[Robin W]

ok, you could just call each by their url

or if you know the username you could call the form from within a page using the ‘insert php’ plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/insert-php/

then

[insert_php]
$user_id = whatever you used to get the user-id
$filelocation=”wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-user-edit.php”;
include($_server[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’].$filelocation);
[/insert_php]

[Robin W]

You nee to get bbpress to use a full width page template

see

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

[Robin W]

There should be no reason they won’t integrate.

However the first thing you should do is create a test site see

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

The you can do everything without any pain !

From what you describe, if you really want to go to a separate route, then the simplest route is for you to have two domains the primary and a subdomain. On the subdomain you would install wordpress, and the same theme as your main site and then add bbpress, put the files in there. As you then say, you’d just call this subdomain from your main site.

[Robin W]

you will need to filter two functions

1. bbp_get_forum_freshness_link

2. You will need to amend the freshness function

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

I have no idea how into coding you are, so come back and let me know so that I can help you further

How much php do you know
do you know how to edit files
do you know how to ftp

[yoosuke]

Hello from Japan!
bbpress is great!

Well, I’m in trouble.
so I would appreciate if you help me.

1.
By default, an anchor tag is given to texts of “freshness“. like…

<a>2hours, 1minute ago</a>

To remove the anchor tag from freshness texts, which files should I modify ?
Could you please tell me a path to get to the file?

2.
By default, a comma is used in display of “freshness”. like..

2hours,(←here!) 1minute ago

I want to also remove the comma.
In this case, a file to be modified will be the same as the file described above?

Thanks for reading,
and I’m looking forward to your reply…

WordPress: ver3.9.1
bbPress: ver2.5.3

[TrishaM]

I’m looking for advice on how to keep bbPress separate from my primary WP installation while still using the newest version of bbPress…..I think I know what to do but want to be sure I do it right before I start.

My plan is to create a fresh, empty installation of WP, add the bbPress Plugin, and then import my old bb_ tables, which I know will then go into the wp_posts table in the new install – I just don’t want them co-mingled with the content on my primary site.

I can then point a subdomain of my primary site (forums.mysite.com) to this install and just link to it from my site.

To head off questions and just get advice, the reason I want them separate is that I tried integrating the forum with the site (unintentionally) last year when I updated the bbPress plugin and found that it was no longer stand-alone. It created a major catastrophe that took me months to recover from and get back to the way it was previously, and both my site and forum were offline for an unacceptable length of time…..I just never want to go through that level of frustration and work again, as much as I love bbPress I’d rather use some other forum software to keep things separated if I have to.

BUT that said I want to keep my forum software up-to-date and I know that means using the current version.

Any advice, thoughts, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Jerry]

I solved this. Go to the below link:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbress-custom-fields-auto-populate-topic-content-2/

[artgeek]

I’m working on a site that uses both BuddyPress and bbPress. All the BP functionality is in a community parent directory and I’d like to run bbPress out of the same, e.g.

http://mydomain.com/community/forums

I was able to create this page and use the bbPress shortcode to display the forum index at this location, but this doesn’t change any of the rest of the directory structure of my forums, e.g., when I click on a forum, I’m redirected to

http://mydomain.com/forums/forum/myforumname

The community parent directory is lost. Is there a way for me to keep all bbPress URLs under the community directory?

[Jerry]

I put this in “pimp your press”, but now I think it belongs in the troubleshooting forum. Not certain.

I have created custom fields for my bbpress topics, and I have learned how to auto-populate those fields when a user clicks a button. I have also learned how to auto-populate the Topic Title. I am using javascript to auto-populate the topic title. Here is how I assign the data:

$("input[name='bbp_topic_title']").val(data.title);

I am showing this as an example to show what I need. My question is; am I able to auto-populate the content of a new topic, much like I am doing with the title for a new topic?

To auto-populate the content of a new topic, I assume I need to have the correct term, which I think would be ‘bbp_topic_content’? So it would look like this?

