[emersonthis]

I’m experimenting with the BBPress plugin on a pre-existing WordPress site and I cannot figure out which template file is used to display the forum.

I’ve tried creating a new page and using shortcode to make the forum appear on that page, then assigning different templates. This seems to have no effect.

Does anyone know how the BBPress plugin decides which template file to use when displaying the forum?

[emersonthis]

I’m also running BBPress as a plugin to a pre-existing WordPress installation. After a lot of trial and error, I deduced that the forum appears on a WP page using the page.php template of the host wordpress theme.

I’ve tried manually assigning a different template file by using the BBPress shortcode on a specific page (created in wordpress) and then choosing a different template, but that option appears to get ignored, which is somewhat frustrating. I’m going to start a new thread for this issue, unless someone can tell me what I’m doing wrong.

[Jordi2000]

Hi there,

I want to install the Biziness template from http://www.spyka.net/phpbb3-styles.

I created a directory called “my-templates” inside my bbPress root directory.

I uploaded the entire businesslike/ folder to the my-templates folder.

Still the Biziness template is not visible in WordPress.

Cannot activate it.

What could be the problem?

Thanks

Jo

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Done! – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1582

[John James Jacoby]

Explain? All of my installs have wp-content located outside of the WordPress install directory, so I don’t believe this to be entirely accurate.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Done! – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1581

[John James Jacoby]

@anmari – At the risk of sounding defensive (which I’m not trying to be) please assume we develop everything with WP_DEBUG on, and anything that pops up is an oversight, not a lack of knowledge or ability. You can create trac tickets at bbpress.trac.wordpress.org to outline the steps to trigger the notices. Thanks!

@ashfame – Ticket please. Thanks!

[Thomas Clausen]

I have different usecases that provoke an annoying error with the reply post type. I think the easiest way to show it, is with an example.

I can generate two different outputs of the post type:

The right one

http://voipsnak.dk/ip-telefoni/emne/velkommen-til-det-nye-forum/#post-30706

The wrong one

http://voipsnak.dk/ip-telefoni/svar/reply-to-velkommen-til-det-nye-forum-4

The right one can be found by clicking:

– the “anchor” URL above each reply

– view from the all replies link in the backend

The wrong one can be found by clicking:

– view from the reply editing screen in the backend

– by using two sitemap generators by the well renowned Yoast: WordPress SEO and Arne Brachhold: Google XML Sitemaps.

– in the feed if I use this guide: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-custom-post-types-to-your-main-wordpress-rss-feed (which might be an error in the guide I know, I just wanted to include this also)

So have I done something wrong? I’m using RC3 of the bbPress plugin.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Caching is pretty much useless for logged in members & plugin doesn’t cache them either, so there will be no caching when users are logged in & I believe forum pages will be cached as usual WordPress pages when users are not logged in.

[raconnor]

So, now that bbpress is a plugin integrated into a wordpress site, how is this going to work out with things like WP Cache or WP Super Cache?

Unless there are very very few members or there is a way to turn caching off for just the forum section of a site, this could be a troublesome partnership to have WP and BBP together.

Anyone know a way to have BBP 2.0 integrated into a wordpress without caching just the forum section?

[Erlend]

[Multisite:] Users can access all forums, or users can only access forums for which they have a role on that specific site?

I think they should have access to all forums. Once you have a multisite setup, isn’t it commonly because a bunch of sites are going to have some unifying factor in common?

On my own site, all forum activity would most likely be confined to a single bbPress install tied to the main BuddyPress site, so I don’t think this decision concerns me anyhow. I would like to know though, would either way be fairly easy to opt into by means of existing settings or a plugin if whatever ends up as the default is not ideal for a particular setup?

Search is a pretty big topic. Isn’t this something that ought to be discussed in context of the entire WordPress ecosystem?, i.e. including at least Multisite and BuddyPress. I really think there ought to be just the one default type of WordPress search, which both bbPress and BuddyPress would plug into. My project will rely on bbPress in BuddyPress, so in my case I’m looking for a BuddyPress search that will properly incorporate bbPress search results.

As for the settings panel, I would agree that the secondary layer of navigational tabs that many premium themes (-frameworks) come with is very manageable.

[williamhussey]

So after “All topics” I would like to have more tabs. How do I do this?

Sorry, a long time WordPress user but a complete noob to bbPress..

[grizzlytizzy]

Hi, I’d like to make a Romanian patch for this so that I can add a forum like this onto the WordPress blog of my site Psiholog Popa Anca. I’m very proficient with Romanian as can be seen there, and I’d love to not only make the patch for myself, but for others too. Let me know how to get started, a link perhaps to a walk-through on making plugins?

[Mike1233]

Thanks for help. i have deactivate the smileys in wordpress.. now i can see it in postbar.

great plugin

[anmari]

One of the amazing things about the new bbpress plugin and wordpress custom post types is that so many plugins will/can integrate with each other by simply allowing the option to apply the logic to the forum / topic/ or reply custom post types.

