[nwcountry]

this example?

http://www.seniorforums

It doesn’t need to be full-screen though. I just want a simple forum, although I do want to be able to have some color, and some control. I have a host, and have downloaded WordPress (to Hostgator) and now I have added the plugin for bbpress. I am just a bit leary of what I am going to “get”. I would love to just install a vbulletin template, but looks like folks are having trouble uploading forum templates from other sites etc.

Thanks in advance for any help;) denise

PS I don’t plan on any other content, and don’t plan this as a business, just a site for seniors so they can visit and have a place to go online:)

[Robin W]

I guess I’m asking what folder and file contains the page template for http://www.paraquadaccess.com/forums/forum/forums/

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

I used IE – all I saw what that the sidebar was consistent between the site and forums and topics. Since you didn’t detail exactly what was different between the pages, I may not have seen the error !

[pazzaglia]

OK, cannot go back to edit my topic – basically I turned off all of the plug-ins and still could not see the content of the topics. But I put on WP’s default 2014 theme and I COULD see the topics.

So— I suspect it’s my old-a** bbpress non-supported theme. For those of you who found fixes for your themes, can you tell me what you changed and what file you changed it in? I know all themes will differ but it will give me some place to start to do the fix myself.

Thank you!!!

L

[pazzaglia]

Like many others, my bbpress forums broke when I upgraded to WP 4.0 – all of the topics were still listed, and the pages were there, but you would only see the top of the topic with voice/post counts and a form to reply. The entire content of the topic is missing.

I’ve been following the discussions here and I have none of the plug-ins that appear to be creating the conflicts. I’m not using s2member, SearchExclude, or Ravanassi plug-ins.

I am using the following plug-ins:

I’m running a premium theme (with expired memebrship -so no updates and no word from the original author whether the update would even cure the problem as the themes do not support bbpress) – however I can get in there and dig around the code, if needed.

Any help would be appreciated!

So far- I’ve rolled back to WP 3.9.2 – but, obviously this is not a viable long-term solution.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

L

[Robkk]

a thing you could do is hide the search button and add a placeholder so users know what it is, and also make it kind of like wordpress search in terms of looks.

copy form-search.php into your child theme and overwrite the code with this.

<?php

/**
 * Search 
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

?>

<form role="search" method="get" id="bbp-search-form" action="<?php bbp_search_url(); ?>">
	<div>
		<label class="screen-reader-text hidden" for="bbp_search"><?php _e( 'Search for:', 'bbpress' ); ?></label>
		
		<input type="hidden" name="action" value="bbp-search-request" />
		<input placeholder="Search the forums" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo esc_attr( bbp_get_search_terms() ); ?>" name="bbp_search" id="bbp_search" />
	</div>
</form>

[solhuebner]

Please share!

bbPress really deserves a better GUI (also for mobile)!

Kind regards

[Robkk]

as it seems that everything has to be changed to make it responsive

not really bbpress is technically responsive , its just the tabled layout of the title , stats , and freshness needs a better look for mobile.

There seems to be a 10px padding on the left where the search button half hides under

well i fixed that by floating the whole search form left instead of right. but i dont know how to fix this at the moment, id have to fiddle around with your sites css in my browser to find whats causing it.

the forum table aligns there but there is a large space on the right which is where the sidebar that has diplay:none on iphone – so i suppose need to make the forum full page without sidebar in iphone view.

well normally themes have there sidebar display under their main content when it reaches a certain width. Check out and see if your theme is suppose to do this normally.

I also see there is more than one style sheet

bbpress.css is the main one you have to edit , (put it into child theme in a css folder, wp-content>yourtheme>css)

bbpress.min is the minified version

bbpress.rtl is the version of bbpress.css that users from area that read right to left use.

[Robin W]

I have opened up a trac ticket for this (trac tickets are used by the dev’s to trac developments and fixes)

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2686

In the meantime there are 3 workarounds

1. change your permalinks to any of the other settings

Dashboard>settings>permalinks

The most often used is ‘postname’

This will not only fix your issue, but make your links look prettier. However if you have links to your site forums from other sites/emails, these links might break (ie they will come up as 404 errors), but if your choice is between users not accessing, or users complaining that the link in that old email no longer works, then resetting might seem a good idea.

