[Robkk]

This is the bbpress.php file that you would need and its required code.

https://gist.github.com/robkk/a89e6cff104f70556f52c6df3f6b69b0

This is the custom CSS you will need.

.bbpress .main-inner,
.bbpress .main {
  background: none !important;
  padding-right: 0 !important;
  padding-left: 0 !important;
}

This will not work for pages with bbPress shortcodes though.

But you can work around that since most shortcodes are supposed to be placed in pages, you can create another template just for full width layouts in your theme. You can use this whenever you create a new page and select the template to use for your page.

To create a full-width template, you can literally just copy the bbpress.php file I created for you, rename it to full-width.php, put it in your child theme, now you need to edit the file and place

<?php
/*
Template Name: Full-Width
*/
?>

right above

<?php get_header(); ?>

You will need more custom css for any page using this template in your theme and it should be

.page-template-full-width .main-inner,
.page-template-full-width .main  {
  background: none !important;
  padding-right: 0 !important;
  padding-left: 0 !important;
}

If you plan to use both, just combine the two custom CSS statements, and now you should be good to go.

[amaros]

It´s WP 4.3.3, PHP 5.3 and bbpress 2.5.9 on a remote server

EDIT: PHP is 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.23

[Robin W]

is this a local server installation?

and also can you tell me what versions of wp, bbpress and php you are using?

[semperaye]

Apparently bbPress doesn’t recognize or work out the latest post (freshness tweak) when you have:

category -> category -> forum -> topic

Unless…there is a reply attached to that topic, then the latest post/topic will show up.

[Robin W]

loop-forums.php is a file that sites on your server, you cannot ‘call it’ from within php.

You access the file using FTP and an editor.

see ‘What is FTP and how do I access it?’ within this link

https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/

[khunmax]

The following CSS works to resolve issues .2 and .3 above:

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list {border:none; color:#INSERTHEXCOLOROFYOURLINKS;}

I am still hopeful to receive some input on 1. .4 and .5 and the best practice question.

Kind Regards

Max

[merlunix]

Got it. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/migrated-from-localhost-and-cant-post-replies-or-topics/

[grant512]

Hi, I installed bbpress and buddypress to use Edit profile function.

I have WP membership plugin and bbp style pack plugin to activate Edit Profile in my header menu, however when I click Edit Profile it doesn’t work and show a 404 error.

I successfully installed it in my other website but using Enfold theme I encountered this issue.

Any thought?

[fpradmin]

I didn’t fix it, it’s just the page I created(using the short code), that I thought would hold the Forums. But apparently it just holds the first page, then once you click something it redirects to the injected instance of the Forums inside of the default Page, with the standard sidebar formatting. This is indicative of the way Hueman theme allows the bbpress forums to work. It works within the Global framework only, and won’t let me keep it on a Page I create. At least that’s the way it appears to be working, and I have seen other posts with the exact same issue, but it seemed everybody eventually had a different way to resolve it. I can’t seem to get anything to work.

[fpradmin]

I’ve been lurking for a week now, and have tried multiple things, to force the Forums to show in Full Width, within the Hueman theme page template.

I have created a bbpress.php page, and this allowed me to get rid of the sidebars, and shows the First Page of the Forums at full width(the way I want it), but when you click one of the Topics, it goes back to the default page template, and the space where the sidebars were, still exists, so the Forums are squished between two blank sidebars. How can I make the Forums/Topics pages spread across the full width of the page? I don’t want to see the sidebars while using the Forums.

Also, I would like to increase the Font size in the Forums to make it more legible to Readers.

I realize all of this is harder to do within the Hueman Theme because the Forums are injected into the default site template, with exception of the First Page(I created), and it may take some css to make it work. I’ve tried a few snippets of css I found in other posts, to no avail. I need some css help specifically with this Hueman theme. I’m not a developer, nor do I really understand child themes, and I’m currently not using any. I would prefer to edit custom css only, rather than my style.css, to avoid breaking things.

Thanks for any help you can offer. FrustratedPaulRevere.com (Link to Forums is at the Top of the Page)

[Robin W]

https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/

[Robin W]

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/developers/

and click the version you want

[Softfolio]

Can somebody pass me a download link for 2.5.8 ver of bbpress? 2.5.9 have a conflict with others plugins, so I think the best will be going back with update 🙂 because it worked fine before.

(2.6 don’t have that problem, but dashboard dont work on topics, etc. )

[khunmax]

I have used the Display Widgets plugin with a great success on a number of sites.

It displays bbpress related pages including Forums, Topics and replies and so is also good to go with BBpress.

However I discover that, even though I tick all of the BBpress related page options provided in the widget it still fails to appears on the user’s edit profile page.

What type of page is the user’s edit profile page and is there some special ID that can be used to identify it.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Kind Regards

Max

[jacklhyde]

Hi and thank you for the reply. I deactivated all plugins except bbpress and activated a standard theme but notzing helped. Do you have any other suggestions?

[khunmax]

Or another possible pinch point is the Tool’s kits option to remove css from non bbpress pages not playing nicely with your css functions?

