For whoever is interested, one of the links I provided above no longer works because I deleted the post. I’m still playing around with things to get a feeling for how they work. Everything seems to be working great, except my WP css has taken over and prevents bbP css from working. Also, the gravatars are not showing up, but that is also like a problem of the css.
Here is a link that does work to show what my forum topic looks like. You’ll notice the css is exactly the same as my blog posts.
http://dailyanarchist.com/forums/topic/css-is-the-problem/
If anybody can help clarify to a noob like me exactly what I need to do to make the bbP css work its magic I would be eternally grateful. I am running a modified default WP theme.
My theme is the default theme, but highly modified. Reading back a little bit it looks like Rick Lewis and I might have the same problem, that we need to figure out how to let the bbpress css do its own thing, yet my website’s css is taking it over, which is what’s messing it up.
JJJ gave three options to remedy the situation, the third option not being possible for me, and the first two doable, but a little bit over my head.
Do you know what’s causing the gravatars not to show up, the css maybe?
I just wanted to note that the only way this works for me is to go into settings and add a forum base and check the include base before slugs box.
If don’t check that box i end up at my homepage.
When I do check that box and have the fields under it empty which it says will use defaults the urls come out like this –
http://crosseyedgaming.com/forums//welcome-committee/
Note the double // which creates a page not found.
When I add slugs http://crosseyedgaming.com/forums/forum/welcome-committee/
and they all go to the homepage.
If I remove the check I can get to my subpages for the forum but the index page will not show. It goes to one of the created forums frontpage and in the title says – Crosseyed Gaming | Blog versus — Crosseyed Gaming | Forum
It seems to me there is something going wrong within the settings for the slugs and rewrites either in the plug in , my site or both.
Thanks for your response. I have my 404.php setup to redirect to my homepage so i’m not sure what’s going on.
The thing is, when i switch back to the default TwentyTen theme forums/forum works as an achieve page with the heading “Blog Archives”.
Sorry if i’m confusing you!
Worked out how to do what i posted above.
Can someone please explain to me why this is happening?
http://stephenjohnmartin.com/spa/forums/forum/
I’m pretty sure this page is using archive.php, which i haven’t changed from the default TwentyTen theme.
I’ve had to create my own page named forums and insert the shortcode [[bbp-forum-index] in order to achieve what i want on the forums/forum page. It is located here:
http://stephenjohnmartin.com/spa/forums/
Basically, how do i make forums/forum appear the same as /forums, or, how do i remove the need for the forums/forum page?
Sorry i’m a rookie.
I’ve updated the script, the latest version can be found here which addresses the issues highlighted by jonkristian (replies not being displayed) and Rick (errors from plugins – turned debug option off by default, though it is recommended that you turn off all plugins) and some others too.
Rick: You should put only the bbs2p.php file in the root directory (where you have wp-config.php. Then change those lines to:
define( 'BBS2P_WP_PATH', '' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */
define( 'BBS2P_BB_PATH', 'forums/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */
JJJ: I’m on that. 
I’ve updated the script, the latest version can be found here which addresses the issues highlighted by jonkristian (replies not being displayed) and Rick (errors from plugins – turned debug option off by default, though it is recommended that you turn off all plugins) and some others too.
Rick: You should put only the bbs2p.php file in the root directory (where you have wp-config.php. Then change those lines to:
define( 'BBS2P_WP_PATH', '' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */
define( 'BBS2P_BB_PATH', 'forums/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */
JJJ: I’m on that.
Scenario:
I am building my own custom bbpress theme. I started by moving all of the theme files into my current theme and also adding in the needed functions from the functions.php file into my current theme.
problems:
I have copied the /theme/bbpress/ folder into my current theme folder.
It seems that any modifications I make to files within MYTHEME/bbpress/ are not being picked up by bbpress. If I go into the actual plugin folder and modify the files in the theme/bbpress/ folder there, then the changes occur.
–requested solution
Please change the loading structure so that bbpress first checks the active theme for all needed bbpress theme files including those in the bbpress folder. If none are found then default back to the plugin theme directory.
It would almost be like treating the currently active theme as a child theme of bbpress. This would make modifications much easier to maintain, while still being able to safely update bbpress.
When I went to phpMyAdmin there is a tabele with id 1 called Default forum. I also had another row which i deleted..it came from a topic i made with buddypress. I tried adding a new row but it did nothing. And when I opened the forum file from the list that i saw when changing index to default I could also see that topic but the layout of the page was wierd.
When I went to phpMyAdmin there is a tabele with id 1 called Default forum. I also had another row which i deleted..it came from a topic i made with buddypress. I tried adding a new row but it did nothing. And when I opened the forum file from the list that i saw when changing index to default I could also see that topic but the layout of the page was wierd.
