[ben_allison]

So I’m running bbPress 2.0 alongside Buddypress 1.5. I’m using a child theme, based on Buddypress’s default theme… but I want to tweak some bbPress pages.

Let’s say, for example, the main forum view.

Right now, it’s based off page.php in my child theme, and is taking the title of the last forum, and using that in the the_title() tag I have for the page title.

On other “pages” I this makes sense; it’s getting the title while in the loop.

For the bbPress forum page, it’s wonky.

So, I want to make a main forum-view specific template file… but I’m unsure as to the best approach when I’m running a child theme for Buddypress.

FWIW, all forum’s are being handled by bbPress and it’s default template files.

Thanks!

[bingles]

I have installed the bbpress plugin into my WordPress site (my site uses a child theme of twenty-ten). I created a couple of forums leaving the defaults for showing “forums” as my base forums slug. Navigating to http://mysite/forums was showing my list of forums as I expected. I made some changes but then reverted them and now the base page is empty. I can still get to my individual forums, but I can’t seem to get the listing to show back up on my base forums page.

Things that I changed

* temporarily disabled base slug but then re-enabled it

* temporarily switched to the twenty-eleven theme but then switched back to my twenty-ten theme

[Prometheus Fire]

I’ve got a couple of posts that received a few edits and the displayed log in the posts looks pretty bad. I’ve looked through the database, but can’t find where the edit log is kept (I intend just to delete the extras that don’t have any value)

Also, the checkbox for “Keep a log of this edit” is marked by default. Is there a way to have it unchecked by default? The default setting is part of the problem why my edit logs look so bad.

[LabSecrets]

Sounds like what you want to do is use shortcodes, after installing the default bbPress plugin (or installing BuddyPress version).

You’ll still want (need) a little styling of the default twentyten template style to help it match your current theme, but otherwise the bbPress forums can be added to a page with just the shortcodes features you wish to display:

See shortcodes here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

We’ve done a little tutorial video that shows how this might work with your theme (forward to the “hybrid” option in the video, about mid-way)

http://labsecrets.com/2012/01/23/buddypress-and-bbpress-forums-made-easy/

Cheers!

Spence

http://labsecrets.com

[Nirzol1]

Ok thx a lot for this informations. I understand and I ‘m ok with what you say

I try a lot of thing, first I created a forum.php who overwrite the template and with that I can remove sidebar or make a specific sidebar.

I remove the sidebar for a full width page, and make 2 div with float properties to have on the left [bbp-forum-index]] and on the right bbp-topic-index

But it was not exactly what I want because when I click on a forum this positionning disapear.

So I do more simply, just a custom page like you said me before with default template of my theme (content + sidebar)

And put bbpress widget in the sidebar and for moment it’s a quite good.

I use widget logic, but !!!!! I nearly killed me !!!!!… LOL to find the good conditional . I find this good post –> https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-conditional-tags .

Maybe a bug ? or something I do wrong but !bbp_is_forum() not work. I use :

!(is_post_type_archive( ‘forum’ ) || is_singular( array( ‘forum’, ‘topic’, ‘reply’ ) ))

It will be best if “last Topic widget” have more “design” like the column ‘topic’ when I use bbp-topic-index with the poster name and the category

The same for “forum list widget”, it’s just .. a list :p with no indentation and with the “any” option, it’s difficult to understand all. Perhaps a pagetree ? or something else.

I begin to use bbpress hope it wil be best ^^. Thx

PS: excuse me for bad english , I ‘m french

[Anointed]

For sidebars you need to look into using either widget logic plugins, or simply creating your own child theme and inserting a bbPress sidebar instead of the default one. Not to hard to do, but way more involved than I care to try and answer in a post.

There are a number of classes in the code for the posts such as sticky, super-sticky, etc, but there are currently no classes or functions for determining if the user has read a topic or not.

Believe it or not, that type of functionality is very intensive. Imagine a board with 50k members and millions of posts. Trying to keep track of exactly what posts each user has seen and has not seen really fills the db up very fast.

Now this is possible of course with plugin territory so it is possible as most forums do this. I can say though, I personally at least am glad it is not in the core as I do NOT want that kind of overhead for my rather large forums. Also considering I have friends whose forums are 10x my size, I can only imagine the nightmare.

[Chantal Coolsma]

Are translations included by default in bbPress 2.1? Would be nice.

[cruthas]

I should also add that I have deactivated all my plugins and switched to the default wordpress theme, still no luck.

[veppa]

If you want different sidebar to be displayed instead of blog sidebar in your theme then you can use this plugin that replaces your blog sidebar with forum specific sidebar.

On forum sidebar you can list forums, login box or login and register links, latest topics. While on blog you would list latest posts, categories, pages etc.

Also you can select default forum wrapper using this plugin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/

Also you can use it to display login link for not logged in user. usually bbpress will say you need to login and not display link or form for login.

[Anointed]

I would start by deactivating all other plugins and also activate the default twentyeleven theme, then choosing one of the default url settings, click save. Then go to settings -> forums, and click save.

It sounds like maybe another plugin or a theme setting is interfering.

