[Shmoo]

Well to now what file you have to get isn’t really that difficult, you just need a little understanding of what files will be loaded when view a specific page.

This is a good sheet to show you the logic, but it can be difficult te read.
https://codex.wordpress.org/File:Template_Hierarchy.png

This one explains in my opinion much better whats going.

The anatomy of a WordPress theme

But it’s not too difficult, lets say you’re on the homepage of your website.
Often the index.php is need to start. If you open the index.php you see at the top something like this <?php get_header(); ?> the funny thing about PHP is that you can alsmost read-/understand what it is going to do. Like the code tag above says get_header so on that position it will grab the header.php file and open it. Keep following all those files and you will be okay.
Think of it as LEGO – building blocks – it needs a few blocks to make a house and a webpage is the house.

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For the forum (bbPress) side I can tell you that the homepage of the forum is the page where it shows all forums & categories. This is called an archive page and not a regular page.php what most people would think when they first start.
Normally if it’s an archive page WordPress would load the archive.php template but because we have a Post_Type created by bbPress called Forum we can add the Post_Type_Name behind the archive.php – like this: archive-forum.php

When you copy that archive-forum.php file form your extra’s (plugins) folder to your Theme folder and open it you will again see the <?php get_header(); ?> stuff and all other typically WordPress stuff.

To remove the sidebar of the main forum-page you just go into that archive-forum.php template and delete the code that called the sidebar: <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
Just like the header it’s telling you what it does -> GET Sidebar ( load the sidebar files )

It’s really just trying and not being afraid. Them ore you do it the better you get at it.

*** Never try to edit files on a working website – online ***

Install WordPress + your website on your computer locally, get a code editor – edit the files and check if everything is working. When your finished editing and everything is Fonzy cool you can upload and overwrite the files at your online-server.

You know how I got my start (years ago) while not knowing what files to edit – By just opening some files I thought could be the files I needed. Typing 55555555555 or something else inside the file – Save it – reload the page in the browser and if 55555555555 didn’t show-up on the webpage I knew it wasn’t that template I was looking for and kept searching for the right one.

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes… You gonna make some trust me, but when you have a back-up file or you can simply undo your edit inside the Code-editor ( CMD + Z ) you’re all fine.

[Shmoo]

Try to install some Debug plugins they will give you some answers about why things take so long to load.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress
– at the bottom is a list of good plugins.

[Shmoo]

There is an option but it’s so WordPress. (half done)

This will add a WP Media upload button above the form.

<?php bbp_the_content( array( 'context' => 'topic', 'media_buttons' => true, ) ); ?>

[tommysvr]

Alternatively, if I could show a user_meta field for each post, that would work too. I’m struggling with the code below too.

global $current_user; get_currentuserinfo(); get_user_meta($current_user->ID, 'membership', true);

[tommysvr]

Hi all,

I have a little issue since bbPress switched to its own user roles. I was previously showing an image under a users avatar based on this role (ie admin, subscriber).

With the new method, it just shows the bbPress role of participant or key master. This is a problem because my registration forms put the user in WordPress role.

My question is this: is there a way to output the WordPress role rather than the bbPress role? Here is what I’m using at the moment:

$role = bbp_get_user_display_role(bbp_get_reply_author_id($reply_id));

<div class="bbp-reply-author <?php echo $role; ?>">

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[Shmoo]

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-signature/screenshots/

[Shmoo]

You probably have a misunderstanding of the word Forum and Forums it happens a lot.

A Forum is a common name for a support forum like we have at WordPress of bbPress or any other website online. They all call the page Forum or Support or Community.
But a Forum can also be ONE single item like a category inside other Forums. Thats why the landing-page you’re looking for is: yourwebiste.com/forums/ ( list all forums together )

But you can make your own landing-page by going into WordPress backend and Add a New Page + paste one of those Shortcodes to make it more easy.
https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[Shmoo]

What do you mean ?

You can do whatever you want with WordPress + bbPress it’s Open Source Software.

[marky2772]

Hi All,

I have just added bbPress 2.3.2 to my wordpress site but I am unsure as to whether or not I have set up the forum correctly. wanted to add a discussion forum to my wordpress site whatcamerasbest.com so I added a new forum in bbPress called “What Cameras Best Forum”.

My question is should the url display http://www.whatcamerasbest.com/forum to take me to to the landing page of the forum or should it display (as it is now) like this:

http://whatcamerasbest.com/forums/forum/whatcamerasbestforum/

If it is correct then how do i remove the “add topic” box on whats supposed to be my forum landing page.

I have seen this question asked a few times but the responses range so apologies if I am repeating a question.

On a side note I found logging into this forum to be a bit of pain, I entered my wordpress username and password but the forum kept telling me to log in to post…

Many thanks in advance.

[Shmoo]

When you try to Delete a user inside WordPress you will be redirected to another page where you have to pick an option about what to do with Posts, Pages and other stuff this users may have created in the past.

See,

My advise would be create one User-ID by the name Retired or something and move all stuff to that account.

Just try it, always make a back-up of your website-/database to be 100% safe.

[rajvir]

thanks for your reply 🙂

im a newbie to WordPress, add CSS does that mean edit coding?

