[mag07]

Hello, I have imported my forms from SMF, all went great, except one thing. Parts of text in all forum posts are wrapped in strange <tt> tags.

That results in different font on the front end – http://levelonetwinks.com/?topic=about-frostmourne

And when looking at the posts from WP admin, text editor I see this:

<b>Frostmourne</b> is an established guild (<b>level 25</b>) that has existed on the realm as both social and raiding venue for nearly 8 years.<tt><tt>We’re looking for mature, fun, yet dedicated people that will not only contribute to our progress but to the strong social aspect of our guild.<tt><tt>We have a fairly non strict age requirement of 18+.</tt></tt></tt></tt>

Removing them manually sorts the issue but that’s a lot of work hours to go through each topic and reply :S

I’ve tried a localhost import to the default WP theme, same thing 🙁

Would be grateful for any insight on what may be causing it, as I’d rather not spend the next two days going through them manually :p

Cheers!

[Robin W]

just tested worked fine on my twentyten test site

suggest 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 twentyten to prove your code works.

[KostRev]

Somewhat related… anyone else have an issue where no anchor is generated for bbp_topic_subscription_link?

In the loop-replies.php template I have:


<div class="reply-content">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-sm" title="Set as Favorite"><?php bbp_user_favorites_link(); ?></button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-sm subscribe" title="Subscribe to Topic"><?php bbp_topic_subscription_link(); ?></button>
</div>


If you view source on the webpage there is no anchor present.
Subscribing to Forums works as expected.

Probably related to these:

Subscribe to topic link is no longer displayed

BBP: Topic Subscribe Not Working

I think I found a bug in bbp_topic_subscription_link

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2581
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2480

[Robkk]

try this the size => auto probably doesnt work or it just defaults to 80px

in loop-single-reply.php in your bbpress folder in your child theme.

change

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array('show_role' => true, 'type' => 'role' ) ); ?>
<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => false, 'type' => avatar , 'size' => auto ) ); ?>
<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => false,'type' => 'name' ) ); ?>

to this

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array('show_role' => true, 'type' => 'role' ) ); ?>
<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => false, 'type' => avatar , 'size' => 100 ) ); ?>
<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => false,'type' => 'name' ) ); ?>

now to test it upload an avatar bigger than 100px in width

[djordje007]

Thank you for your reply. You were right, one plugin blocked it (Default featured image). I disabled it and now its fine.

Thanx again.

[Robkk]

see if its a plugin issue by deactivating each plugin one at a time and check to see if deactivating one helps the links work on bbpress.

switch to a default theme like twenty twelve and see if that works.

i have a feeling it could be that you havent made a bbpress.php file, if you havent make one.

more info about bbpress.php here https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

[Robkk]

i think you alread implemented the login and register buttons you were talking about.

i also recommend adding a border to the text input boxes of the register and login forms, because they seem invisible, and also for the submit buttons for each form.

you can just use simple css to fix that.

to edit the appearance of the forum you can copy bbpress.css into your child and edit that then changes you make will affect the look of your forum.

you can also copy the templates in wp-content>plugins>bbpress>templates>default>bbpress

i recommenced just copying the whole bbpress folder into your child theme.

there is more in the documentation about this.

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 2

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 3

Functions files and child themes – explained !

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

looking through the rest of the bbpress documentation isnt a bad thing too.

Codex

[futuristictrap]

yes. The default WordPress playlist. Here’s an example http://www.trapclassics.com/gucci-mane-diary-of-a-trap-god/ when i have it enabled it makes the playlist disappear.

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

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.

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

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.

[Mael Shanti]

Hi !
I tried making my forums page full-width, but didn’t manage, so if you could help, it would be great !
I’ve already read this page : https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#8-make-sure-bbpress-uses-the-page-template-we-want (but it didn’t really help me :/)

Here’s a short video to explain you exactly my problem : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ekrjb64GxA

Thanks a lot for helping, would be really great ! 🙂

—
My WP version : 4.0 (last in date)
My bbPress version : last in date
My theme : Anew by Alxmedia
My website’s forum : http://www.amitabha-sat.com/forums (password : default)

[Mael Shanti]

Hi,

I have noticed that the font-size applied to my forum’s content isn’t the same than the one applied to my normal pages/articles/etc. and I’d simply like to change that 🙂

Here’s a screen of my normal display (font-size) :

And the forum display :

So how could I simply apply the default font-size to my forum content too ?
Thanks a lot !

I am using :
– Last version of WP
– Last version of bbPress
– Anew theme by Alxmedia

[Julia_B]

I’m using the GD bbPress Attachments plugin to allow members to post images in the forum on my buddypress site. I have all the forum attachment settings at 5000kb with override defaults checked. I also have 5000kb set as the maximum file size in the GD bbPress Attachments Settings.

Yet my members are seem unable to post images above about 2mb (and below 5000kb) without getting ‘Upload Errors, File not uploaded’. It says ‘Maximum file size allowed is 5000 KB.’ below the reply box.

