[Jared Atchison]

The default access bbPress gives should be fine.

[phillg]

Yeah I have tried the default forums and tried changing it to discussions then flushing the htaccess file but it still 404’s it works when the default wordpress permalink settings are used.

The site is helloecoliving.com (the clients host is very slow)

Thanks

[Sniper Kitten]

The default bbPress installation should be showing “Forums” instead of “Archives”.

Can you check for the presence of this line in bbpress.php below the line “$forum = array(“

‘name’ => __( ‘Forums’, ‘bbpress’ ),

[Sniper Kitten]

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

This is not an error. It only state that the bbPress is using the style that comes with bbPress, which is located in the bbp-twentyten.

“Broken Themes

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

Name Description

bbPress (Twenty Ten) The parent theme is missing. Please install the “twentyten” parent theme.”

The “bbp-twentyten” comes with the bbpress is not designed to be use as a theme. It’s just used to style the bbPress forum, not your entire website.

[Sniper Kitten]

Did you change the forums base? (By default it’s “forums”)

Can you show me your website’s URL?

[Sniper Kitten]

What theme are you using?

By default, navigate to Appearance > Menu in your dashboard. Create a custom menu by entering any name you desired.

In the “Custom Link” section, insert the site wide forums URL, give it a name and add it to the menu. You might also want to add something else in your menu besides the Site Wide Forums.

Save the menu, and in the “Theme Locations” section (if you theme support it, although most theme should have this feature), select where you want the menu to show up. Save it, and you’re done.

If you theme do not support a custom menu, then you’ll need to manually add the wp_nav_menu function in your theme template, or putting it as a widget.

[PaulieP]

I need someone who has created themes integrated with a WP site theme before – basically I want a cleaner theme than the default bbPress style, and that is integrated properly with my WP theme.

I am using the bbPress plugin for WP. Let me know how to contact you .THanks.

[dutchlimits]

Hello friends,

I’m trying to import the BBPress theme into my main theme, Vithy. I’ve tried it once, it did not work at all. The only thing what occurred is that the whole website was blank except for the header.

I’ve followed the manual how to do it the right way but still having issues.

This is what i did:

1. Moved all of the files including folders from “bbp-twentyten” to “wp-content” -> “themes” -> “vithy” .

2. Added “add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );” to functions.php

No result. Am i missing something? I have already changed some looks of the default theme.

To view my website (its hidden, you need to log in with this normal user)

address: http://dutchlimitsstudio.com/wp-admin/

user: public

pass public@user

I’ve already put everything back to the default folders like it was! So it isn’t done yet!

[Arion]

Sure.

I have the Black Label wordpress theme on my site and as such it comes with a fullscreen background image option on every post and page. I bought this theme for this very reason. Now, when I plugged in bbpress, I had to use the shortcodes on the main forum page which was no problem but when I click on the forum or the topic links, I get sent to a page that instead of saying “edit page” in the admin bar, it says “Edit forum” or “Edit topic” and doesn’t allow me to set the background image.

Now I looked into creating a default background image by changing some .css but this sets that image for ALL the pages, (page.php) and though it is overridden by the set background image in the theme, it isn’t pleasing to my eye to have one background image when you open and a second or two later have another one pop up on top of it. So I trashed this option.

Did some research on how I can resolve this problem and found a previous thread here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

Needless to say that it interested me that I could create my own wrapper and have the forums and topics open up in a special page and have a set background for that page alone that won’t affect my other pages.

Well, this is the skinny of my situation. I hope I gave you enough info this time, sorry for not doing it from the get go. Can I do this? Where do I change the default wrapper to my new one? I’m imagining it’s in the function sets. Or perhaps there is an even better solution to my situation. What do yo suggest Brandon?

Oh, and thanks for your time

[phillg]

I have spent countless hours trying to solves this but im still having no luck. I have trawled through google and the bbpress forum but can’t seem to find a solution.

While updating a website for a client they asked for buddpress to be removed as no one was using the social network side of the site, and a stand alone forum be put in place, hence bbpress.

I started off by removing the buddypress plugin and all it files, deleted the bb-config.php and dropped all the tables in the database with the prefix wp_bp.

I installed the latest bbpress plugin from within the wordpress admin and activated it, then created a few test forums and topics.

The forum displays fine when the default permalink structure is used however when I turn pretty permalinks on all the pages go to a 404 page not found.

I have tried adding Options +Multiview and Options -Multiview to the .htaccess. I have tried setting the bbpress mod_rewrite to true and false but still no luck.

I have also tried chmod 777 the .htaccess file.

Here is my .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .join-hello*

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*helloecoliving.com.* [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$

RewriteRule (.*) http://helloecoliving.com/spam-prevention [R=301,L]

# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

#uploaded files

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule . – [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]

RewriteRule . index.php [L]

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_security.c>

<Files async-upload.php>

SecFilterEngine Off

SecFilterScanPOST Off

</Files>

</IfModule>

<Files 403.shtml>

order allow,deny

allow from all

</Files>

deny from 93.182.137.19

This is driving me crazy all my other custom post types work!

