[John James Jacoby]

The forum participant role is only set for situations where you have a multi site install, and a global forum where users not explicitly part of that site are allowed to post. Basically, it mirrors the subscriber capabilities, and avoids having random users assigned as the default role for that site, which might be more capable than you want.

Can you explain a little bit more about your installation? Private/hidden forums, theme, etc?

[benfrain]

Hi John, sorry not getting your point. I’m using the default install. I’ve added the plugin and the forum is showing and functional but there is no login/register links anywhere – are you saying there is no login/register link within the default install/theme?

[benfrain]

Hi John, sorry not getting your point. I’m using the default install. I’ve added the plugin and the forum is showing and functional but there is no login/register links anywhere – are you saying there is no login/register link within the default install/theme?

[ozyoz]

Hi,

How do i fix this?

Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are

using the default styling included with bbPress.

thanks,

Oz

[John James Jacoby]

Something in your theme’s CSS is coded for comment replies and bbPress is picking it up. This has happened to a few others, and I’ll be tweaking the default theme to prevent this in 2.1.

[aravoth2011]

Hi everyone. I’ve been trying to display posts from the forum on a static home page so that it gives the appearance of a blog. Basically, I’m using the tewntyeleven theme and I’m using the showcase.php template to display the forum entries.

you can see what I’m going for here.. http://test.objectsinmotion.org

So far, I’ve managed to modify it so that super stickies are put in the featured slideshow. The forum posts are displayed properly, and I’ve managed to pull the topic tags. One of the things I’ve been having a lot of trouble with is displaying the forum a topic is posted in as a category. Normally there is a line of text below the topic excerpt that says, “posted in (category name)” . But it seems that nothing I have tried so far is working. In fact, whenever I try to call the forum title, is displays the topic title instead.

I’m not a programmer, and I know next to nothing about php, I’ve been doing a lot of reading, and trying to learn as much as I can, but I’m just running into a brick wall here. Any help anyone could offer would be much appreciated.

Showcase.php uses content.php to display all that meta data. right now it looks like this..

<?php

/**

* The default template for displaying content

*

* @package WordPress

* @subpackage Twenty_Eleven

* @since Twenty Eleven 1.0

*/

?>



<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

<header class="entry-header">

<?php if ( is_sticky() ) : ?>

<hgroup>

<h2 class="entry-title"><a>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyeleven' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

<h3 class="entry-format"><?php _e( 'Featured', 'twentyeleven' ); ?></h3>

</hgroup>

<?php else : ?>

<h1 class="entry-title"><a>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyeleven' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>

<?php endif; ?>



<?php if ( 'topic' == get_post_type() ) : ?>

<div class="entry-meta">

<?php twentyeleven_posted_on(); ?>

</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

<?php endif; ?>



<?php if ( comments_open() && ! post_password_required() ) : ?>

<div class="comments-link">

<?php comments_popup_link( '<span class="leave-reply">' . __( 'Reply', 'twentyeleven' ) . '</span>', _x( '1', 'comments number', 'twentyeleven' ), _x( '%', 'comments number', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?>

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

</header><!-- .entry-header -->



<?php if ( is_search() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search ?>

<div class="entry-summary">

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

</div><!-- .entry-summary -->

<?php else : ?>

<div class="entry-content">

<?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?>

<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-link"><span>' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyeleven' ) . '</span>', 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?>

</div><!-- .entry-content -->

<?php endif; ?>



<footer class="entry-meta">

<?php $show_sep = false; ?>

<?php if ( 'topic' == get_post_type() ) : // Hide category and tag text for pages on Search ?>

<?php

/* translators: used between list items, there is a space after the comma */

$categories_list = get_the_category_list( __( ', ', 'twentyeleven' ) );

if ( $categories_list ):

?>

<span class="cat-links">

<?php printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Posted in</span> %2$s', 'twentyeleven' ), 'entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links', $categories_list );

$show_sep = true; ?>

</span>

<?php endif; // End if categories ?>

<?php

/* translators: used between list items, there is a space after the comma */

$topic_tags = bbp_get_topic_tag_list( '', __( ', ', 'twentyeleven' ) );

if ( $topic_tags ):

if ( $show_sep ) : ?>

<span class="sep"> | </span>

<?php endif; // End if $show_sep ?>

<span class="tag-links">

<?php printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Tagged</span> %2$s ', 'twentyeleven' ), 'entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links', $topic_tags );

$show_sep = true; ?>

</span>

<?php endif; // End if $topic_tags ?>

<?php endif; // End if 'topic' == get_post_type() ?>



<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>

<?php if ( $show_sep ) : ?>

<span class="sep"> | </span>

<?php endif; // End if $show_sep ?>

<span class="comments-link"><?php comments_popup_link( '<span class="leave-reply">' . __( 'Leave a reply', 'twentyeleven' ) . '</span>', __( '<b>1</b> Reply', 'twentyeleven' ), __( '<b>%</b> Replies', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?></span>

<?php endif; // End if comments_open() ?>



</footer><!-- #entry-meta -->

</article><!-- #post-<?php the_ID(); ?> -->

Other things on my to-do list include making the comments section show number of forum replies instead of number of wordpress comments, and changing the author link so that it goes to the bbpress profile of that user instead of a wordpress post archive.

