[BobHatcher]

I know how to create child themes in WordPress, but given that bbpress uses a special theme within the plugins subdirectory I am confused as to where it goes. Can someone please tell me where to put it?

Does the child theme go in this directory?
/Clean_Test/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes

Or, here:
/Clean_Test/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/bbpress

Or, some other place?

[BBP-Persian]

There Has No Reply To This Topic ?!!
Thanks A lot for You Best Support In World.

[luke@mobiah.com]

This was the previously mentioned link with “legacy” in it: https://codex.bbpress.org/legacy/themes-and-templating/ – this references a templates directory which I believe has been taken out of the plugin architecture.

[luke@mobiah.com]

Hidy ho,

I’m working on creating a child theme for a site and am looking for the right tutorials. I found this link below: http://codex.bbpress.org/legacy/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/ and was pretty sure this was the most current. Can anyone confirm this is the most up-to-date information for child theming bbpress?

I found and followed a different tutorial that also had “legacy” in the slug – so any help you can offer here would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Luke

[Pippin Williamson]

There is an option in Settings > Forums to control which user types have access to post in the bbPress forums.

When a user is created in bbPress by registering, they are always added to WordPress.

[Pippin Williamson]

Are you trying to append to the content of the main topic content (the lead), or to all replies within a topic?

[Pippin Williamson]

Are you using a custom background image feature from your theme, or the built-in background feature provided by WordPress?

[q5sys]

Current site:
Wordpress V 3.4.2
bbpress V 2.1.2
Buddypress V 1.6.1

Old site:
Wordpress 1 user
phpbb v 3.10 40 users

I converted my forums over to bbpress. Everything went fine.
All the threads and users where there.
I installed buddypress as well and that works fine.
buddypress automatically synced up with all of the existing users.

I’m building the site up though so the activity on the site is low. However I’ve noticed something. All of the buddypress features work perfectly. However with bbpress no one can post or reply. In fact the only way admin can do anything is to do so through the dashboard. If admin is broswing the forum he cant reply or create a new topic.
The edit box is there, but when you click ‘submit’ it just reloads the page and nothing happens. I’ve tried this with users at all levels.

I wanted to integrate bbpress into buddypress, but the only way I can do that and retain my existing data is to choose group forums with existing install, but that wont work because i dont have a bb-config.php

I have completely disabled buddypress and the problem still exists. Somewhere something in my bbpress configuration must be messed up. any help?

[Philip John]

I’m trying to add featured images to forums. I have successfully filtered the register_post_type call like so;

/**
 * Add thumbnails to forums
 */
function ys_forum_featured_images( $post_type ) {
     $post_type['supports'][] = 'thumbnail';
     return $post_type;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_register_forum_post_type', 'ys_forum_featured_images' );

That did not, however add the meta box to the post edit page so I further used the following;

/**
 * Add featured image meta box
 */
function ys_bbp_featured_images(){
    add_meta_box('postimagediv', __('Featured Image'), 'post_thumbnail_meta_box', 'forum', 'side', 'low');
}
add_action('add_meta_boxes', 'ys_bbp_featured_images', 100);

The meta box then appears but in the image details I see the “Insert into post” button and “Delete” link but no “Use as featured image” link.

Any idea how I get that added?

The only thing I could find were these tickets talking about the link appearing when it shouldn’t:
http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1633
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18669

[BobHatcher]

Does there exist anywhere a listing of each file and what it does? How in the world do we newbies figure out which file does what?

Any thoughts?

Bob

[ickzorn]

I’m playing around with different htaccess rules for a while now and can’t figure out, how this should work. I think I don’t get the clue how this will work with htaccess.

The condition has to rewrite just the URL from http://www.domain.com/forums to forum.domain.com. So all bbPress stuff isn’t redirected within the database etc. I think this is what I need. Am I right?

[mpriola]

I continue to have problems with the sidebar showing up below my content.

In looking at the code generated by bbpress, I have noticed that on certain forum pages (the affected ones), bbpress is leaving out the opening body tag.

My forum is at: http://www.cormacmccarthy.com/forums. Click down into any of the forums, and you’ll see:

–All the sidebar content is below the main forum table, which expands to fill the whole screen.

