[marksibly]

Hi,

I’m new to both wordpress and bbpress, and am having a few problems customzing a theme for my forums.

I am copying ‘page.php’ (or ‘index.php’ in the case of stargazer) to ‘bbpress.php’ and editing that.

Mainly, I just want to get rid of the posts/navbar stuff and have full width forums. However, I seem to need to remove get_footer() to achieve this (there doesn’t seem to be a get_nav() or get_sidebar() in either theme I’ve tried) – but doing this causes odd side effects.

In the case of the ‘stargazer’ theme, removing the footer causes extra ‘>’ chars to be inserted into the forum breadcrumb trail. Forums are still only about 60% of page width too.

In the case of the ‘twentyfifteen’ theme, it causes the theme to go into some weird mode where a bunch of HUGE links suddenly appears on the left of the page.

Can anyone suggest a good ‘starter’ theme for me to play with, along with possibly hints for how to get a ‘clean’ forum page?

Apart from this, setting up bbpress has been a breeze!

Bye!
Mark

[Robin W]

the problem seems to be in your custom-css

#bbpress-forums .bbp-body div.bbp-reply-content {
    clear: both;
    margin: 10px;
    padding: 0;
}

is moving the text down – take this out and it appears in the right place

[Christian Freeman (codelion)]

Hi guys,

I’m having a major issue with bbPress, and I hope you can help.

Basically, when I have bbPress active on one of my sites (I am running a multisite), it slows ALL pages in the WP Admin down to the point where the page never loads, it just times out. The only way that I can do anything in the backend (Edit settings, pages, posts, themes, etc.) is to deactivate bbPress.

But it doesn’t make sense that bbPress would be running on EVERY page. Do you guys have any idea on how to fix this?

Thanks,

[graphiclux]

Thanks. It would be such an easy thing for bbPress to add too. I will need to fork it out. Do you know of any good tutorials to do this, I am not sure how much customization I will need to do compared to the widget code already.

Thanks again,

[esigners]

Hi All,
I have installed latest bbPress in our website. We have few users on our site as subscribers role. What I need that if admin post any topic from backend then all the users of our site get automatically subscribed of that topic or they will get automatic email notification as new forum topic is posted.

I have tried this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-notify/ as well as different tricks mentioned in different forums but nothing works.

So, if anyone provide any solution or suggestion, I will be thankful.

[Robin W]

no simple way to do this in your functions file, the bbpress widgets are pretty unforgiving in allowing you to tinker with them.

two immediate choices – fork the widgets code into your functions file and rename it – requires some php and WordPress knowledge or
Just amend it in the bbpress file – AND make a note to need to change it on bbpress upgrades.

The latter upsets the purists, but it’s only codes and you can’t be arrested for changing code !

[graphiclux]

I am looking for a way to update my functions.php file to add a dynamic additional class to the bbPress Forums List Widget. Basically I would like the current code of:

<li><a class="bbp-forum-title" href="<?php bbp_forum_permalink( $widget_query->post->ID ); ?>"><?php bbp_forum_title( $widget_query->post->ID ); ?></a></li>

I would like to add an additional dynamic class or ID to the link. I want to do this so I can add different background images to each forum if I choose through CSS.

Thanks!

[ZivotsRS]

Hello,
I’m sorry, I do not speak English 🙂
Still, I created a translation for bbPress 2.5.8 and some of its extensions (Ultimate Member – Profile Completeness 1.1.9 and other working). Translation into the Czech language, already tested. Can be add it somewhere?
Plus I found a bug in the Czech translation, which is in the profiles – is possible fix it somewhere?

I’m sorry, but I’m almost blind, so I hard to find answers.

Thank you for your advice.
Mějte se krásně, Vendulka

[Stephen Edgar]

Strange, can you open bbpress-cs.po in a text editor and confirm that these exist in the .po file:

The original string:
• Your username must be unique, and cannot be changed later.

The “waiting” string for the “dev” (2.6-alpha) translations
• Vaše přezdívka musí být unikátní a nejde později změnit.

The “waiting” string for the “stable” (2.5.x) translations
• Vaše uživatelské jméno musí být jedinečné, a nelze ho měnit.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi macms,
Can this help you ?
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/problem-getting-forum-full-width/
Pascal.

[macms]

I have read other posts regarding the alignment of bbPress after removing the R side bar in a theme. I would like to center the forum on this page. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

http://copdcommunity.org/forums/

WP version 4.4
Theme Twenty Sixteen 1.0
bbPress version 2.5.8-5815
bbp style pack 2.8.4
bbP Toolkit 1.0.5

I created bbpress.php and placed it in the theme root dir to remove the R sidebar.

<?php
get_header(); ?>
<div id="main-content">
	<div class="container">
		<div id="content-area" class="clearfix">
			<div>
			<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
				<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
					<h1 class="main_title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
					<div class="entry-content">
					<?php the_content(); ?>
					</div> <!-- .entry-content -->
				</article> <!-- .et_pb_post -->
			<?php endwhile; ?>
			</div>
		</div> <!-- #content-area -->
	</div> <!-- .container -->
</div> <!-- #main-content -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>

[Robin W]

Do you still have a problem?

I am unsure from your various rants what exactly the issue is – I need a problem definition to be able to help, and don’t know from your name ‘iapologizepleasedeleteme’ whether you have now fixed your issue.

If you still have the problem then – given that you have been pressing lots of buttons – I would suggest you contact you host provider and ask then to revert your site to a previous backup – almost all host providers take backups every 24 hours. This will get you site working again.

