if you want your bbpress forum links to be different than your sites links use this
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content a, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content a {
background: none;
border: none;
display: inline;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
color: red;
}
When i create topics from the Dashboard with greek names, the title in the link is sanitized automaticaly, and there is no problem. But when a user creates a topic from the bbpress interface then the link remains in greek and the topic returns a 404 page not found error.
I dont understand if i need to put some code in bb-post.php and bb-edit.php, where and what exactly i should change.
1. the login issue , i cant do much about since its about the design of bbpress.org , i can pitch some desgin ideas like just showing login and register links in the admin bar instead of the anonymous user profile dropdown so that it could be more like the wp admin bar as it is now.
2. i dont think bbpress login shortcode/widget have a referrer login redirect , use this plugin to get that kind of functionality.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/peters-login-redirect/
if it doesnt work , i dont know how else to help you on this issue.
3. i think you should create a new topic for this, i dont really know much about this.
Wow Rob, I really feel stupid now. Spent 4 hours coping bbPress files to child theme and finessing the php.
Thanks for the share.
@atfpodcast well i dont know what to tell you then, i got it to work fine on my side.
i cant help from here maybe you should contact your theme author , and also gd bbpress tools.
or try finding the issue yourself, because i have no idea.
Thx Rob,
Missed it as well my eyes are weary. Thank You for the quick response. Setting new forum for my eccomerce site https://www.boatpartsforless.com/. Learned quite a bit about bbPress in a day. Last thing really needing attention before it goes live is a login re-direct and one piece of code color of font forum titles. Really like bbPress but two a few quirky things.
First: when I registered today for bbPress forum I really had to look for log in then finally figured out it was the icon top right. Seems like logging in and registering should not take that much effort.
Second: Quirk. After log in site does not redirect back to page you where on. That disappointed me earlier today when searching for info and had to register to add to this topic. Again while I am really liking bbPress so far, seems weird two paramount conveniences are not incorporated in out of the box.
Last one: is a little scary. If someone inputs incorrect log in information it redirects to WordPress main login in screen. Really have to work on that one before forum goes live. While most hackers know where log in in is for WordPress sites still seems stupid to advertise it like that.
Or it could just be me, frustrated with having to learn something new.
the css from this code is affecting the whitespace
#left-area ul, .entry-content ul, .comment-content ul {
list-style-type: disc;
padding: 0 0 23px 16px;
line-height: 26px;
}
maybe creating a bbpress.php file could fix this or just adding #bbpress-forums to the selector with reduced padding-left .
#bbpress-forums #left-area ul, .entry-content ul, .comment-content ul {
list-style-type: disc;
padding: 0 0 23px 0px;
line-height: 26px;
}
heres info on creating a bbpress.php file.
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/
umm i dont know what to tell you about the sidebar going the profile and tag pages, it might be because of the template you are using for bbpress currently so maybe making a bbpress.php could fix it but i dont know
Hi blueberry cove,
Would you mind sharing how you got your login/register, lost password links at top of your forum page. I have created these pages wordpress already. But each time I try and add a button or link to the top of the wordpress forum page. Button or link is added but breaks the bbpress forum itself and forum itself does not show only newly added link or button.
Thanks in advance
Hi robkk,
I have tried every way I can to get the link to show, but no matter what I do it won’t. I can easily change the text “You must be logged in to create new topics” but no luck adding a link there. I have been working with the files form-topic.php, form-reply.php and form-forum.php. Here is the piece of code in each file I am working with including your snippet above. Any help will be much appreciated.
<div class="bbp-template-notice">
<p><?php is_user_logged_in() ? _e( 'You cannot create new topics.', 'bbpress' ) : _e( 'You must be logged in to create new topics.<a href="http://mysitename.com/login" title="login"></a>', 'bbpress' ); ?></p>
</div>
I understand I have to use my url for forum login in “mysitename.com”
Thanks
I have a CSS Problem with bbpress
Here ist the Forum Demo: http://zombicide.de/forum/
I think the white space on left and at the border is not ok.
