ); ?></label>
		
		<input type="hidden" name="action" value="bbp-search-request" />
		<input placeholder="Search the forums" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo esc_attr( bbp_get_search_terms() ); ?>" name="bbp_search" id="bbp_search" />
	</div>
</form>

[Robin W]

I have opened up a trac ticket for this (trac tickets are used by the dev’s to trac developments and fixes)

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2686

In the meantime there are 3 workarounds

1. change your permalinks to any of the other settings

Dashboard>settings>permalinks

The most often used is ‘postname’

This will not only fix your issue, but make your links look prettier. However if you have links to your site forums from other sites/emails, these links might break (ie they will come up as 404 errors), but if your choice is between users not accessing, or users complaining that the link in that old email no longer works, then resetting might seem a good idea.

2. revert to 3.9.2

see

for quite a good video on how to do it

3. Move your sub-forums up a level ie make them all main forums

and keep monitoring this site for a solution.

[Jolie]

Hi,

I have installed newest version of bbPress and WordPress version 4.0. I have read documentation for setting forum. According to documentation, I have to go to Dashboard –> Forum and add new one. But I cannot find any Forum there.

Thank you so much.

[jeanflemming43]

I’m currently using WordPress 4.0 with bbPress 2.5.4. I have created my own theme and attempted to use bbPress. It works fine. The only issue is when entering the forum the sidebar changes positions. When I tried using TwentyTen theme the sidebar doesn’t appear at all only after uninstalling bbPress does it come back. In the TwentyFoourteen theme, this is not an issue as the sidebar is outside of the mainContent area. My site is http://www.paraquadaccess.com/forums/forum/forums/ I appreciate any guidance anyone can provide.

[Robkk]

yeah i dont have problems creating links in my menus and i have bbpress and wordpress 4.0

yeh toss some login details and ill check it out and see whats up

if you want it to be kind of private send the login details to my email

robcorey(at)hotmail(dot)com

wordpress has it where you can send the login data to a new user , when you register one in the backend.

[Stephen Edgar]

No, in this case that will not work, what has actually happened is WordPress has “lost” the login connection to MySQL, just refresh the page and login to WordPress again if needed and your fixed.

[Robkk]

have you deactivated every plugin you have one at a time to see if its another plugin causing the issue

if you havent check on that just to make sure

if you have already done this and are positive it is bbpress absolutely causing the problem, please also tell us

what wordpress version you are using
what theme you use
and maybe a list of plugins

so i could see if i could recreate the problem

[Robkk]

can you add any other links??

and i dont think bbpress would cause a problem in the menus section in wordpress.

[lohals]

We have the same problem at the site we administer.
Bbpress 2.5.4 and upgraded fine to wordpress 4.0 from 3.9.1. Now no forum posts are showing.

http://swc.dk/forums/forum/726-2/abent-forum/

When i check the HTML source, i see data about the forum posts and reply count that are correct, and i can create new posts. However, no posts are shown in the lists. And when trying deep linking to a post, it doesnt appear either.

http://swc.dk/forums/topic/containeren-er-klar-hylderne-er-vendt/

Any help or tips would be appreciated.

[JoesUserName]

anyway, I just downgraded my wordpress to 3.9.2, and that fixed the problem. But I’m still annoyed.

[Robin W]

If you’re on wordpress 4.0 then there are some issues with themes and plugins, so it could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[mkakos]

Hi, I’m setting up a discussion forum and user accounts on my website. One thing that bothers me is that when creating an account you are taken to the WP-login page. What’s more is that the user has access to a WP dashboard, whereas I’d rather they were only able to edit their profile on my actual website. I really don’t like this as I don’t want the user to be aware that WordPress was used to create this site. Is there a way to have accounts using BBpress without WP popping up? In other words, the user’s account is handled on the website with no mention of WP?

