[pornpoj]

Hi,

I need your advice,

When I look at bbpress.org, I like this plugin very much because it look clean and nice.

But once, I install plugin (automatically version 2.0.3), I found many difference things e.g.

– My forums does not have the possibility to upload avatar picture

– The input box not like bbpress.org

– The forum list has many information messages which I don’t want to see

– The login, join, register are not shown

Please advise me how can I make it look same or similar to this forum. If there is the team to make change for me with small amount of money, please suggest me to.

Thank you.

[LabSecrets]

Hi Martin,

if you are using the default bbPress, then in most cases the CSS indicated will work. The only exception would be, with some themes, that you may have to also (or instead) make the #content area 100% width as well. Also, in some themes you have the #aside as well (or instead) of the #sidebar.

As I don’t know what theme you are using (link?), please use firebug to identify the element ID or Class that is surrounding the bbPress DOM elements.

[Jared Atchison]

FYI about Genesis theme compatibility.

When you do decide to upgrade to bbPress 2.1 you will need to use a plugin.

Genesis compatibility was removed from bbPress 2.1 and is now wrapped in a plugin (below). The plugin also provides some other fixes the 2.0.x compatibility doesn’t.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/

[MTPrower]

The problem I had before is still here, and so I still need to change what the Archive Page shows. Changing the settings as said above worked at first, but now bbPress reverted back to showing the forum Archives on http://mysite.net/forums/ instead of what I put on my WordPress page at that location.

In my site’s main menu, I have a link called “Forums” that leads to “http://mysite.net/community/forums/”. This page is the custom page I made, to show the forum_id’s of my two forum categories, rather than showing the forum Archives.

My WordPress theme has a breadcrumbs system, as does bbPress. On the page that I created, WordPress says my breadcrumb path is:

Home » Community » Forums

While bbPress says it’s:

Home › Forums › Community › Forums

bbPress has this annoying thing about insisting that if you are inside the forums, it will add extra “sub-menus”, or path items, or whatever you call them, to your breadcrumbs.

In the bbPress settings page, I set my “Archive Slugs > Forums base” to “archives”, rather than the default “forums”. For “Single Slugs > Forum prefix”, I unchecked the box “Prefix your forum area with the Forum Base slug (Recommended)”.

bbPress seems to hate playing nicely with your site’s permalinks and breadcrumbs. I’ve always had this problem, ever since I started using bbPress.

I would be more than happy to hack up bbPress a bit so that I can fix the breadcrumbs and permalinks myself. I consider this a very persistent issue, as I see many people to this day wondering how on earth to get their forums to display at the proper location.

If there’s anything I can do to help get this problem fixed more permanently, I’d be more than happy to help.

[icandygraphics]

I figured out that bbpressbbp-includesbbp-extend-genesis.php forces full-width content if you are using a Genesis theme or child theme. I changed the full-width-content to content-sidebar in that file, and now all my archive pages have a sidebar. I know I’m not supposed to just edit the files and save them back to the same location, though. Where should I put my version for my child theme?

[craftcore]

Oh my goodness, this was driving me CRAZY! I figured out a solution that I hope will help you budddypress + bbress users out too!

Go to loop-single-reply.php in the bbpress theme files.

Find the line:

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />' ) ); ?>

This seems to be what is generating the avatar by default, so I commented it out and used the following code instead:

<?php // bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />' ) ); ?>



<?php



$replyauthor = bbp_get_reply_author_id();



if ( function_exists( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar' ) ) :

echo bp_core_fetch_avatar( array(

'item_id' => $replyauthor,

'type'     => 'full',

'width'    => 100,

'height'  => 100

));

endif;



?>

My forums are happy and unfuzzy now. Hope it works for you too!

[icandygraphics]

Thank you Lynq. I knew that I was having a conflict between my archive page and my page that I created called “Forums.” What I really want to do is add a sidebar to my archive page, but I am confused as to why it doesn’t already have one. I tried copying the file bp-themes/bp-default/archive.php into my child theme and adding

<?php

/*

Template Name: Archive

*

* @package BuddyPress

* @subpackage Theme

*/

but it still isn’t using that as the template for my archive page. Any thoughts?

