[Robkk]

this plugin could help with the register/login links

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

stats on bottom i kind of explain in here.

How to make similar bbpress forum to QuicSprout one?

[Robkk]

@seo45

yeah i see it looks fine now, maybe your theme is so customized for bbPress that maybe the function wont work. contact theme author and see if they can help you.

[Robkk]

@macpresss

id say dont use bbPress then and just use WordPress blog posts/categories ,and some other thing to handle favorites and subscriptions either be jetpack subscriptions/likes , mailchimp and some other rating plugin like Polldaddy ratings for example.

[Robkk]

the only thing i can think of is that you might be caching logged in users which you shouldn’t.

other than that you could see if its a plugin or theme issue.

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.

if its your theme contact your theme author.

[Robkk]

can these course pages have normal WordPress comments?? if it cant this plugin i mentioned wont work.

there is also this plugin that i found that might help, but im not sure.

bbPress Integration

also this is what the discussion meta box settings should look

if it somehow just doesnt work contact your plugin developers support and see if they know why it is having issues.

[Robkk]

see if the shortcode works in a default theme first

as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

if it still doesnt see if its a plugin issue

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the issue

if its not a plugin issue and is working in a default theme then your right about it being your theme

do the other shortcodes work fine?? if so see if you only messed up this file below

did you do any customization to this file content-archive-forum.php

[Shmoo]

Some people that use bbPress and have a fairly large site, personally I think one of the largest ever made with bbPress 2.0 and those had some issues with loading times when posting new topics and replies.

I also believe I’ve seen a Trac Ticket a while time ago about this problem but I can’t find it anymore.
It mostly happend when X topic would stay active for a long time. Everything when someone new would post inside that topic they would automatically get the “Notify me” checkbox checked. This made the subscribe list grow over time – so every time when somebody would post a new reply inside that topic it would take ~35 seconds to proceed and load the page again.

I don’t know if it’s patched or it solved some other way but I know for sure there was a connection because lot’s of users being subscribed to a topic and loading times while posting.

[fuzeIII]

I’ve got a custom theme I made, it might not be coded properly since bbpress seems to work fine on twentyfifteen.

Anyway, I use a custom page with the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] inside and the page as a custom model. When I go to my page the forum shows, but when I try for instance to go inside a topic, it doesn’t work and instead of taking me where it should, the shortcode is shown.

As I said I made my own theme and it’s kinda hardcoded, if someone could help me making the modifications I have to make in order to make the forum work, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[pfeufer]

Hi Robin,
I pasted the code below into my Editor (Appearance/Editor) and it has no effect on the Search button on the main BBpress Forums page:

#bbpress-forums .submit {
background-color: #a0668d;
color: #FFFFFF;
float: center;
vertical-align: middle;
border-radius: 10px;
height: 35px;
width: 80px;
font-size: 18px;
}

I even tried putting a space then !important after each style, but no dice. Any idea what I may be doing wrong?

Thanks!
John

[Robin W]

long and complicated to explain css, divs and all that, and I’m a newcomer to css, so I won’t try.

but in essence any css element can be nexted.

so

input would apply to any input field anywhere on the site
input[type=”submit”] would just apply to submit input
submit would apply to any submit
#bbpress-forums .submit would apply to submits within bbpress only.

any/all of these might work for a particular case, it would depend on how your theme author has set out his theme.

so can’t say why it didn’t work without me spending lots of time looking at it.

There is no single right/wrong with this, just right for your site with its theme and plugins !

[Sebastian]

@robkk: Thanks for your reply!

I tried the plugin with the settings you mentioned. I still don’t have the option to only add the reply form to a specific topic!? It just gives some cool extra features for the shortcode [bbp-single-topic id=$topic_id]. Am I right?

Moreover it doesn’t work with the LMS “Learn Dash”. Everytime I want to save the settings at the discussion box they are gone after klicking update. Neither in Courses, Lections or Topics – Posts. When I add and activate bbPress forum topic for comments in the normal WordPress Pages and Post it works fine.
Do you have any suggestions?

