You create your own pages where you can insert login, register, lost password shortcodes, widgets, custom templats, anything you want.
You can then use those pages you created as the uri in the widgets.
This allows everyone to have completely custom login/registration setups and the widget will work with any one of them.
@Rastarr
bbPress does not use comments in any fashion. Rather bbPress uses custom post-types for topics and replies with some rather special crazy code to relate them together.
That is actually where the real magic comes in. Because bbPress uses standard post-types and taxonomies it means integrating with many other plugins is much simpler. Now that still leaves it up to the plugin authors to add support for bbPress. I can say that JJ took every possible step to make integrating with these plugins as simple and standard as possible.
Creating a custom theme is not as easy as I would have hoped for, but after time you get the hang of it. The only reason I have not personally written a ‘how-to-theme’ guide is because I still have a few remaining questions myself. You have seen firsthand though, that even someone with my little knowledge of coding can create a 100% custom theme capable of doing anything I want it to.
The best way to help out, is to simply jump in and answer any questions you can. I do the same, if I know the answer, I answer, if I don’t I skip the question (probably makes people feel ignored, but better than to have me just say I don’t know)
For sidebars you need to look into using either widget logic plugins, or simply creating your own child theme and inserting a bbPress sidebar instead of the default one. Not to hard to do, but way more involved than I care to try and answer in a post.
There are a number of classes in the code for the posts such as sticky, super-sticky, etc, but there are currently no classes or functions for determining if the user has read a topic or not.
Believe it or not, that type of functionality is very intensive. Imagine a board with 50k members and millions of posts. Trying to keep track of exactly what posts each user has seen and has not seen really fills the db up very fast.
Now this is possible of course with plugin territory so it is possible as most forums do this. I can say though, I personally at least am glad it is not in the core as I do NOT want that kind of overhead for my rather large forums. Also considering I have friends whose forums are 10x my size, I can only imagine the nightmare.
Using the members plugin, I have been able to make it so that only certain people can see a private forum on my site. The problem is that private forum topics show up in the bbpress topic list widget even when I am logged out. is there a way to prevent private forums/topics/posts from showing up anywhere if you are not logged in as user who has access to these areas? Will private stuff show up in search results??
Can someone please let me know what I am supposed to put in for Register URI and also the Lost Password URI when I configure the bbPress Login Widget?
Thanks!
Tried various things but still can’t get it. Going to try Y!Pipes see if it’s possible to do it that way, if there’s a simpler way to do it with bbPress please let me know.
I confirm !bbp_is_forum() doesn’t work !
But !(is_post_type_archive( ‘forum’ ) || is_singular( array( ‘forum’, ‘topic’, ‘reply’ ) )) work !
I confirm !bbp_is_forum() doesn’t work !
But !(is_post_type_archive( ‘forum’ ) || is_singular( array( ‘forum’, ‘topic’, ‘reply’ ) )) work !
Could you please advise me how to use the Widget Logic Conditional Tags in order to only make some widgets appear/disappear on my forum? Do you filter it via Categories (and than which category name have Forums and Topics in BBPRESS?) Thank you very much Klimas
I have added .avatar-14 to style css now with display:none; This removes the small avatars but leaves the big ones.
If you turn them off in WordPress, everything is gone.
yes you can completely remove Avatars from your bbpress forum.
You can try :
open the file bbp-reply-template.php (/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/
and comment these lines:
if ( ‘avatar’ == $type || ‘both’ == $type )
$author_links = bbp_get_reply_author_avatar( $reply_id, $size );
try this and let me know if you want anything.
you can get more information from this page:
http://www.authorcode.com/forums/topic/remove-avatar-from-bbpress-2-0-forum/
bbpress is worpdress plugin. you should copy bbpress folder to wp-contentplugins folder.
if you have problem installing wordpress plugin then read detailed instructions here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins
It’s one of those critical mass things, if you ask me.
I chose bbPress over others but was most frustrated when I discovered it’s theming integration issues. Thankfully Anointed came to my rescue.
The other issue of annoyance is the way it treats comments as a post-type which, to me anyway, removes it from being integrated with other services like IntenseDebate and Akismet – and obviously Spam is a real issue for forum operators.
I’m getting up to speed anyway and hope to help out where I can however most people’s challenges seem to be around theming problems and functionality limitations, not to mention lack of help that is split across to different websites.
On a final note, thank you indeed for the work on bbPress and everyone’s efforts. I’m sure it’ll get there.
Fresh website.
Installed WordPress 3.3 into website’s root dir
Downloaded bbpress (2.0.2)
ftp’ed files into ftp . mysite . combbpress (wordpress root dir)
renamed ftp . mysite . combbpress to ftp:mysite.comforum
went to http:\www.mysite.comforum
and nothing but a blank page shows…
Any ideaa?
Weird! I don’t have that option.
I’m on bbPress 2.0.2 Do you mean the 2.1 beta?
SKParticipant
I respectfully disagree on the point that it would be harder to build a bbPress community at WP.
If anything, a more vibrant discussion at https://wordpress.org/tags/bbpress will encourage more WordPress users to use bbPress.
I don’t need to see thousands of unrelated posts to what I am actually interested in.
That’s baffling. I would have imagined that every bbPress user is interested in WordPress, considering bbPress is a plugin for WordPress.
Sure, in settings -> forums check the last option.
http://screensnapr.com/v/FinWe0.png
Does require WordPress 3.3 and latest bbPress for this option to show up.
Given the choice, I do my best to stay away from the wordpress.org forums.
When I am at a forum, I am there to learn from or help with a particular script or plugin. I don’t need to see thousands of unrelated posts to what I am actually interested in. That’s why for me at least, I prefer separate forums for each product.
As hard as it is to build a community here around bbPress, imagine having to do it when mixed in with tens of thousands of other products. arghhh
Every plugin hosted on WordPress.org automatically has a built in forum. You will find a lot of people that answer questions over there pretty much handle everything WordPress related. This forum here is more for us who are more dedicated to supporting bbPress directly. This is more of a community of users of a specific product, bbPress.
thnx for the response.
And indeed you are right; i found a theme that was close enough and worked from there.
It is gonna be a nice website that show affiliation with bbPress and WordPress but is also clearly different to prevent any confusion.
bbPress is capable of using translations. I would suggest creating a trac ticket with your custom translation so that JJ can include it in future releases.
If you are using WordPress 3.3 and the latest bbPress (I use the nightly download), then you can turn on the tinymce editor instead of the standard textfield input for creating topics and replies.
You would then need to grant permission to the different roles that you want to allow to insert images, either via links or the upload system.
There are user role plugins that can help with this which are actually built for WordPress, but work for bbPress just fine.
Keep in mind that it’s not usually good practice to allow regular users to upload whatever they want into your media system.