If it fixes the problem, then activate one plugin at a time to find the problem one..

My best guess…

[mei-an]

@tmuikku – good place to start translation:

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

[mei-an]

@tmuikku – good place to start translation:

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

[DiannaM668]

Hey you guys, been away for a bit and was excited to see the phpBB conversion being added to the list of converters. Thank you so much Alex and congratulations on the marriage!

I have a problem that I haven’t seen anyone mention yet so I’m wondering what I’m doing wrong. I’m trying to run my conversion and I’m getting the “exceeded 75000 questions” and so I was going to have to keep trying to run it every hour to finally get it all converted.

HOWEVER, I keep getting an odd end result after I get the screen with the error messages that it will then take me to my login page but it’s the 5 minutes wordpress installation option and it asks me for my login info and then it says page not found.

My forum is at http://www.mywebsite/forum

My wordpress site is at http://www.mywebsite/blog

After converstion it will send me to http://www.mywebsite/blog/wp-admin/install.php

If I put in my old info to the wordpress login it will kick out another list of the conversion errors.

I’m not sure if I’m having root directory problems or something going on with the conversion. I’ll keep looking but does anyone know immediately off hand what I’ve got going wrong or what it could be?

It’s weird.

ETA: I just found that the conversion has changed my wp-config file settings for the database name, dbase username and password. It looks like it puts in some generic settings that you guys have. Here’s what my config says…

/** The name of the database for WordPress */

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wrd_kk3k2nhle4’);

/** MySQL database username */

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘tsupport’);

/** MySQL database password */

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘123456’);

Should I try to find a certain converter file and change this default setting within that file? The converter must not have taken my settings that I put into the form provided to do the conversion.

[rpetersn]

jloosli,

I just spent the bulk of my morning trying to figure this out and finally came up with a solution that involves creating a child theme to my current theme (not necessarily a requirement to do it this way, but I wanted to keep the BBPress files organized and separate from the rest of my theme).

In the child theme I copied over all of the BBPress template files the ship with the plugin and then updated my site to run from the Child Theme. This allows the appropriate template files to be picked up and the forum snapped back to life.

You could also just copy in the necessary template files to the root of your theme, a bit messier, but that’d work as well. Anyway….I’m finally getting back to work on the thing (cleaning up all of the default templates) now after a 4-5 hour detour.

Oh…and you’ll need to enable theme support for ‘bbpress’ too in your functions file if you go my route (either child theme or using your ‘main’ theme):

// Add bbPress theme support

add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

Wish I knew why it worked before and suddenly stopped, that still has me stumped…but at least I understand the structure of how this all goes together now:

BTW, if you haven’t already seen it, this helped a ton:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility

Hope you get further down the road too!

[Crisium]

@John

I’ve looked into the suffusion them and can see the forums are being rendered at page.php

The suffusion code seems to handle the $post nicely by putting resetting it into it’s original state.

here is the page.php from suffusion:

<?php

/**

* Default template for a page

*

* @package Suffusion

* @subpackage Templates

*/

get_header();

?>

<div id=”main-col”>

<?php

suffusion_page_navigation();

suffusion_before_begin_content();

?>

<div id=”content”>

<?php

global $post;

if (have_posts()) {

while (have_posts()) {

the_post();

$original_post = $post;

?>

<div <?php post_class(‘fix’); ?> id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>

<?php suffusion_after_begin_post(); ?>

<div class=”entry-container fix”>

<div class=”entry fix”>

<?php suffusion_content(); ?>

</div><!–/entry –>

<?php

// Due to the inclusion of Ad Hoc Widgets the global variable $post might have got changed. We will reset it to the original value.

$post = $original_post;

suffusion_after_content();

?>

</div><!– .entry-container –>

<?php

suffusion_before_end_post();

comments_template();

?>

</div><!–/post –>

<?php

}

}

?>

</div></div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

any suggestions what I should looke at?

regards,

Peter

[Themes Community]

You can use Members plugin or User Role Editor plugins or use both. (I find easy to use both when creating or managing role)

Let say you will have membership system as follows: (no need to be moderator or administrator here and no forum private setting needed here)

Public Forums Area

-> Guest Member (public)

-> Participant Member (default member)

-> No custom setting but make sure each forums is not hidden or private.

-> Make sure this Participant Member role able to

-> publish_replies

-> publish_topics

-> edit_topics

-> edit_replies

-> assign_topic_tags

-> read

Special Forums Area

-> Participant Member can read here

-> Special Member, you need to upgrade from Participant member

-> No custom setting but make sure each forums is not hidden or private.

-> Make sure this Special Member role able to

-> publish_replies

-> publish_topics

-> edit_topics

-> edit_replies

-> assign_topic_tags

-> read

Restricted Forums Area

-> VIP Member

-> Custom setting, make sure each forums hidden.

-> Make sure this Special Member role able to

-> publish_replies

-> publish_topics

-> edit_topics

-> edit_replies

-> assign_topic_tags

-> read

-> read_hidden_forums

And the most important to make sure you edit all forums and topics based on above setting, just edit it and you have Members plugin setting.