On Profil and Tags Pages moved the sidebar under the forum.
http://zombicide.de/forums/user/schrank/
http://zombicide.de/forums/topic-tag/test/
Hi All,
I’m having some trouble getting my forum pages to be full width. If I use the shortcode to embed a forum and set my page template to “Full Width”, it works fine. But then if you click another forum topic it goes back to what looks like half width. I have tried copying my full-width.php (twenty fourteen) and calling it bbpress.php and forum.php, but it seems to have no impact. I have also tried adding some CSS, but also seemed to have no impact:
.bbpress-forums .col-2cl .main {
background: none repeat-y right 0;
padding-right: 0px;
}
I’m kind of at a loss as to why the forum pages are still not full width, so would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks,
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.
a /members page is not part of bbpress. Might be buddypress or because you have set a page up, but not default bbpress
Hello. Thanks for sharing this information. I am new to WP, so not sure I’ve done this properly. I do have custom CSS and was able to add the CSS you suggested:
.bbpress .main {
background: none repeat-y right 0;
padding-right: 0px!important;
}
But it seemed to have no impact. I think I’m missing the part about creating the bbpress.php file. I made a copy of my page.php in my theme directory and renamed it to bbpress.php. Was that the appropriate step or have I missed something? Thanks!
simplest solution without me documenting alternatives would be to create bbpress roles with the same names as you member ones
see https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#14-adding-new-bbpress-roles
so you’d create a bbpress role called new member and give it the same capabilities as participant
I have same problem, I use Divi from ellegant themes. I have followed ur instruction.
But It doest work well.
I tried to change page-template-blank.php and page.php and rename both of them to be bbPress.php
Can you help me? 🙂
@akyboy
list some links you are trying to change in bbpress.
I have installed bbPress fine and have setup a forum without any issues. However when I create a new topic within the forum the initial topic text I entered does not show. I have also noticed that all of my forum topics are displayed as blog posts and replies are posted as topics rather than replies. I have tried re-installing bbPress and the same problem exists.
Here is a link to the forum I have created.
http://ifj2014.thread-creative.co.uk/test-forum-2/
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
@mnhfile
your welcome 🙂
and well editing .php files and using FTP is kind of advanced if you dont know what you are doing and are messing with the wrong directories or templates.
but as long as you know what you are doing and just copying a template over to your child theme in a bbpress folder it is really easy.
you can copy all of this and overwrite it with an editor like notepad++
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robkk/bbPress-Hierarchical-Forum-and-Category-Layout/master/loop-forums.php
or you can just go here download the .zip , unzip and get the .php file and just plop that in and overwrite the other one i gave you before.
https://github.com/robkk/bbPress-Hierarchical-Forum-and-Category-Layout
@johnohfs oh , well the grey bars are actually the li.bbp-header and li.bbp-footer that hold the labels
here are what css codes are causing the problem.
changing display:inline; to display:block; should fix the problem for you.
#main li {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 14px;
display: inline;
margin-right: 5%;
}
@media only screen and (min-width: 769px)
#main li {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 18px;
display: inline;
margin-right: 12%;
}
i think putting .bbpress if you already created a bbpress.php file or #bbpress-forums before #main li { should fix the problem, so that only on bbpress pages would have a different css for the #main li
Css or php changes by sftp not updated to my wordpress site. I figured out this is not parent/ child theme problem .. I am using godaddy wordpress managed hosting and this issue occurs because of their cache layer and i don’t know how to clear it. I try to contact them but unable to reach them beacuase of voice issue in international call.
Anyhow my tab/heading problem is solved because of loop code in this link https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robkk/better-bbpress-responsive-theme/master/bbpress/loop-forums.php
i want some modification in tabs/heading — like in the picture arrow appears which show or hide forums../// or modification like tabs act like toggles (function).
@pavle123 ask the guy on Qucksprout , he runs bbPress ask him if its bad for SEO
i dont think there would be a problem though.
i don’t see anything wrong really
the layout already looks pretty clean .
if you want suggestions on how to style your bbPress forum , i suggest you ask your sites users on additional improvements then go from there.
