See if this custom CSS will help. Add it to your child themes style.css file or in a custom css plugin or wherever you can place custom CSS.
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form textarea {
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
@davidschwartzer,
Happy to see you are getting where you want.
To close this from my side, I have found a hardcoded folder name, so that’s probably why the css is not correctly loaded. I see in your source : <link rel='stylesheet' id='bbpmsclosednogrey-css' href='http://appletechtalk.com/wp-content/plugins/bbp-manage-subscriptions/css/closednogrey.css?ver=4.3.1' type='text/css' media='all' /> but most probably your folder is not called ‘bbp-manage-subscriptions’, right ? For this version, please rename the folder under the plugins folder and reactivate. Will be fixed in next version.
Enjoy bbpress !
Pascal.
Wow thank you very much, that really helpful. i use make bbpress.php file on my theme so it’s work like a charm.
@jrunfitpro
Sorry for the late reply.
Since you said it is not a plugin issue causing it and you have done other troubleshooting to see if a code snippet in a theme could be causing it, create a test user, just a participant/subscriber user, then you can deactivate bbPress so I can see the issue you are getting. Contact me through email so that you do not need to post login details on the forum.
Contact
@bdsand
If you have already done some troubleshooting and have not found an issue, you can let me test to see what could be causing the issue too.
I fixed this by removing the New UI plugin for bbpress. Thanks for the reply.
Oh no problem. 🙂
The slug issue was really created by how you set up your forums at first because your theme wouldn’t display them right.
The other issue with the login register links showing up twice is because of the bbPress new ui plugin and how they try to implement a hierarchy and category layout for users.
I am having the same problem. I deactivated bbpress and now can no longer access the dashboard. There is no error message displayed, the screen simply turns gray and I cannot access anything on the dashboard. I am not even sure how to reactivate the plugin since I cannot access the plugin screen.
Please advise! Thank you.
The site is: http://www.englishhound.com
Could be an issue with theme compatibility in bbPress. To get around that make a bbpress.php file in your theme.
Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template
You can see what WordPress conditionals affect what bbPress pages by using the test that is explain in this ticket from the user. Or you can check the theme compat file in bbPress.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2723
Robkk:
I think with your help I am making real progress. Here is what I have done so far.
1. I put the bbpress.php file you created into the bbpress directory in my child theme.
2. I removed the Apple Tech Talk Forums from the Forums list
3. I removed the Forums menu item created by bbPress and created a menu item as a Custom link.
4. Maybe I said it wrong but I agree that Hardware, Software, etc. should be categories and OS X, iOS be the forums. I think I had a problem setting them up originally. In any case, I deleted those top levels and created new categories and moved the forum topics into the new categories.
Based on all of that, I think this looks much cleaner and the slugs seem to be what was originally described but you may want to take a look and let me know if I need to do more.
The full width forums look nice but it does remove the ability to register and/or log in to the forums and also removes some of the display ads. (I am using a plug-in to change the look a little bit as the css I originally used to make the forums show vertically isn’t working anymore. Would yu be able to tell me what line(s) in the file I would change if I want to go back to a right side bar like the rest of the pages?
That said, with the forums being full width, what is your suggestion to provide a way to log in or register for the forums while on those pages?
I do have a plug-in called “Bbpress Login Register Links On Forum Topic Page”, which does as it says but it now causes everything to be duplicated across the top as you will see if you look at the page. (this is new behavior). Do you have a suggestion for how to deal with this?
Last question (I think), you said the bbpress.php you wrote corrects a problem with this theme. If I ever want to change themes will I still be able to use this file? I suppose I can see if a new theme has issues. If not, I guess I am OK. If I do, can I use this file as is or does it need to be modified for each theme?
Thank you again for all of your help. You have made the forums look 100 times better and the Oh Bother box is no longer, well, a bother. I appreciate your help.
Did you place the forum index shortcode into a static WordPress page?? Does clearing cache fix the issue??
Troubleshooting
@davidschwartzer
It is blank on the forum root because of the theme. Use this bbpress.php file I just created and plop it in your theme preferably a child theme to fix that issue. I also fixed an issue where the user profiles also lead to a blank page.
It also makes your forums full-width, I didn’t really know if you wanted full-width forums but I just created you full-width forums haha. (I could change it to a sidebar layout if want.)
https://gist.github.com/robkk/b97ff7d7655080cbcaab
For the top level I created a Forum called Apple Tech Talk Forums.Under that, I have forums for General Discussion, Hardware and Software. Those forums point to the Apple Tech talk Forums as the Parent.
You do not need to do that anymore since I just fixed the forum root page for you.
Within those forums I have set up categories like Desktop, Portable, etc. It’s within those categories that topics would be created.
I think it is better for you to have Software as a category and say IOS as a forum for example.
I tried to remove the Apple Tech Talk Forums from the Forums list but then I get a 404 error if I go to the Forums tab on the site.
Just change the menu link url to a custom link that leads to /forums on your site.
Hi. I’m working with bbpress in a child theme, and I’m having a couple of strange issues in a remote environment that I think I can’t reproduce locally.
One is related to Profile pages. If I log as a certain user and then visit other user profile (in my case, the administrator profile), the displayed page may not be the correct one. Let me explain:
I worked with admin user a lot, but sometimes I log with a subscriber role in order to develop different contents, meaning the admin can see things than subscribers cannot. Well, being a subscriber suddenly I can see button that I shouldn’t see when visiting the admin page. And more: the “welcome username” message is wrong, showing the admin name instead of the subscriber.