Try activate members plugins and tick ‘Enable the role manager’ and ‘Enable the content permissions feature’ and when you edit a forum or topic a Members setting appears. Use it to restrict roles.

[Themes Community]

I believe only digging into database that can solve your problem. By accessing database your can find your email (located at *_users) as it default wp users table.

[vatoloco2]

Hi everybody,

I just converted my phpbb3 forum to bbPress with these details:

topics: 1.290

posts: 25.800

members: 7.960

Now the really annoying part comes up. Anaylzing the source code with firebug I discovered the reason for the slow performance: There are too much queries executed! I disabled all plugins and removed all widgets (using bp-default together with bbpress / buddyPress). Still the amount of queries executed rises from 60 to 222 executions (forum view / topic index / reply) taking up to 3 seconds to execute.

I just went over to testbp.org/discussion and annalyzed the code seeing:

<i><!– Generated in 1.506 seconds. (184 q) –></i>

So looks like a normal behaviour. Tried also w3totalcache and that works fine for logged-out users but once I enable w3totalcache for logged-in users then I get strange outputs.

Does anyone have experience with a forum in the size stated above? It looks like I need to get a fully cached bbpress working to consider switching to bbpress but after spending days of work to convert and design the new website I am afraid that I will get stuck now.

If someone here has experience then please give me a shout! I really would like to use the wp / bbpress / buddypress combo but the slow performance won’t let me use it for now.

[bobafett80]

Ive been trying merge between loop-forum with loop-topics and dont show the name of the topics.. only show a default name.

I will trying merge the files that u said me.

thanks!

[Themes Support]

Maybe you should use ‘User Avatar’ as your member profile photo upload system.

Visit: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-avatar/

Desc: Allows users to associate photos with their accounts by accessing their “Your Profile” page that default as Gravatar or WordPress Default image (from Discussion Page).

[zborg]

Hi there,

I want to add a forum to a existing (non wordpress site), so I want to have http://www.example.com/forum/ which would default to the forum ‘homepage’ (or better still to an actual forum as there would only be one forum as it were).

However when I install it as a plugin, I don’t seem to see how I can get this to work? as it appears that the base ‘/’ is the wordpress site (which I do not want to exist) then you specify a ‘forums base’ so say /forum/… but that would leave at the bear minimum /forum/forum/forum-name/… if that makes sense? assuming I need to have the wordpress running on the /forum/ dir (and cannot disable it(

I’m possibly making a easy problem seem complicated but have no idea of a good solution?

Any ideas appreciated

ZB

[Tammy Hart]

Neolo7, try setting your permalinks to something other than default. You should at least have %postname%.

To add /forums/ to your menu, use the custom links option. Or create a page and use the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode, then add that page to the menu.

There is a glitch that is not bbpress related, but rather it’s custom post types related. If you theme relies on the class “current_page_parent” to highlight the current page, WordPress things any post type should keep your blog page highlighted, if you have one. Here’s a piece of code you can drop in functions.php to help:

// fix menus

function support_menu_item($menu){

global $post;

if (get_post_type($post->ID) == 'forum' || get_post_type($post->ID) == 'topic' || get_post_type($post_id) == 'reply')

{

$menu = str_replace( 'current_page_parent', '', $menu ); // remove all current_page_parent classes

$menu = str_replace( 'menu-item-169', 'menu-item-169 current_page_parent', $menu ); // add the current_page_parent class to the page you want

}

return $menu;

}

add_filter( 'nav_menu_css_class', 'support_menu_item', 0 );

Be sure to change “169” to the id of your menu item.

[amax2222]

Actually I see it is only super-admins that can edit their profile via the forums/user/username link from the frontend. I am using the default twenty ten bbpress theme. I note that if I embed the bbp-your-profile form then I see the form okay but on post it submits to the edit page, which updates but quickly then redirects back to the user page. This way my user won’t see any error messages.

Does anyone know where I can override the super-admin restriction which prevents non super-admin users from going to the profile edit page (forums/user/username/edit)?

Thank you

[Crisium]

I’ve been battling with wordpress to get bbPress and buddypress to work on them by wordpress bbpress team…

and nothing works as you would expect.

I’m using the BuddyPress Default 1.5.2 theme which gets the most part of BuddyPress working.. them I try to install the site wide forum option (inside the BuddyPress Menu) and nothing works.

I get a messages that your current them doesn’t support the templates needed by bbPress… so I install the BuddyPress Template Pack and do the manual movement of files because it can’t copy them.

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

only problem is that nothing is shown in the forums.

see for yourself at http://www.powertumbling.dk

can anyone “clearly tell me what I should do”… I’m amazed that the people that create wordpress can mess up so much with bbPress and BuddyPress

Peter

[amax2222]

Hi please can you assist. For some of my users the default edit profile link in BBpress does not work. It simply refreshes to the same page without going to the user/edit link. Yet for some of my users it works fine. I don’t see any relationship between those that can and those that can’t, any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

I am using the plugin version of 2.02 with latest wordpress in MU.