[Robin W]

re changing roles, see

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[Primus Palus]

I have created a new bbpress forum on my site. If I click on the link through the top menu I get this:

If I click on the announcements section/forum/category… I get this:

I want the index to show up the same as the in forum view. But it seems to be not wanting to work right. I’m also unable to override the background image for that page for some reason.

Any help would be appreciated. I’m at a point now where I’m about to install a different forum and just use it on a sub-domain with no integration with WordPress. This is the second forum I’ve gone through and it’s annoying that there isn’t some simplicity here.

[elaborate]

I’m starting this thread because I didn’t have much luck with my original thread on the BuddyPress Support forums.

Basically, what I’m trying to do is copy all the forms from the Edit page from the bbPress profile to another page and still have them work.

Specifically, I’m trying to move them to the Settings page on the BuddyPress profile.

The problem is that they don’t work when they’re moved from their original url, the pre-defined values aren’t displayed and submitting changes doesn’t work, so I’m hopelessly trying to find out what is broken and if this is even possible to do.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you.

[Evan Herman]

Probably not the most elegant solution, but something I came up with to temporarily resolve the issue.

First we grab the classes assigned to the body class:

$body_class = get_body_class();

Then we just check if bbpress is in the body class array, and if it is, I’ve decided to use jQuery to just switch the classes on the navigation item.

if ( in_array('bbpress',$body_class) ) {
		?>
		<script>
		  jQuery(document).ready(function() {
		    jQuery('.menu-item-347').removeClass('current_page_parent');
		    jQuery('.menu-item-2592').addClass('current_page_parent');
		  });
		</script>
<?php
	}

[ttmt]

Hi all

I now this topic is over a year old but I was hoping someone might be able to help.

I have downloaded and activated the bbPress Post Ratings plugin.

I have bbPress 2.5.3 installed with forums and posts working.

Should the plugin work with the version of bbPress?

How do I use the plugin so I can rate the posts in the forum.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Evan Herman]

I have a forum I am setting up to support some plugins I’ve created. The forum is displayed on a ‘Support’ page. I also have a seperate ‘Blog’ page, which I use for blog posts.

When a user clicks into a support thread, the navigation item changes from highlighting the ‘Support’ menu item to highlighting the ‘Blog’ menu item. From some research I’ve done it’s due to bbpress using single.php as its page template, which is setting the ‘Blog’ page the current page.

How can I get this so ‘Support’ stays highlighted after clicking into a thread?

Sorry if this is an easy fix, I’m new to bbpress and just getting used to the template hierarchy.

Thanks!

[Stephen Edgar]

Switch to one of WordPress default themes, Twenty Thirteen or Twenty Fourteen.

If bbPress works try your theme again, if bbPress doesn’t deactivate the plugin, delete it and reinstall.

And or try deactivating all your plugins except bbPress then reactivate one by one until the error occurs to find a conflicting plugin.

[Robin W]

suggest you start with looking at

bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/members.php

This changes bbpress to go to buddypress profile, and should give you all the code you need.

[gemini-at-work]

let’s see if there is a plan for me to show the sidebar in my twenty eleven theme. renaming the sidebar-page did not do a thing. i’m using a child theme of twenty eleven and tried putting the bbpress.php there instead of into twenty eleven theme, but nothing worked.
just in case it helps looking at the site, here it is, or the start of it anyway:
http://foothillfibersguild.org/forums/

thanks for any suggestions!

[ultramalcolm]

I’ve installed bbpress, but when I go to the forum in a browser, I just get this message:

Fatal error: Class 'WP_Post' not found in /nfs/c09/h02/mnt/137912/domains/profoodblogger.com/html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/theme-compat.php on line 375

How can I begin tracking this down?

[lantaarntje]

Hi i’m using the Recent Topic Widget but im looking for the exact layout as the bbpress.org Recent Topics on the frontpage. I only get Newest Topic which shows only Topic name – Author and Freshness
But i like to see: Recent Topic Name – Author – Latest Reply and by Poster name

Is there a way I can accomplish this?

Greetings

[jbdizzle]

So I changed the names of the user roles. I would like to change the text color of each role. Here is the code that I am using to change the name. Could I just wrap the role name in a color code?

add_filter( 'bbp_get_dynamic_roles', 'my_bbp_custom_role_names');

function my_bbp_custom_role_names(){
 return array(

        // Keymaster
        bbp_get_keymaster_role() => array(
            'name'         => __( 'The Dragon Born', 'bbpress' ),
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_keymaster_role() )
        ),

        // Moderator
        bbp_get_moderator_role() => array(
            'name'         => __( 'Moderator', 'bbpress' ),
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_moderator_role() )
        ),

        // Participant
        bbp_get_participant_role() => array(
            'name'         => __( 'Legionnaire', 'bbpress' ),
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() )
        ),

        // Spectator
        bbp_get_spectator_role() => array(
            'name'         => __( 'Spectator', 'bbpress' ),
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_spectator_role() )
        ),

        // Blocked
        bbp_get_blocked_role() => array(
            'name'         => __( 'Blocked', 'bbpress' ),
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_blocked_role() )
        )
    );
}

p.s. Is there a way to change what each of these roles have access to?

[laternastudio]

Hi there,

I’ve spent a while searching the forums/web regarding custom views, but am a little bit stumped at the moment. Some of the only reference that I’ve found is a bit outdated (though it still seems to work) and incomplete.

I’d like to create 2 custom views:

• Display a particular user’s favorites (let’s say user_id is hard-coded to 2)
• Display a particular user’s subscribed topics (again, let’s say user_id is hard-coded to 2)

Any points in the right direction? Ideas for resources on the topic of custom views?

