[Ferdilicious]

Howdy!

I recently just installed the bbPress plugin into the Swatch Theme, from wooThemes – everything went great, I love how they interfere, but there’s a little issue.

When I enter the default sidebar. May I please ask, what should I do to make the forum page full width, along with the profile page, because that way the forum it will look a lot more better!

Thanks in advance!

[binarymoon]

I would like to use the default template and override the styles that are included. Does anyone have any tips on how to acheive this?

Currently I am using:

function bm_bbpress () {

wp_dequeue_style ('twentyten-rtl');

wp_dequeue_style ('twentyten');

wp_dequeue_style ('bbp-twentyten-bbpress');

}



add_action ('bbp_enqueue_scripts', 'bm_bbpress', 100);

[amirsaam]

umm…, no! bbPlugin by default using a subdirectory of WordPress but by some skills on creating a pro theme for your blog that give the forums pages, and left the permalink of the forum root (called Forums) blank you can get what you want (it’s jus’ a advice, I’m not sure!)

[travis.hill]

Are you installing/developing locally (localhost)? This is a known issue:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-error-the-active-theme-is-broken-reverting-to-the-default-theme

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1596

Hope you find the white rabbit.

[enderandrew]

I was running trunk before the 1.5 release, so that may have changed. It wasn’t on by default for me.

[3sixty]

enderandrew, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, Site Tracking is already “on” by default, so I don’t think that’s the source of the problem (at least in terms of my problem – that bp activity stream is not picking up sitewide forum posts).

[Ravi]

The issue has been solved based on

Changing default avatar size cropped/used by BuddyPress

The bbPress avatar has been fetching it from BuddyPress avatar.

[goldmember]

@bj or anyone else, can you elaborate on where one selects the User Registration page template?

I clicked “Add New Page” but the only options under Page Attributes>Template are “Default Template” and “One column, no sidebar”.

What am I missing? I don’t need Buddypress installed, right?

Please advise. thanks in advance.

[John James Jacoby]

Your theme is overriding the default styling. Not much bbPress can do about it of your theme is stubborn. Afraid you’re on your own to modify your CSS to look the way you want it to.

[adams21]

At this point, after just test creating a few forums and topics, it looks like the plugin is “functioning” like it should. I can tell that it’s using some of the styles from my main theme style.css (colors, fonts etc), the MAIN PROBLEMS that I have now is the fact that it’s not taking to my page template widths in my main theme (gridlocked), it wont use a full-page-width template (or let me pick) and the default that it is probably using, is also supposed to be full width, plus something is wrong with the padding and it snugs too tight to the page edges

[adams21]

At this point, after just test creating a few forums and topics, it looks like the plugin is “functioning” like it should. I can tell that it’s using some of the styles from my main theme style.css (colors, fonts etc), the MAIN PROBLEMS that I have now is the fact that it’s not taking to my page template widths in my main theme (gridlocked), it wont use a full-page-width template (or let me pick) and the default that it is probably using, is also supposed to be full width, plus something is wrong with the padding and it snugs too tight to the page edges.

Here are some screenshots to show you what I mean;

[Razva]

Hi folks,

I’ve just installed BBpress 2 on our website – http://www.gadget.ro/forums/

As you can see it looks horrible!

Isn’t there a default style or something that would make BBpress…usable?

Thanks!

[Jaja..]

I was searching for an option to set the max topic length to 70 instead of default 80.

Now I think I’ve found the code inside the (Core files) bbp-core-options.php but I can’t change the core files because it will be overwritten when bbPRess updates.

So how could I place a filter? inside my functions.php to do this?

Just like this? (copy-/paste)

function bbp_title_max_length( $default = '70' ) {

echo bbp_get_title_max_length( $default );

}

[lckitchen]

Hi there, first I want to say thanks for creating this, seems like a great forum plugin once you get it working.

To start, I have read the entire thread on the forum on theme compatibility; http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility and a few other treads and topics relating, unfortunately I am still having some problems.

I am including screen-shot links to be as clear as possible in hope for great support.

What I have done so far;

A.) I decided to go with the child theme option since I am using a custom theme that I am not the author of and prefer not to clutter that folder.

I copied all the files (except functions.php) that were inside “bbp-twentyten” (/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten) and put them in my “gridlocked-child” folder that I placed inside /wp-content/themes/ (next to my custom “gridlocked” theme folder)

I added the “theme name” and “template” name to the empty “style.css” in folder “gridlocked-child”. screenshot: http://grab.by/cJ7R

I put the ” add_theme_support( ‘gridlocked-child’ ); ” code in my “gridlocked” (not child) functions.php file. screenshot: http://grab.by/cJ7S

At this point, after just test creating a few forums and topics, it looks like the plugin is “functioning” like it should. I can tell that it’s using some of the styles from my main theme style.css (colors, fonts etc), the MAIN PROBLEMS that I have now is the fact that it’s not taking to my page template widths in my main theme (gridlocked), it wont use a full-page-width template (or let me pick) and the default that it is probably using, is also supposed to be full width, plus something is wrong with the padding and it snugs too tight to the page edges.

