[Martyn Chamberlin]

Oh my goodness. That’s crazy! Sounds like a serious error on the part of BBPress.

What do you suggest we do about this?

[LabSecrets]

Justin,

Kudos for the quick update! We’ve found the Members plugin to be an indispensable tool when used in combination with bbPress and even BuddyPress / WooCommerce (subscriptions). Previously we used the role management to make subscription sites possible with members-only support forums.

After reading your post, and on the suggestion of JJJ, we updated our step by step guide to configuring bbPress 2.2.2 & BuddyPress 1.6.1, and included a special reference to using the Members plugin to solve those situations where one needs a “special” mix of the roles and capabilities between WP and bbP.

Have a peek if yo have the time:

The Definitive Guide To BuddyPress & bbPress Configuration

Direct link to video: http://labzip.com/the-definitive-guide-to-buddypress-bbpress-configuration/

Keep up the great work! 😉

Cheers!

spence

[Len]

Hi Ishr,

Yeah I don’t like the horizontal listing either. See if this reply helps you out.

how to display list of sub-forums on separate lines, instead of big blob?

[LabSecrets]

For this you should consider using the Members plugin from Justin Tadlock, to create a unique WP role for the users whom you wish to have “special” access. Then you can differentiate their capabilities within the unique WP role (or use one of the default WP roles).

Confused?… don’t worry, it’s all new. bbPress now has unique and definitive roles and capabilities from those of WP. But this can be used to your advantage if you have a few tricks up your sleeve 😉

I cover this at the end of the updated Definitive Guide to BuddyPress and bbPress. See if this helps? Let me know if you need further help?

http://labzip.com/the-definitive-guide-to-buddypress-bbpress-configuration/

Cheers!

Spence

[LabSecrets]

Fundamentally you need to understand that the use of the prefix is designed to put a unique prefix in place when you’re on a forum index page vs when you are on a topic index page. As such, it is not possible with the default code to show “/forum/topic” if ou mean both are prefixes.

I suggest you use the plural term “forums” as your base, then “forum” and “topic” as your prefixes.

If you like, have a watch of our comprehensive guide video:

The Definitive Guide To BuddyPress & bbPress Configuration

 

cheers!

spence

[Master]

Go in /wp-admin/widgets.php and add  (bbPress) Login Widget to sidebar

[ninjaface]

I would like to place an ad under the bbpress forum root or in different places around the bbpress forum. Is there a plugin that can do this properly?

[andrewjag]

the support is dead … so sad

[Stephen Edgar]

Are you using Akismet? And is everything enabled?
http://akismet.com/

– Make sure the Akismet plugin is activated /wp-admin/plugins.php
– Enter your Akismet API key /wp-admin/admin.php?page=akismet-key-config
– Make sure ‘Use Akismet’ is enabled in ‘Forum Settings’ /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress

[Stephen Edgar]

When you are subscribed to a topic you will be emailed via WordPress of any new topic replies.

Favorites are like bookmarks and can be viewed/shared with other users on the site.

eg. Yours – https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/mia-pak/favorites/
Mine – https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/netweb/favorites/

[Stephen Edgar]

What about using the ‘Login Widget’ https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

Or one of the ‘account’ shortcodes? https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[bajs]

Nope, unfortunately not. I need full access to the outputs in order for me to place them where I want.

But I might have a solution, tho’ it involves changeing the files in bbpress plugin. Not sure if it’s the best idea…

[Shane Gowland]

Couldn’t you achieve this using bbPress’ shortcodes? Namely; [bbp-forum-index]

[bajs]

Hi guys!

Having a huge struggle trying to make a custom loop in bbPress. I’ve tried to find the solution for 2 days no but I’ve had it. I’m too sucky at both wordpress and php to make it on my own.

So what i want to do is to make a loop for my front-page.php that contains all of the forums (I think). Like this

And for you who doesn’t understand swedish I want to grab all the forums (with description if possible), and for every forum I want to show a counter of both topics and replies. As well as I want to grab the most recent topic, display the author and the time it was published.

Now I might be able to do that i i just know how to make a loop like you do it in wordpress (). So if anyone can be a champ and point me in the right direction I’d be forever thankful!

[mr-zee]

Hi, I am in the process of installing the latest version of bbpress as a plugin to create a forum and would like to add a user register/signup box or link from every page. I’ve been searching but cannot find the answer. Can anyone help?

[Kslad]

Thanks for your reply.

This would work, but unfortunately it is my theme’s sidebar that is displaying, not BBPress’ side bar.

Any other suggestions?

[Lynq]

This is more than likely your theme not being setup to display your topics correctly. A link does help as Lab mentioned. Do you have a bbpress theme installed?

[Lynq]

You could use CSS?

In the body tag there is a bbpress class, soy you could do something like:

.bbPress .sidebar { display: none; }

good luck!

[Kslad]

Hi guys,

I have done my research and I have been able to remove the side bar from (what I think is) the top level of the forums by editing the archive-forum.php file.

When I select a forum (I currently only have one) and a topic in the forum (again, I only have one) I still see my theme’s sidebar. I decided to modify the archive-topic.php file and comment out the get_sidebar(); line (as I did above), but unlike above, this did not work.

I commented out the get_sidebar(); line for every file in the plugins/bbpress/templates/default/extras folder. This did not work for me.

My question is: how do I remove my theme’s sidebar from the list of forums, topics and inside the topics too?

[lshr]

Hey all,

I will be adding a Forum to an existing WordPress site, and I am familiar with both PHPBB and vBulletin, and I would like to use the “Category” features — where Forums are listed under an appropriate category.

I would like to use bbPress for the common look and feel, and single sign on four our users.

Can I set up Categories?
TR

[nightshift58]

Okay, so this gave me no peace…

I’ve been trying to bring the iMember360 forum back online after I converted it from the old standalone bbPress version.

This throttling was the last issue (that I know of) standing in the way.

In iMember360, I added a filter to quash the throttling issue until bbPress fixes the issue.

Update to iM360 v3.4.016 and you should be throttle-free…

Best,
Bob
http://www.iMember360.com

[mlakritz]

My forum index page is just a bunch of bullet points listing each text for the topics.  How do I get the forum index to be listed in boxes like on the bbpress example.

Also, I suspect this could be from my theme formatting the bbpress forums this way – what file would I look in to change this and how?

Please help!

[RaphaelJeger]

I have found a solution using http://justboil.me/
I am almost finished, posting images online works already with bbpress.
If you want I will show you how.

[Noodle Man]

Hello! I’m not very good at HTML, scripting and the like, and I was wondering if there was a plugin for the following.

On some websites, when you move your cursor over a button (much like the WordPress pages links) a menu drops down with other links. When you are logged in on bbPress, the same happens when you move your cursor over your Username. I would like the same, just with pages, rather than a username.

Noodle Man

[brianmcculloh]

I’m having this exact same problem. Unfortunately my WordPress page does not win when I set them to the same slug. Because of this, I want to use different slugs for my WordPress page that contains the shortcode and my Forums Base. This works just fine, the only problem is in the breadcrumb the “Forums” link takes the user to the forum index instead of the WordPress page with the shortcode.