[ctekmusic]

Hi. All the info you need is here: Theme Compatability

The basics are that you need to make a wordpress theme with bbPress support, so try to think of it as a wordpress theme not a bbPress theme.

bbPress is very flexible and you can theme it in multiple ways, the best starting point is that link I provided.

Hope this helps

[SonjaFoust]

I figured out how to make a bbpress.phhp template to use as a wrapper and it seems to be working fine except on the profile pages. Any ideas? Here’s an example profile page: http://pintester.com/forums/users/pintester/

[nbtetreault]

I’m trying to figure out how to install a new theme on bbPress. My bbPress is the plugin version.

In the plugin folder it says “Do not put custom themes here. They will be deleted on bbPress updates. Keep custom bbPress themes in /wp-content/themes/”.

For now I found no information ou theme to install for bbPress.

[AdilAli01]

please help me too, since i am a newbie ! i want forum width to 100% .. How to add custom CSS and how to find page id ?

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[CraigIW]

Wow, I wish I had known this earlier or I would not have installed bbpress.

I have three s2member roles ‘UK Member, UK Student, International Member’, which means I would have to make everyone in one of those groups a moderator 🙁

Back to the drawing board…

[Stephen Edgar]

See this topic for your 1st problem:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/customising-bbp_list_forums-last-poster-block/

I also added some code for you to add some code to your themes functions.php for your 2nd problem rather than hacking the core bbPress files:

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

[Stephen Edgar]

Its never a good idea to modify the bbPress core file as any changes you make will be lost when bbPress is updated, instead add this code to your themes functions.php.

The code is here https://gist.github.com/3797945

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[jmm7574]

(WP 3.4.1, bbPress 2.1.2, http://riseaboveindiana.com)

When I as admin — or any subscriber — posts a reply to a forum, it displays the “You don’t have permission to do that!” error message, but the reply still posts to the forum. Anonymous posting and global access are allowed.

Here’s a subscriber username for testing:
ID: bbPress
Password: bbPress

Thanks so much for your plugin and the support you provide for your users!

Matt

[Ommy]

@JarretC thank you so much, I have simillar problem and using your solution for now. can you help me to have that subcategories on seperate rows below the main category?
and have that main categories on seperate columes?
thanks again

I copied that code on “bbPress>bbp theme compact>bbpress” for custom community theme and it worked great 😀

[Ommy]

well for my 2nd problem I found this topic usefull and I resolv it https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-display-list-of-sub-forums-on-separate-lines-instead-of-big-blob/ Just Go into bbPress>bbp theme compact>bbpress and look for loop-single-forum.php and replace mentioned lines on link Can anyone help for 1st one?

or any better idea to show subcategories on seperate rows?

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[CraigIW]

Hi,

How can I remove the blue box that says “This forum contains 1 topic, and was last updated by admin 15 hours, 5 minutes ago.”, etc., using my theme? From what I can see, the code for that is in the wp-content\plugins\bbpress\bbp-includes\bbp-forum-template.php file. How can I override that? Or do I just need to directly edit it?

Thanks.

[CraigIW]

Did you ever get to the bottom of this? I seem to be having the same problem. Looking at the HTML source, I do not see the wp-content/themes/mytheme/css/bbpress.css file being included at all.

[youngtopublishing]

Can you explain how you actually insert those login/register/lost passcode shortcodes? I’m trying to create a URI as well but I don’t know how to make my pages have those things.

[Crandel]

Hi, I have multisite installation of wordpress with two sites.
I want to share the same forum between the tow sites.
But for each site bbpress save the forum in his own wp_2_post table and wp_3_post table.
I would like to save the data in the same table for both sites.
How to do it?

[jeeni]

I don’t think you have to wait for integration. The plugin Pippin wrote works perfectly. If, in future it’s fully integrated into the bbPress plugin for WordPress, then we can drop the extra plugin, but this works great! I wouldn’t wait for integration.

p.s. This plugin is worth supporting & I appreciate your work, Pippin. Hope many people have donated to your time spent on this. I wish I could give more. Thanks again!

[ctekmusic]

I don’t have the twentyten theme installed but you can find the location of the CSS using a code inspector (The built in Chrome one will do fine). Simply right-click the element in the web page, click inspect element and note the css location and properties.

From there you can manually overwrite the style in your own css file, or find the CSS file bbPress is using and edit it.

I can’t verify but i’m guessing the bbPress CSS for twentytwelve is here:

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/style.css

or

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/css/bbpress.css

Chris

[imjscn]

Not the forum, but the topics in private forum are directly accessible by the topic URL.

Yes, the newest bbpress

[Stephen Edgar]

You should NOT be able to view a private forum directly by its URL.

Are you using the latest bbPress v2.1.2?

[Stephen Edgar]

I would suggest trying https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/ as it is actively being developed.

[Tanya]

Pippin wrote: I can definitely see how that can play a major role, but it’s definitely not going to make it in for now, at least not right away.
Keeping track of replies like that is a whole new ball game.
I’ve been talkin with JJJ (lead bbPress developer) about how we might work to integrate these features into the plugin core. Tracking replies will probably definitely be something we’ll look into then.

Hi Pippin, I don’t mean to be a pest, but would you have some sort of timeframe to integrate this? I think the forum members will be okay with the forum the way it is if they know that the feature will be added in the future.

[ctekmusic]

Hi all first post here, here is my issue:

If I create a new blog post in wordpress with an oEmbed link on the first line e.g. youtube, the widget appears and works correctly in both the single post page and in the BuddyPress activity.

But when I create a new forum topic/reply with the first line as a youtube link and some text below it will work in the forum view but in buddypress activity there is only the text present. No widget or even a fallback link.

I don’t know if this is a bug or I am just missing the bigger picture but our site depends quite heavily on oEmbed now since it is an easy way to get widgets into the activity stream.

Thanks for any help

[skennedy87]

I’ve just installed bbpress on my classipress site, but classipress wants to override bbpress.

When I go to a forum I just created, I get this error:

Whoops! Page Not Found.

The page or ad listing you are trying to reach no longer exists or has expired.

Is there a way to override classipress?

[Rasheed Bydousi]

Melindrea,
Your tip did what I need.
Thank you for your help.

[CraigIW]

Hi,

I have bbpress plugin in a WordPress 3.4.2 MU site, with a single instance in the root and /forums. I have a very basic child theme of TwentyEleven which makes some header and CSS tweaks.

Once I activated BBPress, I found that it is displayed using the sidebar. This crushes the forum to the left, so I wanted to get rid of it for the forum page. I read that by default BBPress will use the page.php from the TwentyEleven theme, and to copy that to my child theme, remove the call to the sidebar and name it bbpress.php would override it. Well, for a start, the TwentyEleven page.php does NOT contain the sidebar. After searching the filesystem I found that sidebar-page.php does, so I copied that to my child theme folder and named it bbpress.php, removed the get_sidebar() call, and also set the template name as Template Name: Forum Template in the bbpress.php file.

It did not work. My forum is still showing a sidebar. It does not seem to be using the bbpress.php file at all.

Is there a guide somewhere on how to get BBPress to display without the sidebar when using MU and a child theme of TwentyEleven?

As I said, my child theme if very simple. It is literally a header.php and styles.css, and I have now added bbpress.php. What do I need to do to get BBPress to use my bbpress.php template?

Can I add that a LOT of the helpful-looking links on here lead to 404 pages, which really hasn’t helped in trying to figure this out. It would be great if those could be fixed up somehow?

Thanks!

[Melindrea]

My suggestion would be to just use a similar rule. Let’s say that this page has the class “page-id-2”, then amend your above CSS to look like this:

.bbpress #page,
.page-id-2 #page {
    width: 100%;
}