$("input[name='bbp_topic_content']").val(data.description);

Here are three functions I am using for custom fields:

add_action ( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_form_content', 'bbp_extra_fields');
function bbp_extra_fields() {
 $value = get_post_meta( bbp_get_topic_id(), 'bookCover', true);
   echo '<label for="bookCover">Book Cover URL</label><br>';
   echo "<p><input type='text' name='bookCover' value='".$value."'></p>";
}
add_action ( 'bbp_new_topic', 'bbp_save_extra_fields', 10, 1 );
add_action ( 'bbp_edit_topic', 'bbp_save_extra_fields', 10, 1 );
 
function bbp_save_extra_fields($topic_id=0) {
  if (isset($_POST) && $_POST['bookCover']!='')
    update_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookCover', $_POST['bookCover'] );
}
add_action('bbp_template_before_replies_loop', 'bbp_show_extra_fields');
//add_action('bbp_template_before_main_content', 'bbp_show_extra_fields');
function bbp_show_extra_fields() {
  $topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
  $valuec = get_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookCover', true);
}

I am thinking that I need some sort of “add_action” to get this accomplished? Do I need to create a new function? I’ve been looking in templates.php to try and get a hint to figure this out. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.

[Jerry]

I have created custom fields for my bbpress topics, and I have learned how to auto-populate those fields when a user clicks a button. I have also learned how to auto-populate the Topic Title. I am using javascript to auto-populate the topic title. Here is how I assign the data:
$("input[name='bbp_topic_title']").val(data.title);
I am showing this as an example to show what I need. My question is; am I able to auto-populate the content of a new topic, much like I am doing with the title for a new topic?

To auto-populate the content of a new topic, I assume I need to have the correct term, which I think would be ‘bbp_topic_content’? So it would look like this?
$("input[name='bbp_topic_content']").val(data.description);
Here are three functions I am using for custom fields:

add_action ( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_form_content', 'bbp_extra_fields');
function bbp_extra_fields() {
 $value = get_post_meta( bbp_get_topic_id(), 'bookCover', true);
   echo '<label for="bookCover">Book Cover URL</label><br>';
   echo "<p><input type='text' name='bookCover' value='".$value."'></p>";
}
add_action ( 'bbp_new_topic', 'bbp_save_extra_fields', 10, 1 );
add_action ( 'bbp_edit_topic', 'bbp_save_extra_fields', 10, 1 );
 
function bbp_save_extra_fields($topic_id=0) {
  if (isset($_POST) && $_POST['bookCover']!='')
    update_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookCover', $_POST['bookCover'] );
}
add_action('bbp_template_before_replies_loop', 'bbp_show_extra_fields');
//add_action('bbp_template_before_main_content', 'bbp_show_extra_fields');
function bbp_show_extra_fields() {
  $topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
  $valuec = get_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookCover', true);
}

I am thinking that I need some sort of “add_action” to get this accomplished? Do I need to create a new function? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.

[demonboy]

It’s a little frustrating, Robin. In the forum I’m developing, which is an import from Simple Press, the private club (the most prominent forum of the six) needs to allows non-members to see what’s going on in order to help encourage them to join. SimplePress handled this situation just fine, but in bbpress marking it as ‘private’ prevents anyone from seeing it. As a consequence I’ve had to set new forum members to ‘spectator’ for the time being, and create a new role (using Justin’s Members plugin) for the private club members. This doesn’t solve the problem, of course.

You can see it in action here where the Assignments Submissions forum is the members-only club. I’d like to make all the other forums public where logging in with FB, Twitter gives them immediate ‘contributor’ status, but only spectator on the Assignment Submissions forum.

[demonboy]

I’m sure this has been asked before but I can’t find a solution yet. I’d like to style one particular forum differently to the others, in particular all the replies in every topic. Do I use the post id or the forum name? My forum is called ‘assignments’ and the forum post id is 2881, but of course all topics within that forum have a different post id. Can’t work it out. I’ve tried variations on this:

#bbpress-forums #post-2881 .bbp-reply-content {font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:0.8em;}

Any pointers?

[inventor1]

Ok finally fixed it, and it’s working with the plugin.
I just added these lines for functions.php
See the code here:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1478#comment:7

[Kaluh]

this is a conversion of a phpbb forum.

but what’s weird is that he does some correct and some incorrect.

this problem was there from the start.
but i fixed some of it using the forum repair tool of bbpress.

[inventor1]

Hi everyone!!
I found the solution here: http://zzlatev.com/bbpress-404-header-in-users-profiles/
Just posting in case anyone else runs into this issue!!

