Thank you, Robin, it works fine.
And by the way I was able to use another helpful tip, namely to hide the search bar. I also prefer to put it in the sidebar.
How beautiful life is for us newbies with the friendley bbPress forum helpers 🙂
Thank you very much!!
Morgensonne
Thanks for the link Robin. Crap load of customizing with bbPress, but I’ll stick it out and see what I can come up with. 🙂
Thanks ThemeTon. I was able to remove the FontAwesome icons with some override code.
Regarding the way my sub-forums are being displayed…side-by-side, is this the “out-of-the-box” format for bbPress? If bbPress requires lots of coding/formating I’ll probably scrap it and switch to something more streamlined.
I think this is a known issue with a resolution – see the last post in this thread
https://wishlistproducts.zendesk.com/entries/457628-Integration-with-bbpress-
Do come back if that doesn’t fix.
Hi,
I just installed a new bbpress form as plugin with wordpress theme named Dicovery. Somehow it is not working. On the main page once I logged in as any user I can’t see any place to start a new discussion or comment. It seems that only admin can create a new discussion.
Also, when I try to log in using my admin account and try to create a new topic, I am not able to select the Discussion group/category, it seems that it is disable somehow.
Can anyone please help me rectifying this.
Thanks
JOhn
I’ve added a WPS install to one of my test sites. By default WPS has 3 forum categories, and one topic with two replies. I’ve added two topics, to populate all categories, and made one category child of another. So it should look like what you expect.
I’ve also created a group. In WPS, groups can have a forum, with no category hierarchy, so they are not listed in the table symposium_cats. I wasn’t using groups myself, but my proposal is, if we can, to make the converter gather the content as a subforum in bbPress, then the admin may decide to delete or restrict its content ? So, I’ve also created a group on that test install, with a topic and a reply.
As I’m not sure what you call a MySQL export I’ve dumped it using a page template where I perform a succession of queries, then var_dump( $wpdb->last_query, $result ); and copy/pasted the page content as a text file, added to my repository above. I hope it’ll be fine.
I saw there some styling from your theme (ShopAndBuy). That style adds fontawesome icon for every LI elements. But bbpress has so many ul/li structure for formatting forum section and that style makes this issue there. Please manage or remove that styles from line 350 of “ShopAndBuy/css/shortcodes.typography.css”
Thanks
Thanks for the reply,
However it seems that none of my editing is working. I followed the instructions to copy the original bbpress.css to the css folder of my child theme. I just want to change header background color and the text/background color for stickies then I am done. Frustrating to say the least.
Just installed bbPress for the first time and followed the installation guide, but the layout of the forum does not look right. Is this a template issue or css? Any help would be appreciated.
http://thecrewcall.com/forums/
I’m new here and recently set up new bbpress site for our service.
And I wanna know some BBPress activity monitor plugin/possibility/function or anything that similar to Facebook.
Lets say, I wanna know what exactly happened last days or after my last checked/logged in date. Like how many new topics created and how many new replies received and how my collaborations signed them and changed their status as closed or resolved.
Any information and knowledge would be awesome and highly appreciated. Thanks
I have copied the bbpress.css file to my child theme. However when I edit the sticky code to try and change the text color and background color nothing happens. My code is below.
.bbp-topics-front ul.super-sticky,
.bbp-topics ul.super-sticky,
.bbp-topics ul.sticky,
.bbp-forum-content ul.sticky {
background-color: #ffffff !important;
font-size: 1.1em;
color: #black !important;
}
Can anyone help me to get the colours working?
Hi Robin, thanks for your reply. I might not have been clear in my post, but I already deactivated bbPress only and then the problem doesn’t occur. It’s not theme related, I had already switched to Twenty Fourteen and the problem persists.
I can’t wait until next version of the plugin. Therefore I’ve changed something here for my need.
The problem is same as Stephen’s explain, parent post gets reply id.
