WordPress 3.9.1
TwentyTen with some CSS modification
bbPress 2.5.4
This what my bbPress looks like now
http://hcrd.foundation/journal/forums/
hcrd bbPress screen capture
This is close to what I want my bbPress installation to look like I didn’t pull the line spaces together in the image.
http://hcrd.foundation/screen-cap.journal-forum.png
I may be completely wrong and these settings may all be controlled by the TwentyTen theme and WordPress. In either case I’ll do the work if somebody can just point me to the right information so I can learn.
bbPress Wishlist
Make the forum’s Search window persistent, available from within all forums.
Move the Forum Title and the Search Window so they are parallel and within 20 pixels or less of main menu (white on black menu).
Make the Categories’ and Forums’ names BOLD and make them 1.00 line or less apart from their descriptions which should NOT be bold.
Instead of a specific pixel width can the area of the post to the BBS be calibrated in percent or at least be 640px or even better 800px width?
Finally, why are my category and forum names duplicated?
Can you answer a quick question for me. I am using the simplr form plus plugin and I got all of the fields set and the default pages and custom welcome page complete. However the tiny mce icon to dump the registration form into the page is not showing up on my tool bar. Any idea why that might be? I know that this is not bbpress directly but I was wondering if you were by chance familiar with the plugin.
This is awesome, it would be great to see this as a tutorial in the codex 😉
Codex Standards & Guidelines
This is a question you should ask the ‘topics for posts’ plugin author, not so much bbPress itself.
Hmmm… There ‘might’ be something else at play here, I had a weird issue myself late last week that I am still trying to determine what it actually is with the WordPress WXR Export/Import, I have a sneaking suspicion it has something to do with the imported ID’s not matching the post_parent ID.
I’ll dig around more on this later in the week when I finish up the bbPress 2.x importer (it’s 75% complete), so watch out for any patches added to this bbPress ticket #2605
Run the ‘Reset Forums’ tool from Dashboard -> Tools -> Forums and that will delete all bbPress forums, topics, replies from the database then deactivate bbPress.
it says full width, right side bar, left side bar under a field called ET
If it is the bbp tweaks options I have copied them below.
plugin-bbpress.php
bbpress.php
forums.php
forum.php
generic.php
page.php
single.php
index.php
Files with Bold text exist.
I started a similar topic on wordpress.org – but I wasn’t sure where the best place would be (here I suppose!)
I’ve done some Googling here, and I’ve found a few topics that apparantly fix this, but…I’m not seeing the same info in my own site (the database info that theyre referring to isnt there..) I’m sure someone will point me to those older posts 😛
So I want to start with a fresh question – I want to start TOTALLY fresh with BBPRess, so I deleted the forums and whatnot and then uninstalled BBPress…later I reinstalled it but on the main dashboard I see this in one of the little info boxes on the right hand side: “Right now in Forums” and then it shows a few forums and topics, etc, that don’t exist…I want to remove those. Is there any way to do that?
I tried looking in the database through PHPMyAdmin and I don’t see anything named “bb_” to delete, so what’s the next step? :/
Thanks SO much in advance.
I’m using the latest version of WP and BBPress, btw and the twenty fourteen theme, if any of that helps.
ok, understood
The issue is that your ‘page’ template that bbpress is suing doesn’t have a sidebar, and wp tweaks won’t work until it has.
In essence you need to either find an existing template within your theme that ahs a sidebar, or create one.
When you go into edit on any page, under page attributes on the right hand side what templates do you have the choice of? – Changing these won’t change the forum, but it should let me know if you have a sidebar page – can you list the alternatives.
well maybe there is a problem with recognizing the menu location , like exactly where the function is in loop-forums.php
first let me see a link to your website
then im going to recreate this bbpress menu from the steps i gave you and see if i made an error copying and pasting
by the time i finish this is what you could do
put <nav id="subnav" role="navigation">
<?php
if ( has_nav_menu( 'bbmenu' ) ) { /* if menu location 'bbmenu' exists then use custom menu */
wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'bbmenu') );
}
?>
</nav>
below <?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_forums_loop' ); ?>
and see if that fixes anything
In the menu settings, if I also tick the box “top menu” in theme locations (standard: bbpress Forum Menu) it does appear there.
Thank you @Robkk for your easy to follow steps.
