[Anointed]

Ok, now I see what is going on.

The problem is that the bbpress stylesheet is relying upon selectors that are not present in your theme.

To explain:

Open up your bbpress.css file and you will notice that there are a lot of rules that start with the following:

#content

#container

#main

To fix:

1. backup your stylesheet first, very important just in case something doesn’t go perfectly.

2. Do a search and remove all instances of #content, #container, and #main from the stylesheet.

3. Save the stylesheet and upload it, replacing the old one.

Why:

The selectors above do not exist in your custom theme, so the rules are never going to be applied.

Now this is going to get you 90% to where you want to be. There are still going to be a few areas that you will have to manually adapt to your theme to make it perfect. There could also be rules in your theme’s stylesheet that may override the bbpress.css. In those instances you will either need to modify the rules of either stylesheet, or add in your own theme selectors to bbpress.

It is not really that big a job as once you remove the rules so much will automatically work for you.

I hope this helps.

*I’ve talked to JJ about removing the top level selectors from the css to help make it easier for everyone. The changes ‘may’ make it into the download someday, but that is his decision.

[Trevor Green]

I have the members plugin install and modified subscribers to see hidden forums.

This didn’t work.

Hidden seems more appropriate than private. Private tags a forum with Private:. Which I don’t understand at all.

It seems like you have forums that you apply access control to for different roles and they should either see them or not see them depending on the roles.

I understand that you can use the members plugin. And that you could potentially setup different roles with different access levels based upon the existing permissions.

But as I mention above setting “read_hidden_forums” on subscriber didn’t allow the subscriber to see or read a hidden forum.

I don’t have that role set to access anything private. So maybe hidden is a subset of private? I’ll try turning on private access on subscriber.

If hidden works as suspected it seems appropriate to have public be accessable by anyone on the site and hidden for everyone else.

Private would see appropriate, but if 99% of your forums are private its pretty lousy to see a “private:” tag in front of all of them. There appears to be no setting in the bbPress settings to disable that.

I’m not sure what the use case is for bbPress, but it seems pretty narrowly defined to very public forums. Not to a more layered scenario, where you can define role based access to each role for different forums and alter visibilty.

Am i missing something. Is there a forum category based access control method?

I haven’t jumping into plugins because I’m trying to use the 2.x plugin version and since its still beta I’m not confident that there is anything stable out there. There doesn’t even seem to be a way to post photos so it appears to need lots of addons.

Once I can figure out what it is supposed to do I may take the plunge to write some.

I apologize if this post is grumbly, I’m excited about bbPress as a plugin, I’m just dismayed that I’m needing it before the final release and the plugin community piles on to make it better.

[DKB]

How can i get single login for bbpress sites on different domains?

[nameNotExists]

Hello

Great plugin, can’t wait for final release.

I have question about avatars in beta 2. Is there any way to give user possibility to change it?

[Carsten.M]

Hi there,

first of all: thank you for this great Forum-Plugin!

I’ve got the standard installation by now and the shortcode [bbp-single-forum id="testforum1"] isn’t working for me.

Has anyone any idea what’s wrong?

[bbp-forum-index] on the same page works perfectly .. but i only want a single forum.

Thank you!

[cyclecincy]

Hi everyone,

I’m wondering if there would be a way to create two simple buttons for bbpress. They would be:

Show unread posts since last visit.

Show new replies to your posts.

Those are part of Simple Machines Forums and make it really easy to sort through posts.

Also, could there be an “insert image” button for replies. It’s kind of a pain to explain HTML to new users.

Thanks!

[John James Jacoby]

Known issue with posting from wp-admin. Fixed in Beta 3 which I’m going to package tonight.

[John James Jacoby]

Originally we /really/ wanted a sexy p2 style theme for bbPress 2.0, but we scrapped it to focus on getting the foundation solid first. Long term we’d really like to have something ajax and fancy, so if any talented theme dev wants to step up and help build one, that would be swell.

[John James Jacoby]

@Patrick – Known issue. Will be fixed in Beta 3.

@lamo21 – Doing it wrong. Check translate.wordpress.org for bbPress 2.0 translations.

[Anointed]

Yes, it would be possible to integrate bbPress into P2. Follow the directions of step #2 on the thread:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility

There is going to be a bit of customization needed to get it to layout properly, but it is not hard, just a bit time consuming.

Keep in mind though, that the bbPress forums will not auto update like P2 does for posts. That would be a huge custom job to accomplish.

[Anointed]

It is probably related to the theme you are using and the order in which the css files are called. If you can provide a link to the forum, I can take a quick peek and see the css load priorities.

It also depends upon whether you are simply using the template files within the plugin, or whether the theme you are using has all the bbPress template files loaded within your theme directory or not.

The way I did it on my site was to add the function support for bbPress into my custom theme’s functions.php file. I then copied all of the needed template and css files over from bbpress into my theme directory. There were a few other changes needed to do this, but once setup, I am able to edit the css files for bbPress within my theme directory. This means that I don’t have to worry much about upgrading bbPress and loosing any changes I have made.

