[John James Jacoby]

By default, closed topics get a greyed out text color. You can override this with some CSS tweaks that target it specifically. Something like:

#bbpress-forums .status-closed,
#bbpress-forums .status-closed a {
    color: red;
}

[John James Jacoby]

I spent a few hours this weekend cleaning up the themes that power BuddyPress.org, bbPress.org, and the shared styling between the codexes, Trac’s, etc… We’ll be open sourcing all of both of those sites very soon.

You’ll (hopefully) be surprised how few modifications are made to the default styling, and how little markup and CSS there is. 🙂

[blastblast]

@jaredatch

hi, new to the bbpress forum

As, I posted here https://buddypress.org/support/topic/sticky-color-screenshot/

I would like to change the font color of the sticky post in bbpress from the light grey to black.

In the
/wp-content/themes/bp-default-child/style.css

I inserted

.sticky {
font-color: black;
}

and it did not work.

After researching I stumble across this topic and I’m guessing editing the bbpress.css would be the answer, correct?

If so, before editing bbpress.css, I would like to make a backup or child theme version.

So if I’m following your instructions, would it be correct to place the bbpress.css in my /wp-content/themes/bp-default-child/bbpress.css folder or do I have to create a css folder thus placing it in /wp-content/themes/bp-default-child/css/bbpress.css.

Sorry if I’d got off track, ultimately, I would just like to change the sticky post color from light grey to black in the simplest way possible (without a plugin).

Any guidance would be helpful
thanks

[Shmoo]

Just curious if there is an easy way to check if a user has been subscribed to a topic or not..

I’ve looked inside the Core templates and found the bbp_user_subscribe_link() function so I ported it over to my own functions file and changed it a little bit, now it works on the topics index page but for some reason it breaks at my topic-replies index page while they use the same default topics loop.

This is my code I’ve changed around a little and what it does is, it prints an is-subscribed text to the page if a user is subscribed to an topic or not. IF not is doesn’t do anything – this is-subscribed text I placed inside a HTML class so I can catch him by some CSS.

http://pastebin.com/iFybkjfr

Visual, the 1px colored borders on the right indicate if a topic is-subscribed (blue), is-closed (black) or is-sticky (yellow).

It’s a very small feature but I believe very effective, maybe it’s possible to hook those is-values into the bbp_topic_class() by default because BuddyPress has this feature out of the box. If you’re a member of a group it also prints is-member inside the groups-list-class.

Anybody ideas about how we could make this more smooth and simple?

[Paolo Flamenkini]

Hi all,

I have a problem… When somebody post in one forum the information below the picture avatar is

User name

Role

IP

by default I would like to change this information by “grups” that means… if you belong a group that information appear in the gravatar and hide IP adress. Is that possible? I am getting crazy trying change that

[David Barber]

WordPress 3.8.1 running Suffusion theme.
bbPress Version 2.5.3

bbPress 2.1 now available!

On a registered participant login, I keep getting “The forum ‘Private: Small Stars’ is closed to new topics and replies.”
or “This forum is marked as closed to new topics, however your posting capabilities still allow you to do so.” if I’m on admin privileges.

The forums are definitely open.

Repair forums gives me (As Admin and Keymaster) “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

I have searched for this topic, but the phrases around “This forum is marked as closed to new topics” bring up almost every webpage that uses bbPress, as it’s the default text at the bottom of so many topics!

What could be wrong here?

Thanks in advance for any help.

David.

[inspirationally]

Fugettaboutit – some more hours passed by and they still are there. So that wasn’t the reason.

CUrious is, that, at least for me, the URLs (guid) of the revisions are like
http://deppheads.com/general/2014/01/24/303815-revision-v1/

with post parent being this
http://deppheads.com/forums/reply/303815/

while even those spam replies have an url like this
http://deppheads.com/forums/reply/711501/

so they are getting normal posts in the general category (my default one)

[Stephen Edgar]

At a quick glance I’m quite sure bbPress could do everything that you mention above, just not out of the box will it do those things.

You would need to make these customizations yourself or hire a programmer to do them for you.

