[debatingday]

I like this site style
But i can’t find bbpress.org style theme
Where i do find this site forum style theme?

[Chad R. Schulz]

I know this is an old post. However, I’ve been screwing around with various javascript suggestions from other forums and came up with a solution that works (no problems yet discovered). I’m not exactly a code ninja, so if anyone can help to streamline the code let me know.

Just insert the following lines into a custom javascript for your theme (if you need guidance on this there’s a lot of help available all over wordpress.org and other forums).

jQuery(function($) {
	var forum_input = $( '#bbpress-forums textarea' );
	var forum_button = $( '#bbpress-forums .submit' );
	var forum_limit = 50;
	var forum_class = $( '<div class="forum_limit_info"><span>' + forum_limit + 
	    '</span> characters needed</div>' ).insertAfter( forum_input );
	forum_button.hide();
	forum_class.show();
	
	forum_input.bind( 'keyup', function() {
		var forum_length = $(this).val().length;
		var chars_left = forum_limit - forum_length;

		$( '.forum_limit_info span' ).html( chars_left );

		if (forum_input)
			( chars_left > 0 ) ? forum_class.show() : forum_class.hide();
		
		if (forum_button)
			( chars_left > 0 ) ? forum_button.hide() : forum_button.show();
	});
});

Basically this function hides the submit button and displays a countdown text counter until the minimum length is reached and then the button appears and the counter disappears.

There are ways of hard-coding a minimum into php but I believe you have to edit core files and then insert these modified php files into a child theme. I couldn’t figured out how to insert a simple php function that would do what I wanted in a clean and simple way. So javascript it is.

The forum_limit setting can be anything you want it to be, just change it. And you can customize your topics and replies minimums separately, if needed, with separate javascript functions using textarea#bbp_reply_content, textarea#bbp_topic_content instead of #bbpress-forums textarea.

For my CSS stylings I chose to put a :before message on the left and the character count on the right using these:

.forum_limit_info {
  text-align: right;
  font-size: 13px;
  color: red;
  line-height: 1.2;
  margin: 5px 5px 0px;
}

.forum_limit_info:before {
  float: left;
  content: '(Minimum Length: 50)';
  color: blue;
}

CSS Styling is theme dependent and can basically be however you want/need it to be–very flexible.

I also created a similar javascript function for my site’s commenting system. Here’s that code as well:

jQuery(function($) {
	var comment_input = $( '#commentform textarea' );
	var comment_button = $( '#entry-comment-submit' );
	var comment_limit = 25;
	var comment_class = $( '<div class="comment_limit_info"><span>' + comment_limit + 
	    '</span> characters needed</div>' ).insertAfter( comment_input );
	comment_button.hide();
	comment_class.show();
	
	comment_input.bind( 'keyup', function() {
		var comment_length = $(this).val().length;
		var chars_left = comment_limit - comment_length;

		$( '.comment_limit_info span' ).html( chars_left );

		if (comment_input)
			( chars_left > 0 ) ? comment_class.show() : comment_class.hide();
		
		if (comment_button)
			( chars_left > 0 ) ? comment_button.hide() : comment_button.show();
	});
});

Good luck to all,

Chad

[amckinnell]

Hi Rob,

i mean like does the issue show up in gmail?? why not try in ymail or outlook to see if the emails are just buggy in one place.

Oh! I understand your question now (I thought you meant for sending the mail, which I think wordpress does). No, all my users can see it, so it’s happening in all email providers.

if you havent already you might need to deactivate all plugins but bbPress in your test site.and hopefully see if that fixes anything.

Okay. I’ll give that a shot. I think I tested that before, but I’m not sure now. I’ll try contacting siteground support about it again as well.

Thanks for your help.

Anne.

[juggledad]

@robkk: Just to clarify something, the OR function_exists('is_bbpress') was added (with some other code, to get around a bug that bbpress doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge or fix. see https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2723

[Robkk]

you can use something like this.

