[dropshot]

Thanks for your reply.

This might seem obvious for the creator of bbpress. But it really isn’t. I think you need to drop the word “partner” cause that is really confusing.

Method 1:
This doesn’t do anything other than adds a page that you can add to your navigation. You could instead basically add a custom link to your navigation because the page itself isn’t displayed since you have the same slug as you set for forum root index. The default bbpress index will be displayed. Having a wordpress-page is just confusing since nothing added to that page is displayed.

Method 2:
This method doesn’t mention the slug at all so I presume the slug here is different then the one set as forum root index. Fine. Name your page anything and add anything along with the shortcode [bbp-forum-index]. There you have it. You think…

You think you have customized your forum index page. But in fact that page is just a non-bbpress page that happens to have bbpress content in it. How so?

1) Your breadcrumb forum index link will still display the default index page.

2) And if you use the bbp style pack to add login-logout-buttons to your navigation it won’t recognize your custom index page as a bbpress-page. (The buttons won’t display when option is set to only display on forum pages)

Maybe it’s just me, but If I create my own index page, of course I want that page to be the index page linked to in the breadcrumbs as well.

So. I’m struggling with the word “partner” here. In my mind it says a wordpress page can partner with bbpress and act as the forum index page. As a replacement not as an addition. It can’t be that you should have TWO different index pages, can it?

So, how do I create a custom forum index page that is recognized as a forum page and acts as the forum index page in the breadcrumbs?

Cheers!

[dropshot]

Customize your Forums root. Partner with a WordPress Page and use Shortcodes for more flexibility.

What does this mean??

I’ve set the forums root to “forums”. Then I’ve created a WP-page with slug “forums” and included some shortcodes.

The WP-page is ignored, so content displayed on /forums is the bbpress default index page.

What does this mean: “Partner with a WordPress Page and use Shortcodes for more flexibility.”??

How do I replace the default index with a WP-page?

[ddevries]

I just installed bbPress 2.5.12 on WordPress 4.7.2. I created a test forum with one topic. I haven’t changed any of the default settings. When I load the forum page, I get this:

Forums
by (Edit)
Search for: Home › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness Cardstock 1 1 1 hour, 55 minutes ago Cheryl

It looks just like a bunch of text with no formatting. Here’s the link: http://livelovecards.com/forums/

I haven’t tried disabling plugins because I have a lot of them and my site is subscription, so I don’t want to disrupt service. I’m hoping this is an obvious problem to someone out there.

Thanks so much for your help!
Darlene

[Stanjop]

I think it might be due to use of the ‘Full Width’ page template. There is a ‘default page’ template which i can choose while adding pages, but i don’t know the location of the .php file of that one.

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[lijitimit]

I am looking to change the buttons in the default text editor to those that appear in the fancy visual editor. My audience is overseas and are familiar with the “microsoft word” style of buttons. I have tried Enabling the visual editor however am experiencing issues with inline replies. I actually prefer the default text editor as it strips out copied html, so really I just need so fancy buttons. Can I do so with css or create a filter to call the other toolbar instead of qt_bbp_topic_content_toolbar ?

[Robin W]

login probably isn’t going to do it either.

Probably a setting in wordpress or your site

or ‘I changed all of the URLs directly in the database’ something mis-set here

Suggest you start by

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

to eliminate these as issues

[wautersandreas]

Hi, i have the same exact problem.
I don’t really know why everybody isn’t tagging this as an issue. As far as i can see, it’s just nog a logical way to do it.

– on the one hand, a forum index is created by default, but cyou can’t use it on it’s own if you want to start customizing things.
– So you need to make a page and put the index in there.
– On the other hand, you can’t easily specify what your page for the root is, so there is no way to let the breadcrumbs be redirected to the index page.

– Are there other options? because the enormous bit of code to fix it is a bit too complex for me.

[TiiuK]

Hello,

I try to import my phpBB 3.2.0 (latest stable version) to bbPress (latest version 2.5.12) using the default import tool in the WordPress 4.7.2 backend. The phpBB is clean, no mods / plugins or custom styles. I get this error:

Repair any missing information: Continue

WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE MNmAD_bbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default ‘0’, meta_key varchar(255) null, meta_value varchar(255) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join (meta_key(191), meta_value(191)) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci;

No data to clean

Starting Conversion

I don’t know any MySQL so I don’t understand what to do. If relevant here the collations used: utf8_bin (phpBB) and utf8mb4_general_ci (WordPress).

Any suggestions?
Tiiu

[Robin W]

untested as I’m short of time this evening but…

create a directory in your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

if you take out line 44 which says

<?php bbp_list_forums(); ?>

Then sub forums will not be listed

[Robin W]

the box doesn’t say ‘Search the Forum’ by default.

If this is the widget in a sidebar, then you can change the title yourself

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[adamjedgar]

How may i change the default search box text “Search the Forum” to something else?

My client does not want a forum, however, i need to organisational structure of a forum to catalogue all of clients articles correctly…so forum is needed (but client must not see the obvious)

[horizon70s]

I should note, I do allow registrations via WordPress….so that shouldn’t be the problem

I left the defaults for user permissions as well.

[lijitimit]

This thread may help. I’m having a similar issue, however I’m only using TinyMCE. I tried @robkk ‘s reply.js file but I couldn’t get it working for me. Maybe It will steer you in the right direction?
PS I’m not using buddypress and I switched to a default theme to test without success.

