[Stephen Edgar]

All of bbPress will sit within the ID id="bbpress-forums" which makes CSS styling even easier and is far from new, I think it has been there since bbPress became a plugin 🙂

A quick look at the “Track’ theme, it looks like if you copy archive.php to bbpress.php that will resolve most of your issues. (Source: archive.php)

Edit: Do the above but remove the following line from your bbpress.php copy:
get_template_part('content');

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you tried bbPress with your preferred theme?

Give it a try, bbPress will work with most themes “out of the box”.

If you want to start customizing your theme check out the docs

Codex

[defcon1186]

Thank you for reply.
Yes, I’ve solved with BuddyPress temporarily. It look nice and there are all options I need (profile picture and signature).

Unfortunately the rename page.php trick dosn’t work with that theme.

I’ve noticed same issue with search page (right now it’s disabled), if I do a forum search it won’t find anything except the first blog post (?!?).

This is the theme: http://www.competethemes.com/tracks/

I’ve already contacted support and they couldn’t help me on bbpress, except for the styling that I’ve done with child theme and bbpress classes on body (I’ve noticed that bbpress automatically insert .bbpress and many custom classes on forum pages… wow,very handy, it’s a new feature? I’ve also noticed that this works only in “Forums” slug and not “Forum”).

[Stephen Edgar]

Hey @microdot, glad you found us after I closed down your other posts 😉

Check this out https://codex.bbpress.org/moderation-and-blacklisting/

Also what setting do you have in WordPress discussion settings for:

Before a comment appears Before a comment appears Comment must be manually approved

I think that is most likely the culprit, what happens if you uncheck that?

[A.I. Sajib]

I guess that’s my last resort. Unfortunately, most of the gorgeously-designed themes suited for the topic of my site seems to be incompatible with bbpress. I want bbpress to be there, apparently for this I have to sacrifice the chance of using a good theme. 🙁

By the way, if I wanted to tweak the CSS for bbpress section of the site, which file would I modify without affecting the theme on the site’s main section?

[Stephen Edgar]

You use WordPress themes for the bbPress 2.x plugin.

You can customize the bbPress templates for your theme by modifying them yourself, bbPress also includes full support for custom themes though there are very few of these.

I’d suggest finding a WordPress theme that suits your needs and then tweak the CSS for the bbPress section of your site.

[Stephen Edgar]

It looks like you’ve now added BuddyPress so this is null and void 😉

If you decide not to use BuddyPress let me know and I’ll take another look.

Typically if you make a copy of page.php and rename it bbpress.php and it doesn’t work is because the themes page.php has some funky code, usually linking to custom templates for custom post types so is usually theme specific and alternatives can be to tyr the themes archive.php and or post the theme name here and we can have a look.

[A.I. Sajib]

I intend to use a premium theme for the Blog section of my site while I want the bbpress forum in /discuss slug to have a basic theme (preferably Twenty Twelve, as the default themes are best compatible with bbpress). Is that possible by any hacks or plugins?

I guess I could install a different installation (standalone bbpress or as a plugin) in a /discuss directory but I’m afraid at one point the permalinks to the two different sites may be too complicated to handle. Simply put, I don’t like the idea. So I’m hoping this is possible for bbpress [installed as a plugin on the main site] to have a theme of its own other than the one being used on the site.

Please let me know if it’s possible or if there’s any workaround to do what I want.

Thanks in advance for your time.

[Stephen Edgar]

We have a rather large performance increase coming up in bbPress 2.6 that will address most of your issues, primarily it relates to the sort order of topics as we have a slow database join when we need to sort the topic order based on the latest reply.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress is tested and works on PHP 5.2.4 and later https://bbpress.org/about/requirements/

We ensure that bbPress (and the same for WordPress) is to work 100% on PHP 5.2.4 and up, thus including PHP 5.3.x, 5.4.x & 5.5.x.

We have also begun experimental testing testing with PHP 5.6 alpha and HHVM.

[Stephen Edgar]

You would want to remove the topic form from content-single-forum.php

See this to get going on how to edit bbPress templates so you don’t lose your changes when bbPress is updated https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen Edgar]

This is working per design of bbPress.

