[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?

[LabSecrets]

We’ve done a little tutorial video to show how you can setup either a BuddyPress Group Forum, a SiteWide bbPress 2.0 Forum, or a custom hybrid forum page using shortcodes. You can have all three at one time. Hope this helps

You can keep the previous forums, but the data from BuddyPress group forums does not migrate automatically into bbPress site wide forums.

http://labsecrets.com/2012/01/23/buddypress-and-bbpress-forums-made-easy/

Cheers!

Spence

http://labsecrets.com

[andychan]

I’m trying to migrate from Buddypress to sitewide bbpress too. Any ideas how to make this happen?

Basically I have already been using Buddypress with its built in groups+forums, but I find a sitewide bbpress forum is better. I would like to keep all the previous discussions in Buddypress forums. Any help is much appreciated…

[folgerj]

Ok just like I thought (yes I’m not smarter than a fifth grader and I should have checked this first) it’s a plugin [Simple Facebook Connect] that is causing my forum page to show the last topic post instead of the page with my short codes.

I know it’s not your problem but I thought you would want to know about it in case it comes up again.

I’m sending Otto a not that it is causing a problem with your plugin.. I’m going to activate it and see if I can find something else that will do the same thing but not conflict with yours..

Thanks for a really great plugin…

[folgerj]

Hi JJJ, I have an issue with my forum and I don’t see anything in the community (I may be searching for the wrong thing)

My forum is http://jeff-foliage.com/fall-foliage-forum/ and I think it did great last season.

Somebody asked me what shortcodes I used and when I went to the page in the dashboard it will only serve me the last created forum topic.

So if under pages I click the page for the forum to view the codes it returns this http://jeff-foliage.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=735&action=edit (I hope I can’t be hacked by giving this out…

This is a forum post topic that I created last year. If I trash this post it will return the next newest post topic for the forum.

Can you or someone tell me if there is a simple solution? Is this most likely a plugin problem? (I know most are and I suppose I could go through and deactivate them and see if at any point see the page)

Or is this a pure database problem, thoughts?

Oh I’m getting nice comments about how mine looks and I don’t know if my forum looks all that great since I’m in compatibility mode using Weaver theme. But folks seem confused and feel I’ve done great pimping on the CSS when it’s all the theme for colors and what it looks like.

Jeff “foliage” Folger

[Jared Atchison]

You are using 2.1, which is good.

What you need to do is tweak the CSS, I don’t recommend editing core, I would use this instead https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-custom-css-file/

bbpress.css, line 48 is what you need to change, ie

#bbpress-forums .status-closed, #bbpress-forums .status-closed a {

color: #CCC;

}

[Jared Atchison]

If you are using bbPress 2.x, bbPress stuff does not get put in the primary RSS feed by default. If it is then I would check and see if maybe a plugin is screwing something up.

[Jared Atchison]

If you are using bbPress 2.x it has widgets that are packed with it out-of-the-box that provide these functions.