[Robkk]

@bsilverop

well i just checked and its almost there,

you have space on the left whenever you go to a smaller screen size so you probably need to bring back the @media statement so there is space for the left sidebar when it reaches 1008px but none when its on a smaller than 1008px.

#bbpress-forums {
	font-size: inherit !important;
	width: 100% !important;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 1008px)
.bbpress .site-content {
	margin-right: 0 !important;
	margin-left: 182px !important;
}

.bbpress .site-content {
	margin-right: 0 !important;
	margin-left: 0 !important;
}

i think your full width forum should be done now

[bsilverop]

Thanks, removing @media screen and (min-width: 1008px) and adding !important seems to have worked. The forum now resizes to fit the page if you go to a smaller screen size. I appreciate the help from both @robin-w and @robkk. I didn’t expect support like this, I really am grateful. Thanks again!

Solution:

1) Copy page.php and rename bbpress.php. Remove <?php get_sidebar( 'content' ); ?> as I want to extend beyond the content sidebar.

2) Add CSS:

#bbpress-forums {
	font-size: inherit !important;
	width: 100% !important;
}

.bbpress .site-content {
	margin-right: 0 !important;
	margin-left: 182px !important;
}

[Robkk]

@robin-w 🙂

@bsilverop well you can try adding !important to it too, or removing the @media screen and (min-width: 1008px)

i just took it right off of inspect element.

but for sure keep the margin-right:at zero pixels because that is where your old sidebar use to be.

if all still doesnt work change .bbpress to #bbpress-forums

reply back if you havent got it yet.

[Robkk]

you can use this to add links to the edit profile section of your profile in the menu.

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

you can then use this to just lead to just the profile

// Filter wp_nav_menu() to profile link
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_nav_menu_pro_link' );
function my_nav_menu_pro_link($menu) {
    if (!is_user_logged_in())
        return $menu;
    else
        $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
        $user=$current_user->user_login ;
        $profilelink = '<li><a href="/forums/users/' . $user . '/">Profile</a></li>';
        $menu = $menu . $profilelink;
        return $menu;
 
}

then you can just create a link to your topics archive by going to the menu section and adding a link to the menu with the link being yoursite.com/topics

[Robkk]

change the width from 150% to just 100%, if you go to a smaller screen size the forums are cut-off.

use this and see if it works

@media screen and (min-width: 1008px)
.bbpress .site-content {
margin-right: 0;
margin-left: 182px;
}

[packzap]

Just want to add my notes in updating from dinosaur version 0.9.0.7 to 1.2 for anyone going thru the process. Follow the steps in https://codex.bbpress.org/legacy/updating/ (shown below).

At step four, these additional steps need to happen:

4-b) In bb-includes on the server create a drectory called backpress. Copy all the backpress files from the download of “backpress-1.2-bbpress\includes”. Copy the folder “schema” to \\bb-includes\backpress\ on the server.

4-c) In /bb-includes/backpress/ on server create a folder called “pomo”. Copy the 5 files from the download of “Glotpress pomo” into it.

Updating

These instructions cover upgrading to version 1.2

• First, you should always back up your files and your database in case something goes wrong.
• Second, deactivate all plugins.
• Third, keep the following files and directories.

  bb-config.php
  my-plugins/ (if you have it)
  my-templates/ (if you have it)
  my-languages/ (if you have it)
  also backup your existing .htaccess file if you have modified it, then delete everything else.

• Fourth, upload the newest version of bbPress to your server.
• Fifth, log in and visit your bbPress admin area. If you see an upgrade link instead of the normal screen, click it. If you don’t see an upgrade link (it would have been really obvious), continue to the next step.
• Sixth, visit the new “Settings” area of the admin and edit any details or settings in the “General” section. Also visit the “Permalinks” section to regenerate your .htaccess file if necessary. Also reactivate your plugins one by one (some may need to be upgraded as well).
• Seventh, sit back and relax; you’re done!

These downloads are for legacy versions of bbPress and are no longer in active development but still available for download if you’re feeling nostalgic. You can find the WordPress plugin bbPress here
bbPress 1.2

The latest 1.x stand-alone version of bbPress is 1.2 (.zip / trac / svn)

The latest bbPress 1.2 specific BackPress package is backpress-1.2-bbpress (.zip / trac / svn)

(You will also need the GlotPress ‘pomo’ folder from here.)

[raied]

Hello

I am ned with bbpress and i have some issues

1- how to make forums link like this

http://www.mysite.com/forums ?? becouse the link now like this http://www.mysite.com/?post_type=forum

2- how to make the forums on full page like this site http://www.ar-wp.com/forums/ ??

3- what is the required plugin to make my bbpress like this site http://www.ar-wp.com/forums/ ?

thank you

[bsilverop]

It did indeed muck up other areas of the site. But I combined the two you sent and this seems to work:

#bbpress-forums {
	width: 150% !important;
}

Can you see any reason why this wouldn’t be ideal? The only thing I’ve noticed so far is that when testing on a large monitor, the footer has a lot of empty space at the bottom (only on the forum pages). Otherwise it looks to be working ok on my laptop, I’m just concerned it might not for others. Thanks again!