[jbdizzle]

I figured everything out except the post count. On the bbpress forum widget, I would like to have the post count next to the forum like this website has.

[siobhan61]

[re-posting under a less technical title!]

Hello,

I’m using bbpress 2.5.3 with a WordPress twenty-twelve child theme. I’m also using bbpress WP tweaks (1.3.1). I’m trying to incorporate the bbpress forums into our theme, and it works fine on the first level with a custom sidebar (I haven’t really styled anything yet — trying to get the basic functionality first):

http://innovativeapprenticeship.org/community/

but at the forum level I’m not getting the right content — no breadcrumb trail; no topic list:

http://innovativeapprenticeship.org/community/forum/test-1/

I put a few echo (‘here’) statements into single-forum.php template I adapted for the child theme and can see that it’s being called. But content-single-forum.php, which is called from single-forum.php if there is content, and which would have the breadcrumb trail and the topic list among other things, is not being called. I tried some echo statements in there and nada. It’s not being called from my child theme or from the bbpress template folder.

Actually, I can see that bbpress has created another navigation level, forum, that doesn’t really exist. Forum is really the first level (our “Community” page). Does this have something to do with the problem?

Has anyone encountered something like this, and do you have any idea why this is happening?

cheers, Cheryl

[drashrafsabry]

How to install bbpress on a multisite where one is in arabic RTL and the other is english ??

[Charles Mabe]

@ronthai: CSS is NOT always the answer. I need to add a class to the bbPress login widget’s avatar.

[Charles Mabe]

Please give the bbPress login widget avatar a useful class. Currently its class is just .user-submit, which is useless for styling. I want to be able to put the User and Log Out links beside the avatar instead of below them where they’re at, but I can’t float the avatar because the class .user-submit is already used by a BUTTON in that widget. Oh, and the avatar image is inside a link, so it’s actually the link that needs the class not the img element.

And since creating bbPress child themes has always been so darn confusing, I’d rather just use a stylesheet instead of hacking up a child theme, especially for something so small. Thanks.

[siobhan61]

Hello,

I’m using bbpress 2.5.3 with a WordPress twenty-twelve child theme. I’m also using bbpress WP tweaks (1.3.1). I’m trying to incorporate the bbpress forums into our theme, and it works fine on the first level with a custom sidebar (I haven’t really styled anything yet — trying to get the basic functionality first):
http://innovativeapprenticeship.org/community/

but at the forum level I’m not getting the right content — no breadcrumb trail; no topic list:
http://innovativeapprenticeship.org/community/forum/test-1/

I put a few echo (‘here’) statements into single-forum.php template I adapted for the child theme and can see that it’s being called. But content-single-forum.php, which is called from single-forum.php if there is content, and which would have the breadcrumb trail and the topic list among other things, is not being called. I tried some echo statements in there and nada. It’s not being called from my child theme or from the bbpress template folder.

Actually, I can see that bbpress has created another navigation level, forum, that doesn’t really exist. Forum is really the first level (our “Community” page). Does this have something to do with the problem?

Has anyone encountered something like this, and do you have any idea why this is happening?

cheers, Cheryl

[Robin W]

ok, so then to answer your orig question – “Can I easily change the dates and authors of messages on bbpress?” for 40, yes IF you have access to phpmyadmin and are comfortable in doing a few simple (and safe) edits within it.

If that sounds ok, come back and I’ll tell you what you need to change

[Robin W]

‘Would you happen to know if i can assign/connect such a “private” Group to a Membership Level of my S2 Members WordPress Plugin?’

Offhand no, I haven’t played with the s2 plugin to know what it does or how it works !

I suspect that total automation would be hard given that you’d presumably need to link a course or courses to a forum or forums, and then link memebers to a group within bbpress representing that.

Load the plugin and have a look, it’ll take you probably about 10 minutes to configure and 1/2 hour to work out how you might want to use it. Then come back and let me know what you are trying to do.

Don’t promise to link, but if it’s easy!

[laternastudio]

Hi there,

I’m working with a custom profile setup (consolidating the profiles from multiple plugins) and and wondering how I can redirect a bbpress user to this central profile when they try to access their forum profile. In other words, how do I make it so that someone who tries to visit:

http://www.example.com/forums/user/johnsmith

is redirected to:

http://www.example.com/profile

I saw a very old post in this forum that discussed this topic, and they suggested using the following method:

add_action('bb_init', 'profile_redirect');

function profile_redirect() {
    if (is_bb_profile() && $_GET['tab'] != 'edit' && $_GET['tab'] != 'favorites') {
        $user = bb_get_user($_GET['id']);
        if ($user) wp_redirect("http://www.example.com/member/" . $user->user_nicename);
    }
}

Since it’s so old, it doesn’t work anymore, and honestly, what I’d like to do is slightly different. I’d like to redirect a user away from the profile page (regardless of which section they’re on–whether it be favorites, subscriptions, or edit profile) as long as:

1. They are logged in
2. They are on their ownprofile page

How could I do that with the current version of WordPress?

[Robin W]

Chill, we’ll hopefully work it out.

you might (should) want to create a test site. Whilst that may seem daunting, it is quite easy to do, and once done a great way to test stuff without risking the live site.

see

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

Couple of questons when you are ready

1. The page you are linking to – this is just a members page, not a link to the forum pages?
2. What is your forum slug called (go into dashboard>settings>forums and look for forum slug.

[ace2five]

Hi, I’ve tried this but while it sets the page correctly here: http://ace2five.tv/forums/ and on most other pages, if you click through into a forum: http://ace2five.tv/forums/forum/bbpress-theme/ or here: http://ace2five.tv/forums/topic/topic-bbpress/ it fails to display correctly. This appears to be a header issue. I have asked on the theme thread but had no advice as yet.

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

[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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