[Anointed]

thanks dave, nice addition to bbPress.

For anyone interested, here is a decent tutorial on how to create your own custom forums search results templates

http://wpsnipp.com/index.php/template/create-multiple-search-templates-for-custom-post-types/

[nuobodu]

@grafics: It really seams that you have to chmod you .htaccess file to 777

@travishill: The most strange thing has happened.

i once again unchecked “Prefix your forum area with the Forum Base slug”

and the links started working

but at the same time the forums stopped using my custom templates and reverted to the templates from the child bbpress theme

I checked the checkbox back, and the links still work. But the templates did not revert to my custom templates

I see that many people in this forum, who have this problem, eventually get it solved, but they cannot explain how

Going fishing my template now…

[David Decker]

Hi there!

Like some other users I noticed a missing search feature for the new and awesome bbPress 2.0+ plugin. So I just released a small and leightweight plugin for that:

bbPress Search Widget

Info & download at WP.org:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/

-> it’s limited to the custom post types of bbPress: forums, topics, replies

-> there’s a drop-down to select one of these (a must) – so it also helps fine tune the search for the visitor…

-> it’s fully localized so you might translate the few strings into your language – I will attach any translations which are submitted to me!

I hope it’s useful for you.

Have fun

Any feedback is very welcomed of course!

-Thanx, Dave from Germany

[David Decker]

@nathanbunn:

I noticed the same thing as you and just released a small and leightweight plugin for that:

bbPress Search Widget

Info & download at WP.org:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/

I hope it’s useful for you.

Have fun

Any feedback is very welcomed of course!

-Thanx, Dave from Germany

[David Decker]

@travishill:

You’re welcome

Thanx for this awesome idea and making it a plugin! I will use it soon on an own project!

[travis.hill]

Looks like some styling needs done.

I don’t know how you’ve implemented bbPress, but a start would be something like this:

remove the left float from div.bbp-breadcrumb in bbpress.css (line 39)

create a css rule for the table class .bbp-forums and give it a width:

.bbp-forums {

width: 100%;

}

That should get you going in the right direction.

[PureRover]

I have installed bbPress plugin. The forum itself is wonderful. I am having a rough time displaying it properly on my site. Using the shortcode [bbp-forum-index], I have setup a page with a full-page attribute. The page is full-width but the forum is not.

http://purerover.com/test/

I am assuming the forum’s widgets are taking up the space right of the forum. I don’t need them and rather the forum took up 100% of the available space.

I see there are additional templates for bbPress. Does this hold true for the plugin version? If so, how can additional templates be selected since this is not an option in the bbPress settings.

I am not a programmer but can following directions. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[selise]

thanks daveshine and travishill, i’ll give travishill’s suggested plugin a try.

[grafics]

I’ve been developing WP for some time, but this is our first buddypress/bbpress project. Having the same problem described above.

WP 3.2.1

Buddypress 1.5

Created a “forums” page with shortcode which correctly shows the forum index. Clicking on a specific forum works as well, showing list of topics within that forum. The 404 comes when clicking on a specific topic. I’ve assigned the topic to the specific forum. The resulting url seems to be correct

mysite/forums/specificforum/topic title

I’ve also found that I have the “create new topic” form on the specific forum, when I submit the topic I get the page-not-found, but if I navigate back to the forum the new topic is indeed listed.

Any help is MUCH appreciated!

[master5o1]

O rly?

[John James Jacoby]

Use the WordPress one. It’s just posts and taxonomies.

[OAEErra]

Hi, i’m using BBPress 2.0 with BuddyPress 1.5 which were installed seperately and aren’t integrated through BP.

My BBPress forum is great, however after moving from SMF many members have asked for a “New Topic” button and a “Reply” button in the forums. They can reply or start new topics with the form at the bottom of the page, but for usability i’d like to make their transition a bit easier.

Is it possible to add a reply button to each post – one which quotes the post made?

Also, a reply button at the top/bottom of the thread which takes the user to a page with the posting form would be great.

Also is it possible to have a “New topic” button on the forum index?

Lastly, what files would I edit to make these changes?

Thanks in advance

[bardo]

@Vayu: happy it worked

@Moddey: your first try should have worked (look at Vayu’s solution). It’s normal that nothing changes if you edit the pot file: pot files are like “translation sources”, po files are the translated version in a human readable form, mo files are their machine-readable form. So tou should need only bbpress-da_DK.mo in your /wp-content/languages/bbpress/ directory.

Are you sure the file permissions are ok and the web server can read them?

[travis.hill]

Well at this point in the stack I’m calling a theme or plugin issue.

I’d start with plugins. Deactivate and see if anything changes.

If yes, find culprit plugin and remove/find replacement. If no, move to theme related issue.

So the contents of your child theme folder somewhat follows:

/bbpress/

/css/

/js/

archive-*.php

**functions.php

page-*.php

single-*.php

**style.css

And these files all represent files from /bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/{files}?

If so, you’ve created a PAGE, with either the bbpress shortcode or page template?

Have you tried the bbpress packaged theme?

I don’t personally know of any directly conflicting plugins with bbpress, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t exist. It still seem’s URLish to me. .htaccess maybe.

