[Robin W]

You need to get bbpress to use the full width template

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[solhuebner]

I think you should sell it and so be able to improve it over time 🙂 but the bbPress urgently needs a better look (mobile look is bad in nearly all themes or they just hide things) and this site here also need a mobile version… Crazy in these days to only offer a desktop view…

[Robkk]

i would use a different forum index layout.

read whats on this and download the file and see what you can take off of it.

Alternate bbpress index page

[bertusschoeman]

Good day, I am running the latest versions of WordPress and bbPress and would appreciate some assistance with getting my forum’s sub pages full width. I am using Elegant Themes’s Divi theme.

So I can choose to have the main Forum page full with by checking that in the page settins – http://secularsociety.co.za/forum/ but as soon as you go to one of the forum’s sub pages it resizes it back to a page that has a sidebar – http://secularsociety.co.za/forum/topic/ask-an-atheist/. I’ve read and tried a bunch of things without any luck. I am also not a css master, but I am willing to try anything.

Thank you for your time.
Bertus

[Pavle123]

Any progress on this?
I really love the design and how useful it is. Once again good job, bbPress deserves something like this 🙂

[HoggeHog]

Hi,

bbPress V2.5.4
WordPress V4.0
http://www.angestforum.se

I’ve just created translations for bbPress and BuddyPress using PoEdit. The BuddyPress translation works fine. But the bbPress translation doesn’t change these words:

1. Number of topics, number of posts (in forums overview)
2. “Post Topic”-button
3. “Voices”, “Posts” for topics

Other things, like “Topic Title” and “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” etc. are however translated.

What is overriding my translation for these things? Any help is much appreciated. The language in wp-config is set to sv_SE (swedish).The translations are titled bbpress-sv_SE.po and .mo.

[Robkk]

i checked this out and i think you need to fix the “Filed Under” that is under every forum.

if you havent made a bbpress.php do so to fix that.

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

[arno8]

@lynq I hope you can help me.

As you see here, in the general section it shows the topic and posts count nicely on the correct place.
However on the sub-forums u can see the counts are just ext to the name. how can i position these so they get on the same position like the ones above?

I tried to add a class here

// Parse arguments against default values
	$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
		'before'            => '<ul class="bbp-forums-list">',
		'after'             => '</ul>',
		'link_before'       => '<li class="bbp-forum">',
		'link_after'        => '</li>',
		'count_before'      => '(',
		'count_after'       => ' )',
		'count_sep'         => ', ',
		'separator'         => ', ',
		'forum_id'          => '',
		'show_topic_count'  => true,
		'show_reply_count'  => true,
	), 'list_forums' );

Like this:

// Parse arguments against default values
	$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
		'before'            => '<ul class="bbp-forums-list">',
		'after'             => '</ul>',
		'link_before'       => '<li class="bbp-forum">',
		'link_after'        => '</li>',
		'count_before'      => '<div class="counts">',
		'count_after'       => '</div>',
		//'count_sep'         => ', ',
		//'separator'         => ', ',
		'forum_id'          => '',
		'show_topic_count'  => true,
		'show_reply_count'  => true,
	), 'list_forums' );

to then style it in css, but when i try this it doesnt show the count anymore and i cANT EDIT IT IN CSS.

[Topknotch]

Brilliant worked a treat !! Now to move all smf posts to bbpress 🙁
thanks Robin for all your help

[Robin W]

ok, I downloaded the theme and had a play

you need to create this file as bbpress.php

<?php global $theme; get_header(); ?>

    <div id="main">
    
        <?php $theme->hook('main_before'); ?>

        <div id="content2">
            
            <?php $theme->hook('content_before'); ?>
        
            <?php 
                if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
                    /**
                     * Find the post formatting for the pages in the post-page.php file
                     */
                    get_template_part('post', 'page');
                    
                    if(comments_open( get_the_ID() ))  {
                        comments_template('', true); 
                    }
                endwhile;
                
                else :
                    get_template_part('post', 'noresults');
                endif; 
            ?>
            
            <?php $theme->hook('content_after'); ?>
        
        </div><!-- #content -->
    
        <div id="sidebar-primary">

   <?php
        if(!dynamic_sidebar('sidebar-bbpress')) {
            /**
            * The primary sidebar widget area. Manage the widgets from: wp-admin -> Appearance -> Widgets 
            */
            $theme->hook('sidebar-bbpress');
        }
        $theme->hook("sidebar_primary_after");
    ?>
    
</div><!-- #sidebar-primary -->
        
        <?php $theme->hook('main_after'); ?>
        
    </div><!-- #main -->
    
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Then in your style.css you need to add the following to the bottom just above the

/* =END

#content2 {
  float: left;
  overflow: hidden;
  width: 630px;
}

That should do it

[nightcoder]

@vegasinc I’m glad to hear that helped. Hope bbPress resolves the issue soon.

[rookpsu]

I think I found the issue.

