[Robkk]

i took this css right from bbpress.org

add this anywhere you can add custom css
if it doesnt work add !important to the end like this 12px!important;

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author a.bbp-author-name, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author a.bbp-author-name {
clear: left;
display: block;
font-size: 12px;
}

the default size i think is usually 12px
so either use that or go lower

[bcrider]

Bumping this thread to ask the question again.

Is it possible to have a multi-themed site?

One theme for the main site and one theme for bbpress forums.

Although I’m new to bbpress I’m thinking that it’s probably possible yes…but may be complex and tricky. As a result, we may be better off customizing one theme vs trying to use two?

[bcrider]

Thank you both for the help!

I’m sorry it took a few days for me to check back in.

Robin W, you’re correct. Technically long usernames like splitboard.com are not truncated, they’re just not fitting nicely in the author box.

Robk, widening the box could help but since my current theme is non-responsive I don’t want to make the body of the forum posts any narrower.

I think the best option may be to decrease the font size in this box. Can anyone advise how I can accomplish this?

Looking at my current phpbb3 forum, it seems that is how they handle it.
http://splitboard.com/talk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16976

I really want to convert my forum of 6,0000 members and 125,000 posts to bbpress. I just need to work a few of these things out..

Thank you!

Chris

[Multimum]

An additional question please

Can BBpress work alongside Buddypress?

[Multimum]

Hi

Sorry for posting this here, I have been searching around for an answer but cannot find it. I am fairly new to word press and have not used bbpress before.

I am trying to build a website that will have a forum on for people to sign up to, comment, receive notifications, follow certain threads, that type of thing. A fairly normal forum, so I have installed bbpress on my new wordpress website, it is very basic at present but can be seen here if needed, http://www.multimums.com the problem I have at the moment is that if I go to the website as a normal user, ie not logged into wordpress, then I can see a box for login with user name and password but nothing for registering as a new user. I have the option selected in general settings for anyone to register, but there is no option on the site. Do I need to install a plugin for this to work?

Normally in a forum when you look at a thread there is a line saying something like ‘you are not logged in, to post please login or register.’ How and where do i get this statement to appear, and how do i get people to to be able to register, to be able to post.

Will they then receive an email with their login details and a link to confirm their email address?

Where will these email addresses be stored for my reference, do i need to create a database to store users details in?

I can’t seem to find a guide to setting up the forum other than creating topics and threads, which I have been able to do successfully.

Once users are registered I assume that they will then be able to create new threads?

Thanks very much in advance for your help, sorry if I am asking questions which seem to basic.

[lauracdd]

Hello,

I updated to WordPress 4.0.1 and updated my bbPress to 2.5.4. The Forum page is a complete mess, it is just a bunch of unformatted text taken from headers and links that were on the page:

Search for: Welcome! Logout › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness General Member Posts Feel free to post what you like here! 1 1 2 years, 4 months ago Member News Use this to let us all know your news! 1 1 1 year, 10 months ago

Please let me know what I need to do to get the Forum back!

Link to the site (no spaces) http:// 4 t h s t r e e t c l u b .org/

[atfpodcast]

Sorry it was my phone. I tried to say after looking at it the bbcode was working. It was the htlm bar from bbpress that is not coming up in my firefox…

[Robkk]

try adding this anywhere you can put custom css

#bbpress-forums #qt_bbp_reply_content_toolbar input {
color: black;
}

[alekbounce]

Hi everyone!

I’m using a members plugin called UserPro. I’m trying to integrate bbPress forums with the user profiles created through UserPro.

All I’m trying to do is replace the user’s photo and username links to instead link to the UserPro profiles.

Here’s a visual.

The plugin’s developer gave users his own CSS changes to the “Loop-single-topic”, “Loop-single-reply” and the “loop-single-forum” .php files.

Though his supplied CSS works in terms of replacing the links, it also breaks the look of the entire forum and removes all of the info below the user’s pic and name.

