[smell-bag]

Hi all,

Why is the forum base page different from the templated forum index page I have created?

My Forum index page works great. But in order for it to show it must have a different slug to the forum base set in the bbpress options.

This is where things seem to be wrong – when I view my forum index i get the slug home->forums->forum-index (with forum-index being the slug of my template page)

Surely this is very wrong, the index age should be the forum root surely? after all it is an index?

Secondly, I cannot work out which template file is used for this mysterious “forums” base page. It’s basically a list of h2 titles with the names of all the forums in, where does it come from?

Here are links so you can see for yourself:

my index page:

http://lazybricks.blueleafstudio.net/forum-index/

the forum base page:

http://lazybricks.blueleafstudio.net/forums/

Try clicking the root link in the breadcrumbs (the one next to home), it switches between the two! Odd behaviour indeed.

I only want the forum index to show, that should be the ‘root’ or ‘base’ of the forums. However if i give my index page the same slug as the forum base (i.e. forums) then i get the page i don’t want, not the pretty templated one.

I have been stuck on this one thing for a whole day after creating a lovely index page and I don’t want to be stopped by this!

If anyone can help it would be very much appreciated,

Thanks in advance

[paulychilds]

Hi – I have a wordpress blog (installed on my own mySQL Database/webspace) and have added bbPress as it seemed the best forum plug in I could find. I am using the theme Graphene. These are all the latest version as of 19/04/12.

I have created a blank page called Forum which, when the menu item is clicked, forwards to the bbPress forum main page and which appears on the top menu, along with Home and Blog.

Here is where things get difficult…

I would like for the ‘Forum’ menu item (page_item_419) to be highlighted when I am in the bbPress Forum but currently, when I am in the Forums it is the ‘Blog’ menu item (page_item_146) which is highlighted.

Any idea what I need to do? I am not a great deal of coding experience so go easy on me

Many thanks

PC

[mtp1032]

I forgot to mention that I’m using the latest stable release of bbPress, version 2.0.2.

[John Conners]

Been a bit swamped with work lately so I’ve not had a chance to finish it up yet (there are still a couple of use cases where certain pages aren’t flushed from the cache). However my approach has been to try and hook into the fewest places possible and just do the ‘edit_post’ action on whatever topic / forum / page needs flushing.

My current work in progress, in case anyone else has more free time just now than I do, is here:

http://downloads.johnsadventures.com/bbpress-cache-support-01.php

Hopefully in the next week or two I’ll have some time to finish it myself if nobody else does in the meantime. Also, any thoughts on a better implementation – let me know!

[smell-bag]

Yep I’m looking for this too!

I’ve themed bbpress fine but can’t find any template for the forum list page (when you click forums in the breadcrumbs) – i want it to look the same as my forum index.

Or i want to change the breadcrumbs so that the word forums points to the forum index (which i should in my opinion anyway)

Please help anyone!

[wout_m]

I solved this problem by modifying de bbpress-login widget.My users can upload their fotos in the front-end by clicking on their avatar-photo, that is displayed in the sidebar.

The info is from here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-photo-front-end-upload

I am aware this it is not the most elegant way, but this is how I fixed it:

1) I installed the WP-prettyPhoto plugin (maybe this is not necesary, but I think I need it )

2) activate the bbpress-login widget by putting it in the sidebar (in the WP admin section)

3) I addded this script to my sidebar.php: (in my case in wp-content/themes/inove/)

<script type="text/javascript">

function user_avatar_refresh_image(img){

jQuery('#user-avatar-display-image').html(img);

}

</script>

<script type='text/javascript'>

var swrAjax = {

ajaxurl: "http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php"

};

</script>

4) add jquery to the head section:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js?ver=1.3.2"></script>

5) I added these lines to wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-core-widgets.php, just

after “<?php else : ?>” (line 132):

(this will show the avatar when the user is logged in)

<div id="user-avatar-display" >

<p id="user-avatar-display-image"><?php echo get_avatar( bbp_get_current_user_id(), '100' ); ?></p>

</div>

<?php

echo ‘Upload avatar
‘;

You have to configure the css for a nice layout.

[RideCBR.com]

I’ve tried every plugin in the wordpress database, and nothing seems to work.

Can anyone help and let me know how to add breadcrumbs at the top of every forum page for members using the forum to easily navigate?

http://ridecbr.com/forums/ is our forums page.

Above where it says Forum, I need breadcrumbs for navigation.

I’ve tried all the plugins so I really need step by step help here.

Thanks in advance.

[grahamgrocho]

381 topics, about 2400 posts.

Is it possible?

Installing standalone bbpress and converting from phpBB3 didn’t work for me. I tried and tried. However, converting from phpBB3 to plugin bbpress DID work. So now I’d like to try to transfer from bbpress plugin to bbpress standalone. Make sense?

[martin_style]

I think you have to login admin and set template

[lukebattez]

Hi

I want all my forums private.

