[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.

[peter avey]

Thanks, so i can copy and past style.css into my wordpress theme css file?

Regards,

Pete.

[kikac_nngk]

wp-content –> plugins –> bbpress –> bb-themes –> bb-twenty-ten –> style.css

But i think you need a child theme, if you want to modify it.

Otherwise with your next bbpress upgrade, your components in the file will be replaced or removed

[peter avey]

Hi Guys,

This is the first time I’ve used BBPress. I’m looking at using the original twenty ten theme http://cl.ly/1Q1Z3q1i3T091N272u0K on my custom wordpress theme http://cl.ly/1F3f382h3v1X0k0N1s2n

Does anyone have any ideas?

Regards,

Peter Avey

[Havardo]

I have spent hours looking through new and older posts on related topic and tried different approaches, including using the “Members” and “User Role Editor” plugins. This is related to the WordPress bbPress plugin.

I understand that changing the forum visibility forth and back is risky, so I have avoided that. I have only a limited amount of other plugins installed.

I am not going to list all the issues I have had, but instead hope that someone (if any) who has this up and running can reveal the secret.

Here is what I try to acheive:

Some forums should only be available to some users. My plan is to have two users, “Forum Participant” and “Forum Customer”. “Forum Participant” is default, and some users will manually be upgraded to “Forum Customers”. Some forums should only be visible to “Forum Customers”.

Any comments would be highly appreciated.

[SethV2]

I have installed BuddyPress on a new WordPress site because I want to replace my current forum site with something like this one. I installed bbpress from the BuddyPress>Components page and installed the site wide forums plugin. It tells me the most current version is installed anyways. When I go to the “forums” page, I simply have an edit link to create it. I can preview a forum I created, but when I try to move up in the hierarchy to the Home>Forums page, again I am just given an edit button link. I believe the “Forums” page is supposed to automatically created from what I have read on here already. I also tried to reset my permalinks, and that didn’t make a difference. I tried resetting my theme to twentyeleven, the default buddypress theme, and a third theme. I’m guessing I’m just missing a simply step because obviously this plugin works for most everyone else.

[ladymeg]

Okay…we resolved the issue by installing a SMTP plugin for WordPress.

The default mail() function apparently works fine for the basic WordPress functions but for some reason it wouldn’t work with the bbPress plugin. So we went around it.

[rhek]

I am having some problems generating a forum index page.

Once I created my forums I thought that by adding the url http://cyclistzone.com/vozcycling/forums/ to the menu I would be in business. Going to the url shows a featured article and the bbPress sidebar, not a forum index.

Since I did not get a forum index I created a new page and named it Forums. I then pasted the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] into the body of the page and nothing changed. The same results were displayed as if I did not have a page. Almost seems like bbPress ignored my page.

Here is the link to the page…

http://cyclistzone.com/vozcycling/forums/

The next thing I did was to create another page and name it “Test Forum.” I inserted the shortcode and this page displayed a forum index for me.

http://cyclistzone.com/vozcycling/test-forum/

The problem I am having now is that the slug “test-forum” only relates to this page and not to any of the forum pages because the slug “test-forum” does not exist in the bbPress settings. Those settings use the slug “forums/forum”. If I change the “forums” slug to “test-forum” I end up back to my original problem.

I would like to leave my slugs defaulted to their original values. I just want a forum index page using the bbPress slugs and have a bbPress sidebar.

This is probably simple, but I have not figured it out yet, so I hope someone can shed some light on what I am doing wrong.

Thanks,

Rhek

[rhek]

Hello,

To solve my problem I went into my bbpress setting on my network site and changed the forums slug name. That seems to have cleared up the “Possible BuddyPress conflict: Forums page” message on the subsite.

I would like to leave the bbpress slugs as default on all subsites and was curious if one subsite will now conflict with another subsite or will what I did cause other issues.

Thanks,

Rhek

[ladymeg]

Seconding the alphabetic part.

We have a lot of forums/sub-forums that are alphabetized and it’s a pain to add a new one somewhere in the middle of the list. I wish there was an option to change the default sort order. Or that I knew what change to make in the code so it would do so.

[Martin]

Can we get some understanding why this behaviour doesn’t happen with the default template thou I.e. on this forum?

Self policing is an open invitation to abuse the tagging system which is happening to me, at least.