[wpmhweb]

Hello,

I am almost finished configuring bbPress and I just notice trying to publish a page with the URL mydomain.com/forums that it shows the default forums template and not the page that I have created with the shotcodes. There is anyway to fix this? I would like to have my own custom /forums page display.

Thanks for the help!

[Lynq]

I think I saw a similar problem to this on the forums recently.

A page called “Forums” and having your base slug as “Forums” will conflict with each other. If you visit yoursite.com/forums and your forum base slug is set to /forums it takes you to the archive and not the page.

Check out the post and see if it helps, be warned I didn’t read it 100% through

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-use-the-bbp-single-forum-idforum_id-shortcode-in-a-template-file

Good luck!

[MTPrower]

That was the problem. You see, under the Settings page for bbPress, there is the Archive Slugs section. Under this is two settings: “Forums base” and “Topics base”. Due to the wording, I never knew that having the “Forums base” setting at its default, which is “forums”, I would never be able to use my WordPress-made custom forums page at http://www.mysite.com/forums , always getting the archives page instead of what I put in shortcodes on my custom page.

Maybe the labels for those settings should be clarified, and the default setting changed. I see lots of people having trouble with this part, and I’ve been using bbPress for a year and just discovered the answer.

Thanks for replying. I appreciate it. If I knew some PHP, and my site was done and I could spare some time, I’d help you with bbPress a bit. I know it must suck not having very many people helping out…

[MTPrower]

I found the bug. You cannot make the “Forums” page that you put shortcodes into a parentless page. If the page is http://www.mysite.com/forums , then going to that URL will only take you to the archive page. Actually, it seems there I might be able to edit that in the settings page. I just had no idea that THAT was what that setting meant. I’m going to go take a look.

I’ve been using bbPress for about a year, and I just NOW discovered what was wrong with my permalinks. I think maybe the “archives” part of the settings page should be set to the word “archives”, not “forums” by default, so people don’t have trouble with this.

Anyway, I’m gonna go mess with that setting and see what happens. I will post my results here for future people to see…

[icandygraphics]

I am using a customized child theme, which has a default layout with a sidebar. My activity, members, and register pages are all using the default template of my child theme, and the sidebar is showing. I am having trouble with the forums page, though. If I add a page called “Forums”, select the default template, insert the shortcode [bbp-forum-index], and add the page to my menu, it looks great and has the sidebar. However, if I put “forums” as the Forums Base slug, then the page goes to full-width content with no sidebar. If I put “forum” as the slug, the page looks good, but as soon as you use the breadcrumbs to navigate, it takes you to http://www.example.com/forum, which has the full-width content. I think it might have something to do with the template hierarchy, but I don’t know enough about that to figure this out. Can anyone help?

[maf2874b]

My new forum is not showing a sidebar as the other pages in my network blog install is doing, correctly. Any tip on how to remedy this?

I also get this but not sure if it has anything to do with the sidebar not showing.

“Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.”

Thanks.

[zuckerbaby]

I’d like to have the topics have the newest replies at the top, rather than the oldest as it is by default.

Fixes I’ve found here say to edit the topic.php file, but I don’t have a topic.php file.

I also search for the code and can’t find it in any of my files.

Which file in Twentyten do I edit, and what lines?

Thanks!

____________

BTW, This did not work for me.

“Find get_thread( $topic_id, $page ) in /topic.php and change it to get_thread( $topic_id, $page, true ).”

Should I be editing page-create-topic.php, form-topic.php, single-topic.php… or what?

[kristarella]

Ah, okay.

I guess I was looking to see if you had an idea of where I should look next for the issue given the behaviour I’ve noticed. I don’t expect you to troubleshoot my whole system, but here it is as it stands:

* WordPress 3.4

* bbPress 2.1b1

* a Thesis child theme with Thesis 1.8.5

* a bbPress-thesis plugin I wrote to apply bbPress templates in Thesis

(bbPress pages didn’t appear at all with Thesis until a recent change in 2.1)

My child theme is a BuddyPress child theme for Thesis (but I don’t have BuddyPress active right now), it can be downloaded at http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/thesis-bp-child_0.3.3.zip

The only difference between that version and the one I’m using is that I’ve added a header.php file that is the same as Thesis’ index.php (which builds the whole page, including the head). I did this because it seemed that if the active theme had no header.php the bbPress template would force a default header, and therefore default page contents too.