#bbpress-forums .bbp-body .topic-author {
  background: #f5f5f5;
}

[Robkk]

this has something to search by user.

its not a plugin more of a file to put in a folder called bbpress in your child theme and some PHP code snippets but i will test it out to see if it works.

https://github.com/MateuszNowicki/bbpress-Advanced-Search

[Robkk]

I’m not even sure how I would go about setting up another email service. Hmmm…

i mean like does the issue show up in gmail?? why not try in ymail or outlook to see if the emails are just buggy in one place.

thats probably not it but you can try…

if you havent already you might need to deactivate all plugins but bbPress in your test site.

and hopefully see if that fixes anything.

Before Posting

other than that contact siteground support if you didnt already and see if they know anything.

you can lead them to the topic you posted in this topic and also the links @jjj posted in his reply to that topic and maybe they can find something in your host setup.

[Robin W]

Great – glad you’re fixed !

fro anyone looking at this

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-login-register-links-on-forum-topic-pages/

[Robkk]

you probably can put the search widget in a sidebar that only shows in bbPress.

other than that maybe the plugin doesnt support just displaying in bbpress search results pages.

[Dule95D]

Hello,

I’m having a problem with displaying correctly forum on my website. I copied my template file at my theme folder and renamed it to bbpress.php, but this is how it looks. Here is my forum and there are no topics below Forum names. Can anyone help me with this?

Thank you.

[Robkk]

the recent comments widget is just displaying any comment from your facebook page most likey,
not that is has any comments on a particular topic from bbPress, but that you just shared a topic as a “status update” and people are commenting on that “status update”.

@herculaas if you want this kind of functionality , which would be pretty difficult to create you should hire a developer and post a job at http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[Robkk]

@entrapped

edit the custom post type/post type archive titles for bbPress which should be these below in your All in one Seo plugin settings.

forum archive
topic archive
forum
topic
reply

by default without an seo plugin the titles should display like this

topic: your topic title | yoursite

[Robkk]

where did the get the file from?? was it from my github link??

are you heavily editing your files or is your forums having more issues??

because i can see there is no topics but it displays the number in the topic description.

you can try these two plugins if you are not heavy editing and it is just a weird issue.

bbpress wp4 fix

bbpress wp4 fix2

[PinkishHue]

You can do this either by using CSS to simply hide that information, or in the PHP templates where you can remove it completely.

There’s a couple of similar threads here that may help you:

Removing "HTML tags and attributes"

HTML tags and attributes

Hope that helps 🙂

[PinkishHue]

Hmm, this sounds a bit complicated as bbpress replies are not technically ‘comments’, they are a separate post type, the same as topics, that are simply connected to their parent topic (as far as I know anyway).

The first thing I would try is to copy the code that displays comments on a regular post, and add this to the template that displays my topics. That way, if comments are attached to the topic, they will display when viewing the topic on the front end.

You want to find the template ‘content-single-topic.php’

This should be at wp-content/themes/your-theme/bbpress/

(If it’s not, read up on theming here: https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/)

Then add this code somewhere in that file:

<?php wp_list_comments(); ?>

If no comments appear when you view a topic, then I would check in my mysql database to see how the comments are being saved – perhaps they are saving to the database but without being assigned to a specific post (topic). You may need to enable comments for the ‘topic’ post type.

I hope that helps, it is a bit complicated as I said.

[Robkk]

this is not really a problem , and its not bbPress

WordPress handles the registration and in a default installation of WordPress your login page is yoursite.com/wp-login.php

bbPress just has a custom registration form.

You can use this plugin for a custom new registration email.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/welcome-email-editor/

[Robkk]

you do not have to use the bbPress lost password form if want to.

All of your users will just log in to your site like normal with either one and it should work fine.

But as for the legend being hidden that is normal the label being hidden is probably your theme causing an issue.

if you still want to use bbPress’ login form i will need a link to the lost password page so i can see if its a css issue.

[Mr-B]

Hi all
Everything is latest versions.
I have a problem where if bbPress is not activated, the feeds for a subcategory work fine, but as soon as I activate bbPress it “takes over” and the news feed on the same URL displays bbpress topic feeds.
I tried disabling plugins / running some of the fix tools but does not seem to make a difference. Also have tried twenty-fourteen, no difference. Anyone else ever see this?

