[jbrandsma]

For anyone who stumbles upon this, I found the solution and placed it here

[Chuckie]

Yeah, but in forums like phpBB, if you close a topic you are locking the topic. This is indicated to the user by a icon. I added some styling which I had gleaned from the internet:

#bbpress-forums .status-closed > li.bbp-topic-title > a.bbp-topic-permalink:before {
	content: "[Locked]";
	text-shadow: 1px 1px 0 #ffffff;
	color: #ff0000;
	margin-right: 5px;
	font-size: 16pt !important;
}

This gives me a lock symbol but the look and feel of this symbol is not as nice as the paper clip which is visible for topics with attachments (using the GD Attachments plugin).

[Chuckie]

I don’t know if this is a bug. I was just playing around with bbPress and created a new topic. In the option list is “Pending” so I selected it. I hit submit. The topic has vanished. No where to be seen.

What happened?

[stoffer_dev]

I found a way to put it in a plugin 🙂

I Thought I would have to hook into ‘plugins_loaded’ like so:

 add_action( 'plugins_loaded', 'bbpress_overwrite' );

 function bbpress_overwrite() {
     add_filter ('bbp_before_has_search_results_parse_args', 'rew_amend_search') ;
 }

function rew_amend_search ($args) {
	$args['post_type'] =  bbp_get_topic_post_type() ;
return $args ;
}

But for some reason this was enough: ?

add_filter ('bbp_before_has_search_results_parse_args', 'rew_amend_search') ;

function rew_amend_search ($args) {
	$args['post_type'] =  bbp_get_topic_post_type() ;
return $args ;
}

[stoffer_dev]

Can I also override files in the “includes” folder (bbpress/includes/search/template.ph) in a child theme?

[Robin W]

no, you just put the templates in your child theme

You can copy all the templates across, but you only need to copy those that you want to change, and it is better just to do this, as then you know which you have altered.

so if you wanted to amend loop-single-forum you would do the following

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

[stoffer_dev]

The problem is, using the template solution will get overwritten when I update the the bbPress plugin…:(

[stoffer_dev]

I put this:

add_filter ('bbp_before_get_search_terms_parse_args', 'pluus_amend_search') ;

function pluus_amend_search ($args) {
	$args['post_type'] =  bbp_get_topic_post_type() ;
return $args ;
}

in my wp-content/themes/<ThemeName>/functions.php

But Forum names (“bbp_get_forum_post_type()”) are still included in the search results on the frontend.

Only editing “plugins/bbpress/includes/search/template.php” works 🙂

[nothere]

That worked! Thanks Robin, do you happen to know if there is any tutorials out there on setting up your website similar to the bbpress support forum?

[madflute]

Hi, thank you for your response. I do have bbPress Toolkit but I don’t think it can do what bbP Manage Subscriptions did. What it does is to force a user to subscribe/unsubscribe to a specific forum(s). For example, you can pick up active contributors and force them to subscribe to the contributors’ forum. This is all done in a convenient table.

[nothere]

Is it possible to download or install the same or similar code as this bbpress support form layout has? I like the layout, and would like to incorporate it on my site. Not sure if this is a possibility? Thanks.

[Chuckie]

Sorted it. I added this second style:

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header div {
	background: #7A7A78 !important;
	border:  none;
}

[Chuckie]

I have this styling:

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content {
	border-left: solid 1px black;
	background: whitesmoke !important;
	padding-left: 5px;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author {
	background: whitesmoke !important;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content li {
	color: #000 !important;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content a {
	color: blue !important;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
}

The problem is that it applies it to the very first row with the headings and I don’t want it to. Ideally I want to set the background of just the replies themselves to whitesmoke.

[brunov99]

Thanks Robin,

I tried the method you mentioned first (as a hack) but the files located in plugins/bbpress were not taken into account at all. So I decided to change the main po/mo files.

Nervermind as I know now how it works I will keep my “precious” translated files in a safe place.
bV

[jbrandsma]

I am using bbpress in conjunction with buddypress and I noticed that the forums have different avatars for users than their profile avatar. Is there a way to use the avatars from buddypress and not from bbpress?

I found this topic and its exactly what I’m referring too, but it was never marked as resolved and the answer was only for replies. The code snippet in this post works for me, but I need it to go further and apply to all avatars. I tried adding a filter to ‘bbp_get_current_user_avatar’ but I can’t get it to work.

Wordpress, buddypress, and bbpress are all up-to-date – I also have the Youzer plugin installed

Thanks in advance!