For now though, I’m hoping that someone out there can help me with the “category” issue. Anyone have any ideas?

[monoman]

My website is based on static files located at the root level and later I have added WordPress blog set up in subfolder with permalink at /blog. After installing bbPress plugin, I’m not able to separate blog and forum in permalinks. I don’t know how to setup bbPress to have forum at /forum, instead of /blog/forum, which is the default setting and looks strange.

Do you know how to setup bbPress plugin correctly to solve this issue?

Thanks in advance!

[monoman]

My website is based on static files located at the root level and later I have added WordPress blog set up in subfolder with permalink at /blog. After installing bbPress plugin, I’m not able to separate blog and forum in permalinks. I don’t know how to setup bbPress to have forum at /forum, instead of /blog/forum, which is the default setting and looks strange.

Do you know how to setup bbPress plugin correctly to solve this issue?

Thanks in advance!

[benfrain]

Hi Raphaelsuzuki – no, making a page (with full width template) and setting it as the base slug doesn’t work I’m afraid.

I’m not using TwentyTen, I’m using a child theme based on Thematic. I ended up just filtering the sidebar away with the following in my main theme’s functions.php:

function remove_sidebar() {

if(function_exists('is_bbpress') && is_bbpress()){

return FALSE;

} else {

return TRUE;

}

}

add_filter('thematic_sidebar', 'remove_sidebar');

Hope that helps someone in future.

[will_c]

I’m using bbPress 2 sitewide forums with BuddyPress 1.5. I am using the bp-default theme and the bbp-twentyten default theme for bbPress. I can favorite existing forum topics, but they don’t show up in a user’s favorites tab in their activity stream/profile. When I click on the “This topic is one of your favorites” link, I just get redirected to the profile page.

Favorites in the activity stream itself are working fine.

Edit: specified using BP 1.5.1

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[raphaelsuzuki]

In case you’re using TwentyTen theme it’s in ‘/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bpp-themes/twentyten’.

Otherwise, I don’t know if compatibility mode come with this level of feature.

Although you can just associate base slug with a page and set it to full-width template (I’m not entirely sure if this works).

[benfrain]

Where are the default theme files stored? I’m using a Thematic based wordpress theme and bbPress tells me ‘Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.’

Having installed bbPress 2.01 I am trying to edit the layout to make it full width. It seems this must be handled by editing the PHP files. However – the docs suggest the default theme Kakumei is the default – where are the files for this template?

I see only a bbp-twentyten folder in my FTP?

I’d like to simply comment out <?php get_sidebar(); ?> on the relevant files.

I’ve tried making changes in these files but nothing changes frontend.

[enderpal444]

I’ve been searching through all the template files and can’t find the code for the image avatars of a topic post and replies that’s 80px/80px. Where is that?

[David Decker]

This plugin adds useful admin links and resources for the bbPress 2.x Forum Plugin to the WordPress Admin Bar.

Info & Download here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-admin-bar-addition/

Description from Readme:

This small and lightweight plugin just adds a lot bbPress 2.x related resources to your admin bar. Also links to all setting/ tab pages of the plugin are added making life for forum administrators/ moderators a lot easier. So you might just switch from the fontend of your site to ‘Topics’ or ‘Main Settings’ page etc.

As the name suggests this plugin is intended towards forum admins/ webmasters and moderators. The new admin bar entries will only be displayed if the current user has the bbPress/ WordPress cabability of moderate. (Note: I am open for suggestions here if this should maybe changed to a more suitable cabability.)

Plugin/ Theme Support:

At this time the plugin out of the box supports also links to settings pages of some bbPress 2.x specific add-on plugins!

Special Features:

Not only supporting official bbPress 2.x sites ALSO third-party and user links – so just the whole bbPress 2.x ecosystem

Link to downloadable German language packs – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)

Link to official German bbPress forum – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)

NOTE: I would be happy to add more language/locale specific resources and more useful third-party links – just contact me!

Localization:

English (default) – always included

German – always included

.pot file (bbpaba.pot) for translators is also always included

Have fun with this little add-on!

I am open for feedback of course!

-Dave

[Anderson Mak]

If you want it, you can see the default layout of bbPress at my own forum: http://ajuda.blogwordpress.ws

[dmoz]

I have to agree with @WhiteRau, a thorough read through the sticky post (and then his to reiterate in my mind), I was able to combine the bbpress template files with my child theme.

My question is that I’m trying to modify the output and html layout of my bbpress template files, and I can’t seem to figure out a solution.

1. My forum is on the page: Forum, and my forum base slug is: forums. Different, you see? That’s because I want to show the Latest Topics, not default to showing all my forums, when you click the menu for Forum (very much like the bbpress.org/forums).

