I just solved it 2 minutes ago 
On my new site http://justaskpatrick.com I turned on registration and made the default role forum participant. On this new site I was also able to get the shortcodes working. I wasn’t able to on my main site http://allaboutfocus.com .
I also switched back to the default buddypress theme and it still is broken. No JS errors, but no AJAX either
Hello all,
I am trying to setup bbpress on my test site. I want to replace Simple forum.
I followed BJ’s walkthrough and got it showing on the “forums” page.
From admin interface i created couple of forums, and couple of topics.
I can see the forums on http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums
But when i click on any forum name i get a “page not found” error.
What am i doing wrong?
My parent theme is a custom theme created with Themeframe (im astill working on it, and currently i have only changed the menu). I did not touch yet the default templates.
Thank you.
I took it for a spin, and here’s my feedback thus far:
A lot of functionality should be in its own plugins.
– Move forum:
I’m surprised this isn’t in core already; I thought it was. In any case, this would make much more sense as a stand-alone plugin, as its useful for all topics, not just support topics.
– Forum Ranks:
As far as I can tell, it doesn’t tie directly in with support topics; it’s a completely separate feature. Maybe you have plans for it, but if that’s the case I still think you should just have two plugins communicate, as this is something many support forums won’t need. I personally dislike forum ranks. I consider it unwarranted labeling. On the jMonkeyEngine forum we frequently see first time posters with 10+ years of Java experience, which is the type of experience that holds weight in our community, not # of forum posts.
– Please separate your settings from bbPress’ options page. Your plugin offers so many options (which by itself is great) that it ends up bloating the options page.
– I think the default setting should reflect the one in this screenshot:
https://s.w.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-vip-support-plugin/screenshot-3.png?r=448946
That part slipped by me in the settings screen, and when I tested the plugin I was puzzled by how I couldn’t change my test support topic to “resolved”.
– What about a widget for the resolved/not resolved drop-down? (Same goes for Assign topic, and possibly some others I haven’t noticed yet). This would make it easier to fit it in with custom themes. This also means admin should have the option to turn off the in-built drop-down.
Oh and as recommended, add the bbpress tag to your plugin. It’s the default bbPress plugin tag, and currently the most convenient way of keeping up with the latest bbPress 2 plugins.
All ajax functionality on single topic pages are broken. I get the following errors on:
wp-lists.js:1 — Uncaught ReferenceError: ajaxurl is not defined
topic.js:39 — Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method ‘wpList’
I’m using a copy of the TwentTen BBpress theme, but it doesn’t work even if I switch back to the default theme. I’m using the BBpress plugin with Buddypress, not standalone.
I didn’t think anything was necessary to use it. During installation, step 3, I either set up, or it defaulted the forums base slug as forums.
A slug is part of a URL, so Ithen visited domain.com/forums and it worked.
So I added a link to my menu for that URL, and I was done.
Basically, whatever you set the forums slug to, yu add to the end of your URL, and there’s your forums
@Maziyar That’s fine but I’m sure when John see’s these entries he will be unhappy. (BBpress only here) So is there another place to discuss how to set it up. I liked what little I saw before it trashed my WP website which I think was my fault for not making my theme the default…
But as I said if there is another place dedicated to this plugin then we can chat there…
After I seeing above source code, I think that my previous method (that I would like to suggest you) won’t be working as suppose.
So I download the Suffusion theme, trying on my Xampp and found simple answer. You just need to deactivate ‘Sidebar Layout’ into 0 (Zero).
Go to your site at
yoursite.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=suffusion-options-manager&tab=theme-options-sidebars-and-widgets.php
You will have a sidebar layout options, try change the default views into 0 (Zero) or no sidebar at all. You can still manage others to have sidebar(s), just find another related options.
Default Views
The theme is set up with one sidebar (a two-column theme) by default. You could choose to have two sidebars (a three-column theme) or none if you want. Unless otherwise overridden in the subsequent options, this will be applied to your entire blog.
0 (Zero) -> choose this
1 (One)
2 (Two)
The save by clicking Save page ‘Sidebar Layout’
Suffusion is way to complex for code modification, and I hope above method working as suppose, since it work on my localhost.
Hit me if you still have trouble!
More explanation..
Your forums_index page is located at myblog.com/forum and displayed full-width or no sidebar. That is what you want and displays perfectly.
But when you accessing a topic or reply it will show sidebar, it happen due each forum specific page is using specific ‘page template’ that belong to bbPress theme.
Here example:
myblog.com/forums – default forums will using ‘single-forum.php’ page template
myblog.com/forum – your custom page that you use now (in my case I create custom template ‘page-forum-home.php’ to show page without sidebar. On your case just using ‘No Sidebar’ template page)
But when you browse into (forum)
myblog.com/forums/forum/general/ – it will using ‘single-forum.php’ page template
When you browse more (topic)
myblog.com/forums/topic/rules-and-ethics/ – it will using ‘single-topic.php’ page template
And that also applies when you edit something or doing something else, it will use different page template that belong to bbPress theme.
How to solve this?
I want you to understand that your WordPress theme (not bbPress theme) have page templates, such as
page.php - default page
page-full.php - page to show full width or no sidebar
page-blog.php
page-contact.php
page-gallery.php
page-login.php
page-search.php
page-sitemap.php
page-template-portfolio.php
etc ... (the number varries and depend on each WP theme)
You need to copy page-full.php or whatever page to show full width or no sidebar content (html and php styles) and replace (about 75%) for your others bbpress theme.
That what I going to by owning your the content of “No Sidebars” page template of yours.
So your forum will display the same layout and styles.
..
I changed this in mypage.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten
But I don’t use that theme. I use NO theme. So where do I remove the sidebars?
Hi, AFAIK every bbPress usage always use ‘bbPress default theme’ located within …/wp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentyten folder (except you integrated it with your WordPress theme or you are using custom theme already).
So you are using ‘bbPress theme’ already and there are no sidebars within that default theme. Sidebars if from your WordPress theme, that you should edit.
Things looks okey so far! Now I want to remove the sidebars from the forum (not the page, I know how to do that) and I have read a couple of tutorials but still don’t get it.
Some theme have page template to display ‘full width page’, you must choose it. If your theme don’t have it try create it.
Here are sample of page using shortcode [bbp-forum-index]
-> http://themescommunity.com/forums-index/
I’m newbie too!
If I enable the plugin on my site, using my personal theme, and the default bbpress template, then the first post in each topic does not appear – but replies show fine.
If I use TwentyTen, then the first post appears as expected.
Not sure if this is because of something I have done in my theme, or if it’s a strange quirk of bbPress. Anyone got any pointers/ seen this before?
aaaand – I got it.
Was missing a style – I got all the bbpress template ones and missed the default one that is built into the plugin
easier than I imagined.
function bm_bbp_no_breadcrumb ($param) {
return true;
}
add_filter ('bbp_no_breadcrumb', 'bm_bbp_no_breadcrumb');
How would you like to send me my dollar?
Now if only I could work out why this isn’t working properly – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/remove-default-template-styles?
When I enter the default sidebar.
The line there is actually: When I enter the forums, it displays the default sidebar.
Something must have went wrong when I posted the message,
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!
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);
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!)
I was running trunk before the 1.5 release, so that may have changed. It wasn’t on by default for me.
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).
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.
@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.
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.
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
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;
