And not only that, but I’ve even dropped in ready-made themes, and supposedly there’s supposed to be an option to change it from the dashboard. At this point, we may just have to have our web guy change the files from scratch, because we don’t know how to change it to a pre-existing theme.
Are the instructions for migrating the BP Discussion Forums content to bbPress 2.3 the same as for migrating to bbPress 2.2, as described at the following link? http://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/using-bbpress-2-2-with-buddypress/
I’m with you on this — I posted the previous topic in this forum on basically the same topic (need to keep main WP theme, but just looking to make the bbpress forums cleaner looking).
All I got was a generic “here’s the bbpress page on modifying your theme” and without being a master PHP/CSS/HTML guru, that theming page is a bit intimidating and confusing.
What would be GREAT is if someone said “Here, do this ”
1) Create a directory off your Theme’s dir called “my-templates”
2) Drop these files in there for an example clean looking bbpress theme
3) You can modify THIS and THAT file in this example to suit your needs.
Maybe I’m oversimplifying, but bbpress, with all of its advancements, HAS to have some drop-in example themes… ?
Lets hope both of us get a simple example we can try out.
What browser are you using and what version of bbPress? Are you able to give us a live site URL?
Hello, I have the exact same problem :
On /forum page I put this bbpress shortcode : [bbp-topic-form]
And when non-admin user is logged-in, it displays the message “You cannot create new topics.”
Any workaround ?
Thx
I think I know what’s going on. Created a ticket in trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2302
Yeah, but the main issue is that I can’t figure out to change the theme in the first place, and can I install two separate themes, one for the main site and one just for bbpress / buddypress?
Hi Guys,
I am moving a medium sized forum from one WordPress site to another existing site.
Everytime I use the WordPress exporter / Importer it works, but is missing the Topics. I have tried doing it on a database level but keep over writing existing data on the current site.
I’ve noticed there is a specific forum importer but doesn’t offer any import from current bbpress 2 forums.
Any advice?
Thanks
we have a problem with the plugin here. Anyone else have the same problem and did you fix it ?
Ok, we figured it out. The problem comes from the french version of bbPress. The latest version is over a year old and it’s based on an older version of bbPress, so it doesn’t show replies…
This puts us in a bit of a bind, but at least now we know what the problem is.
Btw clickmac, I noticed I couldn’t see the replies in the link you posted for your site, just a bunch of empty space. I had the same thing happen when I tested bbPress on a clean install of WordPress. My collegue had me try it with IE and there they were. So with Firefox you don’t see anything. For more info :
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-profiles-topics-created-and-replies-dont-show-up-for-me-either/
I’ve tried three different themes including the default buddypress theme and 2012, deactivated all other plugins, etc…
There is no bbpress forum search box showing up on my site. I’ve removed and reinstalled bbpress and buddypress a couple times, too.
Any ideas?
I can’t even find a setting for the search box – like show/hide (if that’s even an option).
Help?
Good day,
I’m new to bbpress and have a question.
I would have liked to show off like this http://www.onemorething.nl/community/forum/
Can anyone tell me what is the easiest way to do this?
I have knowledge of php and html and a little bit of CSS.
Thank you!
Hi
I installed bbPress plugin with GD bbPress Attachment Plugin, but when I on user link to see user profile but it shows black page. Header and footer are display but profile is not display.
Please help me. I am waiting for your reply.
Thank You
Yeah, I’m having this issue too and I’m on bbPress 2.2.4
I guess i have the same problem as you my file is different from moebis´ and so i could not find the correct lines.
I´m not a coder but i can assure you that i know how to copy and paste 🙂
But you´re right, maybe i´ll start with BP 1.6.5 and use this Nice PLug to get the project as I wish for now. I have a similar project as Yours but very smaller
A district site ( with maybe 4 to 10 ) and with subforums like Health, Education, Secutity, Traffic, etc.
So for instance:
Brooklyn:
–Health
–Education
–Traffic
Queens:
–Health
–Education
–Traffic
But i still have some concerns about future updates, you know. i´m a bit stucked 🙂
@stickfinger: moebis provided his hack above. If you weren’t able to follow his instructions, then it’s probably not a good idea that you try to do this modification, and wait for the official release when the bbPress team get it sorted.
