[John James Jacoby]

Some helpful docs to get you started.

https://codex.bbpress.org/component/theme/

[John James Jacoby]

Most of this comes already baked into bbPress 2.1. No reason to duplicate these efforts.

[jeffvand]

I am trying to get set up with some theming and bbpress 2.1. I have added a bbpress folder to my theme and copied over the loop-forums.php file, but as soon as I do that I loose all the CSS. Is there some trick that I need to copy of css? I tried to move the bbpress.css file to the bbpress folder in my theme directory but that didn’t seem to help.

Thanks for any help you can provide. I’m just getting started with bbPress so this may be simple. Sorry if it is… The forums are pointing to old URL’s when I search…

[iamzippy]

Congrats on the 2.1 update, it rocks. But I do have one minor needle request to make concerning the exposure of user bio information. Even when there is none.

The Symptom:

“Hey Admin dude, I may be incognito and unremarkable, but why draw attention to me like this?”

Cause:

Not checking if the description field in the user profile is empty (user-details.php).

Twentyten’s native bio box code is wrapped in a conditional that calls a hookable function, get_the_author_meta( ‘description’ ). Twentyten defaults to skipping the bio box completely if the user profile ‘description’ field is empty (on both single posts and author archives).
And thanks to the hook, the author of a child theme can also prevent display of this stuff based on any criteria they choose — like, author bio info is shared with logged-in users only.

The bbPress function bbp_get_displayed_user_field() isn’t currently hookable :(, but this whole thing is fixable with 3 or 4 lines of code in a couple of files. It’s not so much a bug as a lapse in coding consistency. Whatever, it’s busting my chops right now. If I didn’t know better, I’d ask for my money back 😉

Could this be put right in the next update? Makes for better consistency with WordPress, imho 🙂

Meanwhile, in other bbPress core-hacking news…

‘I also have a needle about the way author URL construction is similarly unhookable, but that’s for another thread’

[jmm7574]

So what can I do from here? My forums still worked when bbPress 2.0.3 was still active. Until the theme author updates for bbPress 2.1, is there a way to revert back to 2.0.3 so my forums will still work?

[Jeff]

Hi, I am in the same exact problem. Which functions.php file do you add this to?

[ecykada]

look i insert that : https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/pl/default?page=2 that’s is correct translate in my language , but don’t work when i put file in lanuage file it’s nothing hange :/

[ecykada]

hi i still have bad language – nothing change on my site i do step by step from http://www.anttivaihia.com/blog/2012/06/how-change-language-bbpress-20 ad nothing… :/

[John James Jacoby]

Ideally, theme authors should update their themes for the latest version of bbPress. In bbPress 2.1, the $bbp global was replaced with a function call to bbpress(). The snippet of code above is recreating the global that 2.1 eliminated the need for.

[jmm7574]

Hello …

I’m using a theme called cheerapp that I purchased from Theme Forest. It has bbpress integrated. When I upgraded to bbpress 2.1, I received a fatal error: “Call to undefined function royal_login() in /wp-content/themes/cheerapp/header.php on line 69”

I found a comment on the theme’s support page from another user saying that he tweaked the functions.php to look like this:

if ( function_exists( 'bbpress' ) ) {
   $bbp = bbpress();

He mentioned that it had to do with the change from $bbp to bbpress().

This change got rid of my fatal error, but since then, whenever I try to click on a forum, it gives me a 404 error. The forums are there in my WordPress admin and it’s pointing to the correct URL, but I’m still getting these page not found errors.

I’m not sure if this is an issue with my theme or an issue with bbPress. I’ve tried to contact the theme creator but he is apparently on some extended vacation or something and isn’t responding to questions, and I’d really like to get my forums up and running again.

Any suggestions? Is there anything inherently bad with the tweak to the code I posted above? Any idea what could be causing those 404 errors?

Thanks in advance for any help you may have … Matt

[roddaut]

@John James – thanks for promising to fix in the next release. BTW I couldn’t update to the newest BBPress recently. After I did my site gave everyone 404 errors when they tried to access forum pages. But when I went back to an earlier version of the plugin this problem went away. Any clues as to why.

@iamzippy Thanks for those instructions. I’ll probably have to get a programmer to follow them as I don’t fully understand what you are saying. 🙂

[John James Jacoby]

Visiting the pemalinks page of the broken site, and clicking Save like I suggested above is how WordPress flushes out the rewrite rules, and replaces them with what should be a functioning set.