Either way, the last thing you’ll want to do, i’m guessing, is a fresh install. We’ll try to get you there before that’s the (possible) solution.

[SeizedPropaganda]

Hey everyone.

We’re using the new 2.0 plugin and we’re running into a couple issues that are making it a bit difficult for us to use BBPress in the way we were intending to.

We have two separate forums right now, one for any user and a second customer only forum. Originally I set it up so that these customer-only forums were private, with read/write access restricted to a particular user-role that our customers get assigned to.

One of the things I’m struggling with the plugin is why these private forums/topics send non-customers to the 404 page instead of actually displaying that particular forum/thread with a message warning that person viewing that is it a private forum, or some other kind of message.

Seeing how integrated 2.0 is with WordPress, I’m rather surprised that there isn’t some kind of built-in association with user roles so that you can set certain forums to have restricted access based on these roles other than using a user role managing plugin.

Is there something fundamental about BBPress 2.0 that I am missing here? Is this a feature that is being planned? As it stands it is a bit difficult to do what we are trying to achieve right now.

Thank you in advance for any advice/feedback related to this matter.

[Vayu Robins]

Hi Bardo, thanks for helping.

This worked for me finally.

So I have these 2 files here like this:

/wp-content/languages/bbpress/bbpress-da_DK.mo

/wp-content/languages/bbpress/bbpress-da_DK.po

Nothing else.

Vayu

[Anointed]

@eraleks

Let’s assume that you created a new sidebar called ‘bbpress’ via your functions file. This means that when you go to the sidebar manager, that you can see one called bbpress.

Next, take the sidebar.php file from your theme and make a copy. Name it bbpress-sidebar.php.

Here is an example of my bbpress-sidebar.php code.

<div id="sidebar" role="complementary">



<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('bbpress') ) : ?>

<?php endif; ?>



</div>

Finally there are a number of bbpress templates that call the sidebar. Replace those calls with:

<?php get_sidebar( 'bbpress' ); ?>

Wrapping up:

1. You registered a new sidebar called ‘bbpress’

2. You created a new template file called bbpress-sidebar.php

3. You edited the bbpress-sidebar.php file to ask for the bbPress sidebar.

4. You replaced all the calls to the sidebar with the new call to the bbpress sidebar.

That’s about it. If it is still causing you problems then I suggest reading a few resources.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/11/08/sidebars-in-wordpress

*Author avatars.

JJ already thought about this and added in a filter where you can choose to display just the username and not the avatar.

<?php bbp_topic_author_link( array( 'type' => 'name' ) ); ?>

You will see a lot of functions like the one above throughout the bbPress templates. Anywhere you find an avatar that you want to remove and just show the username, simply add the ‘type’ => ‘name’ and your good to go.

**There may be a global way of doing this, but I did not look as I didn’t need it myself.

[eraleks]

Hi!

I have created custom sidebars.

And I see in the .php files that there’s always the <?php get_sidebar(); ?> in the bottom. Somewhere I read that I should inside the () add the name of the forum, but where do I find this name/adress to the sidebars I have created?

Also: I have a wordpress plug-in “user image” that lets users have profile pictures. The problem is that bbpress inserts the profil picture everywhere it inserts the username which makes the forum look really messy. Any suggestions?

Best regards

Aleksander

[ThemeFUist]

I noticed this a few weeks ago but never checked if it was fixed:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/possible-bug-ajaxurl-for-favouritessubscribes#post-92000

[ModdeyDo]

Thanks Bardo for the info, but still no joy here

I have in

/wp-content/languages/bbpress both bbpress-da_DK.mo and bbpress-da_DK.po.

I also put them in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-languages and I removed the bbpress.pot file from that dir just to see what would happen.

I even edited some Danish into bbpress.pot just to see would that help. But alas still no local language

Do you mean that $mofile should be actually set to bbpress-dk_dk.mo ? or should it just be bbpress-%s.mo.

Moddey

[travis.hill]

@daveshine – THANKS!!! I was just coming by to suggest to @selise to use the Disable bbPress Profile Override plugin (shameless self promotion) that I wrote.

It’s a temporary solution, but fits the bill.

[David Decker]

As I really liked the general approach of this plugin I have some errors/requests to report:

With the plugin installed I couldn’t save the the bbPress settings anymore – gave php errors…

Also, the plugin for me would only make sense if it’s localized properly – as of now all texts/strings are hardcoded. So for my sites in Germany the plugin is unuseable as of now but I would like to use it once it’s translateable.

So thanx for taking your time to develop this and hopefully it will be translateable one day

Thanx, Dave from Germany

[travis.hill]

I’m trying to understand what it is you want to accomplish; i’m afraid the answer is that it’s possible, just not “out of the box” so to speak.

Your main network site will hold the forum and all subforums, and users from each site will have access to all forums.

[David Decker]

You can use a new plugin for that to re-store the behavior with different user profile pages for BuddyPress and bbPress:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-bbpress-profile-override/

Hope this works for you, Dave

[nuobodu]

Lucky

And for me it didnt fix itself. I am not using Buddypress, but i still get the same error 404, when trying to open any forum or topic.

http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums