[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%;
}

[Pippin Williamson]

Here’s a really basic way of how you can do it: https://gist.github.com/3788409

[John James Jacoby]

Great!

[Laidir]

Hi,

I’ve installed bbPress on my site at http://www.thebridesboudoir.com/forums/

I’m in the middle of tweaking the templates now after copying them all to my Theme folder. I mainly copied the opening and closing tags from my current themes full width template into each file or am doing thatm, but testing when I go to the main forums, everything is thrown an inch or so to the right? It’s fine when I click on a Post to read te post details.

I have a few tweaks to make yet to the styling e.g. the post titles are too small, but could someone tell me why the main forum look would be skewif?

The other question is, what is Keymaster and how do I hide that. I prefer not to have the admin label in peoples face when I’m using the forums. I assume Key Master is another word for Admin and I don’t like the sound of it. Can I change that and where?

I note on some forums that you can create user roles and wondered if thats possible with bbPress and where that would be changed also?

Thanks for help in advance.

I like the way the forum is mixing in with my site with just a few changes here and there already. I’m surprised I’ve got this far as I’m hopeless with theming etc. Initially I installed and it took my side bar template as default and had sidebar featured and I preferred a full width forum theme, so copied the files to my theme directory. I’d be grateful for the help or hints on how to fix the front page to get it in line.

[yveys]

Thanks. That worked like a charm! 🙂

[jezza101]

As a first goal I would like to be able to alter the content of each reply shown on the topic page. So actually that would include the lead topic post (in bbpress terms the OP is the topic and subsequent posts are the replies, yeah?)

I think I would also need to know the reply’s ID and whether it was the first reply. If I can get a basic template for that I reckon I can get going with the rest 🙂

There are two plugins I built for e107 and I would like to have a go at bbpress 2 versions. One is a ‘Thanks’ plugin, so I’d need to eg add a “thank this post” button to each post, and show a user’s ‘thanks’ count next to their name.

The other is an adense plugin which popped an ad unit inbetween the OP and first reply.

Many Thanks.

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[Jared Atchison]

My original code snippet above is wrong. I had copied out of a plugin I wrote and it has a syntax error (extra parathesis) from ripping it out of a class.

If you use the snippet @jshultz provides, that should be correct. You should be able to place it inside your theme’s functions.php file.

Do not place anything (or modify at all) inside the /bbpress plugin folder, as you will lose all changes when you update bbPress.

[nikoski]

@jshultz:
Bacuase of no idea about php: where exactly should i place you code in the “functions.php”?

And what about removing the following lines from bbpress?…

Viewing 2 posts – 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

[Jared Atchison]

It’s funny, because almost every bbPress gig I’ve worked on the clients want forums like this – or specifically, almost exactly like what Lynq came up with (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/customising-bbp_list_forums-last-poster-block/). So far they have all changed their minds when they find out its actually going to cost money to achieve this format, vs something that is just built in. However, it’s definitely something I’d like to see. @johnjamesjacoby – what are your thoughts on this? Having a separate theme? bbPress compat hierarchical? etc We can at least get a trac ticket for this in place and maybe that will jump start some activity 🙂

[on3advertising]

I am using Search bbPress https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-bbpress/. Initially, I didn’t post it on there because there is a total of 5 topics their entire shelf life with one resolution (resolved by the same user who created it). But I did just submit it there because I’m not entirely sure if it’s bbPress’s engine or the plugin.

I guess I’m trying to figure out if it’s a matter of how it’s finding the results, how it’s displaying the results, or how bbPress stores them. I assume it’s probably not bbPress itself at this point.

[Jared Atchison]

Search “bbPress moderation” on the WordPress.org plugin repo – there are some plugins that will help moderate and deal with email notifications.

Currently in bbPress 2.1.x there is no support to have specific moderators on specific forums, etc. However, this is in the works for 2.2, so this functionality will arrive this year.

[Jared Atchison]

You may need to contact WooThemes via their support forum and see if they have a bbPress compatibility plugin much like many of the other frameworks do.

[on3advertising]

When I search using the bbPress search plugins (both of which do the same thing), my search results don’t include a hyperlink or info to any of the forum topics. It just includes the breadcrumb of the topic and says “viewing 0 posts”.

Here’s the link to the results: http://www.compusoftdevelopment.com/forum/?s=toolbar

You’ll notice of course that there are no actual posts showing up in the columns and rows below it. The only way to get to the topic is by clicking on the date it was posted where it says “1 week ago“. This is kind of an important feature, and I’ve deactivated my themes search.php file to isolate the issue and make sure it wasn’t my theme causing it.

The homepage to the site where the search bar is http://www.compusoftdevelopment.com/forum/

[Jin_ls]

Oh I just thought it’s a short code which I can paste or change just few things. Thanks anyway! (at least the front page of forums looks nice 🙂 )

[John James Jacoby]

See: #1953

[Pippin Williamson]

It’d be great if you could submit a trac ticket.

[Pippin Williamson]

The theme template.

It’s not so much CSS as it is HTML. In this case I’m not able to give you the necessary CSS without first taking a long time to set it up myself and figure it out. I would recommend you hire someone to do it for you.

[Jin_ls]

Do you mean wp theme template or bbpress theme template? Can you tell me what should I write into the CSS file? I need some help, coz I don’t know CSS well, I could copy you the code, just tell me which file you need.

Thank you