[DYTW]

I am keen to create a forum for my 2 websites that have been in existence for over a year in order to entice visitors to hang around and engage each other on key topics that are very dear to me. I originally intended to use MyBB for my 2 websites World Of Leathers and CarBuyerSg but received advice from MyBB forum members that the current different WordPress themes on my websites are not suitable for MyBB and will likely conflict with it.

I downloaded bbPress for both websites but didn’t dare to activate them after it crashed another website of mine that was a one Page website using the free So Simple Theme By Press75. The So Simple theme is one of the cleanest and most basic free WordPress theme available with really clean codes and meant for simple basic websites so I am now really afraid to activate it on my 2 websites that are using premium WordPress themes from Studio Press and Elegant Themes. Does anyone have any experience using bbPress for the Lifestyle Pro Theme by Studio Press or the Divi Theme by Elegant Themes?

[Head Goldfish]

If anyone runs into this wondering the same thing, I got this working using this code:

<?php global $current_user; get_currentuserinfo(); $uid = bbp_get_current_user_id(); ?>
<?php if ( bbp_get_user_topic_subscriptions( $uid ) ) : ?>
    <?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics' ); ?>
    <?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'topics' ); ?>
    <?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics' ); ?>
<?php else : ?>
    <p><?php _e( 'You are not currently subscribed to any topics.', 'bbpress' ); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

Basically you just have to specify the current user’s ID number in the bbp_get_user_topic_subscriptions function. I’m running into another weird problem that I haven’t been able to fix though: If this is in your sidebar and you view a single forum, it will only display the subscribed topics within that forum.

Hope this helps someone.

[marksibly]

It’s just a simple, single forum right now:

“http://monkey2.monkey-x.com/forums/forum/monkey2-development”

(note: quoted because for some reason it doesn’t show up on this forum as plain link?!? The one below works)

Clicking on ‘forums’ takes me to:

http://monkey2.monkey-x.com/forums/

I’m completely new to wordpress/bbpress, although I have written a few simple LAMP sites in the past.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

[Robin W]

not really a bbpress issue

[Robin W]

untested, but try

http://www.finalwebsites.com/forums/topic/how-to-hide-sub-forums-on-the-main-page

or

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/remove-sub-forums-from-forum-list/

[Robin W]

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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Robin W]

Yes, bbpress keeps removing links – bit silly when I’m only trying to help !

try again

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/topic-subscribe/
and

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/reply-subscribed/

[marksibly]

Hi,

I’ve just successfully setup my first bbPress forum!

It works, except that if I navigate ‘up’ to the ‘forums’ page using the breadcrumb trail, I get an unusual looking page that just says ‘bbForums’ followed by something like:

“Search for: Home › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness Monkey2 Development Monkey2 Development Discussion 0 0 No Topics Monkey2 Development Monkey2 Development Discussion 0 0 No Topic”

No apparent layout and no links in there.

I assume this is supposed to be a forum list, but it looks messed up. Any idea what I’ve done wrong?

Bye,
Mark

[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.