Hmm, if the tags are being stripped, there is a chance a plugin is doing that.
bbPress by default uses the WordPress wpautop on all content which automagically handles the paragraph tags. There isn’t anything in core that should strip tags unless those tags aren’t allowed in normal posts. What tags are being stripped? It sounds like even the base paragraph tags are being stripped, which shouldn’t be the case unless you ahve wpautop disabled via a plugin.
Zdravo!!
Ok, that helps.
First suggestion:
What happens if you use shortcodes to create a forum index? https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
Take the shortcode of: [bbp-forum-index] and add it to a blank page.
Does that create a visible forum index?
If so, then your problem imho is that your theme is hijacking the content area in a way that prevents the new bbPress code from working. As such, the solution would be found most likely in your theme’s page.php or similar, where the default archive pages are created. I don’t have access to the Gonzo theme since it is on ThemeForest ;-(
but you can see in my recent post, we fixed a similar solution for Canvas 5 from WooThemes. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/non-functional-index-page-when-bbpress-2-1rc4-is-used-with-woothemes-canvas-5-05/
If not, then please share the link to the page where you posted the shortcode so I can see the underlying output.
Hvala!
Spence
function mycustom_breadcrumb_options() {
// Home - default = true
$args['include_home'] = false;
// Forum root - default = true
$args['include_root'] = false;
// Current - default = true
$args['include_current'] = true;
return $args;
}
add_filter('bbp_before_get_breadcrumb_parse_args', 'mycustom_breadcrumb_options' );
I think the above will do what you are after… Just add it to your themes functions.php
I also have a user experiencing this issue (where they can’t see the first post in a thread) on our BuddyPress + bbPress site. We are using the default bbP-theme within DynamiX WP/BP theme. I will attempt to change our theme and report back if that fixes it.
Any other ideas what might be causing this? Anyone else experiencing this issue?
Hmm, I haven’t tested this so I can’t say, but it definitely sounds like an issue. Maybe someone else can chime in and try to duplicate it.
This is probably happening because the default WordPress search isn’t looking at information bbPress stores when it makes things as private. WordPress just grabs results from all post types that are supported, makes sure they are published, and runs with it.
This doesn’t help your current situation, but I just wanted to say the search is something we are trying to address in 2.3.
Having bbPress search results come up in the regular WordPress search is weird, and leads to problem such as this, which is why bbPress topics/replies are not searchable by default. To skirt around this problem, we are likely going to make a bbPress specific search with its own search results page. This will give us more control over how the results are returned and make sure stuff that should be hidden doesn’t show up.
But how can we make minor edits on the bbpress default theme? For example, my site’s theme has a place for breadcrumb and I want to put bbp_breadcrumb() there to show the correct breadcrumb. How is it possible? Thank you.
I am using bbPress 2.2.2 on WordPress 3.4.2. My permalinks are set to /%category%/%postname%/ and bbPress base is default. Another words, I didn’t change any permalink structure in bbPress.
And I am see the issue on http://domain.com/forums/
You are not using a unique page template yet?
What bbPress does is that it looks for certain template files in the theme’s directory. If it finds them, it uses them. If it doesn’t find them, then it uses default fallbacks. The template file for the forum front page is “forums.php”. You could add this file to your theme and have it not include a sidebar. When you install the bbPress plugin, it has twentyten-compatible template files that would be a good starting point to look at.
Thanks for the reply however I don’t have such dropdown. The only dropdown I see is the default WordPress role dropdown and not one specific for bbPress.
So I just installed the latest bbPress 2.2.2 and see that all my users have no role set for the forum so I then proceed to use the remap tool to set them a default of participant. This all worked fine however, it also switched my admin account to participant also instead of keymaster. So my question is how do we apply the keymaster role back to the admin?
Ok , so it’s a bit of physician heal thyself but here’s how I fixed in case other people are having the problem.
I found this:
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/
which shows how to create a custom bbpress.css in 2.0 and later. Then I changed line 62 to be:
list-style-type: inherit /* was ‘none’ */;
(basically took out the none override for basic list elements).