Adding index.php to the URL didn´t do anything. Changing index to default..well now I see a list of all the files that I have under that folder:S
Adding index.php to the URL didn´t do anything. Changing index to default..well now I see a list of all the files that I have under that folder:S
I began posting here:
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-plugin-updates/page/27?replies=793#post-87320
Still don’t know what’s going on, but I’m wondering if it’s related to running one copy of WP underneath another. My setup is:
webroot/ (production site is here with bbP active and working)
webroot/new/ (test site is here where bbP does not want to work)
‘new’ is just that – brand new 3.1.2 WP install with vanilla everything. But bbP simply will not work within it no matter what I try. If I have permalinks on default, any visit to domain.com/new/forums/ redirects me to domain.com/forums/ and if I set permalinks to /%postnam3%/ then I just get a 404 error with any request for /new/forums/.
Don’t know what else to try. In the other thread, Ryan also found the problem with permalinks, but not the other problem. This is why I’m wondering if it’s related to having 2 installs, one below the other.
Can anyone confirm/deny that this kind of setup doesn’t work?
Thanks!
Jonathan
And if that doesn’t work… this guy here renamed his index.php to default.php to get it to run.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installation-completebutforum-page-not-found
And if that doesn’t work… this guy here renamed his index.php to default.php to get it to run.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installation-completebutforum-page-not-found
@tooltrainer – that’s the price you pay for having something so customized. In the future any custom plugins won’t be able to drop in, and will all need customization. You’re sacrificing ease of use to have something totally unique. You need to ask yourself if you want to keep babysitting your site whenever anything outside of your control gets updated, or if you can make things work with something you have less control over.
Regarding converting from stand alone to plugin, make sure you have a solid backup and restore plan incase something goes wrong.
Regarding theme comparability, bbPress defaults to using the page.php of your theme and replacing the title and the content with what bbPress expects to be there. If your custom theme has page.php all tricked out, you’ll want to find/hire a developer to show you how to bypass it.
Eventually we’ll have a codex here with examples, similar to codex.wordpress.org, until then it’s up to you early adopters to go hunting for solutions and post them up in the forums, for everyone to learn from. I’ve tried to dream up every possible way for things to be filtered and manipulated with this version of bbPress, so you should never need change anything in the core files.
@Fartlek the crazy thing was my styling issues were only in the default themes. When I used another theme things seemed to fit properly. I have since added one or two and been messing around with them. The forum itself is not seen by anyone right now outside the built in forums with the groups. I am working on some other things to get data into the forums prior to linking it with the main site and of course also looking into the new plugin as an option.
I am going to look up the site you mentioned for other themes. Thanks.
@Fartlek the crazy thing was my styling issues were only in the default themes. When I used another theme things seemed to fit properly. I have since added one or two and been messing around with them. The forum itself is not seen by anyone right now outside the built in forums with the groups. I am working on some other things to get data into the forums prior to linking it with the main site and of course also looking into the new plugin as an option.
I am going to look up the site you mentioned for other themes. Thanks.
Also, you shouldn’t need to use your franken-theme anymore. bbPress comes with some pretty cool theme compatibility now. Make sure you *don’t* have
add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );
in your custom theme, and bbPress *should* still work and fill in the blanks. You’ll just need to style your CSS to taste.
As an example, http://testbp.org/discussion/ is using the standard bp-default BuddyPress theme, with no template files moved or shifted around. bbPress is just putting itself where it thinks it should be. I’m using some short-codes on the front page to display everything, and some custom CSS to make it match a little more nicely.
Yeah it’s the plugin version I am playing with. I just discovered the page template that is in the default theme folder for recent topics. So I created a /discussions page and also gave my forum base the slug /discussions and it seems to be working, I don’t know if that could lead to any conflicts or not though?
I will look through the sticky topic to see about the tags. Thanks.
Yeah it’s the plugin version I am playing with. I just discovered the page template that is in the default theme folder for recent topics. So I created a /discussions page and also gave my forum base the slug /discussions and it seems to be working, I don’t know if that could lead to any conflicts or not though?
I will look through the sticky topic to see about the tags. Thanks.
I am finally getting my forums back on track after a major issue with the group forums. I still need help with styling as the default theme does not seem to work for me unless it is suppose to look like crap. The link to my site is in the post above this one as I didn’t want to post it again. I can’t post an image of it or I would do that as well.
Can someone help me get this thing looking the right way?
Thanks.
I am finally getting my forums back on track after a major issue with the group forums. I still need help with styling as the default theme does not seem to work for me unless it is suppose to look like crap. The link to my site is in the post above this one as I didn’t want to post it again. I can’t post an image of it or I would do that as well.
Can someone help me get this thing looking the right way?
Thanks.
Sounds good.
I’ve found working with the plugin to be pretty easy. Beneath all of the code, it’s still wordpress at heart.
The next thing I want to try out is modifying the single topic loop to display certain topics with a different style, something similar to a featured post on a blog.
This is where the meta box was needed, adding a check box to notify the loop to use a different style for those topics.
The default theme has something similar already in place with the first topic posting having slightly larger text than the replies. An additional conditional check should do the trick.
Sounds good.
I’ve found working with the plugin to be pretty easy. Beneath all of the code, it’s still wordpress at heart.
The next thing I want to try out is modifying the single topic loop to display certain topics with a different style, something similar to a featured post on a blog.
This is where the meta box was needed, adding a check box to notify the loop to use a different style for those topics.
The default theme has something similar already in place with the first topic posting having slightly larger text than the replies. An additional conditional check should do the trick.
