[enderandrew]

I’ve run into this a few times myself with bbPress 2.0. Sadly I didn’t find the root cause and a proper fix, but I did find a workaround. I change the root slug of the forums to Discussion and then I uncheck “Prefix your forum area with the Forum Base slug (Recommended)”

So my Movies forum is:

http://site.com/forum/Movies and that works. Then I used “Page Links to” and create a menu entry for Forums that links to http://site.com/Discussion as the root of the forums.

[sandeepj]

I am doing a little bit of reverse-engineering to build a custom BLOG/FORUM theme for my site. I cloned the 2010 bbpress code to my own theme and merged in my header/index/footer pages and custom css styles for starters.

I have nearly identical header.php in BOTH the parent & child themes. The only difference is the header.php in my bbpress child theme removes part of the header, so it essentially is a modified parent-theme header.

I noticed, however, that when I made this change now BOTH my blog and bbpress forum pages have the modified header – what gives?!

How can modifying the child-theme impact the parent?

[sandeepj]

I have a custom wordpress theme for my company’s blog to match the styling of my non-wordpress company website. I came across bbpress and wanted to integrate it into my wordpress company blog.

I followed this tutorial for a basic forum setup:

http://codex.bbpress.org/home/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/

My Parent Theme: XX

My Child Theme: XX-bbpress

I created my child bbpress theme and imported the necessary templates as suggested, however, I am baffled by what I observed when I visit the blog landing pages:

I went into WP-ADMIN and activated the child theme. When I visit:

http://www.companydomain.com/blog/forums

– I can see the default forum layout

but when i vist my blog

http://www.companydomain.com/blog

– my blog page is completly blank

I’ve disabled all but the bbpress plugin. WP_DEBUG doesn’t show any errors when I visit my blog page either. HUH?

Am I missing something? Thanks!

[the1path]

OK so after much searching I have a pretty simple solution. The role manager plugin idea was a no go so had to dig deeper.

So add this in your functions.php:

//add author change functionality to bbPress topics in wp-admin

add_action( 'init', 'my_add_author_to_topics' );

function my_add_author_to_topics() {

add_post_type_support( 'topic', 'author' );

}

//then allow subscribers to be authors...good for transfering to bbPress forum which uses custom post types

add_filter('wp_dropdown_users', 'MySwitchUser');

function MySwitchUser($output)

{



//global $post is available here, hence you can check for the post type here

$users = get_users();



$output = "<select id="post_author_override" name="post_author_override" class="">";



//Leave the admin in the list

$output .= "<option value="1">Admin</option>";

foreach($users as $user)

{

$sel = ($post->post_author == $user->ID)?"selected='selected'":'';

$output .= '<option value="'.$user->ID.'"'.$sel.'>'.$user->user_login.'</option>';

}

$output .= "</select>";



return $output;

}

So this basically allows you to set any user as a post author whether they are a subscriber or not (by default WP only lets you set author roles or above as post authors).

I think I will just use is temporarily during transfer and then comment it out….I would image it could get annoying if you have loads of subscribers and are just trying to find authors etc.

I guess this code could be made into a plugin with an on/off switch in the admin for it….any takers?

Anyway I hope this helps folk in the same boat as me.

[thefairystamp]

Hey,

I tried the last few days to figure out, what I did wrong. On my test version of WordPress I installed bbpress for development. Everything is working fine there.

For the customer, I installed the latest WordPress 3.4 Release Candidate. But when I tried to call */forums, the request slows down and All I get is the theader element. I can get to single forums, topics etc, but I cannot see the whole forums.

Any Idea how to solve this?

[the1path]

I see these in v2.1 but no simple press importer….waaaaaaa

[zeaks]

I wasn’t sure where to ask this. I want to put a note above or next to where it says “Reply” and “Topic Description:” for posting instructions. Anyone know what files I need to edit, or some sort of function I can use?

I did this with wordpress comments EX: Use “< code > to display code in your comment” above the comment box, using a function, no idea how to do it with bbpress though.

[smithaddy048]

your post is really nice.

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[hovmand]

Hey,

I just installed bbPress on a brand new wp 3.3.2 and I get this error 8 times on the admin pages:

add_contextual_help is deprecated since version 3.3! Use get_current_screen()->add_help_tab() instead. in .../wp-includes/functions.php on line 3467

[Ing_Ost]

I would like my bbpress plugin in Norwegian. I have followed instructions found on the forum and created the folder wp-content/languages/bbpress, where I’ve put the files bbpress-nb_NO.po and bbpress-nb_NO.mo. In the wp-config file the locale is set to nb_NO.

In the plugin’s bbp-languages folder, there is now only the bbpress.pot file and the index.php.

I can’t see where I’ve gone wrong. Please help!

Thank you.

[Lynq]

You could create a new loop-topics.php inside your theme file, then edit that and give it a new name like “loop-new-topics.php”.

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'new-topics' );

Then edit that file to get the look that you want.

[markthedoc1]

I’ve got BBpress 2.0.2 installed on my site and all went pretty smooth.

I’ve got a problem with the registration page when a user registers. What happens is the registration page just refreshes and there is no confirmation message.

The page is working as the user is registered and the website and the user get their confirmation emails but the page doesn’t display a confirmation message so the user wouldn’t know if the registration had been successful.

Any help on resolving this matter would be much appreciated.