The bbPress-Thesis plugin is at http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/bbpress-thesis_122.zip

All the plugin really does is insert the template part into the middle of the page, because Thesis doesn’t use separate page templates, it has one index.php and then specifies the loop contents in a class, determining the page type from the query. So the plugin filters the loop class to add the bbPress loop content.

All of this seems to be working fine except for the visual editor, which looks like this at first:

http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/Thesis_visual-broken.png

Then if I make the one change of moving the files from bbp-theme-compat/extras to bbp-theme-compat, it looks like:

http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/Thesis_visual-working.png

I don’t know enough about the bbPress templating to know where to look next for the fix.

Thanks for your replies so far!

[ccolotti]

I had BBpress installed with another theme. The forums were showing using the default templates. Now this page is fine:

http://www.v-fit.us/forums/

But click on any forums and they are blank pages. Yet the topics work if you can get to one of those.

http://www.v-fit.us/forums/topic/shakeology-receipes/

So I am a little confused.

Any help would be great. I have not moved any template files or anything I just changed Themes from one to another and these stopped working.

[automaton]

I’ve noticed that the phrase “Topic Description:” is not present in the list at http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/nl/default

It is properly localised in the template files (line 82 in form-topic.php) so that’s not the issue.

[ade9ja]

Good day house, i just installed the BBpress plugin but when i login to my admin panel, i got the message at the top “Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress”

Does it mean my theme can’t work with the plugin, i am using a premium theme not free one, anyone plz help.

[rmmorley]

I’ve whipped up a little bbPress 2 plugin for my site that lets my users embed smiley shortcodes in forum posts.

You can customize the shortcode delimiters (defaults are ”) so your smiley codes could look like [happy] or :happy: or {*happy*} etc.

The shortcode list is built dynamically based on the contents of the smilies directory. You just need to place any number of GIF, PNG, or JPG images into that directory, so adding the file “happy.gif” will allow [happy] to be used in posts. It caches the list though, so it’s not scanning the directory all the time.

Anyway, this is the first plugin I’m publishing for others to use, and I’ve just started the process of putting it on wordpress.org’s plugin directory, which takes a while to get approved it seems.

Until it shows up there, I’d be happy to email it to anyone who wants to take it for a spin.

I have it running on http://christian.net, and you can see the smilies that I have available at http://christian.net/forum-smilies

[bookespana]

In WordPress, there’s a chance to pick out the template for every page (dropdown on Edit Page and Edit Post pages).
bbPress forum root, forums, topics and replies are custom post varieties.
It would be smart to check in bbPress the flexibility to line the default layout for every of those.
Dropdown (like the one on Edit Page page), whereby the admin will choose the layouts from among the active theme’s layouts shall be ideal.
(I perceive that if once this the admin decides to alter the theme, he can got to choose the default layouts for bbPress custom posts once more – similar to he has to do therefore for traditional pages and posts

[sandeepj]

I have a custom wordpress theme for my company’s blog to match the styling of my non-wordpress company website. I came across bbpress and wanted to integrate it into my wordpress company blog.

I followed this tutorial for a basic forum setup:

http://codex.bbpress.org/home/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/

My Parent Theme: XX

My Child Theme: XX-bbpress

I created my child bbpress theme and imported the necessary templates as suggested, however, I am baffled by what I observed when I visit the blog landing pages:

I went into WP-ADMIN and activated the child theme. When I visit:

http://www.companydomain.com/blog/forums

– I can see the default forum layout

but when i vist my blog

http://www.companydomain.com/blog

– my blog page is completly blank

I’ve disabled all but the bbpress plugin. WP_DEBUG doesn’t show any errors when I visit my blog page either. HUH?

Am I missing something? Thanks!

[the1path]

OK so after much searching I have a pretty simple solution. The role manager plugin idea was a no go so had to dig deeper.

