Do you mean we must first have bbpress installed?…no I did not install bbpress, I directly installed your plugin first?
OK I’ll install bbpress first and then your plugin…let’s see.
all the templates are held in
templates/default/bbpress
the main forum is displayed using
content-archive-forum.php
and that then calls pretty much the rest in a hierarchy, so start there
After I’ve installed bbPress 2.6 the issue with creating new theme by anonymous user disappeared.
Thank you very much.
Thank you @casiepa.
I decided to start coding according to your advice in ONE theme.
But in order to succeed the plan, I have to understand each functions and roles of .php-files which run in bbpress.
Could you please give me any picture that explains order of files and functions called and executed by ‘the_content()’ in bbpress.php inside WP theme directory.
I would like to know what happens in bbpress after the_content() runs.
ok, I can’t help you with winscp, but what you need to achieve is 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
so line 38 says
<div class="bbp-forum-content"><?php bbp_forum_content(); ?></div>
delete this and in its place put these lines
<div class="bbp-forum-content">
<?php setup_postdata(bbp_get_forum_id()) ;
$excerpt = get_the_excerpt() ;
echo $excerpt ; ?>
</div>
This will then put the first 55 characters of your content.
Once you have achieved that, come back and I’ll show you the second part.
Hi,
Been looking through here for quite a while, am wanting to change the styling of the edit post screen. Currently it’s got a red background *urk* and looks bad. It’s probably inherited from my main theme I don’t know.
Can someone point me where the styling for the post edit screen is. I tried using an editor but it only shows styles that seem to be for main posts.
Latest BBpress,latest WordPress. No link as it’s an edit screen, but you can view the site at https://jwfsanctuary.club
Hi @tarao,
I don’t think you can obtain this without coding.
A theme is set for the whole of WordPress, including bbPress. So I suppose you would need to have 1 theme, and in that theme depending on the forum you are in, you could have different styles.
If you go to the examples https://bbpress.org/about/examples/ and click the 2nd one under favorites that one is mine. https://www.utehub.com
Wordpress Version:4.9.2
bbPress Version: 2.5.14
Site: http://www.avaiya.com
I just installed bbPress a few days ago and I see it automatically created this page:
https://www.avaiya.com/forums/
But when you click on it it doesn’t have the actual forum on it. It seems like this should be the main forum page, with all our Categories & Forums listed on that page.
I then watched a tutorial and realized I needed to create a page with the bbpress forum index shortcode. So I did that on the page below and now this page shows all the forums & categories on it.
Enlightenment Village – Community
The issue I still see, however, is that if you’re on one of the forum pages:
https://www.avaiya.com/forums/forum/community-discussions/
You still see the “Forum” text near the top and if you click on it it takes you
back to this page: https://www.avaiya.com/forums/
How can I fix this?
Thanks!
Hi there. I just installed bbpress and am working out the kinks for a new membership site we’re launching in 2 weeks. I have created a category called Community Discussions , and a Forum within that category called Introduce Yourself.
On this page https://www.avaiya.com/forums/forum/community-discussions/ you can see I’ve put in a description for the Introduce Yourself forum and it shows up as this big, long description. I’d like if it just showed one line of the description, and then you click on Introduce Yourself and that’s where you can see the entire description.
Do you know how I can do this?
Thanks!
@makingcircuits,
Really? I’ll check!
If you could eventually post it on the support forum of the plugin https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-move-topics because this is not really bbPress related.
UPDATE: You have bbPress running? I was probably able to simulate the error.
Thanks!
That should be the correct functions.php, yes.
As the theme is not open sourced, I cannot see how the different archives and pages you mentioned are setup. If they are really bbPress pages, then the above should at least add the meta tag when looking at the source of the html page.
You could also try (make sure to copy it from here on the forum, not from an email that you get):
add_action( 'wp_head', 'casiepa_add_noindex' );
function casiepa_add_noindex() {
if ( bbp_is_topic_archive() || bbp_is_forum_archive() ) {
wp_no_robots();
}
}
Maybe have the theme author have a look at the above code and ask him to add an option in the theme?
@Pascal…That’s great, thank you!
Let me check out this plugin, I’ll revert soon with the results and let everyone know whether it fulfills the required purpose of converting existing wordpress comment into bbpress comments.
By the way thanks very much for updating the plugin.
see you all soon
The download issue was caused by wordpress.org migrated to new servers and a new data centre, and there were a few issues, they have switched back the affected servers I believe and this should be fixed.
If you continue to see errors please make a comment on this #meta ticket
https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3383
I’ll look into the anonymous posting issue for you, are you using bbPress 2.5 or 2.6?
I think this was fixed for bbPress 2.6, can you try using 2.6-RC-5, the download link is available on https://bbpress.org/download/
I’ve removed Dropbox from that list at https://bbpress.org/about/examples/
A couple of my fav’s are:
This site has some great customisations:
* https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/forum/general-issues/
This, because Angry Birds 😉
* http://www.angrybirdsnest.com/forums/
I created two forums as category (named ‘dog’ and ‘cat’).
and I want to show pages which belongs to each category in completely different layout and design.
So, I hit on a following idea as a solution.
1)create a new bbpress theme (./plugins/bbpress/templates/new-template)
2)when users see pages which belongs to ‘dog forum’, activate default theme.
and when users see pages which belongs to ‘cat forum’, activate new theme.
In other words, switching bbpress theme and templates　depending on forums that users are currently seeing.
But I don’t know how to put it into practice.
help please.
sorry for my poor english!
Thanks for clarifying! Any other popular forums that you know of, that are still on bbPress?
since bbpress just uses wordpress then anything that works in wordpress
eg code
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21928355/list-currently-logged-in-users-wordpress
or plugin
WP-UserOnline
There are probably lots more examples, I just googled ‘wordpress list logged in users plugin’
Hi @richterd,
Would you mind create this bug in trac (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket) ?
Thanks,
Pascal.
@swagataminnovations as there are no changes to bbPress 2.5 , there was no need to update anything to that plugin, but you are right that it seemed very old.
Updated now 🙂
add this to your theme’s custom css section
#bbpress-forums div.reply {
width: auto !important;
}
Hi,
if I click on “reply” for a comment I would expect the form to appear below that comment. This currently does not work due to a bug in reply.js (bbpress/templates/default/js/reply.js) in line 19.
reply.parentNode.appendChild(respond);
If you change it to the following, everything works fine:
reply.parentNode.appendChild(respond, null);
Best Daniel
PS: Would be great to see development happen on github… 😉
Hi,
I don’t think this is a general question since bbpress states to be compatible with Yoast and Tsf when it is not (at least when it comes to noindex pages) so, imho, it is a BBpress problem.
https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/issues/243
I asked the same question on wp support anyway and still didnt get any answers (it took almost one week to have one here so I guess I’ll be waiting for some days there as well – https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noidex-metatag-to-groups-of-pages/)
I added your code (thank you for writing it down) but I only see a white page afterwards.
I added it to functions.php in wpcontent/themes/forum/ is it correct?
Thank you,
the Process
@dzonny,
First of all, for the export/import, consider the v2.6 of bbPress as exporting and importing has been improved. It’s a release candidate but very stable: https://bbpress.org/download/
To export: Tools > Export and select forums, topics and replies
To import: Tools > Import and choose WordPress
