[elsoar]

Please; How can I install a template for forum only, not blog too.
I mean bbPress template only.
Also, I want a simple, fast, and SEO friendly theme.
TIA

[cclemens]

I’m using bbPress on a site with multiple forums. Normally I have no reason whatsoever to be in the forums or aware of what’s happening in them. EXCEPT if someone has posted and it goes a few days without a response then I’m supposed to be aware of it.

Is there any creative means to get a notification of a post that has been made say three days ago and hasn’t yet received a response?

[rinh]

That’s an interesting plugin. But agree gutenberg gets a little convoluted when only used as a text editor.

What I had in mind was being able to add some of the bbPress widgets to the page having the forum root shortcode. These widgets doesn’t seem to appear in gutenberg.

[rinh]

It would be good indeed, FSE looks like the future of WordPress.

I just started so I don’t know much, and I think I’ll be in forever learning 😉 I think a template part that is the forum would work best though, but I could be completely wrong on that. I can type down what I’ve got so far though.

From what I’ve gathered so far (I could be wrong on some things here). There are several kinds of templates, for example Archive and Single. Single displays the layout for single posts and that seem to be what all pages except forum root are.

Simply put the templates work in that way you build a layout using the block editor where you can put in single post parts like post title, post content and so on. In Elementor I made a Single with just post content and magically the post content would display the forum on the front-end.

bbPress forum root appear to be an archive, but since it has a shortcode forum root wouldn’t need anything more I think.

The FSE recognise custom post types and you can make Single templates for those. I’m not sure if bbPress is a custom post type, but if it is and FSE would recognise it that would’ve solved it all.

Hope that makes any sense.

[Robin W]

it would be good to get bbpress working with FSE.

I am guessing that we would need either a template part that is the forums, or a forum ‘block’ .

If you are deep enough into FSE to articulate how it might work, I could do some digging.

But yes, I have probably had to grapple with a dozen ‘editors’ that various clients have been using, most of which are far superior to FSE, so whilst I do use it on some simple non bbpress sites, I haven;t really tried to get it to do anything clever, or used an FSE theme.

[rinh]

Unfortunately I don’t think any of them is close or can just be cloned.

[bbp-forum-index] – This one works well and can add the forum root anywhere.

But then there’s Forums or Categories, Sub forums and topics/replies themselves. These pages seem to all be seen as ‘posts’ by WordPress, why making a posts template worked in Elementor for all of them. FSE templates seem to ignore bbPress entirely though.

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] – This one do make it possible to add single forums anywhere, but not if they’re inside a forum Category. Would also need one page for each forum which would get a little crazy. I don’t know if this one could be tweaked into something more advanced.

What would be needed is shortcodes for displaying forum Category pages in general, as well as their sub forum pages where the topics are listed. And then all the topic/replies pages too.

All that sound too difficult to be honest.

[wpturk]

Hi Robin, Thx for the info. Done.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3540#ticket

[Robin W]

presume you are familiar with all these

Shortcodes

[rinh]

Hi
I’m looking into the possibility to move a community site from using Elementor Pro to WordPress own Full Site Editing and block theme.

I’m curious if anyone has figured out how to apply templates to the forums and topics themselves. The forum root works fine though because it has a shortcode.

In Elementor I worked it out by making a single post template and then exclude posts and custom post types from it, but in FSE it doesn’t seem possible to apply any templates to bbPress at all.

Thank you in advance

[Robin W]

Can you add a ticket to the trac system

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

[Robin W]

I spent a couple of hours yesterday hunting down the issue.

This code fixes it :

add_filter ('astra_single_layout_one_banner_visibility', 'astra_bbpress_fix', 50) ;

function astra_bbpress_fix ($value) {
	if( class_exists( 'bbpress' ) ) {
		if (bbp_is_single_user()) return false ;
		if (bbp_is_search()) return false ;
	}
return $value ;
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[Robin W]

I spent a couple of hours yesterday hunting down the issue.

