[Lynq]

Nice that is looking awesome!

[Erlend]

Gah, just noticed I typed the link to the examples page wrong. Here’s the proper link:
https://bbpress.org/about/examples/

[Erlend]

I just finished a draft of my proposal for bbpress.org’s license page. I don’t think a dedicated GPL license page is necessary when there’s a nice public page for it and plenty other trustworthy “mirrors” in case of downtime.

I basically copied the WordPress License page, updated it with mentions of bbPress and alternatively licensed forums, and merged it with a summarized version of the domains warning.

Your thoughts please.

[The Lacesz]

Not working : (

Functions?

[Erlend]

Yesterday I offered to help write some copy for bbPress.org, so this is the first of many such posts in a series of sorts as I work my way through the pages and contents in question.

Today I’ve been looking at the examples page. This page is not linked to yet, but we’ll sort that out once we’re happy with the page itself.

Also, down the line bbPress should simply have its own “flavor” on the WordPress Showcase site, coupled with a custom page on bbpress.org that pulls information from there, much like how the BuddyPress showcase probably already works. But since that might take a while (all I know is it’s beyond my capabilities) I figured a static page would serve as a good substitute in the meantime.

Styling

I realized that a common question that’s going to be popping up as I work on these pages is “Changes to bbpress.org vs Changes to my article formatting“. So when I give this feedback, know that I probably have a reasonable workaround for it in mind already if you don’t agree with the proposed changes.

• Page headers – Either make them take charge of the page (more prominent than h1) or don’t show them at all. One of my favorite examples of a beautifully dominant page title is WooThemes’ Optimize.
• On my test site (also where my images are currently loaded from because I don’t have that privilege here yet) I used captions to achieve some simple compartmentalization. It seems the bbpress.org theme doesn’t have any styling for captions yet. Furthermore, on hover they expand slightly instead of highlighting in some other way (e.g. a shadow overlay), making the content below shift downwards slightly, which looks weird.
• The showcase codex page should be retired.

Your input is most welcome, including my choice of “featured” items.

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[Erlend]

This is a gorgeous looking forum site! Is it running bbPress 2?

@netweb if you read this, I tried checking the source but this one didn’t have bbpress in it. Got any other tricks up your sleeve? Well, the permalinks, the anchors, the widgets.., it all points towards bbPress 2, so I’m gonna go ahead and add it to the examples page.

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[selise]

thanks jjj.

here’s what i needed to do, in case anyone else is interested.

1. install bbpress and wptouch pro plugins
2. in bbpress settings, under theme packages, choose the bbpress
   default – bbp-theme-compat
3. create a wp page forums and use [bbp-forum-index] short code for a
   forum index page
4. in wptouch admin make sure that both “Enable ‘topic’ post type” and
   “Enable ‘reply’ post type” are NOT selected (thanks to emilio at
   bravenewcode)
5. put a copy of bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/extras/archive-forum.php into
   the active wptouch child theme iphone (etc) directory(ies).
6. tweak style

i have no idea why a copy of archive-forum.php was needed in the wptouch theme as i didn’t need to copy any of the bbpress files into my desktop theme (twentyten child) and i didn’t copy any of the other bbpress files into the wptouch theme. but at least it seems to be working with a minimum of fuss.

[pimarts]

You could try something like this (for an install that also has BuddyPress):

function disable_all_widgets( $sidebars_widgets ) {       
    if ( function_exists('is_bbpress') ) {
        if (is_bbpress()) {
            $sidebars_widgets = array(false);
            remove_all_actions('bp_register_widgets');
            unregister_sidebar( 'bp_core_widgets' );
        }
    }
    return $sidebars_widgets;
}

add_filter('sidebars_widgets', 'disable_all_widgets', 1, 1);

[John James Jacoby]

Looks good to me. You’re free to shift things around at this point. WordPress’s canonical redirect will take care of the rest. 🙂

[Erlend]

@JJJ this is mainly for you & anyone else who might be editing the site, so if there’s a better place to discuss this, e.g. the the bbPress devblog, let me know.

I looked at the current page structure and thought it could be structured a bit differently:

About & Features reshuffled

• About

  • GNU License
  • Domains (possibly merged with License page)
  • Get involved
  • Privacy
  • The Story
  • Development

• Features

  • Fully Integrated
  • Multisite Forums
  • Simple Setup
  • Examples/Showcase (might be better off as its own parent)

Move to codex

• Installation
• Requirements

This also depends on the plan for pages like ‘simple’, ‘integration’ and ‘multisite’, which might not need dedicated pages if they can be explained simply enough in a paragraph (I’ll give it a shot).

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[Clay]

Lynq, that’s what I assumed, too. This link suggests the approach you took:
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Clay]

Oops. Yeah, I saw that other thread earlier, but this is the one that turned up when I searched. For the record, “Globally Disable Sidebar?” would be a great option in the bbPress settings. 🙂

[Erlend]

Re: Markdown

Feedback should be directed towards the WP-Markdown support forum.

