What do you mean ?
You can do whatever you want with WordPress + bbPress it’s Open Source Software.
Yes thats true, first of all you should only copy the files that you need to edit.
Just copying everything works fine but isn’t needed because inside the bbPress core is a function whats called Theme_Support ( i believe thats what its called ) And this function does only one thing, before reading all template-files.
Check if the needed template file is inside your theme folder. If it’s not.. –> use the template file inside the plugin folder.
bbPress plugin template files are the default template files but when you copy them over to your theme the new copied files become default.
It’s serious one of the most beautiful and easy constructions I’ve ever seen used at CMS’s. I’ve worked with manny other forum-software that had many more options and features as bbPress but they never had this easy way of safely -editing template files.
bbpress.css works 100% the same copy the bbpress.css file to a folder called CSS inside your theme folder and it works the same way. The forum.css file at the picture isn’t bbPress, thats something I created manually and has nothing to do with bbPress.
Those are two fast screenshots of what I made without having any PHP skills, I just understand HTML + CSS.
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Hi All,
I have just added bbPress 2.3.2 to my wordpress site but I am unsure as to whether or not I have set up the forum correctly. wanted to add a discussion forum to my wordpress site whatcamerasbest.com so I added a new forum in bbPress called “What Cameras Best Forum”.
My question is should the url display http://www.whatcamerasbest.com/forum to take me to to the landing page of the forum or should it display (as it is now) like this:
http://whatcamerasbest.com/forums/forum/whatcamerasbestforum/
If it is correct then how do i remove the “add topic” box on whats supposed to be my forum landing page.
I have seen this question asked a few times but the responses range so apologies if I am repeating a question.
On a side note I found logging into this forum to be a bit of pain, I entered my wordpress username and password but the forum kept telling me to log in to post…
Many thanks in advance.
Use the “Widget Logic” PlugIn and put !is_bbpress() into the respective field of your widget(s).
You have to do it for all widgets though …
Best regards
Thanks for reply, I didn’t know you replied because I didn’t receive any email.
lets say I don’t want to use a child theme.
1. create bbpress folder on my theme folder.
2. copy all files from [wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/defaults/bbpress/All those files are bbPress (forum)] to my created bbpress folder
3. copy all files from [wp-content / plugins / bbpress / templates / defaults / extras / All those files are general Theme] to my /wp-content/theme/mytheme directory.
I wasn’t sure if i need to copy all or just what I need. Also you have bbpress.css and forum.css files…are these also included in bbpress package?
so when i type http://www.mytheme.com/forums the new template should appear?
@mech24 your site is one of the most aesthetically pleasing forums I’ve ever seen, major kudos. I first saw it a couple months ago when I was reworking the theme for my own site, and I was inspired by your setup to transition to a more “boundary-less” layout. I would love to read any tips/tricks that you are interested to share.
A lot has changed with Tamriel Foundry over the past 9 months, but one thing that has stayed constant is our application of bbPress to power our popular forums. If you haven’t checked the site out yet, or haven’t visited recently, drop by and take a look!
Going with bbPress isn’t always the easiest route to take, but it’s been really rewarding to work with from the development side of things, and it’s great to have total control over a forum platform that is seamlessly integrated into the overall site.
http://tamrielfoundry.com (main site)
http://tamrielfoundry.com/forums (bbPress forums)
Ive created a forum using bbpress, everything is working well at the moment on a computer.
When i use my site on a mobile device “iPhone” the forum uploads but its too big for the screen and cut off, where i have no access to the submit button to creating a new topic or even on a reply
3 weeks and nowt from bbpress support – what a pity
Okay, I’ve tried deactivating and deleting the plugin, then reinstalling it, and all the old forum data is still there. There’s no other place in the settings besides that useless tab where I can delete the database (I inherited this site so I didn’t create the database originally).
thx Lynq
“Tools” -> “Forums” -> “Remap existing users to default forum roles”
helped 🙂
Hey
I installed bbpress on my page
http://sofafootball.com/forum/
However, as you can see it looks lifeless and i’d also like it to be slightly bigger and increase the font size.
