[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.

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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!

[SK]

Jared, Thanks! I will check this solution out.

Regarding configurations: I don’t know if 347374 is an actual number or if you use it just to make a point, which I do get. If bbPress included everything in configurations, then there will be way too many configurations, and would delay next releases a lot. That’s fair enough.

But let’s look at it from the perspective of added value and break from forum convention.

bbPress is billed as a lightweight forum. Hence, when it breaks from forum convention to make it lighter (have fewer functions), that is at least understandable. e.g.

– No signatures in core (plugin exists)

– No icons (e.g. http://www.phpbb.com/community/styles/prosilver/imageset/forum_read_subforum.gif ) by forums and posts showing useful information (ripe for plugin)

– No emoticons in posts (ripe for plugin)

– No attachments in posts (ripe for plugin)

– No “topic started” date in list of topics (e.g. on forums page or topics archive page)

– No “read count” for topics (ripe for plugin)

– No forum specific search (plugin exists)

– No post count for posters

etc

However, when bbPress breaks with forum convention to add something without evident added value, that is a bummer. e.g.

– Freshness instead of Last post in list of topics (e.g. on forums page or topics archive page). I don’t understand the reasoning behind this. bbPress is making an additional calculation, bending over backwards, just to calculate how many seconds, minutes or days have passed since last post. Why? Why not simply display the date-time of last post like most major forum software do? I don’t see the reason and I don’t like it this way, but if it is like this then I assume that there are other bbPress users who do. Hence I say…perhaps this should be configurable.

– The notification This forum contains 5 topics and 7 replies, and was last updated by some-author 5 days ago. Why? What is the thinking behind this? What purpose does this serve? I mean, on the same page, topics are listed, there is pagination (and total number of topics) above and below the list of topics, the user can see which post is on top and who last updated it, so why is this notification important to have? I don’t get it. But since it’s there, I assume somebody does, and hence I request that it be a configuration.

– Similarly, I wonder if a lot is achieved performance-wise by not showing the name of OP in lists of topics, considering that date-time of original post is being retrieved anyway.

– Formatting/styling of original post and replies is different by default on the topic page. From a user perspective, I don’t see why. You don’t have different styling for original post and replies on bbpress.org or wordpress.org What makes you think that everyone else would want it? Perhaps there is not much additional work is being put into it because replies have to be assigned a formatting anyway, and this way bbPress users know that this is possible. But if so, then even if styling of replies has to be defined separately, it should be same as that of original posts by default, and users should be able to see in documentation that it is possible for them to have different styling. If, on the other hand, you have discovered that a large number of bbPress users want to have different styling for original posts and replies, then I say make it configurable.

– In freshness, the number of days/hours/minutes is linked. How does that make sense? (yes it takes to the last post, but linking hours is odd…phpBB’s approach where they have a tiny icon next to the date-time is better) If it does to a lot of bbPress users, I say make it configurable.

(Through all this, remember: There aren’t that many bbPress-supporting themes, and most of bbPress users will end up using bbPress with their generic WordPress themes)

Lots of people use WordPress despite the performance hit (as opposed to say, Drupal) because it is so easy to use and customize without having to do (or even know) any coding. All bbPress users are WordPress users and so there is a similar expectation from bbPress.

I know it’s not fair to compare bbPress to WordPress, which has so many more developers and contributors, not to mention forum moderators.

On the other hand, it is a fair expectation, for bbPress is billed as a forum software from the makers of WordPress. If Matt wants this to take on phpBB, vBulletin and SMF, he needs to put some resources behind it, instead of making JJJ toil alone.

[John James Jacoby]

If you don’t like what the default theme provides, make your own.

[Venkat84]

Hello,

Install 2.1 version on few days back and it works good and used my custom theme without any issues.

But when i saw the Titles in the forums

its outputs before like…

Forums – site name

Forum: (forum name) – site name

Topic: (topic name) – site name

1) So what i want is move them to right or complete remove the later two, can some one point what to edit to achieve this.

2) And want the members to img code so image displays when topic is submitted, how to achieve this, what should i set default user to?

3) So if i use the admin account to post in forums it uses admin username directly in url, so how to hide this out… so as not to give out the admin username

[John James Jacoby]

Don’t worry about defaults.bb-htaccess.php. It’s part of the version of bbPress that you’re using.

No idea what your ‘data folder’ is, so can’t say for sure if it’s correct or not.

And no, I can’t really just fix your problem for you. You’ll have to do some digging. Searching for something like “apache htaccess redirect” should be all you need to do.

