[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.

[SK]

In WordPress, there is an opportunity to select the template for each page (dropdown on Edit Page and Edit Post pages).

bbPress forum root, forums, topics and replies are custom post types.

It would be good to see in bbPress the ability to set the default layout (wrapper) for each of these.

Dropdown (like the one on Edit Page page), wherein the admin can select the layouts from among the active theme’s layouts shall be ideal.

(I understand that if after this the admin decides to change the theme, (s)he will need to select the default layouts for bbPress custom posts again – just like (s)he needs to do so for normal pages and posts)

So, for instance, while the rest of my site may use 3-column (2-sidebar) layout, for forums, I may decide to go with a single-column layout.

http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1784

[Zigster]

Well, I did end up working this out, actually turned out to be much simpler than I thought it was.

Go to Appearance > Menus. Then create customs links and add it to a new navigation bar.

[thetalltree]

I am looking for the way to reduce the topic size too. 80 characters generates large ugly URLs. The above solution is not working. Would be cool if someone could help.

[pepeng]

<div id="sub_header">

<?php

/***

* This conditional determines where exactly what page you are one.!

**/

if(is_home()){

/* Blog Page */

echo '<h1 class="page_title">';

echo 'Welcome to my Blog';

echo '</h1>';

echo '<h2 class="page_blurb">';

echo ' just another wordpress site';

echo '</h2>';

}else if(is_front_page()){

/* Landing Page */

echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "Landing Header", true);

}else{

echo '<h1 class="page_title">';

echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "page title", true);

echo '</h1>';

echo '<h2 class="page_blurb">';

echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "page blurb", true);

echo '</h2>';

}

?>

</div>

This the default site of my bbpress forums:

http://localhost/mysite/forums/

And I try to make page for forum using the short code [bbp-topic-index] :

this is the link:

http://localhost/mysite/forum/

and I try to edit this code above:

}else if(is_page('forum')){

/* Forum Page */

echo '<h1 class="page_title">';

echo 'Forum Support';

echo '</h1>';

echo '<h2 class="page_blurb">';

echo 'Press community';

echo '</h2>';

and it works fine only in page (forum) http://localhost/mysite/forum/

but when I click all the the content in the forums my Title and Blurb has gone.

WHat I want to do is my sub header page title and page blurb will appear in any page in forums.

ANYONE knows how to fix this or how to add code?

I’m just a beginners in wordpress

your reply is much appreciated,

Thank’s

[geraldcor]

I am experiencing the same thing #raphaelsuzuki I can view the forum links just fine when permalinks are default, but if I try anything else, they 404. The .htaccess is getting written just fine but the urls will not resolve.

[raphaelsuzuki]

Actually, I’ve tried this “load” permalink settings thing, but never worked. Also, I have two other sites with bbPress that worked out-of-the-box.

Everything else works fine, plugins, custom post types, etc. It’s just bbPress that seems to only work with default permalinks.

– Pretty permalink slug:

http://www.nelioguazzelli.com.br/forums

Not working.

– Default post type slug:

http://www.nelioguazzelli.com.br/?post_type=forum

Working, but child forum and topics links to pretty permalinks, which is the current structure. And they return a “page not found” error.