Several of the questions I have seen can be answered by google “wordpress custom post type”, plus whatever you were looking for.

Perhaps this could be emphasised more in the FAQ etc…

[anmari]

Hi I just tested wordpress plugin Relevansii

It allows you to override the “exclude from search” that the bbpress custom post types may have.

It then searches those posttypes too when a normal wp serach is done.

[anmari]

One of the things I love about wordpress is that I can dvelope my plugins with al debug options on and wp does not generate any notices etc.

I do not know where to log these – not stricytly a bug, but can sometimes be.

Notice: Undefined variable: retstr in C:webwpbetawpwp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-includesbbp-reply-template.php on line 1693

[venividi]

I resolved myself, and it’s hard to say that I did it, because it was just MY problem.

It was due to wordpress plugin ‘Blog reordering’ which forces to reorder. All the problem was gone out after removing it.

Please notify that the plugin, blog reordering, messes forum order.

[master5o1]

Shortcodes go in a page, but you can also use them in themes and plugins using the <?php echo do_shortcode( $content ); ?> function.

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

So in your theme you would put this somewhere:

<?php echo do_shortcode('[bbp-forum-index]'); ?>

[EL45]

Hello,

I have searched both here and on WordPress.org for how to use shortcodes and still can’t seem to get it right.

I have a custom WordPress theme that is based on the stock twenty-eleven theme. I have created a child theme in order to add styling for my BBPress forum.

I’m hoping to mimic a style similar to the forums here on bbpress.org with the forum listings on the side. Am I correct this can be accomplished? If so, where do I include the shortcodes?

Thank you in advance. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Doug Smith]

How do you think it should work? Should forum results appear in your existing blog search? Should they be separated? Should there be some kind of ‘smart search’ that knows where the request came from, and only shows results based on the type of content you are looking at (blog/forum/other)?

The desired mode of search could depend on the site or the page within the site. In my case, I would want to show both main site and forum content in a search from the main site because I want to expose that content. But within the forum pages I wouldn’t mind adding a checkbox to the search to limit it to forum content only.

How about choosing a sensible default to avoid options, but then giving the search function parameters to allow a theme developer to do the kinds of things I described?

@anointed mentioned grouping search results. I would want to be able to code a search results page with mixed content or grouped by posts, pages, forum posts, and other custom post types. But I realize that may beyond the scope of the decision you need to make for this.

I think our settings page is starting to get out of hand. Should we break the one page up into a few, or leave it as 1 page with all options?

Thanks for trying to stick to the “decisions over options” mantra. Opinionated software is much more pleasurable to use.

The settings page does have more options than any of the WordPress settings pages so it is a bit full. I could certainly see grouping all of the slug-related options to their own page. But it’s not so horrible now that it couldn’t go out the door and then be iterated later.

[Doug Smith]

I’ve been attempting to import an existing standalone bbPress install into the plugin version without success. The existing forum is integrated with WordPress. According to the dashboard, it has 31 forums, 6,693 topics, 42,525 posts, 2,545 tags, and 2,711 users.

I set up a test install on my local computer with MAMP Pro, and brought the database and files over. All bbPress plugins and all plugins in WordPress except bbPress are disabled. I bumped up the memory and time limits for PHP.

It chugged through about half of the forums and their topics then just stopped without any error message. I thought this might be PHP timing out or running out of memory so I bumped max_execution_time and max_input_time to several hours and memory_limit to 2048M and tried again. It stopped at the same place with these settings.

There are no relevant messages in my php, mysql, or apache error logs.

I did a repair and optimize on the database tables then did a re-count of all items in the old bbPress forum and tried again. It was very close to the same result with only stopping a few posts sooner.

I looked in the database and checked the message it stopped on and the next numerical topic id messages and didn’t see any odd characters in the post content or title.

One other thing I noticed is that when I went back to the import screen it recognized that I had a partial import with the message “It looks like you attempted to convert your bbPress standalone previously and got interrupted.” I used the “Continue previous import” button but it started back at the beginning again. I’ve also tried the “Cancel & start a new import” button with not change in the results.

Any ideas where else to look, things to try, or additional information I can supply? Thanks.

[master5o1]

To show the graphical smilies you must first allow graphical smilies in WordPress. Do that by going into Settings > Writing and ticking the “Convert emoticons like …”

That will allow standard WP smilies and show the smiley panel on the toolbar. The custom smileys is an option in the toolbar settings page.

I’ll look into where a relevant action hook is for the comments section as well as the id/name of the comment postbox. But I’ll really only be able to test this for the TwentyTen, TwentyEleven and BuddyPress default themes at this time.

[Mike1233]

problem: i cant see smileys. i try copy to wp-content. change settings… all but i cant see the smileys.

have you an idea?

EDIT: …and can you make this bar for the normal wordpress comments? only without images and youtube? i search for a lot of time for a good postbar for comments.

[88dbsakthi]

Forum as home page by changing the settings option. Nice tip!