[kirby23]

I just spent about 8 frustrating hours failing to accomplish a very basic task with bbpress.

I want my forums & their descriptions grouped grouped by category on the index page. A long jumble of forums on different topics, only ever displayed in “most recently updated” order, or alternatively without displaying the forum descriptions, is totally unusable. I don’t want people to have to hunt through subpages to find which forum is correct to post in for an issue.

I just want an index page that shows ALL the information: Forum titles, Categories, and Descriptions, for all forums, on a page. In some sort of order that isn’t going to leave the users scratching their heads as to where to find what they want. Is that really too advanced to expect bb software to do?

Some sort of organization, on the index page, or at least headings, is really a basic feature of, uh, every single forum I’ve ever seen. Organizing information into sensible sections been a fundamental part of information design since… the printing press? The written word? Hieroglyphics? I don’t know. But bbpress’s index page is an unfriendly, unusable mess, and the only feature you provide for grouping forums makes the situation worse, not better.

I went with a plugin based solution because I didn’t want to sit and code a solution myself. After spending all day on this problem, I am aware that there are complicated, far-over-my-head solutions which may or may not work, telling me I must do things I don’t understand, and which sound to me like they may be wiped out and need to be re-entered every time a theme or plugin is updated.

I can’t put any more time into this simple need. We have multiple users in my group who are going to be able to create new categories and forums, and it needs to _just_work_ , and display an index that makes sense to users, without hours upon hours of troubleshooting and administration.

[DarwinsDream]

k, I switched to twentyeleven theme and disabled all my plugins except bbpress and jwplayer for wordpress. I verified the div of the bbpress content box with firefox inspect element and put extra code in my functions.php to compensate for missed div tag code in the functions.php. here is what i put on top on functions.php as an injected php script within functions.php

<?php

add_action( ‘bbp_reply_content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘entry_content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘bbp-reply-content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘entry-content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

?>

<?php

/**

* slidingdoor functions and definitions

blah blah blah php blah blah blah

then also a double attack at the end of fuctions.php is here

}

endif;

add_action( ‘bbp_reply_content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘entry_content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘bbp-reply-content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘entry-content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

—funtions.php ends here–

-I see other plugins intereacting fine with short codes ie [video] in my bbpress forum but not [jwplayer] can i attach this in css ?

-Is there a very messy way to go about this and edit every file in my bbpress plugin folder?

-Am i better off installing bbpress as stand alone instead of plugin?

-I’m I going about creating a media based user interactive site the wrong way when choosing wordpress w/ bbpress?

I’ve literally spent 90% of my time just trying to get what I want to work and edit it so its all tight. This issue is a brick wall and everything is stopped until this issue is resolved. So really am i just going nuts trying to reinvent the wheel?

Thanks guys…..

The fix it for payment offer always stands until its fixed. That goes for everyone not you Jared But feel free lol

[eternal noob]

@Lynq. Thanks again. But it doesnt cut it. But almost – i tried putting it in my post.php and it doesnt care about the postmeta thing – it just pulls in all the latest topics. I will try some more.

I have been working around it and noticed that when converting from forum topic to post – then the topic and reply simply got the post or page as parent – so perhaps it is already possible to have topics for posts in stead of forum ? More than one that is – because bbpress for topics already allows for one topic only per post.

Does anyone know if it is already possible within the system itself ? That it just has to be enable somehow ? Or is it just in the planning ?

Thanks,

Jacob

[Jared Atchison]

What if you do the reply/post in the admin and not on the front end, same results?

[aro747]

I dumped Firefox after version 4.6 and switched to Chrome. The difference was molasses vs. grease. It ain’t what it used to be.

[Installation]

I think here no developers. we have to contact some one else.

[TomMcIn]

Without the bbPress Threaded Replies plugin, Replies to Forum Topics and Replies just list in sequence when using just bbPress.

Activated bbPress Threaded Replies and the replies to replies were placed correctly. Some basic setting come from Dashboard > Settings > Discussions > Other Comment Settings.

However the threaded replies are not indented as happens with Threaded Comments for Posts. Using the Education Theme and the Genesis Framework. Don’t know what supplies the indenting on threaded Post Comments.

