[M3]

hi, I’m a newbie and I really like bbPress forum but I don’t know how can I install to my wordpress. Some information give advise using FTP such as this information, but the wordpress plugin site give information that the instalation is through the plugin as a normal plugin.

So I follow the wordpress plugin way and it work, I can see th forum, modify add some forum and topics, but I haven’t had any clue on how I can change the theme or how to add the theme.

My first question is, did I installed it the right way? and secondly, how I can change the theme? I make a child theme but it didn’t work. My objective is to have my wordpress theme for the posts and as the forum for now I’m hoping to use the static bbPress forum theme.

I’m truly lost and I don’t know how I can manage to do it? Currently I’m using wordpress 3.5 with leaf theme, and latest bbPress forum bbPress 2.2.3.

My wordpress is currently in the subdirectory of my main site.

My website

My bbPress forum

Thank you in advance and sorry for my bad English.

[ellipszist]

development version
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev
or bbpress 2.2.x
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.2.x

[John James Jacoby]

@steilenhang – ironically, the issue you describe is with those role plugins, and WordPress core, not with bbPress directly.

It comes from the use of WP_User::set_role() which ends up nuking bbPress’s roles. That said, bbPress 2.2.3 also has support for mapping to custom WordPress blog roles, so there shouldn’t be anything “broken” there.

If there is, I’d love to see some specific steps to duplicate the circumstances so I can improve what I can in bbPress.

[Alexandru Vornicescu]

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2121

[Stephen Edgar]

Ahmmm… OK… A couple of things to get started with…

I created a new page under Import Forums called Custom Import where we can start documenting how to go about actually customizing this file.

I also created a ticket #2134 as an update for Example.php is really needed to help improve the inline docs and code formatting to line up with the current bbPress1.php, phpBB.php and SimplePress5.php converters for improved readability will also help things along.

Now onto doing this… If we keep the discussion about Mingle here and update the codex as we go with any relevant information, steps and whatever else we bump into hopefully we will end up with some docs for customizing the included example importer.

I have the first few bits on the codex now, so go check that out 🙂

ps. Anyone anyone can edit the codex docs pages using your bbpress.org credentials.

[Sam Rohn]

this code highlighter based on highlight.js seems to work well with wordpress 3.5 & bbpress 2.2, also ignores angle and square brackets etc

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sunburst-code-prettify/

http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/

sam

[Sam Rohn]

these 2 wordpress plugins allow facebook (+ twitter, google, etc) login for bbpress

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-social-login/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/socialauth-wp/

sam

[KittyBeth]

Hi!
I just updated to bbpress 2.2.3 I have buddypress using bbpress sitewide forums. Using current wordpress version with buddypress default theme and my own custom made child theme.

Updating caused some style problems. I think I had edited some css and forgotten that I did. So I discovered I should copy bbpress.css into my theme. I have done this and have gotten rid of the awful bullets by setting #bbpress-forums to list-style:none.

I need to align LI.bbp-topic-freshness to the right to get rid of a large margin being caused by it aligning center. I told it to align right and it didn’t cooperate! What should I try now????

The site is http://rheum4us.org however the forum is private using the membership plugin.
Thanks for any help!

[Morshed Alam]

Hello,

I am a new user of Bbpress. Currently I have the latest version of WordPress as well as Bbpress. But I am facing an irritating problem. I have created a forum for my site: http://realestateconnectionplace.com/forums/forum/forum/ .I like the url to be http://realestateconnectionplace.com/forum/ . I searched everywhere and found that many a one tried to provide a solution. They made plugins and code for .htaccess file. But all of them make some issues like admin link’s working issue and extra slash in the url.

In a nutshell I am very depressed. Because I am not an expert and found no perfect help anywhere. So I would like to request to John James Jacoby, please consider spending a little time to give us instruction about how to stop Archive Slugs and Single Slugs appearing in the url.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

[Himansh]

My website URL : http://crystalseeds.tk/
Latest version of BuddyPress and WordPress.

So, umm well, I made a change in the website from http://crystalseeds.tk/wp-admin/options.php
I changed http://crystalseeds.tk/ to http://www.crystalseeds.tk/ in siteurl and another field with the site’s URL.