Here’s the default “loop-Single-reply”:

<?php

/**
 * Replies Loop - Single Reply
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

?>

<div <?php bbp_reply_class(); ?>>

	<div class="bbp-reply-author">

		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_reply_author_details' ); ?>

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

		<div class="bbp-reply-post-date"><?php bbp_reply_post_date(); ?></div>

		<div class="bbps-post-count"><?php printf( __( 'Post count: %s', 'Avada' ), bbp_get_user_reply_count_raw(bbp_get_reply_author_id()) ); ?></div>

		<?php if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster() ) : ?>

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_reply_author_admin_details' ); ?>

			<div class="bbp-reply-ip"><?php bbp_author_ip( bbp_get_reply_id() ); ?></div>

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_admin_details' ); ?>

		<?php endif; ?>

		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details' ); ?>

	</div><!-- .bbp-reply-author -->

	<div class="bbp-reply-content">

		<div id="post-<?php bbp_reply_id(); ?>" class="bbp-reply-header clearfix">

			<div class="bbp-meta">

				<?php if ( bbp_is_single_user_replies() ) : ?>

					<span class="bbp-header">
						<?php _e( 'in reply to: ', 'bbpress' ); ?>
						<a class="bbp-topic-permalink" href="<?php bbp_topic_permalink( bbp_get_reply_topic_id() ); ?>"><?php bbp_topic_title( bbp_get_reply_topic_id() ); ?></a>
					</span>

				<?php endif; ?>

				<a href="<?php bbp_reply_url(); ?>" class="bbp-reply-permalink">#<?php bbp_reply_id(); ?></a>

				<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_reply_admin_links' ); ?>

				<?php bbp_reply_admin_links( array ( 'after' => '<span class="admin_links_sep"> | </span></span>') ); ?>

				<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_admin_links' ); ?>

			</div><!-- .bbp-meta -->

		</div><!-- #post-<?php bbp_reply_id(); ?> -->

		<div class="bbp-reply-entry">
			<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_reply_content' ); ?>

			<?php bbp_reply_content(); ?>

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_content' ); ?>
			<div class="bbp-arrow"></div>
		</div>

	</div><!-- .bbp-reply-content -->

</div><!-- .reply -->

Here’s his supplied CSS:

<?php

/**
 * Replies Loop - Single Reply
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

?>

<div <?php bbp_reply_class(); ?>>

	<div class="bbp-reply-author">

		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_reply_author_details' ); ?>

		<?php 

/* Integrating UserPro */
		global $userpro;
		$link = preg_replace("/(?<=href=(\"|'))[^\"']+(?=(\"|'))/", $userpro->permalink( bbp_get_reply_author_id() ), 
		bbp_get_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />', 'show_role' => false ) ) );
		echo $link . userpro_show_badges( bbp_get_reply_author_id() );
		?>

		<?php if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster() ) : ?>

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_reply_author_admin_details' ); ?>

			<div class="bbp-reply-ip"><?php bbp_author_ip( bbp_get_reply_id() ); ?></div>

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_admin_details' ); ?>

		<?php endif; ?>

		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details' ); ?>

	</div><!-- .bbp-reply-author -->

	<div class="bbp-reply-content">

		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_reply_content' ); ?>

		<?php bbp_reply_content(); ?>

		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_content' ); ?>

	</div><!-- .bbp-reply-content -->

</div><!-- .reply -->

I would be grateful to get any assistance on how I might change the links alone without modifying or breaking everything else. Thanks so much in advance.

I’m using the Avada theme.

[atfpodcast]

Ok so it now that I am looking at it better is the bbs is working. I thought I would see it in the menu bar but it now appears to be bbpress.org with firefox on my site.

[allanlud]

Hi all,

I have just installed bbpress here – forum.I’ve been looking through the forums here and found a few posts relating to the style of PHPBB.

What I am trying to do is have something like the this:

Forum#1
–Sub Forum #1
—-Description
–Sub Forum #2
—-Description

Forum#2
–Sub Forum #1
—-Description
–Sub Forum #2
—-Description

Forum#3
–Sub Forum #1
—-Description
–Sub Forum #2
—-Description

And have topics for each sub forum displayed – hope that makes sense. I’m not too sure about forums & categories so feel free to comment.

I have read about editing the plugin files in a child theme but not too sure how to go about that. I have worked with child themes in WordPress before (and am currently), but is there a ‘plugin child theme’?

