[Adam]

if I am using a default wordpress theme, I have noticed that on the forums section site/forum/forumName there is a side bar, the themes side bar. How do we remove this?

[GHOSTChoja]

Hi JJK…

I too am losing my mind with BBPress… I’ve been using WordPress for some time and run a site for my photography business.

I’ve just built a games site for a bunch of fellas who enjoy gaming and we’d like to use WordPress and BBPress to get a swanky forum going.

I installed BBPress as a plugin and all seemed well until I went to the ‘Themes’ page which reads: ‘Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.’

I’ve scoured the Net and found no answers to this issue. Can you please help so I don’t lose anymore hair?

Many thanks!

[Adam]

No I said I managed to get it to work. How ever when visiting the page with the topic or forum its a WordPress page. When NOT using that code snippit i got the 404 page

I don’t understand your sticky post on how to make a theme (I am assuming WordPress themes can be created into) compatibility with bbpress.

for what I understand of that sticky since I am the author of my theme I go into the bbpress default theme and copy all the files out of there and paste them into my theme. This would over ride things like my css, functions and possibly other files. what would you suggest to do to get around this (instead of creating a child theme).

So here is what I did – as I read the sticky like 10 times:

I copied all the files, except for the style and the functions.php and pasted them into my theme. these are the files from the from the bbpress default theme and pasted into my current wordpress theme. I then added the php code snipit to my functions.php like the sticky states. I then activated it (the theme) and went to where the forums should be. I am now getting 404 errors.

ideas?

[SRobbins]

Hi Jared,

So it was not on sadly… however.. what you said fixed it! THANK YOU!

One more question while I have you in my thread. How do I add forums to the nav bar? Right now its got the default Home and Sample page. I thought that would be under Appearance > Menus. So I added a “custom link”(being that there is no check box for plugins). But I have a feeling this is for some kind of pull down menu and not the nav bar.

BTW, is there a place for ‘noobies’ to go? Just googling these questions and not finding answers makes me feel like Im super noobie questions that are too noobie to be asked in the webs.

Im moving from vBulletin forums so excuse my stumbling. Cheers!

[Jared Atchison]

If you have pretty permalinks turned on (eg mysite.com/about instead of myside.com/?p=14) bbPress should automatically configure mysite.com/forums by default.

It’s possible you need to “flush” your permalinks for this to take affect. To do this just go to the Settings > Permalinks page, merely navigating to the page will trigger the flush.

Assuming your theme using the WP Menu system you should be able to just go to Appearances > Menus and add a link to the forums that way.

[CodeMunkyX]

Like you said… first change

plugins/jigoshop/admin/jigoshop-admin.php – around line 40 – the add_menu_page for the main menu – last parameter controls menu position (default is 57 i believe) – for mine i changed to 100

the “products” and “orders” menu positions are set in …

plugins/jigoshop/jigoshop_taxonomy.php – search for menu_position and change to 101 and 102

this will structure the menu to be more logical and group all of the Jigoshop menus together at the bottom

[Adam]

Not understanding this….. (bbpress 2.0 rc4)

1) I installed the plugin.

2) I don’t have twenty ten installed and I got the error “bbPress (Twenty Ten) The parent theme is missing. Please install the “twentyten” parent theme.” This should be updated to use the latest version of WordPress theme 2011

3) Installed twenty 10

4) returned to themes.

5)bbpress theme is not showing its preview .png file most themes show.

6) Activating bbpress theme gives me:

Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.

The active theme is broken. Reverting to the default theme.

-> NOTHING was touched or changed. All I did was install bbpress plugin and install the twenty ten theme.

So I thought, what the hell lets create a forum and go to it:

1) forums

2) new forums

3) new: Test

4) Publish

5) view ->

This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?

It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching, or one of the links below, can help.

What am I doing wrong? Why is this not working at all?

[John James Jacoby]

Cyclecincy is currently using the default theme that comes with bbPress 2.0.