2. I’m using a page template for the Forum page that outputs the Latest Topics, except as soon as you click away from this page, it reverts back to the default layout.

Problem: I need all the forum pages to use the same layout, preferably a custom one, and the ‘front’ Forum page to output the Latest Topics.

Any ideas?

[Anointed]

click on the forums link under the settings tab. On that screen, where you set the number of topics to display etc.. click save. That sets the permalinks for bbPress.

Also make sure that your actual permalinks settings page uses something other than the default top option. Chose any other option and click save.

That should get you going.

[marius2z]

Hi,

On my website I have in root folder of the domain (www.example.com/) all html static pages. Some time ago I installed on that website the WordPress package, for blogging. As it was allowed in standard setup, WordPress files are located in http://www.example.com/wp/ folder and blog is accessible via http://www.example.com/blog/.

Recently I decided to add forum to the site, using existing WordPress installation. After bbress plugin installation, when I configure the forum, it is by default appended to blog – current WordPress starting folder and addressed as http://www.example.com/blog/forum/, which is messy and confusing.

How to setup bbpress in this environment to have forum root separated and directed to http://www.example.com/forum/ in parallel to blog http://www.example.com/blog/?

Any help would be really appreciated.

[sinklar]

Hi.

I have some problems to use bbPress 2 with a full custom theme. bbPress is globally working and the forums are displaying correctly but some views don’t work properly. Example: the topic-tag view, which actually lists all topics of the forums, without taking the selected tag in account. I have the same behavior with the search results (I use the bbPress Search Widget plugin).

1. When I use the default bbPress theme, it works.

2. When I use my own custom bbPress theme, the problem happens.

3. When I override files in the default theme folder (not recommended), it works.

4. When I use the default bbPress theme as if it was a custom one (copy/paste of the folder, etc.) the problem happens too.

So it’s not related to my theme as it happens with the default theme files too, as soon as they’re not in the default folder.

What could it be related to?

[dmoz]

Hi,

I’m trying to get new-topics-archive to show on my forum front page and to show all my forum pages in a simple left-aligned-sidebar structure, a structure that’s the opposite of the rest of the WP site(right-aligned sidebar).

I created a bbpress.php file with this structure, but it’s not being recognized. Instead, it’s defaulting to my template page.php file. I tried bbpress.php and forum.php, but neither works.

And once I get all that working, a shortcode on the forum front page should make it show the new-topics-archive, right? But that isn’t working either.

Any thoughts?

[Anointed]

Do you have a way I can contact you outside these forums?

also:

If you check the bbPress trac you will see that JJ modified my topic/reply counter scripts for bbPress. While not yet in the default templates, the needed logic is now available to show how many topics and replies each user has. With that logic in place, it is not to hard to come up with a corresponding point system like you are talking about.

JJ is going to finish up the ‘recount’ portion of the script in order to give the initial counts for existing users. Once that part is finished, I will probably build something incredibly similar to what you are talking about.

[tony webb]

I’ve resolved this issue by messing around with the default side bar settings and inserting custom sidebars.

[tony webb]

Thanks for your reply. It’s a bit difficult for me to explain without you seeing how I’ve set up the forums page layout. I’ll try again.

My forum is integrated with wp.

For this I created 2 menus one for the blog and one for the forum.

All the blog pages have a blog sidebar and appear as they should.

All the forum pages have forum sidebars and appear as they should except for the forum lists page (main page) that still has the blog sidebars.

I have set the template for this page as bbpress forums (index)

The problem is that I have set the forum lists page (my main page) to show the forum side bar but it still shows the blog sidebar.

If you look at these three links it will show what I am trying to explain. (I’m currently building this forum. You can’t see it from the main menu)

http://what-do-christians-believe.co.uk/wp/ (blog set up)

http://what-do-christians-believe.co.uk/wp/forums/ (page with wrong menu)

http://what-do-christians-believe.co.uk/wp/forums/announcements (forum set up)

I have tried changing the default sidebar in the settings > sidebar but that doesn’t work either.

All I was doing was following the video instructions. He mentions that you should put the forums index etc on a page as you get better editing options.

I haven’t put the forums, topics or posts on a page yet because of this problem

[tony webb]

it’s probably easier to see the problem than explain it. The url is;

http://what-do-christians-believe.co.uk/wp/forum/

There are 2 different pages with the forum list listed as the root directory .

If you click back to the first forum the side bar is different; the first one shows blog posts but the forums list is the same.

Basically I want to get rid of the first of the forums list in the directory or know how to change the side bar menu in it. The default option doesn’t work presumably because their is a side bar on the page.

I did have a page called forums but this was removed from trash several days ago.

They are not set up on the forum’s menu bar.

[Anointed]

Sorry that my answer was confusing.

There is no theming manual per say for the new system. The new bbPress 2x plugin does not work like the old 1x in that there is no ‘theme plugins’ like you are talking about.

At the moment the only theme available for the new bbPress is the default theme that is included in the plugin. I’m certain that new themes will be coming somewhat soon though.