–The header and top menu content is disorganized and not properly styled.

–When you view the source code for the page, you’ll notice the missing tag.

I’ve done plenty of troubleshooting myself, but an absent body tag, together with a not-closed head tag, needs to be addressed before I can really do anything else–given the reliance of most style sheets on the presence of those tags.

Any thoughts?

[brandy42]

Hello,

When I viewed the bbpress.org demo forums my expectation was that my forums landing page would look the same as the demo after installation but in fact it does not.

Could someone please help me with a solution exactly the same as the bbpress forums landing page which shows the latest topics with the exact same information displaying?

• Topic (ex. bbPress 2.2)
• Voices (ex. 14)
• Replies (ex. 14)
• Freshness (ex. 2 weeks, 4 days ago (avatar) (name of member who last posted)

From my understanding the widget called (bbPress) Recent Topics already has this functionality but is lacking the information to display Voices, Replies and (avatar) (name of member who last posted) .

What is the easiest way to implement this? Modify the widget? Create a new widget? Implement the code into the Forums landing page itself?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks very much!

[Pietro]

Hi Guys…
Please. I have a little problem. My wordpress theme has backgrounds in every page, but in bbpress pages I have not the possibility to set one. Could You help me explaining me how to add at least 1 background for ALL the bbpages ?? Thank You.
Pietro

[kraigg]

I’m also looking for a solution to this, without hacking the core bbPress files.

The forward and back arrows (‘←’ and ‘→’) are not very accessible to people who use screenreaders.

[hixsonb]

I really hate to open a new topic since there seems to be several on the subject I have in mind. Which involves issues when trying to import a bbPress 1.1 installation to WordPress 3.4.2 using the bbPress 2.1.2 plugin.

I have read the other topics but I am still not getting something right or I am just overlooking a step.

As stated, I have a current bbPress 1.1 installation that is integrated to my WordPress installation.

When I fill out all the fields in the Import Forums section, it starts the process but I receive a message “No forums to convert”, “No topics to convert” and etc. However, there are no errors.

I looked in the WP_Options table for the bbp_converter_query option to see if it provided any information but that option was not there.

After everything completes, I do run the Repairs and Recounts to no avail.

Quite honestly, to me… it looks like the plugin is not connecting to the database even though I know the settings are correct.

Any assistance would be very much appreciated.

Thanks much,
Bert

[Nuno]

Anything new about this?

[banciii]

please help! 🙁 😛

[dpeery]

I added:

bbpress-forums ul,

bbpress-forums li a{

color: #555;

}

to the end of files:
bbpress.css
and
bbpress-rtl.css

I can see black text on a white background now.

[interlinkusa1]

I am facing the same issue. Did you guys try to contact Optimize Press support?

[on3advertising]

I fixed it. The problem was the theme. Either I was installing it incorrectly and not properly activating it as a WordPress Child Theme, or the theme was simply broken. I installed a standalone bbpress theme here and it worked right off the get go. Topic can be closed.

[CallMeAndy]

Nobody – would have thought a fairly simple question. I am new to using bbPress and just have not got my head around it yet.

[HorrorUK]

I asked this on the BuddyPress site, but didn’t get a response, so thought I’d ask here.

I’m trying to add topics in my forums within a BP group, but whenever I do, I get the following message:

There was an error when creating the topic

I’ve tried creating within the group and within the main site and selecting a group to post to, but I get the same thing.

I thought it was the theme I’m using so I tried the default BP theme, which is where I got the message above (on my theme, it just didn’t say anything).

Thanks.

[dosch]

any news on poll options for bbPress? My members are grumbling 😉
Also doodle-like polling would be an excellent feat to see in bbPress or BuddyPress.

[dosch]

Hey,

I have the latest version of WordPress and use Multisite installation with 30+ users. The multisite has 6 different blogs and one forum powered by bbPress.

According to the Dashboard of the website with bbPress there are 32 users on the fora. But when I click on the ‘Users’ Tab there are only 4 users…
Also users complain that they get errors while trying to start new topics…

Look here for a screenshot: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/440/screenshot20120917at154.png

Also in the superadmin dashboard of the network there are only three listed users, but it says there should be 32…

Any idea how to resolve this?