[Anointed]

Not enough information provided for us to really help.

I would start by using the twentyten default theme and see if everything is working correctly when everything is setup pretty much out of the box.

If it does not work, then a detailed listing of the exact steps you took through install to where you are now would help. Also a link would be needed to at least have a clue of what is happening.

[Jeaz]

Hey,

Maybe I’m missing something very obvious here, but I have problems with my page templates and forum.

My WP theme has numerous page template, but the default one isn’t ideal for the forum, instead I prefer it’s “full-page-width” version, which removes the side bar and so on.

I had the forum index to a blank page and select full page width to it, and it works great, but all other forum pages uses the default one with a side bar. So, how do i work around this?

[nbatioco]

I have installed my wordpress and run BBpress plug-in. I decided to add additional plugin intended for BBpress which is Easy Albums – (Buddypress users create and share images, video and audio albums – the easy way.) This plug-in works properly with the default theme for BBpress but when I change it to Frisco BBPress Theme everything seems to be okey not until when I click the album tab in the profile of each users.

When I am in the tab of Activity, Profiles, Message, Friends and etc the sidebar works well and when I click on the Album tab which the Easy Albums Plug-in added that tab then the sidebar is misaligned.

I hope someone can help me about this..

Here’s the link http://enimz.com/gp60/members/admin/albums/

[zofar143x]

[blockquote]Does registration go through normal WP reg process? I can’t find it from the forums, but the spam bots sure can![blockquote]

I believe it does so adding something like reCAPTCHA to your reg form should reduce the spam you’re getting on your forum. Something like this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/ for instance.

[blockquote]If not logged in, I can’t see any way to post to the forum, or any register links in the forum area. Is a setting for this (I have it set at defaults, only registered users can post, and anyone can register), or do I have to add theme support? (I’m using 2011.)[/blockquote]

You can add a link to your template linking to the wp registration page (“url.com/wp-login.php?action=register” or something like that) or simply load the bbpress login widget and add the registration link to it.

[blockquote]I forgot to mention another issue I’ve had – bbpress doesn’t get along with wp-super-cache – is there any easy way to get around that (disable the cache just for the forums tree for example)?[/blockquote]

You can try Hypercache. I believe that plugin allows you to exclude pages you don’t want to cache so you can exclude your forum from being cached.

[Keith Kelly]

I am not sure if anything was figured out on this, but I gave up on the Pagelines theme and created my own child theme based on the BuddyPress default theme.

Now I have that extra control I needed to create a more fluid and mobile friendly design.

Thanks for the help. I am going to mark this as resolved.

[CaptainN2]

Hi,

I just restored a very old bbpress 1.x install to use bbpress 2.0 plugin, and it worked great! Thanks so much.

There are a few issues though, that I could use help with. Here they are:

1. I’m getting a ton of spam. Some of these get caught by akizmet, but most get through, and there’s no way to do a “rescan for spam” thing like there is in wordpress comments. Is there any way to clean this up, to reduce the spam (I’ll continue to troll the forums to find solutions, but I’m not sure how most of the suggestions there work, until I know how registration and new topics work)?
2. If not logged in, I can’t see any way to post to the forum, or any register links in the forum area. Is a setting for this (I have it set at defaults, only registered users can post, and anyone can register), or do I have to add theme support? (I’m using 2011.)
3. Does registration go through normal WP reg process? I can’t find it from the forums, but the spam bots sure can!
4. there is no preview button – here or in my forum – I hope the formatting I put in here works!

On an unrelated note, I couldn’t get my old account to work here on bbpress.org (CaptainN) – When I try to log in it says my username doesn’t exist. But I can’t register with either my old username, or old email – they both exist! Also, when I start the reset password process, I get the link to click, but when I click on it, it says I can’t change my password.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Kevin N.

[John James Jacoby]

You posted, I listened.

Version 2 of bbPress’s theme compatibility is now in the 2.1 plugin branch of code for your perusal. This second iteration removes the need to add current_theme_support() to your theme, and totally automates the process.

If your child or parent theme contains the template files that bbPress looks for, bbPress will use them. If not, bbPress will fall back on it’s default templates and styling. No more logic necessary.

Please test it. It’s new code with a new approach, so I’d like to get some fresh eyes on things right away to avoid a long beta period like 2.0 had.

Cheers!

[Martin ( Martin_C )]

It seems bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id() always returns the default topic tag slug, i.e. “topic-tag” no matter what you use in your forum settings.