Seems like overkill to have a complete copy of bbpress.css just to change one line but I could not find another place to override it. Tried playing around with trying a skeleton bbpress.css that @import’ed the default one but didn’t have much success with that.
Anyways, issue has been resolved, thanks!
regards, Paul
bbPress is now a plugin for WordPress. That means that it doesn’t run without an install of WordPress.
As for the design; that’s entirely up to you. You can go with the default bbPress styles, use a WordPress theme that overrides them or apply your own CSS and make the forums totally original. I recommend having a good read of the bbPress 2.0+ documentation.
Okay, I’ve made some further progress with method #3 above (hooking into bbp_get_bbpress_template ). Here’s the general approach I’m taking:
add_filter( 'bbp_get_bbpress_template', 'my_add_page_template', $templates );
function my_add_page_template( array $templates ) {
$page_template = get_post_meta( $post_id, '_wp_page_template', true );
if ( $page_template != 'default' )
array_unshift( $templates, $page_template );
return $templates;
}
The only issue I have right now is that $post_id is difficult to extract if the archive pages (Archive Base and Topics Base) are being displayed. Right now I am hard wiring it to the post_id of the Archive Base page (getting it from the editor), and it works okay but not what I want.
Since these pages (archives) are custom post types, I haven’t found an easy way to find their post_id’s, and querying globals like $post->ID and calling functions like get_the_ID() and url_to_postid() don’t work for custom post IDs ($post->ID and get_the_ID() return 0).
QUESTION: For a bbPress page that is currently being built for display, is the post_id of the page being stored somewhere in a bbPress global?
Michael
Okay, I’ve been doing some digging and perhaps as expected, the theme Template page.php (the default WP Template) is being called to build the Archive Base page. I can edit the page.php in my child theme and customize from there (where it eventually calls the_content(), which apparently executes content-archive-forum.php to display the Forum “front page”), but that’s a brute-force method since page.php is the default Template for all pages. I want to create a Template explicitly for bbPress pages, which means I need a way to specify the Template to use on a per-page basis.
Normally this would be done by simply creating a Template (like page.php) and put it in your child theme directory, then select it for a specific page you want to apply it to using the wp-admin Edit Page -> Page Attributes -> Template pull down, save it and voila, your page uses your custom Template.
But with bbPress pages that are “partnered with a WordPress page” (per this topic discussion), this doesn’t work for the partnered page. The Template setting seems to be ignored, and only for bbPress pages partnered this way.
This may not be a show-stopper for me, but may be for others looking to customize the overall page Template for their bbPress pages. Is it a bbPress bug? I can’t tell, and hopefully I’m missing something painfully obvious, being new to installing/using bbPress.
Seems like there must be some kind of code frag in the plugin that does something like:
if (request to display (Archive Base | Topic Base) {
if ((Archive Base | Topic Base) is partnered with WP page) {
point the_content() at (content-archive-forum.php | content-archive-topic.php);
call default page Template;
}
}
JJJ or someone else in-the-know, can you comment on how the “partnering with a WordPress page” works? Where is this performed? Sorry if the question is naive, I’m just having trouble understanding how this partnering works at the Template execution level.
Many thanks.
Michael
I’m just recently testing bbPress, my theme is dark and the default editor doesn’t look well with it. Perfect solution? The editor color options available through Ultimate Tinymce! 😀
So, my question is: Do I have to rename “foo”, or will it work if I just paste that into my functions.php?
Signed,
Complete and Utter php Newb
on my installation I want to use the default theme, but it looks like its appearing with no style sheet attached. Also when I make a new topic its kind of “invisible” to the public and me. It says this forum has no posts or topics but it does! What could be wrong ?
Yeah, I made sure that phpBB was selected. I was just now re-checking over everything again and I see that my database has two User ID’s, one attached to the database and one for FTP. Assuming this process works like FTP I then made sure to run it again with the user name I have for accessing via FTP and I get the first message:
“Repair any missing information: Continue
Conversion Complete
No replies to convert
No tags to convert
No topics to convert
No forum parents to convert
No forums to convert
No passwords to clear
No users to convert
Starting Conversion
”
I’ve even tried it by replacing “localhost” with my database’s Host Name. Same result. I double-checked that Database Port is the default, 3306, yep.