The ‘threaded “hierarchal tree-style” would just be a matter of making some custom templates and would be quite quick. To setup the different theme for different users I think there are a few WordPress plugins that let your users choose what theme they want to use, so have two themes, one with the default bbPress theme (with or without customizations, and the other theme with your customized “hierarchal tree-style” templates.

There are some docs on getting started with custom templates https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Shmoo]

In bbPress 1.0 we had an array option called array( ‘exclude’ => ‘-3,-73,-103’ ) why is this gone in bbPress 2.0 ?

First I thought okay it’s just turned around instead of excluding forum_ids we now include forum_ids but that’s not true.

The post_parent is by default set to ‘any’ = 0 but you can only add one single forum_id you can’t do stuff like this.

bbp_has_topics( array( ‘post_parent’ => ‘23,51,73,107’ ) )

It’s show everything – one forum_id or nothing at all.

What am I missing here?

[Robin W]

Could be theme or plugin conflict.

Try switching to a default theme (such as twenty twelve) to see if problems remains.

Then try disabling all you plugins, and if that fixes, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the issue

[Robin W]

Try switching to a “default” theme (such as twenty twelve) and see if it goes away.

If not, try disabling your other plugins and re-introduce one at a time to see if there’s a conflict.

[giggio]

I use bbPress-2.5.3 and BuddyPress-1.9.1 for my forum.

I want to add a couple of new forum roles + existing 5 default roles. How to do that?

For example, I want to have forum roles – ‘beginner’, ‘advanced’, ‘senior’, ‘veteran’, etc. with capabilities – ‘participant’. And other forum roles with custom names with capabilities – ‘moderator’.

Thanks in advance!

[Markic]

First of all, I’m not asking any questions, I’m offering solutions for people who, like me, had these specific problems, are googling for a solutions and can’t find any. Some of you think this is pure amateur stuff, but there are people out there who will spend hours trying different things and this can save them so much time. If you want to delete this topic, I don’t care, I’m here to help…

How to load bbpress.css before your yoursheet.css?
Intro: When WordPress is loading stylesheets, they’ll load all the theme .css files first and then they’ll load plugin css. That way plugin css has higher priority than your css and only way you can override it is with !important. As we all know, that is a bad practice.

Also, you can create your own bbpress.css in your theme but that means more files to keep up with (although, that’s the cleanest solution). Here’s another way to do this:

paste this code into functions.php…

if (class_exists('bbPress')) {
add_action( 'wp_print_styles', 'deregister_bbpress_styles', 15 );
function deregister_bbpress_styles() {
wp_deregister_style( 'bbp-default' );
}
wp_enqueue_style( 'bbpress_css', plugins_url().'/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.min.css');
}


So, let’s get into details:
– first, if you have active plugin ‘bbPress’ it will exicute the following code which removes all the .css files from it
– second, it loads bbpress.min.css again, but this time where you want it…
– be sure that you enqeue your stylesheet after this code

Note: there are two problems that might arise from this techique
-if bbPress developers decide to rename, remove or split bbpress.min.css, you’ll have to change the code again
-there’s other .css file named “bbpress-rtl(.min).css”. Well, some cultures (Arabic), read and write from right to left. And what this file aligns everything to the right. bbPress has some system of deciding whether it should load this file or not, but by doing this technique, you’re disabling that system.

How can I remove all the breadcrumbs from the templates and set them at the top of the page?
Intro: Many of us are creating our own themes with existing breadcrumbs systems which are in the header. But bbPress has it’s own idea where to display breadcrumbs, and sometimes that’s at the top of the page, sometimes that’s below search form and sometimes it’s below title. Here’s how you can change that quickly.

1. If you haven’t, create “bbpress.php” in the root folder of your theme. (You can copy-paste page.php)
2. Add
<div class="truebreadcrumbs"><?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?></div>
where you wan’t to show your breadcrumbs
3. Add this CSS:

div.bbp-breadcrumb {
display: none; /*this will hide all breadcrumbs*/
}

.truebreadcrumbs div.bbp-breadcrumb {
display: block; /*this will display breadcrumbs you've created*/
}


Sure, HTML will still generate all the breadcrumbs and css will hide the unwanted ones, but this is the easiest way to do this without going into templates…

[Shmoo]

Try this.

Your HTML and CSS isn’t very pretty but this will do the trick I believe.

