[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

• This reply was modified 13 years, 8 months ago by Stephen Edgar.
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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.

• This topic was modified 13 years, 8 months ago by DramaticBaby.

[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!
Spence

http://labzip.com
http://labsecrets.com

[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!
Spence
http://labsecrets.com
http://labZip.com

[Anonymous User 5853594]

Not by default, you’d have to find or write a plugin to handle that kind of user management.

[jmatthewgore]

I love the fact that bbPress now has native WYSIWYG editing, but the default theme for the editor doesn’t work on my site very well, it’s hard to read.

I know that other skins are available, but I don’t know how to actually select them for use with the bbPress editor. Is there a way?

[Stephen Edgar]

Try «Forum Description» (Ref: here & here)

[andersvinther2]

I’m messing around with bbpress in a site with a Genesis theme. I am using the bbpress default theme(s).

Unfortunately the Fancy Editor stretches beyond the column end on the right hand side and gets cut off… and it looks like there are lots and lots of buttons on the editor…

Also the text field cannot be stretched so it makes it quite difficult to write longer texts…

How have you setup bbpress.org?

Your stuff here looks amazing… and the editor is clean and stretchable…

Thanks,

Anders

[Steve]

Found it… somehow, and I’m not sure how this happened the default role for users had been set to “Administrator”, either that or I’d not changed it. But “Anyone can registered” wasn’t set so it wasn’t important (I’m using a FB connect plugin to do registration). However I de-activated bbpress and then re-activated it and it sets up forum participant to pick up the default role from the blog… so every user (all 233+) of them became site admins and thus Key Masters. So I de-activated, set the default role to the lowest and then re-enabled it.

I set the default role down to subscriber, deactivated and re-activated bbpress and now everyone is just a member on the forums.

It might be worth putting a check in so that it pops up a warning if the default level is an an admin level account.

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[matthiaswh]

I have run into this same issue since the latest update. I can “reset” it by changing the throttle time to 0 and saving. While the throttle time doesn’t save at 0 (defaults back to 10), the Slow Down error stops for awhile. Then it will randomly pop up again.

It doesn’t seem to be a theme compatibility issue. I’ve set to the default bbPress themes.

It’s not a visual editor issue. I’ve disabled and enabled and it happens regardless.

It doesn’t seem to be a server time issue. I’ve tried it on two servers, and reset the server time to see if that helped.

[dragonl]

Hello, I have a problem. I just downloaded bbPress to WordPress, was installed correctly, but when putting an order in the forum is not possible.

I have 5 sections in the forum, and try to create order, but I ignored. I tried to change through “Order” putting the numbers 1,2,3, etc., but the next thing is the default, new forums up, and there is no way to change it, why?

[Stephen Edgar]

Whatever you have ‘New User Default Role’ set to in WP-Admin is what role will be assigned to new users registering.

WP-Admin -> Settings -> General /wp-admin/options-general.php

[MikeySpice]

Hi,

I’m using bbpress with WP and need bbpress to recognize a different WP role as the bbpress default “Forum Member (participant)” role. This is necessary because I have other WP plugins installed that need to share the same default role with bbPress.

Can I achieve this by modifying bbp-core-caps.php in some way? If not, what is the recommended solution?

Thanks in advance.

M

[fitninja]

I am very green but have the same issue, my theme doesn’t use the fancy editor for forum posts and replies. That said, I found that the form-reply.php and the form-topic.php files in my theme’s bbpress folder affects those pages. I backed them up then deleted them from my theme’s bbpress folder and (I assume) the form-reply.php and form-topic.php files from the default bbpress theme took over and I got back the fancy editor.

Using the default bbpress theme’s form-reply.php file as the example: open the file and look for the section that starts with the following lines:

if ( !function_exists( ‘wp_editor’ ) ) : ?>

(note: I had to put a space between the “< " and the "?" in that first line so that the code would show here, so if you want to search with it, remove that space)

The section ends with:
(again, I put a space between the “<" and the "?")

I restored my theme's files and bumbled my way through adding the lines. On my first go at it I ended up with both the fancy and my theme's editors on the same page! LMFAO!! Haven't played with it anymore as yet so you'll have to see what you can do with it.

[fitninja]

Thanks Aron!

I could have sworn I tried to pull up those posts using the default BP theme and had the issue but I just tried again and had no issue. (my kid just rolled her eyes at me). Not a good move to lose one’s mind in front of witnesses–especially if they are the pint-sized, know-it-all type! 🙂