[Robin W]

ok, I’ve looked ta the page

your style.css has

.row .col img {
    height: auto;
    margin-bottom: 15px;
    max-width: 100%;
    width: auto;
}

around line 1929

The width: auto;
is causing the issue, remove that and the image reverts to 14 – but around 30 looks good !

adding

margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto

will also center the image

so you end up with

.row .col img {
    height: auto;
    margin-bottom: 15px;
    max-width: 100%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

If just for bbpress then

#bbpress-forums .row .col img {
    height: auto;
    margin-bottom: 15px;
    max-width: 100%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

[Robin W]

ok, it’s your theme that’s causing the issue, some theme authors are too clever with their coding, and bbpress uses a category of archive, hence why it is displaying this sidebar. Also I suspect the theme won’t be allowing dynamic sidebars, hence why tweaks isn’t working.

So onto plan b !

install a plugin called ‘widget logic’

https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/

Then against each widget in your archive/post/search sidebar, you’ll see an extra field called widget logic

If you want that widget only in bbpress forums put

is_bbpress()

in to that line

if you don’t want that widget in bbpress, but do want it in other pages that use the archive/post/search sidebar the put

!is_bbpress()

in the widget logic area

If you want in both, then leave widget logic blank.

[BrendenW]

Back at last! It was just the .php memory. When they ‘increased’ it, they just didn’t do a good enough job of it which was why I was still having problems. It’s now currently all back up and working. I have followed your directions re: deactivating, removing and then reactivating with no effect.

I’m not sure if/what good any of this information might be to you but:
* the page I have set for the forum is “default template” and the sidebar is set as “Default sidebar” BUT no matter which page template I select, nothing changes, even if I select full width template I am still shown as having a side bar. Further, despite it showing the default sidebar as being selected, it is actually a different sidebar (called archive/post/search sidebar) which is being displayed. This is the sidebar that displays for “Category”, but not for subcategories. I can’t however find anywhere outside of .php files that set the category sidebar. So I don’t know if there is perhaps code messing up in there somewhere.

Also, should I be creating a bbPress.php file to add to the theme? I can do this, it’s a mess around as I have to get the website people to upload it for me, but if it’s going to help I can do that.

Thanks for your help Robin, sorry for the delay, but at least we’re back in to it now!

[yosmc]

Hi everyone,

I run bbpress together with Buddypress. In my Buddypress profile, there’s a “forums” link and under that link, I find four options:

Topics Started, Replies Created, Favorites, and Subscriptions

Can someone tell me in which file these four links are created? I would like to add a fifth link to add New Topics – knowing where to start would save me a ton of time. Thanks! 🙂

[wadams92101]

In the absence of mobile apps for bbPress, it sure would be nice if Automattic’s WP apps for IOS and Android would add forum to their drop-down menu of “posts,” “pages,” etc. BTW, why isn’t there a mobile app for bbPress? Seems like that would be one of the first things developed to make bbPress “a contenda.”

[Robin W]

try

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/

[mw360]

Using Genesis – installed bbpress – and following the instructions I created an initial forum / topic and when I look at those specific pages everything looks fine, i.e. mysite.com/forums/forum/general-discussion. However, when I try to go to mysite.com/forums, all I see is this at the top (all just text, no links):

Search for: Home › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness General Discussion General discussion about us 1 1 53 minutes ago Admin01 […]

That’s it, a blob of text.

To be sure, I did set up a Page, called it ‘Forums’, added it to the menu, applied the shortcode

[bbp-forum-index]

and published it. Also reset Permalinks (note, we’re using /%category%/%postname%/ there, so used option 2 in the setup – if that matters). Absolutely no effect.

It seems odd that everything else runs and looks great except this one root page, and I don’t see any posts here that discuss this particular effect. Hoping someone else has seen this and can comment on it…??

Thanks

[Matthias]

My bbpress forum text editor is different from the editor in this forum.
1. When someone inserts a link, he can see all last blog posts below. How can I hide them?
2. When someone inserts a link and does not know html he produces invisible links.
<a href="url"></a>
Is there a workaround to force users to click the link button for the close tag as here in the forum?

Thanks
Matthias

[Kung Fu Designs]

Gotcha… I disabled all plugins and theme, The forums works with a default theme, but not with the theme I am using, WeeklyNews, purchased on Themeforest. The problem is only the main navigation menu with the error message above. When I activate the theme, but deactivate all plugins but bbPress, the problem still exists.

[Robin W]

The tests I suggested are to find the error, I am not expecting you to stay without them.

