[Stephen Edgar]

Go into ‘bbPress WP Tweaks’ settings /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress-wp-tweaks and change the ‘Default forum wrapper’ to ‘index.php’ (it should be in bold text)

[jjman]

Really appreciate the work you’ve done with this forum software. It’s perfect with WordPress applications!

I’m wondering how it’s going with multisite installations?

The scenario I’m currently working on is where the forum is installed on a multisite, where all sites uses full domainmapping. Now, I would like the registration process to stay on the current webpage. Right now a new registration is taken to the primary domain (default multisite behaviour) But wouldn’t it be possible to have the options to keep everything ‘within’ the webpage where the forum is installed, especially on domain with domainmapping? As this would be the most logical I think for the end user?

Input, feedback? 🙂

[Roger Coathup]

Is there some reason why the templates in 2.2 have been changed to use divs and lists to markup table content?

Things like a number of multi-column rows, with corresponding headers (e.g. latest threads) are semantically best marked up as a table.

[Stephen Edgar]

This is by design, if the user enters the correct information for the database settings on the import screen the importer would be able to read that data and would start trying to import that data and as Murphy’s Law dictates whatever that default you set it to will not be the option the end user assumed it would be, then you have an incomplete and inconsistent data set to try and remove.

I did this exact thing yesterday and was quite happy that this is what happened rather than having to go into phpMyAdmin and manually delete data chunks from WP tables.

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[capsx]

Import Forums -> Select Platform by default is “Example” I think it must NOT be selected by default, because the user may forget to select the right platform – and in that case nothing is going to happen, and user will think that the converter is broken …

• wp 3.4.1
• bbpress 2.1.2

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• This topic was modified 13 years ago by capsx.

[LabSecrets]

In the past we’ve found it helpful to have one set of docs and info relating to “use” of the system, and then a second relating to “development” (or “customization”). The differentiation is less on the capability of the person searching, and more about what the point of the information may be.

Think of it like an automobile. There is the “user manual” in the glove box. But if you are a mechanic, you probably have the Chilton “repair manual” for that car in your shop somewhere.

If you use bbPress, the default “user manual” would have a variety of useful “how to use and extend this” info… but if you wanted to get into the code (php or css or js or shortcodes) you would look to the “repair manual” (not implying anything broken, just meaning it’s for modifying code)

Keeping things as simple and flat as possible might help to eliminate hiding good info in a complex heirarchy?

[Quint]

Since this topic was posted in Requests and Feedback, I’ll post my request here (I can’t tell if it’s covered in the trac). Will 2.2 become the default version used by Buddypress Groups and will the plugin GD bbPress Attachments (as it is with 2.1 site wide) be compatible with it? If not, this would be my request. Thanks!

[nchiari]

Hi everyone! I’m using the fancy “new” TinyMCE box to post comments in the forums, but I have a site with black background, so the box where you write the comment is black too, but the letters are grey (WordPress default). If I try to change the CSS style, It changes the default TinyMCE box, so if I make the text white, I will have white text in WordPress’s “Write a new article” box too.

Is there any way to change the letters colors of the TinyMCE ONLY to use it in bbPress comments box? I would appreciate a detailed explaination ’cause I’m a little noob with WP and BBP.

[davidkooo]

So I changed default page.php to be fullwidth, but I would like to know hot to force bbpress to use certain wp page template.

Also I am really disappointed there is no separator for forums, like it is in phpbb… I would like to split my forums to groups (movies, series, games…) I dont think it would be so hard to include this option in one of next updates.

Thanks.

[JKNN]

Hello.

My forum was fine translated to Danish before updating to the latest version of bbPress, 2.1.2. But now I cannot seem to figure out how to do the translation? Do I have to put the .po file elsewhere?

What is exactly the procedure for uploading and changing the language of bbPress? Different topics say different things.

Found the .po file here: http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/da/default

[viktora]

Another observation + summary to the topic “bbpress is ignoring my customized index page file page-front-forums.php in my template directory”…

Default setup for forum base slug is “forums”. With this setup page-front-forums.php is being ignored. After change to “discussions”, the /discussion/ URL still ignores the template file BUT /forums/ URL is still working and it is working fine! (no shortcode usage).

BUT only for logged in users.:-)) Other users are redirected to web index page.

Anyway, I am happy to have at least some progress here.:-))

[buildyourtech]

Hello, I just installed bbPress a couple of hours ago, but I’ve been reading and struggling to make it work!
I changed the Theme Packages from bbPress Default to TwentyTen but it looked horrible.
Why is the bbPress Default not working? Nothing is showing up…
Here is the direct link to the forums, http://techandmake.com/forums/ and here is a topic example http://techandmake.com/forums/topic/envios-en-monterrey/

Please help!

[Stephen Edgar]

By default you see only the ‘Red X’ for both favorites and subscribed topics on your user profile page eg. /forums/users/username/

Are you using the latest version v2.1.1 and WordPress 3.41?

[Stephen Edgar]

@golomon https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/ko/default
https://ko.wordpress.org/ & http://kopress.kr/

[Stephen Edgar]

If you use the forum base ‘X’ and forum slug ‘y’ and have ‘Forum Prefix’ checked
– hxxp://www.example.com/x/y/yournotstupid
– (default bbPress slugs hxxp://www.example.com/forums/forum/yournotstupid/ )

If you use the forum base ‘X’ and forum slug ‘y’ and have ‘Forum Prefix’ UNchecked
– hxxp://www.example.com/y/docscouldbebetter
– (default bbPress slugs hxxp://www.example.com//forum/docscouldbebetter/ )

There is some basic doc’s here https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum and https://codex.bbpress.org/forums-settings/#archive-slugs

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[grayson76]

I just set up a bbPress install with BuddyPress, and each forum page shows the topics for all forums, not just the one forum’s topics that are supposed to be displayed. This happens no matter what theme I try — Twenty Ten, Twenty Eleven, BuddyPress Default, Elbee Elgee… Any ideas? Thanks.