So add this in your functions.php:

//add author change functionality to bbPress topics in wp-admin

add_action( 'init', 'my_add_author_to_topics' );

function my_add_author_to_topics() {

add_post_type_support( 'topic', 'author' );

}

//then allow subscribers to be authors...good for transfering to bbPress forum which uses custom post types

add_filter('wp_dropdown_users', 'MySwitchUser');

function MySwitchUser($output)

{



//global $post is available here, hence you can check for the post type here

$users = get_users();



$output = "<select id="post_author_override" name="post_author_override" class="">";



//Leave the admin in the list

$output .= "<option value="1">Admin</option>";

foreach($users as $user)

{

$sel = ($post->post_author == $user->ID)?"selected='selected'":'';

$output .= '<option value="'.$user->ID.'"'.$sel.'>'.$user->user_login.'</option>';

}

$output .= "</select>";



return $output;

}

So this basically allows you to set any user as a post author whether they are a subscriber or not (by default WP only lets you set author roles or above as post authors).

I think I will just use is temporarily during transfer and then comment it out….I would image it could get annoying if you have loads of subscribers and are just trying to find authors etc.

I guess this code could be made into a plugin with an on/off switch in the admin for it….any takers?

Anyway I hope this helps folk in the same boat as me.

[Lynq]

Whenever I have a fairly serious issue like this I follow these three steps first:

– Switch to a default theme like twentyten

– Disable plugins

– Update permalinks

Give that a go then see what happens when you disable each individual plugin.

[squalesblog]

Hi!

I am encountering issues with a fresh install of bbPress 2.0 plugin:

http://squales.high-bridge.fr/forums shows 404 error.

Plugin settings are all by default. My permalinks settings are default : (i.e.: http://squales.high-bridge.fr/?p=123)

I created a page with the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] linked in my nav bar.

Forums show OK, but bbPress navigation link “Forums” shows a blank page.

Any help would be appreciated

Many thanks in advance!!

[Shivanand Sharma]

{A note of my research work while trying to build a template for use with Thesis.}

So just for the record, if you want to have a full standalone theme which won’t use any of the default templates of bbPress then you need to have at least one template for each of the sections below. Should be about 10 templates if I did the math right.

//Single User Edit

'single-user-edit-' . $nicename . '.php', // Single User Edt nicename

'single-user-edit-' . $user_id  . '.php', // Single User Edit ID

'single-user-edit.php',                   // Single User Edit

'user-edit.php',                          // User Edit

'user.php',                               // User



//Single User

'single-user-' . $nicename . '.php', // Single User nicename

'single-user-' . $user_id  . '.php', // Single User ID

'single-user.php',                   // Single User

'user.php',                          // User



//Single View

'single-view-' . $view_id . '.php', // Single View ID

'view-'        . $view_id . '.php', // View ID

'single-view.php',                  // Single View

'view.php',                         // View



//Single Forum Edit

'single-' . $post_type . '-edit.php', // Single Forum Edit

'single-' . $post_type . '.php',      // Single Forum



//Single Forum

'single-' . bbp_get_forum_post_type() . '.php' // Single Forum



//Forum Archive

'archive-' . bbp_get_forum_post_type() . '.php' // Forum Archive



//Topic Merge

'single-' . $post_type . '-merge.php', // Topic Merge



//Topic Split

'single-' . $post_type . '-split.php', // Topic Split



//Topic Edit

'single-' . $post_type . '-edit.php', // Single Topic Edit

'single-' . $post_type . '.php',      // Single Topic



//Single Topic

'single-' . bbp_get_topic_post_type() . '.php'



//Topic Archive

'archive-' . bbp_get_topic_post_type() . '.php' // Topic Archive



//Reply Edit

'single-' . $post_type . '-edit.php', // Single Reply Edit

'single-' . $post_type . '.php',      // Single Reply



//Single reply

'single-' . bbp_get_reply_post_type() . '.php'



//Topic tag edit

'taxonomy-' . bbp_get_topic_tag_slug() . '-edit.php', // Single Topic Tag Edit slug

'taxonomy-' . bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id()   . '-edit.php', // Single Topic Tag Edit ID

'taxonomy-' . bbp_get_topic_tag_slug() . '.php',      // Single Topic Tag slug

'taxonomy-' . bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id()   . '.php',      // Single Topic Tag ID



//Topic tag

'taxonomy-' . bbp_get_topic_tag_slug() . '.php', // Single Topic Tag slug

'taxonomy-' . bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id()   . '.php', // Single Topic Tag ID