[Stephen Edgar]

No, by default bbPress does not have a ‘post preview’ feature at this stage.

There are various plugins for using different editors and some are compatible with bbPress and some have a post preview.

Take a look around https://wordpress.org/plugins/ and see if anything is suitable.

[strangelife]

Hi Everyone!

For my main forum homepage or the archive i want to display different forums into sections rather than having a list of forums that is the bbpress default.

So this is the code used to display all the forums,

<?php while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum(); ?>

	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-forum' ); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

So how would i add some arguments to this to display certain forums from there ID’s?

Also on the main page i want to show 5 recent topics, i believe the loop code is this,

<?php while ( bbp_topics() ) : bbp_the_topic(); ?>

	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-topic' ); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

If anyone has managed to use a custom loop using the above code to display 5 recent topics or a custom WP_Query, i’ll be very grateful if you could show some example code.

Kind Regards
~ Matt

[strangelife]

Hi,

Your best bet would be to create a custom page template for your WordPress theme where you basically display the header and footer without the sidebar.

Create three custom templates, sidebar, left sidebar and right sidebar, for your default page.php file in your wordpress theme make it so it doesn’t have any sidebars. Then by default bbpress will use this page to display the forum.

[John James Jacoby]

What @xevo says is correct. If you put it in the correct place (meaning it’s loading correctly) that CSS will hide the default small avatars and prevent them from being displayed.

[solhuebner]

Try adding

function subscribed_by_default() {
	echo '<script type="text/javascript">jQuery("#bbp_topic_subscription").prop("checked",false);</script>';
}

add_action('bbp_theme_after_topic_form_subscriptions', 'subscribed_by_default');
add_action('bbp_theme_after_reply_form_subscription', 'subscribed_by_default');

to your functions.php

[janhoos]

Hey guys!

I’ve got the option to subscribe to topics on, but I dislike the fact that its already checked for every topic. So if a user is not paying attention, hes going to get a lot of e-mails.

I’d much rather have it off by default and let the user click the subscribe box if he wishes to subscribe to a topic.

Can I turn it off in a php file somewhere? I’ve looked around but could not find it. I was wondering if someone else ran in to the same “problem”.

[terungwa]

UPDATE:
I have carried out the following troubleshooting activities:

1. Deleted my bbpress child theme (problem did not go away)
2. Changed my theme to the default twenty thirteen then twenty twelve but still noticed the same error when i attempt to use the theme customizer.

[leahcar8]

yeah… I’ve ended up doing it locally too. I tried the Vanilla conversion from the migration I did previously and ended up getting tons of SQL errors. So I ended up just pulling out the tables from my vBulletin db that the bbPress converter actually uses and am using those to run the conversion locally.

So far so good on the local conversion. I’m up to about 225,000 on the replies with no stalls yet just using the default set of 100 and 1 sec delay.

Rachael

[terungwa]

Thanks, My theme can now read my bbpress.css file based on the directory structure you advised.
One observation and question though:
I noticed that when i created a blank bbpress.css file in my child theme, it wiped off the default styles created by the parent!! So, do I copy the complete parent bbpress.css file or do I make a child bbpress.css file.

If i am to make a child bbpress.css file, then how do i reference the parent css file, as it is done in wordpress child theme design?

Regards

[terungwa]

Wordpress version: 3.6
bbPress 2.3.2
Site url: http://www.rubycore-ng.com/blog/forum/

I wanted to create a custom bbPress theme, i followed the instructions here:’ Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Custom bbPress Theme’. Having copied the following assets from the bbpress>template>default folder to my child theme:

1-bbpress folder
2-extras folder
3-js folder
4-bbpress-functions.php

I am still unable to override the styles in the default bbpress.css file.

I would appreciate clues on how to approach this.

Regards.

[Nykess]

By default, the subforums look like this:

subforum1, subforum2, subforum3, subforum4, etc.

I want for it to look like this:

subforum1
subforum2
subforum3
subforum4
etc.

How can I accomplish this?

[Stephen Edgar]

Hmmm… I haven’t looked at vBulletin in a while and I just opened up my database and I do not have a table prefix at all (thus I’d leave the field blank in my case)

Looking at this screen shot of my vBulletin database in phpMyAdmin you can see I am in the database structure view (the default when you open the database) and you can see the ‘forum’, ‘forumpermission’ tables, if yours are the same as mine then you don’t need a table prefix for the import. If yours includes for example ‘vb_’ so yours are ‘vb_forum’, ‘vb_forompermissions’ etc then your table prefix for the importer would be ‘vb_’

[mgoon11]

oh okay sorry, I thought it would at least have some sort of hierarchy in default (I’ve seen instructional videos where it had that “tree” format but I guess now it was just the particular theme) That’s good to hear that they’re working on it, but I would need to get some sort of structure now. Can you point me in the direction, if any, to try and customize the theme to have some sort of structure for the forums? As of now, google isn’t exactly working for me, I’ve searched for things pertaining to this, and I only posted in these forums after i could not find what I was looking for.

[mgoon11]

Hello, I’m building a website with forums at . However, I’m having trouble understanding why it looks the way it does? I thought it would look like you know, an actual forum with the various forums and sub-forums in a “tree-like” format etc. I’m confused as to how to make it look an operate that way instead of the way it is currently with this weird “archive” format. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Btw, I just created the page with the default “forums” slug and I’ve tried the shortcode too with same results – I just have no idea why it looks the way it does.

[watracing]

permalinks are set to default, is this the wrong setting?

when navigatiing to /forums i get this error:

Not Found

The requested URL /forums was not found on this server.

