[DramaticBaby]

Now I finally got it to work. You just copy the bbpress.css file to /my-child-theme/css/ and voilá, it works. When I found out that I looked in bbpress-functions.php and stumbled over this line:

// Check child theme
if ( file_exists( trailingslashit( get_stylesheet_directory() ) . $file ) )
Which states the obvious, it looks for bbpress.css in the /css/ folder in your child theme. If found, it will replace it with the default css.

If any admin reads this, can you please elaborate a bit more on the subject. It is very diffuse how all this works.

• This reply was modified 13 years, 9 months ago by DramaticBaby.

[DramaticBaby]

Hi, I’m trying to create a custom theme for the bbPress forum. I already got a child theme based on Twenty Eleven, and I’m trying to style bbPress with my style.css in the child theme folder.

The problem is that bbpress.css is imported in the html code after my style.css, overwriting the latter’s styling. How do I force bbPress to use style.css instead, even though bbpress.css is imported after?

I have been struggling with this for hours and hours.

• This topic was modified 13 years, 9 months ago by DramaticBaby.

[John James Jacoby]

Not sure I understand the problem. Spaces aren’t valid in URLs unless they are encoded.

[John James Jacoby]

You have enough conflicting slugs where I suspect only you can configure your way out of them.

http://fantastic7.x10.mx/forums/forum/group/ – Broken
http://fantastic7.x10.mx/forums/forum/group-forums/ – Broken
http://fantastic7.x10.mx/groups/morb/forums/topic/actu-tutoc/ – Works
http://fantastic7.x10.mx/groups/morb/forums/topic/actu-tutoc/page/2/ – Works fine if I navigate to it directly

Could be something with your theme, could be other plugins, or it could be a bug. You’re a bit on your own to narrow things down. I’d start with checking error logs and looking into why the page output stops on the broken links above.

[John James Jacoby]

bbPress 1.1 called those users Bozo’s, though it was often used for spammers, which gave them free-reign on entering content in the database, which was a pretty poor approach.

[gizmogle]

oops – that should read bbPress 2.1.1….my bad

[Alexander]

I’m using BuddyPress on a MU environment.

Originally I installed forum in a per group mode. I found the topic organization to be confusing in the group mode, and so now I would like to reinstall the forum with the site-wide option. How do I do this?

I’ve tried to use the graphic interface to uninstall groups and install sitewide – but that didnt work, the group forum would continued to get re-enabled.

So here is what I’ve done so far:

1) I’ve deleted from the database all the tables related to the bbpress.
2) I’ve deleted the bb-config from the root.
3) I’ve edited the group-metadata and group tables to remove references to forum.
4) I’ve deleted the bbpress plugin from the file system.
5) I’ve edited the Settings/Forums to not use groups.

So now after trying to purge all remnants of the forum and then trying to reinstall it – I no longer have a functional forum.

In BuddyPres/Forums, I see the button that says “install site-wide forum” but when I click on it I see a message that the latest version is already installed.

When I try to view my forum, I get a blank page:

http://bhaktiwriters.staging.wpengine.com/forums/forum/bhakti-writers-forum/

When I try to view a new topic, I get the following error:

http://bhaktiwriters.staging.wpengine.com/forums/topic/test-topic/

“Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_get_id_from_slug() in /nas/wp/www/staging/bhaktiwriters/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-functions.php on line 137″

I’m playing with this on a staging site, so I can demolish everything and start from the point of a working group-forum.

So, any idea how I can convert from group-forum to site-wide-forum? I don’t care about loosing data.

Thanks!

[gizmogle]

I installed bbPress 2.1.1 as a plugin on WP 3.4.1. When I set a new user as a Forum Moderator from the back end, if he tries to log out, an error occurs. I don’t find a WP Integration panel in the settings. Any hints?

[John James Jacoby]

Nice tip. I’m unsure we’ll use such a brute force method since we’ll only want to apply this to bbPress titles, but good to know it’s possible. Though, it’d be better to avoid it being added at all.

[asd32a2]

I would like to see the following feature in bbpress.

An ability for an admin to mark a user as a suspected troll. Once the user is marked. Then further posts are directed differently. To the troll the posts appear as normal. (Perhaps newly posted items are stored in localStorage and loaded with javascript.) Also post go directly to a new table where admins can review it. After some time admins can decide that the user is a troll or not. Meanwhile troll’s posts are not lost. And troll is discouraged from creating a new account.

The advantage is that trolls will continue to waste their time, not bother others, and lose a greater amount of work once blocked. Also admins can make the istroll decision with a larger amount of content.

[craftcore]

I figured out how to hook into it. I created bp-custom.php in the plugin directory and modified the action like this:

add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details', 'display_authorlevel' );
function display_authorlevel() {

// code goes here that you want to executed under the avatar. I wanted to display my WP roles instead of the bbPress roles, so I wrote a custom function to pull the WP roles and put it here.

}

Thanks so much for looking!

[craftcore]

On loop-single-reply.php, show_role is true by default.

> bbp_reply_author_link( array( ‘sep’ => ”, ‘show_role’ => true ) > );

I’d like it to be false. If I change it in the theme, it will be overwritten next time I update bbPress, right?