[John James Jacoby]

Cyclecincy is currently using the default theme that comes with bbPress 2.0.

[LewisB]

Hi everyone. I’m currently trying to implement bbPress into my WP site.

I managed to install it fine, the problem is that neither bbPress nor my website actually work together in any way.

For example, having installed bbPress to my root directory I could access the bbPress forum but it was entirely independent of my site, and had no “home” button to return to my site. Whilst my site had no forum button to physically travel to the forum.

It is as if I’d made two separate websites. Is this normal?

Having installed the bbPress plugin also, this did integrate into my site, in the correct position (within the confines of the page). However by doing this method in the dashboard it states:

“Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress”.

So I have a conundrum:

1. If I use the plugin it lacks most vital features.

2. If I install directly to the root directory, bbPress becomes an entirely separate entity from my website with no ability (that I can see) to return back to my homepage.

Is there a way of installing the plugin (as this places it where I need it to be) but also have the features of the independent bbPress site I made by manually installing to the root?

(am I making any sense at all?)

[Escalibor]

To make the page wider for the forum I put the following code in my themes page.php:

<?php if ( strpos($_SERVER[“REQUEST_URI”], ‘forum’)) {

?>

<div class=”art-content” style=”width: 800px; margin-left: 99px;”>

<?php

}

else {

include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/sidebar1.php’);

?>

<div class=”art-content”>

<?php

}

this just looks for the string “forum” in the url, and if found styles the content such that it is 800px wide. Otherwise, it just uses the default width. It works, but may not be the best solution. Any other thoughts?

[Escalibor]

I have searched for hours and I can’t make sense of how to customize a forum when using bbpress that was installed as a WP plug in.

I want to do two things:

1) get rid of the part that says “This forum contains 2 topics and 3 replies, and was last updated by John John 8 hours ago.”

2) I want to make the forum page wider than the default page width for my WordPress theme.

This seems like these should be very simple customization, but I just can’t figure out how to do it. Can someone point me to where I could learn step by step how to do this?

thanks,

Tom

[ready_paul]

Hi all,

I have searched the forums but can find nothing that discusses permalinks for the latest version install of WordPress and the BBpress plugin.

This is the issue: I have set up WordPress and then installed the BBpress plugin via the plugin installer.

I have added add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ ); to my theme and then built all the template pages required so that bbpress functions.

Here is the issue which I need help with:

With the Permalinks set to DEFAULT the integration works with no issues at all. However when I turn on pretty permalinks whilst the main forum page and topic pages work the USER and USER edit pages return a page not found.

I have looking at the SINGLE SLUG area and adjusted but I just resolve the 404 errors for these particular areas.

The one thing I did try is to set up a page called USER with he BBPRESS code. THis worked for the View page but not for the edit page.

Any help appreciated.

Paul

[travis.hill]

Starting a new topic as I don’t wish to clutter the VERY USEFUL threaded discussion here:

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

I’ve been over this topic a few times and can’t for the life of me get what I desire to work, or maybe it’s working and I’m missing something.

My current setup:

WordPress 3.2.1 (single site setup

**Child Theme**

BuddyPress 1.2.9 (disabled forums)

bbPress 2.0-RC-4

My goal is simple: I wish to use a different sidebar within my forum pages to display information that is forum specific, rather than my default sidebar’s contents and widgets.

I’m pretty fluent in WordPress, customizing things and the like. I understand how to display different sidebars and such within WordPress, depending on pages, etc..

My issue:

When I activated bbPress and navigated to my forum, everything displayed a treat. It was PERFECT (minus some CSS for colors and width, etc). I figured I would be cracking into the code just to get it to display correctly within my theme, but it put it right where it belonged within my theme.

When I decided I would like to take advantage of a different sidebar, things started to go out of place.

Following along with the discussion at http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility, I:

1. Copied the files within wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/

into my child theme folder:

wp-content/themes/%child-theme-dir%/ – minus fuctions.php and style.css.

