[dorsetjon]

Thanks for that. I assumed a theme just covers the look and feel of a site but does it change the layout, etc, too?

For example, on the https://bbpress.org/forums page the layout is totally different to the default – there is a list of forums on the left, a search box and list of tags below that and on the right is a list of recent topics. The columns included in the topic and forums list are different to normal too and above the topics list there is a “start new” link. Those are the sort of changes I want to make. I know CSS but can’t see how I change all that through CSS or will a new theme do more than change CSS?

Sorry for asking such basic questions but while BBPress seems great it is a bit impenetrable for the newbie!

Thanks,

Jon

[dorsetjon]

Good question and I’m struggling with this too. The bbpress.org site looks great but the default install is very different. I don’t mind doing the work to make the changes but having looked through the forum and what documentation there is I still don’t know where to start. Can anyone give any pointers as to the sort of things used on the bbpress.org site so implementers can use this on their sites?

Jon

[tilly2012]

I downloaded the bbpress plugin for wordpress. Now I’m receiving this message: Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.

How do I fix this?

[Anetz]

Hi, this thread seems quite old but I cudn’t find any help elsewhere. Here am trying to setup a new site http://anetz.in

i have installed bbpress and am using buddypress with its default template or theme {disabled group forums to use bbpress as stand alone}.

I have created my forums and the bbp settings are,

*forum base:forums

*slug:forum

tried creating a page named forums bt nt working. Please help me

[Zigster]

Ok, so I’ve worked out that the “forums/forum” thing isn’t actually a problem. The forum layout for bbpress is different than I thought it was, all good.

I just still have the problem with Buddypress theme buttons not linking to the bbpress forum. I shall ask on the buddypress forum.

[lmoon]

If I change the permalinks to “day and name” it seems to stop this issue.

[lmoon]

My bbpress site is now being tested by joe public.

Every time one view’s a forum category and then chooses a forum from that category, it automatically takes them to a forum under a different category.

For instance, if I view…

Forums, North East, Country Durham, the breadcrumb trails shows that’s where I am, but when I click on the “schools” forum the breadcrumb trail changes to show I am in the schools forum but under a different category – and it’s always South West, Devon!!!

Why do all my forums default back to South West, Devon ??!!

When they were created, I chose the correct hierarchy and can view this is still correct from the Forum, All Forums in the dashboard.

You can see the issues here… http://lifeafterlondon.com/?page_id=973

I would really appreciate someones help with this – THANK YOU.

[Zigster]

Hey Anetz,

I have “Site Wide” forum enabled (bbpress) and I’ve disabled group forums. They can still make groups, but they don’t have group forums.

I’m new to WordPress and Website development, just know some basic HTML.

Thanks, I see how to change the permalink now that’s awesome. I can’t believe I missed it, spent ages looking it. It’s in the “All pages” tab and it’s under the title.

Whenever I make a “new forum” category it automatically creates it at /forums/forum/new-category.

I don’t understand why I need “/forums/forum”, I’d rather just have it at /forum if that’s possible.

I’ll continue to experiment too and I’ll post back if I make any progress.

Let me know if you find anything.

[Anetz]

Facing the same problem bro. By the way it seems you have group forum or sidewide forum enabled in your site. Why not try disabling those componets and create a page named forum and edit the permalink of the page to the link where you want to go when clicked. Then you can add the page to the menu {keep the page blank}.

Am nt sure bt still experimenting. If you find a solution then please share with me too!

[Zigster]

I am using the BuddyPress Default 1.5.4 theme for the website I’m trying to make:

http://www.fairdinkumpolitics.com/

I have BuddyPress installed with site wide forum (bbpress). I’m not sure if this is a bbpress question or a buddypress question, thought I would try here first.

In the header where there is a link “Forum”, it goes to:

http://www.fairdinkumpolitics.com/forums/

I want it to go to:

http://www.fairdinkumpolitics.com/forums/forum/political-machinations-5/

How do I control the destination of those buttons?