When I opened my website after I did that, the title of my website, just went.
I cannot see it anymore.

I also cannot see my site’s title. It’s the site’s URL now.

What can be the possible reasons? How do I fix it?
Thanks in advance

[Ramiuz]

I have this same problem. I am now downloading version 1.2, to upgrade from 1.02.

But I have my forum on a different database. And would like to import it to the WordPress database. I´ve tried using the converter without success. So would appreciate any help on this problem.

[Stephen Edgar]

Have a look in the codex docs https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

And bbPress source
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/templates/default/bbpress
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/templates/default/extras

[freax]

Hi Lynq.
I’m trying to run your code but seems to not work. I have wordpress 3.5 and CatchBox Theme. I copied the contents of “bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs-master” folder to “/public/www/wp-content/themes/catch-box/bbpress/” but it seems not working yet.

Because forums lists the topics as:

FORUM1
Topic1(0,0), Topic2(0,0)
FORUM2
Topic1(0,0), Topic2(0,0)

But want to make changes to do as:

FORUM1
Topic1 (0,0),
Topic2 (0,0)
FORUM2
Topic1 (0,0)
Topic2 (0,0)

Please, can you help ?
Thanks in advance.

[Stephen Edgar]

Have a read of @jjj’s comment on this ticket in trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2089#comment:6

[John James Jacoby]

WordPress employs some code that limits HTML tags to specific user capabilities, so that only trusted users are allowed to post specific tags. This prevents us from needing to use bbCode or Markdown, just to convert to HTML anyways.

[MSkovmose]

Greetings,

I’m working on my first WordPress page and have selected bbpress as my forum plugin.
However my theme (Montezuma) is not too fond of just installing and using this forum. I found out I had to make new main template PHP files for each page bbpress uses.

I found out that the main page is archive.php… but I’m having problems finding the right page for user profiles.

Can someone help me out here? Maybe an entire list of filenames that bbpress uses?

Thanks. 🙂

[sureshtmp-456]

Hi

I have a wordpress(3.4.1) installation adb bbpress 2.2.2 plugin.

For some reason whenever any tag like , , , etc… are put in the content of a topic, it get removed while saving the topic. Even the tags allowed by default are removed while saving.

So basically a line like

I am going to and will need

will become

I am going to and will need

after saving.

I have tried putting and surrounding the content, but it does not help.

I have also tried “bbpress post toolbar” plugin but that kind of messes of with my theme
and too many things start breaking so I removed this.

I have already spent few days on this issue. Can someone help ?

thx
-Suresh

[aaclayton]

@JohnJamesJacoby, Thanks very much for confirming this! I found the ticket you created with a solution: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4657

I’ll probably go ahead and push this through later today, great work and Merry Christmas!

[nicolaipedersen]

Hi guys and gals.

Right know I use the BBpress log in widget to log users in, but I would like to integrate it with Facebook login.

The thing I would miss if I give up the BBpress log in widget is that then the user presses his name, it redirect the user to is BBpress profile (Not the WordPress controlpanel)

That is the best way to solve this?

Regards Nicolai.

[John James Jacoby]

Hi @rkarel,

Welcome to the forums. If I understand correctly, to do what you want, you’ll likely need to dive into the templates and start writing some custom code.

bbPress comes with a very basic set of templates to get you started, so that you can quickly get started using it. Once you want to customize the look and feel, it’s very similar to WordPress, where you’ll need custom code to do it.

Check out the documentation to get started. There are lots of hints and tips in there.

[John James Jacoby]

This isn’t a testing site, so I’m closing this topic.

If you have ideas for improvement to the site, create a ticket and include some details/mocks/CSS.

Thanks for the feedback.

[Lynq]

If you go into pages and add a new page called, forum-registration or whatever. Then add the shortcode – [bbp-register] – this will create a page for you containing the forum registration. Then you can link to that page anywhere in your bbPress or WordPress theme.

Good luck!

[Lynq]

Can you FTP into your wordpress site?

Inside your theme folder do you see an extras folder? This contains my page-front-forums.php

Good luck!

[TheTwister]

Hello,

I have made a theme for WordPress. Are there any video tutorials that can show me how to add buddy press into my custom theme?

