[Erlend]

Here’s a first take on a layout I’d much prefer:

https://i.imgur.com/tLX4lvD.png

• I think you’ll rarely, if ever, use the pagination from the forum index. This is an in-topic sort of operation. So, I removed it.
• It’s still important to give an idea of how crowded a topic is, so I show the # of the last reply which indicates how many replies there are in total in the topic.
• The “reply #” button would take you to the last reply of the topic. Oftentimes you’ve already visited the topic before, so you know what the topic is about already and you just want to skip to the last reply/page.
• I’ve made a 2-part division between {topic title}, {topic author}, {topic category} and {reply link}, {freshness}, {reply author}.
• At the bottom of each of the example sites is a lightweight example, excluding authors to conserve space.

Update to your update: No the fluid width itself is not a problem. I just think you could display the forum data in a more balanced and informative way than what you’re currently doing.

[Unsal Korkmaz]

I’ve been playing around with the theme lately. I can’t seem to figure out how to make the promotion bar and showcase text show up. What are the required conditions for these items to be displayed?

You just mark posts or pages with clicking stars on edit panels:

If you are using full content layout, promotionbar should be set for Before Content  or In Site Footer. Its set in In top of Sidebar as default.

Also the posts loop could still use some work imo, especially on wide sites:

View post on imgur.com

There’s way too much empty space below that title. I’m gonna suggest some mockups.

This is why i love Responsive design: http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/scaffolding.html#responsive
You can change loop with

/* Large desktop */
@media (min-width: 1200px) { ... }

If you ask me, its not bad looking tbh. Its clean but if you can explain me how it can be better for large desktops with full content (long) layout, i can help you to accomplish that design.

Update: Maybe this is what you are looking for: Want responsive but not wide not for large screens?

[Erlend]

I’ve been playing around with the theme lately. I can’t seem to figure out how to make the promotion bar and showcase text show up. What are the required conditions for these items to be displayed?

Also the posts loop could still use some work imo, especially on wide sites:

https://i.imgur.com/K92zGvu.png

There’s way too much empty space below that title. I’m gonna suggest some mockups.

[Muhammad Haroon]

Hi friends,
Hope you are doing great. Just came across a simple problem with bbPress that How do I Generate a Sitemap for My bbPress Forum? Is there any way to make it happen? I want to generate a sitemap in which all the topic categories and tags to be listed.

My site: softstribe.com which is using custom permalinks %category%/%postname%/.

Thanks in advance.

[Spudnic]

Im kind of confused at how the HTMl tags work with bbpress.

For admin users all the tags work, but for other users a majority of the tags dont work, specifically the underline tag. ive also noticed that for the ol and ul there is no style, IE: dots or numbers.

• test
• test
• test

It seems to work fine on this forum.

[mikebronner]

Hi all,

I need to get the user ID of the profile being viewed. How can I achieve this on the bbpress profile page?

Thanks!
~Mike

[Lynq]

.bbPress #sidebar should work.
In forum pages you get a .bbPress class inside the body tag (check you have it on bbPress pages).

See if that works, good luck!

[Lynq]

You could create a php widget will allows you to input code and then insert that as a separate widget to the bbPress login. Or you could code it into the top or bottom of your sidebar and add all the code you require to create the bbPress login widget and alter it slightly to have an edit profile link.

Good luck!

[Lynq]

In this topic: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/customising-bbp_list_forums-last-poster-block/ I have customised the subforum list to show a last poster block, I have also customised it to change the look of the subforums. It should you on the way to getting what you want.

Good luck!

[Daniel Dvorkin]

This got posted two times. Closing this one. The original is here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/sidebar-item-for-change-profile-please/

[Robin W]

I have a snitz forum on an access database, which I am trying to import into BBpress. (basically I am taking over an old website and redoing it in wordpress)

Wordpress is 3.5.1 and BBpress 2.2.4
site is http://www.gospbc.co.uk)

I have tailored the example convertor and saved it as smitz.php in the right folder (it is coming up on the list)

q1 where in my my site do I put the .mdb that I have. I have tried the root but the import doesn’t seem to find a database,
q2 in the import what do I answer to
database server -do i leave as localhost or do I need to put a directory path in?
database name : do i put xx.mdb or just xx?
Database user and password – the access database has no username or password – do i just leave these fields blank?

At the moment all I get is :

Conversion Complete

No replies to convert

No tags to convert

No topics to convert

No forum parents to convert

No forums to convert

Starting Conversion

so it can’t be finding the database

Any ideas to progress please?

[JoeMadden1989]

Hi,

While trying to convert my Vbuliten forum into bbpress when i hit the conversion button the starting conversion appears but unfortunally nothing accully happeneds. I could have entered bogus database connections detials and still get the same results. With correct results its stuck on the same part with no database progress.

Thank you for any ideas.

Joe.

[Robin W]

This is probably a dumb question, and you’ll point me to a much easier solution!

