[Tanya]

Pippin’s plugin is actually at http://pippinsplugins.com/bbpress-mark-as-read/ and it is free.

It is still missing the functionality of new topic replies (from last visit) and automatically taking you to the last unread reply inside the topic.

Thanks for working on this zaerl!

[Jared Atchison]

Filed a bug report in trac – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1974

Will hopefully get a patch soon have this fixed for 2.2 🙂

Thanks for reporting the bug!

[matrixd]

Hello again, finally after John’s helpful tip, I was able to fix the issue. I found where BBpress does the number formatting and disabled it. In wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-common-functions.php I changed this line:

function bbp_number_format( $number = 0, $decimals = false, $dec_point = '.', $thousands_sep = ',' ) {

to:

function bbp_number_format( $number = 0, $decimals = false, $dec_point = '.', $thousands_sep = '' ) {

This removes the comma from the thousands separator. No all topics pages appear correctly. Thanks!

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[matrixd]

Hello John, thank you for your reply. It sounds logical that this could be the reason, but we can’t find an option to change the number format (for example from 2,033 to 2033). We have searched all the options in BBpress and WordPress but we could not find it.

Could you give us more info, how to change it?

Thank you in advance.

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[Jared Atchison]

Closing as this is basically a dupe. Continue posting on https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/unread-posts/

[Jared Atchison]

Sorry I misunderstood what was going on, thanks for the link. First make you are running the latest version of bbPress, then switch bbPress to using the bbp-theme-compat theme instead of bbp-twentyten. See if that fixes it 🙂

If it doesn’t then we will have to start making edits to your site theme.

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[John James Jacoby]

@renai42 – Thanks for the feedback. The great thing about bbPress being open-source is you’re able to fix the things you don’t like on your own with Subversion patches via our Trac.

Sorry you’re finding the CSS to be complicated. There are some compromises we made to be able to make bbPress as good as it can with every possible WordPress theme available. As such, some CSS rules are more strict than others, and we tend to have things wrapped in ID’s to allow groups of content to be styled and/aggressively reset.

The staff here are volunteers, every one of us. We operate under the assumption that if you’re in the code, asking code questions, that you’re comfortable taking on something new and foreign. I’ll defend the code here though, since bbPress’s code is nicely documented and orderly.

Volunteer community members represent the project, but they also represent themselves. If someone’s made you feel bad, that’s between you and them. We’re all adults here, and it doesn’t benefit anyone to talk above or below anyone else; when it happens, it weeds itself out pretty quickly.

Regarding CSS specifically, it’s in the name: it cascades down. This means you’re able to add whatever rules you’d like in the stack, and the browser will interpret those new rules in kind. If it’s not obvious enough to you, that just means you learned something new today. That’s not anyone’s fault, or anything that anyone should be upset about on either side.

Again, thanks for your feedback; if you’d like to talk privately about a specific matter or person, contact me privately (a Google search should bring up multiple ways to do this.)

[Jared Atchison]

Best option available at the moment: http://pippinsplugins.com/bbpress-mark-as-read/

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[Jared Atchison]

only thing out there that comes close at the moment 🙂 http://pippinsplugins.com/bbpress-mark-as-read/

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[Jared Atchison]

I’m sure this won’t help, but just out of curiosity are you on the latest version of WordPress/bbPress?

[matrixd]

Hello,

our BBpress forum has a strange problem, where it does not show the page links for a topic when it has more than 1000 replies. As a result, our users can see only the first page of the topic.

The problem occurs only in topics with more than 1000 replies. Topics with less than 1000 replies display the page links normally.
(as you can see in the attached screenshot (the forum is in Greek), topics with less than 1000 replies are OK. Topic with more than 1000 replies do not display page links)

We have verified that all the replies exist in the database but for some reason BBpress does not “find” them.

We have used all the forum repair tools in our wp-admin->Forums but it did not fix the problem and we don’t know what else to do to fix it.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/57m72.png

[John James Jacoby]

I’m using a plugin I made called bbPress No Admin.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-no-admin/

[radi_v]

what is the status of that option as of today?

[john13]

Hi there !