EDIT: After posting this comment I read on through that thread and found the issues may be unrelated. Looks like he’s having the same problem.

[Roed]

Hi.
I have imported a Drupal forum into BBPress which went fine except for all smileys that are broken and only shows the ‘image not found’ default picture. When I look at the path it states: smileys/smile.gif. As in http://www.domain.com/forum/topic/smileys/smile.gif
I guess if this is true each topic should have it’s own folder with emoticons, but I don’t think this is the case.

What can I do to correct this?

Thanks,
Michael

[chunklady]

Hi,

BBPress uses by default, the answer-id for fragment-reference, like this:

bbPress 2.6 Beta 2

However, I would like to use “post count” instead, so in this instance, “sdavis2702” made the second comment, OP being #0, and therefore I would like this fragment to be #2.

Are there any way to (easily) enable this behaviour in BBPress, without coding in a manual counter?

[jakubsuchybio]

Hi,
at wordpress translation page https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/cs/default/wp-plugins/bbpress
There is a LOT of waiting translations.
Could you please look at it and confirm them as ‘current’?

Thanks!

[figoo]

The code you wrote didn’t work, but your plugin does. Almost exzellent 😀

I have a different question, and I know many post becouse of this issue exist.
But none of them got me to a resolution.

How can I use the full width for my forums? At the homepage of my forumsite it works nice, but as soon as I click on a Forum the disgusting sidebar comes from the right. I tried copying the page.php an rename it to bbPress.php and remove all things that have to do with sidebars. That didn’t work.

Here is the code:

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying all pages.
 *
 * This is the template that displays all pages by default.
 * Please note that this is the WordPress construct of pages
 * and that other 'pages' on your WordPress site will use a
 * different template.
 *
 * @package Sydney
 */

get_header(); ?>

			<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

				<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'page' ); ?>

				<?php
					// If comments are open or we have at least one comment, load up the comment template
					if ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) :
						comments_template();
					endif;
				?>

			<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

		</main><!-- #main -->
	</div><!-- #primary -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

[matthew016]

I have done some testing and I believe the issue is caching within browsers and server caching. Once I clear browser and server cache the text area defaults to the text(html) tab and all works correctly. Anyone have an idea of how to not have the TinyMCE not cached?

[John James Jacoby]

That’s a neat plugin, @robin-w.

I haven’t reviewed it, but the premise seems sound. Integrate it with the Customizer, and it might be a neat addition to the default template pack!

[figoo]

bbPress version: 2.5.11
My Site: http://figoocraft.de/forum-3/
Theme: Sydney

Hello everyone,
I am trying to change the size of my font in bbPress.I tried editing the bbpress.css file in: content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css
First I edited the Size of the bar that holds the topics, that worked perfectly.

Then I tried to edit the overall size of all fonts, so I changed:

#bbpress-forums {
font-size: 12px;
}

To:

#bbpress-forums {
font-size: 16px;
}

That didn’t change anything, so I tried to copy the bbpress.css to my themes directory as that’s what’s mentioned in the documentation. That neither changed anything, so now Im wondering what am I doing wrong?

[TheDream18]

Can anyone help with correct code? I want complete user click edit profile will direct 100% go to custom page like normal without any issue

Issue 1:
First load edit page complete, after that 2 second, reload custom page

add_action( ‘bbp_user_edit_before’, ‘pb_custom_bbpress_edit_profile’ );
function pb_custom_bbpress_edit_profile(){
echo ‘<meta http-equiv=”Refresh” content=”0;url=http://example.com” />’;
}

Issue 2:
No work

add_filter( ‘bbp_pre_get_user_profile_url’, function() {
return get_bloginfo(‘example.com’).’/profile’;
});

Issue 3:
Still load edit profile link without load custom like. But given blank page, no error no warning, just empty link page

add_action( ‘bbp_user_edit_before’, ‘pb_custom_bbpress_edit_profile’ );
function pb_custom_bbpress_edit_profile(){
echo ‘‘;
}

==============
Also change the default url for favorites and subscriptions by doing this:
How can i correct it?

// Replace the default link for the favorites
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_favorites_permalink’, function() {
return get_bloginfo(‘example.com’).’/profile/forum-favorites’;
});

// Replace the default link for subscriptions
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_subscriptions_permalink’, function() {
return get_bloginfo(‘example.com’).’/profile/forum-subscriptions’;
});

=============
Thanks

[matthew016]

The visual tab is the TinyMCE content window. When you have TinyMCE added it creates two tabs, Visual and Text(HTML), that users can switch between when adding a comment or reply.

I have had some other interesting developments. When a topic is open and reply is selected on a comment bbpress switches between the text and visual tabs being the default. If the text tab is defaulted the visual tab works when switched to, but if the visual tab is default then I run into the issue of users to being able to enter content. If I clear browser cache and server cache it defaults to the text tab but then after a little bit of use it starts defaulting to the visual tab. 🙁

Thanks for responding Robin!

[Robin W]

4.7/4.7.1 and bbpress 2.5.12 work

If you have these then :

1. what php version are you running?

your host provider can answer this

or you can install

https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-php-version/

If it’s php7 then come back

otherwise

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back