[Sniper Kitten]

I’m having trouble with the new “group forums” feature in bbPress 2.1. Can someone looks into this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-21-cant-do-anything-except-for-posting-a-topic-reply-in-group-forum

[tinewahl]

Hi there. I would like to show recent topics on my website homepage from my forum. I’ve accomplished this already by using the code below. What I can’t figure out is how to tweak this code so that it will display the forum name and topic title only, not the author and all the unnecessary wording (“Started by ___ in:”). What I would like it to look like is a long list with each item presented in the “Forum Name | Topic Title” fashion.

Example:

Italian Food | What’s Your Favorite Pasta Dish?

Japanese Food | Good Sushi Bars in NYC

<?php if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'author' => 0, 'show_stickies' => false, 'order' => 'DESC', 'post_parent' => 'any', 'posts_per_page' => 8 ) ) )

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'topics' ); ?>

[Sniper Kitten]

I’m using bbPress 2.1 on my of buddypress powered sandbox & enable the new “group forum” feature that comes with 2.1.

Everything works perfectly except for one thing: I’m only able to post topic & reply in the group forum. When I tried to edit, split, close, stick, merge, trash, spam a topic / reply in the group forum, it don’t work and like if nothing is happen.

If you want to take a look, please go to http://cheng.scirefs.org and login using the following info:

Try posting a topic or a reply in the forum of one of the test group and try to edit it. You’ll know what I’m mean.

Do anyone here is having the same problem?

• This topic was modified 14 years ago by John James Jacoby. Reason: Posting login information is a bad idea

[markthedoc1]

I’d also like an easy way to remove this feature.

[Patricia BT]

Hi

This topic is posted on 2 places :

– bbpress.org forum

– premium.wpmudev.org community support forum

While working on a site to be launched on the same day (= I had to have it working

I discovered something interesting

BBpress second level forum (= with a parent forum/category) also in the permalink, will result in page not found.

I searched for this issue and came across a few topics, where it was advised to reapply the permalinks, then save again the BBpress settings, where we set the slugs.

I tried everything there and still the same issue, but it was clearly an issue with rewrite.

So I begun to deactivate every other plugin I have and after every deactivation I tried if second level forums were loading. I thought specifically about security plugins such as Wordfence, Better WPSecurity, but nope.

Finally, it was when ******I deactivated wpmudev’s Pro Sites plugin, that the second level forums were loading.*******

I tried another forum plugin but really I will need BBPress (big amount of subforums necessary on this website)

now I made some tests, and to make short :

– if Pro Sites activated :

-> 1st level forum will work

-> 2nd level forum will not work

– if Pro Sites is deactivated :

-> 1st level forum will work

-> 2nd level forum will work and can be reached with those 2 url

A: example.com/forums/forum/level1/level2

B: example.com/forums/forum/level2

(forums/forum beeing the slugs set in Forums settings page)

is it normal we can reach with 2 different permalinks?

***** and as it changes automatically, is there a way to force (in BBPress code) a subforum permalink to stay 1st level even if in a sublevel? would be interesting also in the case a forum is moved to another category then it wouldn’t change url ***** (and at the same time it would solve/hide the issue with Pro Sites)

so cleary this is a rewrite stuff that goes beyond my knowledge, for info my permalinks are set to the second option /2012/06/07/exemple-article/ and .htaccess present with necessary change in it

I use also buddypress on that site but didn’t go until desactivate it as it worked when I deactivated Pro Site,

the site I was working on has buddypress, but not the groups and forum elements checked, forum beeing BBpress anyway (I also tried to check/uncheck forums in buddypress settings, really not related to the issue)

so I was thinking to install a testsite with only vanilla WP Multisite and buddypress, as I need all my tests done that way

+ for this issue : Pro Sites and BBPress

so if there is anything you tell me to try, it will be done

thank you very much in advance (anybody, eveybody

[rajuctg1]

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[zeaks]

This is probably a stupid question, but I can’t figure it out.

What is the proper way to post php and html code into a bbpress 2.0 forum post? I tried using < code > but when posting some html, it’s not displayed, tried using the little like on wordpress.org but that didn’t work either.

[iamfantastikate]

Thanks for your comments.

I’m assuming you had a backup copy of your stylesheet? Either way, it should only have header info in at the point of copying things over. I’ve made the tutorial clearer about that, though.

I never bother with screenshots for themes I’m making for myself, but I’m sure others do. I figured I’d leave that up to the user, but I’ve added a sentence about that.

[BobHatcher]

As I found out the hard way, when you just dump all the bbpress theme files into your child theme – as you recommend in step 6 – you overwrite your style.css. So, my modification to your fine tutorial is to delete or rename the style.css in the bbpress directory before dumping them in. Same goes for screenshot.jpg because if you don’t rename it, you will get a screenshot of twentyten or twentyeleven when you go to the Themes area of your dashboard.

[Nicola]

Thank you! worked for me.

[squalesblog]

Hi John!

I followed several walthroughs like trying to refresh permalinks and re-saving bbPress settings, with no luck! :'(

Any ideas?

Thanks

[m00nbeam360]

Sorry if this is a repeat, but might you have an idea how to make a bbPress Forum Plug-in mobile? Whenever we try to load the forum table on the iPhone, the formatting is all wacky. Is there another plug-in that might work or something? Thanks for your help.

[eric_holmes]

I am currently running 2.0.2 of bbPress.

Is the fix only one line, as displayed in the attachment on this ticket?

Because if that’s the case, it certainly did not fix the issue. lol