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.
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.
So what does one doofo make Buddypress and bbpress 2 speak to each other?
Let’s assume were using Buddypress’s default theme.
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.
@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 
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!
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.
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
War82, the answer depends on your theme.
Most likely, your theme will generate the links in the menu bar automatically from your pages.
In this case, the easiest solution for you would be to add a simple redirection plugin such as this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/screenshots/ (first result if you search ‘redirect’ from the ‘add new’ plugin page in your wordpress installation)
Then you would just create the page “Community Forum”, copy the URL of the page (e.g. http://www.yourblog.com/community-forum)
With the plugin installed and the page created you would just go into the redirection plugin setting menu and add a redirect from the community forum url to your forum url (www.yourblog.com/forums by default)
Good luck
I had this problem, and resolved it by editing the bbp-forum-template.php file.
You need the bbp_list_forums function at about line 637..
Find:
// Defaults and arguments
$defaults = array (
‘before’ => ‘<ul class=”bbp-forums”>’,
‘after’ => ”,
‘link_before’ => ‘<li class=”bbp-forum”>’,
‘link_after’ => ”,
‘count_before’ => ‘ (‘,
‘count_after’ => ‘)’,
‘count_sep’ => ‘, ‘,
‘separator’ => ‘,’,
‘forum_id’ => ”,
‘show_topic_count’ => true,
‘show_reply_count’ => true,
);
If you edit the ‘seperator line, replacing ‘,’ with '<br />'
Then you will list your forums as required.
hello everyone i want to add a plugin (who is online) in forum index footer.
how to do it? and how to change the default (page.php) to other new page
thank!
http://www.pakhobook.com/discuss
I’m using a custom theme (Clockstone) that is based on dark colors. The default twentyten theme doesn’t work for me.
So I copied all the single-*, archive-*, page-* files, as well as the bbpress, css and js files into the root of my theme.
So I have wp-content/themes/Clockstone/single-forum.php as an example
I editted the css file to fit my color scheme. But once I add:
add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );
to my functions.php then bbpress breaks completely, and all my forum links return 404 errors. If I remove that line, then the urls and forums work, but with the default theme.
I’m using the latest trunk as of today. Any suggestions?
For the Forum base I’m using “inside/forums” as it’s designed for logged in users only. Everything else is pretty much default.
The Topics base I left as “topics”. The Topic Tag Slug is “tag”.
The only thing changed besides the Forum base is the Topic slug. I changed that to “forum-topic” because I’m using “topic” for the Tags base in my Permalinks throughout the site.
The URL for the tag that is causing the 500 error is “/inside/forums/tag/announcement/”. “Announcement” obviously being the tag.
I’ve reserved the Permalinks several times, still get the 500 error.
Thanks so much for your help and all your hard work on this plugin, it’s a great one.
Bret
Are you using a plugin that is being greedy with it’s query filtering?
The number is limited by the ‘_bbp_forums_per_page’ in the DB, and it’s default value was 15 or 50, depending where it was called.
I think I finally figured this whole bbpress thing out somewhat…finally!
I just need a little help from the community here to add one last thing.
My forum can be viewed here:
http://www.theurbantwist.com/community
Nevermind the “Company Man Comic” banner that’s there now…it’s just a place holder til I get a banner designed strictly for this forum.
I’m used the bbpress plugin and the default bbp-twentyten theme that came with it…nothing fancy. I just updated some of the css code that would apply to make some of the tables fit.
My main question is how could I go about adding a “Recent Topics” list on the front page of forum as seen on this site?
Open Forums
It looks they’re using the same default theme that I am.
Just curious as to how I would list Recent Topics beneath my forum list on the front page. Like what theme files would I have to edit and such.
Appreciate the help.
Thanks
@Gustav820
If you have a page set up as your front page in WordPress Settings->Reading, bbPress will use the title of that page.
If no front page is specified, then bbPress will use the default of ‘Home’, but you change this by modifying your translation. You can do this by including the following code in your functions.php:
add_filter( 'gettext', 'my_translations', 10, 3 );
function my_translations( $translation, $text, $domain ) {
if( 'Home' == $text )
$translation = $translations->translate( 'My Homepage' );
}
I hope this helps.
John
When you publish a post or a page with a gallery, the so-called “attachment pages” you get when clicking on each thumbnail adopt your default Settings, not the options you select in the post or page editor.
Whatever you change in your Settings will apply to posts or pages you create after you’ve made that change: it won’t affect already created posts or pages.
So the only way to have gallery attachment pages with no comment field is to disable commenting in Settings>Discussion before creating gallery posts or pages, (and override it in the Discussion module of the post/page editor for posts/pages in which you do want to allow commenting).(dll)
1. Yes it is possible. Depending upon what you want to display, I would start by looking at the widget code for bbpress to see how they are pulling out the most recent topics and apply that to your theme home page.
2. Not by default but there will be changes on that in the future.
Ok. I solved it by installing the Members plugin and creating a new role that only allowed “Publish topics” and “Publish replies”. That got rid of the “Add Topic” and “Add Reply” options in the horizontal Admin bar and solved the problems I had.
Also, as soon as I give the user any Page permission (reader, author, editor) he can see all the private forums in the Topic Attribute select box.
update: That problem might not be related so I appologize for posting it in this thread.
Ok. I tried again as Admin and still the forum I select does not kick in with the Topic.
I´m having the same problem actually.
I´m using Role Scoper and have the following permission:
The user has a Forum Participant role with a “Topic Author” role added to it. When I add a topic from the Admin panel I can choose all of the available forums that are not private.
The forum I select is doesn´t tag along when I post the topic and therefore it is added as a topic in no forum. I can see it because the forum doesn´t list it but the “Recent topics” widget does.
Blue.
Does anyone have any ideas? I need to get this working soon for a client.
I have a template that is not compitablity with bbpress. When I go to http://www.domain.com/forums it uses the page.php template, which does not list the forums.
Without integrating anything, is it possible to drop page-forums.php into my template directory?
Update – it appears that the bbpress forums slug defaults to page.php inside my template, since my theme does not offer bbpress support.
Without having to integrate the child bbpress theme, how can I simply make it display the forms available on something like say page-forums.php?
I tried a snippit to redirect page to page-forums but it did not work.
