[martinclarke1]

It won’t have it im afraid. Does the WordPress theme always take prescedent over the bbpress theme? If so am I wasting my time modifing the bbpress css? What is the optimal way to have this structured?

Thanks again for your help.

[pau-bbp]

Hello.

I set up permalinks in WordPress like this:

%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%post_id%

but new topic in bbpress sounds like:

forum-topic/2012/02/New-theme-name

What am I doing wrong?

Thanx in advance.

[lmoon]

Hello,

I am using bbpress 2.0.2 on the latest version of wordpress.

I have added in bbpm by uploading it to my wordpress plugin file through ftp. I can see it in my installed plugins under the wordpress dashboard, but when i try to activate it I get the following error:

“Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_load_plugin_textdomain() in /home/lifeafte/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpm/bbpm.php on line 20”

I looked through the forum and found some suggestions of adding bbpm into a “my-plugins” folder under the bbpress folder, but I have done this, after creating the folder, but cannot see that one anywhere in my wordpress dashboard.

I would really appreciate some help.

Thank you.

[lmoon]

Hello,

I am using bbpress 2.0.2 plugin on the latest version of wordpress.

Is it possible to add in custom fields, to add in postcodes for example, into the registration process for users of the forum?

I have looked through previous threads and feel they are all too old to answer this question for the new bbpress plugin.

Many thanks for your time and help with this.

[Hard Seat Sleeper]

I assumed that the new plugin version of bbpress would share tags and rss with the host wordpress install. Turns out it’s not the case as far as I can see — bbpress has it’s own list of topic tags separate from the main wp install, and posts do not go to the wp rss, but rather /forum/rss.

Is there any plan to integrate these someday?

[VancouverDan9]

Hello everyone

new to all this so appologies if this is very simple and obvious to fix

Basically I installed the bbpress plugin yesterday and got it working, then this morning I ran the auto set up functions after having already made some pages so I linked them via the options.

Due to the auto page maker it made extra pages that i wanted to delet and thus did so on the page editor. however the pages I linked didnt show front end but did back end???

also pages I deleted still showed front end??? when clicking on them the browser just went blank.

so now reaching this impass i decided to uninstall that is when i got this message

Fatal error: Class ‘BBP_Theme_Compat’ not found in /hermes/waloraweb043/b1820/pow.pressstartvgca2/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/functions.php on line 32

and now when ever you go to the site this is what you see

http://www.pressstartbc.com

I dont know how to get around this as I cant log in etc

do i have to go back to my server and just take worpress off and reinstal the whole thing?

All help much appreciated

thank you in advance

[residentmeevil]

Hey everyone,

I’m currently building a wordpress theme and want to integrate BBPress within it. However, I’m having a lot of trouble just getting my head around some basic principles!

1) Once installed, how do I edit the Buddypress template files? How can I adapt my current, custom theme so that I can alter these template files?

2) How does a user register?

3) How can I create a log in system for my users? Is this even possible?

Thankyou for your help! I’m really struggling here!

[Grabinark]

I’ve recently added the elegant and hugely popular (2 million+ downloads) Lockerz Share button (links to Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to my WordPress site and it’s doing a splendid job on pages and posts, but sadly it’s mucking up my bbPress forum page something horrible, with the button appearing underneath the name of each forum and double-spacing everything in the process. I built the page using the forum-index shortcode.

Having a share button in this location (or rather having multiple buttons, one per forum name) makes little sense as few people will want to share the name of a forum, so I’d like to remove it.

The Lockerz readme file tells one that to remove a button from individual posts and pages: “Insert the following tag into the page or post (HTML tab) that you do not want the button to appear in: <!--nosharesave-->“

I’ve tried adding that tag (without the quotes) to the top of my forum page using the HTML editor, but it don’t work (the share buttons still appear under each forum name), so my question is: Can someone tell me the bbPress page or file name to which this tag should be added?

I realize this is a bbPress support forum and not one for Lockerz, but on the off-chance another bbPress user has come across the same problem I thought I’d ask (I would have started with a Lockerz forum, but there doesn’t seem to be one).

If I can’t solve this problem I’m going to have to ditch the Lockerz share button and replace it with something that works better with bbPress — suggestions welcome.

Here’s the button I’m using: http://share.lockerz.com/ .

[Valen2258]

Hi, I successfully installed BBPress 2.0.2 to my wordpress site using the plugin. I got the forum to work, however, I’m trying to change the theme and I don’t know how. The default BBPress Twenty Ten theme isn’t working, it says it’s broken, maybe that’s because I’m using XAMPP and localhost? In addition, in my wordpress dashboard, it says Theme is using default bbPress styling, but there is no option THERE to change it. Rather, I was trying to change it in the Appearance tab, but no matter what I did i could not get one of the themes I wanted to show up in that tab.

I want to be able to use themes from http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/available-themes , are these outdated or can I still use them? I’m not exactly sure if my file structure is right, is the base directory for bbpress xampphtdocsmy site namewordpresswp-contentpluginsbbpress ? And do I need to learn how to make child themes? I just want to be able to use the really nice themes from the above site on mine. Thank you kindly for any help.

