[Button9]

I am also using Customizr and having the same problem plus some more. When I set the permalink to .forums it doesn’t matter what I write on the page the following strange text just shows (and no bbpress sidebar):

Forum

.
Search for: Välkommen! › Forum Forum Topics Posts Freshness 1. Grundutbildning 0 0 No Topics 2. Vidareutbildning 0 0 No Topics 3. Skoning 0 0 No Topics 4. Smide 0 0 No Topics 5. Hovsjukdomar 0 0 No Topics 6. Journalföring 0 0 No Topics 7. Övrigt 0 0 No Topics

If I change the permalink .forums to something else and write [bbp-forum-index] the forum shows up nicely but together with my default sidebar. I am using Instant WordPress to build my site locally and I know that there are some limits due to that, for instance I can’t write any posts in the forum. Maybe all these problems will be solved when going online?

[freshwater]

this worked for me. i have WP 3.6 and plug in BBpress. in WP go to Settings>Permalinks i changed from “Default” to “Post name” and now my links are working fine.

[CraigM1970]

Wordpress 3.6.1, bbPress 2.4, Buddypress1.8.1 Site is http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com

I’m using the visual TinyMCE editor on my bbPress Forum pages and also on my normal WordPress blog pages.

Some users have issues with spans and other code being copied in when they paste. I have been able to stop the pasting issue on the blog comments with the following code which added the paste plugin to TinyMCE:

function myformatTinyMCE($in) {
	$in['plugins'] = 'inlinepopups, paste, wordpress, wplink, wpdialogs';
	$in['paste_text_sticky'] = true;
	$in['paste_text_sticky_default'] = true;
   return $in;
}
add_filter('tiny_mce_before_init', 'myformatTinyMCE' );

However, it doesn’t affect TinyMCE on the Forums. They seem to be separate. I instigated the visual editor on the bbPress topics with the following code:

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

I’ve tried lots of different things, but I can’t seem to affect the bbPress TinyMCE the same way I can the blog TinyMCE.

For example, this didn’t work:

function bbp_enable_visual_editor($in) {
  $in['tinymce'] = true;
  $in['plugins'] = 'inlinepopups, paste, wordpress, wplink, wpdialogs, tabfocus';
  $in['paste_text_sticky'] = true;
  $in['paste_text_sticky_default'] = true;
 return $in;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor');

Anybody any ideas how to add paste to the plugins and possibly add paste_text_sticky etc as well? I’m a bit new at this.

Thanks.

[benjito]

I seem to have the opposite problem to everyone else and i can’t get the “bbPress WP Tweaks” forum sidebar to display instead of the default one. (yes i have reset permalinks, yes i have added widgets to the sidebar).

Every forum page continues to just show the default sidebar.

I am using the Customizr theme and suspect this may be the issue? Can anyone suggest anything else obvious i may be missing?

I also have a separate issue with the “forums” landing page which may be linked.

[BuckyOHare]

I figured out how to do this and more, unfortunately I have found little documentation about using the extras folder in the BBPress template files and how really wonderful they are for advanced customization without the use of additional hooks.

EXTRAS Folder located at:
plugins/bbpress/templates/default/extras

To increase the amount of items you can customize in your bbpress theme, copy pages from out of here and paste them into the folder:
plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress

In this case I needed to customize the individual topic page titles so I copied single-topic.php from out the extras folder pasted it into the bbpress folder. Then I opened up my theme’s page.php file and compared which style, entry-content, and container tags needed to be pasted into the single-topic.php page. I then exchanged bbp_topic_title() for bbp_forum_title() and styled it with my default WordPress styling tags and placed the topic title below it in a smaller more reasonable font than my site’s default .entry-title style.

The end result is the topic page displaying the forum name up at the top in the site-standard page styling with the topic title below it in a smaller reasonable font, as topics are generally WAY LONGER and should not be styled with the site’s main title styles by default.

[BuckyOHare]

The problem is topics tend to be much longer than forum names or general pages on my wordpress site and need to be styled differently than a default .entry-title css. I imagine this could be done with a filter or by altering a core file of bbpress. I don’t know how to create a specific filter for this job though.

If I can’t do that then I’d like to be able to at least not display the topic title on the topic page but I can’t seem to differentiate .entry-title css from any bbpress specific page title attributes and end up just altering all wordpress page titles in the process.

[Kaliceos]

In my test install with default theme, I don’t see any div in replies, only paragraphs. So I guess it’s true 😉

[Haris Zulfiqar]

This has been a long standing issue.

The problem here is that, in the user profile favorites page, only topics that are created by the user and marked as favorite shows up. Any topic that is not created by the user and marked as favorite will not show up in user profile page.

Is this by design or is this a bug?

I am using WordPress default theme with only bbPress plugin.

