[Stephen Edgar]

Could the database port have any effect?

Yes, make sure that is also correct, the default is 3306 but your web host may use a different port.

You could also check what your SMF config is by checking the database values in eg. /public_html/smf/Settings.php

eg.

########## Database Info ##########
$db_type = 'mysql';
$db_server = 'localhost';
$db_name = 'smf_database_name';
$db_user = 'mysql_user_name';
$db_passwd = 'mysecretpassword';
$ssi_db_user = '';
$ssi_db_passwd = '';
$db_prefix = 'smf_';
$db_persist = 0;
$db_error_send = 1;

[talkedtv]

This is an odd behavior that I was able to replicate with the default Twenty Thirteen theme on my blog (talked.tv):

I password protected my most recent post (an assessment I was giving my students). Now, when I do a search on my forum, it returns a notification that the “post” is password protected. If I enter the password I created for the assessment I gave my students, the search returns the results.

After removing the password from the post, the forum search behaves as it should.

Can anyone replicate this or is my problem specific to my blog? Thank you for any help.

[Stephen Edgar]

My bad, it should be message, copy and paste error on my part.

I suggest you reset the forums codex.bbpress.org/reset-forums/ and give it another go, I would also suggest due to your web host limiting some of the changes we try to make is to drop some of the values eg. to 50 rows at a time rather than the default 100, set the time to 2 seconds delay.

If it appears that the importer stalls again, simply click ‘Stop’ wait a few seconds for your host to finish up any tasks its performing and click ‘Start’ and the import should resume from where it left off.

[ikidre]

I just migrated my legacy Buddypress forums to bbPress, and at first it seemed that everything was working great. Then I clicked on a topic and saw the notice info, and the reply form, but I presume that posts should be displaying in between. There’s nothing there in the code (so it’s not a CSS issue).

I created a brand new forum, a brand new topic, which you should be able to see here: http://atdp.berkeley.edu/forums/topic/test-topic-2/
There should be two posts (the topic post and a reply), but there’s nothing.

We use Buddypress groups, and the group forums have the same behavior. The forum and topic ULs look like they imported fine, but no posts appear when you click on a topic. So the symptoms persist for both pre- and post-migration forums, and for both group and site-wide forums.

I can see all topics and replies just fine in the backend and in the database, though it’s confused me that posts seem to be saved in the wp_posts table, not wp_bb_posts. I also can’t figure out where the new forum gets saved, because it’s not in wp_bb_forums, nor do new topics appear in wp_bb_topics. Anyway, they appear in Buddypress activity streams, and I can edit them in the backend, so it seems they’re just not making it to the page.

I’m using the theme Custom Community 1.17.3, and thought maybe that was the issue. Nope. Same exact behavior with Twenty Twelve and the default Buddypress theme.

I went through the standard toggling of plug-ins and saw no change.

WP version is 3.6.1, Buddypress 1.8.1, and bbPress 2.4. I updated to 2.4.1 in the hopes that that might fix something, but nope. I closely followed these instructions for migrating my data.

I’d love some troubleshooting ideas, because I’m about out!

[Noumaan Yaqoob]

In a default bbpress installation, I am seeing that the gravatar size is set to 80px. I learned that it can be changed in /templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php file. By adding the size parameter on line 45 like this:

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />', 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>

to

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />', 'size' => '44', 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>

I wanted to change it. Is it possible to do so without modifying any core template files?

[thecueball]

Hi all, I’m trying to set up BBPress to combine forums and comments on my website, and I’m stumped by an odd issue.

I can create a menu page with the short code [bbp-forum-index] that looks and works perfectly, but whenever you go deeper into the forums, everything defaults to the Post template – which means I get the standard blog sidebar (that I don’t want on the forum) and an author detail at the bottom of the page.

I’ve tried turning off comment integration (disabling the plugin) and it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Can anyone help?

[Jgonl]

I use the theme Boldy
but I’ve proven with the theme Twenty twelve
I’ve also tested with the theme Buddypress Default 1,8,1

and all makes me do the same.

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Nested responses disabled. paging if it Works

thanks Niuserre

[niuserre]

Does it work if you use a default theme (e.g. twenty twelve)?

[niuserre]

You can choose the order than forums appear in by giving them an Order value. I usually give mine order values like 10, 20, 30, 40 so that if I add another forum later I don’t have to reorder them I can just add order 25 to put it in between 2 existing forums.

I don’t think there’s an easy way to have forums change order by activity but if activity is important to you then you should consider having Latest Topics as your default view instead of categories (like https://bbpress.org/forums/).

[Jgonl]

I use a fairly easy.
I think the issues but did not give a parent forum.
The call with shortcodes and thread id.

Also add this in the theme functions, which deletes the search path, so that it is more beautiful

function mycustom_breadcrumb_options() {
// Home – default = true
$args[‘include_home’] = false;
// Forum root – default = true
$args[‘include_root’] = false;
// Current – default = true
$args[‘include_current’] = true;

return $args;
}

add_filter(‘bbp_before_get_breadcrumb_parse_args’, ‘mycustom_breadcrumb_options’ );

[niuserre]

content.php seems like a weird place to be swapping an image, is this a header image or something?