2. I added add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ ); into my child theme’s fuctions.php file.

Upon uploading and refreshing, my theme was broken. The forums were being displayed above everything. At the time, this wasn’t much of an issue, as I figured I could modify the files I copied within wp-content/themes/%child-theme-dir%/ much the same way I modified BuddyPress templates to work within my child theme, but alas, these modifications did not work. In other words – any modifications I made to files from plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/ into themes/%child-theme-dir%/ did not work.

3. Instead of “merging” bbPress functions.php and css/bbpress.css with my child theme files, I copied bbPress’s functions.php, created a new file within my child theme, copied the contents of bbPress’s functions.php into this file and included it from my functions.php file. I used an @import clause within my child theme CSS file to import bbpress.css. This all seemed to work, as using Firebug confirmed bbpress.css was imported.

Again I uploaded and refreshed, but the theme is still broken, much the same way it already was.

So for now I’ve reverted everything back to the “vanilla” install of bbPress, and everything is back to normal, minus a unique sidebar.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[theurbantwist]

I like a lot of you on here obviously want bbpress to be implemented into my site.

And I like a lot of you have been having issues getting everything installed and working correctly.

I’m writing this post because I got things going finally on my site and it really isn’t as hard as I was making it and some of you are from what I’m seeing.

I just wanted to share a few simple things that I learned along my journey and hopefully this post can steer some of you in the right direction.

My forum is located at http://www.theurbantwist.com/community by the way. Ignore banner at top of page as that’s just a placeholder for when I get my official forum logo designed.

First things first…

I followed the instructions to a “t” from this post:

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

I have a custom theme, so I copied all files over, created child theme and all of that jazz, and added theme support.

At this point I just knew that I was going to be finished because when I went to dashboard, it stated that my theme now had bbpress support. Everything was coming together just as how the instructions above would lead me to believe.

The feeling was brief as when I actually went to the forum page, it was completely blank other than the breadcrumb trail at the top…my header and footer was present but everything else in the middle (the content area) was gone.

So me being familiar with wordpress themes and because I’m so used to “pimping” out themes for wordpress…I tried to do the same with bbpress, so I dissected and went over the code in those files I copied over into my main theme as if it were a wordpress theme and changed some things around thinking I needed to add some template tags here and there to get forum to work.

I did all of that and guess what? Nothing changed…same blank space as before.

So I then went into the plugin file itself and tried modifying the theme from there.

Still…nothing changed.

So I went backwards through the steps and started deleting steps to get back to where I was at originally and along the way, after I removed the theme support for bbpress, the forum showed up on my page. The CSS wasn’t matching my theme, but at least I had a start.

I then modified my css file to match certain elements of the twenty-ten default bbpress theme and mow I’m making progress. The theme is pretty much right where I want it be.

The only thing that was missing was that I wanted a topic listing of all topics on forum front page.

And here is where things really got easy and I wish I would have done this from the start.

I simply created a page.

I named page “community” to match my forum settings and I added 2 lines of code.

[bbp-forum-index]

[bbp-topic-index]

And voila! Now I have forum just the way I want it barring a couple of graphical changes which I’m working on.

The reason I went in detail about how I came to a solution for myself is that sometimes we do a LOT of unecessary stuff to get to where we need to be. I’ve wasted a LOT of time trying to manipulate the plugins files and my theme’s files, when all I needed to do was to create a page.

Bottom line and this is definitely something you should try if you are having problems.

1. Install and activate plugin.

2. Add a Page

3. Add those 2 lines of code above.

4. Publish.

You then have your forum. And that’s a start.

Cheers!

[Benjamin Allison]

Ok, installing BP 1.5, then bbP 2 RC4. Using the default theme and everything’s playing nice!!!

I’ve made a page, in my page list, called Forums. She’s blank (understandably so).

So, before I go tearing things apart (I’m very familiar with WP, but am a n00b to BP and bbP) what is the best way to get the standard forums view on my forums page? Is it a matter of adding a few tags into my page.php template?

Thanks bros!