If the issue persists, it’s your theme or a plugin modifying the main query after bbPress is. This would most likely happen in the theme, or something hooked into a template action, probably by way of using the query_posts() function.

[matt_sich]

encountered an issue. I get this error:

> Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-functions.php:12) in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 934

Any idea what’s going on?

[matt_sich]

I don’t have a bbpress-functions.php in my wordpress theme (I forgot to mention that I’m using bbpress as a plugin.) is it just a file that I make myself? also, do I just include() it? or does bbpress have some way of connecting to it?

Thank you very much for all your help!

[ecykada]

sorry offtopic – this looking good – how to install ?:)

[Lynq]

No you will never need to touch the core code.

You put these functions inside bbpress-functions.php then you can call these functions inside your template files. like: BBP_Default::custom_bbp_list_forums();

Inside loop-forum-single.php you change where it is calling the function to the new custom function.

If you need any more help let me know, good luck!

[billa3]

I’m using bbpress 1.1. I want to get the author profile link in the front page inside the latest topics loop. I’m using topic_author(); but it returns only the author name, not the profile link.
Following returns the profile link in the single post, but it does not display in the frontpage. post_author_title_link();
Please help.

[_brianbuffon]

I’m currently working on getting bbPress 2.1 to work with a Premium WP theme I just purchased. Everything appears to be working, but on forum pages the topics don’t show up, even though the forum description says that topics and replies exist. See the image below:

http://cl.ly/image/2c0x1c3j2M0I

Additionally, on single topic pages, none of the replies show up, even though the description says that replies and voices exist.

http://cl.ly/image/2N073E260v3M

I’m not using any template overrides in the WP theme. I can resolve the issue by switching to TwentyTen bbPress, so I’m pretty sure that something in the WP theme is causing the issue, I just have no Idea what it could be.

Any light shed on this would be greatly appreciated!

[John James Jacoby]

Shouldn’t be related unless there is a slug conflict, which bbPress should notify you of.

The blog is missing from the first link, and both your forums and categories are broken in the second. Hard to make any guesses at what’s going on. Have you tried visiting your permalinks page and resaving them?

[John James Jacoby]

Will be fixed in bbPress 2.1.1. Sorry about that.

[John James Jacoby]

More specific user capability management will happen in bbPress 2.2.

[docchewbacca]

I am looking for the same thing : I’d like to be able to manage user access on a per forum basis.

Ie :
– Users A, B, C have access to forum 1
– Users C, D, E, have access to forum 2
– User A does not have access to forum 2
– User E does not have access to forum 1

I tried to look into the WordPress capabilities and roles management, but since a given user can only have one role, this does not solve my problem. In my example above, users B and C would not be able to access 2 different restricted forums.

I read somewhere on this forum (but can find where !) that user access management like this was planned for BBpress 2.1, but I realize this was not the case.

I searched for a plugin, with no luck. I also tried other WordPress forum plugins, some offer a feature like this, but I didn’t like the rest of what they offered in comparison with BBpress.

Any idea of a solution that would not be over-complicated ? Or is it a feature that’s being looked into for a future BBpress release ?

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

[csk]

Sigh.. I resolved my own issue by placing the individual files directly into my child theme folder, rather than a folder called bbPressCustom.

[villagora]

Hi John,

I work on deep customisation of bbpress (http://demo.villagora.fr/forums/forum/forum-thematique/) and I’m trying to update bbpress 2.0.3 to 2.1 !
So I’ve copied the contents of the “bbpress-theme-compat” in my bbp-theme (it’s a child of my current theme) for to modify bbpress templates / css / images…
But after the update, my child theme does not overwrite the default bbp-theme-compat files, and I don’t understand why ?
Can you explain me how use “add theme support” for overwrite properly bbpress template file in my child them, with bbpress 2.1?

Thanks in advanced.

[Jeff]

I wonder if the OP ever got the issue resolved? I wish I’ve seen this before I posted a new topic that seems to be the exact same thing, but that’s that..

I am using Tersus, and I think it’s an awesome theme.. I have also tried jczerwonka’s method of replacing the bbpress theme files from within my theme’s folder in /wp-content/themes/Tersus/bbpress, but to no avail.. hope someone could help.