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…
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.
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/
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)
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.
No body here is giving out complete details how to integrate forum into my wordpress blogs Nigeria University news
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
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?
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? 🙂
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?
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! 🙁
I really don’t like the auto-formatting in this bbpress forum demo ><
The simplest way would be to edit css your sidebar classes. For mine it would be .sidewrap {display:none;}and then you’d have to increase the mid section to fulfill the full-width look you want which is..midwrap {width:;}
Aesthetically this will remove the sidebars but the offside to doing this simple method is that the widgets and the sidebar will take up loading time.
Hi All i get stuck on installing themes and my english is not very good so i hope someone can help me SIMPLE
I installed wordpress 3.4.1 and a lot of plugins and today i installed latetest bbPress now i want to use the theme thunderbolt_bb for the forum
i create folder in root wp-content/plugins/bbpress/my-templates/thunderbolt_bb/theme files here
but the template never show in Settings -> Forums -> Theme Packages
i real getting crazy please help thanks for your attention 🙂
RegardsPDX
-
This topic was modified 13 years, 3 months ago by
PDX.
-
This topic was modified 13 years, 3 months ago by PDX.
There are 20,000+ plugins in the WordPress plugin directory alone, at times there will be conflicts.
If you do not specify the exact problems you are having here regarding bbPress or prepared to specify them to the other plugin developers then no developers know of your issues and this indeed comes to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest
Thanks for all the work you do, netweb. I was also happy to see some dude suddenly appeared with a solution to this important feature of stripping bbcode of useless stuff: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1884
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-add-custom-fields-to-bbpress-topics?replies=3
He uses paid gd-taxonomies-tools as plug in.
http://mounthoodrideshare.com/
Topic displays extra information at below of topic contents
Days of Recurring Ride:End Date of Recurring Ride:Need a ride or offering a ride?:Offering a RideDate of Ride:
No, not yet. Have a look,
http://fantastic7.x10.mx
I checked all the plugins … There are several that cause the site to break, when used in conjunction with bbpress… They include:
- Redirection
- Search Everything
- The Event Calendar
- WordPress DatabaseBackup
The calendar plugin is very important to the site. Redirection and Search Everything aren’t mandatory, but they are useful. The DB Backup I can do through PHPMyAdmin, so that isn’t important.
Is there a way to get the site working WITH these other plugins?
Everything looks like it’s working now?