[kevindp]

Thanks, John! Will you provide instructions on changing just that page with an edit to htaccess? My googling is not working out.

I’ve got 2 htaccess files, both in my /public directory:

defaults.bb-htaccess.php

in the bbpress includes folder

.htaccess

in a data folder

Thanks for your help!

[Laughing Cat]

I’ve made some progress here:

[bbpress 2 plugin] – How to change default avatar size? (to match Buddypress)

but I haven’t come with the right solution yet so far…

ps – avoid hacking bbp core template files, you should use filters

[scotty502]

Thanks – i did try that – but it made no difference. Or did you mean the style of bbpress theme?

Edit * I added it to the twentyten (default bbpress theme) and still the problem remains. I am sure its soooo simple but I am not that great at fault finding even with firebug.

[Laughing Cat]

ach, just now I thought this would have fixed it

instead in the single-forum view under the freshness coulumn, I get some last poster pictures sized 14px (default) and some other at full size

I have no idea why this is happening, and looks very random…

sigh, I wish this whole thing was easier to accomplish…

[Laughing Cat]

I got this solution… which is probably not so clean but it works; previously I had already created a function to retrieve the full width bp avatar in wordpress, now I looked at the bbp code and filtered the function fetching the avatar in replies with that function I had previously created

function sg_author_avatar($size) {

global $post;

if ( function_exists('bp_core_fetch_avatar') ) {

echo apply_filters( 'bp_post_author_avatar', bp_core_fetch_avatar( array( 'item_id' => $post->post_author, 'type' => 'full', 'height' => $size, 'width' => $size ) ) );

}

elseif ( function_exists('get_avatar') ) {

echo get_avatar(get_the_author_meta('ID'), $size );

}

}



function sg_bp2bb_author_avatar() {

$author_avatar = sg_author_avatar('150');

}

add_filter('bbp_get_reply_author_avatar', 'sg_bp2bb_author_avatar')

[Laughing Cat]

this function:

bbp_reply_author_link( array( ‘sep’ => ”, ‘size’ => ‘150’ ) );

actually resizes the avatar to the desired size

HOWEVER, it fetches the buddypress thumbnail avatar – in my case uses the 50px thumbnail and stretches it to 150px, which is ugly

I want to fetch the 150px (full width buddypress avatar ) and display as it is…

[Laughing Cat]

I’ve set in buddypress a full avatar width/height size as 150px (full sized).

My bbpress 2.x forum installation, however, has set by default 80px forum avatar images

How can I set the avatar size for the forum threads to be the same as buddypress?

thank you

[Bluealek]

Ok, I’ll try to be clearer, and ask one question at a time. How exactly should I modify the default theme CSS if I want to have a latest replies list displayed before the forums list, at the root level?

Please explain in terms “open this file and insert/change that”. I’m still a bit lost understanding what is where.

[Jared Atchison]

If you are using bbPress 2.x, bbPress stuff does not get put in the primary RSS feed by default. If it is then I would check and see if maybe a plugin is screwing something up.

[Laughing Cat]

To change BuddyPress avatars use_

define ( 'BP_AVATAR_THUMB_WIDTH', 50 );

define ( 'BP_AVATAR_THUMB_HEIGHT', 50 );

define ( 'BP_AVATAR_FULL_WIDTH', 150 );

define ( 'BP_AVATAR_FULL_HEIGHT', 150 );

you can define custom sizes for your BP avatar, replace 50 or 150 with the size in pixel you want

I’m trying to replace the size of the default bbPress forums avatar from 80 to 150px to match my BP_AVATAR_FULL size… bbPress 2.1 plugin is using 80by80px avatars by default apparently, do you know where to change that value to match 150px?

[MaTaX91]

specifically the closed topic styles, it shows in my chrome web inspector but it’s crossed out to be replaced with the exact code from the default theme that I copied down exactly.

Even weirder is that all the other css that I’ve added to my theme’s css file work just fine, just not the closed topic styles.

Any clue what’s causing it?

I’ve already tried coping the folder/file structure down exactly in my theme folder to the css but still no

[Jared Atchison]

Search excludes topics/replies/forums by default – mainly because most people who install bbPress don’t have their search results styled/configured to handle the results correctly.

There are a few plugins out there that should get you started, however

I’d check out

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

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/

[Jared Atchison]

The number of posts and topics shown on a page (which results in pagination) is in the Settings > Forums, you should be able to set the number to whatever you think is best.

I think default is 15 or 30 if I recall.