Hello @joedostie I’ve pinged the people responsible for the forum to see if they can tell you what it is this site is using to add Font Awesome Icons to the Topic Info widget. I did a few searches myself and although I found a tutorial to add Font Awesome support to bbPress, I didn’t find exactly what you’re looking for.
The showcase page on the bbPress Codex is a bit outdated with some of the sites opting to not have a forum at all. Can you please help me out by sharing URL’s to websites using bbPress you think are worthy of being showcased. I’m looking for 5-10 sites but depending on the response, I may add more.
How I did it is this. first I changed my css Using a child theme I just added this css to my style.css (Important to use a child theme so you don’t lose your changes.)
#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
display: none !important;
}
.bbp-forum-title{
display: block !important;
font-size: 22px;
font-weight: bold;
border-top: 15px solid blue;
boder-top-left-radius:5px;
boder-top-right-radius:5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.bbp-topic-title {
font-size: 16px !important;
}
What this did is I made multiple forums instead of categories. when I made the forums I used the text area to include the descriptions. Left the main topic forums closed. so no one could post on there.
I then made sub forums (hence using my main forums as category tags) and again used the text area for the description while creating the forums. I left these open so post could be made in there.
Now I have all kinds of styling you can change. Play with the borders margins colors and text size until you get what you like. I also found the text size to be too small for the descriptions so I used the plug in tinymce advanced to add custom fonts, font-sizes and colors for the descriptions.
the solution to this is built in WordPress not not in bbpress. First make sure you have an actual page called forums then use short code to mate it your main forums index page. Once that is confirmed check your permalinks and make sure they are not on default. ( I usually use post name). Now your forums page should be showing as a page on your site. Then go to custom menu Dashboard>appearance>menus once there you can create many different menus and label where they will show up, or even call them through the widget area. But for your particular problem find the one called Main(top primary menu) then just add the pages you want to show up on that menu and delete the ones you don’t want to show up. (Be sure to uncheck automatically add top level pages).
changing it to 0 would be best. Just make sure you are using a child theme. If you aren’t you will lose the changes with the first update to bbpress or your theme. you can find child theme info on the codex or use this plug in to create it for you If you already have a child them just add the code above to your style.css in you child theme. It will override the bbpress css I would just recommend commenting off the css so its easy to find if you need to add more changes.
This has been a difficult one for me. I have multiple forums on my site dealing in multiple categories.
When I click any of the forums to view topics there are topics from other forums showing. example
Forum A
topic 1 (has)
topic 2 (has)
Forum B
topic 1 (has)
topic 2 (has)
when clicked Forum B to view topics, forum A topics show up like so
Topic 1 (from forum A)
Topic 1 (from forum B) {organized according to freshness }
Topic 2 (from forum A)
Topic 2 (from forum B)
What I want is when clicking forum A (or B) you see
Topic 1 (from correct forum only)
Topic 2 (from correct forum only)
Now the topics being organized according to freshness I thought it was a freshness issue so I went changed some loops. I had no luck getting this not to happen. I have removed the freshness from every loop and every content then returned them to normal having no results.
If this is related to freshness then I am having a problem getting bbpress to read the custom loop-“tag”.php I have them placed in childtheme>bbpress which is how I was told this worked from the duccumentation. You can see the specific problem on this page
The easiest way is to do a custom CSS. make a child theme first i recomend this plug in “Child theme configuration” Down load the zip file once you chose your settgings. upload the child theme through dashboard> appearance > theme > add new then use a text editor and make a style.css for your theme (bbpress will be overridden with it) I use eclipse for a text editor but notepad will work in the style css add this code
(this came directly from my site so it has a few changes you can change anything you like on it for more customization) you can see my forums lay out here
#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
display: none !important;
min-height: 50px;
font-size: 18px;
border: 3px solid black;
border-top: 8px solid #871A1A;
boder-bottom-left-radius:5px;
boder-bottom-right-radius:5px;
boder-top-left-radius:5px;
boder-top-right-radius:5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.bbp-forum-title{
display: block !important;
font-size: 22px;
font-weight: bold;
border-top: 15px solid blue;
boder-top-left-radius:5px;
boder-top-right-radius:5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.bbp-topic-title {
font-size: 16px !important;
}
Like I said any of these values are changeable and you can add more or take some out. hope this helps.
