[Jared Atchison]

If you want to hide the menu item completely from non-logged in members there is no easy way to do that using the WordPress menu system except using CSS.

[Jimfire]

OK, I can access my forum page from the menus now, but even though my forums are set to PRIVATE, the menu lets any web user access to the forum area. How do I set up the menu item to PRIVATE?

[Jimfire]

Fantastic! Thank you. Now all I need to do is get the font size reduced in the Forum area and I’m set.

Is there an easy place to do that?

This is what it looks like right now. Now very pretty.:

http://www.scc4911.org/forums/forum/forums/union-business/

[Jared Atchison]

Add it in your menu. Appearance > Menus.

[Jimfire]

OK, here’s progress. I changed the permalinks from DEFAULT to POST NAME, and using the /forums/ url brought up my forum.

So, how do I get the WP menu to have Forums in it so my users know that it is there?

[Jimfire]

I followed your instructions. Permalinks are set to Default. When I go to the /forums/ url, I get a 404 error page.

[Jared Atchison]

First reset you permalinks by going to Settings > Permalinks. (after you activated bbP of course)

Once that is done try going to yoursite.com/forums/ (this is created for you, no page is needed)

[Jimfire]

Anyone out there?

I have deleted all my forums. Deactivated bbPress. Re-activated bbPress. Created a new formum. It is an Open, Public, Forum.

When I go to the home page, there is no item in the menu to take me to the forum.

What am I missing?

Anyone?

[John James Jacoby]

Adding…

add_filter( 'bbp_show_lead_topic', '__return_true' );

…to a custom plugin or your themes’ functions.php will separate the lead topic out from its replies.

As far as styling goes, opening up Firebug/Inspector and using the classes in the templates should be enough to get you by. Some extra classes were added in the development version of bbPress, which will hopefully be out in a few weeks.

[Jared Atchison]

Yes there is, I wrote a quick plugin for it.

Take the code from https://gist.github.com/1902067 and put it in a bbpress-css.php file inside your wp-content/plugins/ directory.

Then go to your plugins page and activate the plugin.

It will use bbpress.css from your theme directory, so my suggestion would be to make a copy of bbPress’s CSS file and move it there as a starting point, then you can edit as needed.

[jamescarson1]

Thanks Jaredatch and carminka,

You are addressing a similar thread which I just posted on. I’m cross-posting this

carminka because it could be useful for you:

Incorporating bbPress theme files, into a pre-existing theme.

jaredatch I haven’t had luck with overriding it in my theme’s css unless I use !important.

To ask the same question that I asked there, is there a way to get bbpress to use a bbpress.css in the theme folder instead of the plugin folder?

Really love bbpress… thanks

[Jared Atchison]

My last suggestion would be to deactivate all other plugins *except* bbPress. Then go and switch your theme to either TwentyTen or TwentyEleven.

This will at least eliminiate plugin/theme conflicts.

[Jared Atchison]

Just to make sure I would delete the bbPress plugin (you won’t lose any of the data that is there) directory and then reinstall it.

[dosch]

Sure, I used zBench

See how I modified it here: http://all4xs.net

[MikeonTV]

I have cleared all the errors by disabling all plugins but BBPress. Nothing changed.

In my theme functions.php folder (called Boooster) I added the line

add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

and now my bbpress posts appear but as regular blog posts and with no styles or bbpress layout. I’m getting closer … I think. Any more insight?

http://f6.com.au/forum/

[smiga]

Dosch, could you please share theme name? Im currently using WP Mimic, but it does not work with bbpress 2.x, so Im still running on 1.x version.

I did not sucseeded searching alternative.

[Jimfire]

I have a brand new wordpress site. I have successfully (?) installed bbPress, and created my forums just like in the instructions. When I go to my site, the bbPress forums do not show up. I do not have any pages named “forum”, although I tried making one to see if that would help and it didn’t, so I deleted it.

I can see it on the dashboard. I can configure it. I just cant see it from the website.

Any suggestions?

[helloFlo]

Hi everybody

I tried to separate title of subforums and these counters.

Unfortunatly bbp_list_forums() doesn’t take an arg like “show_title” to give the possibility to set in false.

So i fork the bbpress plugin to add this arg (i know it’s wrong).

Anyone know a troubleshooting smarter ?

[genevishgraphics]

Got it working!!

.bbPress #header {

background-image: url(images/mspace-header.png)!important;

background-repeat: no-repeat;

}

THANK YOU – YOU’RE a SUPERSTAR!!

[Jared Atchison]

It might be easier to use some of the bbPress body classes in addition to what you are using now.

For example you might be using a custom body class called ‘my-header-image’.

So if you wanted to use that on your bbpress portion of the site you would just add the bbpress body class to your css, such as

.my-header-image,

.bbPress {

background: url(myimage.jpg);

}

There are other body classes available from bbPress, but you get the picture

[genevishgraphics]

Unfortunately nothing changed, its probably “operator error” since I am pretty new to genesis and bbpress. Maybe I didnt explain myself properly either.

Some of my site’s pages use a custom body class where I specify an alternate header. It seems like all the pages I set up in the bbpress forum and topic areas are missing the Genesis Layout Settings Metaboxes where I can specify the custom body class….

I dont know if I am making this more difficult than it is?? It seems all the deeper bbpress pages (except for the page showing the actual forum) are reverting to the default header and I would like to customize it to show the alternate one.

Thoughts??

[Jared Atchison]

This is a total guess and not tested, but you should be able to put something like this in your theme’s functions.php file

add_action( 'bbp_init', 'do_custom_body_classes' );

function do_custom_body_classes() {

add_filter( 'body_class', 'genesis_custom_body_class', 15 );

}

[John James Jacoby]

@johnny-rocket – The public/private/hidden forum bug might be the crux of the issue others were running into. I’ll be putting out a point release of bbPress today to address it.

[John James Jacoby]

You’ll want to clean up all those errors before most things will work normally. Doesn’t look like the issue is with bbPress anywhere (yet), according to your dump above.

[genevishgraphics]

For my website, running on Genesis framework using Minimum theme, I am using two diff custom body classes to define the header images of certain pages. The interior forum pages are only showing the default home page site header and I do not see where I can add my custom body class to those pages. Does anyone have a suggestion for how/where I can define/change the header images of the forum pages?? I would really appreciate it!

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