[Scopique]

I am trying to get bbPress to work with a theme that doesn’t have support for/within bbPress, and can fake it using custom Admin-created pages and shortcodes, and would also like to know this.

[TriiXx]

I just think BBPress is a bullshit and not working great if we have many category …

[Robkk]

It could be a somewhat common CSS related issue where buttons have white text color in a theme.

Try this custom css to see if it fixes it. Place the custom css in a custom css plugin or in a child themes style.css file.

This is just an example and you might need additional css if the button background color changes on hover to something dark as well.

#bbpress-forums .wp-editor-container .button {
  color: black;
}

[traypup]

Using v.2.5.10 of bbpress and v.4.6.1 of WordPress.
Canvas v.5.11.2
WooFramework v.6.2.8

Has anyone seen this before (page is not live yet, so I can only link to a screen shot)
https://www.evernote.com/l/AB6XG24Bc4FPi5WEsmEsm03JZB9jYlXURvc

I turned the “Add toolbar & buttons to textareas to help with HTML formatting” setting off and then on again. No change.
It works fine in Twenty Sixteen, but I’m a little baffled as to how to troubleshoot further — Isn’t Canvas a super pared down theme? What might I be doing wrong with it?

Thanks

[Robkk]

I personally do not need login info, because I think I know exactly what you are talking about. I am not sure who redacted your info, but know that it was to protect your site from untrusted users.

What you are looking for is already part of bbPress, its just that the js code that it uses doesn’t quite work for all browsers, and only in IE.

To fix the issue, you can create or copy the existing reply.js file in a folder called js that should be in the root of your child theme that consists of the new code that is in a trac ticket that fixes this issue.

This guide will help with what you would need to do with the js file.

Basically you create a folder called js in your child theme. And just place the new reply.js file.

https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/

Here is the code for the file. You can also just download the file.

https://gist.github.com/robkk/e193a869a627f955b427440c13493fa6

[Stephen Edgar]

Ideally you should be using a child theme for your custom bbPress templates. That way you don’t have to worry about this issue 🙂

Take a look on the docs codex for some help with getting started with custom templates:

https://codex.bbpress.org/?s=child+theme

With that said though, here is a link showing the changes from 2.5.9 to 2.5.10, it’s a single change to includes/users/template.php, and is quite important you upgrade your templates with this change.

[Robin W]

There are also quite a few plugins that customise bbpress

eg

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-toolkit/

[Stephen Edgar]

Hopefully some of the links on our codex docs page will help get you started:

Codex

[Robkk]

There are a few guides in the codex that might help.

Are there any specific things you want to know how to customize??

Customize is such a broad term, and relating to bbPress it can go from creating code snippets, installing plugins, to styling, to adjusting the bbPress theme to your needs in a child theme, or just creating a custom theme/theme package all together.

[mlvc1958]

is there any tutorials that best show how to customize bbpress forums. ive looked in youtube, basically they are about installing the forum but no in depth customization.

[Jon Fergus]

I assume this is pretty standard, but on our forum site (http://nexus.universaltheosophy.com/), the bbpress “reply box” is located at the bottom of any given Topic post. So, when someone wants to reply, they need to scroll all the way down. Also, directly beneath each existing reply is a “reply button”. If someone wants to reply to an existing reply, they click this button…. but what happens is that the Topic post reloads in their browser and then they’re taken to the bottom of the Topic where the reply-box resides.

What we want, is this: when someone clicks reply, a reply-box appears directly beneath the existing reply they’re replying to (basically, how reddit works). I’ve seen at least one site that has managed to do this with some kind of customizing of bbpress, but nobody seems to want to share.

In order to see how the reply button on our site currently works, you can use our dummy-test-account to login (just please be respectful and don’t make me delete too much spam) UN: [redacted] PW: [redacted] And use this discussion to see how the reply function currently operates: http://nexus.universaltheosophy.com/groups/key-concepts-study-group/forum/topic/reincarnation/

Any help at all would be hugely appreciated. The current functionality really makes for a poor forum experience for our members.

Also, we’re currently running bbpress 2.5.10 and WordPress 4.6.1.

[giobby]

Happy it worked for you. Unfortunately it’s more a workaraound than a solution so I don’t think it will be implemented. I’ve shared my feedbacks already and i truly believe there’s a bug in the converter. The temp table in which bbpress stores the metadata for the conversion works fine, so it’s probably about how the converter uses that table.
Anyway, enjoy your new converted forum! 🙂

[senatorman]

Great! it works. All authors are correct now, and there is no post with anonymous as author.

Thx for your help and patience.

Hopely the BBpress creators implement this in the convertor.

[haddlyapis]

Is there any way to do that automatically? I have installed “Topic subscribe”, but i have just realised this only subscribes you to new posts. I also installed “AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions” as before no emails were being sent. This seems to have helped. but not with older posts.

[Robkk]

There is a few guides that might be helpful for you in the codex.

Import Forums

Custom Import

Import Troubleshooting

Share your custom import file here if you imported successfully, and maybe a detailed explanation for other users. If you need anymore help please reply back and someone will help you.

