[John James Jacoby]

Thanks.

[LabSecrets]

Although I’m not clear as to what you may be doing, I can say that the easiest and most direct way to handle this is to modify the controlling css style sheet on your wordpress theme. In almost all cases, if you have not otherwise modified your config.php or other css references, this will allow you to override bbPress styles from your active wordpress theme (or child theme).

The bbPress theme files remain untouched… they are merely modified or styled by the wordpress style sheet. There are no markup changes in this example.

[Nicola]

Trying to set up BBpress

I used the shortcode to create my own forum page at mysite.com/forum

However, once I go into the forum pages and topics it reverts back to the slugs that are in the bbpress settings.

I’m not sure what to do from here as I want to have my own forum page using the shortcode.

I tried to make my own bbpress.php file by copying the contents of my theme page.php file but I don’t really know what I’m doing or what that does..I read it might fix my problem

Help please!

[mirthen]

Looking around at various BB options for my wordpress site. The main feature i will be needing is an “application” page. Where a user(with or without an account, prefer with) can fill in various fields and then when they submit this, it will get posted to a certain forum with all their answers, where the proper people can discuss the application and voice their opinion to approve to deny it. In essence a way for people to apply to the forums/site. like a job application posted to the forums, and managers can discuss the application.

Its important that it is a page that gets posted to the forums, and it needs to have custom fields.

It can either be a custom user sign up page, where it submits the new user request to the forums, or something separate after the user signs up an account.

anything like this exist for bbpress?

[dayshabass]

Hi,

I am having a hard time navigating the forums as a lot of content no longer applies to v2, specifically plugin installation instructions.

Most instructions indicate I should be uploading to the BBPress directory and activating/managing in a BBPress Admin area, but I don’t see these options.

http://doommusic.net/forums

WP Version 3.3.1

BBPress Version 2.02

Can I still use the BB-specific plugins, but just upload directly to my wp-content/plug-ins directory for activation?

My current goal is to install some sort of one-click registration solution like Simple Facebook Connect and restrict participant access to the WP back-end. (Any recommendations would be appreciated)

Forum participants can just click, comment, and go.

Thanks for the help.

Daysha

[martinclarke1]

It won’t have it im afraid. Does the WordPress theme always take prescedent over the bbpress theme? If so am I wasting my time modifing the bbpress css? What is the optimal way to have this structured?

Thanks again for your help.

[pau-bbp]

Hello.

I set up permalinks in WordPress like this:

%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%post_id%

but new topic in bbpress sounds like:

forum-topic/2012/02/New-theme-name

What am I doing wrong?

Thanx in advance.

[pau-bbp]

Hello.

I like the design and layout of bbpress.org very much – main page, fonts, forms, etc.

Does anyone know what the theme it is using?

Thanx in advance.

[LabSecrets]

Hi Martin!

Keep in mind that any CSS you run on your main theme, or child theme, will also apply to the core bbPress files as well, so long as you have structured your site properly. As such, you can apply the suggested body class of “.bbPress” and you will be able to modify the content area and sidebar to make a page full-width as we show.

1) I use Smultron or Komodo Edit, but also like Sublime Text;

2) The message you see is, I believe, removed in the latest update to bbPress. Otherwise, just ignore it… (it can be suppressed by adding a line in your wp-config.php file… but why bother as I think it was mentioned here that they are updating this out?)

Hope this helps!

Spence

http://labsecrets.com

[lmoon]

Hello,

I am using bbpress 2.0.2 on the latest version of wordpress.

I have added in bbpm by uploading it to my wordpress plugin file through ftp. I can see it in my installed plugins under the wordpress dashboard, but when i try to activate it I get the following error:

“Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_load_plugin_textdomain() in /home/lifeafte/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpm/bbpm.php on line 20”

I looked through the forum and found some suggestions of adding bbpm into a “my-plugins” folder under the bbpress folder, but I have done this, after creating the folder, but cannot see that one anywhere in my wordpress dashboard.

I would really appreciate some help.

Thank you.

[lmoon]

Hello,

I am using bbpress 2.0.2 plugin on the latest version of wordpress.

Is it possible to add in custom fields, to add in postcodes for example, into the registration process for users of the forum?

I have looked through previous threads and feel they are all too old to answer this question for the new bbpress plugin.

Many thanks for your time and help with this.

[wptanz]

How can I add one or more extra fields to the registration form in bbpress 2.0.2?

I want to add a textarea where prospective users can write their reason for joining the forum.

[wptanz]

I would like to know whether it is possible to do the following with bbPress:

Have a forum with two administrators who receive a weekly digest of all the the new activity for that work.

Normal users that would also be able to receive a weekly digest of all the new topics, without the need to subscribe to them.

During the subscribe process, the ability to add more fields, some optional and others mandatory, that would only be visible to the administrators of the forum.

