[PascalKroeze]

Hi guys,

In the passed I created a website with bbpress.
The default bbpress theme was horrible bad readable.
So I found a way to change the theme so it would match my wordpress theme.
After update the theme got reset to the default bbpress theme again.

Now I have created a new wordpress website.
I stumble at the same problem again.

Is there something simple how I can change the bbpress theme (user friendly)
I have been reading forums and this is really giving me an headache, all solution are based on editing files, creating child theme ccs files etc etc, all complicated stuff.

There must be something user friendly to change the default bbpress theme right?
Is does not have to match my wordpress theme, if I can just select something different that would be great.

Friendly regards,

Pascal

[Robkk]

@lucylu4000

You can add a custom link to your forums in the menus section.

it should be yoursite.com/forums by default.

[Robkk]

Usually when you have BuddyPress installed the Extended Profiles component is activated by default, bbPress forum user profiles links use the BuddyPress extended profiles.

You can see if copying the BuddyPress templates into your child theme would fix things.

Theme Compatibility

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

[Robkk]

if you have the pro version they give you an editor for the bbcode/shortcode buttons.

If you are messing with the bbPress default quicktags you can change the buttons output display to bbcode/shortcodes instead of html.

If you look at this you can see that it says you can copy the Javsacript from bbPress to your custom child theme.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

So you can copy the editor.js file from bbPress and created custom buttons for your bbPress installation from there. You can see an example to change the output of the code button to just use quote marks.

/* Use backticks instead of <code> for the Code button in the editor */
	if ( typeof( edButtons ) !== 'undefined' ) {
		edButtons[110] = new QTags.TagButton( 'code', 'code', '<code>', '</code>', 'c' );
		QTags._buttonsInit();
	}

This will I think use the bold, italics , and lists format that they use in the plugin.

/* Use some bbcode outputs for the quicktags editor in bbPress */
	if ( typeof( edButtons ) !== 'undefined' ) {
		edButtons[10] = new QTags.TagButton( 'strong', 'b', '[b]', '[/b]', 'b' );
		edButtons[20] = new QTags.TagButton( 'em', 'i', '[i]', '[/i]', 'i' );
		edButtons[80] = new QTags.TagButton( 'ul', 'ul', '[ul]', '[/ul]', 'u' );
		edButtons[90] = new QTags.TagButton( 'ol', 'ol', '[ol]', '[/ol]', 'o' );
		edButtons[100] = new QTags.TagButton( 'li', 'li', '[li]', '[/li]', 'l' );
		QTags._buttonsInit();
	}

[timsilva_]

Hi Stephen! Thanks for all of your volunteer work on this, I greatly appreciate it. 🙂

Just a few questions, and I did do a few days of research (with no luck) before asking.

1.) Any plans to support importing of private messages? I plan to use BuddpyPress + bbPress, so the feature will be covered. What are the chances of adding another checkbox to “optional settings” that says “Attempt to import private messages to BuddyPress”

2.) I have noticed that my existing SMF database had a handful of deleted accounts, so my settings left those posts behind as “Guest” posts (and it displayed the deleted user’s old username). In WordPress + bbPress, I created the original admin/keymaster user in my fresh install. After doing the SMF to bbPress import, the “Guest” posts from the deleted account are automatically assigned to the existing admin/keymaster user that I created in WordPress. Is there a cleaner way to handle this default behavior? Do these posts from deleted accounts require being assigned to an account? If not, could I somehow mass re-attribute these posts to a different account?

[mtupuschies]

Hi,
try the following:

1. In your themes folder create a new folder called “bbpress”
2. Then go to: ../wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/extras
3. Copy all these files into the folder you created in step one.
4. Edit the files in ../wp-content/themes/marketica/bbpress:

Every file in there has the line (close to the bottom):
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
Change this to:
<?php /*get_sidebar();*/ ?>

This should completely hide the sidebar. Otherwise maybe contact the author of the theme. Maybe the theme already contains forum template which may overwrite the bbpress originals.

Hope I could help!

[Robkk]

I have found a way to hide most notices by CSS. Question is, can I keep it that way, or will there be any important notices not showing up later when the user is interacting with the form:

Well that is the thing , I would have to know what is important to you. The notice that shows when a users post is in moderation might be useful so that they know the moderator has to approve their post , but that will not be in til 2.6 of bbPress. Some plugins might hook into that , and some notices might be for post flooding and maybe some users might think their is a bug on your site if they do not know why they couldn’t post.

The Topic/Forum descriptions could also be removed with some PHP using this function and you can place it in a plugin like this.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/functionality/

It should be Plugins > Edit Functions. You can place any code snippet you might see useful into this.

You can place the snippet after the plugin information.

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_forum_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_topic_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

function ja_return_blank() {

    return '';

}

The users plugin you suggest is from 2 years ago; I would not install that. I am told again and again by my hoster and main plugin providers that old plugins are one of the greatest vulnerabilities.

It should be fine , it is a fairly small plugin and very well coded.

You can see the plugins main code functionality in the link below. There is also an empty languages folder and a readme.txt file also in the plugin.

https://gist.github.com/jaredatch/3868274

And then I had to turn off the buttons for html because they are badly formatted, barely legible in white text on light-grey background.

You can fix that with some CSS too. Here is a simple black background to fix it.

#bbpress-forums #qt_bbp_reply_content_toolbar input,
#bbpress-forums #qt_bbp_topic_content_toolbar input {
  background-color: #000;
}

I also would like to offer my clients a possibility to create a profile page with some background on themselves and the business project they are working on.

