I am currently using the Avada theme which as default displays a forum title at the very top of the page as an awful looking banner. I have turned this off and want to add the forum title in a custom position of my choosing.
You can see my forum below:
http://www.complete-models.com/forum/overview/aircraft/
The forum is called Aircraft and i want the title to show to the left side of “Viewing topic 1 (of 1 total)”.
I know HTML and CSS and have no issues adding the configurations myself however i just need to know which files i need to edit and then copy across into my Child theme directory.
Can anyone assist me here ?
You can customize the <?php bbp_reply_author_link(); ?> and add more attributes to it like what is explained in this guide.
bbp_reply_author_link
The functions you found, show the default arguments set for the links.
This bug is definitely in the latest 2.5.8 release while testing the default themes 2013-15, but is nonexistent in the 2.6 dev version.
So I assume it is fixed already, thing is its in 2.6.
I have found that the following files have functions that might be making the size stick no matter what
From bbpress\includes\topics\template.php
function bbp_get_topic_author_link( $args = '' ) {
// Parse arguments against default values
$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
'post_id' => 0,
'link_title' => '',
'type' => 'both',
'size' => 80,
'sep' => ' ',
'show_role' => false
), 'get_topic_author_link' );
And from bbpress\includes\replies\template.php
function bbp_get_reply_author_link( $args = '' ) {
// Parse arguments against default values
$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
'post_id' => 0,
'link_title' => '',
'type' => 'both',
'size' => 80,
'sep' => ' ',
'show_role' => false
), 'get_reply_author_link' );
If someone could write me a function for just the size part perhaps that would work? I don’t know enough to be able to write one myself lol
@deanhills
I have just tried to load the wp-monalisa plugin and it turned everything in my Forums OFF.
What exactly did it turn off?? I have an issue where the smiley code won’t paste and that is it.
Was a bit disconcerting as when I logged into the Forum the forum index did not show and the links to the Forum would not work, nor the pages.
Link to your forum so I could see this. It may just be a bbPress theme compat/theme issue.
There must be a hick up somewhere as I don’t have anything special – just the BBPress Forum plugin and the Ultimate Member plugin.
I could replicate an issue a little with using a default theme and while having TinyMCE activated, and the default toolbar editor tab is the HTML one it doesn’t seem to work unless I switch to TinyMCE and back.
It does work with bbPress and how its default quicktags editor though.
I can’t find the setting to ensure I get notified whenever a new post is added.
There isn’t a setting by default in bbPress. THere are a ton of plugins for this though.
This plugin that I found might work for you.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-notify-admins/
I cannot find their emails or names at all in my user tab of my wordpress admin
It should be there if you are using the bbPress plugin.
Is the data blank but the users are there, can you not see the columns or something??
I managed to fix my original issue which was caused by a social login plugin creating default avatars from facebook profile pictures, however I have come round full circle lol
I decided I wanted the avatar on the topic page larger and so changed the sizes from 80 to 120 in the only files I can find the code in, loop-single-topic.php and loop-single-forum.php
This has successfully changed the image sizes in the listings (kept to 50px via css) but has had no effect on the topic page. I have searched and searched and feel like I am banging my head on a brick wall lol
I’ve changed the avatar size for topics to 80px, I’d previously changed it from the default size to 50px which I still have it set to with the css on the forums and listing pages, however it is still “pulling” the 50px image and making the topic avatar blurry. I don’t have any cache plugins. Does anyone have any ideas why I can’t get the larger size to display?
Example page: http://www.lissyhunnybee.com/topic/welcome-to-the-forums/
Thanx 🙂
@natinho68
Ok I see now. When you click the author link on your production site, you can see it is trying to lead to the bbPress forum profile then it just redirects to the homepage for some reason. What we need to do is try to find what is causing the redirect.
Can you do some troubleshooting to first see if you deactivate ultimate member and the bbPress addon, that the author links go to the regular bbPress forum profiles fine.
Can you also try in a default WordPress theme too to see if the same issue is present.
Troubleshooting
I cannot see the same issue you are getting with the generatepress theme and also twenty fifteen.
Did you close and sticky a topic from the WordPress backend??
Can you link to your site so I can see if this is a possible CSS issue?
When you switch to a default theme to leave it as default, do not transfer custom code snippets that you may have from one theme to it. Same thing if you have custom code snippets in a seperate plugin to try to pinpoint where the issue is present.
Hi so I installed bbpress and havent changed nay settings.
The forums/topics won’t appear on the default page and it’s just an archive:
What do I do?
Hey Pascal, goeiemorgen,
Thank you for your reply.
Sadly it did not work at all.
The setting
Dashboard / Settings / Forums: Default User Role = Participant; leave other settings at default.
could not be changed because it is unavailable in the settings pane of the dashboard as well.
Permalinks and Port numbers were already set to the suggested ones.
I hope you have another suggestion for me.
My topic tags and topic tag feed pages are only working for admins. I would like for them to be visible to all users, even to the anonymous viewers and search engines. Is that possible? I would think that’s how it would work by default.
For example, this topic tag has 48 pages worth of topics that show up when I’m logged in as an admin. But to the public or even participant users it just says “Nothing Found… Sorry, it appears there is no content in this section.”
http://suretydiy.com/forums/topic-tag/2gig/
Doesn’t this defeat the purpose of having topic tags in the first place? Help?
WP 4.3.1, bbPress 2.5.8.
Yep, the default theme there’s no topic display issue (tested before I posted here.) Just wondering if there was a standard code snippet that should be included in any template in order to get bbpress (wasn’t thinking it would be terribly different from template to template.) Since it’s a pro template, at least I can give their support forum a shot.