Also I am still very new to wordpress, so understand a little of css and php’s but not tons. I’ll use thing and thingy a lot as well, so as not to embarrass myself with the wrong technical terms.

I am using bbpress 2.2.4 on WordPress 3.5.1 with a twentyten child theme that does a few minor mods.

Welcome

I am setting up a forum, but don’t want users to see the WordPress toolbar, as this is outside the theme.

But I do want users to be able to change their password and details.

I am using the bbpress login widget in the bbpress sidebar, and by clicking the avatar or their username, users can get to a theme friendly profile page that lets them do just this.

However clicking the avatar is not instinctive, and I’d like (in the absence of a more obvious solution) to add a thingy to the bbpress sidebar that says “amend profile/change password” which when clicked takes you to the same place that clicking the avatar does (or some similar solution)

From searching on the forums, I have found the line within the widget that does this for the avatar (around line 140) which looks like

a href=”” class=”submit user-submit”><?php echo get_avatar( bbp_get_current_user_id(), '40' ); ?
But have no idea how to then use this or other code to achieve the goal.

Any good ideas, or is there a very basic solution I’ve missed.

Thanks

[Robin W]

This is probably a dumb question, and you’ll point me to a much easier solution!

Also I am still very new to wordpress, so understand a little of css and php’s but not tons. I’ll use thing and thingy a lot as well, so as not to embarrass myself with the wrong technical terms.

I am using bbpress 2.2.4 on WordPress 3.5.1 with a twentyten child theme that does a few minor mods.

Welcome

I am setting up a forum, but don’t want users to see the WordPress toolbar, as this is outside the theme.

But I do want users to be able to change their password and details.

I am using the bbpress login widget in the bbpress sidebar, and by clicking the avatar or their username, users can get to a theme friendly profile page that lets them do just this.

However clicking the avatar is not instinctive, and I’d like (in the absence of a more obvious solution) to add a thingy to the bbpress sidebar that says “amend profile/change password” which when clicked takes you to the same place that clicking the avatar does (or some similar solution)

From searching on the forums, I have found the line within the widget that does this for the avatar (around line 140) which looks like

a href=”” class=”submit user-submit”><?php echo get_avatar( bbp_get_current_user_id(), '40' ); ?
But have no idea how to then use this or other code to achieve the goal.

Any good ideas, or is there a very basic solution I’ve missed.

Thanks

[Tbermudas]

Hello

I’m migrating from ning to word+buddy+bbpress and I’m looking for a visual editor like the example on the attached image. It is very simple but let the logged members to upload images and insert it in the post or reply.

It is possible to have anything similar in bbpress? What about the compatibility with smartphones browsers?

Thanks

[clickmac]

when a 404 function is added to the functions.php to redirect users when 404 occurs,

the new user who registered, they are not able to goto their profile, instead, the link is treated as a 404 error. how to work around this?

[calebeaires]

Is there any way to get WordPress Jetpack [comments system] and BBPress working together?

[Rics1983]

Found the solution here:

"New topic page"

and

New topic address

[pazzaglia]

Forgot to check the box to notify me of replies.

[pazzaglia]

Didn’t work for me : (

copied full-width template from my theme to my child theme and re-named it bbpress.php and I still have the side-bar that is messing everything up.

http://draft.hippressurecooking.com/forums/

Would love a solution for this.. ‘been spending days creating pages, posts, and reading google search results and still can’t figure it out.

HELP!

Ciao,

L

[TrishaM]

After importing from my bbPress ver. 1.0.2 to the new bbPress 2.2.4 (I did not use the bbConverter, I just followed the instructions to use the Tools>Forums>Import Forum), I am left with twice as many topics as I should have…..each one is duplicated and the extra item has (No Forum) showing as the parent Forum.

I had encountered an error on the first import, but I checked the box that says “Purge all information from a previously attempted import” on the second attempt…..looks like it did not purge……

SO I am comfortable with using phpMyAdmin to fix things, but I don’t know how to write a SQL query to delete the duplicates…….I could use help with that.

ALSO, is it now safe to drop the old tables that previously held all the topics/posts/replies/users, etc? The ones that start with bb_ ? I really want to keep my database cleaned up……AND can I remove the subfolder from the old version – the one that held the bb_config.php and all those old files?

[afjsystem]

it’s been resolved.
as i wrote the steps in this thread : might be useful for others

thanks
afjsystem

[Event Espresso]

Same problem here! Pretty lame that bbpress does not support this.

[Event Espresso]

I agree with Abdessamad Idrissi. Having a better visual editor would be very helpful.

[Morgan Kay]

I have an old site with a HUGE forum (almost 400,000 topics) in bbPress 1.1. I’m importing it into 2.2.4. I’m doing this on a site that has been running the bbPress integration plugin, which means that (in theory, anyway) the old 1.1 site and the new WP site I’m importing into already have the same users.

So here’s the problem: after importing the forum, all of the posts on the new forum have the same author – me. So the import script apparently didn’t import the authors.

Has anyone run into this before? Is there a fix?