[Roy]

I’ve got a nasy little bug(ger). I’ve got a 3.5 WP installation with a forum using the BBpress plugin. Everything was running perfectly until I noticed that in my WP menus I could no longer drag and drop. I deactivated all plugins (which helped), reactivated them. So far so good. Then I noticed that my forums went funky.

The forum index works. I’ve got four forums, two public, two private. One of the forums works (one of the public ones), the other three give 404’s. The strange thing is that a newly created forum also gives a 404, but al subjects (or threads) work, also the threads in the malfunctioning forums.

So I thought: permalinks. Changed to default and back, no go. Edited the permalink of the forums manually to something ‘test’ (edit specific forum), no go. Edit the permalink for forums in the BBpress settings, no go.
Of course I also tried deactivating plugins again, use default theme, searched around a bit on the www and noticed people with htaccess problems. I’m sure it’s something there, but I can’t figure it out, especially not because one forum works and the rest does not.
Website monas.nl, see tab forums.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

[Rachel Biel]

Here is one thing I found:

1. In Settings>Forums, it says:
Archive Slugs
Custom root slugs to prefix your forums and topics with. These can be partnered with WordPress pages to allow more flexibility.

Forums base
 Possible BuddyPress conflict: Member Forums page

Topics base

 

 

I disabled Forums in the BuddyPress area, following a tutorial I found here from you guys.  So, there should be no conflict, right?

 

[Maruti Mohanty]

@netweb Thanks, I know that but the site wide forums include bbpress and thats why I have posted it here for help 🙂

[Rachel Biel]

I’m having the same problem:  www.tafaforum.com.

[parellex]

Wordpress 3.5
bbpress 2.2.3
Hi,
I just installed bbpress into wordpress but bbpress wont link with a Forums page i created at my wordpress website, parellex.net. The bbpress top-level forums page that wont link with the wordpress forums page is here. Does it have something to do with the slugs? Or was it a during setup problem?
Thanks in advanced!

[jesse017]

I just inherited the admin position for our club’s wordpress site, and am a total noob at this. I upgraded the to WP3.5 and BBPress 2.2.3 and the formatting went all screwy. I deselected the Twenty Twelve theme, and that fixed the menu/text formatting, but now when you go to the ‘Forums’ page it just has a link to ‘edit’ but doesn’t display the forums/threads/replies.

The forums are still there, I can see them from the dashboard, but I can’t get them to show up on the site.

Someone PLEASE help me.

Link… http://custerrodandgun.com/wordpress/

[paradise123]

hi…,
my greet to everyone on this forum site. i know wordpress is a big site but it also have its plug ins. it’s awesome. great improvement.
thanks.

[carmelneta]

Here is the solution:

All forums pages on non-default WordPress template.php

[carmelneta]

Iv’e copied all the defult files to my theme dir, but it’s still go to page.php.
Have you solved this?

[Benn Jomy]

I’m new to wordpress and bbpress, as far as now i have managed to built a forum.

http://bennjomy.com/support/

I am an html web developer, the forum setup for the support for my themes, but the title of the support page is forum. How to change the title from forum to support?

Please Help,
Thank you

[disturbedrod]

I have the same problem, I even removed Jetpack (don’t need it) and still the fancy editor will not show up…

[jezza101]

I am adding some content using the bbp_get_reply_content filter and this is working great.

add_filter(‘bbp_get_reply_content’, ‘my_filter’, 100, 2);

However I do not want this content to appear in the forum RSS feed. Is there a way I can filter the feed? If I can edit the feed content I can just find/replace to remove text.

I tried the WP filter:

add_filter(‘the_content_rss’, ‘my_filter’, 1000);

But this doesn’t seem to have any impact?

Or is there another way to do this?

(bbpress 2+)

[jezza101]

I looked into this in the past and having read a number of existing threads on the topic it looks like there is no way to change this.

For aesthetic reasons I chose to change from the default as “/forum/forums/” doesn’t look great so you can change it to “/bb/forums” or “/forum/discuss/” or whatever. Not ideal but trying to hack this to work could leave you in a whole world of pain (prob tricky to get right, and may break with future releases).

[revkev]

Hello everything looks good on the install, with one exception there is no submit button on the sitewide forums, so unable to post new topics.

WP Ver: 3.5
BBPress ver: 2.2.3
Theme: BP Columns ver. 1.5.3

site link: http://www.lcag.info/forums/

Have searched rather extensively for a solution but to no avail. Reinstalled the forums anew – dropping all bp tables from the db to remove any ‘leftovers.’ All to no avail.

Your assistance in resolving this problem is greatly appreciated.

~Respect

RevKev

[ishanshade]

Hello,

My WP website uses the Bangkok Press Theme. I’ve installed bbpress, but there is no sidebar appearing in the forum.

How can I add it?

I’ve already asked the creator of the theme, but he’s not familiar with bbpress, so I’m asking help around here 🙂

Here is my website : mm2013.rp050.ihecs-multimedia.be/wordpress/forums

Thank you

[Stephen Edgar]

This is bbPress here, you want BuddyPress over here https://buddypress.org/ 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

This support forum is specific to bbPress plugin for WordPress.

I suggest you have a search of the WordPress Supports forums here and put a post up there if you do not find an answer. https://wordpress.org/support/

[Stephen Edgar]

Stop using bbConverter, it does not work and is no longer supported by the developer.

Use the import tool that comes with bbPress 2.x, you can find this in your WordPress Admin Dashboard under ‘Tools’ -> ‘Forums’ -> ‘Import Forums’

[Shane Gowland]

What specifically are you trying to change about the widget? It’s usually not a good idea to directly edit bbPress files, as your changes will be lost next time you update bbPress for security fixes or feature improvements.

99% of the time, there’s a simple way of changing things without hacking plugin files.

[Stephen Edgar]

Something like this should get you going:

if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'author' => 0, 'show_stickies' => 'false', 'order' => 'DESC', 'post_parent' => 'any', 'posts_per_page' => 5 ) ) )
bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'topics' );

[Sunidaze]

I don’t need help removing the sidebar now, I decided to use the Elbee Elgee theme with the built in BBPress sidebar removal… thanks for the help… 🙂

[slayterm]

The answer to change the avatar size is located here

plugins > bbpress > includes > common > widgets.php

[Mal]

I think that this is an answer: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-read-bb_topicmeta/

Awesome 🙂 Love BBPress.

[markramos83]

Awesome, that did it for me too – thanks! For anyone using bbPress 2.1.2 by chance, this file is located at bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-common-template.php

[Sunidaze]

Or you can go through all of the theme files and remove get_sidebar.
and
The best way to remove a sidebar is probably to just use CSS to .sidebar { display:none }

Will that remove the sidebar from the entire blog? I only want to remove the sidebar from the forum page, not the other pages…