[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress uses WordPress ‘Custom Post Types’ so there are not any bbPress tables to index.

That said we are looking to improve the performance with bbPress in a few areas, take a look at Trac Ticket #1925 for further reading 🙂

[j w]

Hey all. The “Next Page >>” & “<< Previous Page” links do not seem to be working correctly on the Forums page. We should have 2 pages of Forums, but instead have 11 and they all show the same first of the two pages. We are never able to see the second page (the Forums that begin with the letter toward the end of the alphabet: o, p, q, r, s…etc.). Any ideas about what could be causing this?

WordPress 3.7.1
bbPress 2.4.1

[Robin W]

Yes, and I totally agree, the documentation is woeful, unfortunately those that know the answers won’t update, and the rest of us work out bits that function, but are never sure whether these are the best ways.

Anyway onto your question.

bbPress is a plugin, and out of the box it works well with twentyten, and I understand twentyeleven.

Beyond that you’ll need to style it.

This consist of two elements :

Functionality
Styling

Functionality

I create a page called “forums”, and then put whatever forum text at the top followed by the forum shortcut [bbp-forum-index]

See http://www.gospbc.co.uk/forums/ for an example

Then loading a plugin called bbPress WP tweaks adds a forum sidebar to your widgets area.

I have loaded this with a login widget, forum list, recent topics and recent replies, as well as some other stuff from my website. See link about for what is in there.

This then gives you a basic forum area.

Then onto

styling
bbPress using the default bbpress.css as it style doc unless you tell it otherwise

You can customise look and feel – fonts, colours, background quite easily by using one of two methods, knowing what to change is the hard part !

If you have an existing child theme, you can override the bbpress default for elements by adding them to your own child theme style.css BUT you need to put !important into them to prevent the bbpress plugin from loading later and overwriting them with the default

As an example if you wanted to change the font-size of the forums list you’d put the following into your css

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
	font-size: 11px !important;
	}

The alternate method, and perhaps better if you want to make lots of changes, is to copy the default bbpress.css from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css
to /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/css/

you can then edit it there to your hearts content, and you don’t need the !important bit.

OK so how do I know what to edit?

You’ll need to get familiar with using something like firebug with firefox. This lets you examine sections of your website and see precisely what css element is styling it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdIk2PztcL0 gives the start of a tutorial on this

When I get a moment, I’ll start to add this to the bbpress documentation.

I only started with WordPress and bbPress in March, and am still learning the basics !

[thirtyfivemill]

I would say you’re spot on Bobby. 2 years down the line from this thread and I’m beggared if I can find clear, concise documentation on how to install and activate a simple bbpress theme. I just don’t get the point of spending all this time and effort to create forum software and then refuse to properly help people to use it. Like you said, more people will just give up than actually install and use at this rate.

I can honestly say it was easier to integrate phpbb3 with wordpress using a complex modification than it is to properly set up a bbpress forum, which is meant to be seamless.

Might be time to look for another solution if this is the future. Not wishing to be snappy and I know this is free software, of which I’m sure we’re all appreciative, but this has to be one of the most frustrating installs I’ve ever encountered.

[Daniel Lemes]

Anywhere in your theme (i put on a custom page template), use this:

$wp_roles = new WP_Roles();
$wp_roles->remove_role("bbp_role");

…where “bbp_role” can be “bbp_keymaster”, “bbp_participant”, etc. This worked for me.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_role

[inspirationally]

After moving my bilingual 200,000 posts forum from Woltlab to bbPress, I realized, that the completely English forum with English forum descriptions etc. is too difficult for some of the German members, so I would like to somehow filter the German topics.

Already before importing, I created a custom field bbp_language and when creating the topic, they can chose a language, so that in the topic overview, you can see either of the flags – see http://deppheads.com/forums/new-posts/

With qTranslate, I can add German Forum descriptions, but maybe there is an easier possibility with just adding such a field to the Forum descriptions, not the whole site. I will have to write a little custom fields plugin for that.

I have no idea yet, how to set the language…if to display one language only or all – if it is in the profile, Cookie, if it is a little extra-URL like /de/ or a drop down?!?

My bigger problem is, how can I make, in the sub forums, that only threads with German or only English threads will be shown? Is there some filter / hook that I can use?
Any file or function or short code?

Like in „normal WordPress“ it would be

<?php query_posts('meta_key=bbp_language&meta_value=German‘);  ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

[JMG]

Hello, is there any way for my forum members to click the topic and view it’s answer in a drop-down style below the topic/question itself(accordion style) ? I do not want the answer to show up on a different page. Either the answer slides down the question itself or shown in lightbox style upon click. Is this possible ?

I am asking this because my forum is not a discussion forum but Q an A forum where there is only 1 answer to the question asked by members.

Using latest wordpress and bbpress build
Kindly help.

[the one b]

Hey @purplep,

Thanks for this. I have just gotten into WordPress and I’m working my way through learning what’s going on. Your directions were easy and to the point.

Thanks,
B

[Robin W]

Great, glad you’re fixed

[austinator414]

@robin-w I actually fixed it.
I installed bbPress when the Twenty Thirteen theme for wordpress was also installed.
When I changed to “Clean Black” Theme, bbPress was still using the Twenty Thirteen style. So I uninstalled it and reinstalled it so that it would gather its styles from ‘Clean Black”. All fixed now. 🙂

[FreeWPress]

One solution… If you have modified in error function.php, you must access via ftp, download the file in local…. Download original frontier theme from wordpress, open it with winzip or winrar and find original function.php and upload it on same of older function.php …

Only solution is to access via f.t.p no other!!