[big_ham]

There is nothing to work out IMHO. mjpg (posted above) has provided the ideal “Work Around” that I think is perfect. Use another plugin to augment this one and provide even MORE flexibility to your permissions.

Don’t ask the bbPress developers to take their time to reinvent the wheel when someone else has already done it. The Drupal community is excellent at referring to each others modules as “dependencies” for certain functionality.

WordPress has a ways to go in this respect, but I have to admit bbPress is better than any of the Drupal offerings when combined with a nice $40 theme purchased online. The phpBB –> bbPress transfer tools are also both quite useful. I just switched to bbPress and plan to be using it for a long time to come so keep it coming guys! Great work!

[briggsy326]

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you on that. I did exactly what you suggested, redrudolf, but all that did was create another ‘bbPress (Twenty Ten) 1.2 by WordPress and bbPress teams’ theme. Thanks anyway.

I have been trying other things too but can’t seem to work out what I should be doing – I think I need someone to walk me through it step by step. lol

[stoeffel-media]

I dont have a widget area on my homepage, ist is a full with page.

[cruthas]

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/

this worked for me

[redrudolf]

I hope as soon as possible, its 97% sooo..

[Jared Atchison]

The easiest way will be to use the widget that is included with bbPress.

Just create a new widget area and place it whenever you want it to go on the homepage.

[briggsy326]

Let me try that just now and I will get back to you if it works (or if it doesn’t).

[redrudolf]

I think you have to copy the bbp-twentyten directory from:

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/

to:

/wp-content/themes/%nameyourdir%

then you can activate the new theme from Appearance after this you can edit the style.css at /themes/%yourdir%/style.css

[briggsy326]

Thanks for your response.

At the moment I think I need to create a ‘child theme’ of the bbpress so that any changes will not be affected by a future update – after which, it is time to play with the css. How? I’m not quite sure (yet).

[redrudolf]

Hi!

Dropbox’s forum is quite nice, I am also trying to make a look-alike forum.

You have to play with the css

[briggsy326]

I’m something of a novice when it comes to bbPress, sorry to say. And although I have spent a fair amount of time searching for how to do what I want to achieve I can not find a way that I can follow!

I am using WordPress and have installed the bbpress (version 2.0.2) plugin and I want to alter the layout of it.

I was looking at this link: http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/15/getting-started-with-bbpress/

and currently the layout I see very much looks like this:

http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/sm-bbpress-forums.png

but I very much want it to resemble this (not exactly):

http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/sm-bbpress-dropbox.png

Sorry if this seems like such an obvious thing to do, but I really am at a loss of where to start.

Thank you kindly in anticipation of any help.

[injua]

This code is a little unsafe. It doesn’t filter out posts in hidden or private forums. Is this possible?

[stoeffel-media]

Hello.

Unfortuantely I couldnt find a plugin for recent posts in bbpress 2.0!

Does somebody have a clou to find one?

I dont need this in a widget, I would like to display it in the homepage content area.

Thx again for your help guys!

[Installation]

i have one xml sitemap wordpress plugin for transposh. but that plug in showing some style missing and include error, is the same style work for bbpress?

[Installation]

i think you have to search plugin for bbpress. or this link will use http://flatpress.org/vanilla2/discussion/848/how-to-safely-securely-disable-rss-feeds/p1

[Installation]

i like this theme i need this theme for blogger..!!

The theme is obviously about tresspassing and respecting the property of others.

[Jeaz]

I’m at the 2.1 (but haven’t updated from the trunk in a week maybe) but 3.3 release version of WP and then I enter the same thing into settings and nothing happens, unless I add the css you suggested.

EDIT: It could be that my theme is causing some havoc as well. I had quite a lot of problems with it since it was designed for bbPress 2.0 table layout and not really ready 2.1 list layout.

[Jared Atchison]

I’ll have to take a look and see why it doesn’t use the media settings.

In the mean time all you need to do is something like

#bbpress-forums iframe,

#bbpress-forums embed {

width: 500px !important;

height: auto !important;

margin: 0 auto; /* if you want it centered */

}