[sxalexander]

So, Intense Debate has a plugin that works/syncs with WordPress comments. Would something like this ever work with bbPress?

http://intensedebate.com/wordpress

A key feature of it is “reply-to-thread by email” which would be killer for bbPress

[Anointed]

Because the skeleton plugin adds the capability of adding theme templates which do not require added markup such as the header/footer/etc.

The way it is now, bbPress has a bunch of twentyten specific templates which handle all the output for bbPress. Each of these templates carries the overall ‘layout’ for twentyten instead of just what is output by bbPress.

If my understanding is correct, I would create a single bbpress.php file that holds just the twentyten layout. ‘The_content’ would then be auto replaced according to what page you are on.

This would mean that in order to get a custom setup in any theme, I would only have to modify one template file, ‘the twentyten base layout’ instead of modifying every file.

Basically I am trying to find a way of making it easier for me to build and market bbPress templates that work in any theme.

An example would be people that don’t want a sidebar. You would simple change the bbpress.php file to remove the sidebar, change the css attribute for the content area to be fullwidth and your done. You don’t have to modify the other bbPress templates.

*Yeah, I know, there are shortcodes, custom page templates etc already avail, but trying to find an even better approach.

[djoep]

Just curious… since bbpress 2.0 uses wordpress custom posts rather than it’s own dB tables, what would you be expecting of such a skeleton plugin? As far as I have seen, normal WP plugins appear to apply to bbpress 2.0, though one could take advantage of the new post types like forum, topic, etc.

joe

[Anointed]

OK, I am way behind the times as I just found out about the bp skeleton framework with the plugin.php concept.

My understanding of how it works is still quite basic but if I get it right, a setup like this means I can finally get rid of the extraneous divs like header/footer/sidebar etc from all the templates thus making themes work much easier in all themes.

Is there a skeleton plugin.php for bbPress available?

If so, could someone provide a basic example of how to get it working?

[tikijj]

Hello. I installed the plugin version of bbpress about a month ago, then I uninstalled it opting for another forum software. However, I changed my mind and I installed the bbpress plugin again, but the forum page is not appearing. The plugin installed fine and I also see the forum menu in the WP menu, but when I go to the forum it says ‘Not Found Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.’

Can anyone help me get this thing up and running? Thanks for your help.

[Anointed]

How do I properly add the word ‘Pages:’ before the pagination loops?

Normally I apply a ‘before’ argument to functions like this, but it’s not working. My best guess is that ‘before’ or ‘after’ are not valid arguments for the bbpress pagination. I just need a simple way of making sure that the before text is only going to show up if there is indeed pagination links to display.

[Anointed]

I am using custom theme templates from bbPress within my own theme. So no shortcodes or creating pages etc.

What I am trying to do is to show the list of most recent topics below the forum list on the forum homepage.

I am using the following code:

<div id="forum-front" class="bbp-forum-front">

<div class="entry-content">



<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-forum' ); ?>

<br><br>

<h3><?php _e( 'Recent Topics: ', 'bbpress' ); ?></h3><br />

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-topic' ); ?>



</div>

</div><!-- #forum-front -->

This seems to work, however, the pagination for the topics is wrong. Currently it tries to go to /forums/forum/last-forum-title/page/2/

It should go /topics/page/2/

Using the default bbPress templates within my own theme, what would I add to the archive-forum.php file in order to show recent topics with pagination that works right?

*I saw that devpress managed to pull it off, so asked over there as well.

[Richard Vencu]

Here is my translation for bbPress 2.0 module in Romanian language. I made it in the traditional Poedit.

I tried to find a solution to import it into GlotPress but it seems it is impossible with my contributor account type and to copy/paste 733 strings is not a nice job to do.

If there is any validator for Romanian language you can use these files to update the official translation.

Link bbPress 2.0 module translation into Romanian

[jabre]

Is there a way to protect, hide or remove the RSS-Feeds of topics and replies?

I’m using bbpress 2.0 and Buddypress for a protected community. Thanks to “private buddypress” everything is protected, even the feeds require a login. Only the BBPress 2.0 Feeds aren’t protected.