2. revert to 3.9.2

see

for quite a good video on how to do it

3. Move your sub-forums up a level ie make them all main forums

and keep monitoring this site for a solution.

[Robin W]

There seem tio be issues with wpml and bbpress see

http://wpml.org/forums/topic/wpml-plugins-conflict-with-bbpress/

as an example.

I’d suggest you try raising a ticket with wpml to see fi there has been a resolution since that post

[Jolie]

I have tried again, and it works. thank you so much. But it also points out that bbpress conflicts with one of my plugins. Is this true?

[Robin W]

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.

[Thecommonapp]

To add to the above post, I just default theme and bbpress, buddypress plugins and bbp BuddyPress profile information except with the testing and the issue continues. I did not test the plug-first rule, because it did not want to rule out any conflicts.

the-common-app.blogspot.com

[Jolie]

Hi,

I have installed newest version of bbPress and WordPress version 4.0. I have read documentation for setting forum. According to documentation, I have to go to Dashboard –> Forum and add new one. But I cannot find any Forum there.

Thank you so much.

[jeanflemming43]

I’m currently using WordPress 4.0 with bbPress 2.5.4. I have created my own theme and attempted to use bbPress. It works fine. The only issue is when entering the forum the sidebar changes positions. When I tried using TwentyTen theme the sidebar doesn’t appear at all only after uninstalling bbPress does it come back. In the TwentyFoourteen theme, this is not an issue as the sidebar is outside of the mainContent area. My site is http://www.paraquadaccess.com/forums/forum/forums/ I appreciate any guidance anyone can provide.

[Robkk]

yeah i dont have problems creating links in my menus and i have bbpress and wordpress 4.0

yeh toss some login details and ill check it out and see whats up

if you want it to be kind of private send the login details to my email

robcorey(at)hotmail(dot)com

wordpress has it where you can send the login data to a new user , when you register one in the backend.

[dl_rod]

Hello BBPress community,

Thank you for your time. I would like to know how can I create a specific forum where users can comment, but not create new topics?

Cheers,

Daniel

[bnovak]

I tried deactivating the other plugins but this did not help. It definitely seems to be related to the bbpress plugin. I’m using the latest version of WP. I’m trying to migrate an existing site http://colonclub.com over to a new host. The current site uses phpBB forum but we would like to switch to bbpress if possible. I can provide you with a login to check things out if that helps.

[Robkk]

have you deactivated every plugin you have one at a time to see if its another plugin causing the issue

if you havent check on that just to make sure

if you have already done this and are positive it is bbpress absolutely causing the problem, please also tell us

what wordpress version you are using
what theme you use
and maybe a list of plugins

so i could see if i could recreate the problem

[bnovak]

Actually, when the bbPress plugin is activated I cannot make any Menu item changes at all.

[Robkk]

can you add any other links??

and i dont think bbpress would cause a problem in the menus section in wordpress.

[Robkk]

did you create a bbpress.php file??

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

[Robin W]

Ok, I have now tested more fully

wp 3.9.2 bbpress 2.5.4 permalink settings default – top level forums work, sub level forums work

wp 4.0 bbpress 2.5.4 permalink settings default – top level forums work, sub level forums don’t work

wp 4.0 bbpress 2.5.4 permalink settings postname – top level forums work, sub level forums do work

are JJJ or Netweb anywhere around to dig into this?????

[lohals]

We have the same problem at the site we administer.
Bbpress 2.5.4 and upgraded fine to wordpress 4.0 from 3.9.1. Now no forum posts are showing.

http://swc.dk/forums/forum/726-2/abent-forum/

When i check the HTML source, i see data about the forum posts and reply count that are correct, and i can create new posts. However, no posts are shown in the lists. And when trying deep linking to a post, it doesnt appear either.

http://swc.dk/forums/topic/containeren-er-klar-hylderne-er-vendt/

Any help or tips would be appreciated.

[Robin W]

ok,

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.

[Gouggy]

I understand, but the problem started well when bbpress has been installed!
Do you have an idea to help me to find if it is not bbpress?

Thank you.