[LabSecrets]

Hi Martin,

if you are using the default bbPress, then in most cases the CSS indicated will work. The only exception would be, with some themes, that you may have to also (or instead) make the #content area 100% width as well. Also, in some themes you have the #aside as well (or instead) of the #sidebar.

As I don’t know what theme you are using (link?), please use firebug to identify the element ID or Class that is surrounding the bbPress DOM elements.

[hinduismfacts]

Hi, my forum address is http://hinduismfacts.org/hindu-forum. I am using wordpress version 3.3.2 and bbpress 2.0.3.

When I or any user try to post a topic or a reply on the forum, the following error occurs.

The page isn’t redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept

cookies. Try Again.

The user has to log in again or use back button to go to forum then.

But surprisingly, topic gets posted.

Please help.

[enderandrew]

The CK Editor for WordPress won’t allow captions on images, and will break posts that have captions. So, I can’t use it on my site.

I’m back to square one with my initial issue. I can’t theme the TinyMCE editor used by bbPress now. Can someone point me to what CSS tags I should use?

[Manapunk1]

Is it even possible? I have a Mingle Forums install, but I want to switch to something like bbPress because Mingle development has stalled some year plus ago. I’ve got security worries and compatibility issues mounting, and want to switch to something better.

But I would MUCH rather not have to lose everything from my present forums. Am I fresh out of luck?

[Jared Atchison]

FYI about Genesis theme compatibility.

When you do decide to upgrade to bbPress 2.1 you will need to use a plugin.

Genesis compatibility was removed from bbPress 2.1 and is now wrapped in a plugin (below). The plugin also provides some other fixes the 2.0.x compatibility doesn’t.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/

[Pixeldrum]

Have successfully integrated bbpress 2.0.3 into twentytwelve responsive theme that was updated with WP 3.4. (Had to start again, as WP 3.4 broke another theme.) I am using it with WPMU Membership plugin and that works too. The membership is private, access to the forums shows up in the menu when a user has logged in, members are added manually.

The one thing I have not been able to do is to format (CSS) the bbpress user profile/account page. And if I enter a full path to a user account into a new browser that has no users logged in their information shows up and can be edited!!! (example: http://mysite.ca/forums/neighbours/test-user/)

This is a cross post with WPMUDEV, as their membership plugin is involved, but I am asking if there is something I can do with bbpress files to make the profile pages more secure and properly styled. Can I somehow forward the user profile to a page I can format better? Please advise. The security issue troubles me most.

[Manapunk1]

I am looking for a button bar editor plugin for bbPress, for posts. I have a lot of people posting on my forums that do not have familiarity with hashing bbcode / html manually into a post, so I would like to find a nice button bar / editor plugin for posting. Unfortunately it looks like the BBcode Wysiwig Editor has gone sour as it is throwing errors whenever I try to activate it.

Are there any others out therE?

[wpmhweb]

Hello,

I installed bbPress no admin in a WordPress 3.4 site, I created a test user (Subscriber) and still does take the user to WordPress backend. There is anyway to troubleshoot this plugin?

Thanks,

[MTPrower]

After screwing around with various options for permalinks and for the location and links for my forums, I have decided, once again, that it is best to hack up the archive-forum.php. In fact, I think this very page should be completely changed to allow you to choose whether you want to display the forums archive there, or if you want to use the wordPress page editor to display shortcodes or whatnot. This should be an option in the bbPress settings.

This would solve pretty much everyone’s problems with permalinks and breadcrumbs, and I think it would be easy to do.

[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”.