I’m using the solution in this thread:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/combining-bbpress-rss-feed-with-wordpress-rss-feed-possible

to combine the feeds into one, which is successfully protectet by the private-buddypress-plugin.

Using this code

remove_filter( 'request', 'bbp_request_feed_trap' );

I can force the forumfeeds to be protected but if I enter username and password I get a weird feed.

Is there a more “elegant” solution to this problem? It would be great if I can protect the original forum-feeds but removing them completly would do the trick too.

[ebharding]

This was my solution

I edited line 178 in my /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-common-functions.php

function bbp_get_time_since( $time ) {

return apply_filters( ‘bbp_get_time_since’, human_time_diff( $time – 25200, current_time( ‘timestamp’ ) ), $time );

}

In my case (Pacific Time) I needed to subtract 7 hours which translated to 25200 seconds.

[David]

I had a different but potentially related issue in which I noticed that if I deleted and recreated a forum and only added topics from the public-facing forum page the issue went away.

I don’t know that this would help you but since you’ve already gone so far in your trouble-shooting as you have I’d be interested in seeing if your problem was resolved by having forums without any admin-added topics. If it helps then I think that would point to a bug in the admin-added topics.

By the way I’m assuming you’re using bbPress 2.0 (the plugin).

[John James Jacoby]

This should now be resolved.

[paulmarshall]

Hi

I’ve recently installed bbPress plugin to my WordPress blog and am having a few problems. Wondered if somebody could help me please.

The forum index is fine – added using shortcode to a page on the website:

http://bristolornithologicalclub.co.uk/?page_id=926

But viewing the forum and it seems to use a page template with a sidebar. I would like it full width.

http://bristolornithologicalclub.co.uk/?forum=2011-sightings

As my php skills are non existent I asked the theme developer for help and he came back with the following:

“Yesterday I installed the plugin and checked things. The plugin has many template files and it is difficult to figure out which template is ‘exactly’ used for the forum page. May be they are custom post types/taxonomies.

Further, we will need to implement the full width for topics, forum, author and other such pages. If you could ask the plugin authors about any specific hook, I can help you out further. You just need to ask them how to detect whether the current page is from bbPress plugin. (Any post type or page type hook).”

Any help gratefully appreciated.

Best wishes

Paul

[ryanmurray]

I can’t find any options to change the theme from the default. Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Ryan

[ryanmurray]

I’m using the bbPress WordPress plugin version 2.0. Does that mean I treat bbPress plugins like any other WordPress plugin?

Thanks for you reply.

[woodwardmatt]

Ahh ok, do you remember any specifics (e.g. files used / changed) – I’ve only really analysed at a high-level so far.

@JJJ – Has this issue had any air time as yet?

[Anointed]

I’m looking for something like is_bbpress(), but one that only fires if on the forum homepage. Is there such a conditional?

i.e.

if is_bbpress_forum_home() …. will allow me to add/subtract functionality from the forum homepage no matter where it is located.

Trying to do something like:

<?php if ( $page = bbp_get_page_by_path( $bbp->root_slug ) ) : ?>



<?php _e( 'Forums', 'bbpress' ); ?>



<?php else : ?>



<?php bbp_forum_title(); ?>



<?php endif; ?>

[ebharding]

I fixed the problem by adding the diff back in. Interesting that it only happens to some sites.

[alieninformer]

I figured since I was asking for help on something here:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/function-calls

I would at least give a little something that I believe some people may find useful. I may not explain this well so please feel free to ask questions and I’ll do my best to help you.

I needed to create a whole new sidebar for my forum page and after some research and using the old noggin I came up with the following. Please note that this should be a good common usage for most themes but your situation may be unique. Adjust as needed.

First, open your functions.php file and copy the following in there:

// Forum Sidebar Widget Area. Empty by default.

register_sidebar( array(

'name' => __( 'Forum Widget Area', 'twentyten' ),

'id' => 'forum-widget-area',

'description' => __( 'The Forum Widget Area', 'twentyten' ),

'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget-container %2$s">',

'after_widget' => '',

'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',

'after_title' => '</h3>',

) );

Again, each case may be different but generally this will work. What this will do is create a new Widgetized sidebar area (located under Appearances >> Widgets)

Alternatively, You can copy your existing widget code in functions.php for widgets but be sure to rename the areas, especially id, as I have above (forum-widget-area was originally sidebar-widget-area).