[tayholliday]

I’m using “bbPress (Twenty Eleven) 1.0 by Stephen Carroll, WordPress and bbPress teams.” I get the error:

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

And the page templates don’t show up, so I can’t create a forum index. Have I installed this theme incorrectly?

thanks!

[DarwinsDream]

I have an intergrated version of buddypress on my wordpress site using the default theme at http://www.soundhampton.com . I’ve been editing it for weeks but for some reason in Safari and Chrome the CSS shifts the content and the user name to the right about 80px or there is no CSS being read whatsoever. Does anyone have any clue whats going on here? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think it maybe an HTML5 issue but definitely a CSS issue

Here is a good exaple of whats going on:

http://www.soundhampton.com/?topic=apples-siri-not-as-smart-as-she-looks-lawsuit-charges

open in firefox or ie, then open in safari or chrome the difference is clear.

[harnold007]

I changed bbpress.css in folder /bbp-theme-compat/ which I was able to get it they way I want it to look.

However, it is using my wordpress default page theme. I would like it to use a full width page theme that I have.

Example it is using:

<div id=”main-wrapper”>

<div id=”main”>

<div id=”post”>

<h3 class=”section-title”>testing 2</h3>

<div class=”post-entry”>

// Then it goes to the forums tag

<div id=”bbpress-forums”>

Also, under the default page theme it grabs the sidebar, which I do not want it to do.

If someone can please point me in the right direction on changing the wordpress page theme that is being used for the forums. Thank you!

[santonic]

Wow… thanks a lot for the help… one can’t guess it indeed…

one more tip : when on translate.wordpress.org, beware that the translations for your language may be not validated yet. The default export link exports only “current” translations, i.e. validated ones. Use “Only the matching filter” option and you will be able to export all the messages.

use the “file” unix command to check the content of the .mo file. e.g.

$ file wp-content/languages/bbpress/bbpress-fr_FR.mo

GNU message catalog (little endian), revision 0, 732 messages

by using the default export, I was only retrieving one message, and thus nothing was translated…

[Jared Atchison]

Unfortunately there isn’t a shortcode for this at the moment.

bbPress by default puts the “new topic” form at the bottom of your topics listings. You could probably create a new template that uses this code for its own dedicated page, but it would require likely creating a custom plugin and some php knowledge.

[neosin]

I’ve got bbpress as the forum for my wordpress installation on localhost.

I’ve created a new page and inserted the bbcode to show the forum index in that page (page name is “forums”).

In my navigation I have “Forums” and when i click it and it is the active page, it does not receive a “current_page_item” class from the navigation.

How can I make it have the “current_page_item” class when it is selected?

While I am using Buddypress, I do not have a page associated in buddypress with my bbpress forums because it causes the forums to not function when i do associate a page.

In the default Buddypress template header this is the menu code:

<div id=”navigation” role=”navigation”>

<?php wp_nav_menu( array( ‘container’ => false, ‘menu_id’ => ‘nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’, ‘fallback_cb’ => ‘bp_dtheme_main_nav’ ) ); ?>

</div>

[villagora]

Hi everyone,

I read the beginning of the topic cause I am very interested in building compatibility between my theme (a child theme of buddypress) and bbpress (indeed I installed the buddypress plugin and the bbpress one).

I don’t know if this has already be given as a solution (or even if it actually one . I copied the bbp-twentyten theme and personnalized it. Then I redefined it as the default bbpress theme, in order it is the one used instead of bbp-twentyten.

What I wrote in the functions.php of my theme:

if ( class_exists('bbPress') && file_exists(%FUNCTIONS_PHP_OF_MY_BBPRESS_THEME%) ) {

require_once %FUNCTIONS_PHP_OF_MY_BBPRESS_THEME%;

} else {

add_action('admin_notices', 'message_if_my_bbpress_theme_is_absent');

}

In the functions file of my bbpress theme I have:

$bbp->theme_compat->theme = new MY_BBP_THEME();

And thus I have my child theme from buddypress safe and my second theme for bbpress used instead of bbp-twentyten.

Hope this is a good solution and it can be helpful!

[acousticwebdesign]

When a new user registers, they get an email with their username, password, and a link to log in. By default, this link is /wp-login.php

I have a login form in my sidebar and I want the registration email to link to the forum homepage instead of wp-login.php. How do I do this? I noticed that bbpress.org does this as well.

[Jared Atchison]

There is a filter in place you can use to tweak this, bbp_get_title_max_length

See bbp-core-options.php around line 370 or so.