[mcleandesign]

Boy do I feel like a fish out of water here…sheesh. I’ve been designing for 30+ years and just now moving into this new medium, it’s challenging me for sure. I’m pretty insecure about messing with the code on my own, but have some folks I can draw in to help me with this. But before I do any of that I’ll just throw a few more thoughts into the ring just to clarify. First, yes, this is a paid theme from themeforest as well as the pro version of S2, which is what my suspect is causing the conflict (due to other things I’ve read online. I’ve sent a query to S2 to see what their thoughts are as well).

I guess what I’m unsure about in your reply above is about the page templates. The only thing I’ve done is install bbPress, click the activate button, and then the sidebar widget disappears. To test this isn’t template related I created a new page, not based on any theme, just added a full width panel and my set the page to show my left sidebar with custom widget.

I previewed the page, which looked accurate, then activated the bbPress plug in and as suspected, the left sidebar widget disappeared. The theme still show the left sidebar space, but no widget is present.

So, here I am scratching my head… feeling like a dummy. My first thought is, get another cup of coffee. Second thought is hire you to fix it for me <grin>. #2 sounds like it has much better success. Although, it doesn’t teach me how to overcome my challenge, so, I guess in the long run that is self defeating.

Ideally, I’d like the forum to function within the space to the right of our sidebar, but haven’t even begun to think about how to even set up the forum yet, still trying to figure out why it’s messing up what I’ve already created.

While you’re reading this (and probably laughing at my inexperience…which is OK, I laugh at myself all the time) I’ll see if I can decipher the step-by-step instructions. And, truly, if you want to jump in and do some private consultation I’d be happy to give you my phone number and we can talk personally. Don’t know if that breaks rules or what..but just thought I’d throw it on the table.

Thanks for your help Robin.. I appreciate it more than you know…truly. Also, I’m going to be out of the office most of the day, so we may have to continue this conversation on Monday.

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[KipFisher]

I got an error message after doing that. I apologize for my incompetency, but I know absolutely nothing about correcting it. Here’s what I got when changing:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_FUNCTION in /home4/tymorf/public_html/wp-content/themes/weaver-ii-pro-child/bbpress-functions.php on line 185

[corradoizzo]

Hi

I am creating a Courses Site at this moment and for each Course i would like to create a Forum which is accessible to the Students of that particular Course only.

Is that possible to do with BBpress and how do i do that?

can i decide which user has access to which parts of the Forum?

FYI: I am using S2 Members to create the Membership site.

All the best and Thank You
Corrado Izzo

[Mike]

Thanks, but I finished and moved on. I tried and failed with several different approaches like this, but copying and altering 2 functions took less than 2 minutes as the //comments were clear about how to disable the AJAX.

I took me almost 2 weeks part-time to customise the bbpress forum. I spent a lot of time messing with IDs and classes to target CSS changes and trying to figure out the proper code to modify defaults.

For example finding the code to return just an “edit” for replies was a matter of great googling and some luck.

[Robin W]

I did a flat file, details below that might help you

Documented import from snitz access database

[Robin W]

ok, I presume that bbpress is deactivated on the live site at the moment.

I suspect that bbpress is using the wrong page template probably the one that the page “what the hinge” is using.

Given that this is a paid theme from themeforest, so may have very complicated page templates, can you look and see what page templates are available that bbpress might be using

see

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

and come back

[Stephen Edgar]

Confirmed, thanks for the detailed steps, makes it so much easier to replicate 🙂

Patched and fixed for bbPress 2.6 via https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2593

[tharsheblows]

I am totally guessing with this – but I think you’ll be using this on a single topic right? So maybe try bbp_is_single_topic() . Here is the list of conditional tags I looked at: https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-conditional-tags/

[tharsheblows]

Ah – I think it’s because you have the Google form (and its submit button) in your topic form and bbPress doesn’t check to see that the submit being clicked is its submit. I’m not completely sure on that, so it’s just a guess.

Unfortunately, the hook bbp_theme_before_topic_form doesn’t actually go before the topic form, it’s just after the opening form tag so you shouldn’t use that. But I think you’re editing the template? If that’s the case, just add the Google book search before the opening form tag eg :
<form id=”new-post” name=”new-post” method=”post” action=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”>

You might need to re-style but I think that might work.

[RChadwick]

I have an OLD Yabb board, that uses a flat file storage. I have given up importing it into bbpress, or anything else for that matter, in any automated way. Fortunately, the BB only has about 40 messages, so I was thinking of just importing them manually. Can I easily change the dates and authors of messages on bbpress?

Also, it’s important to me to keep these messages. Long story, but starting over isn’t an option.

Thanks!

[mcleandesign]

Here’s the image…I think.

[URL=http://s796.photobucket.com/user/mcleandesign/media/combo.jpg.html][IMG]http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy247/mcleandesign/combo.jpg[/IMG][/URL]” alt=”theHinge.org bbPress conflict” />

[Robin W]

‘Here’s a combined screen shot showing that page without (left) and with (right) bbPress activated’

The screenshot wasn’t in your last post. Can you post it again ?

[mcleandesign]

Thanks Robin…I assumed that was the case, but sometimes one never knows. I’ll be patiently awaiting. I’m pretty sure it’s just my lack of wp knowledge that is the problem…. and not bbPress. I can’t imagine someone hasn’t run across this yet. Anyway…thanks.