Conclusion: some pages are some-way cached. Editing them via FTP and saving again the files solves the issue.
Second issue: the topic count (bbp_forum_topic_count method) sometimes displays the wrong number of topics if I previously deleted some. In my case, I deleted 5 topics. But the counter was wrong. So I went to Topics->Trash, removed just one permanently an now to count works just fine.
So, for this second issue I’d like to know if there’s a bbpress cache for counting or something.
Notice my remote environment doesn’t have any cache enabled. And I don’t have any wordpress cache plugin installed. And also as I’m developing I have rules in .htaccess to avoid cache as much as I can. But anyway something is going on and I can’t trust my installation until I discover what it is.
Thanks in advance.
@davidschwartzer
I will try to test out your theme (Simplecatch) to see if it is causing any issues, then come back to you with any solutions.
You can reactivate bbPress New UI plugin and use the CSS you had again as of course those plugins were not causing an issue.
Perhaps I added a page or category in a way I wasn’t supposed to. I tried to follow the step by step guide on the bbPress site but clearly I did something wrong.
This may be why your forum root page /forums is blank for some reason, but I will check it out.
Pascal:
Thank you for your feedback. I will certainly try your plug-in. That said, I am concerned that I have a major error in my bbPress set-up. I want it to be right and if that means staring over I am willing to do that.
I did not change any of the slugs when I set up the Forum. Perhaps I added a page or category in a way I wasn’t supposed to. I tried to follow the step by step guide on the bbPress site but clearly I did something wrong.
Can you provide any guidance on what I need to do to fix this problem or, if I start over, what I should do to configure it properly?
Regards,
David
@casiepa
Per forum moderation is in 2.6 alpha if I remember correctly. So I assume it should ship with 2.6.
In my reply in that topic I got my information from the bbPress milestone roadmap, and also the feature was not complete til about 3 months ago, 3 months before that reply.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap
Huh didn’t know Robin’s plugin could do that, that’s pretty cool.
I digged a bit further because I was almost sure that it could do it… and it seems so. Check out https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/
According to https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/per-forum-permissions-by-group/page/5/ v1.7 had : Moderators can now be set to moderate all forums or just their group ones (plus any open forums)
To be tested of course if it helps with your question.
Pascal.
I forgot you are using the Responsive theme and you shouldn’t get the same issue as some other theme frameworks.
Remove your CSS and use this code for your bbpress.php file. It should work fine and be full width for your bbPress pages.
https://gist.github.com/robkk/8a2a01a4d0e7d29c9d12
Robkk:
Thanks for your note. Let me respond to some of your questions with what I know (which isn’t much).
I created the forum by trying to follow the steps in the Step by Step guide provided on the bbPress site. I have not done any editing of the template other than adding some css to make the topics flow in a list, rather than horizontally as is the default layout and also to change the comment text to black instead of gray. I am also using a couple of plug-ins. One is called bbPress New UI which changes the basic layout but doesn’t seem to otherwise change the forum plug-in. The other is called Bbpress Login Register Links On Forum Topic Pages, which does what the title says.
I am not using a child theme currently but I have deactivated all of the plug-ins so what you should now see is the default bbPress forum that is created.
I hope this is helpful. Let me know if you need anything else from me to help figure this out.
I am new to WordPress and bbPress and clearly have a lot to learn. I appreciate your assistance with all of this.
Regards,
David
@davidschwartzer
Your forum urls for each section is weird for some reason. Have you added a slug that is something like this forums/forum for the forum root slug in Settings > Forums in the WordPress backend?
Your forums archive page is blank and only showing a sidebar login widget.
appletechtalk.com/forums/
Yet strangely here is how your forum archive should look like and yet it is in a single forum page. Since this is a single forum page there is a reason there is this notice, as single forums should have topics and not a forum archive. I think you could have possibly echoed a forum index shortcode in the single forum bbPress template?? I am not sure though, I am just guessing.
Oh bother! No topics were found here!
appletechtalk.com/forums/forum/forums/
A single forum page should have this by default.
yoursite.com/forums/forum/forum-name/
Or if you have categories
yoursite.com/forums/forum/category-name/forum-name
Your topics are fine though.
appletechtalk.com/forums/topic/notes-not-syncing/
I am not sure how much template editing you may have done, but can you rename your bbpress folder in your child theme to like bbpress-1 so I could see without any template edits what were your original issues then I can try to help you on that.
Sorry you had to start over, but glad you got bbPress working fine on your site.
Make sure to take regular backups, so that you do not have to just redo everything and just restore to a previously saved backup.
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
Backing up your Database and Files
Hello,
I used underscores with bbpress. i just apple some CSS and HTML not adding any special function. And when i visit my forum. I only see the forum’s name topis number post number. But it dont have any HTML warped. Please give me a solution me.
thankg for helping me.
Thank you very much. I did set up the bbpres.php template on the basis of page.php – the same way as I did in my test site. However, this does not work for the user profile at all on the live site for some strange reason. Just now I found a workaround by using CSS – not sure if this is the correct way. But I would really like to know what the bbpress.php works for all pages except the user page. The CSS I used is:
body.bbp-user-page.single.singular.bbpress div#content.grid.col-620 {
width: 100%;
}
body.bbp-user-page.single.singular.bbpress div#widgets.grid.col-300.fit {
display: none;
}
Please let me have your thoughts.
I do not think there is any plugins for this but this functionality should be in the 2.6 version of bbPress.
Here is the trac ticket.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/459