.type-reply.user-id-1 {
     background: #91CDEA;
     border-top: 1px solid #BEC3C7;
     border-bottom: 1px solid #BEC3C7;
     overflow: hidden;
}

Btw, if you have copied the default bbpress.css stylsheet from the plugins folder to your own theme ( wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/css/ ) folder you can edit and customize that new bbpress.css file. You don’t have to place all your custom CSS inside the style.css – just customize the bbpress.css inside your theme folder.

Right now you’re working too much with the !important; attribute just trying to overwrite default stylings while it’s not needed if you simply customize the bbpress.css stylesheet.

[Shmoo]

Screenshots:

Default:

Shows pagination:

Activated:

Gone pagination:

Added a Trac ticket

[Shmoo]

Not, because Forums is a Post Type like Posts, Pages, Topics, Replies, Products, Books and more of those options you often see in WordPress.

You order the items them when they get pulled from the database based on X or Z.

__

I’ve been trying for years now to find the best ‘new’ way to GROUP + ORDER custom lists of forums without having to make Parent forum categories.

Think about how Menu’s work inside WordPress, it’s one of the most powerful and easy to use features in WordPress and it can + should be used in more ways then just making menu’s. It can’t be that difficult to alter or hook into that wp_nav_menu functionality.

To be honest the main functionality is already there,
If you go to the Menu’s page inside your WordPress back-end you can see on the left side an option to add all, or most used forums, or just a single forum item to your website’s menu-bar.
( if this option is visible from the options menu at the top )

That’s a feature almost nobody uses right now because lets face it, how often do you link to a single-forum-item from your website’s main navigation bar? If so you can also use the Add Custom Link option, visit the single-forum-page front-end > copy the link and add a custom Menu Link to you menu. Done!
Mostly you just link to the general forums-index page with a list of all forums, that’s a link you show inside your website’s main menu-bar.

Just try it, add a single forum-item to your menu bar but now think about how cool it would be if that link would also show your topics + posts count behind it.
Default right now:
– /single-forum-title/
What it could be:
– /single-forum-title/ – ( 7 ) – ( 32 )

See where I’m going with this, if you have that structure of a link layout you can group and order very easily your index forum pages or at any other page where you can add a menu – even in de sidebar you could make powerful easy to use lists of forums you want to group together.
This is so flexible you can make 50 different versions of lists – all you need is a few custom_menu_locations who are made for bbPress forums only.

All this isn’t rocket science for somebody who knows PHP, wp_nav_mennu already has special hooks to add to page_nav_items so you can include data behind those menu-links, even bbPress already has a forums Widget that can do almost the same as I just told you by just adding 2 lines of PHP.

I think this is the way forward in making unique forums index pages.
I think we all love to group X forums together without using a category forum and try to pull that list behind the scene based on the category_forum_id. You just want to make forums + group the manually together like Menu-items, combine + order -items > Add them them into unique menu_locations and you can make little kinda Widgets of related forums content.

Look what I made over the years and it was a frustration to find the right tags to use while it can be so much easier done by just hooking into the WP Menu function.

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!! Of course keep your respect to the people doing all the hard work on this lovely bbPress source !!

[Shmoo]

Well try using your browsers Web inspector that will guide you through your code and gives you a visual image of where and what you can change because every site can be different.

This is an old video but I think every browser today has an Inspector inside it by default. It gives you an idea of how you can spot some HTML classes and what you should target to change.

[Shmoo]

@koendb,

Very nicely!
Well integrated with the entire theme.

Just one question:

How did you change the time-format at each last_activity.
By default bbPress shows something like this, (two items)
– 2 days, 3 hours ago
– 8 hours, 37 seconds ago

But you only show one item,
– 2 hours ago
– 6 days ago
– 1 years ago

I like your format better.

[Mycelus]

I want bbPress to look like this:

https://linustechtips.com/main/

See how the categories are above and separated from the rest?

My current forums look like this –> http://www.skyforgelabs.com/?post_type=forum , and I HATE that, the way the forums are under the category with the stupid 0’s is ugly and I don’t know why bbPress is like this by default.

[Shmoo]

Didn’t want to make a new Trac before knowing if this is a real bug or not.