[swammy05]

Yes, that makes sense.

I did find this: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2685

Is that a core fix that has not been made? My bbpress is up to date

[Robin W]

ok, in your theme css add this at the bottom

#bbpress-forums .content-area {
width: 150% !important;
}

My css is lousy, so if this doesn’t work, come back !

[toomba]

Hello,

Previous problem
Yesterday I was having trouble fixing the template for the forum index (Troubleshooting post here)

Now I’ve fixed that, I seem to have another problem (though I’m not sure if it existed before I fixed the index).

My current problem

Topic pages are not appearing. They appear as links on the indexes, and I can create new ones, however if I click them, I am taken to a page of a messed up template (elements scattered everywhere). Something appears very broken somewhere. As soon as I create a new topic, it posts it with a title (eg: websitename.com/forum/topics/turquoise-curtains-4-11-14)
However, when inspecting the source code, none of the content of the post is there.

Question

Has this been encountered by other users?
Does anyone have any pointers on how I can go about troubleshooting this problem?

[Robkk]

@atfpodcast yeah thats what people usually say there.

try just switching to bbpress bbcode with the whitelist plugin

and also bbpress direct quotes.

the bbcode plugin just turns basic html into shortcodes , so its still fine even though it is 2 years old.

but remember to use it with the whitelist plugin too so that other users cant post the bbpress login shortcode and other unwanted shortcodes you dont want in bbpress posts/wordpress comments/buddypress activity/buddypress private messages.

bbpress direct quotes wont quote as fast as gd bbpress tools quotes but it still works fine too.

[Robin W]

can you humour me and 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.

[Nathan Nelson]

Hi,

I have searched about for any matching issues but come up short – I have a Buddypress private group with its own bbPress forum. As a site admin I can see the forum topics posted in this forum in the bbPress recent topics widget on the home page of the site, but group members (regular forum participants) cannot see the content of this widget unless they are actually on the forum page.

Is this a permissions issue? How can I show group forum topics in this widget to regular users?

Thanks.

[atfpodcast]

[atfpodcast]

I don’t know if any one else can see this but the links are to close and don’t have a space to separate the words. For example the Subscribe link. See screen shot

http://www.movielandwaxmuseum.org/images/bbpress_link.jpg

[bidhan.baruah]

Hi,

We had a custom forum created through a .NET application. Its a legacy application built in 2006.
Now client is migrating to wordpress / bbpress. For forum migration I have created a application to import data from .NET application (Sql Server database) in a format where I can use mingle importer to import.

The tables we have created are wp_forum_forums, wp_forum_threads; wp_forum_posts;

Table definition are
CREATE TABLE wp_forum_forums (
id bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
name varchar(4000) NOT NULL,
parent_id bigint(20) NOT NULL,
description text,
sort int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=32 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

CREATE TABLE wp_forum_posts (
id bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
parent_id bigint(20) NOT NULL,
subject varchar(2000) DEFAULT NULL,
author_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
text mediumtext,
date datetime NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id),
KEY fk_wp_forum_posts_wp_forum_threads_idx (parent_id),
KEY fk_wp_forum_posts_wp_user (author_id),
CONSTRAINT fk_wp_forum_posts_wp_forum_threads FOREIGN KEY (parent_id) REFERENCES wp_forum_threads (id),
CONSTRAINT fk_wp_forum_posts_wp_user FOREIGN KEY (author_id) REFERENCES wp_users (ID) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=69731 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

CREATE TABLE wp_forum_threads (
id bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
parent_id bigint(20) NOT NULL,
starter bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
subject varchar(4000) DEFAULT NULL,
status varchar(100) NOT NULL,
date datetime NOT NULL,
last_post datetime NOT NULL,
closed varchar(50) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id),
KEY fk_wp_forum_threads_wp_forum_forums_idx (parent_id),
KEY fk_wp_forum_threads_wp_users_idx (starter),
CONSTRAINT fk_wp_forum_threads_wp_forum_forums FOREIGN KEY (parent_id) REFERENCES wp_forum_forums (id),
CONSTRAINT fk_wp_forum_threads_wp_user FOREIGN KEY (starter) REFERENCES wp_users (ID) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=9303 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

Through our custom code we populated these tables.

Everything works fine, but while importing the wp_forum_posts (which has got 69K records) the importer hangs between 35600 to 35699. I tried atleast 5 / 6 times but same result every time.

Can you kindly help us in this?

Thanks and Regards
Bidhan

[x5tuts]

For some reason I can’t import from vanilla to bbpress, I have filled out all the details correctly but nothing is working.

cheers

[Robin W]

If you are using the shortcode

[bbp-forum-index]

on a page, then the template that page is using can be called but sub pages will use bbpress.php

See if that is your issue

[toomba]

Hello,

My index (archive?) forum page is grabbing a different template from the one specified in the bbpress.php files I made. Well, I used debug bar, and it said the forum index page was serving the same template (bbpress.php) as the normal forum pages. However, it clearly isn’t as it’s displaying it has different elements + css working on them.

