[Stephen Edgar]

I see your using a Pagelines theme, are you using the Pagelines bbPress plugin? (You need this for Pagelines themes last time I looked)

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you played with bbp_parse_args() yet? This is used ~100 times in bbPress to allow you to change array arguments ‘before’ or ‘after’.

BuddyPress introduced bp_parse_args in BuddyPress 2.0, and as they have some good docs and we don’t yet here for bbPress check this out:

https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/using-bp_parse_args-to-filter-buddypress-template-loops/

So for the bbPress function bbp_list_replies() you’d use bbp_before_list_replies_parse_args

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.4/includes/replies/functions.php#L2192

Does this get you on the right track? I hope so as I’ve never played with custom walkers 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

What you should do is tweak the arguments passed to the breadcrumb so you can add/change the CSS classes (and or HTML elements) for the breadcrumbs, the plugin extends what is already listed in the codex docs and shows you all of the options available and you should be able to tweak it for what you are after.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7781901

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[Stephen Edgar]

Whenever a change is made to bbPress — update the plugin, change a setting, etc — the WordPress user roles in wp_options->wp_user_roles are erased

I have a theory as to why this ‘may’ happen with a plugin update, I’ll have to go find what I’m thinking of that may have been included in a recent bbPress release (2.5.3 or 2.5.4) but the roles being erased by changing a bbPress setting I have not seen, nor can I think of any reason why this would be happening.

Could you test this part for me please:

1. Open up WordPress Users admin panel
2. Verify the listed users on the first page have both a WordPress and bbPress role
3. Open bbPress Settings page and change a couple of settings and save
4. Go back to WordPress users, do the same users still have both WordPress and bbPress roles?

The closest I have seen to this is detailed in the following ticket, but this issue is when changing users roles via the bulk actions, #2597.

[Stephen Edgar]

See the link Robin posted in the other topic or here it is.

[Stephen Edgar]

At a guess, it’s hard to guess without a link or screenshots I’d say your themes including some template content you don’t actually want.

Depending on your theme you need to make a copy of your page.php file and rename it bbpress.php.

To add new fields to a users profile you can add new fields, see this plugin for an example and the relevant WordPress Codex docs:
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/c70caf5a0aa9d3062a6d
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/user_contactmethods

[Stephen Edgar]

A quick look the following tweaks your background colors to match (colors are not exact though) and they should be tweaked to match your themes color scheme etc.

#bbpress-forums div.odd, 
#bbpress-forums ul.odd,
#bbpress-forums div.even, 
#bbpress-forums ul.even,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header {
background-color: #113450;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-header, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-header, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
background-color: #112350;
}

[Stephen Edgar]

I have no idea what you are referring to, bbPress does not include any icons for anything but the bbPress ‘Forum’, ‘topic’ and ‘replies’ sections in WordPress backend.

Some screenshots and a link to your site would be helpful.

[Stephen Edgar]

The reason your user profiles are not working as they should is the same reason I posted in the other topic here.

Something is ‘not quite working right’ with your theme and causing weird things to happen with your templates.

By fixing your theme and templates your users should then be able to click their username from any location and if logged in will be able to see the ‘Edit’ link on their profile and then edit their profile on the front end.

[hitkid]

Thank you @robin-w for the great and speedy reply.

I was just trying to remove the breadcrumb in the content-archive-topics.php template to test if that’s the file I’m suppose to edit. Really I want to rearrange and do a whole lot of different things. Like what it says in the Amending bbpress templates codex entry.

Note* All the forum templates work great! Unlike the topic templates, any change I make to these files appears in the forum index as they should: archive-forums.php>content-archive-forums.php>loop-forums.php>loop-single-forums.php

That’s a great entry in the codex.

7. How can I remove all the breadcrumbs from the templates and set them at the top of the page?

Moving around the breadcrum is more of what I want to do, but I can’t find the template file for the topics to add the <div class=”truebreadcrumbs”> to the bbp_breadcrumb(); to be able to use css to move it around. If that makes sense.