There is a bunch of plugins that add custom fields like BuddyPress some premium plugins add social features too , just like BuddyPress. The thing I am guessing you want is to highlight it on the Home of the users profile page with the forum role and user stats. This would require some PHP coding to achieve. By default the user can add a description and it would show up on the front-end , nothing too crazy.

[Nuchaz]

I guess I jumped the gun on asking for help on this. A little more digging and I found my answer. I found a way to automatically load my default style sheet in place of the tiny mce style sheet and this basically automatically styled the editor to look like everything else.
Just had to add this to my functions.php:

if ( ! function_exists('tdav_css') ) 
{
    function tdav_css($wp) 
    {
        $wp .= ',' . get_bloginfo('stylesheet_url');
	return $wp;
    }
}

[Robin W]

create a directory on 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/user-topic-created.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/user-topic-created.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

Then modify or overwrite woth your modified file

[Robkk]

I don’t think some themes do this by default , this site has something custom for that.

[Robkk]

The ugly one is the default bbPress layout. Since I do not know how you go the other links below that I can suggest maybe hiding one of them with CSS.

[Robkk]

The “css” directory contains style sheets that work with the default markup. Copy any you want to modify into a directory named “css” in your theme’s root. eg. /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/css/

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Robkk]

bbPress does not have an area to upload avatars it mostly relies on Gravatar by default. You are probably using BuddyPress , if you are contact BuddyPress support.

[Sapsford11]

Thanks very much for your reply Robkk. I’m glad someone has seen my post and can relate to it a little.

I have tried all the steps through the guide without success. The error still occurs with all other plug-ins disabled, in Twenty-Twelve theme, changing the permalinks to default and in all other browsers etc etc. After clearing the cache and restarting the browser i get the error. However . . .

– If i log in to the site via ‘site.com/wp-admin’, i can access the forum fine.
– Then i log out and log in to the forum, no problem.
– If i close and re-open the browser, i am blocked!

The forum is live so i am desperate to resolve this issue. URL http://www.thingstodoinbergen.com/bergen-forum/

Any help or advice much appreciated.

[Robkk]

The center should be a tinymce button either by default or by installing tinymce advanced.

THe double space thing

read this

http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-single-double-line-spacing-in-wordpress/

[Robkk]

All of bbPress’s default plugin files are in the bbPress plugin folder.

[ninjaunmatched]

Hello, I just had a need to make certain Subforums full width while I do want to keep the default set for some others. Is there a way to do that? Example.

Forums (right widget column)
-Other Category forum (all right widget columns)
–forum 1
–forum 2
–forum 3

-Another Category forum (right widget)
–forum 1a (full width)
–forum 2a (right widget)

-Android Forums (Category – Full width everything under full width
–forum 1b
–forum 2b
–forum 3b

[oyeben6]

@gui-n

Hello Guillaume, no i don’t find a solution to solve my issue. BBpress default port is 80, so normally bbpress work in local.

[Robkk]

@kenneston

Here maybe I got confused or something but here it is.

Default Forum Description I was talking about that should work unless you have some custom theme that removed it.

Topic Description I was talking about that would have to be manually added.

[Robkk]

I see you are using something different from the default bbPress registration shortcode.

Did your own issue??

[Robkk]

It should do this by default , if you haven’t already try these troubleshooting steps especially the plugin issue steps.

Troubleshooting

If nothing works contact your theme author

[rolyestemonio]

Hi Everyone,

I am just newbie on this forum bbPress and i guess something is not right with this part:

Step 6: Copy the Default bbPress Theme to Your Child Theme Folder

The default files are no longer stored in wp-content > plugins > bbpress > bbp-themes. There is a folder called default at bbpress > templates > default, but which files need copying I do not know.

While still in FTP and looking at the root folder of your WordPress installation, go to bbPress’ theme folder. That is, go to wp-content > plugins > bbpress > bbp-themes > bbp-twentyten. Download all the files from this folder except style.css. These are the files that will style your bbPress theme.

Now return to your child theme folder (wp-content > themes > yourthemefolder-child). Upload the default bbPress theme files to the child theme folder. You can change the image you see for your child theme in the admin area by uploading a new screenshot.png image to this folder.

I did not saw wp-content > plugins > bbpress > bbp-themes > bbp-twentyten the plugin directory so maybe it was mess i guess. What i saw is this wp-content > plugins > bbpress > templates > default.

Any helps should highly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Robkk]

Do the default bbPress notifications work when you subscribe to a topic or forum??

Test this without the wp-smtp plugin to test just bbPress.

You may need to use this https://wordpress.org/plugins/asyncronous-bbpress-subscriptions/ , but test the default bbPress subscriptions without wp-smtp and this plugin first.

[Robkk]

trying to get the feature image funtionality on front end so user can have the option to upload image about the Topic

This sounds like custom development , you might need a developer to do this type of thing.

get the feature image on Widget “Forum list” Default widget of BbPress plugin

You would need to create a new “Forums list” widget mostly based off the original bbPress default widget.

Then use get_the_post_thumbnail to render your featured images

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_post_thumbnail
https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails

[boazeapen]

The forum page in my website is not displaying the links and is not coming in the proper format. It is working on the default wordpress theme.

Wordpress Version 4.2.2
bbpress version 2.5.7
Website Link: http://www.imagilize.com/forums