[knaveenchand]

Thanks for the hint provided by @Rafael. I would like to add here that in order to keep the change in tact, it is better to edit it through our functions.php file in our theme directory so that even if bbpress gets updated, our changes remain intact. So I created these two functions along add_filter functions:

/**
 * The main forum loop. THIS IS CUSTOMISED TO ORDERBY TITLE INSTEAD OF MENU_ID
 *
 * WordPress makes this easy for us.
 *
 * @since bbPress (r2464)
 *
 * @param mixed $args All the arguments supported by {@link WP_Query}
 * @uses WP_Query To make query and get the forums
 * @uses bbp_get_forum_post_type() To get the forum post type id
 * @uses bbp_get_forum_id() To get the forum id
 * @uses get_option() To get the forums per page option
 * @uses current_user_can() To check if the current user is capable of editing
 *                           others' forums
 * @uses apply_filters() Calls 'bbp_has_forums' with
 *                        bbPres::forum_query::have_posts()
 *                        and bbPres::forum_query
 * @return object Multidimensional array of forum information
 */
function mybbp_has_forums( $args = '' ) {
	$bbp = bbpress();

	// Setup possible post__not_in array
	$post_stati[] = bbp_get_public_status_id();

	// Check if user can read private forums
	if ( current_user_can( 'read_private_forums' ) )
		$post_stati[] = bbp_get_private_status_id();

	// Check if user can read hidden forums
	if ( current_user_can( 'read_hidden_forums' ) )
		$post_stati[] = bbp_get_hidden_status_id();

	// The default forum query for most circumstances
	$defaults = array (
		'post_type'      => bbp_get_forum_post_type(),
		'post_parent'    => bbp_is_forum_archive() ? 0 : bbp_get_forum_id() ,
		'post_status'    => implode( ',', $post_stati ),
		'posts_per_page' => get_option( '_bbp_forums_per_page', 50 ),
		'orderby'        => 'title',
		'order'          => 'ASC'
	);
	$bbp_f = bbp_parse_args( $args, $defaults, 'has_forums' );

	// Run the query
	$bbp->forum_query = new WP_Query( $bbp_f );

	return apply_filters( 'mybbp_has_forums', $bbp->forum_query->have_posts(), $bbp->forum_query );
}
add_filter('bbp_has_forums','mybbp_has_forums');

//this is CUSTOMIZED to just get the subforums ordered by title instead of menu_id

function myybbp_forum_get_subforums( $args = '' ) {

	// Use passed integer as post_parent
	if ( is_numeric( $args ) )
		$args = array( 'post_parent' => $args );

	// Setup possible post__not_in array
	$post_stati[] = bbp_get_public_status_id();

	// Super admin get whitelisted post statuses
	if ( is_super_admin() ) {
		$post_stati = array( bbp_get_public_status_id(), bbp_get_private_status_id(), bbp_get_hidden_status_id() );

	// Not a super admin, so check caps
	} else {

		// Check if user can read private forums
		if ( current_user_can( 'read_private_forums' ) ) {
			$post_stati[] = bbp_get_private_status_id();
		}

		// Check if user can read hidden forums
		if ( current_user_can( 'read_hidden_forums' ) ) {
			$post_stati[] = bbp_get_hidden_status_id();
		}
	}

	$defaults = array(
		'post_parent'    => 0,
		'post_type'      => bbp_get_forum_post_type(),
		'post_status'    => implode( ',', $post_stati ),
		'posts_per_page' => get_option( '_bbp_forums_per_page', 50 ),
		'orderby'        => 'title',
		'order'          => 'ASC'
	);
	$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, $defaults, 'forum_get_subforums' );
	$r['post_parent'] = bbp_get_forum_id( $r['post_parent'] );

	// No forum passed
	$sub_forums = !empty( $r['post_parent'] ) ? get_posts( $r ) : '';

	return apply_filters( 'mybbp_forum_get_sub_forums', (array) $sub_forums, $args );
}
add_filter('bbp_forum_get_sub_forums','mybbp_forum_get_sub_forums');

This may not be elegant solution but it saves us from the annoying impacts on bbpress updates.

I would love to hear from developers on this forum on how best this can be implemented without copy-pasting the entire function just to change one small variable and then giving it a new function name and then adding filters. Is there a better way, friends?