So my parent forums are all private. However when I made a private subforum, it did not show up. But if I made it public it does (if logged in).

However, I Want to check that if I have a public sub-forum it will be private if its parent is private? (this is fine if so, I just want to check!)

I tried the URL of the subforum and I Could not reach it if I was logged out so I think it works, but want to be sure! bbpress = v2, wordpress = 3.3.1

[pagal]

Hi ericaski,

I can help you for getting this solution. I’ll use bbPress 1.0.3 (standalone)version. I’ll integrate same design, database, users & cookies for you. bbPress standalone solution have more features with bunch of available extra plugins to enhance forum taste comparing with current WordPress plugin. bbPress plugin is also good, but currently it seems bbPress full fledge cms can achieve your requirements list.

Interested? You can contact me via pagalsoch (at) gmail (dot) com for more help.

Thank YOU

[pagal]

Hi grahamgrocho,

How much active topics do you have on bbPress plugin’s version?

[sebastian-konrad-laski]

I ran this script, it works great! Before I ran phpbb3 3.0.3.

Thanks!

Johann Sebastian Konrad Laski UGA

[pparson]

Okay, I hate having forum monologues, but maybe someone will find this interesting.

I have just checked the memory usage of the same blog on my local machine using TPC Memory Usage plugin, with all other plugins disabled: 17M

When enabling bbPress, memory usage jumps up to 22M.

5M for a single plugin, that is far more than my the other plugins use altogether… phew.

Yes, you might argue that a plugin with much functionality needs more RAM. But nevertheless: any hints how this could possibly be reduced? Apart from looking for another, more light-weight forum plugin?

Thanks

[pparson]

Btw: There are not too many plugins installed, and I had just removed several plugins some days before I first tried bbPress, so it really seems to be bbPress needing quite some memory… I’d really love if other users encountered the same behavior, and how it could be solved.

Thanks again

[pparson]

Dear bbPress-Team and community,

I finally got hold of the server’s error log files, after grepping through gigabytes of error messages from other websites running on the server, I came accross those (which is exactly the time when I tried to call /wp-admin/ with bbPress plugin activated):

[Tue Apr 17 17:54:48 2012] [error] [client […]] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in […]/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-list-table.php on line 859

[Tue Apr 17 17:54:53 2012] [error] [client […]] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in […]/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/theme.php on line 255

Seems to be a memory issue. As I said before, the problem goes away as soon as I remove the bbPress directory from plugins, so it seems the issue is related to bbPress.

Do you have any idea how this problem could be solved? E.g. is there anything to configure or comment out in the code in order to decrease memory usage?

Best regards and thanks,

Peter

[grahamgrocho]

I prefer the look/feel/functionality of bbpress standalone. The wordpress plugin version seems odd to me, while the standalone bbpress functions more like a typical forum.

How can I best transfer my wordpress bbpress plugin forum data to a standalone version?

[NickMackz]

bbPress should work fine on just about any theme. If you want to customise it, you’ll need to create a child theme. Don’t ask me how to do that, there are plenty of instructions available online.

However for getting a child theme to work with bbpress 2.1, look here – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-21-theme-compatibility/page/2

[NickMackz]

I would create a child theme with all the bbpress theme files. You can then edit everything there and you won’t lose your work with updates. Probably worth waiting for 2.1 to do this though as there are a number of theme changes.

Check out https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-21-theme-compatibility/page/2 for some instructions on how to make bbpress 2.1 work with your child theme. About half way down.

[grahamgrocho]

Update: I tried something new.

I installed wordpress on a folder in my site. And then installed the bbpress plugin version.

Then I tried this bbpress conversion plugin.

Voila. It worked.

However, I hate the way this is set up and looks. Anyone can read the forums. You only need to login to reply. I like the standalone version much better and I feel like I had better control over the settings, too.

I wonder why the conversion plugin works, but converting for standalone doesn’t…

For the record, using the plugin version with wordpress retained both my wordpress and phpbb3 passwords/usernames. Converting using standalone erased both, it seems, rendering any login impossible.

I wonder if I can now convert from plugin version to standalone version…

[BRx Woden]

I have installed bbPress and it seems to be working just fine. I cant figure out how to theme it though. If you look here you can see that the forum in each section is listed along one line (or would be if it wasn’t for the lack of space.

How do I get these listed in a more traditional style? Colours and simple changes I can do just fine, but obviously this is bigger than that.

[baldg0at]

I’m having major issues with Akismet not catching SPAM.

From March 2011 – March 2012 Akismet missed a total of three SPAM posts.

This month alone Akismet has missed 117 SPAM posts and counting. This all started when I switched to bbPress 2.0.

Any ideas as to what could be happening?

[grahamgrocho]

yes, this appears to only work for bbpress plugin version. I’m using standalone…

[magonano]

I still don’t understand…

[SK]

I thought bbconverter was for the bbpress plugin, not for the standalone version…