[Ian M]

ctekmusic – I found a way. This plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-new-default-avatar/ worked for me! 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

You should export the entire phpBB database using from the current hosting provider and import it into your new hosting provider, remote migrations are not supported. Each of your hosting providers should have some documentation on how to import and export the MySQL database. You will not need to instal phpBB on your site to import the data, you only need the actual database.

This should also help https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

The ‘default’ phpBB MySQL table prefix is “phpbb_”

[Ian M]

Yeah I had tried that, I had it at “Gravatar Logo” and then I changed it to “Mystery Man” but it just stayed blank.

Just now I tried to change it again to one of the (Generated) avatars and what do you know, it worked.

This must mean that the mystery man and gravatar logos are both missing from where ever they are called from ?

Thank you ctekmusic! By the way, is there a way I can upload my own default avatar for new members ? I don’t really like the (Generated) ones that I have to choose from.

[ctekmusic]

This may sound obvious but have you tried changing the default avatar in /wp-admin ?

Go to Settings ->Discussion then change it to something else and check the members page again.

[Ian M]

When new members register on my forum there is no default avatar displayed – just an ugly blank box with a missing image icon in it. Please help me to figure out how to set a default avatar.

I have searched for an answer but couldn’t make sense of anything I found. You can see the problem here: http://residentevilsix.net/members/

[CraigIW]

Hi,

I have bbpress plugin in a WordPress 3.4.2 MU site, with a single instance in the root and /forums. I have a very basic child theme of TwentyEleven which makes some header and CSS tweaks.

Once I activated BBPress, I found that it is displayed using the sidebar. This crushes the forum to the left, so I wanted to get rid of it for the forum page. I read that by default BBPress will use the page.php from the TwentyEleven theme, and to copy that to my child theme, remove the call to the sidebar and name it bbpress.php would override it. Well, for a start, the TwentyEleven page.php does NOT contain the sidebar. After searching the filesystem I found that sidebar-page.php does, so I copied that to my child theme folder and named it bbpress.php, removed the get_sidebar() call, and also set the template name as Template Name: Forum Template in the bbpress.php file.

It did not work. My forum is still showing a sidebar. It does not seem to be using the bbpress.php file at all.

Is there a guide somewhere on how to get BBPress to display without the sidebar when using MU and a child theme of TwentyEleven?

As I said, my child theme if very simple. It is literally a header.php and styles.css, and I have now added bbpress.php. What do I need to do to get BBPress to use my bbpress.php template?

Can I add that a LOT of the helpful-looking links on here lead to 404 pages, which really hasn’t helped in trying to figure this out. It would be great if those could be fixed up somehow?

Thanks!

[Laidir]

Hi,

I’ve installed bbPress on my site at http://www.thebridesboudoir.com/forums/

I’m in the middle of tweaking the templates now after copying them all to my Theme folder. I mainly copied the opening and closing tags from my current themes full width template into each file or am doing thatm, but testing when I go to the main forums, everything is thrown an inch or so to the right? It’s fine when I click on a Post to read te post details.

I have a few tweaks to make yet to the styling e.g. the post titles are too small, but could someone tell me why the main forum look would be skewif?

The other question is, what is Keymaster and how do I hide that. I prefer not to have the admin label in peoples face when I’m using the forums. I assume Key Master is another word for Admin and I don’t like the sound of it. Can I change that and where?

I note on some forums that you can create user roles and wondered if thats possible with bbPress and where that would be changed also?

Thanks for help in advance.

I like the way the forum is mixing in with my site with just a few changes here and there already. I’m surprised I’ve got this far as I’m hopeless with theming etc. Initially I installed and it took my side bar template as default and had sidebar featured and I preferred a full width forum theme, so copied the files to my theme directory. I’d be grateful for the help or hints on how to fix the front page to get it in line.

[Flight777]

Hello all,

I’m trying to change the link (pagination) colours of the default theme twentyten. However, I can’t find any css entry what so ever. Could someone point me in the right direction? Still a bit of a newbie with website editing 😛

Thanks!

Flight777

[John James Jacoby]

In my imagination, it’s just the new default thing. Let’s get it working first, see how dramatic it is, and go from there.

