Thanks for your assistance and prompt reply.
It would seem that a good deal of my agony was caused by an error in the documentation page for this website:
I went to:
Shortcodes
Under the subheading “views” I copied the shortcode and then pasted it into the text of my WP page. It appeared as follows:
[bbp-single-view id=’popular’]
I then lost hours trying to get the list of popular posts to appear. Instead I just kept getting the oh bother message.
Turns out that the shortcode has dodgy apostrophes. Once I edited those the shortcode worked:
[bbp-single-view id='popular']
This is a very nasty black hole for those that are unaware.
Without even trying to mess with Robins plugin.
You can just make a copy of the content-single-view.php file put it into a child theme, and then edit out whatever you want.
https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/
You can also use CSS to hide items too. Make sure to use the .bbp-view class for single view pages or if you have a shortcode in a page use this type of class which would work in most themes, but you just need to find the page id, .page-id-ID_NUMBER, replace “ID_NUMBER” with the number or page id of the page. Depending on your set up use any of these classes before any other item selector you are trying to remove.
What he was going for is technically right, he linked to the wrong one though. The RSS setting only affects how many posts in the rss feed, not in the topic/reply lists.
https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/configuring-bbpress/forum-settings/#topics-replies-per-page
Forum Root Slug – forums
Single Forum Slug – PCSCalc
Dynamic forum page – http://www.pcscalculator.com/Forum/
My custom page – http://www.pcscalculator.com/forum/
If you look at my custom page, can someone tell me how to unscrew the breadcrumbs? The bbpress breadcrumbs link back to the default dynamic page.
Anyone have any ideas?
Technically it is not a bug, it is that you just do not want the feature (I am not a fan of it either).
I swear as long as you have enable embeds in the bbPress forum settings and just installed the Disable Embeds plugin, you should not see those specific WordPress post/page embeds that you explained in your earlier post or the ones that are displaying correctly in this post https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/free-wordpress-theme-that-are-bbpress-ready/#post-176073.
Hi,
If you are having a small font for bbPress, then most probably your theme is having a standard small font size. CSS is indeed an option to go, but you will have to check in your environment where you have to copy this part. It might be something like:
#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content {
font-size: 16px;
}
Otherwise you might try plugins like ‘bbp style pack’ to help styling your forum
Pascal.
Hi,
Your WordPress and bbPress version work well together, so I don’t think the issue is on that side. As bbPress is just using WordPress registered users, it is probably a conflict in your theme or one of the other plugins.
Pascal.
Problem:
I want a New Topics page and a Top Ten Topics page for my forum.
What I have done already:
I used Robins shortcode to create the New Topics page set as follows:
[bbp-display-topic-index show=’25’ template=’short’]
It displays nicely with no search bar, breadcrumbs, viewing x topics, or pagination.
I have reviewed Robkks code provided here:
table with most popular topics
The code is as follows:
function rk_top_five_view() {
bbp_register_view( 'top-five', __( '5 Most Popular Topics' ), array(
'meta_key' => '_bbp_reply_count',
'posts_per_page' => '5' ,
' max_num_pages' => '1',
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num' ),
false );
}
add_action( 'bbp_register_views', 'rk_top_five_view' );
Unfortunately the resulting page output includes breadcrumbs, viewing x topics, and pagination. The pagination also links to spurious pages.
What I need help with:
What code do I need to add to Robkks snippet so that the output page is styled the same as the output from Robins shortcode with no breadcrumbs, viewing x topics, or pagination?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Kind Regards
Max
So the plugin you linked to doesn’t really have anything to offer (other than stopping embeds in WP).
Did you try it? That plugin is specifically for those new WordPress post embeds.
THe setting I mentioned in the bbPress forum settings removes all embeds (youtube, flickr) including the WordPress post embeds.
You do not have to use CSS to hide the little post id number.
Did you try the disable embeds plugin? It may not do the forums specifically, just site wide.
Also, can you explain what you meant by “… or use a plugin like functionality. “.?
This plugin its called Functionality, its like a plugin that can hold custom php code snippets.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/functionality/
Thanks for the code. unfortunately it doesn’t work for my website
Both of the code snippets I posted should show the forum search above a single topic, single forum, and in search results. Well unless your custom theme has custom bbPress templates with all the available hooks I am using in my code removed.
can you tell me if its actually worth adding a child theme, if the parent theme is an individually created one by a web design company?
I mean you do not have to.
Hey community!
I just joined BBPress a day ago, and completely alien to it. I basically want to understand how can you increase font size for the forums as its pretty small. Also if you are telling me to do with CSS. Please tell me where can I find CSS and how can I do it? Where to paste codes, I am in urgent help, please support!