Sorry if I’m being confusing and I thank you very much for your help 🙂

[mncompact]

My forums using bbPress were working fine and suddenly the interface for users to compose appears to be disappearing. The icons are faded to the point where you can’t read them. What’s causing this?

[Clint Mallon]

Robkk,

This worked perfectly!!!! THANK YOU!

For anyone that is looking to do this, the following text below is what I saved in my notes:

“There is a custom theme for bbpress which is mainly used for Envato marketplace plugins or theme authors support. The link can be found below:

https://github.com/syamilmj/Supportte

Find meta-private.php with in the bbpress folder – The text can be found here:

https://github.com/syamilmj/Supportte/blob/61eff729838a28d0b88d6aeab6352a5368687ab8/bbpress/meta-private.php

Open FTP or File Manager and create this path:

public_html > wp-content > themes > YourTheme or YourChildTheme, then create a new folder called bbpress (all lowercase!!).

Inside the new bbpress folder, create a .php file named meta-private.php (you can find any .php file inside public_html, duplicate it, move it inside the bbpress folder, then rename it and replace the text inside with the default text below).

<div class=”bbp-template-notice not-logged-in”>
<p>Sorry, this forum is for verified users only. Please “>Login or “>Register to continue</p>
</div>

You can edit this to reflect whatever you’d like. I changed mine to:

<div class=”bbp-template-notice not-logged-in”>
<p>Sorry, this forum is for verified users only. Please Login or Register to continue.</p>
</div>

Now that it’s inside your theme or child theme, this text is safe for upgrades and the Login / Register links are no longer links!!”

Cheers, Robkk!! Greatly appreciated!

[mostlyjan]

I am going crazy and would love to get help here or hire someone. Am using bbPress but no emails are being sent to users.

We are hosted on MediaTemple’s Gridservice.
We use theme AVADA
We created a forum in Admin and another using the frontend (read somewhere this may matter).
Added all our users via Admin: 73 Participants, 3 Moderators, 2 Keymasters
We tried the BBpress Digest Plugin but it never worked. Developer seems to be MIA.
We tried BBpress Email notifications but that did not work either.
We added the SMTP plugin; the “test emails” using it arrive fine but again, no subscription emails are ever sent.
WordPress admin emails DO work fine (eg ‘pswd changed for user XYZ’).
Activated Plugins:

• bbPress,
• GD bbPress Attachments
• bbPress auto subscribe for new topics and replies,
• Black Studio TinyMCE
• Custom Login
• Simple Members only
• WP-Mail-SMTP
• Fusion Core (Avada theme)

We have a single Forum. At the top of that forum, there is no subscription/favorite link either.

this very well may be the host but i am not 100% sure of that as the other emails work.

i would happily pay someone to figure this out. i have spent hours and hours on this and am ready to look for alternatives. But unfortunately i have topics and 73 users…

thanks to anyone who can give me new things to try. I am losing it here. And as said, i am all open to hiring someone; not sure what the policies are to that effect on this site…

[Robin W]

if you want to get rid of the breadcrumb use

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

what else do you want to achieve?

[hitkid]

I’m trying to get rid of and change the layout of the: bbp-template-notice info and bbp-breadcrumb, in the topics index. So Home>Forums>Test Topic. I’m having trouble figuring out if there is a bug, or I’m missing something, or I just have the template hierarchy wrong.

How I believe the template hierarchy works: archive-topics.php>content-archive-topics.php>loop-topics.php>loop-single-topics.php

I figure the changes I would need to make would be in archive-topics.php or content-archive-topics.php, but when I delete the <?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?> as a test it’s still there.

When I make changes to loop-topics.php and loop-single-topics.php, it works fine. It’s just those two page templates.

I’ve tried editing the bbpress.php file from:

<?php /* Start loop */ ?>
	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<article <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<header>
				<h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
			</header>
			<div class="entry-content">
				<?php the_content(); ?>
			</div>
		</article>
	<?php endwhile; // End the loop ?>

and swapping the content for <?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘archive-topic’ ); ?>. That worked but it messed with my forums index.

