[MTPrower]

The problem I had before is still here, and so I still need to change what the Archive Page shows. Changing the settings as said above worked at first, but now bbPress reverted back to showing the forum Archives on http://mysite.net/forums/ instead of what I put on my WordPress page at that location.

In my site’s main menu, I have a link called “Forums” that leads to “http://mysite.net/community/forums/”. This page is the custom page I made, to show the forum_id’s of my two forum categories, rather than showing the forum Archives.

My WordPress theme has a breadcrumbs system, as does bbPress. On the page that I created, WordPress says my breadcrumb path is:

Home » Community » Forums

While bbPress says it’s:

Home › Forums › Community › Forums

bbPress has this annoying thing about insisting that if you are inside the forums, it will add extra “sub-menus”, or path items, or whatever you call them, to your breadcrumbs.

In the bbPress settings page, I set my “Archive Slugs > Forums base” to “archives”, rather than the default “forums”. For “Single Slugs > Forum prefix”, I unchecked the box “Prefix your forum area with the Forum Base slug (Recommended)”.

bbPress seems to hate playing nicely with your site’s permalinks and breadcrumbs. I’ve always had this problem, ever since I started using bbPress.

I would be more than happy to hack up bbPress a bit so that I can fix the breadcrumbs and permalinks myself. I consider this a very persistent issue, as I see many people to this day wondering how on earth to get their forums to display at the proper location.

If there’s anything I can do to help get this problem fixed more permanently, I’d be more than happy to help.

[zzweb]

Hi everyone, I have this page here:

http://www.complianceupdater.com/mortgage-compliance-checklist-questions/

It is running off BBpress plugin. Right now, you’ll see that the new topic form does not work. If you submit, it asks ‘Are You Sure You Want To Do This?’. That form is hardcoded in, however as the encryption codes change frequently, I need that to be ‘soft coded’ in via PHP. How would I do this? Please write back if I’m not being clear, I’ll explain more. Thanks!!!

[icandygraphics]

I figured out that bbpressbbp-includesbbp-extend-genesis.php forces full-width content if you are using a Genesis theme or child theme. I changed the full-width-content to content-sidebar in that file, and now all my archive pages have a sidebar. I know I’m not supposed to just edit the files and save them back to the same location, though. Where should I put my version for my child theme?

[katmmad]

Whoops — turned out I took it out when I was trying to stylize the CSS. This was the div, if anyone else has this problem:

/*removes Topics footer*/

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header, #bbpress-forums li.bbp-footer {

display: none;

}

[craftcore]

Oh my goodness, this was driving me CRAZY! I figured out a solution that I hope will help you budddypress + bbress users out too!

Go to loop-single-reply.php in the bbpress theme files.

Find the line:

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />' ) ); ?>

This seems to be what is generating the avatar by default, so I commented it out and used the following code instead:

<?php // bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />' ) ); ?>



<?php



$replyauthor = bbp_get_reply_author_id();



if ( function_exists( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar' ) ) :

echo bp_core_fetch_avatar( array(

'item_id' => $replyauthor,

'type'     => 'full',

'width'    => 100,

'height'  => 100

));

endif;



?>

My forums are happy and unfuzzy now. Hope it works for you too!

[Jared Atchison]

If 3.4 + bbPress is causing you get an error saying “bytes exhausted” I recommend either installing this plugin

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/memory-bump/

or bumping the memory manually through the wp-config.php

https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

[shanebp]

fyi – BuddyPress has Codex page specifically for setting up Group and Sitewide Forums

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

[wpmhweb]

Got the answer:

In the Dashboard, at Settings > Forums, you can edit the single slugs. If you remove the Forum Prefix, you’ll get your forums at http://example.com/forums/.

How to set up bbPress to /forums

I should kept on digging a little bit longer : )

Thanks,

[wpmhweb]

Hello,

I am almost finished configuring bbPress and I just notice trying to publish a page with the URL mydomain.com/forums that it shows the default forums template and not the page that I have created with the shotcodes. There is anyway to fix this? I would like to have my own custom /forums page display.

Thanks for the help!

[Lynq]

I think I saw a similar problem to this on the forums recently.

A page called “Forums” and having your base slug as “Forums” will conflict with each other. If you visit yoursite.com/forums and your forum base slug is set to /forums it takes you to the archive and not the page.

Check out the post and see if it helps, be warned I didn’t read it 100% through

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-use-the-bbp-single-forum-idforum_id-shortcode-in-a-template-file

Good luck!

[Anonymous User 5853594]

In the Dashboard, at Settings > Forums, you can edit the single slugs. If you remove the Forum Prefix, you’ll get your forums at http://example.com/forums/.

To create an index for your forums at that address, just create a page with the [bbp-forum-index] in it and give it the slug “forums”.

You can mess it up if you have the same slugs for tags for posts and the forums, so watch out that you don’t break your site. The forum prefix is to save you from doing that, but if you watch what you’re doing it’s not that much of a problem to remove it.

[MTPrower]

That was the problem. You see, under the Settings page for bbPress, there is the Archive Slugs section. Under this is two settings: “Forums base” and “Topics base”. Due to the wording, I never knew that having the “Forums base” setting at its default, which is “forums”, I would never be able to use my WordPress-made custom forums page at http://www.mysite.com/forums , always getting the archives page instead of what I put in shortcodes on my custom page.