I set the number of replies per page at 8 in the back-end. Save it, but right now I’ve already replied 31 times in one topic to test it and still the pagination menu doesn’t show up in the single-forum page ( topics list )
+ also the single-topic page doesn’t move to a second page it keeps adding content.

Tested it on default installs with Twenty Twelve and WP 3.8

[Shmoo]

Because it doesn’t work like that out-of-the-box.

WordPress checks some values based on a Submit action – a page-load is needed to check and push the error_msg into your page and because of the page-load the browser will go back to the top of the page by default.

If you want functionality like that you have to search at Javascript Validations ,there are lots of them online.

Personally I really like Foundation’s Abide
http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/abide.html

It can check if a field is valid when writing and if it’s not it blocks the Submit button from being pushed in the first place.
I used it in a BuddyPress site and it works very nice.

[Nathan Hawkes]

I am currently using bbPress 2.5.3 with WordPress 3.8 and the default bbPress theme, as inside the plugin folder. I am wondering how I change the tags prefix (“Tagged:”) on the topic page. I have looked through the theme files and can’t find it in any of them. Can anyone assist me? It’s really annoying me right now.

Thanks

[KaitlinFNF]

Hello,

Clicking a username from within the BBPress section generates a 404 error.

I’ve done extensive research on this problem, and haven’t been able to find a fix in the forums so far.

I’ve deactivated all plugins besides BBPress – no dice.
I’ve switched the default theme and still get the 404.
I’ve changed the permalinks and the subscriber role – didn’t make a difference.

Some code fixes I’ve found in the forums just make it so that the 404 page doesn’t generate, but it shows a blank page, which isn’t really the point. I need it to actually go the member profile.

I believe all of the software is up to date:
Wordpress v3.8
BBPress v2.5.3
Theme is Dante, v 1.5.1

Here is a user link: essential-essentials.com/forums/user/Essential-Essentials/

(The site is still very much in development)

Thank you for any help you can provide : )

[Shmoo]

I’ve look at it a few times in the WordPress Codex and it probably explains GREATLY how it works and what it does but maybe I just don’t get it.

I understand the concept of taking a function that exists <—> edit it <—> return it to WP Core but how!

Lets say I just simply want to replace the text inside a HTML “… class=”bbp-topic-spam-link”> ” of the spam link.

First step I do is search for the function: bbp_topic_spam_link()

Second step found it inside plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php [ line 2832 ]

Third step copy the entire function to my functions.php file or plugins functions file.

Fourth step, edit the code that you want to edit but after that, how do you add the filter to this function to make it a new or your function.

/**
 * Output the spam link of the topic
 * @uses bbp_get_topic_spam_link() Topic spam link
 */
function bbp_topic_spam_link( $args = '' ) {
	echo bbp_get_topic_spam_link( $args );
}

	/**
	 * Return the spam link of the topic
	 */
	function bbp_get_topic_spam_link( $args = '' ) {

		// Parse arguments against default values
		$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
			'id'           => 0,
			'link_before'  => '',
			'link_after'   => '',
			'sep'          => ' | ',
			'spam_text'    => esc_html__( 'Spam',   'bbpress' ),
			'unspam_text'  => esc_html__( 'Unspam', 'bbpress' )
		), 'get_topic_spam_link' );

		$topic = bbp_get_topic( bbp_get_topic_id( (int) $r['id'] ) );

		if ( empty( $topic ) || !current_user_can( 'moderate', $topic->ID ) )
			return;

		$display = bbp_is_topic_spam( $topic->ID ) ? $r['unspam_text'] : $r['spam_text'];
		$uri     = add_query_arg( array( 'action' => 'bbp_toggle_topic_spam', 'topic_id' => $topic->ID ) );
		$uri     = wp_nonce_url( $uri, 'spam-topic_' . $topic->ID );
		$retval  = $r['link_before'] . '<a href="' . esc_url( $uri ) . '" class="bbp-topic-spam-link">' . $display . '</a>' . $r['link_after'];

		return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_topic_spam_link', $retval, $r );
	}

Thanks.

[cdonahue]

Solved!

Added this code to the bottom of my ‘page’ template, as that appears to be the default page for bbpress:

if (is_bbpress()) {
get_sidebar(forum);
} ?>

et voila.