[MTPrower]

Using WordPress 3.4.1 and bbPress 2.1.2.

Ever since I began using bbPress, about two years ago, one thing has driven me up the wall– the forums root, or forums index, or forums archive– whatever you want to call it. It’s the page that you land on when you go to the forums, the page that you get to when you click the root page “Forums” in the breadcrumbs, the same “Forums” link after “Home” in the breadcrumbs. No other forums system except bbPress uses a slimmed-down, so-bland-it’s-not-worth-looking-at template for the root of their forums like the Forums Index.

I tried several ways to make the root page of the forums look like a Single Forum page, in all its not-slimmed-down glory:

• Rename the Forums Base on the settings page to “forums-index” and use a WordPress page with “[bbp-single-forum id=####]” in it for the landing page of my forums. This, however, still keeps the breadcrumbs link, “forums”, linking to the Forums Index. Since I can’t figure out how to change that link, this method doesn’t work.
• Edit content-archive-forum.php so that it displays the content of my WordPress page with “[bbp-single-forum id=####]” in it, and nothing else but the site header and footer and whatnot. Having a custom Forum Index page like this would be ideal, but for some reason it glitches out, displaying like the normal Forums Index, but with the entire forums index, including all categories, under a single category header. For every new single-forum shortcode you add to show another forum, it just repeats what the first shortcode did, too.
• I could rename the forums base to “forums-index” like said before, and redirect “forums-index” to my WordPress page, but it’s a little ridiculous that I would have to rely on something as sloppy as a redirect hack…

Somebody please help me figure out what I can do. Every other forums out there shows their forums index in what bbPress calls “single forum” view. I just want to do that with bbPress too.

• This topic was modified 13 years, 9 months ago by MTPrower.

[capsx]

check those two posts:

link in standart WP post: http://wordpress.versuspro.lv/uncategorized/test/

the same link in the forum: http://wordpress.versuspro.lv/forums/topic/test/

[John James Jacoby]

I don’t understand. Do you mean here at bbPress.org? If not, and you mean the bbPress software, it’s using whatever WordPress core uses.

[jmperu]

when I install in wordpress bbpress with BuddyPress I get this errorFatal error: Allowed memory size of 50331648 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in on line 1056

[Stephen Edgar]

Here it is here for me http://imgur.com/a/mW7LM#3

WordPress 3.4.1 – bbPress 2.1.2 – bbPress WP Tweaks 1.2

Do you have any other plugins enabled or custom funtcions for your theme that could be conflicting?

[Stephen Edgar]

Give this plugin a try if you only want to do some CSS tweaks.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-custom-css-file/

If you do want to go down the custom templates route https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[John James Jacoby]

You can stop bumping this. I don’t know what “proper attention” means to you, but I can’t look at it any more than I already am. If it’s critical to you and your site, dive into the code and start fixing things.

[richardpd]

HiMy WP theme format is broken after updating to latest version of bbPress plugin.Can anyone help me fix it please?WP site:http://richard-dickinson.com/Most grateful for helpful replies(see also this post:http://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-462?replies=15 )Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

@DevArthran There has since been another update and unless you downloaded the version you are using from the ‘SVN Trunk’ you wont have the latest patches.

You can download an updated version of bbp-user-functions.php (4141) which has worked for a few others it will be in the next update of bbPress.

It would also be great to get some feedback on the vBulletin import as we have had very little feedback thus far from anyone migrating from vBulletin to bbPress.

[Genesiz]

Ok, so im not much into reworking css and all that.but i have this wordpress site, and added BBPress to it.the plugin works pretty well, except for the Colors.as i have white writing on the page, and BBPress makes a white background, no matter what i change in my normal theme.

so i thought i would add a template to use instead… but cant get this to work.Added the template files to wp->plugins->bbpress->my-templates

so could anyone give a noob freindly guide on have to make it work?

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks, It is now being investigated and if confirmed will try to get the patch in for the next release.

[newpress]

Bumping for proper attention

[kriskl]

hi,it is a ‘work around’ sure,

but ideally, it would be great to have it built in, and if the reply ‘opened’ reply window below the post, and the answer went straight under this post – like threaded comments do in wordpress

[MTPrower]

It’s been 24 hours, so I’m gonna bump. From what I know about past experience, I’m allowed to do that.