Problem with the default "do not reply" email address

True to form, my domain begins with an ‘s’ so it was truncating the first letter as well. I assumed I just typed it in wrong.

[Robin W]

try using the method shown here

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[rookpsu]

Only after updating to the latest version of BBPress did I start receiving subscription email notifications.

The problem is, somewhere, at some point, I set the reply email address to one which doesn’t really exist so every time someone leaves a post in which they’re subscribed to I’m getting this email seconds after it:

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

noreply@domain.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
DNS Error: Domain name not found

I simply can’t find where I have to go to change this email address so that my inbox isn’t flooded with this delivery error notifications.

Any help is appreciated.

[Robin W]

you have a smart theme that is displaying that, which someone has customised.

can you look in your theme and see if you have a folder here

wp-content/themes/eighties/bbpress

If you have can you list the files held there

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

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]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

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]

how are you accessing this page – which of these is it?

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[Robin W]

ok,

In your theme create a bbpress directory

wp-content/themes/%yourtheme%/bbpress

where %yourtheme% is your theme name

Then copy the following file to that folder

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/template/default/bbpress/form-topic.php

So you end up with

wp-content/themes/%yourtheme%/bbpress/form-topic.php

You can then edit this file, and bbpress will use this version.

[zmenchhofer]

im not sure where this is coming from or how to change it

Under the WP site header when you are on the BBpress page (listing the forums)

there is a H1 header that says “UNDEFINED” How can we change it?

THANK YOU!

[Robin W]

I think this should do it. It’s from my library of code and haven’t used it in a while, so come back if it’s not what you want

You’ll need to add it to your functions file

Functions files and child themes – explained !

//This function adds descriptions to the sub forums
function custom_list_forums( $args = '' ) {

	// Define used variables
	$output = $sub_forums = $topic_count = $reply_count = $counts = '';
	$i = 0;
	$count = array();

	// Parse arguments against default values
	$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
		'before'            => '<ul class="bbp-forums-list">',
		'after'             => '</ul>',
		'link_before'       => '<li class="bbp-forum">',
		'link_after'        => '</li>',
		'count_before'      => ' (',
		'count_after'       => ')',
		'count_sep'         => ', ',
		'separator'         => ', ',
		'forum_id'          => '',
		'show_topic_count'  => true,
		'show_reply_count'  => true,
	), 'list_forums' );

	// Loop through forums and create a list
	$sub_forums = bbp_forum_get_subforums( $r['forum_id'] );
	if ( !empty( $sub_forums ) ) {

		// Total count (for separator)
		$total_subs = count( $sub_forums );
		foreach ( $sub_forums as $sub_forum ) {
			$i++; // Separator count

			// Get forum details
			$count     = array();
			$show_sep  = $total_subs > $i ? $r['separator'] : '';
			$permalink = bbp_get_forum_permalink( $sub_forum->ID );
			$title     = bbp_get_forum_title( $sub_forum->ID );
			$content = bbp_get_forum_content($sub_forum->ID) ;

			// Show topic count
			if ( !empty( $r['show_topic_count'] ) && !bbp_is_forum_category( $sub_forum->ID ) ) {
				$count['topic'] = bbp_get_forum_topic_count( $sub_forum->ID );
			}

			// Show reply count
			if ( !empty( $r['show_reply_count'] ) && !bbp_is_forum_category( $sub_forum->ID ) ) {
				$count['reply'] = bbp_get_forum_reply_count( $sub_forum->ID );
			}

			// Counts to show
			if ( !empty( $count ) ) {
				$counts = $r['count_before'] . implode( $r['count_sep'], $count ) . $r['count_after'];
			}

			// Build this sub forums link
			$output .= $r['before'].$r['link_before'] . '<a href="' . esc_url( $permalink ) . '" class="bbp-forum-link">' . $title . $counts . '</a>' . $show_sep . $r['link_after'].'<div class="bbp-forum-content">'.$content.'</div>'.$r['after'];
		}

		// Output the list
		return $output ;
	}
}

add_filter('bbp_list_forums', 'custom_list_forums' );

[vegas778]

Sorry I thought “Meta Title” was well known. Here you’ll find an explanation : http://womeninbusiness.about.com/od/internetmarketingandseo/a/how2metatitles.htm

I said that the issue was only on profile, search and tag bbpress pages, so all the print screen on the left side are “wrong”. The 2 on the right side are “correct”.

[Robin W]

usually putting #bbpress-forums in front does the trick eg

#bbpress-forums .entry {
background-color: #f4f4f4;
}

[Robin W]

Ok, I created the changes needed – go to my site and download the changed files – instructions are there

bbPress – Making Profile Pages Private

Come back if you have any queries

[dokunbam]

I installed bbpress with wordpres on my localhost for testing purposes. I created a new account to to test posting status for the user.

But each time i want to post on the forum i get
“ERROR: Are you sure you wanted to do that?”

some should pls help out i need to get it done sonnest
Thanks