Here are some screenshots to show you what I mean;

Forum home page: http://grab.by/cJ7I

Forum named MINGLE page and test topics: http://grab.by/cJ7J

I would like the forum to look like this; http://grab.by/cJ7H

and fill up the entire width of a full page, with nice padding. I achieved that preview by adding shortcode [bbp-forum-index] in the html section of a “page” picking the “full-width-template” option in my theme.

Ok, here comes the questions:

1. Did I set everything up correctly in the directories and files?

2. What files do I need to modify to tell the bbPress forum to use a full page width template? Can I copy code from my main theme “template-full-width.php” into one or more template files inside my new child theme?

2. Do I need to add code/functions into my main theme “template-full-width.php”? and if so, what kind of code? and on a scale, how easy should these edits be? (I have asked, but I am not getting any support with this from my theme support forum, otherwise great forum but they wont help with plugins, understandable)

3. How does shortcodes work? Are those simply just for placing certain parts of your forum on different pages as previews/links but not for use throughout the FULL forum?

Do you have ANY ideas on how I can solve this issue, I feel pretty lost and I am not a developer or programmer, just a stubborn, enthusiastic designer that loosing her hair about this.

I HIGHLY APPRECIATE ANY HELP WITH THIS!

Thank you!

[ineken]

thank you for help.

I found the right file, I found the good part, I think it was leave I should use.

function widget( $args, $instance ) {

extract( $args );

$title = apply_filters( ‘bbp_replies_widget_title’, $instance );

$max_shown = !empty( $instance ) ? $instance : ‘5’;

$show_date = !empty( $instance ) ? ‘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; ?>

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

• <?php

  $author_link = bbp_get_reply_author_link( array( ‘type’ => ‘both’, ‘size’ => 14 ) );

  $reply_link = ‘‘ . bbp_get_reply_topic_title() . ‘‘;

  /* 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() );

  ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php echo $after_widget;

endif;

bbp_reset_query_name();

}

I miss it more than learning how to change it: D

thank you I go little by little.

[Niekje]

I need this translation but the problem is that I am unable to login there with my WordPress account. I can login here no problem but as soon as I go to https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/nl/default I am unable to login

[Ravi]

BJ, Thanks for the help.

I do not want to create a new WP page.

Instead, I want to change the default forums Index that comes at the page /forums like http://ravidreams.in/offgrid/forums/ . This page is also linked in the breadcrumbs through out the forums.

[Anointed]

If it were me, I’d ask Ormon to write a quick function for your theme to switch the body class to

page-template-template-full-width-php

for post_type forums/topics/replies/users/.

*Basically run that last in the chain as to override the default setting only for the forums.

That would probably be the quickest and best approach to take for this particular theme.

That will give you full width forums. There are lots of ways to approach this and he may even have better ideas.

[Anointed]

NO, not bothered at all, was just saying that I didn’t understand what you were asking is all.

If I understand you basically want to take the code from the topics widget and use it as a standalone loop instead of a widget?

Keep in mind I’m not a great coder: If it were me, I would simply copy the code from the bbp-core-widget.php file that I needed for the topics widget. I would then strip out the widget portion of the code and hard code in the default arguments.

This basically would give me the same loop used by the widget.

// Query defaults

$topics_query = array(

'author'         => 0,

'post_parent'    => any,

'posts_per_page' => 10,

'show_stickies'  => false,

'order'          => 'DESC',

);

Probably better ways out there, but that’s how I would try it

[Anointed]

So far I have only installed bbpress on a subdomain install. I have not had that particular issue you are mentioning but then again I am not using sub-directories.

If you can replicate this in the default theme setup, then I would create a trac ticket for JJ to confirm.

[demonboy]

Thanks for that, I’m following the procedure now. Cheers.

[Anointed]

I think those are the directions for the 1x system, not the 2x plugin.

Follow these instructions:

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

You don’t create subdirectories in the plugin folder etc.. It is now a totally compliant wordpress way of doing things now. Basically, you don’t ‘have to’ copy any files to your theme, but you can if you want to make changes to bbpress.

[demonboy]

Hi anointed. I’m using 2.0.

[Anointed]

I’m confused. Is that not the default way bbpress displays forums on the homepage?

My forum homepage displays all of my forums, top-level, sub-category, sub-sub-category, etc..

[Anointed]

Are you using the new plugin 2x vs. or the old vs?