Maybe I haven’t been clear about my question– I’m looking for the best way to edit theme files and keep my changes after an update. Should be common knowledge, but the new documentation layout is confusing. I can’t find anything on theme compatibility or WordPress themes taking over bbPress template files…

[Stephen Edgar]

Have a look at this plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/

It will give you a different sidebar whenever someone is on a forums page and you can populate it with whatever widgets you need.

[Stephen Edgar]

What error messages are you getting specifically? I could not find the ‘WordPress Database Backup’ plugin you are using

I just installed and activated these three and I do not see any conflicts?
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-everything/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/the-events-calendar/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

• This reply was modified 13 years, 9 months ago by Stephen Edgar.

[mluther]

P.S. I am using the 99.99%-unmodified Twenty Eleven theme.

(The one modification is removing the “Proudly Powered by WordPress” in the footer.php)

[mluther]

Wordpress version: 3.4.1bbPress version: 2.1.2

How can our forum visitors register and log in to our forum?

I’ve just installed bbPress on my WordPress-powered website. I opened up an incognito window in Chrome to simulate a visitor to our site. I went to http://ourwebsite.com/forums/. I don’t see any place where people can register a new forum account or log in.

I clicked on the one forum we created called “General” (http://ourwebsite.com/forums/forum/general/), and I still do not see any place where someone can register or log in.

Must I install some plugin or extension?

Please help.

[moneyonlinetalk]

No body here is giving out complete details how to integrate forum into my wordpress blogs Nigeria University news

[alturner]

I’ve spent days on this too, and although this topic didn’t help. it’s one i came across in my search, so thought i’d update with what worked for me.

I think it’s now quite simple, but very unintuitive. Hopefully my explanation works for you guys too.

IT’S NOT IN THE BBPRESS.CSS file! Arghhhhhhh

Firstly, I started using chrome instead of iexplore/firefox. Using this I navigated to the topic/reply box that wasn’t letting me see the text, right click, and select inspect element. The box at the bottom, and to the right, can then help you identify where it’s picking up styles from. You should see a section at the bottom saying matched styles, in my case ‘content.css’

If you hover over the style name (content.css for me) it should show you the location file and the section of code you need to change

The file I needed to amend was http://www.your_website_here.co.uk/wordpress/wp-includes/js/tinymce/themes/advanced/skins/wp_theme/content.css

And I just changed the section below, where color: #fff was previously different

body { font-family: Georgia, “Times New Roman”, “Bitstream Charter”, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; color: #fff; margin: 10px; min-height: 100%;}

I really hope this method helps others, as it’s been getting right on my nerves

[meamrussian]

I’m having the same issue. I see two conflicting instructions for theming:

This page shows to make your own template within /my-templates/your-theme/. This page shows to put it in your wordpress theme folder: /themes/your-theme/bbpress/bbpress-files.php. So which is it?

Nevertheless, I tried doing it both ways, and neither show in the dropdown in forum settings. I tried copying the theme-compat theme in order to customize bbpress.

Can someone help, please?

[jjman]

Really appreciate the work you’ve done with this forum software. It’s perfect with WordPress applications!

I’m wondering how it’s going with multisite installations?

The scenario I’m currently working on is where the forum is installed on a multisite, where all sites uses full domainmapping. Now, I would like the registration process to stay on the current webpage. Right now a new registration is taken to the primary domain (default multisite behaviour) But wouldn’t it be possible to have the options to keep everything ‘within’ the webpage where the forum is installed, especially on domain with domainmapping? As this would be the most logical I think for the end user?

Input, feedback? 🙂

[moneyonlinetalk]

I don’t know if am going to get help here, but am busy looking for how to make bbpress forum be part of my wordpress site. But after installing the forum, creating it, all i get is ‘this forum is empty’ how can this be resolved? National Open University Nigeriaam looking to create a community where users can share informations freely. Is this possible?

[kriskl]

hi, I am sure, I am not the only one, but I do think ‘Reply” button (and maybe also “quote” button should be added by defult in every post, so users do not have to go to the bottom of the page to reply to given topic,

threaded comments are available in WordPress and it is great feature, so I think it should be nr1 new feature in bbpress 2.2

it is especially useful when replies to a topic take more than one page… especially for new users who never used bbpress.. but different forum software, this would be really great

we are using buddypress forums (after moving from phpbb, and the number of replies is now dramatically lower, because users can’t always find an easy way to reply.. and just give up…

and considering that forums are normally used for “support” – volunteers who would like to reply just give up! 🙁

[DNBrawler]

I really don’t like the auto-formatting in this bbpress forum demo ><