[Halo Diehard]

Howdy, can someone please check out the first page of my bbPress forums and tell me if it’s supposed to look like this? I can certainly tweak it with CSS, but I need an example, so if someone could provide a link to what it’s supposed to look like that would be great! BTW, I don’t mean colors, which I’ve begun tweaking already, I’m referring to the layout.

I’m using:

WordPress Version: 3.4.2
bbPress Version: 2.2.2
Theme: Custom Community

Link to my bbPress test forums: http://themetest.halodiehards.org/hd-forums/

[Michael]

For what it’s worth, I’m looking for whatever function is calling content-archive-forum.php.  I can edit this file in my child theme per the Codex, but I’m trying to figure out which function is calling this, and in particular, what function generates the code above the <div id=”bbpress-forums”> at the start of content-archive-forum.php.

Does bbPress simply use the default post display template, and if so, where is the call to load and execute content-archive-forum.php  made?

I tried a grep for content-archive-forum in the entire wordpress tree from wp-content on down, and I can’t find where this is called from.

Many thanks

Michael

 

and not just this template file

[Michael]

Hi there — I’m running WP 3.4.2, bbPress 2.2.2 & buddypress 1.6.1.  Overall, I’m quite happy with the installation, and I’ve done a fair amount of customization on my site  to give it a nice L&F.  I’ve been using a child theme to do all customization, and it’s been reasonably straightforward, but not trivial.  That said, many thanks to all the bbPress folks who are putting lots of time in on this plugin — it’s a great platform.

Onto my question:  How is the main forum archive page generated?  I want to create my own template to generate this page, and I’ve been stumped trying to trace the sequence of files/calls used to create it.

For context, I have the Forums Base set to “member-area/forums” in Settings -> Forums. I can go to http://mysite/member-area/forums and see the standard listing of all the forums in a table.  Perfect, just what I want.

That said, how exactly is this page created?  Which files & calls in the plugin create it?  I’ve found loop-forums.php in …/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/which is used to create the table within the page (apparently called as the_content() somewhere), but I can’t find the code blocks that create the header, footer, etc.  Is there a single template page used to create the Archive Base page?

Apparently this page is generated regardless of whether there is an existing page (permalink) to the same permalink used as Archive Base.  Nifty, but I want to use my own template (the whole thing) for creating the Archive Base page.

Even when I create a page with a permalink address the same as Archive Base and insert a  [bbp-forum-index] in the post content, I can’t seem to select a Template from the Page Attribute pull down that has any effect on the creation of the Archive Base page.  It’s like it’s hard wired to use a very specific template — that I can’t find in the directory tree.

Long winded, but I hope that conveys what I’m trying to do.  In short, I just want to create my own template for creating the Archive Base page.  Any pointers are appreciated.

Cheers,

Michael

[John James Jacoby]

@sooskriszta – What happens if you comment out lines 657 and 658:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.2.2/includes/core/theme-compat.php#L657

[frenzis73]

Hello, I use BBpress 2.1.

Is there a way to merge two forums in one?

Regards, Francesco.

[SK]

As reported elsewhere, my theme doesn’t seem to like bbPress 2.2.2 either.

The problem caused is that I think the template files that make bbPress work with other themes broke.

I can still go to the forum pages with direct URLs or links in forum list widget, but the forums (list of forums or list of topics) are not visible. All I see in content area is page/forum title and forum description.

Similarly, on topic pages, I see topic title, but nothing else…

When I view source, the code is not there. e.g. when on forums home I view code, I can’t find the forum names (except in the forum list widget)

P.S. Reinstalling 2.2.2 has not resolved the issue.

[padekan]

Is there a workaround (I hope I’m not asking a boy if he knew anything about CSS, this would be obvious question)?

[SK]

Created ticket https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2031

JJJ says no need yet, but will consider if it is a popular request.

[John James Jacoby]

@mickeyroush – Annoying. Usually bumped automatically. Will fix. Thanks.

[John James Jacoby]

@technotip – If there’s only one theme, the option is hidden.

[John James Jacoby]

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/developers/

[John James Jacoby]

It’s most likely bbPress’s fault, being too strict on clearing out the CSS for lists.

[tilmanjo]

Hello,

I have the following problem:

In the form-topic.php in somewhere aroung line 43 there is written:

bbp_is_single_forum() ? printf( __( ‘Create New Topic in “%s”’, ‘bbpress’ ), bbp_get_forum_title() ) : _e( ‘Create New Topic’, ‘bbpress’ );

Now on my website it shows: Forum_titleCreate New Topic in “”. Somehow it is not working that %s is replaced by the bbp_get_forum_title() information!

Anther problem that occured:
When starting a Forum as private and then changing it to public the topics that were created as in the “private mode” still remain private and I could not find a way to change that back.

Thanks for working on bbpress!

Tilman
actual wordpress and bbpress version

[sambedingfield]

Not be the most elegant solution, but it’ll have to do for now:


//redirect user profile topic permalinks to fix pagination, as we have topics embedded on profiles
function rats_redirect_user_pagination( $pagination ) {
// Get bbPress
$bbp = bbpress();
if (bbp_is_single_user() && is_array($pagination) && isset($pagination['base']) ) {
//if topics has not been included in the url yet
$check_topic = strpos($pagination['base'], '/topics/page/');
if($check_topic === false) {
$pagination['base'] = str_replace('/page/','/topics/page/', $pagination['base']);
}
}
//return pagination array
return $pagination;
}
add_action('bbp_topic_pagination', 'rats_redirect_user_pagination', 99, 1 );


[artmuns]

Looking for BBPress plugin 2.2.1 or 2.2. Can’t seem to find it here.