Take note, as well of the class= and id= I have. Those are useful for my blog but you may be using different tags for yours. Adjust as needed.

---

Then Create a new file and name it anything you want, for our testing purposes we’re going to use forum-sidebar.php

Copy and paste your code from sidebar.php into your new forum-sidebar.php file.

My original looks like this:

// A Sidebar for widgets

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'sidebar-widget-area' ) ) : ?>



<div id="sidebar" class="widget-area" role="complementary">

<ul class="xoxo">

<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-widget-area' ); ?>



</div>

As you can see, I have two spaces calling the sidebar-widget-area that was previously declared in functions.php. Yours should be very similar to this or at least easy enough to figure out.

What you need to do is rename the two fields within the () areas to what you declared when setting up your code in functions.php, mine is

// A Sidebar for widgets

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'forum-widget-area' ) ) : ?>



<div id="sidebar" class="widget-area" role="complementary">

<ul class="xoxo">

<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'forum-widget-area' ); ?>



</div>

Notice how I changed sidebar-widget-area to forum-widget-area ?

We do this so that when your forum page is called, it shows the widgets you’ll setup later.

---

Now, Open your Page Template and find:

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

Or something similar. generally this is at the bottom of the code.

Replace that with:

<?php

$uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

if ( strpos($uri,'YOUR-FORUM-BASE') !== false ) {



include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/forum-sidebar.php');



} else {



get_sidebar();



}

?>

“forum-sidebar.php” is the file you created earlier and YOUR-FORUM-BASE is the “Forums base” you have defined for your forums settings (in Settings >> Forums). Also please note the / before the file name. With this code you’ll need it.

What this does is calls your primary URL http://yoursite.com and then attempts to detect if it’s on THIS URL or ANOTHER.

So if yoursite.com/YOUR-FORUM-BASE then SHOW THIS else SHOW THAT.

Using this code you can have an entirely seperate widget area for your forum page so you can make better use of the bbPress widgets without overdoing it with your current sidebar setup.

Someone may have a better or more elegant way of achieving this but this has worked for me and it works well. I hope anyone finds it useful.

[woodwardmatt]

@ebharding – I spotted the same issue also. The site I have been working on is currently using an offset of +9.5hrs so the “Freshness” column is always incorrect. The diff function for “Freshness” must not be taking the GMT offset into account.

[rwhite1986]

I have buddypress and bbpress activated. All I’d like to do is have replies to forum topics automatically show up under the notifications tab in the admin bar. thanks for your help.

[alieninformer]

Not sure if the title is the correct term I am looking for.

I was wondering where I could find some notes, documentary, or whatever you guys call it regarding the use of things like:

‘separator’ => ‘ ‘

‘show_reply_count’ => false

And other such functions?

I currently have something like:

<?php bbp_list_forums(array(‘separator’ => ‘
‘,’show_topic_count’ => false, ‘show_reply_count’ => false)); ?>

and I was wondering what else I could do with the various bbpress arrays?

I’m using bbPress 2.x and what I’m really trying for is to make the front page look more like the category page.

Right now the front page is:

Category 0 0

forum (0,0), forum (0,0), forum (0,0), forum (0,0)

and I’m trying to achieve

Category

– Forum 0 0

– Forum 0 0

– Forum 0 0

– Forum 0 0

Or something VERY similar.

Any help anyone could lend me would be GREATLY GREATLY GREATLY appreciated!!!

[Brullworfel]

Hi!

I want to start russian translation of bbPress 2, but there is no Russian language in list (https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/), please help me.

[Brullworfel]

Hi!

I want to start russian translation of bbPress 2, but there is no Russian language in list (https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/), please help me.

[highexistence]

I’m trying to show a logged-in user’s favorite topics on a single page like the page-front-topics.php template that’s included in the bbpress default theme. I used the exact same syntax as in that file but instead called in another template I created, content-archive-favorites.php, which contains the exact code (minus the containing div) from the user-favorites.php file.

It just shows that the user has no favorites.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!