[Adam]

So I think it is a permalink issue but I am not sure. I am developing a theme framework and I want to integrate bbpress with it and thus i was testing bbpres default installation. How ever going to site/forums/forum/test gives me a 404 error. even site/forums gives me a 404 – the theme throws the 404 –

Can any one give me any ideas as to how to fix this? My permal link structure is

/%category%/%postname%/

[newpress]

1. I activated bbPress (Twenty Ten) theme

2. Enabled Group Forums within bbpress settings (buddypress default bbpress wasnt installed)

3. Checked “Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums”

4. Group Forums Parent is “group-forums” and its a category (I also tried a forum for that but it didnt work either)

http://fantastic7.x10.mx/forums/forum/group-forums/

1. A group forum that doesnt work

http://fantastic7.x10.mx/groups/morb/forums/morb/

1. A thread, topic within the same group forum that didnt work and still is

http://fantastic7.x10.mx/groups/morb/forums/topic/actu-tutoc/

1. No plugins activated other than bbpress and buddypress

2. I made the above group forum sit at the forum root. But it was also fruitless

3. selected Forum Root as group forums Parent (the thing that isnt recommended) but it was futile too

4. “Works fine if I navigate to it directly”, I seriously doubt that anyone would do that

[DramaticBaby]

Now I finally got it to work. You just copy the bbpress.css file to /my-child-theme/css/ and voilá, it works. When I found out that I looked in bbpress-functions.php and stumbled over this line:

// Check child theme
if ( file_exists( trailingslashit( get_stylesheet_directory() ) . $file ) )
Which states the obvious, it looks for bbpress.css in the /css/ folder in your child theme. If found, it will replace it with the default css.

If any admin reads this, can you please elaborate a bit more on the subject. It is very diffuse how all this works.

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[DramaticBaby]

Hi, I’m trying to create a custom theme for the bbPress forum. I already got a child theme based on Twenty Eleven, and I’m trying to style bbPress with my style.css in the child theme folder.

The problem is that bbpress.css is imported in the html code after my style.css, overwriting the latter’s styling. How do I force bbPress to use style.css instead, even though bbpress.css is imported after?

I have been struggling with this for hours and hours.

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[craftcore]

On loop-single-reply.php, show_role is true by default.

> bbp_reply_author_link( array( ‘sep’ => ”, ‘show_role’ => true ) > );

I’d like it to be false. If I change it in the theme, it will be overwritten next time I update bbPress, right?

How do I set it to false so that it will not get overwritten?

Thanks!

[Janus12]

problem 2 was solved by adding

#bbpress-forums div.reply {
height: auto;}

however the other problem is still not solved and I believe the style.css is missing files.

This is litteraly my whole css file

---

/*

Theme Name: Custom Community
Theme URI: http://themekraft.com/custom-community/
Description: Create your individual website within minutes. Custom Community is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme framework that enables you to build your site with all the features you love. Easy to use jQuery slideshow. List posts under your pages in magazine layouts. Use powerful theme settings to customize every part of the theme. 20 widget areas, 5 special widgets and 2 custom WP 3.0 header menus. 3 predefined colour schemes (white, grey, black) with clean and simple browsersafe css design to start from. Support forum at http://themekraft.com/forums.
Version: 1.8.9.1
Author: Themekraft
Author URI: http://themekraft.com/
Tags: buddypress, translation-ready, dark, light, white, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, two-columns, three-columns, fixed-width, flexible-width, custom-header, custom-menu, custom-colors, custom-background, theme-options
License: GNU General Public License v2.0 / License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
*/

/* Reset browser defaults */

@import url( _inc/css/reset.css );

.aligncenter {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

.alignleft {
float: left;
margin-right: 15px;
}

.alignright {
float: right;
margin-left: 15px;
}

div.post .wp-caption {
text-align: center;
background-color: ##f3f3f3
padding-top: 4px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
margin-bottom:12px;
}

div.post dd.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text, div.post .wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
font-size: 0.9em;
line-height: 17px;
padding: 0 4px 5px 0;
margin: 0;
}

div.credits{display:none;}

bbpress-forums div.reply {

height: auto;

}

---

I am fairly new to web design but I have a feeling there must be more somewhere.

Does anyone know what code I could input to this file in order to fix problem one?

Also as a bonus could anyone give me a code that could work for changing the background of the forum colour?

I apologize for my “rookieness”

Thanks in advance!

[sanjeevsajjan]

Yes, I checked it with Default permalink setting but that did not work.

[LabSecrets]

You simply go into your admin dashboard, under “Users” and then find this user. There you will find an option drop down for “Roles”. In there you will select “Forum Moderator” as the role.

If it is true that you are using S2 to control levels, you will need to modify the S2 level for this or other moderators to add the capability of “Moderate Forums”.

In other words, you are going to add the same role capability to the S2 Level Role (1, 2, 3, 4, whichever…) that one would have if you were using the default “Forum Moderator” role.

This is because you can only use one role at a time.

Hope this helps 😉

Cheers!
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[LabSecrets]

Hi Shep,
Suggestion is that you use a role management plugin, such as Justin Tadlock’s “Members”, that allow ou to edit Roles.

Carefully…..

Check to see if your admin Role includes bbPress moderator, and whether your default member Role (presumably “subscriber”) includes bbPress posting capability.

Be careful with role management, it is very powerful

Cheers!
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