Here it is:
table: xxxxxx_usermeta
meta_key: xxxxxx_capabilities
meta-value: a:2:{s:6:”editor”;b:1;s:13:”bbp_moderator”;b:1;}
The user is Editor in WP and Moderator in bbPress.
@robkk Thank you for that file! Now where do I paste it? I’m pretty sure I need to access my cPanel and then navigate to my file manager, correct? I’ve tried looking through my folders there last night and didn’t see anything regarding bbpress.
I installed it after I had the problem. I tried to fix bbPress capabilities with it. In the meantime I restored the default WP capabilities. But it had no effect on the menu.
The first thing I did was deactivating all plugins but bbPress. Nothing happened!
Now I switched to twentytwelve. But that did not fix it either.
If it helps, I could send you the wp_capabilities entry (table: wp_usermeta) in the database of a user with the role Moderator.
ok, don’t know what bbPress Advanced Capabilities does but it might be the 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.
There are two sets of roles wordpress and bbpress
It is a wordpress admin that can set bbpress roles, under Dashboard>settings>users and see if forum roles appear near the bottom of an existing user
If not come back and if you have database access I can tell you how to set an admin that can then set a bbpress keymaster.
I deleted the user on a local test-installation with MAMP, where I could reproduce the problem. It made no difference.
Here is what I can see and do in WP frontend and backend:
Frontend
– Logged in as Keymaster, I can do everything. I can see all bbPress related menu items in the WP Toolbox on top of the page.
– Logged in as Moderator, I can see the bbPress related menu items Topic and Answer in the WP toolbox, but not Forum. I can start a new forum on a page with the shortcode [bbp-forum-form] as a child-forum (same behaviour as Keymaster starting a forum with this shortcode).
– Logged in as Contributor I don´t have any bbPress related menu item in the WP toolbox, but I can start Topics and answer in the forum itself.
Backend (Dashboard)
– Logged in as Keymaster I have every bbPress menu item.
– Logged in as Moderator I only have Topics and Answers as menu items.
– Logged in as Contributor I don´t have a bbPress menu at all.
For me it looks like every role has the corresponding capability, but the menu items of the role below, except the Keymaster.
What I also tried was changing capabilities with the plugin bbPress Advanced Capabilities and restoring the WP default capabilities with Capability Manager Advanced. No difference.
On the homepage, you’ll want to look at the following code and either change the border to 0 pixels or change its color.
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum, #bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.topic {
border-top: 1px solid #eee;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 8px;
}
The other borders on the homepage appear to be controlled by this code:
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header, #bbpress-forums li.bbp-footer {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #f3f3f3;
border-top: 1px solid #eee;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 8px;
text-align: center;
}
Hi All,
I did a few searches on bbPress and google to see if I can find some direction to use some Font Awesome Icons just like you do on this site in the widget area.
I looked at the site with firebug and I am not 100% sure where to put the <i> tag before the widget information.
I looked through all the bbPress.php files and can only assume its somewhere in a different folder. I cant seem to put my finger on where this needs to go.
Any direction would be very appreciated!
Catering to Cats and Dogs
Okay, so the person I thought had Keymaster access either had it disappear or never had it. I am now unable to designate a keymaster. The closest forum topic I found on this was this thread:
The Keymaster
The Keymaster option does not appear in the dropdown for any user assignment settings. There is not a way for me to access BBPress settings to assign everyone to the Keymaster role. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling bbpress and the issue persisted.
How can I assign Keymaster when nobody has Keymaster status? Is there a way for me to edit a user file on my server? Thanks.
