[booknerds]

Well, I changed the login and register URL and it works good with bbPress. Also, i use Antispam Bee (because akismet isn’t really according to the privacy laws in Germany) which helps, too. Third is WangGuard which stopps spam registrations and sploggers. Works. 🙂

[Robkk]

@dimplefacect

glad you found the information you needed , the links i should have gave you either of these two

this one is cut to the chase

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

and this one is more explanatory and has more steps to help improve your forum.

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

if you need anymore guides for bbPress the codex is a great place to look.

[dimplefaceCT]

Got it!!

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-a-forum-in-wordpress-with-bbpress/

[dimplefaceCT]

Thanks @robkk. I think I need more hand-holding. I did go to https://codex.bbpress.org/ and still couldn’t figure the steps to taking the forum I built under the forum tab and moving it onto a page. Any idea on a tutorial for that step?

[booknerds]

Hey there. Question see above. I’d like to make bbpress show the parent and their according subforums/categories in forum root like this:

Forum1
-Subforum1a
-Subforum1b
-Subforum1c

Forum2
-Subforum2a
-Subforum2b

etc.

but the root shows me only

Forum1

Forum2

and the subcats are only shown when entering the parent forums.

Is there any way to display it as I wish?

Thanks in advance.

[Robin W]

go into

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php

and edit line 141 to change ’40’ to whatever size you want.

[Robin W]

The avatar size is hard coded into the login widget.

see

bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php

around line 141

You can change it directly in here, but keep a note of it, as it will be overwritten by upgrades. or if you have the skill, you could copy and create a new widget within your child theme

[Robin W]

@cotoonline try

bbpress wp4 fix2

[Robin W]

if that doesn’t work, then out it in your theme’s style.css, but tag it as !important

#bbpress-forums, #buddypress {
 clear: both !important;
 margin-bottom: 20px !important;
 overflow: hidden !important;
 font-size: 12px !important;
 padding:20px !important;
 background:rgb(10, 9, 9) !important;
}

[Robkk]

There is a ticket for a future release.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1989

you can hide them all with CSS

#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log, 
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log, 
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-reply-revision-log {
  display: none;
}

if you want to delete the old revisions use a plugin like WP-Sweep

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sweep/

[MarionetteX]

I am running Bbpress 4.1.1. If you have the revision log turned on, every saved edit will be displayed under the post. I’m a frequent post editor, so I wind up with 10+ logs if I don’t remember to uncheck the box, and there’s no easy way to delete them.

I am looking for a way to make each topic and post only show the latest edit. There should only ever be one edit note per post. Is this possible, via plugin or code or some option I haven’t found yet?

[Robkk]

well step by step its pretty much this

copy page.php using FTP or your hosts file manager

rename to bbpress.php using FTP or your hosts file manager

remove unwanted code from bbpress.php using an editor like notepad++ through FTP or your hosts file manager.

TIPS:

make sure that the bbpress.php is in the root of your child theme.

remove unwanted code like comments code , something like this <?php comments_template(); ?>

[Robkk]

^^ that is if you want forums on pages.

@findmyrep

follow the getting started guides by following this link.

Codex

[Robkk]

@arunkumaridi33

use this

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-forum-redirect/

edit forum 1 and scroll to the very bottom and add the url of forum 2.

save the forum

now it should redirect.

[Robkk]

use the bbPress shortcodes

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] – Display a single forums topics. eg. [bbp-single-forum id=32]

this plugin will help you out find any posts ID

https://wordpress.org/plugins/reveal-ids-for-wp-admin-25/

go to forums>all forums and you should see the ids

[Conarchcpl]

/wp-content/themes/orizon/css

is where I have put the new BBpress.css file. Which seems to be the correct place?

[Robin W]

you’ll want

bbp_get_forum_last_active_time()

in

\bbpress\includes\forums\template.php

[Robin W]

where is the bbpress.css files located, you should be doing

•The “css” directory contains style sheets that work with the default markup. Copy any you want to modify into a directory named “css” in your theme’s root. eg. /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/css/

[Robin W]

bboress just uses wordpress registration and login, so any plugin that works for wordpress will work for bbpress.

6 Useful WordPress CAPTCHA Plugins

bbpress also rides on askimet to help prevent spam entries, just check that you have enable it within the forum settings.

Unless your site has many new users, you could easily use manual registration, it takes less than a minute to set a user up in wordpress manually. That way you stop spammers dead in the water.

[Robin W]

If your site is public, please put a url/link to an example page. What is to you an obvious written description is frequently not clear to us, and the ability to see is much better. We are also able to fix many display issues by loading your site and seeing what it is sending the browser in the background, so a link rather than a picture is really useful.

If you are setting up, please see the Getting Started section of the codex first.

Getting Started

Please see this page for any frequently asked questions we may already have an answer for you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please also see these pages for help troubleshooting possible issues in bbPress. PLEASE tell us you have done the tests before when posting.

Troubleshooting

[Robin W]

It is defined by your theme, as most of it are ‘links’ and your theme defines those

you can use

#bbpress-forums a:link

but that will change the links throughout bbpress

and you can use

#bbpress-forums .bbp-breadcrumb

for anything that is not a link.

[Robin W]

ow !

Hopefully the company have restored the database to back beyond your attempts to optimise it?

If so it should have no errors. So if it has, they probably need to go back to an older version if they have one – many hosters don’t.

Is it just forums entries that are missing???

if so you could try

dashboard>tools>forums>repair forums

and when you do get it going again, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don’t do stuff to a live site again.

1. a few hours invested in a test site

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

and you would not have lost your live site, and

2. REGULARLY back your main site (the above tells you how) and you could have just restored that – hosting companies rarely keep much, and an issue found after a week can be fatal !

Do come back for further help if needed.

[Conarchcpl]

I am trying to do some CSS editing to change the background on this page to black:
http://utherous.com/forums/

I have edited the bbpress.css like so
#bbpress-forums, #buddypress {
clear: both;
margin-bottom: 20px;
overflow: hidden;
font-size: 12px;
padding:20px;
background:rgb(10, 9, 9);

For some reason these changes are not reflected on the site despite me double checking 3 times that the bbpress.css file on the FTP has the changes. It looks to me like the site is referencing another version of the file?

Any help would be great!

[RitaNow]

My site is basically crashed. I can now see the wp-admin. I had all the plugins turned off. I turned the bbpress plugins back on.

MAIN DISCUSSION FORUM

The site shows the forums but no topics in the forums. A forum will say there are XX topics and XX replies but the next line says “Oh bother! Not topics were found here!

MAIN DISCUSSION FORUM

In wp-admin, I can see all the topics listed but the forum column shows (no forum). So to me, it appears there is a database problem. I’ve been talking with the hosting company, Blue Host, and they can’t do anything. I’ve tried restoring the database and repairing the database, but to no avail. In other suggestions?

[teamoo]

Hello.

I recently installed the ‘bbPress WP tweak’ plugin. It looks like it’s going to work great with one flaw. All of my right sidebars text is left justified. But the ‘bbPress WP tweak’ sidebar’s text is right justified and looks wrong.

Does anyone know where I can come up with a fix for this?

Thank you!