As both moebis and I have pointed out, there are a few ‘issues’ at trying to force it to do this and that’s probably why the bbPress team have held off on the official release.
That second codeblock (lines 567-581) should read:
`
// Suppress subforums for now
//add_filter( ‘bbp_get_forum_subforum_count’, ‘__return_false’ );
// Set up forum data
bbpress()->current_forum_id = $forum->ID;
bbp_set_query_name( ‘bbp_single_forum’ ); ?>
<?php
// Remove the subforum suppression filter
//remove_filter( 'bbp_get_forum_subforum_count', '__return_false' );
`
The fact that bbPress doesn't automatically encode text between the code tags I used is a bit of a concern 😀
moebis – just took a look at this, I may have a more recent version than you use in your fix above.
Here is how to play with my hack in the latest trunk:
EDIT: /bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/group.php
Delete lines 609-614 and add “?>” back to line 609.
The code I have at these lines is this:
<?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘form’, ‘topic’ ); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘feedback’, ‘no-topics’ ); ?>
Probably not what I want to comment out. What I did find though is this (lines 567-581):
// Suppress subforums for now
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_forum_subforum_count’, ‘__return_false’ );
// Set up forum data
bbpress()->current_forum_id = $forum->ID;
bbp_set_query_name( ‘bbp_single_forum’ ); ?>
<?php
// Remove the subforum suppression filter
remove_filter( 'bbp_get_forum_subforum_count', '__return_false' );
I highlighted a few things:
1) Topics are only being displayed from group subforum 2 (believe you mentioned this above). This should be easy enough to fix
2) I thought I was posting in the Group Forum when I used the default form below, but clearly (as per highlight 3) this is now set to group subforum 2
3) Default Create New Topic is set to Group Subforum 2. I assume this was the “last retrieved forum” and is probably easy enough to fix. In my case, I’ll probably be changing my group forums to a category anyway, so I don’t actually want people starting new topics from this page.
At least one response Fraternity 🙂
It seem that matter are kind of…forgotten
For my kind of site/ project this would be perfect.
Also i´d like to mention a hidden (at least for me) fact: on a new install of bp 1.7 + bbpress we have no choice to stay with the now “retired” bp forum compnent.
I´m telling you that because with the old forum component + we can achieve buddypress subgroups and subforums aswell.
moebis…where the hell are you ? 🙂 we need your hack. please elaborate a bit more …
Also, sorry to derail a bit, but any comment on scalability of this?
I currently run three forums, one each for a different capital city in my country, each with around 15 subforums.
My plan is to combine these into a single site, so each group forum would have 15 subforums – which would be about 45 forums just to replicate what I have now.
I’d then like to create another 10 or so site forums, so that our members from different cities can discuss general topics. And then I’d like to add more groups – initially I’d be adding 3 more groups, for 3 more cities in my country, which would be another 45 forums.
That right away takes me up to 106 forums (10 sitewide, 6 group forums and 90 subforums), before I even start expanding the geographic reach of our groups beyond our country’s borders.
Let’s say I expand into 50 different cities, I’m looking at about 810 subforums (10 sitewide, 50 group forums, 750 subforums).
John mentions “There are a few technical challenges regarding performance that don’t make it entirely feasible” and I wonder if this was what he was getting at?
Perhaps I’m posting this in the wrong section.. but figured you’re probably going to run into a similar issue, moebis
Throwing a post on here to get notified as replies, as this is exactly what I am trying to achieve.
This bit looks promising: “Good News All!!! Ok…. I have sub forums working in buddypress with a small hack to group.php (in latest trunk of bbpress 2.3)”
Hello All,
I installed bbPRess and GD bbPress attachment plugin in my site and I used Magman responsive theme. But there is something problem. When I click on Author of the Topic the profile of author is not display. Can anyone please help me for this issue. And Sorry for my poor English.
Thank You All
Has anyone had any luck in including the ability to change the style of their bbpress forum? I am going to create a day/light and night/dark bbpress.css file. I want my users to be able to switch from one to the other.
If nothing like this has been done before or exists, then could you point me in the right direction to acquire the know-how to do this myself? Thank you.
Exactly, it’s 1.2 version… Sorry, I’m a bit new to wp & related so I don’t know the history…
Thanks
or at least a quick 1, 2, 3 for files to put in place so that the forums are a little more stylized but the WP theme is untouched?
