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bbp style pack
Hello,
I have a website with domain xx and I install plugin bbPress. I want ask how I change theme bbPress?
I upload theme in folder theme wp-content > themes but not working
Thanks
I should add that the site is using WordPress 4.9.1, bbPress 2.5.14, and bbp style pack 3.6.9, and bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab 1.0.1.
@robin-w,
1) I use two sidebar widget areas from the theme. One for blog archives and posts, and one for pages. These function and appear OK. There is also a WooCommerce sidebar but I don’t have WooCommerce installed so I can’t comment on that.
2) When using the instructions at the link on the first topic post I made here, and also the bbPress WP tweak plugin the bbPress sidebar widget area appears, I’ve added the text area and some dummy text, saved it, but the sidebar does not appear on any of the forum pages (e.g. main forum index, topic list, topic).
It came to mind that I’m quite sure that I used the linked instructions to they the sidebar to appear and it worked OK with a previous version of the theme. There have been a few updates since, where I have copied the customisations over to the updated theme, but I had assumed that the bbPress sidebar would continue to work. It was only when I looked at the forum recently, it looked and felt odd and that is when realised the sidebar had stopped working. But I’m not sure why the plugin does not work, but again these two non-functioning issues with the sidebar may be related.
I hope that helps.
And thank you.
Hi,
Here are the ones that are tied to email/Buddypress/BBPress. I’m wondering–do new topic notifications work for approved topics on a clean BBPress install? I don’t think I can disable many plugins on this site since it’s getting a lot of traffic, but I could probably test it out on a different live site. I think it would have to be a live site or at least have an SMTP provider set up for the notification emails to go out.
Plugins
1. Buddypress
2. AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions (added because the default method of BCC’ing all subscribers created too many recipients for our SMTP provider)
3. bbP Toolkit
4. BP Profile Search
5. BBPress Moderation Tools (allows us to put all new topics into moderation, seems to use default BBPress actions for moderation)
6. Fix Forum Emails (fixes issue where HTML tags/entities show up in notification emails: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2865)
7. WordPress Mail Queue (queues/chunks all mail from wp_mail so we don’t go over SMTP provider limits)
8. Wordfence Security
what plugins other than bbpress are you using?
When a new topic goes to moderation and is approved, some, but not all, of the regular new topic actions take place. One thing that does not seem to happen is sending out the new topic notification email. If possible, can the bbp_notify_forum_subscribers action be added when a forum topic is approved by a moderator (after checking to make sure notifications are enabled)? The new topic notifications are a great way to drive visitors to our forums, so this is turning into an issue on our site. The site owners want to be able to moderate most (or even all) of the new topics, but then no notification emails are sent out.
If this is something I should try to figure out on my own, please let me know and I’ll give it a shot. I didn’t want to mess with the bbpress core code since it would get overridden on the next update.
Thanks!
Matt
Wordpress Version: 4.7.8
BBPress Version: 2.5.14
I thought I followed the codex instructions pretty clearly, but this add_filter in my functions.php file is resulting in a 502 error and… I have no clue why!
Sorry, bbpress newbie here… any help that anyone can offer would be awesome.
Thanks in advance,
-Dave
PS Here’s the code I popped in my functions.php file:
function cxr_subforum_filter() {
bbp_list_forums(array (
‘before’ => ‘<tr>’,
‘after’ => ‘</tr>’,
‘link_before’ => ‘<td>’,
‘link_after’ => ‘</td>’,
‘separator’ => ‘<br>’,
));
}
add_filter( ‘bbp_before_list_forums_parse_args’, ‘cxr_subforum_filter’ );
or is this not a support forum for BBpress users
yes this is, but you misunderstand how open source software works
People write open source software in their own time and offer it for free. Under the open software foundation the software is offered without any warranty or support. You use it if you like and not if you don’t. It is perhaps a bit much to expect software authors to answer every question someone might have about that software, or indeed having offered that software to the world for free, that they should invest any time to this unless they wish to.
If someone gave you a car for free, would you complain because they don’t come and service it for you?
I am not a bbpress author, I’m just a guy who uses this software, and in turn spends some of my time in trying to help others.
