[ouyagamingsource]

Hello BBP Forum,

I got nearly everything set up with the BuddyPress and bbPress forum plugins, however there’s a few tweaks I need to finish it off and I’m trying to figure out which files I need to adjust the html settings to match my custom theme of my other pages.

Going from these directions: http://codex.bbpress.org/legacy/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/ I created a child from my Alyeska theme and copied the Default bbPress Theme to the child theme folder. This helped get the forum page a little closer to my custom theme style, but still not there yet; the sidebars are missing, the forum BG is white, amongst a few other issues, but it’s getting closer. I’m just not sure where the CSS master file for this page is, I tried editing the two files in the child_theme/bbp/CSS folder but it didn’t make any change: http://ouyagamingsource.com/forums/, any ideas?

Thanks ahead of time!

–Bryan

[Gary3000]

I also just noticed that over at http://testbp.org/discussion/ the “Forums” sidebar widget there has an additional 2 columns, “Posts” and “Freshness”. How on Earth does one get these fancier widgets?

[Gary3000]

Just as the title says, I’m curious to know how the current main page at bbpress.org/forums/ is set up. Ideally, I’d like to have my forums main page set up in exactly the same fashion.

Am I correct in assumming that it’s done as a Page (“forums” being the slug) with the bbPress shortcode “[bbp-topic-index]” as its content?

I notice for Latest Topics it lists 28 topics, however in the bbPress Codex listing of shortcodes, it says that particular shortcode only lists 15 of the most recent topics. How does one go about configuring it to show more (or less) than the default of 15?

The other thing I’m curious about is how one gets the nicer “Forums” sidebar widget. The one on bbpress.org/forums/ is styled with a header containing “Forum” and “Topics” column headers, and then a striped list of the Forums with the associated topic counts. In the current public version of bbPress (2.1.2), the “Forums” widget only shows a straight, plain list of the Forums — no header/columns, and no topic counts. Is the widget used on bbpress.org/forums/ from the current SVN of bbPress, or was it customized specifically for bbPress?

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you looked at these two docs to help get you started?

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/ and https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

(The thread that you linked to above is out of date as it is only relevenet to the old stand alone bbPress and not the current plugin bbPress 2.x )

[Phill]

I want to start off by saying for the past 8 hours I’ve tried every recommendation I could find in order to remove my forums sidebar. Here’s what I’ve tried:

• Editing the auth-forum.php file (Pasted in the BBpress root)
• Editing the bbpress.php file (Pasted in the BBpress root)
• removing all instances of “get sidebar” from template files
• BBpress WP Tweak Plugin
• Removing the sidebar with CSS
• Creating a child theme
• Checked Stackoverflow for answers
• Checked Reddit for answers

And for the life of me I can’t get rid of that stupid sidebar. What am I missing? This is the only thing keeping me from launching my new BBpress forums after converting from SMF to phpBB.

I’m desperate for help, anything would be much appreciated.

[ffadler]

MTPrower

You stated my exact problem which I am currently having. I am a noob. But I can usually google search my way out of any problem. (Which led me here, but with no answer) I see that the “forums base” archive slug field is used in the breadcrumb for bbPress. When I click on the link in the breadcrumb, it takes me to the archive page….not what I want my users to be able to do at all. I want them to be able to get back to a forum index from anywhere inside bbPress.

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I setup a WP page and used the bbPress shortcodes to give me a Forum index; which is the main portal to all of the topics and posts on my site.

However, once a forum/topic is selected by a user, the bbPress *.php takes over and the pages are dynamically generated ( i guess ). How do I send people back to the forum index WP page from anywhere inside bbPress? I would prefer the breadcrumb worked or at least could be redirected to the WP page. Linking me to an archive page does NOTHING for any user, when trying to get back to an index.

Hope that was descriptive enough to workout a solution. Thank you.

http://www.sailhavasu.com/event-forum/ <- WP Page with bbPress short codes creating a forum "index"

http:www.//sailhavasu.com/bbpress/forum/hpcc-2013/ <- bbPress page where the breadcrumb "Forums" links to an archive page. Would rather it linked to an index; either a WP page or a dynamically created bbPress page with an actual index. (Note: "bbpress" is what I named the Forums base Archive Slug; another issue that appears weird to a noob.)

[Phill]

Figured it out. Used BBConverter and it worked. Not sure what was going on.

[Phill]

With the bbpress.php would I just paste the page.php code into it and then adjust it from there? I’m too having sidebar issues.

[John James Jacoby]

You have several options, but the easiest is to make a ‘bbpress.php’ at the root of your theme. It will act as a wrapper for your entire forums.

[John James Jacoby]

Look inside the bbp_author_link() function; there’s a great bunch of documentation in there on how to get that information out.

To say the code “isn’t very clean” is kind of silly; the best thing bbPress has going for it is how clean the code is to read and follow.

[Shmoo]

Hello, i didn’t know a better title but i’ll try to explain what i meant to say.

I don’t understand why it’s very easy to get all info that you need from the Topic Starter and when you need the same info from the last person who has replied on a topic it’s very difficult.

Look at my screenshot and you’ll see what i’m trying to say.
http://i48.tinypic.com/33op6wz.png

Everything on this picture is done by CSS the only images you’ll see are the Gravatars,
At the left side it’s the Gravatar of the Topic Starter with a Hover effect when i took the screenshot.