[Robin W]

hmmm… quite a puzzle

so you could try putting your customised file here

wp-content/languages/plugins/bbpress-fr_FR.mo

plugins load code from only two places, but no idea which loads first, but looks like that location loads last, so it might work. but again might be overwritten by WordPress updates

[brunov99]

Hi everyone,

I change some translated strings in my bbprress-XX-po/mo files located in the wp/language dir. to suit my non-geek audience.
How can these files not be overwritten during bbPress next updates?

Thank you.
bV

[brunov99]

wp 2.5.4 / bpp 2.5.14

Hi everyone,
does someone have an idea how to fix this ?
the search bar is displayed correctly but the search button is not displayed at all.

The more strange thing is that for testing purpose, I installed the 2.6RC7 version on the exact same config (exept bbpress of course) and here the button appears.

Thank you for your advices.
bV

[Pierre Lemarchand]

P.S.: now WP 5.2.4 and bbPress 2.5.14

[tapiohuuhaa]

Exactly I think this code:

function my_custom_display_topic_index_query () {
global $_GET;
if($_GET[‘myOrderBy’])$myOrderBy=$_GET[‘myOrderBy’];else $myOrderBy=’last_edited’;
if($_GET[‘myOrder’])$myOrder=$_GET[‘myOrder’];else $myOrder=’DESC’;
$args[‘orderby’] = $myOrderBy;
$args[‘order’] = $myOrder;

return $args;
}
add_filter(‘bbp_before_has_topics_parse_args’, ‘my_custom_display_topic_index_query’ );

function printSelections(){
global $_SERVER;
return ‘<div class=”queries”><form action=”https://&#8217; . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’].'”><table class=”querytable”><tr><td><select name=”myOrderBy”><option value=”post_modified”>Viimeisin muutos</option><option value=”post_date”>Luontipäivä</option><option value=”post_title”>Nimi/option><option value=”post_author”>Tekijä/option></select></td><td><input name=”myOrder” type=”radio” value=”DESC” />Laskeva</td><td><input name=”myOrder” type=”radio” value=”ASC” />Nouseva</td></tr></table></form>’;
}

add_shortcode( ‘printSelections’, ‘printSelections’ );
// Add do_shortcode(‘printSelections’); to loop-forums.php
<li class=”bbp-header”>

<ul class=”forum-titles”>
<li class=”bbp-forum-info”><?php _e( ‘Forum’, ‘bbpress’ ); ?><?php topPostLinksEcho(); ?>
<li class=”bbp-forum-topic-count”><?php _e( ‘Topics’, ‘bbpress’ ); ?>
<li class=”bbp-forum-reply-count”><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? _e( ‘Replies’, ‘bbpress’ ) : _e( ‘Posts’, ‘bbpress’ ); ?>
<li class=”bbp-forum-freshness”><?php _e( ‘Freshness’, ‘bbpress’ ); ?>

<?php do_shortcode(‘[printSelections]’); ?>

[demonboy]

In single-loop-forum.php I want to style my first forum differently to the rest by removing the voices/topics/freshness columns. As it happens this forum is only visible to non-logged in users by using this code:

.logged-in #bbp-forum-40250 {
	display: none;
}

I found this code here:

/*Different divs for all topics of specific forums*/

function add_different_div() {
    
$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_forum_id(); 
    if (( $topic_id == 123) or ( $topic_id == 456)){
?>
       <div> this is some custom div text </div>
<?php
    }

elseif ( $topic_id == 789){?>
<div> this is some OTHER custom div text </div>
<?php
}}  
    
add_action( 'different_div', 'add_different_div' );

… but creating a function seems overkill. I think I just need an if() statement that says ‘if this forum ID then style it this way; else…’.

Any pointers?

Thanks.

[Chuckie]

I have read your article about importing from phpBB. I would like to know how much control we have over importing. I have already created a new forum structure with bbPress and I would like to selectively import just certain forums into these new formats in bbpress.

[ghoush]

Just a note to everyone who might find this. It’s been more than 4 years, and this code still works great.

For anyone looking to add signatures on BuddyBoss Platform instead of bbPress/BuddyPress, this works too.

[berry metal]

How do I get bbPress to return to the same page when someone presses Favorite from within the Bbpress single topic shortcode?
I want to avoid the redirect to the topic page after pressing the Favorite link.

[Robin W]

yes users can subscribe to both topics and forums in bbpress