[Jimfire]

Yeah, I’m getting that impression.

Can I make a theme for just bbPress without effecting my WordPress theme?

[tilly2012]

I installed bbpress for my wordpress site. (Organic Themes if it makes a difference) Then I saw this message:

Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.

I don’t even know what that means and what to do.

Secondly, while I can locate “forums” on the left side of my dashboard and even preview when I make a thread I can not locate it in my website. I even create a new page titled “forums” thinking that would do the trick, but nothing. What should i do?

[Jimfire]

My original question was this: I have BBP 2.x. When my users click on “Forum” on my menu, I would like it to look like THIS forum that I am on right now.

I’m not a php coder and I haven’t figuered out how to make a theme just yet. I’ve only been at this for a little while.

I’m working on it, but I’m not there yet.

I’m running twenty-eleven with my WordPress right now. Does anyone know a painless way to get my BBPress to look like bbpress.org when my users click on it?

Tanks,

JIM

[John James Jacoby]

I don’t really understand the question. If you want to make a theme that looks like another theme, you make it. If you don’t know how to, you either learn how and hopefully contribute what you learn back to the community via the codex or forums, or you hire someone that already knows how to do what you do not know how to do.

Maybe I’m missing the point. I get that the documentation isn’t great right now, but it’s exactly the same as making a WordPress theme. The template files and their locations are already in the bbp-twentyten theme as an example.

Making an entirely custom theme is *not* a step-by-step paint-by-numbers thing. It’s not something anyone can teach you how to do, you have to learn it yourself.

[Jared Atchison]

jjj will respond when he has a chance, but I’ll say he does 3 different jobs so he doesn’t always have time to respond right away.

He is an Automattic employee where his full time role is head of “social”. bbPress and BuddyPress are his other projects that he does on the side.

I encourage you, when you have time, to listen to a recent interview with jjj http://wpcandy.com/broadcasts/community-interviews/002-john-james-jacoby – you’ll get an idea of just how much work he has on his plate – frankly I don’t know how he does it.

Both bbPress and BuddyPress are maintained by volunteers like jjj and myself. We contribute and help out as much as possible, but ultimately projects that “pay the bills” come first.

I’ll let jjj give his point of view, but I can tell you with 99% certainty that there is no easy way to make bbPress 2.x look like bbPress.org – they are simply two completely different platforms. bbPress 2.x was a total rewrite of bbPress, from the ground up, so that bbPress could be a plugin instead of a stand alone install.

And yes, when bbPress.org is upgraded – whenever that time comes – it will adopt the new bbPress 2.x look. I understand that some people like the 1.x look better however that all comes down to personal preference – personally I like the 2.x look but that’s my preference.

Googling for bbPress themes and plugins is hit or miss but is going almost be a miss if you are using 2.x. It’s been out only a year, so the vast majority of what you find is going to be for 1.x. Recently there has been quite a few nice plugins popping up that are for 2.x – you can find these in the WordPress.org plugin repository

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=bbpress

bbPress is actually quite well documented, however right now most of the documentation is in the actual code. Writing up documentation takes a lot of time and effort – WordPress.org codex is a perfect example – it’s fantastic but it is also maintained by 100s of contributors.

I’m sure jjj could spend some time writing documentation, but then none of the bugs that come in would be addressed in a timely manner, none of the features that people are constantly asking for would ever get written. Every comes down to volunteers – we just don’t have enough. Anyone with a user account can write and contribute documentation for bbPress so i think it’s unfair to expect jjj to do that on top of the dozens of other things he already does.

I do know that when 2.1 is released, which should be fairly soon, we are going to add some stuff to the bbP codex, however it’s night going to be something that appears overnight.

I’m not sure what you mean by “better standard theme” – the theme that ships with bbPress 2.x works well – the one that ships with the upcoming 2.1 is even better. Logistically it’s impossible to ship with a bbPress theme that fits everyones needs and works with all WordPress theme, but we try to make it as compatible as possible.

bbPress does a lot of great things “out of the box”. However it comes to a point that when certain customizations are needed you are either going to have to get your hands dirty with code or hire a developer to assist you – and that’s just the nature of the beast – for any open source project.

If you are looking for a forum application that has 100s of contributors, many of which focus on the project full time, then unfortunately bbPress may not be the best fit for you. Vanilla, phpBB, along with others are some great alternatives.

[John James Jacoby]

bbPress uses WordPress’s user profiles code, so any new fields you add to the dashboard profile (with a plugin or otherwise) should be mirrored in the theme. If you need an easy GUI to create profile fields, try BuddyPress.

There are a bunch of examples on how to do this with WordPress. Follow those instructions and you should be fine.

[John James Jacoby]

To answer your question, you’ll need to put a custom filter on WordPress’s kses. A Google search should help you tremendously. If you’re not a developer or not comfortable diving into the code, you’ll want to spend some time learning, or hire someone to help you.

[Aahan Krish]

I just installed bbPress 2.0.2 forum plugin for WordPress, and would like to change the text of link Home to iGeek (or anything else, for that matter).

So the breadcrumb Home › Forums becomes iGeek › Forums (or something like that). How do I do that?

[Jared Atchison]

bbPress 2.x = WordPress plugin.

bbPress 1.x and 0.9 = Stand alone installs.

bbPress.org will eventually (hopefully sooner than later!) be upgraded to 2.x as well.

[dorsetjon]

Thanks, I’ll have a look at themes.

I know my way around wordpress and was confident I could accomplish something with bbpress but am rapidly losing faith given the lack of documentation and examples for bbpress!!