[Jared Atchison]

Genesis has 2 functions that I have determined are causing the problems.

http://pastie.org/2469242 (/genesis/lib/structure/post.php lines 101-143 (as of 1.7.1))

The first function is the post image function. Users have the ability to automatically set image thumbnails to appear on the archive listings. However if they turn this on, when you go to a bbPress archive page a random image from the media library ends up on the top of the page. This is turned of by default in Genesis, but is widely used.

The second function is how Genesis displays post content. You can see, depending on how the user has Genesis configured, it uses the_excerpt or the_content_limit – which results in a dead loop.

The other things I did such as remove the post info/meta, breadcrumbs, etc are just purely cosmetic. They aren’t *needed* per say, but it can look screwy if they are outputted on some of the forum pages.

As long as Genesis is forced to always use the_content and the post image option is nuked, everything should always work smoothly.

If you want to explore the option of a core patch I’d be more than happy to help you with a patch and testing

[woodwardmatt]

If I understood @enderandrew right, he’s basically trying to prevent the default bbpress css file from being loaded and include his own css file for styling? It’s probably a bit too a specific a query for this thread maybe, but one that would be an excellent one to get a formal response to. I can foresee this will be a common query given the confusion over the bbpress templating already.

@enderandrew – Fancy starting the new thread? Perhaps we can get a approach detailed there that will prevent an additional CSS file being loaded.

[John James Jacoby]

Regarding: 2, bbPress allows for easy customizing of its slugs, so you can prevent them from colliding. Admin > Settings > Forums

Regarding: 3, Site Tracking is only visible on Network Activated installations of BuddyPress. Otherwise it is on by default.

[Benjamin Allison]

So what does one doofo make Buddypress and bbpress 2 speak to each other?

Let’s assume were using Buddypress’s default theme.

[Benjamin Allison]

Yeah I tried this exact thing today to no avail… is there a theme that will accommodate both? Using bbpress with its twentyten theme and the BP theme update plugin, nothing! All BP links redirect to the home page. If I use BP’s default theme, no forum data shows up whatsoever.

[woodwardmatt]

@enderandrew – If it helps at all, all I did was leave the default setup in place, having installed the bbpress 2.0 plugin. Then include a new custom css file (in the directory of my wordpress theme) and link to this beneath the call to the wp_head() function in the wordpress theme (e.g. in my header.php) – to ensure the custom css file overrides the css included by bbpress.

I simply them overrode any of the styles that I wanted to change from the default. This is a fairly old-school approach to re-branding, but is perhaps one of the least invasive. This wont allow you to change very much of the layout but will allow you to change some of the styling to more closely match your brand and will give you a certain amount of protection against change as the plugin gets updated.

Hope that helps

[woodwardmatt]

That would make sense. I think the key message is for myself (or anyone else reading this afterwards) is that the templating for bbpress is not intended to follow the same structure / approach as wordpress – that’s definitely where my confusion started to creep in.

For the time being I’m likely to opt for overriding the CSS to provide the branding I require and stick with the current layouts in the default theme until the plugin’s had chance to settle in and some of the examples you mention have had chance to come about. I’d be interested to see more on the “bbPress Pack” approach in good time

Thanks for all the insight, most useful!

[John James Jacoby]

I’ll probably come up with a bbPress Skeleton theme/plugin, to show off some of the flexibility. It’s possible to write a custom “bbPress Pack” that would totally override the default bbPress theme layer, without it even touching your current theme. I think that’s the ideal setup really, one where you can kinda “bolt on” parts of a website without needing to move files around here or there.

[thomseddon]

Evening,

Although the code is well documented within, I am having trouble getting my head round all the files/locations in the first place!

I wanted to hide my forum by default (as oppose to having to choose public/private), achieved this by getting down and dirty with all keys that feed into the “post__not_in” field in the main forum query.

Having achieved this, my question: Where in earth do I change the friendly “Oh bother! No forums were found here!” message???? Can’t find it anywhere!

Thanks in advance