And about the above url, can I change it to:

http://www.fairdinkumpolitics.com/forum

And have my forum there instead?

Because the current url looks very messy to me. I’m only going to have one forum, with a few different categories. Can I get rid of the “/forums/forum” and just have “/forum”? And instead of “political-machinations-5” just “political-machinations”? I guess that is because I’ve been messing around creating and deleting categories.

Thanks!

[krioteh]

Hello!

Files for Russian localization available at: http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/ru/default

Instructions for downloading the current version of the plugin localization bbPress:

1. Go to the resource: http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/ru/default
2. Bottom left click Export, the first field should be “all current” in the second field “mo”. Repeat this action by selecting the second box, “po”.
3. Download both files in the “[root of your WordPress] wp-content plugins bbpress bbp-languages ​​”

Note: The exported files will include only the localization of the green line (current, that is approved by the current version). Yellow highlighted recent changes in the translation, pending approval. They transfer will not be included!

There you can offer your translation.

Important!

The resulting files should be renamed, for example: was the bbpress-plugin-ru.mo, was bbpress-ru_RU.mo.

Thank you all!

Инструкция для загрузки локализации текущей версии плагина bbPress:

1. Перейти на ресурс http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/ru/default
2. Внизу слева нажать Export, в первом поле должно стоять “all current” во втором поле “mo”. Повторить это ltqcndbt, выбрав во втором поле “po”.
3. Загрузить оба файла в “[корень Вашего WordPress]wp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-languages”

Примечание: В экспортируемые файлы локализации будут включены только строки зеленого цвета(current, то есть утвержденная текущая версия). Желтым цветом выделены недавние изменения в переводе, ожидающие утверждения. Они в перевод включены не будут!

Там же Вы можете предложить свой вариант перевода.

Важно!

Полученные файлы нужно переименовывать, пример: было bbpress-plugin-ru.mo, стало bbpress-ru_RU.mo.

Всем спасибо!

[jamieskella]

Hi,

For some reason my forum index won’t show more than 5 forums. If I create 7, 2 are hidden.

Likewise, when I edit a forum post, the drop-down that lets me select which forum the post is in is also limited to 5.

If that post was in the 6th or 7th forum, it defaults to the 1st, meaning the post moves forums when edited.

Is this a known bug? Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Jamie

[kn_lar]

I forgot to write that I’m using s2member and the user has to fill in both full name and user name when the user registers to the site.

[kn_lar]

I have just set up an WordPress installation with bbpres 2.0. When someone registers and then writes in the forum their full name shows instead of the username. How do you do to make the username to be the deafault name to be used in the forum?

[jamieskella]

Are there any parameters for [bbp-topic-index] that can be added to this? By default it only shows 5 topics before pagination kicks in.

[BlinkyBill01]

Ok, I think I ran into a snag.

My WordPress/BuddyPress site is HEAVILY modded with plugins. I use a RocketTheme theme that runs off of the Gantry Framework along with Gantry-BuddyPress (which allows BuddyPress to be compatible with the RocketTheme and Gantry Framework.)

The bbPress plugin worked, but only partially. The Forum page set up by bbPress is visible but instead of seeing the “directory” of forums it shows:

Home › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness General Discussion SO? what now? 1 1 26 mins Admin

It’s all just plain text with no links. But, the forum I made for General Discussion is viewable when I go to the forum page it made.

For reference, here are the demo page links:

http://bp.daevas.com/forums/

http://bp.daevas.com/forums/discussion/na-general-discussion/

I still have to edit the .css to match the theme design, but I wanted to find out what was wrong with the default forums page and why it wasn’t showing up correctly.

Thanks and hope you can help.

[dangerZ]

hi jaredatch ,

The reason it’s not holding back Vanilla is because while Vanilla doesn’t have a good wysiwyg editor by default, it has good, working ones

which are easily installed through plugins.

BBpress 2.0 currently does not. It doesn’t even support bbcode natively.

Anyways, I do appreciate your suggestion — this functionality is very important so im willing to experiment with a pre release version of bbpress.