[koendb]

Short question: How do I check if I’m on a page (or blog) from within ‘loop-single-reply.php’?

WP 3.8.3
bbpress 2.5.3
URL: 24baby.nl

Long question: I use bbpress for all my comments on articles and blogs: ‘Use a bbPress forum topic for comments on this post.’

On my website this generates a first post along the lines of (my website is in Dutch): ‘This topic belongs to article <LINK>. Share your thoughts!’

This text is visible both under the actual article and on the forums. While it’s a good way to explain the purpose of the thread on the forums, it’s confusing as the first reply on the actual article page. Because of that I don’t want to show this first reply on all my blog / page ‘pages’, but do want to show them on the forums.

It’s fairly easy to remove the first reply within ‘loop-replies.php’, but I don’t know how to test whether I’m on the forums or not? Is_page doesn’t work, is_bbpress always returns true.

[ace2five]

Hi, I have tried everything I can find on the forum and elsewhere to fix this with no luck. Probably an easy fix but I’m new to this.

This is great: http://ace2five.tv/forums/ and most other pages display ok but,
click through into a forum: http://ace2five.tv/forums/forum/bbpress-theme/ or here: http://ace2five.tv/forums/topic/topic-bbpress/ and it fails to display correctly.

Theme is True Mag installed this week, bbPress installed latest version yesterday. Any help much appreciated.

[KipFisher]

Weaver ii Pro

w/child theme. I’ve been using this to style bbpress:

https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs

[Robin W]

1) have you set up your email address in dashboard>settings>general?

2) If registration is automatic, then they’ll be sent a password. They can change this in their bbpress profile – they can just click on their avatar, or you can add this to wdigets or the menu – see

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[Robin W]

maybe theme or plugin related.

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.

[Robin W]

You don’t appear to be using bbPress.

[Robin W]

Not really sure how to answer this given that your link goes to myBB software !

I’ve not seen a ‘read more’ on a bbpress forum, and it would most likely to be theme related – that is you main theme.

If you post a link to your bbpress forum, we can see the issue

[MikeJezZ]

Yeah I know I removed the bbPress plugin, but that was due to it doesnt work as intended for me…

Can anyone please say how to remove the “read more” in a theme on a bbpress root?

[dustinarmstrong]

I just ran through and did a brand new install of WordPress with Twenty Fourteen as the theme, only plugins are bbPress and BuddyPress. It appears to have worked. I wiped the plugins, and tried again with no luck. Here’s a rundown of my process:

Permalinks set to postname.

bbPress installed first, forum root url set to ‘sound-off-forums’, saved. All other settings left default.

Page created with slug ‘sound-off-forums’, page works, shows forums as expected.

BuddyPress installed, default configuration left alone. ‘http://example.com/sound-off-forums&#8217; fails to load, showing a 404 page.

I have no idea. It sounds like I’ll likely need to scrub the DB any trace of bbpress and buddypress from my environment and start over. Thanks for the help with everything. It must have just been an installation error.

[Stephen Edgar]

A clean install breaks it again. I’m not sure what it is that out-of-the-box would break it like that, but it appears there is a conflict between BuddyPress 2.0 and bbPress 2.5.3.

This is extremely rare, not saying it can’t happen, the fact that BuddyPress uses bbPress for forums 99% of the time the BuddyPress developers will have bbPress enabled. I have BuddyPress enabled for ~75% of the time and typically only deactivate it when working on bbPress profiles. In short we usually catch any conflicts ourselves before releasing a new version of either plugin.

Also the fact that I have both plugins activated now using the same slugs you are trying to use and don’t get that error eliminates the plugins having a conflict as the issue in this case.

Can you spin up an entirely fresh WordPress install with just bbPress and BuddyPress and use the Twenty Fourteen theme and see if the issue still occurs.

I just went trawling through the raw database options for WordPress in wp_options trying to find something that may cause the conflict and couldn’t find anything of interest.

[dustinarmstrong]

I’ve tried the things listed, and compared it exactly as we’ve run through. I currently have the buddypress legacy forums turned off as it’s a new install, but I took a shot and disabled buddypress. It completely resolves the issue. A clean install breaks it again. I’m not sure what it is that out-of-the-box would break it like that, but it appears there is a conflict between BuddyPress 2.0 and bbPress 2.5.3.

[Stephen Edgar]

Using ‘sound-off-forum’ as you have in your example works for me

https://i.cloudup.com/K4YTnskjg0.png

If I change my forums root slug to ‘groups’ I get the error “Possible BuddyPress conflict: Groups page“, thus I have a slug conflict with BuddyPress’ ‘Groups’ page.

So onto your “Possible BuddyPress conflict: Sound Off Forum page” error.

Are you using BuddyPress’ ‘Legacy’ Group Forums?

Do any of your BuddyPress Activity, Groups, Members, Register or Activate BuddyPress page settings link to that same ‘sound-off-forum’ page and/or have page names with a similar slug name?

https://i.cloudup.com/RxLi9qai1J.png

Lastly what bbPress settings are you using for the BuddyPress group forums setting?
(at the bottom of the bbPress settings page)

https://i.cloudup.com/dv-qV5Uy1j.png