Heres my community https://www.evilgamers.gq
Hi Robkk,
Thanks for the code. unfortunately it doesn’t work for my website. Well, I have a vagrant set up on my computer with a copy website and i test everything there before i make real changes.
I made a child theme and a style.css file (this works as my wordpress site recognises it) and i made a functions.php file and added the code you gave me. The thing is, i tried some other code that exists on https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#23-show%c2%a0the-bbpress-forum-search-everywhere and they didnt work either.
any suggestions?
would greatly appreciate any help.
thx
Dan
OK… so the option to uncheck embed is already available in the back end of BBpress at: settings/forum/auto-embed links.
So the plugin you linked to doesn’t really have anything to offer (other than stopping embeds in WP).
Another ham-fisted way around this bug it to use the css:
.bbp-reply-header a.bbp-reply-permalink {display:none}
(which by the way bbpress have done on these forums)
The downsides are:
1. no numbering reference on replies if someone want to quote or link to old reply.
2. In front end profile/replies no link on each reply to take user back to relevant thread.
What do you think is best: display or not display?
Are their any other options?
I dont get this logic, despite if it is only WP logic, not bbPress one.
Maybe I missunderstool it all. New Users (Roles = Subscriber, Participant) have access to add new Posts, and attach them to taxonomies.
Forum Users are forum USers, not Portal editors of Articles.
@stagger-lee you may need to track back and look at any custom code you may have and see if any is granting users specific permissions that would grant your users to be able to do this. Of course your new forum users shouldn’t be able to do this by default. Regular subscribers/participants should only be able to edit their profile usually.
Look into this topic here for some help. Since you are just replacing the voices column you can do without some of the CSS and just put the views code in the voices column.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/create-new-column-for-topic-posts/
You can turn off the revisions in Settings > Forums.
https://codex.bbpress.org/features/revisions/
What kind of information are you looking for, because I don’t feel like linking to any specific sites that I have worked on.
Are you just talking about bbPress in general?
I couldn’t get it to see anything I put in my child theme, because it is accessed through plugins, not themes. I know I’ll have to update the file again manually as soon as I update bbPress.
You don’t need to change anything in bbPress to do this type of thing, just put any template files in a child theme or custom theme package plugin (there is no info on this but this is possible too).
https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/
Also, that plugin only allows you to add new fields, not display existing ones. Doesn’t it seem odd that you would be prompted to enter data in fields on user profile edit, but then not have any of them show on view? By default the user fields should be available to show, at least standard ones like description, website, and social media profiles.
This is the only plugin I can think of that might be easy for some users to display content. If you want contact Robin later in the support forum to see if he would add existing fields to it.
How are some people not caring about this? It just seems so fundamental to me.
There is a plan to add certain fields to the profile page in the future, mostly default existing fields for now.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2570
Use this PHP code place it into a child theme functions.php file or use a plugin like functionality.
//display bbPress search form in search results
function rk_bbp_search_form_in_search_results(){
if ( bbp_allow_search() && bbp_is_search_results() ) {
?>
<div class="bbp-search-form">
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'search' ); ?>
</div>
<?php
}
}
add_action( 'bbp_template_before_search', 'rk_bbp_search_form_in_search_results' );
Also look at this guide.
https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#23-show%c2%a0the-bbpress-forum-search-everywhere
Thats a different forum plugin, but its just an unread posts feature that added the icons. Thre is an unread posts plugin for bbPress that can do the same thing if you use a similar image.
You can use this class before another class in a reply to style the threads.
.bbp-threaded-replies
This class only appears if you enabled threaded replies.
https://codex.bbpress.org/features/reply-threading/
You can disable threaded replies for now to fix the issue, there is currently an issue with some of the responsive styles and some markup that is broken somewhere while activating threaded replies.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2757
There is also a way to keep threaded replies and just changing your layout to a more mobile first layout, but threaded replies has some other issues that users might encounter like not having pagination.
There are a few WordPress themes that you can use.
WP Knowledge Base
Stargazer Colloquium
Eighties
There are also other free themes that add functionality for bbPress here and there.
And there are a few good premium themes on themeforest.
Actually bbPress does not have a “thank you page” instead I think it mostly piggybacks off of the default WordPress registration process and this issue you are talking about seems sort of common, but I think the whole frontend forms bbPress provides are either incomplete functionality or functionality that has broken along the way through upgrades in WordPress or something.
You do not necessarily have to use the frontend forms anyway, as all your users can just the default WordPress registration forms. Or use another plugin for now for frontend forms like Theme My Login.