Any help is appreciated!

[xspace1]

hi~ bbPress is really great and I do love it. however, when i transferred my wordpress to a new server. something bad happen.

when I enable the bbPress, an error message shows up:”Warning: Creating default object from empty value in webwp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-includesbbp-core-compatibility.php on line 84″

I guess it has something to do with this code ‘$bbp->theme_compat->theme = $theme;’

could anyone give me some instruction?

the theme i use is the default Twentyeleven Century.

thanks a lot in advance!

[PaulieP]

Hi everyone. I’ve seen this come up a lot after having googled these issues but didnt find a consistent answer (e.g. some were from like 2009-2010 dealing with older versions.

I’ve tried numerous things and I still get the common messages at the bottom of this post when going to Appearance/Themes from WP admin.

1. This was a clean bbPress plugin install, latest version, done just a few days ago.

2. Immediately after install, I saw the messages below when clicking the Themes link. I had not moved/changed anything. Seems this comes up, strange that the default bbpress plugin install creates these two error messages by default?

3. I’ve tried copying the files/subfolders from the bbp-twentyten theme to the root directory of my custom theme and adding **add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );** (minus asterisks) to the functions.php of my custom theme. That got rid of the first error message, but the forum appearance was screwed up and definitely not correct, and the second error message about a Broken Theme was still there.

4. I did not overwrite the style.css in my custom WP theme folder when I copied the bbp-twentyten files over. I assume I DO need to copy that stylesheet somehow, but how do I do it without overwriting my WP theme’s stylesheet?

5. I do have key master and file/directory permissions are fine.

6. Copying bbp-twentyten to the my-templates subfolder within the bbpress plugin directory (and of course bbp-twentyten was 755 I checked) still yielded nothing, the two messages at the end of the post still appeared.

Sorry if this is are common issues. I’ve tried some of the suggestions I saw in past posts and they are not working. Any help appreciated. Thanks.

ERROR MESSAGES BELOW:

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

“Broken Themes

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

Name Description

bbPress (Twenty Ten) The parent theme is missing. Please install the “twentyten” parent theme.”

[POS2012]

I had built my own theme, but when installing the BuddyPress I did choose to use the default BuddyPress theme.

I will probably edit my theme to work with BuddyPress. It says that I can go through a step by step edit of my theme, so I will try that

Right now I am wrestling the fact that I can not get it into my language. Yet…

[SK]

Specifically

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/pt/default

and

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/pt-br/default

[SK]

Hmm..weird.

Let’s try again from the top.

Download the .mo file from https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/sv/default and without making any changes, place it in http://vaxmora.se/wp-content/languages/bbpress/

I know you have done it before, but have a go again and see if it makes any difference.

[purplesea]

I’m trying to make a topic creation form in a single page all by itself for a specific forum I created.

So I created a shortcode function using the code below.

bbp_get_template_part(“bbpress/form”,”topic”);

and when I put this code into the page, I was able to make the topic creation form all by itself as I wanted.

But my question is how can I set a specific forum to write?

I see there’s a dropdown menu I can select the forum I want to write. But in default the dropdown menu selector set to the very first forum.

I want to have a specific forum selected as a default. Or if I can get rid of the dropdown forum selector and specify which forum I want to write, that’s fine too.

So I looked at the codes but I couldn’t figure out how to specify a specific forum to write.

I found the following code from form-topic.php and I guess I have to change the code somehow to specify the default selected forum.

<?php bbp_dropdown( array( ‘selected’ => bbp_get_form_topic_forum() ) ); ?>

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks in advance.

[Jennifer M. Dodd]

Those two themes are presented as examples of what can be done, comment-style and bbPress-style. You can copy the template files in /templates to your child WP theme and modify them there if you want to override them.

You can use filters in your theme’s functions.php or a separate plugin with add_filter.

The filters that are available to date are:

$file = apply_filters( 'ucc_btr_template_redirect', $file );

Used in template_redirect to figure out which template file to use; checks child theme, parent theme, and then defaults to plugin template files. Override if you want to specify single-topic.php or twentyeleven.php.

$expires = apply_filters( 'ucc_btr_expires', 3600 );

Sets the cache expires.

return apply_filters( 'ucc_btr_reply_class', $classes, $class, $reply->ID, $topic->ID );

Add classes to the reply container.

return apply_filters( 'ucc_btr_in_reply_to_link', $before . $link . $after, $args, $reply, $topic );

Creates the “Reply to this” link.

return apply_filters( 'ucc_btr_cancel_in_reply_to_link', '<a rel="nofollow" id="cancel-in-reply-to-link" href="' . $link . '"' . $style . '>' . $text . '', $link, $text );

Creates the “Click here to cancel reply” link.

$include = apply_filters( 'ucc_btr_replies_template', STYLESHEETPATH . $file );

Override the template to use for comment-styled replies (replies.php).

[Jaja..]

