When activating the bbPress plug-in, bbPress automatically injects itself into the WordPress standard menu.
Is it possible to remove this link from the standard menu?
I’m using qTranslate on my WordPress installation and the link to bbPress that bbPress injects into the WordPress standard menu is not compatible with qTranslate.
I would like to add a standard custom menu link to the forum and remove the automatically injected link to the forum.
Is this possible?
Edit: Found a solution to this problem myself.
Hashbang urls are now handled in BackPress trunk as of https://backpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/350
And so work on the WP.com forums and anywhere else where a bbPress install pulls it’s BackPress external from HEAD of trunk/includes
If you are not sure where the issue is coming from then I suggest activating a default theme for bbPress, like twentyten and then seeing if the issue still exists.
If it does then move onto disabling any bbPress plugins, one by one.
Good luck!
You can copy and paste a current loop file and rename to something like loop-custom-forums.php then when you want to call that loop you can use:
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'custom-forums' ); ?>
Good luck!
If you learn to copy function names and do a search for them through your whole bbpress plugin folder, you can pretty much find out how anything works, this is how I worked this out. Think I had to go through a trail of 5 or 6 files until I worked it out 
This is great advice for anyone wanting to customize their bbPress. I have found out many different bits and pieces by doing exactly this.
No problem, sorry the slightly erratic replies, got there in the end though!
I have chosen bbPress, and am very happy with that choice.
It loads in half the time, is more easy to customize, and very easy to use.
Further:
If you want a solution for PM, groups, activity feed (one or all), you can install BuddyPress (another WP plugin), and you have it all.
I used gconverter.com to do the migrating, and that was a winner!
Me too, I’d like the same.
May I ask:
I am looking at simple:press versus bbPress. So I am interested in: WHY would you like to go for bbPress over simple:press?
I can answer that. SimplePress have just started charging for their support! My wife was encouraged by the developers to use their new version 5 when she was looking for a forum plug-in to her WordPress blog. Just when she was up and running they started charging and coincidentally she developed a bug in her forum at the same time after an update. She did not even receive notification that this was going to happen. I’m pretty disappointed with them for not telling her this was in the pipeline because she would have taken this into account and we’d have gone for BBPress in the first place.
She is so desperate now she’s almost at the point of paying for the support to sort the problem out but I would rather manually migrate to another forum just on principle.
We have tried contacting the developers at SimplePress but they are not interested.
I’m trying to upgrade an existing forum that uses 2.0 to 2.1. If I upgrade, will all my forums and posts still work?
Hi, noticed bbPress plugin adds seven query vars to the public query vars array (WP::$public_query_vars). Three of them (forum, topic and reply) are added registering their respective post types. But the other four (topic-tag, bbp_user, bbp_view and edit)? When are they added? Thanx.
Antonio.
How can I start a new bbPress loop?
Thanks,
Kenny
I’m using the bbpress 2.1 and the inclusion of the fancy editor was really great. Thanks for your job!
@sniper kitten, is there a quick way to add the smiley button to the editor?
I was looking at the code but can’t see work it out. Some help would be appreciated.
I just had to work this out for myself too…
I think you can use this wherever you need to in your topics loop or template / whatever..
<? $curTopicStatus = bbp_get_topic_status( $topic_id );
if($curTopicStatus == 'publish'){ ?>
This topic is still open
<? } else { ?>
This topic is now closed
<? } ?>
If you learn to copy function names and do a search for them through your whole bbpress plugin folder, you can pretty much find out how anything works, this is how I worked this out. Think I had to go through a trail of 5 or 6 files until I worked it out
Hi,
Is there a resolution to this? I’m having the same issue and I want to install a lightbox feature into the BBpress and without the /plugins/bbpress/my-plugins path I’m lost on how to make this work.
I’m using bbPress 2.0.2 with WordPress 3.3.2
I’ll keep looking at the other topics as I see that this thread is 11 months old at the time of this posting.
Thanks for any help in advance.
EJ
Great, thats exactly what I was searching for. I guess this will also help other people…
Thax lynq for your help!
Hi, I just downloaded the licensed version of JW Player. I have it working fine on my websites main pages but not in bbpress. The div tag for the player is called in
as such:
<p style=”text-align: center;”><div id=”jwplayer-1-div” class=”Soundhampton Player”>
<div id=”jwplayer-1″></div>
When I post a video in Buddy Press the 2 Plugins don’t seem to be interacting. All i get is the shortcode posting in my forum.
as such:
[jwplayer config=”Soundhampton Player” mediaid=”1754″]
Can someone please tell me how to call the jwplayer div tag into bbpress in PHP? I think I understand what is happening, I just dint know how to get JW Player called into bbPress. Ive already checked the bbpress forum with no luck. This seems to be a first. Ive been researching this and tweaking my site for three days now.
Here is the working JW PLayer —-
http://www.soundhampton.com/404_page_not_found
And the non working one in Buddy Press
http://www.soundhampton.com/topic/why-its-important-to-research-your-business-and-domain-name
Thank you very much in advance for you help.
jason@soundhampton.com
I can’t crack this one.
When you go to the main forum to view the architecture to the subforums it errors with:
ERROR: You must supply the post ID to get the image from as an argument when calling the graphene_get_post_image() function.
I am not sure if this is a theme issue or bbPress, or what to do. I am at a total loss.
Currently seen on:
http://relpor.com/?post_type=forum
I haven’t been able to find a solution to this; it appears the theme has thrown off this same error with other plugins (eg. Market Press).
Anyone have any advice?
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ok it was an issue with my hosting compayn….ipage….they had to “increase” my memory…wasted all that time for nothing lol..
thats how I installed…I just reinstalled my site with a fresh installation. when I activate bbPress for site wide forums I get this error: ” Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) in /hermes/bosweb/web123/b1238/ipg.msflightsnet/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php on line 883 “
could this be my child theme issue? maybe I need to add some files to my childtheme?
Any ideas? Thanks!
I forgot you might need to grab the current user id, depending on where you are trying to use that code.
<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>
I just tried it and it works perfectly in my header. Good luck.
It does depend on the theme of course, but I will try my best. Also please remember that this involves editing the core and is not recommended (but I can’t see another way to achieve this?).
If you set the show_freshness_link to true and then add a freshness before of <td> and freshness_after of </td> this will add an extra td tag inside the template.
You will then need to add an extra <th> to the table heading, or it will break your table and you will have blank spaces inside the forum list.
If you are using a non table layout, then you just need to give it a class and deal with it in css like the reply count and post count data.
Inside loop-single-forum.php I changed my bbp_list_forums arguments to accept the changes inside the core function, for example…
array( 'show_freshness_link' => true, 'freshness_author_before' => '<div class="author-box">', 'freshness_author_after' => '</div>')
You can then change the freshness_author_before and the freshness_author_after values to change the html.
Good luck!
Any chance support for other Forums are going to be added? I really need a converter for my Forum which is using the CMS from Seditio. Unfortunately, Seditio is not around anymore, but a fork exists at http://www.cotonti.com.
I have over 1500 members and 40K posts. I really want to get away from that CMS and convert to WP as it’s not supported any longer. Please advise, and if there is anything I can do to help, please let me know. Thanks.
bbPress 2.0.2 is compatible with WP 3.3.2 AND BuddyPress 1.5.5
Since you’re using BuddyPress, check out https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/