[Robin W]

ok, I still think that the import topics still have the old site forum id’s which won’t be correct

As bbpress uses wordpress posts then on import it should have allocated new postid’s for both forum and topics and linked these. The following work will be to see what it has actually done, then we can work out what to do next !

so on the new site

1. go into dashboard>topics and pick a topic without a forum, and edit it.

The url at the top will give the post id

eg

http://mysite.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=15602&action=edit

make a note of this as the newtopicid (I’ll refer to it later as that)

2. Then go to the forum that it should be, and again edit, and use the url to get it’s post id, and note this as newforumid (I’ll refer to it later as that)

Then go into the OLD Site and

3. go into the same topic and note the topic id as oldtopicid,

and

4. go into the it belongs to and note the number as the oldforumid.

So now we have newtiopicid, newforumid, oldtopicid, and oldforumid !

Then go into phpmyadmin on the OLD site (where it worked), and go into the sql tab and enter

SELECTpost_parentFROMwp_postsWHEREID= xxxxx

where xxx is the oldtopicid you noted above

This should come back with the correct oldforumid as the entry under post parent

Then go into phpmyadmin on the NEW site (where it doesn’t work) and enter the same query, and see what that comes back with

then come back and tell me what that reveals !

[darlingstewie]

This is our BBPress Forum

http://www.geekgirlpenpals.com/forums/

I wonder if instead of just text of the Forum name and “Freshness” we can also have it show what the last topic was, when it was posted, and who commented on it? I thought that was the default but it seems to have changed.

[sunflyer]

How can I have two colors on the rows like here on bbpress so not all rows are white, but every second is white and blue or whatever color I choose.

Thanks

[imler.liz]

WordPress 4.1.1
Buddypress Version 2.2.1
bbpress Version 2.5.4

the author under the Freshness column isn’t displaying the author of the most recent reply/activity.

any guidance or other tickets like this?

Everything Caregiving

[darkoned12000]

Hello Everyone

WP Version: 4.1.1
BBP Version: 2.5.4
Theme: Enigma Pro
Site Link: http://forgingfriendships.com/community

I have bbpress setup and forums made with descriptions. And here is what I would like to do visually with main forum page if possible.

If you check out the forum area on my site. I would like to take only the ‘Friends in the USA’ and ‘Friends around the World’ category areas and on the forums listed under them I would like to display them without descriptions and show them in a list format. The list format would be something like rows of 10 set side-by-side. Basically trying to reduce the footprint of the forums in how much you have to scroll the main forum page to see everything.

I don’t want to remove the descriptions completely because I want them available to the user if they click on the forum and they open up the new page. And I only want to remove these specific forum descriptions from these two category areas and leave all the other sections and descriptions the way they are now.

Is this possible?

Thanks for any help on this.

D1

[pfeufer]

Thanks again Robin. So I did put the following code into the Editor at first, but it did not work:

input {
border-radius: 2px 2px 2px 2px !important;
font-size: 10px !important;
}

But according to the bbPress Styling crib (https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-styling-crib/), the code should look like this:

#bbpress-forums .submit {
background-color: #a0668d;
color: #FFFFFF;
float: center;
vertical-align: middle;
border-radius: 10px;
height: 35px;
width: 80px;
font-size: 18px;
}

I guess what I am asking is, when I inspect a element in my browser (Chrome) it seems like I cannot just simply cut and paste the css code from the side inspector column, but rather, start the code with #bbpress-forums

Hope this makes sense. Thanks!

[aaron2310]

http://www.battle-bridge.co.uk/forums/

I just installed the plugin and created the forums but it doesn’t appear to be styling. I’ve checked in the coding and it doesn’t look like it’s reading the bbpress css sheets. This is the second custom theme I’ve used BBPress on and my first site didn’t have the same issue. I don’t believe I’ve done anything different this time around.

Any advice?

[Robin W]

yes, you should see that you are using a child theme in the editor (it will say ‘This child theme inherits templates from a parent theme xxx’ under templates at the top right, and after the templates you should see style.css.

if you’re going to get into css in a big way, then you would do better to use FTP and an editor such as notepad++ – see

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Robin W]

sorry, and that’s just anything you need to change (ie your code above), not the whole bbpress.css file !

so put the stuff above in your child theme style.css and ignore bbpress.css !