I’ve tried disabling other plugins to see if there’s a conflict, but no luck. Any ideas?

[Robin W]

There is an issue with wp4.0 and default permalinks.

This gives 404 errors with sub forums for users with default permalinks. This is due to a bug in wp4.0, and netweb is on the case to get this fixed in 4.0.1

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.

[Robkk]

you can first seperate the role , reply author name , and avatar.

i just put loop-single-reply.php into my child theme folder called bbpress

then i just remove this line in loop-single-reply.php

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />', 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>

and replace it with these three lines of code.
this code also puts the role above the avatar.

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array('show_role' => true, 'type' => 'role' ) ); ?>
<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => false, 'type' => avatar , 'size' => auto ) ); ?>
<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => false,'type' => 'name' ) ); ?>

and to have that sites kind of avatars you dont have a fixed width so the avatars size varies a little bit in height and width but it has a max width it never go bigger than.

to do that you would have to use this.

max-width and max-height are both 150px you can change that to whatever you want.

add this css whereever you can have custom css

bbpress.css in a child theme
child themes css
jetpacks custom css module
custom css plugin

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author img.avatar {
    border: medium none;
    max-width: 150px;
    padding: 0px;
    margin: 12px auto 0px;
    float: none;
    max-height: 150px;
}

if you change your mind about having the varied avatar sizes
you can remove 'size' => auto in the avatar code. which would leave the default 80px
or change 'size' => auto to whatever number you want example 'size' => 60

[Robkk]

its probably loop-single-forum.php that your after then.

if its not then just browse the templates in plugins>bbpress>templates>default>bbpress

[lewylewylewy]

By default BBpress shows a link to the last post with the anchor text of how long ago it was posted. This is bad for SEO. To change this to the name of the last topic, see here:

How To Change The Freshness Date / Time To The Name Of The Last Topic In BBpress

[AwakenStudio]

Oh, and remapping my existing users to default forum roles gives me an Internal 500 error. Can you help me with that also?

[Stephen Edgar]

@bepyland If you set the bbPress import rows to 50,000 that would be one single query, it would not work though unless you had one amazing MySQL installation. 😉

What the “rows” value means is how many topics or replies for each single query should be imported at a time, the default is 100, so when the importer is running each single query will import 100 topics at a time.

WordPress itself, and then bbPress also make queries along the way so just counting only bbPress import is not the only calculation needed.

Your best bet is to create a test site to test the import before migrating this to your “live” site:
https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

[Robin W]

hmm, these are html’s way of displaying the symbols of the keyboard. They shouldn’t show up.

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.

[Robin W]

This is a recent issue with wp4.0, and there is a bug fix outstanding for this.

The Issue

This gives 404 errors with sub forums for users with default permalinks. This is due to a bug in wp4.0, and netweb is on the case to get this fixed in 4.0.1

Three wordarounds

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lX3E-qIpJM

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.

[Robkk]

@pavle123 thank you for the compliment

The progress of this is theme is probably at 65% of completion.
Im really just removing unnecessary code in templates and css that are not useful since i made some arrangements.

and also im really just thinking what else could i add thats different from other forum software.
if you have any ideas on what to add please feel free to share.

and also if i should just share a child theme of a default theme like twenty twelve for free.

or make a theme off of _s put whatever i want in it and sell it for like 5-15 dollars.

[arno8]

@lynq I hope you can help me.

As you see here, in the general section it shows the topic and posts count nicely on the correct place.
However on the sub-forums u can see the counts are just ext to the name. how can i position these so they get on the same position like the ones above?

I tried to add a class here

// Parse arguments against default values
	$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
		'before'            => '<ul class="bbp-forums-list">',
		'after'             => '</ul>',
		'link_before'       => '<li class="bbp-forum">',
		'link_after'        => '</li>',
		'count_before'      => '(',
		'count_after'       => ' )',
		'count_sep'         => ', ',
		'separator'         => ', ',
		'forum_id'          => '',
		'show_topic_count'  => true,
		'show_reply_count'  => true,
	), 'list_forums' );

Like this:

// Parse arguments against default values
	$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
		'before'            => '<ul class="bbp-forums-list">',
		'after'             => '</ul>',
		'link_before'       => '<li class="bbp-forum">',
		'link_after'        => '</li>',
		'count_before'      => '<div class="counts">',
		'count_after'       => '</div>',
		//'count_sep'         => ', ',
		//'separator'         => ', ',
		'forum_id'          => '',
		'show_topic_count'  => true,
		'show_reply_count'  => true,
	), 'list_forums' );

to then style it in css, but when i try this it doesnt show the count anymore and i cANT EDIT IT IN CSS.

[rookpsu]

I think I found the issue.

Problem with the default "do not reply" email address

True to form, my domain begins with an ‘s’ so it was truncating the first letter as well. I assumed I just typed it in wrong.

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

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.