However, provided you use the default topic tag slug you can add some args to bbp-has-topics in taxonomy-topic-tag.php, like this:

if( bbp_has_topics( array( bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id() => bbp_get_topic_tag_slug() ) ) )

[David100351]

Having real trouple working out how to change the color of the topic title in the forum. The default is very hard to see.

any hints as to where in the theme I should be looking to alter the color?

http://support.nwfederation.org.uk/forum/how-do-i-use/

theme weaver

I can change the subtheme color if that would make it easier, but actually I had the same issue here

http://guidestoenlightenment.com/forums/forum/community-discussion/

also theme weaver, with a different subtheme.

Thanks.

[gloomis120]

My final solution was to make bbPress ‘dumb’ when it comes to logged out users. I.e., it could either be clever and say “there are topics, but you’re not allowed to see them until you login” or it could just say “there are no topics”.

Thanks for the code! I have it working but I dont follow what you mean with the quoted login.

Is this a shortcode setting, or are you changing the default message of “Oh bother! No forums were found here!”.

[tony webb]

Thank you for your reply.

The version that I have is version 2.0

I have integrated my forum into wordpress (plugins) and changed my wordpress theme to 2010 so that it is bbpress friendly.

I’m having problems setting that up but I noticed this evening that a sticky has been posted saying that there is an an online video tutorial available. I’ll watch that and follow what it says and then get back with any problems if any!

I’ve also changed my theme to a bbpress friendly theme twenty ten which has resolved the issue of my forum being cut off on the right of the screen. (I was using twenty eleven which although wordpress says that it is bbpress friendly it requires a lot of fiddling about to set up correctly)

For some reason bbpress defaulted to an old wordpress account (which i assumed had been removed) and since then I have not been able to log into the bbpress admin panel for food for thought. The old wordpress blog issue has been resolved but from the bbpress side of things I am unable to access my dashboard. When I log in I get unregistered user notices.

I need to use the bbpress admin panel to reorganise how I have set things up. I have done it completely wrong. The topics that I have created should be the categories or the forums (subjects that appear on the main forum page) and not as sub categories under one main subject.

It just seems to me that all I need is for bbpress to recognise that I am a registered user. I tried opening another account but I couldn’t do that as it said that the user already exists!

[devotee]

I´m also having problem with this. I´m getting the forum to work, but I have problems getting access to css and template files.

I have created a child theme from the bp-default theme, which doesnt seem to support bbPress-templates, but still displays everything nicely somehow. Within this child-theme I change css and templates belonging to the bp-default theme and that works fine.

Now I would like to be able to modify the bbPress part of the site from this child theme aswell, but I cant because the theme has no template files for the bbPress installation (even though it presents the forum very nicely). I can change the css-part by just copying the css from the bbpress.css into my styles.css (it get´s priority). But there is no template-files to copy except those from the bbp-twentyten theme, and if I do, the appearance just breaks

What I want: The forum to look exactly like it does from the default bp-default theme, but with access to template files so I can remove and add stuff on my own.

Can anyone help me with this one?

[devotee]

Hi. I installed bbPress plugin in my buddypress/wp-site and it seems to be working alright.

Using the default buddypress theme, the bbPress-plugin integrates nicely, but since I want to style both my theme and the forum differently I created a child theme from the default buddypress theme. For now It´s just a style.css and some changes to the header.

When I try to integrate the bbPress-plugin with my child-theme, the styles arent working properly.

I think I followed the guide properly. I copied every file from the bbPress-theme to my child-theme, excluding the style.css (since there already is one, and it doesnt contain anything anyway?). I also merged the functions.php files, and added “add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );” to the top of it. Is there any step beyond this?

Everything functions as intended, but the styles arent working. The sidebar doesnt show up at all and paddings and such thing are no where to be found.

Anyone got any ideas what I might have missed?

[warezjasz]

Yes, I found one theme where everything works fine. (short codes can be placed in sidebar by pulling there text bar and shortcode on it)

How to make it work on other themes?

OR….

How to make new widgets for bbpress plugin? There is default login, list of topics etc, but I need let’s say Tag Cloud on the sidebar.

[L Croonquist]

Let’s say I have a fresh WP 3.2.1 and NO plugins installed.

In fact, everything is default from a fresh installation.

I am lead to understand that bbPress is an enhanced version of the built in forums in BuddyPress. In order to have a web2.0 type forum with sharing and favoriting and comment-post-topic interaction you need to add bbPress.

First I install BuddyPress 1.5.1.

Then I install BuddyPress Template Pack 1.2 to assist in moving over the BuddyPress pages to my site.

Then I go to WP settings and allow users to register. There are some new additions to the drop down menu here so I select the default user role and set it to “member” this should be sufficient to allow users to post new topics.

Next I run though the BuddyPress Template Pack wizard (with all defaults) and end up with a working BuddyPress site that is integrated into my theme.

Works good.

There are no groups or forums yet, and one member ‘admin’.

I now have a basic forum where a user can register and create a topic, reply to topics etc.

