[Stephen Edgar]

I just had a quick read of the topic on rtMedia
https://rtcamp.com/support/topic/media-tab-takes-me-to-bbpress-forum-profile-page/

Maybe try contacting the theme author and pointing them to that discussion, there are some good tips there in that it should be fairly easily for the themes author to troubleshoot the issue and help get a fix sorted out.

[Stephen Edgar]

You probably just need to target the CSS to only there forum titles:

#bbpress-forums ul.forum-titles {
	background: none;
	margin: 0;
	list-style: none;
}

[Stephen Edgar]

In the theme here on bbpress.org they are the ‘default’ sizes, it is just a sidebar with the shortcode [bbp-topic-tags].

If you want to add custom sizes to a custom template part then something like this is a goo d start:

<?php wp_tag_cloud( array( 'smallest' => 12, 'largest' => 16, 'number' => 16, 'taxonomy' => bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id() ) ); ?>

[iwishiknew]

Is it possible to have a bbpress forum set up on aaa.com and have that same forum be used on all subdomains in a multipress network? So the same forum in aaa.com would be shown on site1.aaa.com and site2.aaa.com and if someone responds on any of them they all update the same forum.

Is that possible?

[Ryder]

Hi,

I’m using the BBPress Converter but for some reason it’s stuck on converting users, it’s done 5250 users at the time of this post but I only have 2500 users on my website.

I am currently using Simple Press forums which I detest and it’s getting all of the users from the WishlistMember database…

How am I supposed to import correctly?

Thanks in advance
– Hyflex

[Stephen Edgar]

Should this be in an own file (named how?) and added to my childtheme’s subolder bbpress, or should I place the code somewhere in an existing file?

Any of these methods will work 😉

That said I’d download the gist from https://gist.github.com/ntwb/9887310 and extract the file and upload it as a plugin for your site.

It needs a bit more work in that it shouldn’t be displayed for the current user or anonymous users.

When I get a chance I’ll update that gist with those updates.

[Robin W]

Ok, on your first :

This is to do with your theme and it’s page templates, not bbPress directly.

what you will need to do is create a bbpress.php file and into that put the page layout

see

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

for creating a bbpress page to use

Then see

http://brookswebdesign.net/how-to-create-a-wordpress-template-with-left-sidebar/

for creating a left hand sidebar.

On your second, this is either

related to your theme and how it is displaying content. Switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve for a moment and see it is it then displaying – in default all with not be indented.

or

maybe because you are using threading on dashboard>settings>forums>reply threading

Let me know which, and I’ll take a lokk to see how to get all to ident

[Robin W]

see

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

From memory I think $args[‘sep’] = “>” would be what you are looking for

so for instance

function mycustom_breadcrumb_options() {
       $args['sep']    = '>>';
     
    return $args;
}
 
add_filter('bbp_before_get_breadcrumb_parse_args', 'mycustom_breadcrumb_options'

would give a double chevron.

If that doesn’t work, come back and I’ll look it up.

[Majijiboo]

Hello,

I used CSS to remove certain parts of my breadcrumb and now need to remove certain separators (ex: “>”) between the words. Unfortunately all the separators have the same class, so is there a way to code bbpress so some separators are shown and others are not? Please see image below for example. Thanks.

Link to image

[Robin W]

bbPress uses your theme’s page templates to wrap the code in, so you will need to use a page from your theme that doesn’t have a sidebar, and rename this.

see https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#8-make-sure-bbpress-uses-the-page-template-we-want

So once you know which page template file you need, copy this and rename the copy to bbpress.php

Place this file in the root of your theme ie wp-content/themes/%mytheme%/bbpress.php where %mytheme% is your theme’s name.

come back if any of that is not clear, and I’ll try and help further !

[lizat]

I want to change the template used for my forums index and the forum itself – currently it is using a default that has a sidebar that I don’t want.

I think they live in …/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress. So I can create new ones in my child theme if I only knew which to copy?

Is there a list anywhere of which is what…. the codex doesn’t seem to have it. Right now I need to know the ones for:

• Forums Index page
• Forum list of threads page
• Thread Page

Thank you

liz

[pimark]

Hey Robin,

Is there anyone else on the bbPress side who might be able to offer some advice
as i’m getting nothing from buddypress, ie no response 🙂 ?

Many thanks.

[Magic-Komplex]

I’d like to use this as well, but not sure how to implement this. Should this be in an own file (named how?) and added to my childtheme’s subolder bbpress, or should I place the code somewhere in an existing file?

