I’ve just tested this on my local bbPress and only the first snippet is needed. The meta box was added automatically and everything worked fine.
It might be a theme conflict, have you tried switching to the default theme?
Hi !!
Of course I can … Look, the first image is a normal wp-Page …
if You look at the down part of the 1-st ScreenShot You will find the background settings.
On the 2-nd image, You will see that at the contrary, there are not such field in the forum-pages.
And this is the result, with no any background.
I can use one background only. I do not need therenay slideshow or video.
In the forum pages is good for me just to see one single image.
Do You thjink we can do this ??
Thank You.
Pietro
I don’t think ti’s accurate to say that 99% of the bbPress community uses child themes, at least not in the normal sense of the phrase.
I, for example, have copied the bbPress template files over to my active child theme directory for most sites. The site is running a child theme, but it is not explicitly a child theme for bbPress: it is a child theme of my regular theme that I have added full bbPress support to.
Thanks, Pippin. I was coming to the same conclusion. But, don’t 99% of the bbpress community use child themes? Shouldn’t it be a bit more straightforward than dumping a bunch of files and hoping for the best? I’ve messed around with getting bbpress to work with about a dozen themes and it’s very hit or miss.
Hi,
I’m having issues with the bbpress widget which shows recent replies. for some reason it seems totally incapable of keeping the list aligned correctly. I thought it might be my theme so I went back to the standard buddypress theme and had exactly the same problem. It just can’t keep the dates aligned correctly. Anyone able to help on this?
Hi.
I have WordPress site with bbPress. Actually, after a user creates a new topic it goes to the new topic page.
Is it possible to force system to redirect to forum topic list page ? The action property of the tag is empty, so I don’t know where this submit is processed.
Thank you.
This question relates to BuddyPress, not bbPress.
You have posted on the bbPress forums. Please post your questions to the BuddyPress forums.
Looks like you have a 404 error. If you still have the plugin installed, make sure you have gone to Settings > Permalinks and clicked “Save Changes”.
That’s just it: the meta box isn’t added. I filtered the arguments used by bbPress in register_post_type and dumped them to a file – I can see that thumbnail is there in the supports array but the meta box doesn’t appear.
I may be wrong, but I don’t think you can explicitly create a child theme of the bbPress Twenty Ten theme, not in the usual way anyhow, simply because that theme exists inside of the plugin, not inside of wp-content/themes.
I’d suggest that you copy the entire bbPress Twenty Ten theme to wp-content/themes and then tweak it.
Can you show me a screenshot of the interface for adding the backgrounds? If it is a custom feature that the theme has added in, it will be much more difficult to determine why it doesn’t work, at least without being able to play with the theme myself.
Hi Luke,
Thanks, I’ve seen that, but that seems like overkill. I am simply trying to create a child theme for the bbpress twentyten theme.
With that procedure you referenced, what happens when bbpress does an update? Do you have to copy all those files into your directory again?
Please advise.
Bob
Hi !!
Well … Yes, I have featureb backgrounds from my wp-theme.
It works for me hurrah! Thanks Dave 🙂 See it in action at the bottom of the page here – I changed the pagination strings to Next and Prev instead of the arrows: http://netballscoop.com/forums/topic/trying-again/
So how would I change this myself without the plugin, since I am curious?
Bob,
You may want to try this guide:
https://codex.bbpress.org/legacy/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/
You will copy file and move them inside your existing theme directory. This will override the default theme that lives inside the plugins directory.
Good luck!
Luke
No worries. At least I know I can stop scouring the site over and over looking for something that isn’t there. 😉
Ah, yes, sorry, Dave is right. I run my local development site on the bleeding edge version and sometimes forget things there are not available to everyone yet 🙂
OMG Thank you! I was just about to come on here and say I don’t have that anywhere! Lol! So right now I can’t separate site registrants from forum registrants, correct?
What Pippin wrote is not entirely true:
the screenshot above is from the current development version 2.2-bleeding!
In current public release v2.1.2 this is NOT possible yet.
Hope that helps, Dave 🙂
Just released v1.1.0 of my plugin!
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-string-swap/
It add the previous/next string parameters for Topic & Reply pagination.
So this also very handy for changing this via bbPress main settings 🙂
Enjoy!
perfect! thank you so much! will get on it when i get back home. thx again!
Sorry, I definitely told you wrong before.
Setting a forum to private will make it so only logged-in users can view it. Logged-out users will get a 404 error.
You can also adjust the permissions that any individual user has for the forums by going to the user’s profile editor in the admin, as shown in the screenshot below:
one last q and i promise i wont bug you anymore. Do you know if making it a private forum will at least provide some amount of privacy or will it make the forum not function properly? sorry for the typos, on my phone now.
That is not possible out of the box, only with custom modifications.