[gplana]

Hi.

I have installed bbPress on my WordPress and I’m trying to personalize it.

I have already personalized the forum page (where list of topics appear) by editing file wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/bbpress/loop-single-topic.php and it worked well.

However, I can’t personalize the topic detail’s page. I thing the entry point here is wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/single_topic.php so I added some html code in there but it doesn’t appear (even on the html code that navigator gets) when clicking on a title on the topic.

I’m stuck. Can anyone give me a clue ?

Thank you.

[drsim]

can i use the reply short code in the place of wordpress comment ? i am running bbpress as plugin.

thanks

[robgnyc]

Is it possible to add some intro text to the forum archive page? I’ve set up a custom page called Discussions (client like that more than forums) by creating a page and setting BBpres to use that page slug.

What I’d like to do is enter some intro text however if I enter it under the page in WordPress it doesn’t come through. I tried adding <? the_content() ?> on the archive-forum.php page that I pulled into my theme here:

<h1 class=”entry-title”><?php bbp_forum_archive_title(); ?></h1>

<? the_content() ?>

<div class=”entry-content”>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘bbpress/content’, ‘archive-forum’ ); ?>

</div>

But that seems to pull the content from the last listed forum.

Any way to do this?

[lewismorgan2020]

I have a wordpress website and I am using a WP zoom template and the forum doesn’t seem to function properly.

I have used the forum on a basic wordpress template and it works fine so I know the settings are correct but do I need to do something extra to get it working on WPzoom?

…am i missing something?

Thanks in advance

[Paul]

I use the Adminimize plugin. Amongst all the other useful settings there is an option to set what menu items are displayed by role.

[gplana]

Hi again, John.

I’m answering myself

I followed your clue and found this link: https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies which explains very well what to do for creating a ‘forum_categories’ taxonomy.

Then I think I can just call bb_has_topics from my template with this parameter:

array(‘forum_categories’ =>

array(‘searched_category1’, ‘searched_category2, ….)

)

I will try and let you know.

Thanks a lot !!

[gplana]

Thanks a lot for your answer, John.

I agree, I think I will use forums (and forums categories) for canonical place, and I will try the WordPress categories taxonomy to do what I need. However, I have two questions:

1. Should I modify the core of bbPress for archieving this ? If I should, I don’t really like it because if a new version of bbPress is published then I won’t be able to upgrade easyly.

2. Does it already exist a plugin or something similar where this (using WordPress categories) is already implemented ?

Many thanks.

[sdgenxr]

I recently completed a reinstallation of wordpress and kept the previous database. It appears that all has worked with the exception of the members directory. For some reason, this page does not list the existing site members. What do I need to do so that my members page reflects the site members taht shows up as site users?

Thanks,

[John James Jacoby]

Forums and categories are designed and architected to be the construct that groups topics and replies together into a familiar relationship.

What you want to do *could* be possible, but I think you’ll have more success creating your own taxonomy structure to group topics together with, and using the core Forum/Category structure as the canonical place where that topic ultimately lives.

Research creating custom WordPress taxonomies. It should help you achieve what you’re trying to do pretty easily.

[John James Jacoby]

I understand now. No need to send anything, thanks for the offer.

Growing pains with any software are sometimes difficult, for everyone – users and developers. The process of moving bbPress into a WordPress plugin was not without its own. I am confident that the end result with today’s iterations is better than the previous, and hopefully your experience coincides with that.

[gplana]

Hi !

I wonder if a topic can be assigned not just to a single forum, but to a multiple forum, just like WordPress posts can be assigned to multiple categories.

Imagine I have a question related to computers and medecine. Can I create a single topic under both forum categories computers and medecine ?

Thank you.

[jloosli]

@rpetersn

Thanks for your help. I gave it an earnest go yesterday and I finally got it to work for me today. I too wanted to get this working as a child theme, but ran into this issue (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-error-the-active-theme-is-broken-reverting-to-the-default-theme) since I’m developing this on xampp. I ended up just putting it together, uploading it to the live server, and luckily, it wasn’t too far off.

[Anonymous User]

Never mind. Found the answer in this thread: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-get-bbpress-pages-to-use-a-specific-page-template-in-wordpress

[Anonymous User]

As per the topic title. Is there an order in which the bbPress plugin chooses which WordPress template file to display the board? Is it index.php first, then maybe page.php?

Is it possible to have a page-forum.php file in my WordPress theme, and have the plugin use that?

Most of my template files have a sidebar, and I’d like to remove that for the forum.

[livewire83]

I am using a wordpress with a buddypress, bbpress pluggin, and salutation theme activated. When a user registers and tries to access their personal setting and notification the page cannot be found. http://www.therelieffoundation.com/wordpress/ Anyone having any luck fixing this?

Dave

[John James Jacoby]

It will append itself to existing WordPress core roles and capabilities, and adds a custom role for global forums in multi site installations.