[FreeWPress]

Hi, this is a problem by Yoast WordPress SEO plugin and other seo plugin wich don’t love bbpress…

You must to go in yoast settings to find any setting to configure it.. if is possible.. I have same problems with All in One SEO plugin.. And i writing to author plugin to resolve this issue…

Before to use a custom function to replace it, go in plugin settings and found one solution..

[Robin W]

ok, plan B !

Try this for me

Bbpress sidebar fix
Deactivate bbpress tweaks
Dashboard>plugins>bbpress tweaks>deactivate

Go into widgets
Dashboard>appearance>widgets

And look at the bottom of the left hand side. You’ll see an “inactive sidebar”, with your entries on
Below this is an “inactive widgets”
Drag all the entries from the inactive sidebar to the inactive widgets area.
This them allows wordpress to delete the sidebar
I normally log out and in again at this stage – probably not needed, but I’ve never bothered to check
Then basically reverse the above
Re-enable bbpress tweaks
You see the bbpress sidebar returns
Drag the entries back from the inactive widgets area to the sidebar

If that doesn’t work, come back I have a plan C !

[williamyap]

hi,
I’m new on wordpress and just now i was trying to customise the theme and next thing i know is i couldn’t access to my website anymore.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function frontier_option() in /home/palgadi1/public_html/web/wp-content/themes/frontier/functions.php on line 344

when i click into my website http://www.palgadingwisata.com/web that the line i get.
please somebody help me.
i have no idea at all what to do about it

[Stephen Edgar]

Do not check the following setting:

Purge Previous Import Purge all information from a previously attempted import

Do check the following setting:

Start Over Start a fresh conversion from the beginning

There is something weird going on with the above that ‘Purge Previous Import’ setting that I am looking into, it works for some and not others and is really bugging me 🙁

In between imports if it doesn’t finish and you need to try again you will manually have to delete the imported users from the WordPress User admin panel and reset bbPress’ forums as per https://codex.bbpress.org/reset-forums/.

[jsalomone]

I have gone through those steps a number of times already, including removing the membership plugin. This membership plugin is not specific to bbpress. It has no awareness of topics and users and such. It is to restrict access to wordpress pages and posts.

The way the forum is protected is by this code: https://gist.github.com/strangerstudios/1633637
What it basically does is determine if it is going to show forum content or not and then either not show it at all and redirect to another page (in my case the home page) or continue and show whatever the forum is showing. It does not discriminate between topics or replies or whatnot from what I can tell.

Again, disabling that bit, or disabling the membership plugin as a whole does not make a difference.

Walking through all forum roles: blocked shows a 404 page, all the others show the content except the first post (of type topic)

Walking through all wordpress roles: only administrator will show the first post (of type topic)

[Stephen Edgar]

@jaredatch/ has an update for this plugin that hasn’t been pushed live yet.

Grab the link via this post https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-in-bbpress-24?replies=5#post-4687693

[Robin W]

There were some instructions here

https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/

But they are out of date

Your forum link didn’t work, but if you post again, I’ll take a quick look to see if teher are any quick and easy changes you could make

[Nizam]

Good to see this!

Gonna try to convert my forum next week. (have to duplicate current database to ensure if anything goes wrong I still have the backup ) .

My forum stats : “405019 Posts in 13948 Topics by 8112 Members”.

I’m running on my own dedicated server, intel xeon + 8gb ram. I wonder how long it gonna take.

Wordpress + BbPress + BuddyPress + (WPMU?).
my very own Arts social network perhaps?

😀 Congratulation for all good work.

Regards.

[austinator414]

Hey guys!
I have a little test site running for fun here.
As you can see, when you click on the forums page, bbPress is extremely light and does not fit in with the theme I am using.
Can I get any instructions on how to make bbPress sue the same style as my WordPress theme?
I am not extremely familiar with coding, so simple instructions would be the best!
Thanks!

[Robin W]

All first posts on an area are “topics” and the subsequent ones are replies, so it is correctly doing that.

These are called custom post types

User levels (eg admin) would/should not affect this

I suspect the issue is in your memberships plugin – even though you’ve tried. Do you anywhere define what is shown to users? if you can find the word “replies” anywhere then look for adding “topics” as well.

I’d suggest that you add a new user (yourself but under another name) and then play with the settings for both wordpress and bbpress. I presume you are aware that when you have created a user, if you go back into edit then you’ll see a bbpress role for each user. So play with both of those and see what displays topics and replies and then come back.

[Robin W]

ok, you would easily see it in usermeta table if it was there.

would suggest that is why it is coming up a 0

can you try

Dashboard>tolls>forums
and then the tab ‘repair forums’

and then click “count topics for each user” and “count replies for each user”

and see if that fixes it

what versions of wordpress and bbpress are you on
do you have buddypress also installed?

[Robin W]

presume you mean this is the piece of code you’ve tried?

Enable Visual Editor

have you tried this plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

[rmughal]

Just want to know how does bbPress include page templates (/templates/extras/….) into the WordPress page template dropdown which are available when creating new pages. Just want to know where the code exists in the codebase

[Robin W]

Sorry wasn’t yelling – have now seen that this is a password protected page rather than a wordpress password

will take a look