I’ve downloaded the bbpress plugin you pointed to and backed up my existing bbpress plugin folder.

Now, how do i install this bbpress 2.1 without breaking my existing bbpress 2.0 forums?

[BlinkyBill01]

Ok, I think I ran into a snag.

My WordPress/BuddyPress site is HEAVILY modded with plugins. I use a RocketTheme theme that runs off of the Gantry Framework along with Gantry-BuddyPress (which allows BuddyPress to be compatible with the RocketTheme and Gantry Framework.)

The bbPress plugin worked, but only partially. The Forum page set up by bbPress is visible but instead of seeing the “directory” of forums it shows:

Home › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness General Discussion SO? what now? 1 1 26 mins Admin

It’s all just plain text with no links. But, the forum I made for General Discussion is viewable when I go to the forum page it made.

For reference, here are the demo page links:

http://bp.daevas.com/forums/

http://bp.daevas.com/forums/discussion/na-general-discussion/

I still have to edit the .css to match the theme design, but I wanted to find out what was wrong with the default forums page and why it wasn’t showing up correctly.

Thanks and hope you can help.

[qeemat]

I’ve been following the development of Thematic for the last few months now, which makes it pretty lame that I’ve never checked out the forums until now. Looks like a great community/resource from what I’ve been able to tell over the last few hours.Anyways, I’ve just released my first Thematic specific Child Theme called Boumatic. My main goal with the design was to step away from the default Top Header, Left Content, Right Sidebar layout that comes as the default. Check it out and let me know what you think!

[vvikeb]

I got it working though it is not perfect. After setting up all bbp templates into my new theme and ensuring the bbpress, css, and js subfolders associated with the bbp-twentyten template where in my new theme folder properly it is working with some functionality that I can live with; however,…

The breadcrumb link and my forums menu link are not the same. Now, I use a forums page with the shortcode. Now, when someone drills down into the forums and wished to return to the main forums page via the breadcrumb they go to the default forums-archive page set by bbp. I wish it went to my custom forum page with the shortcodes, but I’m happy it is not sending people to a useless page.

So, there is still an issue, but everything is providing useful functionality at this time. I will leave this unresolved and hope the dev will fix in later versions.

[Jimfire]

OK, here’s progress. I changed the permalinks from DEFAULT to POST NAME, and using the /forums/ url brought up my forum.

So, how do I get the WP menu to have Forums in it so my users know that it is there?

[Jimfire]

I followed your instructions. Permalinks are set to Default. When I go to the /forums/ url, I get a 404 error page.

[genevishgraphics]

Unfortunately nothing changed, its probably “operator error” since I am pretty new to genesis and bbpress. Maybe I didnt explain myself properly either.

Some of my site’s pages use a custom body class where I specify an alternate header. It seems like all the pages I set up in the bbpress forum and topic areas are missing the Genesis Layout Settings Metaboxes where I can specify the custom body class….

I dont know if I am making this more difficult than it is?? It seems all the deeper bbpress pages (except for the page showing the actual forum) are reverting to the default header and I would like to customize it to show the alternate one.

Thoughts??

[genevishgraphics]

For my website, running on Genesis framework using Minimum theme, I am using two diff custom body classes to define the header images of certain pages. The interior forum pages are only showing the default home page site header and I do not see where I can add my custom body class to those pages. Does anyone have a suggestion for how/where I can define/change the header images of the forum pages?? I would really appreciate it!

Website http://www.nurturematernity.com

[ben_allison]

It’s been a few weeks, but I think the process was:

1) add child theme declaration to your theme’s function.php file

2) Make a file called bbpress.php in your theme folder; this is the template used for the forum index (in the same way that index.php is the default for the blog in wordpress).

3) create a bbpress folder in your them folder

4) COPY any bbpress template files you want to customize into this folder from pluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentytenbbpress

SOOO easy it hurts.

Don’t forget, you might need to grab functions from the 2010 functions.php file, and you’ll also need to make sure you pay attention to styles that scripts uses (like the ajax loading style, etc).