[kraigg]

Hi there,

I am using bbp_topic_excerpt() inside loop-single-topic.php (in custom theme) to display excerpts in my forum topic listing page. The excerpt only displays 100 characters before it cuts off

I was wondering if there’s a way to increase the excerpt length (to say, 200 characters), without hacking any of the core files?

I’m using bbPress 2.1.2, Buddypress 1.6.1, WordPress 3.4.2

[Pippin Williamson]

I’m not sure I’m following. Do you want to know if you are on one of the forums that is nested under the discussions page?

[SonjaFoust]

Thanks– that worked! I’m worried that it will get over-written when I update the bbpress plugin, but I guess I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. 😉 http://pintester.com/forums2

[Pippin Williamson]

What if you place the [bbp-forum-index] on a regular page and select the Sidebar template? Does that allow the widgets correctly?

[Jin_ls]

Hello Sonja, thank you for your reply.

When I selected the default theme there were no widgets at all (they all disappeared).

Anyway, thank you for help.

Problem still not sloved…, anybody?

[Garindan]

I found out how to change the breadcrumb url, alt and text myself. You can change the code in bbp-common-template.php (/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-common-template.php) on line 1889…

// Add the breadcrumb
        $crumbs[] = '<a href="/forums/">Forums</a>';

It’s just a normal link tag so you can name it and add alt tag as you wish 🙂

• This reply was modified 13 years, 7 months ago by Garindan.
• This reply was modified 13 years, 7 months ago by Garindan.

[SonjaFoust]

In your settings (Settings -> Forum) have you selected the theme package that says twentyten? When I did that, the same thing happened to my widgets. Try selecting the bbp-theme-compat option and see if that fixes it.

[ldavis501]

Hello,

I have installed the BBPress Forum and have reviewed the installation forums. I have placed the following short code on a page: [bbp-forum-index]

But it is not showing when you go to that page.

I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Regards…..

[Jin_ls]

what can I do?

[zikadonfeur]

OK, but bbpress is running with

Custom root slugs to prefix your forums and topics with. These can be partnered with WordPress pages to allow more flexibility.

how I can find my page ID because forum based is “discussions” and I don’t have page name with “discussions”

Thank’s for help

my forum link

http://www.zikadonf.fr/monespace/discussions/forum/principal/

[Hard Seat Sleeper]

… might not be to use bbpress at all.

I have a standalone bbpress that I would love to import & integrate. I assumed that the “forum” would be a category on my wp install, and the topics subcategories, and the forum posts seen as wp posts and comments.

This would allow my wp site to act as neither blog nor forum but a truly integrated website, with everyone acting like an author, and a central way for me to control the content flow.

But from my explorations I discovered that it doesn’t work this way at all. Forum posts are not wp posts, there’s still 2 separate systems in this “integrated” model. So the comments on my wp install have a different codebase than the comments/replies in my forum, for example.

I’m considering totally tricking out one of the many form plugins (Gravity Forms, etc) to create “posts” in the “forum” category in my wp install. So the whole concept of the forum is nothing more than having logged in users create guest posts in a truly integrated wp install.

Just curious if anyone has done this — I can’t be the first guy to think of this idea. The biggest drawback so far is that i would need to find a way to import the posts in my old standalone forum to become posts in my new setup.

[Hard Seat Sleeper]

@apet083
I gave up, and never solved it.

[Jin_ls]

no, there is no file like that.

[Pippin Williamson]

Do you have a single-forum.php file in the theme?

No, there is not a bbPress version of 2011, but Twenty Eleven is fully compatible. I’ve used it several times.

[Jin_ls]

I downloaded new twenty eleven (it’s for wordpress only, there is nothing about bbpress support) and it’s still the same, you can see it now. Is there twenty eleven made by both bbpress and wordpress teams just like twentyten?

Thanks! I hope we can reslove the problem soon

[Pippin Williamson]

Log into your WordPress admin, go to Pages, click Edit on the page you want, then look at the URL. The post=xx part will show you the page ID, which you can then use in your code:

if( ! is_user_logged_in() && is_page( xx ) ) {
      // use get_permalink() to get the URL. 
}

[Pippin Williamson]

OK first read about short codes here.

Basically a short code is a place holder for content (html, images, posts, etc). When you place [bbp-forum-index] into the content of a page, it will be replaced automatically with an index of your forums in bbPress. Try it out and you’ll see what I mean.

[Pippin Williamson]

Well some one has modified it. The theme you are using is not default Twenty Elevent. The HTML markup has changed a little and it’s causing the problem.

Switch to the default Twenty Eleven and see if that fixes the alignment. If it does, then add your colors back in.

[zikadonfeur]

Hello,
I want to add a link with the “pagetitle” of bbpress forum page.

bbpress is running in a wordpress page but how I can find it? where it is?
I want to past a simply code as

if ( !is_user_logged_in()&&is_page('???') ) {my link...

thank you for helping.

WP: 3.4.1
bbpress: 2.1.2
theme: Frisco for BuddyPress

[Mrs Moregan]

Hi there!
So, I have installed bbPress to do forums on my site, howtosurvivehosting.com. However whenever I try to create a topic, it says that the page does not exist. Please can someone tell me why this is and what I can do to fix it?
Thanks in advance

[Jin_ls]

If you need any css files or other I can copy the code here.

[Jin_ls]

only colors of the forums were modified to fit the website, nothing else. The problem occured even before any modifications were made. any modifications made to both bbp and wo are only changed colors so i think thats not the prob. Can you help to reslove the problem? thank you

[Starejosel]

Is this plugin BBpress compatible? I am trying to use it to set forced_root_block to false, but it seems to do nothing. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!

[John James Jacoby]

I’ll update this topic when it’s available. Until then, assume it’s not.

For what it’s worth, bbPress.org uses less than 500 extra lines of HTML and CSS to look how it does compared to an out-of-the-box install. Pretty minimal planning and effort goes a long way.

[offduty]

I appreciate the links. I am not very techie though and its kinda like hieroglyphics , I dont speak that language. Also I have found other non bbPress stuff without any instructions only statements of what can be accomplished. I am not trying to bash or be sarcastic I am somewhat limited by my lack of technical computer knowledge.