I already had a child theme (made from woothemes canvas), in there I have a folder called “bbpress” in there I already had the “form-topic.php”, “loop-forums.php”, “user-details.php” and “user-profile.php”. And one level above is the bbpress.php file.
I pasted the code in the functions.php of the child theme, and added the other code in the “loops-forums.php” above <?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_forums_loop' ); ?>
I created a new menu called bbmenu and placed a custom link into it, and I added it to the “bbpress Forum Menu location”.
Then I pasted the css into my custom css.
I don’t get any error every thing works fine, but there is no menu showing. mmmh?
Could it be a problem with canvas?
Best
Michel
My bbpress forum tags are separate from normal WordPress post tags.
Is these any way i could combine both so that if i add a tag for example “health” in normal WordPress post it would also be seen as tags in forums. If a user clicks on a tag he gets results from both normal WordPress posts and forum posts as well.
if i use bbpress topics for posts how do i remove the bbpress header when ever its on blog posts only?
I use Yoast breadcrumbs from Yoast SEO plugin could that effect the bbpress breadcrumbs
yes
if it checked in the internal links settings
if so to display the bbpress breadcrumbs uncheck it or use this in functions.php in a child theme
remove_filter( 'bbp_get_breadcrumb', '__return_false' );
Genius is overstating.. 🙂 but I’ll take thanks, always good to get a result !
1. To get a sidebar you need to be using a template that has a sidebar. https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#8-make-sure-bbpress-uses-the-page-template-we-want At the moment your page is full width.
2. Yes, but you need to be clear what you want eg manual vs. automatic registration
Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1
3. I think you are using my ‘last post’ plugin – yes? If so then yes it could be modified to also show title, but I’m pretty tied up at the moment
Hey,
I successfully imported my Vanilla Forum. But what its missing are my forums. I got 7 categories in my old Vanilla forum but 0 forums after the import.
Here http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vanilla/
Here it says “Forum ‘Categories’ are imported as a ‘Forum’”
Do I miss something here?
Thanks for your help!
Tom
Do you think I need to uninstall and reinstall bbpress?
hhmmmm…
Quite a lot of info, and not sure if it is affecting
The middle paragraph starting ‘My initial setup was a template file called…’ is worrying.
Basically you should not be adding stuff to your main theme, instead you should use a child theme.
Within this you will have a functions file (not a bbpress-functions file), and you would put the functions code for the custom role in the functions file.
see
Functions files and child themes – explained !
The your styles should work, and the custom role should work
ok, funnily enough there is no ‘importer’ for bbpress 2.x – it is in plan, but not yet written
You can use
on the old site
tools>export and select forums topics and replies
on the new site
tools>import (and select wordpress if needed)
But this is not perfect – if you don’t have the users matching between sites, then this will/can/may (not sure which) fail.
How have you set users up on the new site?
Ok, you are certainly not stupid, and we’ll work you through to a resolution 🙂
ok we have 4 elements in bbpress
1. A forum that is a type called category – this contains other forums
2. A forum that is a type called forum – this will contains topics and replies
These forum types are set in dashboard>forums and on the top right hand side
3. a topic – this will belong to a forum
4. a reply – this will belong to a topic
Can you confirm that you’ve set up a topic in any of the forums.
If not go into Dashboard>topics>new topic and create a test topic.
If your forums are all just forums, then without topics, they have nothing to list.
If you think you have created a topic go into dashboard>topics and see if you can see topics in there, and which forums they belong to
As @pinkishhue suggests, 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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.
this should get you to a working platform from which you can work out where the issue lies.
Not super experienced with bbpress but done a lot of coding with WP – I think you can achieve this using the same approach you would as if making a custom form to post a WP post, just change the post type to the forum post and set the category as per whatever you need. Here’s an older thread that may be helpful:
Form To Forum Post
p.s. Just had a look with CSS disabled and the links are still acting funky.
I’d double check all your settings, maybe visit your permalinks page to flush them in case it’s a permalinks issue?
I haven’t had a lot of experience with bbpress yet (just answering here in case I can be of help as no one else has given any suggestions yet), but is this right for a forum link? Doesn’t seem quite right:
http://www.thecatholicwoman.com/?page_id=60/forum/catholic-women-in-business-business-networking/