[John James Jacoby]

Should make it part of the default theme. Thought there was a ticket already; if not, make one and feel free to patch it up. 🙂

[Charles St-Pierre]

Text domains need to be loaded before bbp_loaded:18. At least before bbp_login_notices is called (hooked on bbp_loaded:default (10? I think)) The notices do not get translated. Or is it bbp_login_notices which should be hooked to something else than bbp_loaded? For now, I did `add_action( ‘bbp_loaded’, ‘bbp_login_notices’, 20 );“ so it get done after the text domain is active.

Happy to contribute.`

[savvystephy]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone knew how to manually change the parent page of the forums/thread postings. It defaults to the blog page. The reason why this matters is 1, the breadcrumbs don’t necessarily have to go back to the home page and 2. The menu highlights the parent page when in the page so that it will have “forums” highlighted when in any part of the forums. However, after you leave the forum splash page aka forum listing then the blog tab highlights because it’s the parent page instead of forums being the parent.

Thanks for any help / advice you may have! Hopefully I described this well enough as I can’t provide links since this is proprietary.

[rleitman]

I need the system to send email notifications to all users upon new topic publish, this should be the default behavior and users can then turned it off. but as default each user always get email notification for any post on any category. my forum is only for registered users and is small.

[Jin_ls]

Hello Sonja, thank you for your reply.

When I selected the default theme there were no widgets at all (they all disappeared).

Anyway, thank you for help.

Problem still not sloved…, anybody?

[Pippin Williamson]

Well some one has modified it. The theme you are using is not default Twenty Elevent. The HTML markup has changed a little and it’s causing the problem.

Switch to the default Twenty Eleven and see if that fixes the alignment. If it does, then add your colors back in.

[Pippin Williamson]

Only users with upload capability are allowed to embed images by default. I’d recommend that you install the GD bbPress Attachments plugin for this as it will give the option for users to upload images.

[BenNieIV]

@Danwp23 Hello, I was having this same issue when I came upon your post. I had not tried changing the permalinks yet but did and had the same successful result as you (no 404). I changed the permalinks back to the post name structure then changed the theme package under the forum settings to Twenty Ten instead of bbPress Default. Refreshed the forum page and IT WORKED! The only conclusion I can make is there may be a issue with the bbPress Default theme package and some custom themes. Let me know if this works for you, hope so!

[Pippin Williamson]

I’ve just tested this on my local bbPress and only the first snippet is needed. The meta box was added automatically and everything worked fine.

It might be a theme conflict, have you tried switching to the default theme?

[luke@mobiah.com]

Bob,

You may want to try this guide:
https://codex.bbpress.org/legacy/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/

You will copy file and move them inside your existing theme directory. This will override the default theme that lives inside the plugins directory.

Good luck!

Luke

[HorrorUK]

I asked this on the BuddyPress site, but didn’t get a response, so thought I’d ask here.

I’m trying to add topics in my forums within a BP group, but whenever I do, I get the following message:

There was an error when creating the topic

I’ve tried creating within the group and within the main site and selecting a group to post to, but I get the same thing.

I thought it was the theme I’m using so I tried the default BP theme, which is where I got the message above (on my theme, it just didn’t say anything).

Thanks.

[bryanforst]

I have been changing the role of several members but have not seen a change in behavior.
By default they are assigned Subscriber roles in the WP database.

We are using 2.1.2 as a full plugin to our WP installation so bbpress uses the WP users DB right?

Ive also tried posting from one of the members after i upgraded them to admin role as a previous topic mentioned user profiles not working until a user had posted. No joy….

[Sergio De Falco]

Hi,

I’d like to display all recent topics on the front-page of buddypress wideforums, like here on bbpress.org and buddypress.org/support, instead of default forums tree. Is there a setting to do this?

Thanks.

[BBP-Persian]

Hi . I am Translating bbpress system to persian(Farsi) language .
I have A Question To You : How Can I Put My Translate Stats To This Page ??? http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin . for example : korean Language : http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/ko/default .
Thanks a lot .

[nobugames]

For anybody who runs into a similar problem:

I identified the problem to be the Polylang plugin which happens to be the currently only reasonably working multi-language plugin.

The problem is that Polylang filters all created topics and replies based on the currently set user language.

By default it does not assign a language ID at all, therefore new topics are not listed. Assigning the correct language from the topics administration fixes that problem but on a very busy website this is not a solution.

[Laughing Cat]

ok found a solution

function my_custom_bbp_stylesheet(){

    wp_deregister_style( 'bbp-default-bbpress' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'bbp-default-bbpress', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . 'mystylesheet.css' );

}
add_action( 'bbp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_custom_bbp_stylesheet' );