Probably everything what you asked for can be done, but you need PHP skills and change the template files.

I don’t know about the online status, you probably need JavaScript for that.

I have none PHP skills so i have been looking around and testing Vanilla yesterday. From what i’ve been seeing at the start it looks very good. Not yet changed some template files so i can’t tell how easy that will be but i really like the features they have by default.

And if your community will get going you can always upgrade to the paid version and get the Badges Feature! Thats the coolest thing i’ve ever seen inside a communty.

http://vanillaforums.com/blog/news/introducing-vanilla-reactions-and-badges/

It will help your community grow faster for sure.

Everybody likes the get Awards.

[Jaja..]

Yeah you can do a lot.

Use the WP Template Name function.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates

Create your own template files and build your own (bbPres) code inside them or leave them very default and use the Short Tags you’re using with ID’s right now.

If you can select the bbPress templates when adding a new page you can also make your own page templates.

Just select new page and pick a template from the right-side (template)

[Jaja..]

@Jaredatch,

What’s the best and worst difference between the two, Vanilla VS bbPress.

I have been testing and building bbPress a few times locally but it has never gave me that final push to go live with it, I just don’t trust it..

Every website i make i pick WP as my default CMS because i truly 300% believe in the product it has made my life so much easier. While 3 maybe 4 years ago i was always scared of the word CMS i loved Static content and doing lots of work.

bbPress never gave me that final push of confidence that it could be the Tool you need.

Example, i help solving a lot of questions on the Dutch WordPress forums and all new users i can tell what the power of WP is and all it’s Easy to Use features like the Menu system (my fav.) but when somebody asks me if i know a good forums software i always end up saying bbPress BUT i don’t know if it’s for everybody.

There is still that level of difference. While a user don’t understand why. a plugin = a plugin they can activate and it should work.

[jaredvd]

I’ve installed bbPress on my wordpress-buddypress site.

The forum base is: Forums

when I install just bbPress, and use this as a base, I can navigate to http://www.url.com/forums and it displays the forums properly

I also would like to add it to my navigation. I add a page titled “Forums” at http://www.url.com/forums and add it to my navigation menu list.

then when I navigate to this page, it displays it as a default buddypress page, without the forums, it highlights it in my menu when it is the current page.

I then add the shortcode: [bbp-forum-index] to the page.

It still shows up in my navigation, and goes to the correct page when clicked, which now shows the bbPress forums. However it now does not highlight the “Forums” tab when it is on the “Forums” page.

Is there an easier way to associate bbPress’s “Forums” with WordPress’s “Forums” so that it will display properly in the navigation menu?

Thanks.

Also when on my “Forums” page, the breadcrumb reads “homepage title>forums” I would like it to ready “Blog title>forums”. Any ideas how to do this?

Edit: Turns out the “Forums” page only works properly in the navigation as soon as bbPress is deactivated. With bbPress activated, the “Forums” item in the navigation is not highlighted when the page is being viewed. Shortcode in or not.

Edit: I’ve fixed the problem by making a custom template which adds the shortcode via <?php echo do_shortcode(“[bbp-forum-index]“); ?>

Any ideas on the base slug modification?

[ajack.ni]

Correction: Even after I’ve restricted both the topic and reply they are still publicly visible.

AND when I am logged out and click on a topic that is supposed to be restricted – when I go back to the forum page it acts as if I’m logged in and I’m able to see all content.

Clearly something is wrong but I have no idea what or where. help?

[ajack.ni]

I recently installed bbpress and then Members so I could restrict some content only to people who have signed in.

What doesn’t make sense to me is that I have a forum that is locked to certain user roles. But if a member posts a topic in that forum, the topic is public and I have to manually restrict its access.

Same thing with a reply. The forum is restricted – the topic has been manually restricted but the reply to that topic is public.

I looked in settings and didn’t see anywhere to change the default settings so that everything is restricted unless I open it to the public (which would be the easy fix for this).

Is there anyway to a) make everything restricted by default or b) make the settings on a topic and reply match the forum it’s in?

[EntrepreNerd]

When ever I try and post a URL, such as – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJC28DUQcZs&feature=g-vrec&context=G2026267RVAAAAAAAABg – I get the following error.

---

Forbidden

You do not have permission to access this document.

Web Server at crankyoldmen.com

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feel free to register an account at http://www.CrankyOldMen.com and test it out. I have tried 3 accounts so far and they all do the same thing.

Things I have tried already:

– turn off all non-core plugins

– switch to default theme

– sign in and post with accounts of varying privileges

– tried posting from my Android Phone and Tablet

[templs]

Hey, villagora!

Can you tell more how you did this?

I copied the bbp-twentyten theme and personnalized it.

Did you move the copy to bbp-themes or to the wp-content/themes?

Then I redefined it as the default bbpress theme

Do you mean changes in both functions.php or making changes in core?

%FUNCTIONS_PHP_OF_MY_BBPRESS_THEME%

What is that? Should I change it to path to functions.php and should this path to be absolute?

Thanks!