Apache/2.2.22 (Debian) Server at watracing.com Port 80

[Stephen Edgar]

To find your ‘Table Prefix’ open up phpMyAdmin on your webhost and it should look similar to this:

So in my case the table prefix will be ‘sp_’ (This is most likely the default for SimplePress)

Navigate to http://example.com/forums to see your forums, you can add a link to your WordPress menu linking to that URL etc

Also don’t forget to run the repair tools after the import or things just won’t look right.

[Xevo]

“Buddypress” as you said, is a different project. So you should ask help about it on the right forums. https://buddypress.org/support/

Also, isn’t mingle the same as buddypress?

[Xevo]

This has almost nothing to do with bbPress, as it uses the info from wordpress.

Here’s a page about it.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9326315/wordpress-change-default-display-name-publicy-as-for-all-existing-users

[ZachMatthews]

Hey guys –

On my site (itinerantangler.com) I have a longstanding Real Names Policy. As a result almost all of my users have their actual first and last names displayed as their Display Names.

If I go into an individual user’s profile I can edit the ‘Display Name’ by hitting a drop down box. This gives a bunch of options; lower case, last-name-first, etc. The one I would like for everyone to use is the regular old ‘First Last’ setting with capitals for their first and last names.

Unfortunately the board software defaulted to lower case ‘first last’ when I transferred in from some other software.

Is there a way to bulk change all my users’ drop-down boxes to the ‘First Last’ setting as a default?

Thanks,
Zach

[DanielB86]

Hello,

I have buddypress and mingle running. Normally I could asign a specific sidebar to each buddypress page. Now all of a sudden I can’t. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[JosiahW]

When users register to my BuddyPress + bbPress site they are not being assigned the default role I have selected for them in the forums settings. It simply does not assign them any role.
I have to go in and manually assign them the role or use the “Remap existing users to default forum roles” tool.

Any idea what could be causing that? I have all other plugins disabled with the exception of: Custom Login 2.0 which just themes the existing wordpress login and registration pages.

[unitedtechpros]

When I go to the root of my forums (new install with only 6 forums) the pagination at the bottom of the screen shows 4 pages… there is no page beyond the first page and if you click on the link to page 2, it goes to forums/page 2 but displays the same page. It does the same with any of the other links 3-4.

This has me stumped? I tried changing the topics shown to a larger and that just increases the pagination links (I went from 2 to 4). I set both the blog post and topic post back to default and the links stayed the same.

I’m really impatient and I will most likely try to reset the forums and start over since they are new and there are only 6 with only a couple posts I made in them. So, I’ll let you know if that fixed it.

Thanks for any help!

[Stephen Edgar]

@capacitron Thanks a bunch for testing it out, glad it worked.

bbPress & BuddyPress use the same WordPress user table so everything should be common across both plugins and WordPress itself.

That said, any extra profile data I can get from the source forum, in this case MyBB we are storing the extra data in the WordPress ‘usermeta’ table so this data can be manipulated/imported/whatever at a later time.

With MyBB I only see 3 extra user profile fields to store (ICQ, MSN & Signature), the rest WordPress includes by default (AIM, Yahoo etc) .

Looking at the current version of MyBB.php importer at Line #474 you will see the three entries I have (summarized below):

• // Store ICQ (Stored in usermeta)
  ‘to_fieldname’ => ‘_bbp_mybb_user_icq’
• // Store MSN (Stored in usermeta)
  ‘to_fieldname’ => ‘_bbp_mybb_user_msn’
• // Store Signature (Stored in usermeta)
  ‘to_fieldname’ => ‘_bbp_mybb_user_sig’,

Thus under each imported user in the wp_usermeta table under each user id the above data will also be stored…. So for example if you wanted to install a bbPress/BuddyPress signature plugin to extend either of these plugins you could then copy the data from this stored field to the field that the plugin uses f or storing user signature data. As any of this can be done in numerous ways by plugin authors each site admin will need to decide what plugin to use and how to shift around any relevant data.

[Anonymous User 12933267]

So right now the entire forum is using the standard page template (Default Template). Here is an example of the template.

But I would like bbpress to use the Full-Width Template as used here.

Is there a way to change the page-template used by bbpress?

Kind regards,
Luc

[bjorn2run]

I was running into the same issue, here’s what I did:
I copied:
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php
into the root of my theme folder:
/wp-content/themes/(YourTheme)/form-topic.php

I renamed the file to:
form-topic-home.php

so I can call it separately and makes changes to it without having an impact on the normal add topic form.

In my new file I removed the if statements for testing if the page is a single forum or a topic edit, my form is going into a modal on my homepage, so neither of those will ever be necessary.

Starting at line 12 I deleted this:

<?php if ( !bbp_is_single_forum() ) : ?>

<div id="bbpress-forums">

	<?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ( bbp_is_topic_edit() ) : ?>

	<?php bbp_topic_tag_list( bbp_get_topic_id() ); ?>

	<?php bbp_single_topic_description( array( 'topic_id' => bbp_get_topic_id() ) ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Next on what was line 28 I changed
<?php if ( bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() ) : ?>
to
<?php if ( bbp_current_user_can_publish_topics() ) : ?>

The original code does a lot of checking if the user can edit forums, if we’re on a single page or if this is one off page, we’re really only looking for the current user’s ability to post topics, and we’re given that (inside that same function actually)

At the very bottom of the file you’ll also want to delete this:

<?php if ( !bbp_is_single_forum() ) : ?>

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

as it’s the closing div tag to the stuff we cut out at the top of the file.

Now where you were going to use the short code, call a template part instead, and you should be square.

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic-home' ); ?>