Examples:
without bbPress enabled, the KB or “knowledgbase” feed shows correctly:
===================================
http://engdex.ch/kb/feed/
Engdex.ch » Knowledgebase
English speakers in Switzerland • free business directory and more
Public Holidays in Switzerland 2015
29 May 2014 08:10

In Switzerland in each of the 26 cantons the public holidays are established independently,
…. etc …
===================================
With bbPress ENABLED the same knowledgebase feed becomes a forum one:
http://engdex.ch/kb/feed/
Engdex.ch » All Posts
Forum guidelines
21 June 2014 13:56
Engdex Forum guidelines.

Welcome! The Engdex forums are a place for seemly discussion about all things Switzerland and
… etc etc..
===================================

[Robkk]

ok thanks for reminding me …again.

i have been losing track on these topics lately.

What i found is that this bug is because of your theme and not really bbPress. So i recommend contacting your theme developers about this especially since they want to support bbPress.

in the bfa_post_parts.php file in your functions folder, under the bfa_post_bodycopy function you will see

OR function_exists('is_bbpress')

This is what is causing your issue.

the way i figured out to fix it is to remove this and create my own bbpress.php off of the index.php file from your theme.

this is all the code i used to create the file. So you can copy and paste this into your theme into a bbpress.php file and all should work …hopefully.

I also left the widget areas there if you want them still there user theme/replace them or just remove them.

<?php 
list($bfa_ata, $cols, $left_col, $left_col2, $right_col, $right_col2, $bfa_ata['h_blogtitle'], $bfa_ata['h_posttitle']) = bfa_get_options();
get_header(); 
extract($bfa_ata); 
global $bfa_ata_postcount;
?>

<?php /* If there are any posts: */
if (have_posts()) : /* Postcount needed for option "XX first posts full posts, rest excerpts" */ ?>

    <?php  if ($bfa_ata['widget_center_top'] <> '') { 
          echo bfa_parse_widget_areas($bfa_ata['widget_center_top']); 
	} ?>

	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();?>
	
		<?php /* Post Container starts here */
		if ( function_exists('post_class') ) { ?>
		<div <?php if ( is_page() ) { post_class('post'); } else { post_class(); } ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
		<?php } else { ?>
		<div class="<?php echo ( is_page() ? 'page ' : '' ) . 'post" id="post-'; the_ID(); ?>">
		<?php } ?>
		<?php bfa_post_headline('<div class="post-headline">','</div>'); ?>
		<div class="post-bodycopy clearfix"><?php the_content(); ?></div>
		</div><!-- / Post -->	
						
	<?php endwhile; ?>

    <?php if ($bfa_ata['widget_center_bottom'] <> '') { 
          echo bfa_parse_widget_areas($bfa_ata['widget_center_bottom']); 
    } ?>

<?php endif; /* END of: If there are no posts */ ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

[Robkk]

im sure when bbPress devs implement the @mentions scripts into bbPress they will have a way for it to work with the visual editor , well depending on their stance to implement the visual editor by default too.

if you really want the @mentions script from BuddyPress to work in the visual editor in bbPress you might need to hire a developer.

post a job at http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[Robkk]

@fmckinnon

well there is the bbpress mark as read plugin which lists all the unread posts a user has in there subscriptions area. of your profile.

the developer does not reccommend the plugin on large sites though

i dont know if he fixed it where its okay , or that the listing all the users unread posts feature might be bad for large sites.

[joym]

Are you de-selecting the box to keep a log of the edit?

Sorry I’m no bbpress wiz, just a thought.

[joym]

Hello everyone, can anyone help me to implement this?

When you reply to a forum response, it takes you to the text box, but you still have to copy + paste the @username if you want to tag them in the reply. I have added the fix to use the @mentions system with bbpress(from buddypress) but users still need to manually input the names and it also only works when using the text box(not the visual) so it’s a bit confusing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Mahalo.

[davidnsfw]

It is Bbpress Login Register Links On Forum Topic Pages plugin.

[Herculaas]

I am using a plugin that automatically imports Facebook comments as post comment. When I share a bbPress topic on my Facebook page it does import the Facebook comments (I can see them in the recent comments section in WordPress) but they’re not showing up in bbPress.

Is there any way to fix this?