Re: Search

wpmudev.org has got a very elegant forum search set up on their site, including an alternative Google search. Maybe they’ll share the code. I’ll refer them to this thread and try get a conversation going.

Re: Breadcrumbs & Tags

Agreed, I’ll do some mockups.

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you looked at BuddyPress Courseware? It’s BuddyPress & bbPress with ‘all that stuff’ you list above already integrated in a ‘LMS – Learning Management System’ http://buddypress.coursewa.re/

[Stephen Edgar]

There are some plugins that should be able to do what you are looking for. Neither of the two below specifically list being bbPress compatible, so contact the developers to see if they will do what you want them to.

User Registration

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-email-editor/

It would also be an idea to upgrade to bbPress 2.1 🙂

[Lynq]

Hi Viktora,

I setup bbPress and it worked straight away, there is a slight difference in what I did and what you say you did in your original post and here it is:

– copied all files from “bbPress/bbp-theme-compat/bbpress/” to the new directory above

The address I copied across was the whole bbPress/bbp-theme-compat/ not just the bbpress folder.

Not sure if this helps, but it is worth a go.

Good luck!

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[viktora]

It looks like this is my solo topic.:-) So I continue contributing. Here is my progress in resolving the isue described above.

I have created bbpress-extras directory in MYTHEME directory. All files from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/extras were copied into this directory. Than I edited bbpress-functions.php (copied to MYTHEME directory). Following code looks to be promising

function bbpress_custom_template() {
if ( is_bbpress() ) {
require_once ( 'bbpress-extras/page-front-forums.php');
exit;   
}
}
add_action('template_redirect', 'bbpress_custom_template');

This is the result: http://poradci-sobe.cz/forums/

This looks like this is the way how my custom template files can be stopped to be ignored by bbpress. At least the first file I am testing – page-front-forums.php. I will try to make the condition more precize and to create special condition for each template file I want to use.

Does anybody know, why this approach creates as many forum lists as the number of forum is?? Each forum lists is the same except forum name is different. I would expect there will be only one forum lists without any name.

I am looking for JJJs answer saying “this is a very poor solution”. I am trying my best. Sorry for that.:-)

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[Stephen Edgar]

> When activated bbPress will use bbpress.css in your theme directory instead of the one included in bbPress core. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-custom-css-file/

I hope this doesn’t confuse things further, if it does help sorry I think of it earlier. 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

@Erlend The site is running bbPress Plugin 2.x
(‘View Source’ /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentten/css/bbpress.css?ver=20110807b)

[Lynq]

Hey Erlend, chuck mine in there if you like! Using bbpress 2.1: http://teamoverpowered.com/forums/

[Lynq]

I found it easier just to do it by CSS.

All of the bbPress pages will put a class of .bbPress on the body tag.
My sidebar is #primary.

So what I did was this small bit of css:

.bbPress #primary {
display: none;
}

Then I added in some extra CSS to extend the width, easy!

[Stephen Edgar]

Markdown Plugin
I like Markdown, though cutting & pasting the above text/reply crashed Safari on the iPad twice.
Reproduce Steps: start a reply, I’m using this post itself for an idea on size, it is now so slow and I can’t type or delete text faster than one character a second.

Forum Wide Search
See Trac Ticket #1575 https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1575
The code in #1575 is a WP plugin ‘Search bbPress’ though it needs an update for bbPress 2.1 (remove old widget typo bug code and whatever else may need updating)
Ideally getting #1575 closed and built into bbPress would be the ideal scenario 🙂

Breadcrumbs & Tags
These are features available in the bbPress software, as such I think they should be used here at bbPress.org/forums to help showcase the features of bbPress. As for the actual user experience/implementation of said features, ideas on how you use them and how they could be best used here would be great.

(~typing at only one character per second here, there is some performance issue with Markdown going on here or at least on iPad Safari)

[Erlend]

Hey @janoochen . I’m putting together an examples collection of bbPress 2 forums. Can you just confirm that your forum is running on the bbPress 2 plugin, not the older bbPress 1.x or 0.9 version?

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[Stephen Edgar]

> @ziadmasry: Great work!! Is there a recent translation for Arabic version WP?

Ziadmasry,

You can see the current status of bbPress translations here:
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin 

(Arabic has 132 of 842 translations, though all additional contributions would be welcome :))

Please see this post How do I change the language? (We will add this to the docs in the near future.)

That post has instructions for Spanish, its the same process except you substitute ES (Spanish) for AR (Arabic) where applicable, it’s an identical process for bbPress as it is for WordPress itself.

  1: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-change-the-language/#post-113281

[andersvinther2]

Hello,

I’d like to use bbPress so I’m looking at setting it up on my blog…

I use the plugin Semisecure Login Reimagined to encrypt login details before they’re sent off to the server…

When I use the bbPress shortcode for the login or use the login widget I get the message:

> Semisecure Login is not enabled! Please enable JavaScript and use a
> modern browser to ensure that your password is encrypted.

Does anyone know if it is possible to get around that?

Thanks!