[Tgg1990]

Is it easy to add additional fields to the existing bbPress forum? Add more than expample Tags, message, subject? Add example 5 fields extra?

[Tgg1990]

Ok,thanks for all the help

[Jared Atchison]

No there is no easy way to duplicate the plugin nor is that recommended at all – it would be nothing short of a nightmare to maintain.

Again, what you want to do is do-able. However you will have to get your hands dirty and do some research or hire a developer who can make the customizations for you.

[Tgg1990]

Is it an easy way to duplicate the bbPress plugin so I can have to of them installed at the same time?

[Jared Atchison]

If you want to customize some fields on one but not the other that’s going to require you to write a custom plugin and/or a custom theme. It’s certainly do-able but isn’t going to be done without some research and elbow grease.

You would want to show the fields and then add a conditional that shows/hides based on what page/forum you are viewing.

[Tgg1990]

Don’t understand that completely. Is it possible to make a new comment field and field when you post a topic with shortcodes?

[Jared Atchison]

I have not personally tried that, so I’m not 100% sure. However I think you best bet is going to be using shortcodes to try and do this.

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

[Tgg1990]

Hi

I wonder if it is possible to innstall the bbPress plugins twice on a page? Two different mainforums? I need it because I want some extra fields to one of the forums. Instead of keyword I will have Sport.

Is it a way that I can install bbPress twice on my webpage?

[Jared Atchison]

This is totally possible, bit you need to piggy back off a better foundation.

For example, bbPress 2.1 + Genesis Framework + bbPress Genesis Extend plugin allows exactly this.

It provides ton’s of layout options for bbPress – you can inherit the site-wide Genesis layout, set your own site-wide layout just for bbPress, or set layouts on a per forum basis – like I said, tons of options.

Bottom line is using the Genesis Framework (or anything similar) it’s really simply to provide this functionality as the foundation is already there.

Trying to tackle this – and have it work for all themes and use cases – within bbPress seems like a logistic nightmare.

Having dealt directly with tons of frameworks, I can say this with pretty good confidence

[Jared Atchison]

As OC2PS said, it’s definitely you there.

Unfortunately many themes out there filter the_content and do other weird (and not so correct) things that bbPress doesn’t/can’t take into account.

My recommendation would be to contact the theme author and alert him of the issues you are having.

[Jared Atchison]

Yep, that’s a some-what common issue.

In 2.1 table layouts have been ditched for the much preferred clean xhtml (lists, and what not) however some theme’s choke on it.

There are some wrappers in place (such as #bbpress-forums) you should be able to use to reset the styles that are needed,

[Dan Griffiths]

Kinda what I figured… but I don’t know enough about how bbPress works to even begin troubleshooting what would be weird on the theme level.

[SK]

Try changing theme to TwentyEleven and see if bbPress still doesn’t work.

[raphaelsuzuki]

Try this in your CSS file:

.forum .entry-content{

width:100%;

}

[raphaelsuzuki]

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.

[dangerZ]

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?

[Jared Atchison]

Ah ok, sorry, I’m only familiar with the plugin version of bbPress (2+).

[Jared Atchison]

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?

[Playstation Vita]

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

[Jared Atchison]

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.

[Jared Atchison]

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…

[Jared Atchison]

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.

[raphaelsuzuki]

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.

[John James Jacoby]

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.

[John James Jacoby]

This is strictly theme controlled. Nothing bbPress can really do about overriding this for now.