Do you know which User Name I’m supposed to be using? The one that has my database id in it, or the one I use for FTP?
Also, does anybody know what it does if your FTP password is incorrect?
For what it’s worth, I’m looking for whatever function is calling content-archive-forum.php. I can edit this file in my child theme per the Codex, but I’m trying to figure out which function is calling this, and in particular, what function generates the code above the <div id=”bbpress-forums”> at the start of content-archive-forum.php.
Does bbPress simply use the default post display template, and if so, where is the call to load and execute content-archive-forum.php made?
I tried a grep for content-archive-forum in the entire wordpress tree from wp-content on down, and I can’t find where this is called from.
Many thanks
Michael
and not just this template file
Hi there — I’m running WP 3.4.2, bbPress 2.2.2 & buddypress 1.6.1. Overall, I’m quite happy with the installation, and I’ve done a fair amount of customization on my site to give it a nice L&F. I’ve been using a child theme to do all customization, and it’s been reasonably straightforward, but not trivial. That said, many thanks to all the bbPress folks who are putting lots of time in on this plugin — it’s a great platform.
Onto my question: How is the main forum archive page generated? I want to create my own template to generate this page, and I’ve been stumped trying to trace the sequence of files/calls used to create it.
For context, I have the Forums Base set to “member-area/forums” in Settings -> Forums. I can go to http://mysite/member-area/forums and see the standard listing of all the forums in a table. Perfect, just what I want.
That said, how exactly is this page created? Which files & calls in the plugin create it? I’ve found loop-forums.php in …/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/which is used to create the table within the page (apparently called as the_content() somewhere), but I can’t find the code blocks that create the header, footer, etc. Is there a single template page used to create the Archive Base page?
Apparently this page is generated regardless of whether there is an existing page (permalink) to the same permalink used as Archive Base. Nifty, but I want to use my own template (the whole thing) for creating the Archive Base page.
Even when I create a page with a permalink address the same as Archive Base and insert a [bbp-forum-index] in the post content, I can’t seem to select a Template from the Page Attribute pull down that has any effect on the creation of the Archive Base page. It’s like it’s hard wired to use a very specific template — that I can’t find in the directory tree.
Long winded, but I hope that conveys what I’m trying to do. In short, I just want to create my own template for creating the Archive Base page. Any pointers are appreciated.
Cheers,
Michael
Look at this link. It looks weird and why is that ? Its just the default theme and v2.2 and where can I change theme now? I don’t see the option anywhere anymore!
http://www.truckstop24.no/forums/
Thank you for the prompt reply.
I was able to create a child theme and activate it.
Not sure how to make the bbpress css primary over the default theme css since at the beginning of the child theme I import the default theme css. With the child activated it looks the exact same.
Thank you again for your help. Is there any way to donate a gift for helping me out?
In many of our client custom setups, the fix was on line 78 of the default css:
See our post here for potential quick fix to the CSS:
bbPress 2.2.2 released
Between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2, we found that the profile pages suddenly “vanished” (but the code was still there). It was a CSS issue.
For our clients and personal sites, the fix was on line 78 of the default css:
We changed “clear:none” to “clear:both”
#bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper ul.bbp-lead-topic, #bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper ul.bbp-topics, #bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper ul.bbp-forums, #bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper ul.bbp-replies, #bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper fieldset.bbp-form { clear: both; }
I updated to bbPress 2.2.1 last night and had the same problem with Ultimate TinyMCE plugin. The plugin sued to work beautifully with bbPress, now I get the default fancy editor. I’m not a PHP guru so I’ve been trying to avoid messing around in the code as Michael suggests. Is there any other option to get that editor enabled (it does show up in the dashboard versions of new Topic and I miss the table drawer)
regards, Paul
It’s not that crazy. bbPress has used this pattern for almost 9 years now.
- /forums/ is your root
- /forums/forum/slug/ is a single forum
- /forums/topic/slug/ is a single topic
- /forums/users/slug/ is a single user
Regarding your theme, a quick read through some topics here will help you. Try with a default theme, refresh your permalinks, etc…