[giuseppecuttone]

Hi robkk,
You are right. About the notifications send from BP FORUM NOTIFIER I need contact with the author of the plugin.
Really I want to ask if do you know another plugin that run better…
In addition I need know how I can change USER in the notifications mail that bbPres send. Actualy the mail that bbPress send is from wordpress@URLSITE. I want chanhe the word “wordpress” and add for exampke “noreply” (in my cas so: noreply@soysostenible.net).
It is possible?
Thank’s for your support

[pfeufer]

Hi,
I am using a WordPress child theme, Flatsome. I simply want to adjust minor things like button text sizes, different colored bars, text, etc.

In Google Chrome, I am able to inspect a element and change it’s style in the inspector window, but where do I paste the modified css code? The modified code does not work in the child theme’s Appearance/Edit window when it is pasted there.

I also tried to copy (not move) the bbpress.css file into the Parent theme’s css folder, but the code still does not work. I also tried to place the bbpress.css in the Child theme.

My questions are:

1. Where do I place the bbpress.css file? In the Parent theme or Child Theme? What folder?
2. Where do I paste the modified css code within the BBpress.css file? Anywhere?

Below is code that I adjusted to suit my needs. It is code for a “submit” button on the Forum page of BBpress in my theme:

.userwall_delete_post >button:hover, input[type=”submit”], input[type=”button”], input[type=”reset”] {
-webkit-border-radius: 0px 0px 0px 7px;
-moz-border-radius: 0px 0px 0px 7px;
border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px !important;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 12px !important;
padding: 10px !important;
text-decoration: none;
}

Thanks for any help!

Best,
John

[Robkk]

there is also a bbPress specific plugin that does the same thing and its this one

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

[lflier]

Someday, somebody is going to get this 2x retina thing figured out so that it’s automatic across WordPress. Until that day, we have to do it ourselves.

The general approach is to serve a double-sized image to the browser. So, if you want an 80px avatar in your topic replies (the standard size), you need to serve up a 160px avatar in order for it to look sharp on a retina screen (i.e. iPad, Android tablet, retina MacBook Pro, or one of those delicious new 5K iMacs). And as Joe Jackson says, “You gotta look sharp!”

So, how is this accomplished? Well, in the template.php file of bbPress, there is a function called bbp_get_reply_author_link(). This is the function that gets the avatar, and it comes with the following arguments:

	function bbp_get_reply_author_link( $args = '' ) {

		// Parse arguments against default values
		$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
			'post_id'    => 0,
			'link_title' => '',
			'type'       => 'both',
			'size'       => 80,
			'sep'        => ' ',
			'show_role'  => false
		), 'get_reply_author_link' );

The argument we want to change is the ‘size’ argument. As you see, the default setting is 80. We want it to be 160. We can change it by changing a single line in the loop-single-reply.php file, which you can locate in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/. In the stock theme, the line reads:

		<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />', 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>

We want to change it to:

		<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'size' => 160, 'sep' => '<br />', 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>

And that’s all there is to it. As long as your CSS specifies a width of 80 (or whatever you prefer), you won’t see any change in the size of the avatar in your browser, it will just look sharper on retina screens. You won’t notice any difference on standard resolution screens and, unfortunately, there is a price to be paid in the size of the image that is served to those screens. Ideally, WordPress/bbPress would know what resolution screen it is serving to and set the image size on the fly. There are some plugins that do this for site images — Jordy Meow’s WP Retina 2x is a good one — but they don’t work for avatars yet. See this support topic for more discussion.

There’s just one more thing you’ll want to do. If you haven’t already done so, create a directory in your theme folder titled “bbpress”. Then make a copy of the file you just changed and place it in this directory. This file will override any file with the same name in the bbPress plugin directory. So, when you next update the bbPress plugin, you’ll retain the functionality you just created, because even though the plugin files are all replaced by the new version, the file in your theme directory will still be there.

I hope this helps everyone look sharp!

[latortuga]

Yes I did. Followed these: https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/