I’ve looked around everywhere on the editor and i cant find a way to edit the appearance. Please can someone help me.
Using the latest version of bbpress and WP.
Cheers
Adam
Okay. I created a child theme for my custom theme, and copied all the .php files for bbpress into a new folder titled “bbpress” into the child theme folder.
Check.
Hello all,
I face a problem and I would like your help.
I have a buddypress/bbpress site in Greek language. So when a user creates a topic or Group the slug is in Greek language too.
Everyone can browse the site without any problem.
The problem occurs when someone wants to copy a url to share it (let’s say via email). The receiver of the url after clicking on it, will get a page not found error…
This is crucial for my case as I am losing a lot of the sharing potentials.
This issue doesn’t happen if I create a page with Greek slug (url). Everyone can copy/paste the url from the address bar and see the page without any problem.
Any help would be much appreciated!! Thank you!
Of course, while I can now administer the forums – creating forums, parenting them and generally setting things up – I find that when I try to post a topic in one of the forums that I, myself, created I’m told, “ERROR: You do not have permission to create new topics.”
And I haven’t yet located the setting I can change for that. I am a site administrator…but I can’t create a topic in the Forum that I set up. Weird.
WHOAH!! And there they are – thanks. Drinks are on me 🙂
Do you know if there are any plugins that will restrict admins of individual bbpress forums? I.e. User A is admin of forum 1, both user A & B are admins of forum 2, and user B is an admin of forum 3. User A can administer questions on forum 1 & 2, but not 3 and user B can administer forums 2 & 3 but not 1.
The reason I’m asking is because I have a site with multiple sellers and would like to create a support forum for each product where only the owners of that specific product are administrators and receive notifications of topics, etc.
Thanks!
Hello everybody.
Have you had the chance to fix this issue? I still haven’t.
Any suggestion will be awesome.
Keep having a good one.
Sadly lots of planned featured needed to remove from FirmaSite theme because of theme rules in WordPress.Org theme system:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review
I really was disappointed when i learn that most of stuff needed to remove but now i can understand their logic. While i dont agree those rules, i respect them.
All social integration (Facebook like,comments etc) is removed from theme because of WordPress.Org rules. They decide that some planned features are plugin territory. So i built a plugin for theme:
http://theme.firmasite.com/plugin/ or
https://wordpress.org/plugins/firmasite-theme-enhancer/
This plugin will add all those social integration soon. Sorry for misinformation on theme site.
Strange works well on mine wordpress 3.5.1 bbpress 2.3.2 theme twentyten
breadcrumbs work fine and get you back to the page
Did you call the page forums plural?
Yeah, JJJ you’re right: /login and /wp-login.php are the same. I tried a completely different computer, which I had never logged into before, and the anonymity issues were there with both login methods. The only thing I haven’t tried is a different account, but it looks like Lynq is having the issue too, so I’m not the only one. I haven’t really noticed that cookies or cache have anything to do with it. I have never had issues on wordpress.org or buddypress.org. I have spent at least a couple hours trying to find a way to login to bbpress.org consistently without issues, but I haven’t found one yet. At this point I’m pretty sure there is some bug somewhere… I just don’t know what else it could be. Other people could be having the issue, but they might not be able to post! I almost gave up myself.
Thanks. That fixed it.
(the example in the link has a code error, but by removing the escaping all works fine).
I had another question. The feature list mentions facebook comments (the ability to add or remove them). How is this done, I could not find it in the interface.
Thanks
Etan
Still having problems with this, I have cleared my whole cookies, individually removed bbpress cookies, tried 5 browsers, tried my ipad and I am still having erratic login problems.
I can visit wp-admin. I can sometimes reply, but if I visit /forums I am shown as anonymous, then sometimes if I go to a topic I am anonymous and I can’t reply. I’ll just carry on removing cookies I guess, but it’s an annoyance.
Here is my setup.
Main Theme
/wp-content/themes/MyTheme/
bbPress theme files
/wp-content/themes/MyTheme/bbpress
If you visit your theme directory, like Main Theme above and there is not a bbPress folder, then you need to copy them out of the bbPress plugin and into your theme folder.
Get that done first, then we can go from there.
Good luck!