[artmuns]

In any users “Profile”, clicking on “Topics Started” or “Replies Created” displays “Viewing topic x (of x total)” or “Viewing x posts (of x total)” but non of the Topics or Replies are displayed. This had been working. Not sure if it went away in 2.2.1 or 2.2.2.

WP 3.4.2
BBPress 2.2.2

Thanks, any help appreciated!

[padekan]

I did the foolish thing of changing two variables at the same time and now I’m not sure what I caused.  Recently I upgraded to bbPress 2.2.1 and at the same time moved to Twenty Eleven theme (wanted a responsive bbPress theme).  Had a couple of problems which I googled and resolved:

1) no side bars showed up on Forum & Topic pages (fixed by installing Twenty Eleven Theme Extensions & Enabling Widgets on single post pages)

2) Ultimate Tiny MCE was no longer showing up .. this was fixed by John’s helpful advice in:

No more Ultimate TinyMCE buttons in fancy editor after latest 2.2 update.

And I noticed a third issue, which was for ordered and unordered lists, they longer had bullets/numbers.  I upgraded to bbPress 2.2.2 today hoping that might have fixed the problem but the behaviour is still the same.

I looked at the element information in Chrome and it shows that the list-style-type is set to “none” by bbpress.css. This is true for both ul and ol type lists.  I can’t be sure whether it is Twenty Eleven or the bbPress updates which caused the formatting to change but the fact bbpress.css was involved pointed me here.

Being a pretty newbie guy from CSS perspective, I don’t know where and how I show try override the style type.

Suggestions greatly appreciated.

regards, Paul

[Satish]

How do I select my forum theme?
No option present in the settings!

[Pierre-Luc Auclair]

After some query, function and class debugging, I now realize that bbpress runs on post_types and a heavily modified wp_query calls and a bunch of (largely undocumented) functions and classes. Most of the magic happens in a Loop that is different depending on what you want to show.

Looking at the widgets calls has been tremendously helpful in successfully achieving what I wanted to do.

I managed to find a function/class list with comments at http://phpdoc.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress-plugin/ that was also very helpful.

I leave this for reference to others, hope it can help someone else.

[wadams92101]

I have a WP 3.4.2 multisite subdomain installation, with buddypress and bbpress. However, my bbpress is activated locally only on a subdomain, where I have a couple of forums. Since upgrading to 2.2 (actually, I didn’t detect the problem until 2.2.2), my menu forums page no longer shows a directory of my forums. The menu is set to http://subdomain.domain.com/forums/. What changed and how do I get it back to showing the links to the forums when the menu item is clicked (like it did before the upgrade)?

[Stephen Edgar]

Make sure you select ‘phpBB’ with the ‘import forums tool’ option ‘Select Platform’

Check out the brief docs here https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

The import works pretty well for the base of phpBB migration for users, forums, topics & replies.

[SydneyDesigner]

Thanks but yes, I already tried that and just tried again to make sure.

Again, please correct me if I’m wrong, but “deleting the bb-config.php file and resetting the option boxes” no longer seems to apply to bbPress 2.2+.

Firstly, there is no bb-config.php file in the root directory anymore.

Secondly, in BuddyPress config you now leave the forums component off (not on like before). I did still try toggling the BuddyPress forums component on then off, but that didn’t fix it.

I’d be grateful for any more suggestions to try please.

[Halo Diehard]

WordPress Version: 3.4.2
bbPress Version: 2.2.2
Theme: Custom Community

Hello, I am considering changing my site from phpBB3 forums to bbPress to better integrate with my WordPress home page.

I’m attempting to Import my forums into my test site, on another database, to test bbPress’ “Import Forums”. I’ve filled out all the necessary information, but the first time I ran it I got messages at the bottom that 0 Members had been imported 0 posts, etc all the way down the line. I tried running it again and I get this message:

“Fatal error: Class ‘Example’ not found in /homepages/33/d410891000/htdocs/THEMETEST/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 1291”

I’ve attempted to reset the process by choosing to Purge Previous Import and save, then Start Over and save, but I continue to get the same message when I try to import.

I tried to resolve this on my own, but I searched for an hour online before I even found that bbPress has an importer built in! Unfortunately stuff from the last five years had priority in the search. Also, I could not find a search on this site, so I started Googling “bbpress.org import forums” but still no answers, so any help would be appreciated.

One more thing: I don’t have so many members that I couldn’t create their accounts myself if I *had* to, so if anyone knows of an easier way to just import the forums and posts, that might work.

Thanks in advance for your time.

[SydneyDesigner]

Thank you. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think your guide is out of date for what I am now doing (and presumably others are now doing too) with the new bbPress 2.x. To use the new bbPress 2.x fully you do indeed turn off the BuddyPress forums component, as JJJ said in reply to you in forum
“Much of it is the same. You’ll want to focus on:
turning the BuddyPress forums component Off
the bbPress 1.1 import tool
the BuddyPress settings in: Settings > Forums”

So I am still looking for the answer to my original question if you know that please…
How do I turn on forums in existing BuddyPress groups please?

Does anyone know the answer?

[MickeyRoush]

I noticed in this update that the two CSS files:

bbpress.css
bbpress-rtl.css

were updated but the min versions where not.

I just YUI compressed them myself, to create a min version of each.