[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…

[Mal]

Custom Fields (Meta Data, Meta Boxes) – do they exist for BBPress 1.0?

I mean something like `get_post_meta();` in WordPress – do threads or single posts support them?

[Lynq]

You could just use css maybe? It allows you to quick switch back in case you need it, or if you need it on certain bbPress pages maybe.

[freax]

I did the ‘display:none’ in catch-box theme but didn’t work for me. I need to remove the’get_sidebar’ from your template, BBpress, or catch-box theme ? Thanks.

[Lynq]

Because bbPress is using custom post types you could use: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query.

See the part about taxonomy parameters, you can set the post_type to whatever you want.

[Lynq]

The best way to remove a sidebar is probably to just use CSS to .sidebar { display:none } (depending on your themes markup) – it is quick and allows you to quickly add the sidebar back in should you need it later on.

Or you can go through all of the theme files and remove get_sidebar.

Good luck!

[kriskl]

Hi!

Just migrated to bbpress, and users are confused.. as they do not see standard on other forums ‘New Topic button..

I hope it is possible to add one using  function code – so it would appear at the top of every forum – and either expand to add ne topic – like in buddypress or at least to direct users to the bottom of the page..

happy to pay $10-20 for this. but  please post code on the forums, so everyone can get the benefit 🙂

thanks

kris

[Stephen Edgar]

@shrewdies

Huge thanks for this 🙂 (and your life story, it puts things in a much clearer context.)

I have also split this topic starting from your first post as a new thread as I am quite sure this will be referenced by quite a few who do migrate from Simple Press.

I will also link to it from the FAQ I am doing that will link from this page:

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/simplepress/

Cheers,

Stephen

[slayterm]

which bbpress php file do I edit to change the (bbpress) recent topics widget?

Thanks

[shrewdies]

OK, here are the redirects, but first some background.

Your move takes some planning, and the redirects are specific to your old Simple:Press Forum structure and your new bbPress settings (Admin-Settings-Forums). I describe how I approached my conversion, but you may need a different approach. If you need specific help with a different set of objectives, then please just ask. I did not use tagging in Simple:Press, as it was more trouble to implement than the benefit it gave. None of this refers to tagging, and I notice that the r4638 version of SimplePress5.php has them commented out.

If your forum has little search and external referral traffic, then save yourself the bother of all this, and just get on with building your new forum.

Before I explain the permalinks, you need to be aware that I took this opportunity of simplifying my forum structure. I used to believe in different forums for different subject areas, but I’ve come to realize that most forum users do not understand my theme, so they cannot decide which forum to post in. I noticed the same thing here when I looked around for the best place to post. I decided to simplify my forums to two main choices, with the rest as child forums. I did this by manually editing the Forums parents in bbPress after the conversion. That explains my choice of Topic slug in bbPress settings, but redirects should handle any choice.

In Simple:Press, topics get permalinks in a hierarchy under their forum, and all forums lie within the WordPress forums page in the Simple:Press settings. Thus, a topic will be referenced domain/wp-forums-page/sp-forum-title-slug/sp-post-title
In bbPress, permalinks are built from your WordPress root, with prefixes set in the bbPress settings under slugs. Thus a topic will be referenced domain/bb-forums-base/bb-topic-slug/bb-post-title

The post titles are the same in bbPress and Simple:Press, so redirects have to account for the changed forum slug structure.

The first bbPress setting, Forums base, is the equivalent of your Simple:Press WP page, so I used exactly that. If you made bad choices when setting up your Simple:Press forum, I guess you could change it with the redirects, by specifying different destination URLs. I kept it the same, and simply renamed my old Simple:Press page (be aware this auto changes in WP menus, so you may need to manually delete old forum menu pages and add new custom menu links)

In bbPress settings Single Slugs, the Forum Prefix should be left switched on.

Forum slug has no Simple:Press equivalent, so I opted for something theme related. The default is probably OK, but I’m slug-fixated as a result of a bad SEO upbringing. I have not redirected these pages, but I will assess the impact over the next few days, and come back with these if I see they are necessary.

I set topic slug to my most popular forum, which is very general, as per my introduction. Redirects will handle whatever you put here.

The rest of the bbPress settings do not affect conversion.

At last, @netweb here are the requested redirects. Are you glad you didn’t ask for my life story? 😉

The general construct is:
Old
^ begin with
/wp-forums-page
/sp-forum-title-slug
(.*) store the rest

New
//domain
/bb-forums-base
/bb-topic-slug
/$1 whatever * stored

RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/gout-symptoms(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/gout-cures(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/gout-diet(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/colchicine-campaign(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/united-states-colchicine-sources(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/gout-related(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/uric-acid(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/your-gout(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/tech-stuff(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/wish-list(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/gouties-water-trough(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1

One potential complication lies with multi-page topics. I’m still assessing if it is worth bothering with these, as traffic rarely hits anything after the first page. Google WebMaster Tools is currently complaining, but experience tells me it will soon re-index unless there are other sites that link to specific pages.