[Robin W]

ok, the simplest way would be as follows

In you theme create a directory called bbpress

ie wp-content/your-theme-name/bbpress

The copy the following file into this

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php

so you end up with a file

wp-content/your-theme-name/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php

bbpress will now sue this file instead of the default one, so then edit this file to change line 68 from

<span class="bbp-topic-freshness-author"><?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_forum_last_active_id(), 'size' => 14 ) ); ?></span>

to

<span class="bbp-topic-freshness-author"><?php //bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_forum_last_active_id(), 'size' => 14 ) ); ?></span>

If your theme is a child theme, then that will be fine. If it is a main theme, then just keep a note of this change, as you may have to repeat it on a theme update.

[Stephen Edgar]

@askcdy This has nothing to do with bbPress, please post on the WordPress support forums.

Support Forums

[boblebad]

I can’t say that it was something really simple, cause looking around the database and settings in the Dashboard for a couple of hours without finding anything that was related to the problem, i just killed of Paid Memberships Pro and reinstalled it.

Problem solved.

Did i find the cause ? – No, i don’t know whether there’s a bug or something else messed it up.

So is this thread of any help ? – Don’t know, maybe, you just know to kick PMPro out and reinstall it, then it all works again.

Should you however know what the problem was or could be, then post it, cause there are so many people out there having this problem in one form or the other.

And that leads me to think that there’s something not coded as it should, i don’t know whether it’s bbPress or all the plugins that is the main issue, but if it’s all the others, then there must be a lack of information from the developers of bbPress – how else can so many plugin developer get this wrong ??

Most of the time, when reading the threads about this, it comes down to restricting access to the forums, it’s the source of the problem, and in my opinion it should be possible out-of-the-box.

If the problem re-occurres, i’ll get back 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

You are correct in bbPress does not support this at this stage, BuddyPress Group Forums can only have a single bbPress forum.

That said, we are working towards adding this, there are more details here.

[shughey]

I’m using WP 3.9.1 and bbpress 2.5.3. Everything is installed and seems to be working ok. However, I’m really confused concerning how to structure my discussions. I know how ‘I’ want it structured but either bbpress wants it differently or I’m missing something (which is probably the problem). If anyone would explain how I can achieve what ‘I’ want it will be greatly appreciated. So far, I’ve done this:

Created a Group
The Group has a forum
Topics are in the forum

However, it looks like my Group can have only one forum. I want my Group structured like this:

History (Group)
-Events (Forum)
–Topics within this Forum
-People (Forum)
–Topics within this Forum

Is this something that just can’t be done or am I doing something wrong?

Please help,
Sam

[Robin W]

@demonboy as per other post

have you seen

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[Nenno]

Hi I have exactly the same issue, read all the instructions made a bbpress.php from the page-with sidebar php file, copied it, changed the name in the php file and was so exciged to see it in the templates folder but no, none, absolutely zip showing of any widgets even though I can see them in the bbpress sidebar on the widget page. Also tried widget logic. 🙁 Very glum me. Did you solve it?

[flipdamusic]

Hi,
i have the challenge to show the latest topics for the role members in the topic index view. I’m new to bbpress so i’ve to learn a lot.

I’m using buddypress with sidewide and group forums. Each group has one forum.
When I’m using a site and shortcode [bbp-topic-index] only all topics from the sidewide forums are shown. What I’ve learned is that this is a default behavior – i hope i’m not wrong 🙂

Now I want to show all latest topics / posts for all members belonging to their group / group forum – optimal on the latest topic page. The users are members (bbpress) and abonnents (WordPress).
How do i accomplish that ?

[demonboy]

This issue appears to be consistently ignored on the forums. Whilst bbpress is a marvelous creation, one of the best plugins for WP (props to the developers), this one issue keeps cropping up time and time again. It is a real frustration.

Is this because there is a solution somewhere obvious and the developers are fed up with pointing people in the right direction, or is it because there is still no solution to this problem?

[Kaluh]

Hi guys,

I have a problem with my freshness, some of the forums are set correctly but some are not.
someone has an idea what it can be ? something like an ID problem or something.

i used the “Recalculate last activity in each topic and forum” repair tool but that didnt help alot.

my forum is build up like:

Forum/Subforum/Topic

the point where the freshness goes wrong is from Subforum to Forum.

i hope anyone can help

Kind regards,

Niek