This code fixes it :

add_filter ('astra_single_layout_one_banner_visibility', 'astra_bbpress_fix', 50) ;

function astra_bbpress_fix ($value) {
	if( class_exists( 'bbpress' ) ) {
		if (bbp_is_single_user()) return false ;
		if (bbp_is_search()) return false ;
	}
return $value ;
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[Robin W]

I spent a couple of hours yesterday hunting down the issue.

This code fixes it :

add_filter ('astra_single_layout_one_banner_visibility', 'astra_bbpress_fix', 50) ;

function astra_bbpress_fix ($value) {
	if( class_exists( 'bbpress' ) ) {
		if (bbp_is_single_user()) return false ;
		if (bbp_is_search()) return false ;
	}
return $value ;
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[Robin W]

Apologies for the delay is responding to this.

Assuming you are ok with FTP, then

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-anonymous.php

transfer this to your pc and edit to remove

<p>
			<label for="bbp_anonymous_email"><?php esc_html_e( 'Mail (will not be published) (required):', 'bbpress' ); ?></label><br />
			<input type="text" id="bbp_anonymous_email"   value="<?php bbp_author_email(); ?>" size="40" maxlength="100" name="bbp_anonymous_email" />
		</p>

		<p>
			<label for="bbp_anonymous_website"><?php esc_html_e( 'Website:', 'bbpress' ); ?></label><br />
			<input type="text" id="bbp_anonymous_website" value="<?php bbp_author_url(); ?>" size="40" maxlength="200" name="bbp_anonymous_website" />
		</p>

and save

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/form-anonymous.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

Alternately if this all confuses you, I can do this as a plugin, but it would be a paid bit of work (but not expensive) – contact me via http://www.rewweb.co.uk/contact-me/

[wpturk]

It’s tedious to change alert styles in bbpress because there is no filter (apply_filter) for ”bbp-template-notice” class. In function: bbp_template_notices()

Many of us are using css frameworks (like bootstrap etc…) and would be great to use the framework css classes instead.

Any chances to get this in 2.7?

[valarcher]

Hi Robin – yes, if I do a ctrl-U on the forum page in bbpress, I see it. Oh I just clicked edit on each forum in wordpress and found it there and deleted it, so now they display correctly. I have *no* idea why astra adds all that junk html after title & descr, another bug!

[Robin W]

that is the wordpress profile.

so you will fix that part by

Profile & Dashboard fields [Modify/Disable/Remove]

There is also a bbpress profile, but you are using the astra theme, and there is a bug which astra know about which stops it working – it just goes to a page with a permanent loop

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bbpress-user-profile-broken-on-latest-update/

you get to a bbpress profile by clicking the username in the forums.

You can turn this off using

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Profile

[valarcher]

>wordpress profile or bbpress profile ?? There’s a bbpress profile? When I installed bbpress into astra wordpress theme, it displays the normal wordpress profile page when a person clicks on their name in the upper right, e.g. I added you as a forum participant:

login at: https://greensmoothie.com/forums

It’s that email I’d like to prevent users from changing.

Where’s the bbpress profile?

[Robin W]

if wordpress

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/11717/prevent-users-from-changing-their-email-address

if bbpress

Prevent users from changing email

[Robin W]

so is this wordpress profile or bbpress profile- in essence give me the url of your profile page

[valarcher]

Problem is I need it to display like this:

Challenge Question — Private
What’s your number one challenge related to eating high-raw plant-strong?
Edit | Close | Trash | View

High-Raw Plant-Strong Life — Private
Ask questions, share your knowledge of the high-raw plant-strong lifestyle
Edit | Close | Trash | View

And instead its displaying like this:

Challenge Question — Private
What’s your number one challenge related to eating high-raw plant-strong? <div id=”highlighter–hover-tools” style=”display: none;”> <div id=”highlighter–hover-tools–container”> <div class=”highlighter–icon highlighter–icon-copy” title=”Copy”></div> <div class=”highlighter–icon highlighter–icon-change-color” title=”Change Color”></div> <div class=”highlighter–icon highlighter–icon-delete” title=”Delete”></div> </div> </div> <div id=”highlighter–hover-tools” style=”display: none;”> <div id=”highlighter–hover-tools–container”> <div class=”highlighter–icon highlighter–icon-copy” title=”Copy”></div> <div class=”highlighter–icon highlighter–icon-change-color” title=”Change Color”></div> <div class=”highlighter–icon highlighter–icon-delete” title=”Delete”></div> </div> </div> <div id=”highlighter–hover-tools” style=”display: none;”> <div id=”highlighter–hover-tools–container”> <div class=”highlighter–icon highlighter–icon-copy” title=”Copy”></div> <div class=”highlighter–icon highlighter–icon-change-color” title=”Change Color”></div> <div class=”highlighter–icon highlighter–icon-delete” title=”Delete”></div> </div> </div>
Edit | Close | Trash | View