[Kaliceos]

I checked the code of this plugin and it uses a filter on bbp_has_forums that tries to catch the $args from the original query but they are not transmitted through the filter in bbPress, so it uses the default ones and doesn’t take care of the post_parent argument. You should try to contact the author of the plugin, maybe he can alter the query without parsing all args again. The Codex says it is possible with $query->set().

[vetto]

WP 3.6.1
BBP 2.4
(buddypress 1.8.1 if that’s relevant)

I am trying to style my loop-single-reply template.
I am working on a copy placed in my wp_theme/bbpress directory…it is a copy of the default.

The problem is in the bbp reply DIV (that contains the author div and the content div). I need to get the content function to stop automatically adding “div” tags around the content (I want to use span tags).

I have tried to follow the rabbit trail through the files to figure out where these DIV tags are getting added, and the best I can figure is that there is a filter putting them in there.

I only need the actual content and so I have commented out the filter applied in includes/replies/template.php around line 525, and simple replaced it with return $content

That worked, but now bbcode is not working. Is there a way to stop this behavior without altering the bbpress plugin files (which will get destroyed during an upgrade)?

My forum is private, but I can set a public test one up if that will help…

[jason103]

I have installed bbPress forums into my Genesis/Dynamik Website Builder parent/child theme and it works nicely. However I have some confusion on how to alter the CSS of the bbPress forums.

The general site settings have a black background with white font used. The white font is displaying on the bbPress forum pages, but not the black background.

This will be a question for those who are familiar with Genesis/Dynamik Website Builder.
I have put the following code into the Genesis/Dynamik Custom CSS field but it still displays with the default light background colors in bbPress posts.

#bbpress-forums div.odd, #bbpress-forums ul.odd {
background-color: #222222;
}

#bbpress-forums div.even, #bbpress-forums ul.even {
background-color: #444444;
}

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jason Davis

[inspirationally]

Found out –
you can simply use Widgets inside your template.

I also installed the tehnik-bbpress-permissions plugin to not show the hidden forums topics and put this into my template:

<?php the_widget( 'Tehnik_BBP_Replies_Widget', $instance, $args ); ?> 

This should work with the default BBP Replies Widget, too (just need to find out the name of it)

Will try a bit more customization today with an eye on https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_widget

Another possibility is manually:

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_topics_index' ); ?>

        <?php if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'author' => 0, 'show_stickies' => false, 'order' => 'DESC', 'post_parent' => 'any', 'posts_per_page' => 5 ) ) ) : ?>
                <?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'recent-topics' ); ?>
        <?php else : ?>
                <?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/feedback', 'no-topics' ); ?>
        <?php endif; ?>

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_topics_index' ); ?>

[Fredriks]

Thanks for answer!

I’m afraid that doesn’t work. Even tried removing the total line (29) to see if the whole “title” disappears, which it didn’t. Removed booth in my theme “/wp-content/themes/my-theme/bbpress/form-reply.php” and in the plugin /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-reply.php

Is there something I’m doing wrong?

[Skeary]

forums/user/test/
is rendering very weirdly:

<div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"><p>Profile Topics Started Replies Created Favorites Subscriptions Edit Profile Forum Role: Keymaster Topics Started: 0 Replies Created: 1</p>
</div>

which looks obviously incorrect because it’s missing html tags in between things.

I tried putting a die; at the bottom of templates\default\bbpress\user-profile.php and the page rendered properly, but all the other profile type pages are still broken. Removing everything from my functions.php doesn’t help either.

What could be going back and stripping out the html tags?

I am developing in a Genesis child theme and installed a bbPress Genesis Extend plugin.

[Crayz]

Hello, I have a default WordPress install (latest version) with a default bbPress 2.4 install using TwentyTwelve, no files have been modified. The replies pagination does not work, though the pagination for topic listings is.

Does anybody else have this issue? I’m going to take a look at the pagination functions and see if I can come up with a fix

Thanks.

[elpju]

As the title says, is it possible to select a default forum that is set when people create a new topic? The thing is I only have ONE forum and it’s just crazy that people have to choose it before being able to post.

Right now the default choice is (No Forum) and when you click Submit with No Forum posted, you get this: ERROR: Forum ID is missing.

Hope some bright mind comes along and sees this post.

[BenHanna]

The buddyypress groups have also lost their forums.

i have gone to settings and tried to fix this but it doesnt change anything…also the forum index page is now the travel forum despite having default forum checked in settings. This all came about after I tried to repair forums. You can view all this at digitalnomadcommunity from the forum dropdown

Please help 🙁

[MoniqueR]

My visitors can post new topics and replies. They don’t have to register. But, by default they can not give tags to their topics or replies. How can I enable visitors to be able to give topic-tags?
In my opinion I think it is strange that there is no option to enable or disable this.
BBPress give the option to enable/disable anonymous posting, so why not embed an option where you can enable/disable tags for anonymous posting

I use BBPress 2.4 and WordPress 3.6.1.