If you follow the tests, then if the forums work with just bbpress as the only plugin and your theme, then bbpress is conflicting with another plugin, hence you add back until you find which one, THEN you come back and let us know.

If even the above doesn’t work, then bbpress you change to a default theme such as tewntyten. If that works the issue is with your theme, so we go down that route.

If none works then bbpress has not installed properly.

[wombatnaturals.com]

Hi,
I’m using bbpress with the Organic Web theme and I cannot get my sidebar widgets to show up.
I have tried using all of the bolded .php page options as well as copying the single.php into the bbpress plug in php page.
I have the page set to Default Page on the page template option.
Any idea as to what can be causing this? If you need more information please ask away, I’d be happy to provide it for you. Just not sure what else you’d need. =)
Thanks!

[Kung Fu Designs]

Robin,

I remove all other plugins/themes and it works fine, but that’s not what I want. I will use the theme I have set up, and I’m not finished adding plugins. Everything plays nice until I activate the bbpress plugin. Is there a place to look at incompatibilities and fixes for those incompatibilities (Within or outside of my site.)? Other forum plugins work well, but I’m interested in using bbPress for it’s tight integration with WordPress. Again there is an error message, but I cannot figure out why the error is being caused.

Thanks for help!

[Toni]

I have tried a few themes with bbPress. I do not understand/see the difference between regular WP themes and bbPress ready themes. Are there special features included in bbPress ready themes, if so what are the features called?

Thank you

[RaylaDevine]

I changed the template to full width, but it did nothing. I’ve followed advice from the Step by Step guide and other threads, but nothing has worked. I’ve tried duplicating page.php, renaming it bbpress.php and adding changes, but it is ignored. I’ve tried the same process with single.php, index.php and fullwidth.php without any affect. I’ve also tried using forum.php and forums.php instead of bbpress.php.

My site is gigageekmagazine.com. I have the twenty fourteen child theme. Version 4.0.1 of WordPress. My forum is located at http://www.gigageekmagazine.com/forums/

Thank you!

[weirdman]

i have installed the wordpress and activated bbpress plugin. i tried and cant really find how to view forums. can anyone help me with that ? i am new to this pls help me. i can see forums settings on wordpress dashboard but cant figure out whats the url to view forums.

[Adri Oosterwijk]

In my site I use two languages, English an Dutch. It took me a lot of time to get it running but after the install of the bbPress Multilingual plugin it seems fine. I have a translated forum.

However the content of the topics are nit visible in both languages. Only in English or in Dutch. That depend on the page the topic is created. What I want is 1 forum, shown in the English AND in the Dutch site with the same topics.

I’m running Worpress 4.1, bbPress 2.5.4, bbPress Multilingual 0.9. The translation is managed by WPML.

Your advice please.

[Buppha]

I don’t understand why I have posted in this forum before, but somehow my post has been deleted? Now I try to post it again.

I have buddypress version 2.2.0, bbpress version 2.5.4, and wordpress version 4.1. I don’t understand why on some forums I can post topics, and some can’t? For example, I have created 2 different forums which are Beauty and Healthy Food, the problem is that I can create topics in beauty forum, but not in the Healthy Food forum? So, I don’t understand why? I thank you in advance!
The forum that I can post topics is: http://buppha.com/forums/forum/beauty/
The forum that I cannot post topics is: http://buppha.com/forums/forum/forums/healthy-food/

[Robin W]

bbpress uses your wordpress theme for styling

you can also look at

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

and

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-new-ui/

[Robin W]

ok, I can your 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.

Then come back

[–Q–Shadows]

Hey,

Thankx allot for posting. Am using a child theme so that its easy to modify bbpress and buddypress.

I did as asked, bbpress-> loop-single-forum.php and changed the size = xx part to even down to 4 but unfortunately it still looks the same as it did before :(. I even tired increasing the size to see if it works but no result to that either. 🙁

[CoachKervan]

I am about to setup my first bbpress forum, it will be kind of basic, but I was just wonder if anyone could suggest some good themes to use.

Thanks in advance!

[weirdman]

only want to install bbpress… any guide how to do it ?

[Robin W]

ok, if you have ftp access then…

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

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

Then look at line 74

<span class="bbp-topic-freshness-author"><?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_forum_last_active_id(), 'size' => 14 ) ); ?></span>

The ‘size’ => 14 is the avatar size, so reduce this to what you want.

[Robin W]

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/bbpress-1-x-buddypress-group-forums/

[Brandon Allen]

@korobochkin, The official bbPress repo links are as follows,

SVN:
https://bbpress.svn.wordpress.org

Git:
git://bbpress.git.wordpress.org