How do I tell bbpress to NOT display all that html?

[Robin W]

this appears to be the problem reported to Astra

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bbpress-user-profile-broken-on-latest-update/

[valarcher]

Hi – I’m getting a ton of unwanted html on the Forums page between each forum title. I need it to display *only* the title and description — same way only title is displayed on Posts and Pages — not all that junk html. Astra says it’s not coming from their theme.

Does anyone know why bbpress does this, and how to solve it? Thanks!

Here’s the image: https://imgbox.com/WYiTWGnW

[valarcher]

Hi Robin – thanks million for renaming title. That php works perfectly. Sadly the other problem of 1/3-col doesn’t work addressing #bbpress-forums. It works if I target the entire page, then every forum title like this:
#post-9486,#bbp-forum-9475,#bbp-forum-9473,etc {width:100%;}
but the moderator doesn’t have access to css so won’t be able to add every forum to css when she creates it.

I’ll carry on hounding astra for solution. Otherwise worst case scenario I just set blog archives to 1 column.

While I have you… your code here:
/** bbPress: add description under forum titles
https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/ */

function rw_singleforum_description() {
  echo '<div class="bbp-forumpage-content">';
  echo bbp_forum_content();
  echo '</div>';
}
add_action( 'bbp_template_before_single_forum' , 'rw_singleforum_description');

You have the first echo as “bbp-forum-content” but by changing it to “forumpage-content”, we’re able to target the description on index page and description on forum page separately in css, eg. on forum pages I have it red bold and centered, whereas on index page I have it in regular left-aligned text.

Thanks million for all the work you put into the codex! I’m not keen on installing plugins such as your style pack, so codex is really helpful finding just the php I need.

Do you perhaps have any solution to this code? I’m trying to grey out the user’s email on their profile page so they can’t update it. But I need users to update other info like website and bio. However with code below, if I test writing words in bio (as a logged in participator, not as keymaster) and try saving it, I get “Error: Please enter an email address.” I can see the email greyed out there.

Do you know a way to fix it so ONLY the email and role can NOT be changed (although role does not even display on a participant user’s page) and everything else can be edited? (except for username of course)

/** bbPress/WP: prevents subscriber from changing email (greyed out)
https://www.role-editor.com/hide-disable-wordpress-user-profile-fields/ */

add_action('admin_init', 'user_profile_fields_disable');
function user_profile_fields_disable() {
global $pagenow;
// apply only to user profile or user edit pages
if ($pagenow!=='profile.php' && $pagenow!=='user-edit.php') {
return;
}
// do not change anything for the administrator
if (current_user_can('administrator')) {
return;
}
add_action( 'admin_footer', 'user_profile_fields_disable_js' );
}
/**
* Disables selected fields in WP Admin user profile (profile.php, user-edit.php)
*/
function user_profile_fields_disable_js() {
?>
<script>
jQuery(document).ready( function($) {
var fields_to_disable = ['email', 'role'];
for(i=0; i<fields_to_disable.length; i++) {
if ( $('#'+ fields_to_disable[i]).length ) {
$('#'+ fields_to_disable[i]).attr("disabled", "disabled");
}
}
});
</script>
<?php
}

I know nothing about php – other than simple stuff like seeing I can change forum-content to forumpage-content!

[Robin W]

This is one of the new FSE themes, so you need a fix to work with bbpress.
install

bbp style pack

once activated, navigate to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack, and you should see the first tab called ‘Theme Support’ – if you don’t see this, come back.

In that tab, select

Enable Theme Support

and save

The forums should then display