[abdurhman]

The problem has been resolved
The problem was because of the addition (bbPress Moderation )

But I have another problem which I have added a section Moderation of a particular
It can modification and deletion on all other sections
How can solve the problem and these are made Moderation of powers does not exceed its own partition
How can I add Moderation general , You can manage all sections

[charlfcoetzee]

Hi

I am planning to help a friend move over his forum from websitetoolbox.com to bbpress.

They allow CSV and MySQL exports.

Can you please assist me on how I should go about doing this move.

I know how to handle CSV files, even open phpAdmin but from there on I know just enough to break the system 🙂

If there is a tool or guide to assist me I will defiantly try it out.

Thanks

[Don46]

WP 4.6 BBpress plugin 2.5.10
I am using some of the super BBpress code suggestions at https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/ and most work just fine ‘out of the box’ but I am not sure what I should be putting in place of ‘ my_nav_menu_profile_link’ in this one. If I put in the code as is….

// Filter wp_nav_menu() to add profile link
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_nav_menu_profile_link' );
function my_nav_menu_profile_link($menu) {
    if (!is_user_logged_in())
        return $menu;
    else
        $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
        $user=$current_user->user_nicename ;
        $profilelink = '<li><a href="/forums/users/' . $user . '/edit">Edit Profile</a></li>';
        $menu = $menu . $profilelink;
        return $menu;
  
}

I get this when trying the menu link……
Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
localhost
Apache/2.4.23 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.2h PHP/5.6.24

If I replace the ‘ my_nav_menu_profile_link’ with the actual link like this…..

/* Profile link in menu....................*/
// Filter wp_nav_menu() to add profile link
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/profile.php' );
function http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/profile.php($menu) {
    if (!is_user_logged_in())
        return $menu;
    else
        $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
        $user=$current_user->user_nicename ;
        $profilelink = '<li><a href="/forums/users/' . $user . '/edit">Edit Profile</a></li>';
        $menu = $menu . $profilelink;
        return $menu;
  
}

I get this as soon as I go to the site…

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’, expecting ‘(‘ in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\twentytenchild\functions.php on line 49
What should I be entering and when I move to a live site will it need to be further changed?

[haddlyapis]

Hi,
i have found the plugin “bbpress-login-register-links-on-forum-topic-pages”, which has mostly solved my problem.
The only thing it doesn’t do i redirect back to the forum page after loggin in.
Even better would be to go back to the forum post i was on before clicking “login”.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thx

[Robin W]

ok, I’ve spent several annoying hours trying to work out how to do this, and failed miserably!!

I expect the answer is just a few brief lines of code, and linked to the way bbpress handles both templates and wp-rewrite, but can’t fathom it out in the files

Sorry, but I am having to give up !

[gratefulweb]

This is a super old thread, but I thought I’d post a solution that I used to get by the issue of having to choose a parent forum, when creating a new forum, on the front end of the site.

In my case I just need to default to “NO PARENT” and will never want a user choosing a parent forum when creating a forum. So…

First, put a copy of “form-forum.php” into your child theme (childtheme/bbpress/form-forum.php).

Within form-forum.php, scroll down to the Parent Form label, which has an id of “bbp_forum_parent_id”.

You can comment out then entire bbp_dropdown function and then add an html input field with same name, id and a value of -1.

<input type=”hidden” name=”bbp_forum_parent_id” id=”bbp_forum_parent_id” value=”-1″>

The key part being the value of “-1”

Hope that helps someone!

[Robkk]

Here is for the revision log avatar fix. You can remove the custom CSS you added earlier that I think you tried to fix this issue with. The reply author avatars looked fine yesterday, now today they look small at 24px.

use this code anywhere you can put custom css. I see that you are modifying the bbPress stylesheet, so hopefully you have placed that bbpress.css file in a child theme in a folder called css instead of editing core files.

https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-reply-revision-log img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topic-revision-log img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-template-notice img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_topics img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_replies img.avatar {
  float: none;
  margin: 0;
  vertical-align: middle;
  border: none;
  width: 14px;
  height: auto;
}

[stevexoh]

Hi there,

New to bbPress but couldn’t find an answer to this on another thread.

I want to embed my forum into a page on my self hosted site. I’ve tried using the [bbp-forum-index] shortlink but it displays rather weirdly on the page.

I’ve tried to show what I mean below:

Is there a different shortlink I can use or another way of getting it to show up as I want it to on the page.

Hope that makes sense and apologies if it is a dumb question.

Steve

[SGURYGF]

Hi,

is there any package available with only the changed/updated files? I want to upgrade my customized 2.5.9 BBpress to 2.5.10 but instead of having to re-apply all the customisations I did, I want only to upload the changed files.

Thanks in advance

[Developer 7002]

Hey there

we’ve WordPress site for which we’ve setup BBpress for forum section. Forum section topic threads are not included in the default search. can you please let me know how we can make the changes so we can also have BBpress forum topics as a search result on our site?
http://cathlab.com/

Thanks in advance.