Maybe the labels for those settings should be clarified, and the default setting changed. I see lots of people having trouble with this part, and I’ve been using bbPress for a year and just discovered the answer.

Thanks for replying. I appreciate it. If I knew some PHP, and my site was done and I could spare some time, I’d help you with bbPress a bit. I know it must suck not having very many people helping out…

[MTPrower]

I found the bug. You cannot make the “Forums” page that you put shortcodes into a parentless page. If the page is http://www.mysite.com/forums , then going to that URL will only take you to the archive page. Actually, it seems there I might be able to edit that in the settings page. I just had no idea that THAT was what that setting meant. I’m going to go take a look.

I’ve been using bbPress for about a year, and I just NOW discovered what was wrong with my permalinks. I think maybe the “archives” part of the settings page should be set to the word “archives”, not “forums” by default, so people don’t have trouble with this.

Anyway, I’m gonna go mess with that setting and see what happens. I will post my results here for future people to see…

[John James Jacoby]

Can’t speak for the others; if scalability into the billions of posts is really your concern: at volume, the platform matters significantly less than the operators and system administrators keeping up with the growth. Most of your static content will be served directly from the cache, and there’s not much you can do about database writes; they have to happen anyways.

If what you’re looking for is for someone to tell you that bbPress will out-perform some other platform is some specific way, I think you’re on your own. What I can tell you is that bbPress very much is in active development, and is optimized to use all of WordPress’s cacheing API’s, with constant efforts specifically going into further optimization in future versions.

[John James Jacoby]

Do not modify the core files that are included with bbPress.

[MTPrower]

Is this topic resolved? I was ready to help, seeing that it was marked “Not resolved”, but it seems you have fixed your problem. If you think you’re ready, mark this topic as “Resolved”.

[ryan a]

My forum is created

Permalinks set to post name

Tried to add a new menu in the appearance tab

Still cant see my forum on the website.

Suggestions?

UPDATE**

Never mind, I figured out how to properly create a menu in the appearance tab.

[Jared Atchison]

bbPress is free and we are all volunteers doing this in our spare time.

We always try to help people when possible, however we don’t always have time to walk people through creating custom solutions for their every needs, it’s just not practical unfortunately.

The best thing is to encourage users to do the research on their own and then contribute back to bbPress. If that’s out of their confort zone them sometimes the only other solution is for them to hire a developer or use a different, paid, forum software suite.

[zuckerbaby]

Wish I could do it with CSS, but I ended up just deleting the inputs from the PHP files.

Solution:

bbpress > form-reply.php form-topic.php

Delete this part in each of the above files:

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_before_reply_form_tags’ ); ?>

<p>

<label for=”bbp_topic_tags”><?php _e( ‘Tags:’, ‘bbpress’ ); ?></label>

<input type=”text” value=”<?php bbp_form_topic_tags(); ?>” tabindex=”<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>” size=”40″ name=”bbp_topic_tags” id=”bbp_topic_tags” <?php disabled( bbp_is_topic_spam() ); ?> />

</p>

[zuckerbaby]

That didn’t work, Nuldi.

Am I even editing the right file?

wp-content > plugins > bbpress > bbp-twentyten > css > bbpress.css

[devpaq]

For anyone else interested, I placed it in the main WP theme header and just wrapped it with is_bbpress()

That allowed me to check if they were on bbpress and not logged in to display the login screen, otherwise continue as it should.

[Hwyatbig]

I just installed the bbpress plugin on my wordpress site but I’m dealing with a problem I don’t understand…

When reading the codex, I see it should be very simple, and I think I’m doing what’s explained to create my forum.

for the example I just created a forum named “exemple” (and let the attributes as they were) and then when I have a look at the address which has been created I have nothing but the name “Exemple”, and the description I gave. But no way to create a post or anything.

(you can have access to the page in question in my profile)

Did I miss something ?

[maf2874b]

My new forum is not showing a sidebar as the other pages in my network blog install is doing, correctly. Any tip on how to remedy this?

I also get this but not sure if it has anything to do with the sidebar not showing.

“Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.”

Thanks.

[enderandrew]

Personally, I don’t turn on the Forums component in BuddyPress. I just use bbPress, which is a site-wide forum, but also allows for the group forums.

Technically the integration was pushed back a release, but it is working well for me.

[zuckerbaby]

I’ve found 3 different fixes here for hiding the topic tags input field, but nothing works for me.

____________________________

Here is the input on the page:

<p>

<label for=”bbp_topic_tags”>Topic Tags:</label>

<input type=”text” value=”” tabindex=”103″ size=”40″ name=”bbp_topic_tags” id=”bbp_topic_tags” />

</p>

____________________________

Is this the CSS file I edit?

wp-content > plugins > bbpress > bbp-twentyten > css > bbpress.css

____________________________

Here is the tags area there:

div.bbp-breadcrumb,

div.bbp-topic-tags {

font-size: 12px;

}

#content div.bbp-breadcrumb p,

#content div.bbp-topic-tags p {

margin-bottom: 10px;

}

div.bbp-topic-tags {

float: right;

}

____________________________

Although on the web page, as you can see, there are underscores, not hyphens.

I’ve tried div.bbp_topic_tags {display: none;} etc. to no avail.

Please explain clearly for this non-coder how to hide the input.

Thanks!