Given how good the bbpress site looks, if that is done with a theme then it would be a good idea to make that theme (or similar) available. Even better if bbpress used something impressive “out of the box”.

I’m off to find some themes…

[Aahan Krish]

Yeah. Jon, I am a newbie too, but since I know my way through wordpress, I am confident that I can accomplish something with bbpress.

That’s exactly what I am talking about. Search for bbpress themes. You might end up finding something with features closer to what you mentioned or better.

Any theme that looks better than the default bbpress theme will make you happy for the time being, until you know your way around bbpress.

That’s a starting point. Enable the new theme, start changing the look with CSS, make it look your way. That’s what I was suggesting. Sorry if I didnt catch your point still.

[Aahan Krish]

@thetalltree : Take a look at the forum index of bbpress.org, and you’ll notice that there are at least 2 spam posts. SPAM! And what’s even more alarming is that they are still there!

Take my advise, ask elsewhere. (Try asking on wordpress.stackexchange.com)

My $0.02!

[tilly2012]

I downloaded the bbpress plugin for wordpress. Now I’m receiving this message: Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.

How do I fix this?

[Rambomst]

I am having an issue getting custom profile fields to work.

I have used the following code as a wordpress plugin and a bbPress plugin:

function set_my_profile_info_keys($myarray) {

$myarray = array(

‘testfield’ => array(0, __(‘TestField’))

);

return $myarray;

}

add_filter(‘get_profile_info_keys’, ‘set_my_profile_info_keys’);

However this doesn’t show the field on a users profile to allow them to edit it. I have also tried other variations of this code I have found on this forum and others but to no avail.

Any help getting this working would be much appreciated.

[Jared Atchison]

Does the site homepage still come up OK? Do you get a white screen? Do you get an error message? Does /wp-admin/ still give you the WordPress login screen? What is your URL?

Simply saying it’s broken doesn’t really help us point you in the right direction

[Jared Atchison]

Yes, it is still being maintained.

The plugins listed on bbpress.org are for bbPress v 1.x.

The current version of bbPress is 2.0.x and the plugins for it can be found on WordPress.org

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=bbpress

Eventually the plugins listed on bbpress.org will be archived to help avoid confusion, but the bbPress project is very much alive

[Satish]

thanks for the link. I understand.. will try my best to get it done myself.

I’m not used to bbpress and wordpress coding.. will get used to it.

Thanks a lot for all the help and guidelines.

[Jared Atchison]

Sorry I do not have time to provide you with the exact code.

However as jjj already said there are tons of examples on Google.

http://ottopress.com/2010/wp-quickie-kses/

[Satish]

ok..

as Guatam suggested, I added the following code to my function.php file

add_action('bbp_init', '_bbp_allow_pre_tag', 10);

function _bbp_allow_pre_tag() {

global $allowedtags;

$allowedtags = array( 'name', 'class', 'id' );

}

but still its not working.

Can you please directly give me the code I need to paste into my function.php file ?

I need to allow pre tag with following attributes to it name=”code” class=”c”

so basically I must allow “pre” tags with “name” and “class” attributes.

[Jared Atchison]

No you should not edit core (*ever*), you should use the filter that is available in the code you just posted bbp_get_allowed_tags.

You need to look into filters https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_filter

[Satish]

got something inside bbpressbbp-includesbbp-common-template.php file.

/**

* Output all of the allowed tags in HTML format with attributes.

*

* This is useful for displaying in the post area, which elements and

* attributes are supported. As well as any plugins which want to display it.

*

* @since bbPress (r2780)

*

* @uses bbp_get_allowed_tags()

*/

function bbp_allowed_tags() {

echo bbp_get_allowed_tags();

}

/**

* Display all of the allowed tags in HTML format with attributes.

*

* This is useful for displaying in the post area, which elements and

* attributes are supported. As well as any plugins which want to display it.

*

* @since bbPress (r2780)

*

* @uses allowed_tags() To get the allowed tags

* @uses apply_filters() Calls 'bbp_allowed_tags' with the tags

* @return string HTML allowed tags entity encoded.

*/

function bbp_get_allowed_tags() {

return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_allowed_tags', allowed_tags() );

}

what should I do with it inorder to make pre tag allowable.

I feel like, editing the core isn’t a good idea.

Is there a way to handle this via my template ?

Can you please give me the code that I must paste inside my function.php file to allow <pre name="code" class="c"> to my forum members.

[Satish]

I’m not able to find the file, in which this bbp_get_allowed_tags is present..

[Jared Atchison]

You can filter it using the bbp_get_allowed_tags filter bbPress provides.

[Satish]

<b>Gautam Gupta</b> tried to help me with this code:

global $allowed_tags;

$allowed_tags=array('name','class','id');

I pasted it inside function.php file; unfortunately its not working.

I’m using https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-syntax-highlighter/ plugin. and want my bbpress forum members to make use of pre tag and this plugin highlights the codes they post on the forum.

It uses the following syntax: <pre name="code" class="c">

please help.

[Zigster]

Hey Anetz,

I have “Site Wide” forum enabled (bbpress) and I’ve disabled group forums. They can still make groups, but they don’t have group forums.

I’m new to WordPress and Website development, just know some basic HTML.

Thanks, I see how to change the permalink now that’s awesome. I can’t believe I missed it, spent ages looking it. It’s in the “All pages” tab and it’s under the title.

Whenever I make a “new forum” category it automatically creates it at /forums/forum/new-category.

I don’t understand why I need “/forums/forum”, I’d rather just have it at /forum if that’s possible.

I’ll continue to experiment too and I’ll post back if I make any progress.

Let me know if you find anything.