And I’ve removed treated (sub) reply possibility from posts and added page_walk sub function into BBP_Walker_Reply class (bbpress/includes/common/classes.php).
Those changes won’t allow sub replies but now my forum shows correct ordering 🙂
Thanks a lot
Hi guys,
I’m at my wit’s end on this one. bbPress, when it is the only active plugin, works great. But when I activate Wishlist Member, regular WP subscriber accounts are not able to see the original topic in a single topic view. But they *can* see the replies to that topic. It’s the weirdest thing. Admins can see everything just fine.
I’ve gone through all the version of WL access settings to none avail. Just having WL activated, regardless of my WL permission settings (believe me, I’ve tried the whole range), is messing this up.
I’ve tried every single checkbox in the “repair relationships” at Tools > Forums to none avail.
I’ve taken a 100% fresh installation of WP and this problem isn’t an issue there, so it’s telling me that something is badly wrong somewhere in our preexisting database. I just wish I knew what, and how to fix it.
I’m guessing this probably requires a thorough understanding of how bbPress works. Happy to provide backend access and happy to pay. Just need to get this fixed.
I’ve talked with Wishlist support and they weren’t helpful. They mentioned moving to Simple:Press but Simple:Press is just so ugly compared with bbPress.
Help! Any suggestions?
Ah cool… In a future I dream of it would be nice to migrate these importers to standalone WordPress importers so when you import Joomla to WordPress if you also want Kunena to bbPress then check a box… Not going to happen anytime soon, but one day once the core WordPress import and export gets some loving updates this should be a little easier to implement. 🙂
Suspect it is theme or plugin related!
Normally I’d just post the standard text viz
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.
but with 29 plugins that could take you a while ! and it could even be a combination.
Think I’d start with a quick theme change to eliminate that and then I suppose it depends on who needs access as non admin but able to add links as to whether you plough through and work out where it is failing.
Thank you John,
You’re right. At somem point I used a script to change the database to UTF8 (c22.php).
I have also some trouble migrating to new versions of ipb and have to ask for support each time I want to update now…
I have to figure out this issue before trying to go further with bbpress.
@robin-w thanks for the function. This is not going to be as easy as I expected.
It was easy to hook into the new user creation with “user_register”, but WordPress is gives me a “Fatal error: Call to undefined function” when I try to call bbp_add_user_forum_subscription from this hook (my theme’s function.php).
I saw somewhere else that some functions need to be run within a bbpress loop?
@iclimb, I’ll be happy to share if I get it working.
@pasquale-galasso
Thanks, glad you are finding it useful. The unlimited groups version is on it’s way, I’ve coded it, but just need to tidy up the user interface.
bbPress have said that they intend to have groups in the core product at some stage, but I have no idea on timescales.
I don’t see this coming to bbPress in the near future, we do our best to support anonymous posting with an alias and email address but reserving a username against an email address is basically the same as registering on the site.
@stagger-lee Thanks for the heads up and I’m glad you eventually got your site converted, hopefully we will get all these issues nailed down in the not to distant future so there will be a free open source importer/converter for Joomla’s Kunena forums to bbPress 🙂
Awesome… It is late here and I will take a closer look in the morning 🙂
Any chance you could post an example database scheme layout (even better a MySQL export)
It would only need to have a couple of categories, couple of forums, couple of topics, couple of replies, a couple of topic categories, a couple of xyz etc?
I can read the database schema so much easier than trying to have a conversation trying to explain the DB schema 😉
That said a couple of quick points, we can join tables together or join the same table to filter topics from replies and replies from topics.
Most likely your ‘forums’ section isn’t quite right, again this will be an issue of just mapping the correct fields to the source database schema, likewise for topic parents, they will have one in the database schema somewhere.
Counts also do not matter, they help but are not essential, we have built in tools to recount this when needed.
I’m more than happy to take a look with you and add this to the growing collection of bbPress importers 🙂
@robin-w Your plugin is great, so great. I wonder if I will soon be inserted into the native code bbPress