How do I set it to false so that it will not get overwritten?

Thanks!

[DramaticBaby]

I have about the same problem as you. I know one way to remove it though, but unfortunately it’s time consuming.

Go into “/plugins/bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/extras” and copy all templates into “themes/my-child-theme/” root folder. After that I have to go into every single template and remove the line with “get_sidebar();”

Is there any easier way to get rid of that sidebar?

[Janus12]

problem 2 was solved by adding

#bbpress-forums div.reply {
height: auto;}

however the other problem is still not solved and I believe the style.css is missing files.

This is litteraly my whole css file

---

/*

Theme Name: Custom Community
Theme URI: http://themekraft.com/custom-community/
Description: Create your individual website within minutes. Custom Community is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme framework that enables you to build your site with all the features you love. Easy to use jQuery slideshow. List posts under your pages in magazine layouts. Use powerful theme settings to customize every part of the theme. 20 widget areas, 5 special widgets and 2 custom WP 3.0 header menus. 3 predefined colour schemes (white, grey, black) with clean and simple browsersafe css design to start from. Support forum at http://themekraft.com/forums.
Version: 1.8.9.1
Author: Themekraft
Author URI: http://themekraft.com/
Tags: buddypress, translation-ready, dark, light, white, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, two-columns, three-columns, fixed-width, flexible-width, custom-header, custom-menu, custom-colors, custom-background, theme-options
License: GNU General Public License v2.0 / License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
*/

/* Reset browser defaults */

@import url( _inc/css/reset.css );

.aligncenter {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

.alignleft {
float: left;
margin-right: 15px;
}

.alignright {
float: right;
margin-left: 15px;
}

div.post .wp-caption {
text-align: center;
background-color: ##f3f3f3
padding-top: 4px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
margin-bottom:12px;
}

div.post dd.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text, div.post .wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
font-size: 0.9em;
line-height: 17px;
padding: 0 4px 5px 0;
margin: 0;
}

div.credits{display:none;}

bbpress-forums div.reply {

height: auto;

}

---

I am fairly new to web design but I have a feeling there must be more somewhere.

Does anyone know what code I could input to this file in order to fix problem one?

Also as a bonus could anyone give me a code that could work for changing the background of the forum colour?

I apologize for my “rookieness”

Thanks in advance!

[Azerty514]

Hi guys

I just installed bbPress 2.1.1 but when I go to the forum main page the sidebar still appears in the right column, I want to know if there-was a way to remove it?

thank you

[zackasan]

Yeah, i’m sorry. I just realized I was on the bbpress forum. We move topic there.

[Ronileco]

Any new info about this one?
I am suffering from a similar problem where my pretty URL: http://www.mysite/forum/users/User Name/ doesn’t work but http://www.mysite/forum/users/userId/ works great.

How can i fix my permalink or should i change the code to use userID instead? maybe redirect through .htaccess file is the answer?

[newpress]

side wide forums here

http://fantastic7.x10.mx/forums

[newpress]

wordpress latest
buddypress latest
bbpress latest

I use bbpress for site wide forums and for buddypress group forums. It works fine. Didnt install buddypress’s tweaked version.

I set the number for both topics and replies at 5. But cant navigate to the rest of the topic list and replies.
here it is

http://fantastic7.x10.mx

[John James Jacoby]

Anything is possible, but you’ll currently need to write your own widget to make it happen. You’ll most likely want to strip out any formatting, and limit the length also (similar to a WordPress excerpt.)

If you’re able to make this happen and contribute your changes upstream, it would be a great addition to bbPress core for 2.2.

[John James Jacoby]

Hi Janus. You’ll need to tweak some of your theme’s CSS. bbPress doesn’t currently have a ‘dark-theme’ permutation, so you’ll need to do it yourself, or enlist the help of someone that’s willing to do it for you.

As far as the reply heights go, your theme is applying some comment styling to your replies. bbPress 2.1.2 comes with some extra CSS to prevent this, but again it’s a CSS issue that you can fix yourself.

[John James Jacoby]

All kinds of things. Everything in bbPress has an action or a filter in it that enables any other plugins to change the output. Is it possible you were customizing template parts inside your active theme? If so, check in your theme’s folder for a /bbpress directory, and see if you changed any files in there.

[John James Jacoby]

Hi. It’s been less than a day, on a weekend. I kindly ask that you please dial back your expectations.

That said, I can’t duplicate what you’re experiencing, and it would be a great help to have more information to assist you. What theme are you using? Did you customize it? What plugins are you using? Have you tried disabling them to see if there is a conflict?

Pagination, and adjusting the values, works fine. I’ve set them to ‘5’ at testbp.org so you can see for yourself:

http://testbp.org/discussion/forum/forum-testing/

[newpress]

Am I getting any help here?
this is a serious bug in the plugin that should be immediately addressed

[craftcore]

This is so weird…deleted /plugins/bbpress and all its subdirectories, downloaded and extracted bbPress 2.1.1 and uploaded. Reactivated and saved settings on the bbPress page…and the Hello World text is still there! So strange!

Is there anything outside of the actual bbPress folder that could modify the bbPress forum index template?