The problem is huge, as it’s grabbing the template I use for the main page, which has a sidebar (‘.twocol’) which I’ve reduced the width to 33.2%. This means the box the forum page is appearing in is totally squashed. I can’t amend the css for the forum index page without ruining my front page.

Can anyone help me figure out which template is being called by the forum index page, and how to make sure it just refers to the bbpress.php file?

[readwriteandedit]

I don’t know if this is a question for bbPress, bbPress WP Tweaks, or iThemes Exchange Membership, but I’ll start with bbPress.

I have multiple forums, one private. I’m using the bbPress WP Tweaks plugin for my forum sidebar and restricting access to all forums through Exchange Membership.

The private forum is hidden from the forum list, which is what I expected and what I want.
The private forum cannot be accessed from my menu link (although I need to figure out how to get rid of the “oops message), which is also expected behavior.

However, recent topics and recent replies in the sidebar both show links to a topic from the private forum to non-members of the forum. That is, the sidebar shows topics for every forum, even the private one, and even to non-members. Clicking the links for topics/replies from the private forum returns the “oops message” and so non-members can’t actually link to the forum that way, but I don’t want anyone who’s not a member of the private forum to even see topic titles. Everything in the private forum should be private.

Additionally, using the search box in the sidebar brings up both topics and replies to content from the private forum–not merely links, but the topics and replies themselves, as if they weren’t part of a private forum. This is true whether or not the user is logged in.

Exchange Membership allows me to restrict access to replies and topics, but only globally; topics and replies can’t be restricted on a forum-by-forum basis.

1. So, is there a setting I’m missing in bbPress to make replies and topics private inside a private forum? Is it standard for members of other forums to be able see the titles of topics of a private forum or allow access through search? (Or if you think this is being caused by the bbPress WP Tweaks plugin and you have any ideas for a fix, that would be great.)

2. Also, can I change the “oops, that page can’t be found” message or redirect users to another page when they click on the link to a private forum? Exchange Membership already has something set up to prevent access to protected pages/posts (with a message I can change), and that works if a non-member tries to access a public forum. But something about the private forum settings/setup produces a different redirect. I’m open to suggestions.

Thanks for your help.

Wordpress: 4.0
bbPress: 2.5.4
bbPress WP Tweaks: 1.3.1
iThemes Exchange: 1.10.6
Exchange Membership Add-on: 1.2.8
My site: The Editor’s Blog Members

The Member Forum is public, the Pro Forum private. The topic–Can Sally See This Topic–is from the Pro Forum and shouldn’t be seen by or accessible to the Member Forum.

[WhenPaperSucks]

I notice this happens to others too, but appears to not have an absolute solution yet…I’ve experienced this once before but no follow up solution resulted, so I thought I would try once again with this new and recent instance of this ongoing problem.

In a nutshell, when I go to log into the WP Dashboard, it redirects me to the site’s front-end and not to my dashboard. I have to manually type in an admin url location to access it.

I have a fresh install of WordPress that I’ve been developing my theme with. So when this happened yet again, I did the following to troubleshoot:

1. Replaced my WP files with a fresh download
2. Tried two WP default themes
3. Disabled plugins one-by-one
4. flushed my browser’s cache and also used the default permalinks setting

Once again, it points to the bbPress plugin because when I disable it, I can log back into the dashboard just fine. However, enabling it once again, the problem comes back. And before you ask, this happens with the default WP themes too.

Long story short, I did a Google search and this happens to various people over the years, and this is the third time in 2 years for me…the 1st time I just simply dropped bbPress, then the second time, I had to do the same, now this 3rd time, I may have to.

Any ideas what could be doing this?

[Robkk]

well i cant see the links on your site because its only shown if you are logged in.

but i just looked up the css selectors on here.

see if this changes the color.

a.subscription-toggle,
a.favorite-toggle {
color:328c00;
}

if you want to change the color of other links like for example the reply author link use inspect element in your web browser, and try to find the class/id then style it from there.

if sometimes some css doesnt work you would have to probably go add the parent class/id in the css or add !important to the end.

like

li.bbp-header a.favorite-toggle {
color:#328c00;
}

search up on google/youtube on how to use inspect element in your browser

more info here

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 2

bbPress Styling Crib

[bsilverop]

Thanks for the update. I have a file called full-width.php in wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/page-templates. And I apologize, I don’t think I was clear in my original post. I want the forum to extend the width of the page beyond the content sidebar on the right side of the page. I do want the left sidebar to remain.

I modified the copy of bbpress.php taken from page.php, and I removed

<?php get_sidebar( 'content' ); ?>

I was already hiding the content sidebar on forum pages, so the result there is the same. The forum is cut short where the content sidebar on the left normally appears.

I tested the full width page template on one of my pages to make sure it extends beyond the content sidebar on the right, and it does. I am hoping to get the forum to do the same. Thanks again,

[Robin W]

my twentyfourteen theme doesn’t have a full-width.php.

Suggest you make a copy of page.php – rename it bbpress.php

then remove

get_sidebar();

near the end

and save it and let us know if that works