Anyhow, a link to the forum would help a lot.

[tmuikku]

Yello!

Is it possible to download .po/.mo files from Glotpress somehow right now?

I need Finnish translation of the bbPress plugin ASAP. For now I’ve been doing translation in my own with the .pot file and I’d like to contribute but I’m reluctant to translate with Glotpress if I cannot download the files immediately…

[tmuikku]

Yello!

Is it possible to download .po/.mo files from Glotpress somehow right now?

I need Finnish translation of the bbPress plugin ASAP. For now I’ve been doing translation in my own with the .pot file and I’d like to contribute but I’m reluctant to translate with Glotpress if I cannot download the files immediately…

[Anonymous User]

Is “fi” the exact language code you have set in your wp-config.php? It’s not “fi_FI” or “fi_SF” or whatever it might be?

[Lazza]

I have the same problem right now with bbPress 1.0.3. If you’re interested, you can put this piece of code before the “if ( $relevant ) ” line:

<?php

foreach ( $relevant as $elementKey => $bb_post ) {

if(!($bb_post->post_text)) unset($relevant[$elementKey]);

}

?>

This deletes the relevant posts which are already in the recent posts, and so are broken.

[Gautam Gupta]

Yes, you can get the standalone version to use the WP user tables and then also integrated the cookies for single log-on. Please consult the docs.

[janoochen]

I just checked out that awesome plugin (or theme?) from Automattic: http://p2theme.com/

I was wondering if it is possible to incorporate it into bbpress 2.0?

[lamo21]

Hello! I have problem with translating bbpress 2.0. I put translate word in msgstr “” in bbpress.pot, but I don’t see any changes with my bbpress, it’s steel in ehnlish.

Please help!

[ideoplasm]

I started to use the bbPress plugin version for WordPress because i wanted by users to only have to log in once to get into both my WordPress and my associated bbPress forums.

I also liked the fact that for me behind the scenes, the bbPress plugin admin is within the WordPress admin… but this is not as important to me as the above shared login point.

Anyway, the bbPress plugin has plagued me with bugs, as it is apparently only a beta version.

So, seeing as the standalone bbPress is more developed, I am thinking of using that. I just assumed that my users would have to log in twice if implement the standalone bbPress – is this the case? If you can get the standalone to share user login with WordPress, then i will use that!!

Thanks.

[ideoplasm]

I tried decativating all my plugins and the above problem with reply method ‘2)’ persists!

[ideoplasm]

OR could i get the upload/embed buttons to appear in scenario ‘1)’??

[ideoplasm]

There are 2 ways of replying to topics in the bbPress plugin:

1) To go to the themed page and reply there in the box under the topic-creating 1st post. This works fine, but there are no buttons to easily embed images in your replies, so you have to create your html in a separate editor then paste the code into the reply. And worse, there is no upload buttons (I want my users to be able to upload images/vids to post into their replies).

2)You use the grey panel at the top with ‘Add’>’Reply’ and it takes you to the white, unthemed, admin-looking area (what is this area called please, just so i now!?!), where you do indeed have access to embed and upload buttons WHICH IS GREAT AND DOES INDEED UPLOAD AND EMBED….but, despite choosing the topic it is to link to in the top right dropdown named ‘Reply Attributes: Parent Topic’, doing it this way results in an orphaned reply which sits somewhere obscure on my webspace and does not appear under the topic it was meant for.

Is there a way to solve ‘2)’? Or will my users who i want to be able to put images and stuff in their topic replies have to stick to pasting in code? Have i broken my admin-looking area making it unable to link replies to topics? Could a conflicting plugin have caused this?

Please help!

[ideoplasm]

@ PS Vita Games

I meant ‘solved’ as in ‘answered’ – the answer being, that as yet, there is no bbpress vote software…. but then Janoochen made his suggestion. Thanks Janoochen, I shall try that this weekend.

[Anointed]

It really depends on what you are trying to accomplish with your website. If you are already running wordpress and eventually want to have everything linked together between forums, blog posts, users etc, then bbPress is definitely the way to go.

If your primary focus of the website is forums only then I ‘may’ suggest vbulletin. I have no experience with phpbb, but have run very large vb forums for years now.

As to whether or not it is worth the money, well that’s different for everyone. I personally am going to transfer my larger forums over to bbPress as I much prefer the wordpress environment to vb.

At the moment vb can do a lot more out of the box than just about any other forum software, but I believe that bbPress is going to close this gap very quickly. Vbulletin is really bloated with a ton of features that really are not needed but some people just seem to like all the extra junk.

It really is a personal call. I can say though bbPress is progressing very nicely. It is a very solid foundation that can easily be built upon.

[Anointed]

Try this:

Go into the wp-admin, then under the settings button is a link called permalinks. Go there and click save changes. (Even though you have not made changes to your permalinks, it is worth trying as many times this gets things back to normal when you add new post-types etc)