Have the forum locked only to registered members, but have some topics that are available also to no registered users of the site.

[jabbamonkey]

I’ve given up on using BBPress, and installed phpBB instead. Was having too much trouble customizing it for my needs. phpBB has alot more functionality that I needed and was easier to administer.

No more need to reply to this post. Consider it closed.

[ianhaycox]

I don’t know the solution and I have not tried but to get you going try this:

Using FTP or your hosts control panel file manager edit the file,

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/functions.php

and change the first line from:

if ( !class_exists( ‘BBP_Twenty_Ten’ ) ) :

to

if ( false && !class_exists( ‘BBP_Twenty_Ten’ ) ) :

That should stop the fatal error and you can log in. From there you could at least deactivate bbpress or change themes etc.

Don’t forget to remove the ‘false &&’ section later.

Ian.

[honski]

I still didn’t manage to get bbPress translated from English. Is it enough to set the WPLANG in wp-config.php or do I need to change some other settings?

[mubarakahmad]

i am new at bbpress just installed its plugin in my worpdress website .i have been trying to assign users with unique ids like this website http://www.econjobrumors.com/ ..there every user is giver a temporary id under their names but i cant figure out how to get the same result on my website .kindly please advice ..

thankyou

[martinclarke1]

Hi Spence,

Thanks very much for your post. The video really helped. I still have one question though which is about the part where you modify the forums to default to full width.

1. What CSS editor are you using?

2. I installed a CSS editor plugin and when I insert the code you used I am getting the message

“Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.”

How can I fix this so it does what I want?

[tourdecartes]

This bug only affects the forum on my site nothing else, so im positive that it comes from bbpress.

On a couple of my forums, only some of my topics/posts are showing and users cannot create new topics. It’s like the page doesn’t load completely cause i cannot see the sidebar of my site either…

other topics/posts are showing perfectly (no sidebar pb either). Users can post and everything.

However, everything is available through the admin panel.

I tried to twitch things earlier but it got things worst: for an hour 3 of my forums stopped showing on the “/forums” page. (and now its back for some reasons…)

Would anyone knows why this issue happens? and why the forums/topics/posts reappears sometimes after disappearing (and sometimes not)…

It’s a bit difficult to explain so here is the exemple:

Ex: http://www.tourdecartes.com/forums/topic/recherche-dun-mouvement : this post doesnt show anymore – only the header and the title shows.

http://www.tourdecartes.com/forums/topic/probleme-pour-labonnement : this one works perfectly.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Manu

[Hard Seat Sleeper]

I assumed that the new plugin version of bbpress would share tags and rss with the host wordpress install. Turns out it’s not the case as far as I can see — bbpress has it’s own list of topic tags separate from the main wp install, and posts do not go to the wp rss, but rather /forum/rss.

Is there any plan to integrate these someday?

[VancouverDan9]

Hello everyone

new to all this so appologies if this is very simple and obvious to fix

Basically I installed the bbpress plugin yesterday and got it working, then this morning I ran the auto set up functions after having already made some pages so I linked them via the options.

Due to the auto page maker it made extra pages that i wanted to delet and thus did so on the page editor. however the pages I linked didnt show front end but did back end???

also pages I deleted still showed front end??? when clicking on them the browser just went blank.

so now reaching this impass i decided to uninstall that is when i got this message

Fatal error: Class ‘BBP_Theme_Compat’ not found in /hermes/waloraweb043/b1820/pow.pressstartvgca2/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/functions.php on line 32

and now when ever you go to the site this is what you see

http://www.pressstartbc.com

I dont know how to get around this as I cant log in etc

do i have to go back to my server and just take worpress off and reinstal the whole thing?

All help much appreciated

thank you in advance

[residentmeevil]

Hey everyone,

I’m currently building a wordpress theme and want to integrate BBPress within it. However, I’m having a lot of trouble just getting my head around some basic principles!

1) Once installed, how do I edit the Buddypress template files? How can I adapt my current, custom theme so that I can alter these template files?

2) How does a user register?

3) How can I create a log in system for my users? Is this even possible?

Thankyou for your help! I’m really struggling here!

[solsikkehaven]

load_text_domain is used in bbPress instead of load_plugin_textdomain – codestyling localization plugin reports….some filter and actions won’t be executed anymore…. “please contact the author”

Done.

[thetalltree]

Ok was able to display the messeger IDs as well:

<?php echo bbp_get_displayed_user_field( ‘yim’ ); ?>

<?php echo bbp_get_displayed_user_field( ‘jabber’ ); ?>

Now I jst want to figure out how to add a custom field like facebook ID? Any help appreciated.

[LabSecrets]

They are essentially the same, as the bbPress plugin is installed via buddypress upon demand.

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

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

Cheers!

Spence

http://labsecrets.com