My aim here is to have ONE forum (one) that has user-created posts that are also integrated into the forum for discussion as topics, the user created topics are actually posts with full text and featured image and all that jazz.

So on the front end I now have a menu with the default BuddyPress pages (they have been created by BuddyPress) activity — members — groups — forums — register

Now what I want to do is add the ability for a registered and logged in user to create a post that becomes a topic in the forum. Sounds simple right?

So to add this functionality, I download and install bbPress 2.0.

All it seems to have done is add three new areas to my WP Admin left margin:

forums — topics — replies

Moving on I want to install bbPress Topics for Posts 0.6

According to this plugin creator, this plugin is supposed to Add an option to the Discussion meta box to use a bbPress topic instead of WordPress comments, and displays that topic beneath the post on your site.

So as of right now I have 4 (four) plugins installed, and I need another plugin for users to be able to add posts, then they can see the bbpress post to topic option and integrate it into the forum themselves.

Once I find this plugin, I will continue this thread.

RTBOP

[shooo]

Hello,

thank you board, I tried, but it doesn’t work.

I copied this code in my page function.php of my theme. but no widget is created.

/**

* bbPress Replies Widget

*

* Adds a widget which displays the replies list

*

* @since bbPress (r2653)

*

* @uses WP_Widget

*/

class BBP_Replies_Widget2 extends WP_Widget {



/**

* Register the widget

*

* @since bbPress (r3389)

*

* @uses register_widget()

*/

function register_widget() {

register_widget( 'BBP_Replies_Widget2' );

}



/**

* bbPress Replies Widget

*

* Registers the replies widget

*

* @since bbPress (r2653)

*

* @uses apply_filters() Calls 'bbp_replies_widget_options' with the

*                        widget options

*/

function BBP_Replies_Widget2() {

$widget_ops = apply_filters( 'bbp_replies_widget_options', array(

'classname'   => 'widget_display_replies',

'description' => __( 'balbalbalbalbalbalba.', 'bbpress' )

) );



parent::WP_Widget( false, 'bbPress Reply List 2', $widget_ops );

}



/**

* Displays the output, the replies list

*

* @since bbPress (r2653)

*

* @param mixed $args

* @param array $instance

* @uses apply_filters() Calls 'bbp_reply_widget_title' with the title

* @uses bbp_set_query_name() To set the query name to 'bbp_widget'

* @uses bbp_reset_query_name() To reset the query name

* @uses bbp_has_replies() The main reply loop

* @uses bbp_replies() To check whether there are more replies available

*                     in the loop

* @uses bbp_the_reply() Loads up the current reply in the loop

* @uses bbp_get_reply_author_link() To get the reply author link

* @uses bbp_get_reply_author() To get the reply author name

* @uses bbp_get_reply_id() To get the reply id

* @uses bbp_get_reply_url() To get the reply url

* @uses bbp_get_reply_excerpt() To get the reply excerpt

* @uses bbp_get_reply_topic_title() To get the reply topic title

* @uses get_the_date() To get the date of the reply

* @uses get_the_time() To get the time of the reply

*/

function widget( $args, $instance ) {



extract( $args );



$title     = apply_filters( 'bbp_replies_widget_title', $instance['title'] );

$max_shown = !empty( $instance['max_shown'] ) ? $instance['max_shown'] : '5';

$show_date = !empty( $instance['show_date'] ) ? 'on'                   : false;



// Query defaults

$replies_query = array(

'post_status'    => join( ',', array( bbp_get_public_status_id(), bbp_get_closed_status_id() ) ),

'posts_per_page' => $max_shown,

'order'          => 'DESC'

);



// Set the query name

bbp_set_query_name( 'bbp_widget' );



// Get replies and display them

if ( bbp_has_replies( $replies_query ) ) :



echo $before_widget;

echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; ?>



<div id="lastreply">



<?php while ( bbp_replies() ) : bbp_the_reply(); ?>



<div class="post">

<h4>



<?php

$author_link = bbp_get_reply_author_link( array( 'type' => 'both', 'size' => 80 ) );

$reply_link  = '<a href="' . esc_url( bbp_get_reply_url() ) . '" title="' . bbp_get_reply_excerpt( bbp_get_reply_id(), 50 ) . '">' . bbp_get_reply_topic_title() . '</a>';



/* translators: bbpress replies widget: 1: reply author, 2: reply link, 3: reply date, 4: reply time */



printf( _x( $show_date == 'on' ? '%1$s on %2$s, %3$s, %4$s' : '%1$s on %2$s', 'widgets', 'bbpress' ), $author_link, $reply_link, get_the_date(), get_the_time() );