Removing the “forums prefix” removes be default “forums” or in your case “classes”

What you are alluding to is you want the “forum” slug removed, similar are the “topic” and “reply” slug settings, these cannot be removed in bbPress at this stage though you can change them.

[Robin W]

glad you’re fixed, but sorry can’t answer php question but would be very surprised if wosdpress/bbpress had any reliance on older php versions

[Stephen Edgar]

A standard bbPress User Profile Edit link should look something like this:

http://example.com/forums/users/username/edit/

Similar here on this site your edit profile link should be:
https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/azafuel/edit/

Users ‘can’ edit their profile in WordPress backend with the /wp-admin and that is because we are a WordPress plugin that uses WordPress’ users for bbPress so both are valid URL’s for user profiles.

[Stephen Edgar]

I added a couple of other plugins that do this a couple of days ago to the following page:

Check them out and let us know if one (or more) do what you are after

Feature Plugins Tracking

[Stephen Edgar]

You can also just use a WordPress theme that includes support for bbPress.

Just as BuddyPress has a ‘tag filter’ in WordPress’ theme repo, bbPress will also have a tag here in the not too distant future 🙂

https://wordpress.org/themes/tag-filter/

For now though you should simple search the themes for “bbPress”

https://wordpress.org/themes/search.php?q=bbpress

[Stephen Edgar]

Yeah, something funky going on at the moment, there will be a new login widget on the site in the next day or two that should stop/alleviate the weird redirects.

For now if you use this URL if you are not signed in you may still get a funky redirect but re-opening the URL again should take you to where you need to be 🙂

https://codex.bbpress.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page

Codex Standards & Guidelines

[Stephen Edgar]

I have a customised version of the importer for vBulletin 5.

There are a couple of tweaks that are needed though to bring it in-line with the current importer updates. The issue is with the way our current import script is setup we need to heavily tweak not just the import script but also our main converter.php file to handle the complex SQL joins need.

If your familiar with SVN you can checkout the 2440-converter.php.2.diff​ patch in the following ticket along with vBulletin5.php, if not let me know and I’ll upload full files of these somewhere.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2440

[Robin W]

@dreamwork

I have a plugin that does xx topics

bbp additional shortcodes

if that is what you are after

[giuseppe23]

Thats OK I found the solution..
Changed the #bbpress-forums a with the code below

#bbpress-forums .bbp-body a{
	color: #000;
}
#bbpress-forums .bbp-body {
	color: #000;
}

It worked fine..

[giuseppe23]

Peter thankyou but I tried like this and I just did again with yours now but didn’t change anything
I did this one wich worked fine:

.bbp-breadcrumb {
	color: #fff;
}

Code above changed the color to white but codes below didnt change anything.

.bbp-breadcrumb p a {color: #fff;}
.bbp-breadcrumb-home {color: #fff;}
.bbp-breadcrumb-current {color: #fff;}

I have a black background of my wordpress site and site color is white for blog but for bbpress I changed only the header and footer background colors and used the code below

#bbpress-forums a{
	color: #000;
}
#bbpress-forums {
	color: #000;
}

So I did this because bbp-topic has white background and in this case the links became #000 as site background but the breadcrumbs are on the top where the background is black too and I need to change the breadcrumb link color to white …

[Peyman Moghaddam]

Hi All,

I can see that there is both a vBulletin and a vBulletin 3 option to import a forum. Do I simply select ‘vBulletin’ in order to import a VB5 forum, or am I stuck?

Many thanks in advance.

Kind Regards,

[Peyman Moghaddam]

It’s ok I found the answer here:

Thanks! In case anyone is wondering, I amended the bbpress.css file

[giuseppe23]

Hi , Is there any way to chnge the breadcumb link color?
I tried

.bbp-breadcrumb a{
	color: #fff;
}

The code above does not change the color.

[ttmt]

Hi all

Is there a template in the bbpress theme that appears on every page

I’m using the following code in loop-topics.php to show a link to the users profile page

<a class="bbp-profile-button" href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>">Profile Settings</a>

This works but only appears on the topics page.

I would like the link to be on every page.