I’m having a curious behavior with bbpress.
I’ve setup everything, works fine.
I just can’t see the first message of each post.

Then once inside :

When I’m logged as an admin, I can see the first message.
Any thoughts ?

Thanks for any hint 🙂

[Garindan]

Ok simple question… What file/s do I need to add code to so it affects every bbpress page?

style type = ‘text/css’>#breadcrumbs { display: none !important; }/style>

Sorry, couldn’t work out how to display code without it hiding style tags

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[tvmt4r]

I created a forum by bbpress but it isn’t appear.
I can not fix it.
My forum an my topic:

http://thuvienmoitruong.vn/forums
http://thuvienmoitruong.vn/forums/forum/tai-nguyen-va-moi-truong

[smiga]

There is one “must have” plugin missing on 2.x, what worked well on 1.x -> unread post plugin. Its already discussed under this topic https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/adding-view-unread-posts-plugin/

In 3 words describing – when users logs in it sees unread topics in different color (new topics and topics with new replies counting from last user visit). When he enters topic its automaticaly redirected to last unread post inside topic.
Old 1.x source code you can see here -> http://paste.php.lv/720a5c85e7a31f117a104d2a14ce368f?lang=php its just one file.

[smiga]

On bbPress 1.x there was similar theme called “WP mimic” (sample how it looks in production you can check from http://forums.kupla.lv). So if you are happy with bbPress 1.x version, you can use that.

I`m wondering has somebody ported it or something similar to 2.x version?

[Danita Hickson]

I’m so new to this and am by no means a website programmer or expert. I have the daunting task of updating our church website.

http://www.genchurch.ca

My problem is I installed bbpress and I have everything setup as I would think it should be and when I go to the front end and click on the forum, it gives me a 404 page not found error. I cannot figure out what I’m missing. If you visit our website above, under GCBS is “Bible School Discussions”.

I am running WP 3.4.2 and bbpress 2.1.2

I have created a forum, and a topic but I get the error when I click on the forum’s link. (Bible School Discusion). Please offer any suggestions from simple to complex….I just have no clue.

Please Help!! 🙁

[Jared Atchison]

Sure thing. bbPress.org uses a plugin called wp-markdown 🙂

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-markdown/

[wpmhweb]

I started the theme from scratch once again and now it seems to be working. Thanks,

Quick question: Are you guys using a plugin for the fancy editor in bbPress forums with live preview? I would really like to use it.

Thanks again,

[Jared Atchison]

It should be ok, but just for grins if you switch you theme to the default TwentyEleven does that make it reappear?

[ntmedia]

Yes, that`s the right plugin, but i insert the code manuelly at loop-single-reply.php of bbpress right after the reply-content is called.

Thanks for your help

[renai42]

hey mate,

this is precisely the kind of overly simplistic response which turns people off using bbPress. Your suggestion is pretty much contained in the bbPress documentation already and is less than useful.

Sure, you need to copy bbpress.css to the right directory and edit it. But what you fail to mention, and what is mentioned nowhere in the bbPress documentation, is that many of the font specifications are not actually listed in that CSS file — you need to puzzle out the CSS entry yourself and add a new CSS entry, not edit an old one, to change the font size.

I spent three hours working this out last night. The correct entry is:

bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content p,

bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content p {

    font-size: 12px;

}

I have seen this same response from the moderators on the bbPress forum dozens of times as I searched it last night. This same arrogance — ‘just copy the CSS file and edit it’. Technically you’re right, but without any detail or documentation around bbPress, this suggestion comes across as the contempt of an experienced web developer for someone who is, in their eyes, a ‘n00b’.

I operate a major WordPress site and edit its CSS files daily. And yet, the CSS for bbPress is hideously complex and hard to understand. I suggest that you guys modify your attitude and start looking for actual solutions to people’s problems … especially around making default themes easier to customise. Otherwise, bbPress, which is an awesome solution to a long-held problem for WordPress site owners, will remain the little-used forum software that it is.

Cheers,

Renai LeMay
Publisher, Delimiter.com.au

[wpmhweb]

Note: I do have the Fancy Editor enabled in the forums settings.

Thanks,