Disclaimer: Before you try this at home, you might like to wait a month or so. I’ll be back to tell you if I killed my forum traffic or not. 😮

[dreamache]

Okay first, I’m well aware of the 10+ threads already that exist about this topic, and I’ve gone through all of them.

I’ve read this:
http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

It seems as though “extras” contains all of the files with get_sidebar, which I’ve edited to //get_sidebar

The link above mentions:
““extras” contains optional page templates and things to make life a little easier when customizing; copy any you want to use or modify into the same ‘bbpress’ folder. eg. /wp-content/mytheme/bbpress/”

First, that should probably be changed to: /wp-content/themes/mytheme/bbpress

Secondly, I’ve done this. My directory structure looks like:
wp-content/themes/sahifa/bbpress/extras (which contain the modified //get_sidebar files)

Yet the sidebar still shows up.

Is there anything I’m missing?

Thanks.

[Sunidaze]

I have 3 themes: Twentyeleven, Twentytwelve and Voyage. BBPress does not work with any of these themes. Unregistered guests can post, but registered members can’t.

Here is my site:

http://affjourney.info/forums/

thanks…

[Sunidaze]

I really searched Google and the forum to try to find the answer but I just can’t come up with it. I have a brand new install of BBPress. I’ve never used it before. (I’m using version 2.2.3.) I’m using Wordress version 3.5.

I went over the roles here:

http://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

It says participants can create and edit their own topics and replies. On my forums participants cannot create topics at all. I don’t want to bump them up to moderator because I don’t want everyone to be able to edit everything.

I’m hoping there is a simple fix for this or someone can please tell me what I’m doing wrong. 🙁

[Will Brownsberger]

Just wish to report that I have confirmed to my satisfaction that W3 Total Cache is not working with BBPress — using latest versions as of this date, January 8, 2013. I installed both in the last week.

I have an active forum thread going on my website and as I observe it carefully, I can see that new replies are not generating page refresh for the topic. So, an anonymous user coming would not see latest replies. So, either there is an incompatibility or W3 just isn’t working right, which is possible — see this comment on that plugin:

I am liking BBPress but lost some confidence in W3 total when it brought down my site fully on a minify error yesterday (nice enough to send me an error message but then everything went white and had to uninstall and reinstall to complete the fix). Now realizing that it is incompatible with BBPress, I’m going to have to pull it and try to run without caching for a while and see how it goes.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for letting us know and confirmed as a bug, we were partially there with trac ticket #2085

You can use the following workaround for now until we get the bug patched.

• Create a new forum with forum attributes ‘category’ and ‘private’
• Create two new forums using the above forum as the ‘parent’ and visibility ‘private’

Now as long as you don’t move or edit the forum or category descriptions things should work as expected, if you do move the forums or edit the descriptions you will encounter the same issue.

[funnycat777]

Hi,
I am using the latest version of bbpress.

When I post youtube videos using the embed code (iframe) in a bbpress post, the video does not fit within the width of the textbox.

How can I make the youtube video responsive so that it always fits within the post and resizes itself with the correct aspect ratio?

[freax]

I have the same problem too. I tried to find get_sidebar function to delete it from the code but I only find them in ‘extra’ directory and it is showing again. Any help ?
Thanks in advance.

[Ben]

Okay, that’s just weird.

I created a separate page for topic creation and just ran the same PHP call (`echo do_shortcode(‘[bbp-topic-form]‘);`), and it works… So for some reason that call doesn’t behave properly in my `bbpress.php`, but does just fine in a custom template.

[Stephen Edgar]

So close… Indeed you use bbp_has_replies to reverse order the replies

function custom_bbp_has_replies() {
  $args['order'] = 'DESC'; // 'ASC' (Ascending, Default), 'DESC' (Descending)
  
  return $args;
}
 
add_filter('bbp_before_has_replies_parse_args', 'custom_bbp_has_replies' );

And use bbp_show_lead_topic to always show the ‘lead topic’ (More details here.

function custom_bbp_show_lead_topic( $show_lead ) {
  $show_lead[] = 'true';
  return $show_lead;
}
 
add_filter('bbp_show_lead_topic', 'custom_bbp_show_lead_topic' );

[Stephen Edgar]

@shrewdies

Thanks for the feedback, glad it worked for you.

What custom rewrite rules did you use in .htaccess for redirects, care to share these for other users migrating from SimplePress?

Cheers,

Stephen

[Sunidaze]

Nice theme, thank you… this is the first BBPress theme I’ve installed… 🙂

How do I make it into one column? (no sidebar)