[Lynq]

I just checked on my site and in Firebugs net panel it does not show that it is loading bbpress from the plugin folder?

It shows that it is being loaded from my theme directory.

These steps may be incorrect but this is what I did.

1) I copied across bbp-theme-compat to my wordpress theme folder.
2) I deleted the bbp-theme-compat from the bbpress plugin (this was probably not the thing to do!).

Everything is working fine for me though?

[AAShepAA]

Just another update. It seems that “Theme My Login” plugin was one of the issues also.

[Lynq]

I copied across bbp-theme-compat to my wordpress theme folder and then bbpress automatically picked up my files.

Is your bbpress-functions.php file located inside your theme directory aswell?

[AAShepAA]

John, I am back in. I went into my database>changed the theme to twentyten which allowed me to get back in. bbPress was not activated so I activated that. Selected the “mother” theme I was using and I am back up. Now I will trouble shoot the child theme to see the issues with that.

I thought this might help someone else.

[Clay]

If either your parent/child/current theme have /css/bbpress.css in it, > the theme-compat one shouldn’t be getting pulled in. If it does, and > it is, it’s a bug.

I’m not familiar enough with bbpress (just tried it for the first time today) to declare it’s a bug and not my fault. This is happening with a near-vanilla up-to-date WP install, however.

[csk]

Crap.. you’re smart. Thanks for the fast reply too.

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[John James Jacoby]

PaulieP – Sorry to hear you had a bad experience, and happy that you’re sticking with bbPress. Give Jared a shout. He’s active in the forums here, and very familiar with bbPress.

[PaulieP]

Bumping this to the top. Blake from DriveNet Consulting took on the project and produced absolutely nothing after over a month and a lot of apparent bluffing.

Who here has experience creating or modifying/adapting bbpress themes for the PLUGIN version of bbpress for WordPress?

Thanks

[John James Jacoby]

John, my site was running fine. The only thing I did was pdated bbPress and now the whole site is down. I am at a loss as to where to start looking. I am using a child theme.

Could be anything. Plugin conflict, theme issue, etc… Will need tons more information. I’d suggest reverting bbPress back to an old version if it’s critical to get your site back up immediately, and doing a bit of testing to figure out what the incompatibility is before updating.

If it’s a bbPress bug, clearly we want to fix it so no one has the same issue in the future.

[Clay]

That’s exactly what’s happening. I’m using the responsive theme. I have a responsive-child theme folder that includes the necessary information for me to use it and have responsive as the template, along with style.css that has some modifications to the responsive theme’s css. I then copied everything from …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten to the responsive-child folder and added the aforementioned line to bbpress-functions.php.

bbpress ignores .../responsive-child/css/bbpress.css and instead calls the one from the plugins folder.

[AAShepAA]

John, my site was running fine. The only thing I did was pdated bbPress and now the whole site is down. I am at a loss as to where to start looking. I am using a child theme.

[John James Jacoby]

If either your parent/child/current theme have /css/bbpress.css in it, the theme-compat one shouldn’t be getting pulled in. If it does, and it is, it’s a bug.

[Clay]

It still calls the bbpress.css in the plugins folder. Is there a specific place that the add_theme_support line needs to go in bbpress-functions.php?

[Clay]

I did the following today:

• Install a fresh version of wordpress and bbpress plugin.

• Copy all files (except style.css) from …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten to my child theme folder

• Modify bbpress-functions.php to include add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );

bbpress is still using the bbpress.css file from wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/css

I’ve been tinkering with it for hours and I cannot get it to start using my child theme’s css files by default. They properties always are overwritten by the bbpress.css file in the plugins folder.

Ideas?

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[csk]

Cool.. I just learned about Child themes. Now I feel like a noob.. but thanks for clearing that up.

[John James Jacoby]

Thanks for the suggestion, but this is actually a really poor way to go this.

Never modify bbPress core files.

Instead, copy them from bbp-twentyten/bbpress and place them in a /bbpress folder in a child theme of your current theme. Then, modify the new copies.

If you want to get rid of the sidebar completely, then make a copy of bbp-twentyten in your /themes folder, remane the theme to something else, and start hacking the same way as above.

Again; Never modify bbPress core files.

[csk]

This post is to help people quickly remove sidebars in bbPress.

Here are the steps:

1. Download: Replace Text

This is a simple program that lets you batch edit documents.

2. Take all of the files from: /bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten (http://imgur.com/XSWtH) and save them to your computer.

3. Drag these files into Replace Text and replace: get_sidebar with //get_sidebar. All you’re doing is commenting out the sidebar. There should be about one change per file.

Upload these changed files and you should be good to go. You will have to do this again after upgrading but it only takes a few minutes.

[Lynq]

Inside this file: http://www.geekandjock.com/wp-content/themes/parallelus-mingle/bbpress.css

Line 104.

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
display: inline;
font-size: 11px;
}

You will need to change to:

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
display: block;
font-size: 11px;
}

This is the one thing that keeps cropping up when I am on these forums, so once you have got yourself comfortable with this then the rest of the stuff I have done with my forum has been mostly CSS. there is some PHP because I wanted to try and make it a bit unique, but none of it touches the core.

Good luck!

[markusbb]

Hi John James Jacoby

I tried your suggestion with no luck. I experience this issue on a second website as well. Could it be any database configuration settings that is causing this?

Thank You

[Martin]

omg, so am I copying the file bbpress-functions.php into the theme root and then adding this other code at the bottom and then modding the loop-single-forum.php file?

[Lynq]

Ok cool,

Here is the function I am using on one of my bbPress sites (without the modifications).

1) Copy this function from pastebin: http://pastebin.com/xbwfL71X
2) Then paste it into your functions.php file.
3) Inside loop-single-forum.php replace bbp_list_forums(); with custom_bbp_list_forums();

Good luck!

• This reply was modified 14 years ago by Lynq.

[John James Jacoby]

No idea. It’s a bug in the converter from the sounds of things, but I haven’t looked into it.

Try bumping the converter start (_bbp_converter_start) up 1 or 2, and see if it continues on.

[John James Jacoby]

I’ll get right on that copy then 🙂

With great power comes great responsibility.

[Martin]

Oh cool, thx – now moved. Now I get this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ‘)’ in /Users/MartinC/Sites/gaj/wp-content/themes/parallelus-mingle/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php on line 43

Warning: missing endblock() for startblock(‘middle’) in /Users/MartinC/Sites/gaj/wp-content/themes/parallelus-mingle/framework/theme-functions/layout-and-design.php on line 137

Still without a clue 🙂

[John James Jacoby]

Close. 🙂

theme/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php

…is all you need.

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• This reply was modified 14 years ago by John James Jacoby.