[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?

[Anointed]

You actually installed the plugin correctly. The warning about your theme not being bbPress compatible is simply saying that the bbPress plugin is using the templates from the plugin and not your theme. That is the default behavior.

The top topic on the forums here about making your theme fully compatible will explain how to take it to the next level.

As for plugins:

There are a few available plugins for the bbPress plugin but nowhere near as many as with the standalone right now. So no, you don’t get all the features of the standalone, but you get close.

The new plugin is built to WordPress standards so it is quite easy to work with and building plugins is actually much easier. I am positive that we are going to see more and more plugins available shortly.

If it were me, I would not use the standalone and would go with the plugin. It is 100x better than the standalone and is progressing every day. It really is one of the best and most advanced WordPress plugins on the market.

[MT Prower]

I solved this. Had nothing to do with bbPress, but instead, had to do it via my WordPress theme. Thanks anyway.

[MTPrower]

I agree with Crisium. There is no clear-cut documentation on how to integrate bbPress into WordPress. I myself am at a loss trying to figure out how to force bbPress to use a template that is not my default php template, and at how to create a bbPress child theme. I’ve been reading, reading, reading(!) for the past several days and it all just seems like a big confusing mess to me. If there IS any “user-friendly” and very-thorough documentation for anything in bbPress at ALL, could somebody please link me to it?

[rhodyjobs]

I need some help with the bbpress plugin, default theme in a custom template.

Please see: http://rhodyjobs.com/forums/topic/rhodyjobs-com-launches-new-forums-for-members/

Above the post, there is a spacing, which I cant find or remove in any css file.

Any ideas?

Also, I want to remove this box:

“This topic has 2 voices, contains 1 reply, and was last updated by George 2 days ago.”

But the only place I can find it is in the twentyten theme which i’m not using.

PLEASE HELP.

Thanks in advance.

[Anointed]

@JJ

Did you get my message about a generic ‘bbpress theme plugin’ skeleton component?

Basically just like we talked about last month, I was thinking it would be really beneficial if there were a generic plugin that we could use for our custom themes.

I’m thinking just the barebones basic setup. Heck even if the plugin included all the default template files it would be great.

Then all we would have to do is replace the template files in the plugin with our own, so long as the names are the same.

*well I know there is a bit more to it than that, but I think you get the idea of what I am after.

And yeah, it is 5:30am, ouch… have not slept all weekend as trying to finish this up, crazy tired now.

[MT Prower]

Well, renaming and then moving or not moving the template.php sure didn’t help. See?/: http://www.vgreboot.com/forum-slug/welcome-to-vg-reboot

I made a template that has only one sidebar for the forums, rather than two. The page there uses the default template.

[John James Jacoby]

Rename your template-twocolumn.php to ‘bbpress.php’ and you’re all set.

[MT Prower]

I need help performing a basic function. I have a WordPress blog with bbPress installed as a plugin. I would like all of my forums pages (ever) to show up on a custom two-column WordPress page template that I made (template-twocolumn.php) rather than the default three-column template for my site’s theme. I can put a forums shortcode on a WordPress page with a custom template, but the forums will still really just be using the three-column template, and it will show when I click any links to a new forums page. Can someone please help me make it so that the entirety of bbPress uses one particular non-default template page style?

I have WordPress 3.2.1 and bbPress 2.0. My website is at http://www.vgreboot.com/ . Thanks.