From the way you’ve worded it I think maybe you need an if else statement around the specific image?

if( is_bbpress() ) {

// bbpress image

} else {

// default image

}

Is that the issue? If not, could you describe a bit more what you’re expecting to happen and what is happening instead please? It could also be that you actually need a BuddyPress if call rather than bb.

[Feracon]

I have followed this guide http://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/

to create a child theme containing the default bbpress theme files. It appears in my wordpress admin CP themes but I don’t see how this lets me apply it to only the bbpress.

If I were to make it active it would retheme my entire wordpress site.

[niuserre]

The breadcrumb uses the default Forum Index even if you use a shortcode to display your forum so it will always link back to the automatically created Forum Index.

If you only need the shortcode method because of the template problem then let’s fix the template so you don’t need the shortcode.

From: https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

On a plain vanilla install of bbPress using a “normal” wordpress theme, the plugin looks for the following templates from the active wordpress theme and “injects” the forum into (i guess) the first one it finds:

‘plugin-bbpress.php’,
‘bbpress.php’,
‘forums.php’,
‘forum.php’,
‘generic.php’,
‘page.php’

I’m guessing your theme doesn’t have one of those so bbPress appears to be using some kind of archive template.

You need to give bbPress a theme template to hook into. In your theme folder (or in a child theme if you want to do auto-updates with your theme) create a bbpress.php template, you can probably just create a duplicate of one of your theme templates and change its name.

Here’s my bbpress.php template: http://pastebin.com/ZquKQfmw (Adept is my theme name, hence @package Adept). I took my theme’s full width template and duplicated it, called it bbpress.php then changed the header information. bbPress will figure out the rest.

[Calimera]

Thanks for your answer,but which css,where i can found ? css of bbpress ? this ?

httpdocs / wp-content / plugins / bbpress / templates / default / css / bbpress.css ?

[niuserre]

I’m just a user but I think you need to create a new template in your theme (or child theme) directory called single-user.php

If you have that then the user profile page will use that template.

You can find an example of this template in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/extras

To do this I would:

1. Create a child theme of my current theme if I did not already have one.
2. Create a sub-folder in there called bbpress.
3. Copy the single-user.php file from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/extras into my new /themename/bbpress folder.
4. Edit the file.

This template also calls other parts from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bpress which you might also want to modify, in which case you would also copy some other files across for editing. I think it calls content-single-user.php which then calls user-details.php etc.

[elpju]

I told them about those titles a month ago and thought it would have been fixed by now. It’s a pretty serious problem if you rely on traffic from the search engines.

[Unit9]

Yep – I’ve just installed an old version of BBPress and it’s working – I’ve got a default forum again.

It’s also fixed the bug where page meta titles don’t work on WordPress blog posts.

[elpju]

This is exactly what I’m talking about. I also remember having a default forum in a previous version of the bbPress plugin, but this may just be wishful thinking.

[Unit9]

I’d like this too. For some reason there was a default in my previous bbpress site, but in the latest installation, I have ‘No Forum’ selected.

Any way we can change this?

[b a]

Okay it was wordpress default editor.
if you see source here, bbpress forums loads the same jQuery UI

[Stephen Edgar]

I see you have changed your permalinks to ‘Default’ http://127.0.0.1/?p=123 and it now works:

http://ccnb.co.kr/?topic=%ED%95%9C%EA%B8%80%EC%9D%84-%EC%9E%85%EB%A0%A5%ED%95%9C%EB%8B%A4
http://ccnb.co.kr/?topic=11123

I presume if you change them back to ‘Post name’ http://127.0.0.1/sample-post/ they do not work again?

http://ccnb.co.kr/forums/topic/%ED%95%9C%EA%B8%80%EC%9D%84-%EC%9E%85%EB%A0%A5%ED%95%9C%EB%8B%A4

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress blocks shortcodes by default.

You will need to use this plugin to setup ‘allowed’ shortcodes:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist/

[Darcy Peal]

For some reason the default font colour is set to light grey.
I also could not find anywhere to change it.

Help please!

[CraigM1970]

Okay, I managed to work this out for myself eventually. It was quite simple once I realised I was dealing with the Teeny version. Doh!

For anyone else who wants to add the Visual editor and also have it only paste plain text from Word etc. here’s how.

/*  Enable visual editor on tinymce in bbPress  */

function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

/* Enable TinyMCE paste plugin */

function bbp_add_paste_plugin($args) {
  array_push($args,'paste');
  return $args;
}
add_filter( 'teeny_mce_plugins', 'bbp_add_paste_plugin');

/* Enable paste_sticky as default */

function bbp_myformatTinyMCE($in) {
	$in['paste_text_sticky'] = true;
	$in['paste_text_sticky_default'] = true;
   return $in;
}
add_filter('teeny_mce_before_init', 'bbp_myformatTinyMCE');

[Angel Candelaria]

Hi @lomyn.

On the bbPress install package, there should be a file called bbpress.css (under bbpress/templates/default/css). Just extract that file from the package, add the code at the end of the file, and copy it to your theme’s css directory.