I didn’t use the default PHP code that bbPress provided because it wasn’t very clean so i searched around and found a few simple and easy to understand PHP tags who could help me build my custom lay-out.


php bbp_topic_author_url(); = provides a clean url

php bbp_topic_author_display_name(); = provides clean text without url

php bbp_topic_author_avatar( $topic_id = 0, $size = 60 ); = provides a gravatar with url


I love those simple codes because i can add and wrap HTML around it and position everything i need on every corner of the website if i would like so..

But when i try to make the same Gravatar at the right side it’s getting difficult because there aren’t a few simple tags i can use to get the same clean code from the last person who has posted inside a topic.


php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), 'type' => 'avatar', 'size' => 60 ) ); = provides a gravatar with url okay

php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), 'type' => 'name' ) ); = this doesn't provide clean text but a name + url


It’s a huge bummer because i can’t make the Hover effect on the Gravatar without clean code tags.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks, it would be great to get your translations added to https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin

Go to https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/ and
login with your WordPress/bbPress username (the same one you used to login here at bbpress.org) and ask this same question you posted above and someone should be able to outline how how and where to upload your translations.

[Stephen Edgar]

As per your thread on Stack Exchange that would be the route I would have a look into (i.e. Making a custom script)

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/70350/is-there-a-way-to-import-blogger-into-bbpress

Also take a look at the ‘example’ file included with bbPress as an importer ‘reference template’.

You may be able to modify this enough to get your Blogger Posts/Comments into bbPress Topics/Replies

The file is called ‘example.php’ and is located in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/converters

Let us know how it works out for you.

• This reply was modified 13 years, 10 months ago by Stephen Edgar.

[Phill]

Hi,

I’ve converted my forums from SMF to phpBB3 and now I’m trying to finalize this process by converting them to BBpress. I the phpbb3 forum on its own database and have entered the information correctly into the BBpress 2.1 built-on converter. Unfortunately each time I try I get this message:

> Conversion Complete
No replies to convert,
No tags to convert,
No topics to convert,
No forum parents to convert,
No forums to convert,
No data to clean,
Starting Conversion

I’ve searched these forums for an answer but I can’t seem to figure it out. I have phpbb 3.0.11 and here are the forums: http://shadowedmare.com/phpbb/

[Shmoo]

Search on the Codecanyon website inside the WordPress plugins there is a guy who has made a plugin that works with bbPress.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress 2.1 includes a conversion tool to import forums/topics/replies/users from some of the popular forum packages eg. bbPress or phpBB

There is an ‘example’ file also included as a ‘reference template’ that if your forum software is using a SQL database then you could easily modify this to be a custom importer by matching the correct database tables/fields etc

The file is called ‘example.php’ and is located in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/converters

[motionworks]

I have an older non-plugin version of bbpress and was wondering how I go about updating it? Is there only a plug-in now? If so how do I transfer from the standalone version to the plug-in version?

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Any and all help is appreciated!

John.

[Fulgence Ridal]

Hello,

it seems that bbpress use page.php as template to show the forum …
is there a way to create a custom page as template ?

thx

[Cssmeasap]

Hi! I’d really love to have this functionality as well!

varsitysmack, do you have any more guidance on how you got this to work?

Thanks!

[zeaks]

Wow, didn’t even see that, it worked great, thanks a lot!

[Dustin Lammiman]

Is there any way to import Blogger posts or WordPress posts into bbPress? We’ve been using a blog as a forum for a while, but would like to start using an actual forum solution. I can’t seem to find any importers that will do this though.

• This topic was modified 13 years, 10 months ago by Stephen Edgar. Reason: Moved topic to 'plugins' forum

[Stephen Edgar]

Follow the steps outlined here https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/ for the files you want to customize by copying them to your theme directory.

[zaerl]

You can export WP data from the /wp-admin/export.php page.

[fuzzybee]

I am using BuddyPress 1.6.1, bbPress 2.1.2 and WordPress 3.4.2

I follow the guide here.

In the end, I did the trick pointed out by Sarah Gooding because mywebsite.com/forums was blank right after the above installation

• Created a page called “Forums” with permalink mywebsite.com/forums
• Insert bbPress shortcode [bbp-forum-index] into “Forums” page

My questions are

1) How do I customise page templates for the forum e.g. Forum page, topic page etc.

My current theme is a child theme of twentyeleven and it has the following structure

> themes/bp-twentyeleven/

>

> /activity/

>

> /blogs/

>

> /forums/

>

> index.php

>

> forums-loop.php

>

> /groups/

>

> /members/

>

> /registration/

>

> header.php

>

> sidebar.php

>

> style.css

Notes

• Apparently, bp-twentyevelen/forums/index.php is being ignored.
• The reason for this set up is that I need the site to looks like TwentyEleven and has BuddyPress’ functionality at the same time

2) How do I make sure that bbPress functions will work for my site e.g. do I copy and past all the functions in functions.php of bbPress’ default theme over my theme’s functions.php?

3) How do I ensure that whatever I will get from 1) and 2) (probably from bbPress experts somewhere) will not conflict with BuddyPress’ functionality or my theme?

BuddyPress setting screenshots are here and here.

bbPress settings screenshot is here.

[zeaks]

I’m using the bbpress WordPress plugin on one site. I want to move it to another site. I looked at the database thinking there would be some wp_bbPress tables or something but didn’t see any.

Is there a way to do this? It woudl be a move from one WordPress site to another, both using updated WordPress and bbPress plugins, with no forums or threads on the new site.