[Jared Atchison]

Are you on bbPress 2.x or 1.x?

If you are on 2.x do not use the plugins on bbPress.org, instead use WordPress.org

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/bbpress

[Jared Atchison]

Put this in your theme’s style.css

.bbPress #content {

width: 67%;

}

[Laughing Cat]

no clues? is there any filter I can use to alter the default bbPress avatar size, just like in Buddypress? or replace the function calling the avatar in my template files to use avatars of a different size?

thank you

[Laughing Cat]

jaredatch,

since you say this might be a known bug could you please direct me to the issue in trac where this bug was originally traced? perhaps I can give some feedback there, being a rare one, and hopefully help somehow fixing it

thanks

[Laughing Cat]

I’m thinking… could this be due to the fact I did import all my forums from a previous 1.x standalone installation to a 2.x installation?

The import was fine, I got all my users, topics and replies back. As well as forums. However, there might have been something there, that doesn’t allow me now to set the forum order? Eventually could I force it by looking into the database?

any hint?

thanks

[Dave]

At the top of the forums here you have a “start new” link. The link destination seems to be:

http://mywebsite.com/forums/?new=1

But when I use the link, in my case, href=”http://theatremusicdirectors.org/forums/?new=1″ it doesn’t work.

I want to put a “Create New Discussion” button in my sidebar – how do I do this?

I’m using bbpress 2.

[Laughing Cat]

Done that too, anyway there’s nothing else being loaded on forums besides forums, as I said I haven’t touched yet the template files, just copypasted into my theme. Other than the forums themselves, in the forum pages, there are being loaded just wordpress menus. As I said it looks like they are ordered in the frontend based on their ID not on the page order. Which is the function listing all the forums in the template files? Can I try perhaps forcing the order or if I know which is the function responsible for that perhaps I can throw some PHP to reorder them manually – in this case may I know how it is stored the ordering variable?

thanks

[Jared Atchison]

You need to look at the CSS being applied to the #content. This looks more like a theme issue, not with bbPress.

I’d use Firebug or Chrome inspector to poke around. Specifically try changing the max-width to a set width.

[Jared Atchison]

As time passes everything is moving in the direction of bbPress 2.x, so this site will slowly progress to that as well.

[Jared Atchison]

Hmm weird. Next I would deactivate all plugins except bbPress to make sure one isnt screwing with the loop or query vars.

[Laughing Cat]

exactly the same, I don’ think it’s a theme issue, because I haven’t touched the bbPress template files yet, as it is now it’s stock bbPress loading inside my theme – the same happens if I load another theme such as TwentyEleven

[The800]

No. I am talking about this forum (bbpress.org). I think this forum is hard to navigate due to the mix of standalone and plugin topics. It should be sorted into seperate forums, so when i am browsing for topics regarding the standalone version, i dont have to browse through a bunch of topics regarding the plugin version.

[Jared Atchison]

Thanks for the report back

[Jared Atchison]

bbPress 2 is in it’s very first release (about to be second with 2.1).

There is only so much functionality that can go in per release.

[Jared Atchison]

Can’t say I really understand what you are asking for, but if you are looking for shortcodes

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

[Jared Atchison]

I’m not sure I understand? You want to run both versions at the same time?

[Jared Atchison]

Temporarily switch you theme to TwentyEleven and see if that fixes the problem. That will rule out your theme being the cause.

[Laughing Cat]

mmm it looks like forums are being ordered in the list by their ID and not page/number order

how to enforce set page/number order to list them appropriately in the forum front page?

thank you

[Laughing Cat]

I’ve set in buddypress a full avatar width/height size as 150px (full sized).

My bbpress 2.x forum installation, however, has set by default 80px forum avatar images

How can I set the avatar size for the forum threads to be the same as buddypress?

thank you

[Laughing Cat]

Hi

I’m running WP3.3.1 and bbP 2.1

my forums are are not being listed in the front page archive or forum summary pages in the correct order; I double checked many times the ordering number, but no matter what, the forums will display in their own order which is neither alphabetical, cronological (date created/updated) or other. I can’t just figure it out. I’ve tried also re-arranging forums with simple page ordering plugin, no success.

How can I list forums correctly?

thank you

[The800]

Hi. I would like to bring a suggestion to your (the admin’s) attention.

Wouldnt it be better to have one forum for bbpress (standalone) and one for the plugin? Its quite a mess having the topics mixed, makes the forum hard to navigate.

I like how the documentation page have everything sorted by version numbers, could be something to do with the forum too, maybe?

– 800

[webismuk]

Hi All,

Read the instructions and installed through wordpess.

The options I have seem very limited and read about a BBPress Dashboard but cannot locate it.

On WordPress I can see Forums/Topics/Replies and a few basic settins in Settings Forum.

But nothing that seems to give you any degress of control.

I have obviously missed something and from searches so have many people on the internet.

I would like to install a set theme for the BBPress – I have created my-templates and added theme static-red I found. But cannot locate how to activate.

I am sure it will be on the BBPress Dashboard (probably)

Any pointers to its location and how to access it would be great.

Or it maybe I have access to all the options and have just missed it.

Thanks in advance.

D

[nadimvdr]

I’m sure I’m missing something obvious but I can’t seem to find the CSS that relates to the following problem – all my forum pages, and topic discussions appear to be shorter than the width of the table.

I’m using a theme called Oxygen and the normal theme for bbpress.

Here are some screenshots to help explain more clearly (if I’m allowed to post links).

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/331861/Screen%20Shot%202012-04-02%20at%2012.57.20%20AM.png

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/331861/Screen%20Shot%202012-04-02%20at%2012.51.40%20AM.png

I realise it might be the theme and not bbpress but was hoping someone had an idea of whether this was handled in bbpress’ css.

[Bluealek]

I’m still dissapointed with some aspects of bbPress 2 basic functionality. First of all, you must make the new topics / topics with new replies a different color (at least) so users would know instantly where there are some unread messages. Introducing a system of icons for the topics would also be a good idea. It all exists in the standalone bbPress, and as long as ppPress 2 doesn’t have it, I’ll keep the ppPress 2 forum as experimental and use 1.1 as the official forum for my site users.

[andychan]

Thanks, Spence for the wonderful tutorial. I do know how to set up the sitewide bbPres forum alongside a Buddypress Group Forum. But I think having both can be confusing for the buddypress users of my site.

So I would like to move everything from the Buddypress Group Forum to sitewide bbPress. Is there a manual way to do this?