You may login to this site using your bbPress.org/WordPress.org/BuddyPress.org username and password.
Strange, did you login first? https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/login
Once your logged in, create a new ticket https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket
Im trying this too on my site under the folder forum.
If you can see here on bbpress the code works that way in my case
https://bbpress.org/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=fa9b4484b8&redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fbbpress.org%2Fforums%2Ftopic%2Flogout-shortcode%2F%3Floggedout%3Dtrue
So my guess is that you can create a custom php for example http://www.mysite.com/logout which will redirect on a file like wp-login.php which will fetch the id from the user and then will do the redirect to the page you want.
@Jeff – Thanks Jeff.
@Robin – What I want is highlighted in the question with a blockquote. So it should be pretty obvious. I am sorry for not being more explicit in my demands – but it really wasnt my purpose to suggest on specific features – just something basic as core-developed and planned groups-functionality. The intention was to get an understanding on what to expect. A word from John James Jacoby himself – just saying for example “well in the near future things arent going to go faster than the previous years” – then I would know what to expect ….. Again I refer you to the developing roadmap. Its not exactly going fast. One of the features I was looking forward to having integrated was using bbpress for comments in wordpress. Or any kind of functional integration.
However I did forget to put in group-based – along with the finegrained, nodal permissions. And yes, I am aware of the roles and capabilities. But thanks for that. And along with that I dont mean relying on a newly-developed plugin like bbpres private groups or installing buddypress. I meant having it default and taking into planning consideration. Speed is fairly obvious. Security is just a general concern, nothing really specific. But enough to keep me away from newly developed plugins.
I am sorry for any thoughtlessness in formulating my intention – and again do not mean to be arrogant. But something concrete from the team behind would be nice. I am sorry for not being more specific about the groups-thing. But I am not being specific, because that is not the point. The point is highlighted in the quote.
I can see now that it wasnt a well-formulated frustration. Wish I had made it better. So if someone could just delete it, it would be fine.
The last posting on this topic is very old. I wonder this is still a matter of concern. I try to move my http://www.phpages.org/phpBB3/ forum to bbPress. I used the build in tool and get the error
WordPress database error: [Table ‘u53000db1.phpbbusers’ doesn’t exist]
u53000db1 is my phppp sql base and I made a test with the plugin cms2cms and I got a nice output, but the produced bbPress forum was somwhere else not in my application, so I wonder what that means?
Anyone there can get me started in the right direction. Best regards
Peter
ok, partial solution for you – I have done some further testing
In dashboard>settings>forums make the forum slug /forums
The create a page called ‘forum’ and put
[bbp-forum-index] into this. Save and view to make sure you can see this
Right now change the heading to ‘Forums’, the page slug will stay as forum, and as long as that doesn’t match the forum slug in settings it seems to be ok.
Then create a menu item for this page
That seems to function BUT the breadcrumbs will still go to the wrong place, so for the moment take these out
Layout and functionality – Examples you can use
That will at least get you a working forum and recipe. All that’s missing are the breadcrumbs
Let me know how you get on
I’ve just tried having both these plugins on my test site, and can see exactly what you mean, my forums become archive posts just as yours did, and I’m using a shortcode so that way won’t work.
So definite conflict between how these two forums are using slugs, and I suspect that the recipe one is overwriting a forum one, but don’t know how, possibly via a filter on wordpress.
I’d suggest since the recipe plugin author will have far better knowledge (as he has slug settings in his plugin) that you go back with a fresh post, and explain that on a base theme (mine was twentyten) with just bbpress and his plugin and nothing else
http://www.mysite.com/forums takes you to blog archives page
and see what he comes back with
maybe 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.
Just had a thought, what bbpress level is the username you are using
so you could be a wordpress admin, but if you are a bbpress participant, then you wouldn’t see anything.
So go into dashboard>users and edit your username and see what level the bbpress role is set to