I would then invest some time in creating a test site – to do development in your live site is just stupid, as you have found out. See https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/testing-your-bbpress-installation/creating-a-test-site/

[kepilif]

I try to move a forum of users, topics, etc. Forum Invision v.2.3.6 is bbPress 2.5.8. I display the following messages:

No stickies to stick
No topics to convert
No forum parents to convert
No forums to convert
No passwords to clear
No users to convert
No data to clean

What I did.
1) I exported MySQL database from the old server
2) ive loaded the mysql database on the target server with the installed version of WordPress / bbPress
3) I turned on the importer

Can you advise me something?

[spec_ps]

hi,

i am novice, so i need more support and suggestion more than others…..

i have installed Gazette (Automattic) theme and then bbpress plugin and some of things as said in https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/ …. but its not working. i cant see any bbpress template-pages or other things….

can you able to help me out on the same….

thanks…

[aadly]

Hi guys ,

I want my bbpress to have the same design used here which mean the first post should be highlighted then the other comments below it

How can I do it ?

[haans]

I found the culprit!

The file in questioned is “content-single-forum.php” in “bbpress”.

Removing the line below solves the problem.
<?php bbp_forum_subscription_link(); ?>

[haans]

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 3

The usage of child theme is to avoid overwriting any customization that you have done to your site by a theme/plugin upgrades. So you maintain a separate set of files in different folder than the out of box themes or plugins. This way whenever there are new upgrades and get pushed and overwrite your files, it won’t overwrite whatever customization you had.

[Robin W]

suggest you try their support forums, as they have experience of bbpress (they use it for their support forum), whereas I doubt if any of the mods on here have looked at their plugin.

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/event-espresso-decaf

and

https://eventespresso.com/support/forums/

[matousch]

Thank you, this way of export works fine and there are czech strings correctly translated in language files now. I renamed them to bbpress-cs.po and bbpress-cs.mo and have it inserted to folders:

/matia.info/wp-content/languages/bbpress
/matia.info/wp-content/languages/plugins
/matia.info/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/languages

The strings at my page http://www.objasnujeme.cz/registrace/ are unfortunately still only in english “Your username must be unique, and cannot be changed later.” instead of “Vaše uživatelské jméno musí být jedinečné, a nelze ho později měnit.”.

[haans]

I am using a child themes. I read your instructions on setting up the child themes configuration. I copied the folder
Souce:wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress
Destination: /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/bbpress/

Bbpress will normally use the default files found at
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress

However if you create a directory in your child theme at
/wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/bbpress/
(where %your-theme% is your child theme’s name)
then any files stored there will be used instead.

Thereafter, there appears two “unsubscribe” button in the forum. Before copying the “bbpress” folder to the child-theme, I only see one unsubscribe.

http://goforcrumbs.com/forums/forum/intro/

[Head Goldfish]

@tkserver How are you calling the data outside the bbPress framework? I’m trying to figure out how to display a list of the logged-in user’s subscriptions in my sidebar, but I can’t figure out how to get the bbPress loop to work on other pages. It doesn’t even work on the Forum pages, only when I’m viewing the User Profile.

[Stephen Edgar]

I think for Czech the files should be bbpress-cs.mo and bbpress-cs.po

When you export the translations from translate.wordpress.org you should also change a couple of the defaults:

• Make sure the filter Current/waiting/fuzzy + untranslated (All) is showing the waiting translation

• Select the only matching the filter and then click export to export the .po .mo (This way you’ll get the those strings that have not yet been approved)

[Stephen Edgar]

Theres some docs here that should help you in troubleshooting these issues:

Import Troubleshooting

Can I also suggest you use the development version of bbPress, there are some pretty big improvements for the importer in this upcoming version 😉
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/developers/
https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Naerean,
Are you running WordPress 4.4 ? Then wait a little bit for the 4.4.1 fix as the current version has some issues with hidden forums.
If you cannot wait, then check the following discussion: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/oops-that-page-cant-be-found-on-sub-forums/page/3

Pascal.

[Robin W]

SUMMARY OF ISSUE AND TEMPORARY FIXES

So summary to save people needing to read this whole thread

There is an issue with WordPress 4.4 and bbpress which should (hopefully) be fixed by WordPress 4.4.1 when it is released.

The issue only affects sub forums that are private or hidden, when you will get a 404 error as the url cannot be correctly interpreted.

For those interested:

The root cause of the issue is hierarchal post URL’s with custom post statuses, so in bbPress case if we have a “private” forum that uses a custom post status “private”, as such when we expect our URL to be e.g.: https://example.com/forums/forum/my-private-or-hidden-category/my-forum

If the forum or category my-private-or-hidden-category is private or hidden then the URL generated for the my-forum excludes the my-private-or-hidden-category part of the URL and the resulting url is https://example.com/forums/forum/my-forum which is incorrect, bad and makes us sad

To fix in the meantime you have 4 choices

either
a. Stay with 4.4 then implement the following
open wp-includes/post.php, scroll to about line 4300 to find function get_page_uri( $page )
In that function replace

if ( 'publish' === $parent->post_status ) {

with

if ( ! empty( $parent ) ) {

If you try this, please advise if this doesn’t fix for you.
or
b. Change your sub forums to main forums – it is only sub forums that are affected
or
c. In theory you could just make your private forums public, but suspect you have them private for a reason !
or
d. Revert to 4.3 and then for each forum affected change the status from private/hidden to public, save and then change back to how you want it and save.