I have seen your questions, and there are many reasons why it might not work.
The most obvious are in https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/before-posting/ and in particular the troubleshooting section on plugins and themes will probably get you to a root cause.
Once you have worked through those, do come back.
@robin-w,
The theme developers say they don’t support the theme’s use with bbPress.
If you can help, I would sincerely appreciate it. Thank you.
Is it a reason why my two previous topics have been overlooked and unanswered? Are you not familiar with the question or is this not a support forum for BBpress users?
I am having issues with BBpress search bar. It is showing results for my entire site, as opposed, to just forum material. Please advise if you are able. Thank you
I am using BBpress 2.5.14, WordPress 4.9.1 and here is a link to my site. throughunity.org
@robin-w,
I have created a support ticket and will keep you in touch. Would a zip of the main template files on the root of the theme help? If so, I can post a link here for you to have a look at them.
@veppa,
I tried the bbPress WP tweak plugin but as per the customisation in the first post, the admin widget appeared, I added a text widget with some dummy text, but the sidebar on the user side did not.
Your feedback would be appreciated.
Hello,
My search box is searching the entire website and not just the forums, topics, etc. I also was looking for a geo-specific search for bbpress. The one I found is outdated and nonworking. Could you help? I am in strong belief that it was my theme, but when tested on another theme, but search box wouldn’t even allow me to click into it. Please advise. I have the service provider theme.
You can try “bbPress WP tweaks” https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/ plugin for adding forum sidebar. There you can select which wrapper to use for bbPress and which sidebar of your theme replace with bbpress sidebar. Try different wrappers to find one with sidebar because some themes do not have sidebar on page.php, which is in most cases default wrapper for bbpress.
Hello, you can use bbPress wp Tweaks plugin for adding forum sidebar to your wordpress. Try different wrappers and add some widgets to bbpress sidebar to make it work. Plugin can be found on wordpress https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/
Hello! On the forum i am trying to build it appears that Participants can only reply to a message and not edit their own messages, unless its a fresh reply and during the first minutes and in that case the edit link appears. But when the participant comes back on the forum after a longer period, only the “Reply” link appears, even on its own message.
On my previous question on your forum (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/404-error-with-edit-on-a-wpml-multilingual-forum/) I experienced the same thing, but is it the normal function or should I see the “Edit” link ?
Is there a way for a participant to edit its own messages regardless of time ?
I just installed wordpress and bbpress. I’ve been able to setup the forums, add users, and everything looks like it’s working fine except for two things. When I click on a user profile I get sent to a not found page. This same thing also happens when I try to edit a post. Can anyone provide guidance on what could be causing this problem? I’ve tried multiple different themes to see if it was an issue with the one I had chosen.
I installed this on a raspberry pi. It used a mariaDB on the backend and I believe php7
sidebars are a nightmare since theme developers went away from the wordpress tradition of having standard files for each page type.
Many now just have a page.php file, which frequently calls functions and stops any easy solution to the problem of getting a bbpress sidebar.
So let’s start with what theme are you using?
I am trying to copy my bbPress forum with all content to my test site using WP export import.
The forum content is not visible on the new site!
I have tried the repair tools included i bbPress, with no success.
Looking at the admin/topic page i can see all the posts and under subject “Forum” it says “(no forum)”
When I edit a post by selecting a forum, that post shows up.
Now how do I make a mass edit of the field forum ???
In admin/answers it shows the number of answers but no answers are listed.
regards
John Eistrøm
@elhardoum
Hi thanks your code works well..
Only the second part of code you added for returning exerpt isnt working for me.
I was using the bbpress topics for posts plugin only it is quuite old now and causes conflicts.
I would like to return in the new topics the post exerpt + a link back to the original post like this [See the full post at: post-title]
Would appreciate your help.
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ok, you’ll need to amend wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-user-register.php
so
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/form-user-register.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/form-user-register.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this
Could be usesful for some…
Creating Content
Hi John, thanks for the hint. I switched the WPML system to use subdomains system with http://fr.mysite/forum/ for the french version, and it seems to work better with bbPress.