[kkpb8084]

Hello
I’m trying to create a website which is only a forum. Therefore most recent topics posted will be on the homepage. It’s not being used yet, so there are just a couple of test topics.

I wanted to add a column called ‘Views’, so that there are the headings: Topic + Posts + Views +Voices + Freshness

Can anyone help me to do this? As you’ll see from my website (http://psychiatryadvice.com/), I’ve got the ‘Views’ heading in every topic, and not in the grey box where all the other headings are. This is skewing all the info.

I’ve added the Views information by editing loop-single-topic.php and using the plugin WP-PostViews.

I’m presuming it is a CSS issue I’m not addressing?

using:
WordPress 4.5.2 running twentysixteen-child theme
bbPress 2.5.9-6017

Many thanks.

[winrarz]

SOLUTION!

REMOVED:
add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_content', array( $this, "shortcode_whitelist" ) );
FROM PLUGIN:
bbPress Advanced Statistics, file: class-bbpress-advanced-statistics-extras.php
CAUSE:
Breaks the loading of shortcodes.

I’m hopeful this will help someone else. It seemed to be a problem with the bbPress Advanced Statistics plugin.

[winrarz]

UPDATE 3:
return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_reply_content', $content, $reply_id );
in bbpress/includes/replies/template.php

This code breaks the entire shortcode loading function.

If I patch this to say return $content; it will start working.
Now to see why this happened..

[winrarz]

Hello,

We have a problem on our site with loading shortcodes on /topic/ pages, as you can see in the link below:
http://www.futsverige.se/forums/topic/test/

However, the shortcodes work everywhere else. So the problem seems to be within bbPress suppressing the do_shortcode() calls from the theme.

Anyone knows what could cause this or point us in the right direction on how to circumvent it?

Thanks

[khunmax]

Hey Robin

In the wake of the other issue regarding any user having access to the edit link in all other user profiles,and my inability to resolve it, I had to start over with a vanilla install GP theme and bbpress. Your plugin ran fine but then when I also added the Tool kit the site became buggy. I ran your plugin alone and the problems disappeared, and the same with the toolkit. But when I ran both, bugs returned. I then bit the bullet and made my own functionality plugin and using the BBpress functionality page (and your very kind, prompt, and valuable assistance) I adopted each of the functions and styling that I coveted from your plugin and the toolkit. The site is now bug free.

I am still building and have opened a couple of other threads. Any additional help you may offer is appreciated immensely.

Kind Regards

Max

[khunmax]

Please excuse the length of this post. It seeks information regarding functionality and best practice.

FUNCTIONALITY

I have developed my own functionality plugin for BBpress and would be very grateful if some one could provide me with the functions snippets for the following features:

1. Creating a header and footer for each individual forum in the index list (ala Style kit template option)

2. Removing the vertical bar that appears to the left of the sub-forum list when the following code is used:

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {display: list-item !important;}

3. Removing the commas that appear in the vertical list of the subforums. This looks odd and ugly. My links are style in orange and then at the end of each subforum there is a black comma. Can this comma be removed or can it be styled with css so that its color is the same as the subforum links? If it can be styled what is its unique selector?

4. The BBP toolkit has an option to remove all of the blue and yellow alert/info boxes. What is the snippet for this function?

5. The BBp toolkit has an option to only add css to BBP pages. What is the snippet for this function and is it necessary(or a possible conflict) if I chose to run WP minify?

BEST PRACTICE
This is the first site I have developed with a forum. What is the best practice regarding admin forum content, forum rules is a relevant example. Should I create a forum dedicated to my admin topics (included form rules), or rather, should I just create topics for admin content and make them super sticky (which I understand means they will appear at the top of every forum)

Again my humble apologies for the length of this post. And, as always, thanks very much for anyone render their valuable assistance.

Kind Regards

Max

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[khunmax]

There were features in both the BBp Style Pack and BBpress Toolkit that I desired.

Unfortunately when ever I installed both plugins, my site became buggy. There is a conflict between the two it would seem.

So I bit the bullet and created my own functionality plugin and used it and WP Custom CSS to create each of the features and styling I desired from the Style Pack and the Toolkit.

There are just three features that I couldn’t find any documentation for:

1. Changing the header label Freshness to other wording, and
2. Creating a “create new topic” link.

I am aware that the first of these features is also included in Robins other plugin called Latest Post (or something like that) however that plugin also includes another feature that I do not require (as I have coded my own)

And so my request. Can someone please provide me with:

1. a function snippet to change freshness to other wording
2. a function snippet to add a “create new topic” link at the top of a forum

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Kind Regards

Max

[kjgbriggs]

I am looking to add a button below all forum roots (under where the thread creation form sits) that is only visible when not logged in (it will be a login/register button collection).

Personally, I don’t think this is necessary, I think the notification works fine, but a friend who I am developing this for is pretty insistant of there being something down there for people.

I was wondering on how this would be done so it doesn’t disappear when updating BBPress?

I would rather do this in an external plugin so it can be managed better, but I would need to restrict it so they only appear on BBPress forum root pages, and at the bottom of threads when you aren’t logged in.

Do you have any pointers or examples on how I would prevent something like this from appearing on all pages and only in the areas I have mentioned?