Thanks,
Al.

[Robin W]

put the following in your functions file

add_filter('protected_title_format', 'ntwb_remove_protected_title');
function ntwb_remove_protected_title($title) {
	return '%s';
}
 
add_filter('private_title_format', 'ntwb_remove_private_title');
function ntwb_remove_private_title($title) {
	return '%s';
}

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Robin W]

With so little information it is hard to help !

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.

[Robin W]

@edooze – as robkk says whilst at first this may seem daunting, it is probably your easiest option.

The issue is not with bbpress, but with your theme, which is not recognising custom post types, and treating them as blog pages.

To fix this you need to modify the file which is displaying pages, and make a copy that bbpress can use.

Since it is a theme compatibility issue, it is likely that any other forum software will have the same issue.

[webcoreinteractive]

I don’t have any of the plugins mentioned here and have this issue occurring as well.
Definitely a bbpress – WP conflict. We have tested on our vanilla site.

I had to implement fix by Yolle. Thanks for the code.

Hopefull this bug gets fixed in next bbpress update.

[Robkk]

@edooze

LOL its not complicated at all at least not so complicated to switch to a different forum

basically it says copy the file page.php and rename it to any of the listed options

plugin-bbpress.php
bbpress.php
forums.php
forum.php

then edit the file and remove the things you dont need in your forum

like the comment count , by post author , post category, and post date that are usally posted on blog posts.

[Robkk]

you would need to contact the plugin author about resolving the issue with the bbPress plugin

also make sure that you dont have any of the following problems listed here

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bolcom-partnerprogramma-wordpress-plugin/faq/

other than that try to find an alternative.

[Robkk]

you need to create a bbpress.php file, follow this link to read more info about it.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

[edooze]

Does anyone know why, under the page title, the comment count and author line is showing?

Comments are disabled for the page, but on every page with bbpress on it still shows this line.

If you’re not sure what I’m referring to, the line reads:
“By on in | 0 comments”
it is normally removed by disabling comments in typical WP pages.

TIA,
edooze.

[gipsypainter]

Hi

I am setting up a new BBPRess forum and I have changed the default reply order to descending so new replies begin at the top. So far so good.

However, when a new reply is submitted the user is taken to the other end of the thread rather than to the newest end. Is there a tweak I need to the reverse order code?

this is what I have in my functions:

function custom_bbp_has_replies() {
  $args['order'] = 'DESC'; // 'ASC' (Ascending, Default), 'DESC' (Descending)
  
  return $args;
}
 
add_filter('bbp_before_has_replies_parse_args', 'custom_bbp_has_replies' );

thanks for any help.

[Robin W]

hmm.. as a mod on my test site(as well as on this site) I can trash and spam.

Have you altered any capabilities, or using any plugins that might affect this?

you could try

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.

that might pinpoint the problem.

[Glszn]

I’ve turned the plugins on and off and the conclusion is that the bbpress plugin – which are very important for my blog – is causing problems with the bol.com plugin which is also very important for my blog. How to solve this? The developer of the bol.com plugin says: “If the problem is caused by one of the other plugins I am afraid I can not help you any further. You might want to contact one of the developers of the plugin that is causing the problem and send them the information in your console. They will probably be able to help you.”

Can you help me?

Thank you very much

[Robin W]

It should ‘hold’ ie stay the same for that screen.

The actual setting is deep within wordpress not bbpress, so sorry can’t say where or what it is !

[robertosalemi]

I’m sorry, I resolved.

I copied and pasted the shortcode from this link.

Well, I copied the teletype tag too!

Thanks!

[Preston]

I have a lot of custom fields I’m using in a particular forum when posting a new topic, and I’m wondering what the best way is to make certain ones required. Similar to how the topic title and topic content are required on a standard forum.

Also, I need to be able to make the topic content not required for the forum as well.

I haven’t found much when searching around the site and Google, but I did find where empty fields are being checked in plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/functions.php (around line 186). I’m just not sure the cleanest/best way to tap into that.

I’ve also debated using something like jQuery Validation, but I’d like the check to be done at the server level if possible. Just to prevent as much spam/malicious intent as possible because this is a public forum.

I appreciate the help!