?>



</h4>

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

<div class="clearfix"></div>

</div><!-- fin de post -->



<?php endwhile; ?>



</div><!-- fin du last reply-->



<?php echo $after_widget;



endif;



bbp_reset_query_name();

}



/**

* Update the forum widget options

*

* @since bbPress (r2653)

*

* @param array $new_instance The new instance options

* @param array $old_instance The old instance options

*/

function update( $new_instance, $old_instance ) {

$instance              = $old_instance;

$instance['title']     = strip_tags( $new_instance['title']     );

$instance['max_shown'] = strip_tags( $new_instance['max_shown'] );

$instance['show_date'] = strip_tags( $new_instance['show_date'] );



return $instance;

}



/**

* Output the reply widget options form

*

* @since bbPress (r2653)

*

* @param $instance Instance

* @uses BBP_Replies_Widget::get_field_id() To output the field id

* @uses BBP_Replies_Widget::get_field_name() To output the field name

*/

function form( $instance ) {

$title     = !empty( $instance['title']     ) ? esc_attr( $instance['title']     ) : '';

$max_shown = !empty( $instance['max_shown'] ) ? esc_attr( $instance['max_shown'] ) : '';

$show_date = !empty( $instance['show_date'] ) ? esc_attr( $instance['show_date'] ) : ''; ?>



<p><label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'title'     ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Title:',                   'bbpress' ); ?> <input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'title'     ); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'title'     ); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $title; ?>" /></label></p>

<p><label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'max_shown' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Maximum replies to show:', 'bbpress' ); ?> <input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'max_shown' ); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'max_shown' ); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $max_shown; ?>" /></label></p>

<p><label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'show_date' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Show post date:',          'bbpress' ); ?> <input type="checkbox" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'show_date' ); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'show_date' ); ?>" <?php checked( 'on', $show_date ); ?> /></label></p>



<?php

}

}

sorry, I feel as bad as otter. :'(

[surrealalien]

Hi, I’d like to change the login url in the email that gets sent to a user when they register. The default is the wp-login.php but I dont like that, I’d like the user to go to another page where they can login, for example, example.com/login

I’ve looked around the files for where this might be, but cant find a thing.

Where is this email template set?

[Weiching]

Correct, if the permalink is the default (http://domain.com/?p=123) do not have this problem.

[dreamgrowers]

How do I tell bbpress which template to use so I can customize the sidebar or NOT use a sidebar?

For example, it seems to use the default sidebar, but I want it to use my custom sidebar or none at all. There’s not forum page created so I can’t seem to figure out where to change it.

I’m sure it’s simple, but thanks again for any help!

[MTPrower]

Does nobody know how to use a custom CSS file with bbPress 2.0 that overwrites the default TwentyEleven bbPress theme and doesn’t get removed with updates? Nobody?

[shooo]

Thank you for your answer,

But I can’t integrate the widget as I wish in my design.

Indeed, I can’t integrate the excerpt of the replies, I can’t properly control the CSS and I can’t (of course) include the latest comments in the last forums’ replies.

I started by looking at the widget code by default, but I can’t decrypt properly.

query_posts is very simple and I usually use it in my templates; is much more customizable.

[citizenkeith]

I’m getting the same errors that scribu described. I added his code to the config file, and I’m still getting that error.

bbpress 1.1 and latest bbpress plugin (as of today).

Standard integration, all plugins off and themes set to default.

[citizenkeith]

I’m getting the same errors that scribu described. I added his code to the config file, and I’m still getting that error.

bbpress 1.1 and latest bbpress plugin (as of today).

Standard integration, all plugins off and themes set to default.

[TheDryTwist]

Good to see the discussion going. I’ve slightly got my head around it but i’m going to need a helping hand.

I’m using a plugin called ‘Advanced Custom Fields’. I’ve created a new group of Custom Fields named ‘Articles’. Within this group i have 3 custom fields (intro, main, links). I then use a rule where this Custom Field Group is related to the edit screen of a Post Type equal to Topic.

So now when i go to Topics > New these 3 custom fields appear (i’ve made it so the default fields do not appear). I then select the forum “Articles” and post. The next problem is inserting these custom fields into the forum template so they actually appear. I have not looked into this step yet, what files need to be edited etc, but i’m sure it is possible.

I also have the forums “Reviews”, “Previews”, etc, and these posts will require an entirely different set of Custom Fields. The problem is i cannot use the Post Type equal to Topic because it is already used for the Articles Custom Fields.

Basically, how would i go about creating Post Types of Topic-Article, Topic-Review, Topic-Preview etc and have the forums functioning correctly? I’m kinda new at all of this so sorry if i don’t explain myself correctly.

Thanks.

[Anointed]

First thing I would try would be to activate the default twentyten theme and see if it works. If so, then it’s Genesis..

If not, then try deactivating other plugins to see if it helps?