[Robin W]

Thanks fro the reminder – the original is

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-profile-information/

the Version for buddypress

bbp buddypress profile information

isn’t yet, it’s on a long list of things to do, but the version on my site is stable and quite usable !

[AdventureRidingNZ]

Are there any plans to incorporate this in the WordPress/BBPress plugins repository?

[Simpas81]

it’s a f… issue of wordpress.. permalink bug in WP 4.0.. sometimes WP authors are very unwary.. for now there is not any solution to solve

[Robin W]

yes,

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-profile-information

[zmarak]

Hi,

I am having exactly the same problem. I am also using the latest bbpress 2.5.4 and the newest version of wordpress. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Gouggy]

hello,

Since, I recently installed bbpress on my website: iristab.fr, I have a bug on my dashboard.
All extensions are no longer visible in the dashboard menu of wordpress, and more traces in the management of extensions.

Yet in the ftp site, all extensions are there, and the site is functioning normally.

I immediately thought an extension conflict, but disabling and removing bbpress, checking if it was deleted from the FTP and updating management extensions, and the bug persists.

I do not see how to restore the situation.
Thank you in advance for your help.

Gouggy (a french speaker)

[nwcountry]

It looks like we just download any wordpress theme, and then change it by inserting a plugin to make a forum?

I don’t want anything but a forum, is there anyplace I can see what I’ll get if I follow through with this bbpress?

thanks, Denise:)

[Robin W]

so are you saying that with all plugins disabled apart from bbpress, and a default theme, and with resetting permalinks that you still get 404 errors?

If so all I can suggest is that you revert back a wordpress version to see if that fixes

see

for quite a good video on how to do it

and then come back

[monicajay]

I was just looking for something like that, thank you so so much! 🙂
Hopefully WordPress has got a good fix for this on the upcoming version.

Cheers!

[monicajay]

I already switched to a default theme and it didn’t fix it. And I just did the plugins thing you suggested and it didn’t fix it either – I activated bbpress alone and the problem was still there. I’m going to re-install WordPress now, it’s quite possibly from their newest update, this new version caused me other problems as well

[monicajay]

The replies simply disappeared after I moved its topic. I don’t think this happened with all topics – and all have been moved to a different forum which is now the main and only one – which is the weirdest thing! We have this topic that had at least a couple hundreds of replies and after I moved that topic to another forum, only 24 replies are available… I’ve used Tools to recount everything and nothing is happening. I’ve cleared the cache as well.

Any idea why this is happening and how could I fix this?

I’ve looked up here for a solution and found nothing… Please help!

Wordpress 4.0
bbPress 2.5.4-5380
Buddypress 2.0.2

Thank you!

[K-Path]

WordPress 4.0 running Montezuma theme.
bbPress Version 2.5.4
Site location: http://ecopsi.org/forums/

Breadcrumbs
Including the theme I have three sets of breadcrumbs with the WP theme breadcrumbs at the top and which follow the forums well enough. Below are of course the two bbPress breadcrumbs. I want to hide both the bbPress breadcrumbs. The one immediately above the forums and the partial one on the right next to the search box.

I found some helpful things here

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

and here

bbPress Styling Crib

Unfortunately the directions assume expertise beyond mine. I was able to do things like float [subscribe] to the right of the console but hiding the breadcrumbs per the directions didn’t work for some reason. My php kung fu isn’t much to brag about.

Forums Name
A more experienced person helped me change the name [Forums] to [The EcoPsi Forums] but it only partially worked and didn’t change the name in the primary breadcrumbs at the top. It also didn’t change the name of the root of the forums which is still [Forums]. I want make the [Home] link at the root of the forums go away. It annoyingly tempts me to click thinking I’ll return to the root of the forums but instead takes me to root of the website.

Finally, how do I make the posts and the editor wider. Is that CSS controlled by my theme or bbPress? Any idea how long it’s going to be before Live Preview is ready for prime time?
https://github.com/r-a-y/bbp-live-preview/