Anyone out there w/a similar theme conflict issue, how did you resolve it?
In loop-fourms.php file add your custom “Add Topic” button:
<a href="/new-topic/?ForumId=<?php echo bbp_get_forum_id()?>">New Topic</a>
Add this code to a custom .php file or directly to your theme function.php file:
//BBpress New Topic Button //
add_shortcode('wpmu_bbp_topic', 'wpmu_bbp_create_new_topic', 10);
function wpmu_bbp_create_new_topic(){
if ( isset($_GET['ForumId']) ){
return do_shortcode("[bbp-topic-form forum_id=".$_GET['ForumId']."]");
}else{
return do_shortcode("[bbp-topic-form]");
}
}
//End BBpress New Topic Button //
Make sure you’ve created a custom page titled “new topic” with a friendly url of “new-topic”
Place the new shortcode we registered into this page:
[wpmu_bbp_topic]
This will automatically display contact create form of the selected forum if ID exists in the URL otherwise fall back to default shortcode.
You can see it in action on my site:
http://artofwargaming.net/forums/
Hope this helps anyone who was looking to create a “new topic” button.
I can’t take credit for this, this was all thanks to the help of the guys over at WPMUDEV – Sajid, Anang, and Tyler.
Hi Andy,
1. If you just installed bbPress on top of WordPress, then your usermanagement is done by having normal users in WordPress (see the extra fields like setting the forum roles)
2. Are you using any plugins that deal with members or roles ? If you have set the ‘Settings > Forums > Auto role’ it should be sufficient. Try also to run the repair tool “Remap existing users to default forum roles”
For the forums on the frontend, have a look at this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/is-it-possible-to-allow-all-users-create-new-forum/
Hope it helps,
Pascal.
Hi there, i’m pretty new to this so i may well be doing something wrong but i just installed bbpress, got the bbp style pack to make it easier to pimp out my forum and i made 1 single change to see what was what… I changed the background colour to black from default. I went out of the room for 20 minutes, came back and went to make more changes but now it doesn’t want to change anything at all. I’ve tried changing the background colour back with no effect. I’ve disabled my caching plugin to see if that was having any effect but nay…..
I’ve even deleted ALL options from the bbp style pack options but it’s kept the styles on the page which is even stranger.
Please can someone help with this if they can as i’ve spent a whole week attempting another forum plugin only to realise that it was pony and i should have gone with this one in the first place but now i can’t this one to work either haha. 🙁
my website is 10tu8.com but it’s nowhere near a complete site just yet.
Thanks in advance for any help at all 😉
Neil
Hi,
Most probably a security issue or a redirect to your login page that does not work. If you have any security plugins (like Theme my login) or captcha (like in Jetpack), try to deactivate. Somebody found this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/users-unable-to-register-and-login/
Just be careful : Editing .htaccess can block your complete site. Make sure you have a contact point with your provider and you know what you are doing
Defaults for the .htaccess can be found here: https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess
Let me know if it helped,
Pascal.
Participants cannot use shortcodes by default in bbPress.
You will have to use a filter to allow the shortcodes.
I will post a code snippet and possibly link to a guide when I am off mobile.
Also weird picture to use for your second example haha
If you placed a shortcode in a page, you do not have to add the forum index shortcode to a page but instead use the default forum root url /forums. If you did use a custom index page using the shortcode, editing the forum root slug in Settings > Forums to be the same as custom index page’s slug should help with the breadcrumb thing.
You can always create custom menu links if the pages are not in the menus section.
Hi @robkk
Yes I think its a BBpress bug because I have the same problem with only BP+bbpress active on default theme.
I’ve seen a ton of topics regarding not being able to see the forums at all, but nothing quite like my situation. I can see the top level for my forums, and it is listing topics & replies but I can’t get to them. Although I’ve imported the bbpress templates and css to my template directory, I’m unable to get past the top level for my forums at:
STARFLEET Discussion Forums
When I click on a category, topic, reply, I get a blank like this:
http://sfi.org/topic/heres-a-test-topic/
They do work when I switch to the default template, so is there a step I missed with the template? Is there code that needs to be added to the template header? Something else?
Well, it works for others, so indeed, it must be something on your side. Could be your theme, child theme or plugin issues. Try to switch to a default theme, then deactivate all plugins and reactivate one by one…
Hey everyone,
I started styling up a little support/development forum for my clients to use. It requires a little bit more customization but I have most of the basics down.
Wordpress – Latest
BBPress – Latest
Theme – Salient
Website Forum Page – https://wapp.guru/support/
I’m not using any short codes because this theme actually handles the default BBPress pretty well. I’m just letting the default post types do their thing with Yoast SEO attached. I’ve added a plugin that adds login, log out, and register buttons to the forum itself.
1. How do I set up my site to where people can log in with a WordPress / Gravatar account?
2. The profile page title does not show up and using the Yoast plugin I can’t find any way to target it. Any advice?
View post on imgur.com
3. What’s a good plugin to use for things such as easy navigation for users? I have a few of the widgets in the hamburger menu on the top left. There’s a default login form but nothing regarding registration so I hard coded a link in. There’s a little login form, but no register form. I’ve tried (bbk style pack) but it seems to just place links in the main navigation menu which I don’t really like. It just seems like it’s difficult to navigate around.
Overall I know the forum is open source and requires a good bit of customization. I’m just looking for the simplest way without having to use 50 additional plugins that conflict with one another.
Thanks!