I’ve taken a look in the codex to try and figure out what I’m doing wrong and feel lost.
tep-by-Step Guide to Creating a Custom bbPress Theme

Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template

Sorry if this is a bother, but I’m completely stumped as to what’s going on

[Robin W]

Not sure why you only want editing in the backend. Indeed I’m not sure why you want anyone to have access to the backend at all, apart from admins !

However presuming that you actually just want no-one to change their profiles

You will need to modify
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/user-details.php

make a copy of this file, and put in in a directory called bbpress within your theme, so you end up with
wp-content/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/user-details.php

The take out lines 63-69

<li class="<?php if ( bbp_is_single_user_edit() ) :?>current<?php endif; ?>">
						<span class="bbp-user-edit-link">
							<a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_edit_url(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( "Edit %s's Profile", 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ) ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Edit', 'bbpress' ); ?></a>
						</span>
					</li>

				<?php endif; ?>

This will stop any front end editing

[Robin W]

I’ve just recut my topics shortcode to allow you to do just that

bbp additional shortcodes

[Robmcclel]

Team bbPress,

I have a multi-site install with BuddyPress (http://thirdscribe.com), and we use bbPress to power the BP forums. Recently, we’ve been seeing a very specific, and unusual, problem. Whenever a change is made to bbPress — update the plugin, change a setting, etc — the WordPress user roles in wp_options->wp_user_roles are erased. The bbPress roles (keymaster, participant, etc) are preserved, but the WP roles (admin, editor, contributor, etc) are completely gone.

Do you know what is causing this?

Thanks,
Rob

[JimiC]

Hi, i installed your theme and really like it, but somethings are a litlle messy, reply lines are divided in half, and some other small things.
The theme is inside my child-theme, and i don´t know why any modifications to the bbpress.css don´t take effect, do you know why?

[Robin W]

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

[anvienhponline]

Hi all,

I’ve noticed that when I view my profile via bbPress, the image from my last blog post is displayed. I’d like that eliminated, if possible. I’ve rifled through the coding and can’t seem to pick it out.

The second: Under bio: We want users to use that area to ‘Share’ their personal story, but it doesn’t allow much in the way of paragraph breaks. Is that doable?

Thanks!

[_rain_maker_]

Hi there

I’m not too sure if I’m in the right place to ask/mention this, but I live in hope 🙂

I am working on a site at work and we’re using BBPress for a forum. So firstly, ty very much for making BBPress so intuitive to extend and customise on a theme level! 🙂

Secondly, I may be doing this wrong but when I enable multi threaded replies and use the bbp_list_replies() function to list the replies I noticed that it doesn’t seem to use the custom walker I pass to it. So I thought that maybe there could be a conditional in said function using $r[‘walker’] or defaulting to BBP_Walker_Reply?..

Or I could be totally confused? 8)

Thanks for the great work,

[WP ver3.9.2; BBP ver2.5.4]

[Venutius]

I found it! But not a fix for the problem.

The offending plugin is bbPress Menu Bar Addition.

I created a vanilla site and fortunately this was the 4th plugin I tried so I am very certain this is the one.

Unfortunately removing the plugin does not fix the problem, as I suspected. Presumably it makes a configuration change and does not change it back when being deactivated.

I’ve dropped the developer a line to see if he is willing to try to fix this problem.

[Stephen Edgar]

Your first question you can easily do with a WordPress page and link to it and any other FAQ’s you may want to have on your site.

To extend your profiles you will need a plugin, search the plugin repo’s for either a plugin compatible with bbPress or check out BuddyPress our sister project that includes this functionality out of the box.

Twitter/Facebook sharing is also plugin territory

Your 3 sections, just make 3 forums or 3 categories each with a forum.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/

Other than that take a look at some of the sites people are linking to here or check out some of the example sites https://bbpress.org/about/examples/ and some of bbPress’ docs https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/ https://codex.bbpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

It sounds like everything is working fine…

bbPress includes a redirect to the home screen after logging in whereas WordPress takes you typically to the WordPress dashboard.

The primary reason for this is because we don’t want your sites users being redirected to the WordPress Dashboard.