Hello, I am once again seeing if I can switch over to bbPress, since WP-United does not play well with so many phpBB3 and WP social extras, and upon import I am only getting posts up to four months ago, with nothing for the last four months. Also, somehow the import process is switching some authors. I’m not sure if I should be importing the users or not (I think I’ve tried both), or what the best practice is since I already have a WP userbase of the same people who made the posts that I’m importing from phpBB3. In fact, because of WP-United, they are linked in some way.
Any help would be appreciated! I’ve been at it for a number of days. My WordPress version is 3.6.0 and my bbPress version is 2.4.
You may be surprised to see my bbPress forum: I’m currently altering the css to make it look like my phpBB3 one, using @Lynq’s bbPress starter theme and Daniel St. Jules’ CoDFaction phpBB3 theme.
Forums
Hi,
can we setup bbpress to save all attachments and serve media files from Amazon s3?
Is this done via a WordPress plugin like: http://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/screenshots/
Thanks.
You won’t need this text and/or value that you imported.
You will have to create your own templates by copying bbPress templates to your theme directory:
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/
You would then use the_excerpt rather than the_content to output only ‘x’ words from each topic/reply
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt
There are a few people who have played around using the_excerpt and bbPress, have a good look around the site to see how and what they did:
https://bbpress.org/forums/search/the_excerpt/
You can allow them to use images hosted elsewhere via HTML or BBCode. e.g.
Or there are plugins (GD bbPress Attachments) to add a way for them to upload an image on your site.
There isn’t currently a plugin, I think, that will let them upload an image and place it somewhere the way you do with a WordPress Post using the Media Library but it’s on the roadmap for the rtMedia plugin.
There is a bug in 2.4 causing this (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2405), it’s been fixed for patch 2.4.1 but this hasn’t been released yet. The bug did not exist in earlier versions, hence it works on one for you but not the other. If you need it urgently you could apply the patch in the trac item yourself.
ETA: Damn, he beat me to it 😀
This is a known issue and a fix is in #2405 for release with bbPress 2.4.1
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.
Permaculture and Community Resilience
WordPress 3.4.1 — bbPress Version 2.1.2
http://transitiontopermaculture.org/about-us/what-is-permaculture/
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/
