SKParticipant
Try changing theme to TwentyEleven and see if bbPress still doesn’t work.
Try this in your CSS file:
.forum .entry-content{
width:100%;
}
Ok.
In the forum page you created, try adding this shortcode: [bbp-forum-index]
It’s not the natural thing to do, but will force WordPress to display bbPress.
My Blog content looks good at a narrower width,
but forum content generally looks better at wider widths.
I would like to style bbpress forums wide, while keeping my other content narrow width
The problem is that with the current div hierarchy i don’t see how to do this.
the div hierarchy of BBpress forums right now is this:
<Div id =”Content”>
<div class =”entry”>
BBPress forum stuff
Since div class Entry is shared between blog stuff and bbpress, there’s no way i can see for me to keep the blog entries narrow while making forums wide.
Any way around this?
Ah ok, sorry, I’m only familiar with the plugin version of bbPress (2+).
What version of bbPress are you running?
I doubt it’s 2+ because what your saying doesn’t make any sense – is it 1.x?
Dear Jaredatch,
Please read my first post, i would like to fetch RSS feeds to display in the sidebar of my BBPress forum and not the WordPress sidebar.
I’m using version 1.0.3
The easiest fix is to use the user widget bbPress provides in the sidebar, and when you are not logged in it will provide links to either Login or Register.
I’m not sure I understand. You said you wanted to:
“display the latest posts from different external blogs in my BBPress sidebar?”
1 – Go to Appearance > Widgets
2 – Drag RSS widget to the sidebar you are using with the forums
3 – Enter RSS URL
That should be all there is to it…
It is certainly possible but would require a custom theme built from scratch – there really wouldn’t be an “easy” way to go about it.
Also, if you create a child theme, copy ‘page.php’ from Twenty Eleven and rename it ‘bbpress.php’ you’ll have more control over your forums theme.
You can, for instance, register some sidebar exclusively to bbPress and adding it to your template file.
I understand that maybe you could misinterpret a lack of moderators to the entire project being dead, but topics like this only end up making the active contributors feel bad. There’s only so much time available to volunteer in the day. If you want to help us out, tag any spam topics as ‘modlook’ and Jared and I will go through them when we see them.
This is strictly theme controlled. Nothing bbPress can really do about overriding this for now.
I have added a custom field to user profiles in bbPress however I am unsure how to do form validation other than javascript. I would like to do some PHP validation however the few things I have tried didn’t work.
If you fail to enter an email it will say “ERROR: Please enter an e-mail address.” after you have submitted the form. I want something like that.
I have tried:
$myErrors = new WP_Error();
$myErrors->add(‘id_error’, __(‘Test error.’,””));
bbp_add_error( ‘bbp_steamid_invalid’, __( ‘ERROR: The ID you entered is invalid.’, ‘bbpress’ ) );
I am not at all familiar with error handling in both WordPress and bbPress however I feel it is a must.
Any help would be must appreciated.
I just activated the bbpress plugin for my wordpress blog (i’m using latest version of wp and the twenty-ten theme).
I created a “test” forum with two topics.
I then created a new Page and titled it Forum.
I tried to get my test forum with two topics to show up on the new Page, but can’t get it to work.
I can see the Forum with two topics that I created when I click on View Forum button.
So, I guess my question is: How do I get a navlink titled Forum in my navbar and/or sidebar on my WordPress site?
What am I missing? I’ve searched all over with Google on this problem and can’t find the solution to my problem.
Here’s a little more info:
When I click on View Forum, and it looks great with the site’s theme here, the url is:
http://www.mydomain.com/forums/forum/test-forum/
When I click on the Page that I created called Forum, the url is:
http://www.mydomain.com/forums/
Thanks in advance for any help!
SKParticipant
In WordPress, there is an opportunity to select the template for each page (dropdown on Edit Page and Edit Post pages).
bbPress forum root, forums, topics and replies are custom post types.
It would be good to see in bbPress the ability to set the default layout (wrapper) for each of these.
Dropdown (like the one on Edit Page page), wherein the admin can select the layouts from among the active theme’s layouts shall be ideal.
(I understand that if after this the admin decides to change the theme, (s)he will need to select the default layouts for bbPress custom posts again – just like (s)he needs to do so for normal pages and posts)
So, for instance, while the rest of my site may use 3-column (2-sidebar) layout, for forums, I may decide to go with a single-column layout.
http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1784
Hmm, actually I think this works for my case
<?php echo do_shortcode(‘[bbp-topic-index]‘); ?>
Still if someone have another code let me know. Thanks 
Thanks a lot, Jon. Very nice that you post the whole code.
My problem is – as I can’t use WP page, as I need to display this on custom homepage (index.php), not on the separate WP page.
so I try to use
<?php echo do_shortcode(‘[bbp-topic-index]‘); ?>
As it is outside loop, but it doesn’t work. Not sure what I am doing wrong.
Not sure what I doing wrong.
I didn’t change the whole forum to look like bbprress.org, but instead wanted the first page users see to look like .org. That is, with a forum list on the left, tag cloud below that and on the right a list of recent topic updates. I achieved that with the following page code:
<div style="display: inline; float: left; position: relative; width: 400px;">
<div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; outline: 0; font-size: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">
<h2>Forums</h2>
[bbp-forum-index]
</div>
<div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; outline: 0; font-size: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">
<h2>Hot Tags</h2>
[bbp-topic-tags]
</div>
</div>
<div style="display: inline; float: left; position: relative; width: 400px; margin-left: 25px;">
<h2>Topics<span><a title="New Forum Topic" href="http://your-url-here/?page_id=232" style="font-weight: normal;"> — Start New</a></span></h2>[bbp-topic-index]</div>
I also made some CSS changes to change formatting and remove some text.
Jon
hey Jon & Jim & JJJ & Jaredatch
did u manage to get something like https://bbpress.org/forums/ ?
what was shortcode or php code I can use to create it? My problem is that I can use it in the new page, but on custom homepage of my site – so I need php code (or wrapup php code with shortcode) that will display something like https://bbpress.org/forums/
your help is greatly appreciated!
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otherwise bbPress looks great and i’m looking forward to learn more about it and build some big website. previously i build websites with 750,000 visitors in drupal. but now trying to figure out myself how to use wordpress
For some reason it won’s show more than 5 forums on bbpress… any thoughts on how to fix this?
I forget to mentioned I am using bbPress 2 and WP 3, all updated and running fine.
I would appreciate help on this topic please
How to get nice looking page with latest threads, topics and reply on the custom homepage. Not on the WP page.
Where can I find php code that could pull this from bbPrss 2?
Thank a LOT!
No, I’m not associating it with a page. If I disable bbPress, the url becomes invalid.
That and maybe raise a good thread in how best to combat Spam in a bbPress forum.
To see this happen so much at bbPress.org certainly suggests to people that the forum software is wide open to spam attack, if you ask me.
