hi
i have searched the forums for a solution, but havent found anything relevant.
anyway, i am developing a custom theme for WordPress + buddyPress. lets call it My Awesome Template.
all the theme’s files are in wp-content/themes/awesome.
there, ive got my own style.css and functions.css. in style.css i have defined Template: bp-default, and as i am creating a child theme for buddyPress with a few overrides.
now, i want to work the same way with bbPress. i cant copy over the contents of bbp-twentyten into My Awesome Template folder (wp-content/awesome/), because this overwrites my own functions.php and style.css.
i want to overwrite only certain files, so for example i want to change the main forums index and topics list.
in my perfect world i would do it like this:
add_theme_support (bbpress)
and then i would just create two files: bbpress-forums.php and bbpress-topics.php and then id put there my own html.
is this possible? if im not able to choose my own filenames, then please tell me which files to copy where EXACTLY.
thanks.
I am so confused here. I have installed the bbPress forum on my website via the link below, but how do people register to post and reply to topics? There’s no visible link.
http://theviruslibrary.com/forums/
I am using the default Twenty Ten theme, WP version 3.2.1.
Do I need to install BuddyPress to allow people to login? Thanks in advance.
I had the same problem with a theme that had over aggressive flush rewrite rules (load on every page) but as you are running the default theme, I have no idea what the problem is.
Hi,
I have the same problem as elmalak.
I would like to use a page to put my shortcode in – however if you do this then the links all revert back to the default forum slugs?
Jamie
But bbPress.org.es why don’t you help with the official translation on glotpress?
You can find the Spanish one here https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/es/default
But bbPress.org.es why don’t you help with the official translation on glotpress?
You can find the Spanish one here https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/es/default
I’m having the same problem…I installed bbPress about two months ago and it worked right out of the box, then I got going on other things and just came back to work on it again and I can’t get the forums to display. If I go to the forum page, it has the title; but before, there was a listing of forums and I could navigate through to the topics. I’ve tried using the shortcodes and they work fine, but I’d like to get things working through the standard hierarchy (e.g. forums, topics, etc.).
I’ve cleared the cache, flushed the permalinks, and changed the name of all the slugs (they’re currently changed back to the default names), uninstalled, then reinstalled the plugin (but didn’t delete settings from the database). Also, I know I’ve updated the plugin at least once since first installing it.
Some sample pages:
http://powerofmoms.com/forums/ (should show listing of all forums, but just get blank page)
http://powerofmoms.com/forums/forum/general-discussion/ (should show topics for this particular forum. Shows description text, but no listing of topics)
I haven’t made any changes at all to the template yet…just wanting to get things working again. Any suggestions?
@anoited – I’m probably haven’t made myself clear on exactly what I want.Just to clarify what I have and want doing:
Main Template Theme is BuddyPress default
Using shortcodes to display my main Forum Index
In my Child Theme I have added a folder called bbpress with one file called loop-single-forum and changed the bbp_list_forums() part.
Am I suppose to copy the whole template of bbpress into my child theme. As at present everything is working exactly how I want it except for the part where it displays it displays the subforums with (0,0) next to it. I just want it to be removed.
I have tried the following:
1. Deactivated all the plugins
2. Tried a default theme.
But unfortunately, when using the recount for “Count replies for each user” always fail.
I’m not sure what else I can try. Would turning debug on help?
Not sure where this should be posted, here or on buddypress.
I currently have buddypress 1.5-beta-3 and bbpress 2.0-rc-5 running on my test site and I would like to hide the topics and reply count via the functions.php.
I am also using a custom child theme so that any modifications will not be overridden after updating. The only thing I have in my custom child theme is a blank style.css. I tried entering some styling into the blank stylesheet but nothing is displayed, it’s as though it is ignoring my stylesheet and retaining the default especially the next gallery css but this is another issue. Whenever I add a functions.php with something in this, the site falls over.
Anyway, what coding would I add into the custom child theme functions file? I know that if I copy all of the bbp_list_forums(), I will get an error to say it cannot be redeclare. By the way, the custom child theme is located in my themes folder.
Any help would be most appreciated.
I’m running bbpress 2.0 rc-5 with the default styling included with bbPress. I have customized my theme functions to include forums, topics and replies in search results.
i.e.,
// Add Forums, Topics and Replies to search results
function my_add_bbp_to_search( $post_type ) {
$post_type['exclude_from_search'] = false;
return $post_type;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_register_forum_post_type', 'my_add_bbp_to_search' );
add_filter( 'bbp_register_topic_post_type', 'my_add_bbp_to_search' );
add_filter( 'bbp_register_reply_post_type', 'my_add_bbp_to_search' );
When the first search result is a page or post, the results are formatted according to search.php (as expected):
http://www.climberswa.asn.au/?s=frankland
When the first search result is a forum, topic or reply, the results don’t use search.php and seem to render using bbpress template parts:
http://www.climberswa.asn.au/?s=albany
This looks particularly bad when the first result is a topic as it will display the threads:
http://www.climberswa.asn.au/?s=cawa
Is this a defect in bbpress intercepting the search or a limitation of using the default styling?
The only modifications I made was following your instructions in terms of copying everything from the bbpress default theme over to the WordPress theme folder. Then all I was editing was the css…
Where in the css would be the paragraph tags for users reply box?
Also the HTML Tags that users can use don’t function either >_>
there is no “default role” under “network settings” Where do you see this default role? there is also nothing under users in the network admin pannel to change anything. and there is no way to change the user roles on individual sites unless you do it manually for each user
Change the default role in your network settings.
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?
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!
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?
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!
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.
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
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?
Cyclecincy is currently using the default theme that comes with bbPress 2.0.
Cyclecincy is currently using the default theme that comes with bbPress 2.0.
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?)
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?