[Todd – WireFlare]

FreeWPress,

What using this assumes:

1 – That you are using BBPress version 2.4
2 – That you don’t have anything else modifying these titles
3 – That you haven’t changed the structure of the titles via the core files.
4 – Your user slugs are as follows:
User Base :users
Topics Started :topics
Replies Created :replies
Favorite Topics :favorites
Topic Subscriptions :subscriptions

Following the above I have no clue why you would see “Profile Of”. The way that BBPress generates this Title is clearly shown on line 2563 of /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template.php which shows:

	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_user() ) {

		// Current users profile
		if ( bbp_is_user_home() ) {
			$new_title['text'] = esc_attr__( 'Your Profile', 'bbpress' );

		// Other users profile
		} else {
			$new_title['text']   = get_userdata( bbp_get_user_id() )->display_name;
			$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( "%s's Profile", 'bbpress' );
		}

(Note that your file may contain $title in lieu of $new_title, this is because we are using a forked version, but that doesn’t change anything.)

Therefore, the output of this should be either “Your Profile” or “Username’s ($s’s) Profile”. No where in that is “Profile of”. If you click on your profile here on bbpress.org you’ll see that it says “Your Profile” as well.

Please check that everything in 1-4 is correct. This is the default way that BBPress is setup.

Hope that helps. I have also added these requirements to my blog post to help clarify.

[TaylorNotThatSwift]

If you have BuddyPress installed, this should work: mysite.com/members/wordpressusername/

If it doesn’t work you can just go to a forum thread and click the link to the profile of someone who has made a post.

[BuckyOHare]

mysite.com/forums/users/johnsmith

Where john smith = who ever is currently logged in. Is there a default url, php or otherwise, to link the user back to their BBpress profile? I would imagine mysite.com/forums/users/ should do the trick but it doesn’t and I’ve tried a ton of other things. Does anyone have any idea about this basic functionality?

[BuckyOHare]

I installed BBPress created a few forums, used the shortcode to display the forums and they work fine. I added the BBPress Login Widget to my site and when I try to login I’m re-directed to mysite.com/wp-login.php but with a completely blank screen and one single period mark in the top left corner. If I login through my default login page I’m able to login fine but the BBPress login widget has this problem. It does this with or without a username or password being entered in its forms when you press login.

It is not taking me to my 404 page, this is something different because it’s not actually taking me to mysite.com/wp-login.php either, even though that’s what the browser reads. It’s as though it is being interrupted mid process and then producing this blank screen with a single dot.

I disabled all plugins (excluding bbpress). Did not fix the problem.

Disabled my theme and activated default 2013 theme. Same problem.

I read on another post, five years old I think, that someone was having a similar issue where BBPress was putting a period before the www part of his site. Other information I read seemed to point to trouble with WP secrete keys in the php being ajar from BBPress php keys or config files, but I found no such files in my plugin folder, I guess those methods are outdated.

My site error logs are recording no issue directly regarding the plugin either. Anyone know what the deal is? Thanks.

[PureLoneWolf]

Hi there

The theme itself doesn’t supply any bbpress templates, so I copied loop-single-forum.php from the bbpress default theme and created a theme/bbpress folder and dropped it in there.

http://pastebin.com/dARzjbvb

There is no loop-forums.php file in there at the moment.

Many thanks

[Kaliceos]

Don’t worry, it happened to me once, that’s how I discovered the existence of this menu ^^

For the function, have you tried what I said a few posts before :

Otherwise, you can edit (or create from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/) your theme’s /bbpress/loop-single-forum.php and edit the bbp_list_forums() line 30 to bbp_list_forums(array (‘separator’ => ‘<br />’)). That should do the trick.

That may work as it doesn’t require the use of bbp_parse_args() which seems to be the problem in your case.

[inspirationally]

Allright, another thing I need help with:

In WBB, there's the field isClosed to create a WordPress status from it with this:
// Topic status (Open or Closed)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'wbb1_1_thread',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'isClosed',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_status',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_topic_status'
		);

and

public function callback_topic_status( $status = 0 ) {
		switch ( $status ) {
			case 1 :
				$status = 'closed';
				break;

			case 0  :
			default :
				$status = 'publish';
				break;
		}
		return $status;
	}

But there’s also a field called “isDeleted”, so I could also use

`// Topic status (Deleted)
$this->field_map[] = array(
‘from_tablename’ => ‘wbb1_1_thread’,
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘isDeleted’,
‘to_type’ => ‘topic’,
‘to_fieldname’ => ‘post_status’,
‘callback_method’ => ‘callback_trash_status’
);`

and

public function callback_trash_status( $status = 1 ) {
		switch ( $status ) {
			case 1 :
				$status = 'trash';
				break;

			case 0  :
			default :
				$status = 'publish';
				break;
		}
		return $status;
	}

The second, though, would overwrite the first, so that even closed topics that are not trash have the status publish again. Is there any chance to combine these two?