[Unsal Korkmaz]

Sadly lots of planned featured needed to remove from FirmaSite theme because of theme rules in WordPress.Org theme system:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review

I really was disappointed when i learn that most of stuff needed to remove but now i can understand their logic. While i dont agree those rules, i respect them.

All social integration (Facebook like,comments etc) is removed from theme because of WordPress.Org rules. They decide that some planned features are plugin territory. So i built a plugin for theme:
http://theme.firmasite.com/plugin/ or
https://wordpress.org/plugins/firmasite-theme-enhancer/

This plugin will add all those social integration soon. Sorry for misinformation on theme site.

[Robin W]

Strange works well on mine wordpress 3.5.1 bbpress 2.3.2 theme twentyten

breadcrumbs work fine and get you back to the page

Did you call the page forums plural?

[David]

Yeah, JJJ you’re right: /login and /wp-login.php are the same. I tried a completely different computer, which I had never logged into before, and the anonymity issues were there with both login methods. The only thing I haven’t tried is a different account, but it looks like Lynq is having the issue too, so I’m not the only one. I haven’t really noticed that cookies or cache have anything to do with it. I have never had issues on wordpress.org or buddypress.org. I have spent at least a couple hours trying to find a way to login to bbpress.org consistently without issues, but I haven’t found one yet. At this point I’m pretty sure there is some bug somewhere… I just don’t know what else it could be. Other people could be having the issue, but they might not be able to post! I almost gave up myself.

[nkatz]

This is exactly what I came here to ask about…but it appears that these forums aren’t monitored very frequently. I installed bbPress and I have the ‘Forums’ entry added to my WordPress Settings but, just as for Jim, there’s no Boards, Topics or Replies section anywhere in the Dashboard.

Wordpress 3.5.1
bbPress 2.3.2

[NerdEnPose]

I’m using 2.3.2 and this is my solution.

There’s a function in the theme files calling this, simply noting it out or deleting it prevents the call.

// bbp_single_topic_description();
content-single-topic.php

and

// bbp_single_topic_description( array( 'topic_id' => bbp_get_topic_id() ) );
form-topic.php

This makes more sense to me because why generate the HTML just to bloat your CSS file to hide it? Or why add more to your functions.php file when all you need to do is some basic theme work? (Although that was some clever hacking of the wordpress/bbpress hooks there mindyjoy :))

*Make sure to move all your theme files into your wordpress theme (wp-includes/themes/your_theme/buddypress/) so you don’t lose your work with an upgrade.

[John James Jacoby]

Not sure where you’re getting your info, but it’s not correct. 🙂

bbPress uses your existing WordPress theme, and allows you to customize the individual templates as you see fit. You can copy the template files you want to customize out of:
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/
and drop them in…
wp-content/themes/YOUR_ACTIVE_THEME/bbpress/
where YOUR_ACTIVE_THEME is the name of the currently active theme on your site.

Then start editing them, and you should see your edits come through.

[rajlaksh]

long ago i created forum and groups and created few topics/posts there and now i am starting my forum again and so want all those topics/posts dates changed to present format
simply put i want control over date-of-posting :similar to vbulletin feature

in wordpress posts we can change date/year/time easily. here i am finding no option to do so

help me out

[Sam Rohn]

i dont think bbpress css file on its own would cause this sort of server load, try the P3 profiler plugin to determine what other plugins may be overloading your server –

https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/

sam

[krioteh]

bbPress на русском (bbPress on Russian)

Please, if you want to get support in Russian, visit the official Russian support forum.

Пожалуйста, если вы хотите получить поддержку на русском языке, посетите официальный русскоязычный форум поддержки.

[Sam Rohn]

make sure you have members and tehnik plugin installed and activated

see the Tehnik bbPress Permissions page for more info

http://www.tehnik-design.com/tehnik-bbpress-forum-permissions/

use the content premissions pane (from members plugin) on the forum edit page to control which roles can access that forum

try the User Switching plugin to confirm other roles can see what they are supposed to see

https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-switching/

sam

[Shmoo]

You can’t really create a Child Theme for bbPress only.

But if you like to work with the Child Theme idea – I personally think it fails big time but some people really like it then just create a Child Theme if you would do the WP way.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

After that you simply add a folder called bbpress inside your Theme or Child Theme folder and copy-/paste the files over from your Plugins directory to your Theme or Child Theme directory.

wp-content / plugins / bbpress / templates / defaults / extras / All those files are general Theme template files and will be read first if you copy them inside your Child Theme folder

wp-content / plugins / bbpress / templates / defaults / bbpress / All those files are bbPress (forum) templates files and will be read first if you copy them inside your Child Theme/bbpress folder.

An image will show you better..

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and

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[HD80]

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/bbpress-and-child-theme-help?replies=2#post-4262464
Hi, I’ve started a support on wordpress.org but now reply yet. Can someone show me how to create a child theme since my theme is not compatible with bbpress.
Thanks

[wozzzzza]

i have been given a wordpress site to manage and have been made an administrator, I know stuff all about this thing and have to learn it all, I know I need to install plugins but there is no plug in button to install them with. the people who made me admin have no idea, anyone give me any guidance to how I can get my plugin button to appear?

[wpblogtuts]

Hi, you might want to try the bbPress integration with eMember plugin. It’s easier to set up.