[Magic-Komplex]

@leon_drake
I found an old thread within this forum, where you offered you plugin “bbp_signature_buddypress-edition”:

bbPress signatures with BuddyPress

I installed it and first it worked fine, but now the signature doesn’t show anymore. I tried to find the plugin homepage to see if there’s a new version or a fix, but I couldn’t find anything.

I have no idea for what reason it stopped working, I tried to reinstall it, that didn’t help. Any ideas what I could do? Or is there maybe another solution existing meanwhile?

[Robin W]

think its as simple as lacking the hash (#) at the start

ie

#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content p,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content p {
font-size: 12px ;

Come back if that doesn’t work and I’ll look further.

If it does, let me know and I’ll change the docs !

[Stephen Edgar]

“Version Control Software” is how I ‘got it fixed’, everything I do these days is done using ‘version control’ it lets me know what I’ve done and easily roll back any changes I made to site or bbPress. 🙂

bbPress & WordPress use SVN though a real popular one is Git and GitHub https://github.com/

They have nice intro course for Git on GitHub here http://try.github.io and it does take a while to grasp all the concepts but once you do you would never go back to not using it 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Hi, this is a known issue, sadly we don’t have a solution to fix it yet, we hope to have one in time for the next release of bbPress.

See this https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/edit-topic-reply-changes-post-order/

[Stephen Edgar]

Let’s try it here with code and codes

Here is the tag code : https://bbpress.org/forums/topic-tag/code/ <-That works perfectly
Here is the tag codes : https://bbpress.org/forums/topic-tag/code/ <-That works perfectly
Here is the search code : https://bbpress.org/forums/search/code/ <-That works perfectly
Here is the search codes : https://bbpress.org/forums/search/codes/ <-That works perfectly

is there a way to set up so all the tags appear on a page? e.g. Tags Page? Thanks.

You would need to start modifying your bbPress templates, have a read of some of the docs on the codex that @Robin-W has pointed out to you already.

[Stephen Edgar]

This time, it converted the users, all of the topics, and about 220,00 replies, then started just outputting dashes again. What does it mean when it starts outputting dashes? What is the program doing?

As I stated above it can be for many reasons and is a bug/error that we have not been able to isolate to fix, we have not found a way to trigger the bug allowing us to reproduce the bug and create the fix. It is a random thing as I outlined in my previous reply.

I opened a new window and re-started the conversion from that window, but instead of picking up where it left off, it started converting topics again. Am I going to have two copies of each topic in the BBPress forums now? Should I reset the forums again?

If you want the importer to resume from where it left off you need to make sure you don’t check the checkbox in the following screenshot, if you do check it then it will start again from the start and you will end up with two of everything.

Instead of using “reset forums,” can I just empty some of the MySQL tables?

This should be sufficient for most cases and because bbPress uses custom post types it shares the same wp_posts and wp_postmeta tables with WordPress and any other plugin or themes custom post types. It should be quite fast and behind the scenes it is actually doing direct MySQL queries to remove only the bbPress forums, topics, replies and topic tags from the posts, postmeta and taxonomy tables.

I know it can be frustrating getting this to work as I have been were you are now and is the reason I started using bbPress. I went through the same problems trying to import from phpBB to bbPress, I eventually got it working and started learning PHP and now as a novice PHP programmer I try my best to help others migrate their forums to bbPress and improve bbPress as best I can and it’s not easy and for an old dog learning new tricks I reckon I’m doing alright.

[Stephen Edgar]

Finally I’ve written a small script to migrate kunena attachments to GD bbPress attachments

@cybnet Awesome thanks for this, I added it to the (still sparse) Kunena docs here.

I’ll take a closer look when I get the chance and see what ideas I can come up with. I was at a WordPress Meetup a couple of months ago that demoed a few different ways to move media from one install to another that once time permits I’d love to take a shot at including it in our importer.

Now I’d like to write a script to convert kunena BBCode into bbPress HTML because there are some bbcodes not converted.

This I can most definitely help out with now.

The SMF and phpBB importers both have some good examples of converting BBCode to ‘native’ bbPress (WordPress) code. I am simply use regular expressions to convert them on the fly as each topic or reply is converted.

eg. This Replaces [size=$1:XXXXXXXX] with <span style="font-size:$1%;">$3</span>

$phpbb_uid = preg_replace( '/\[size=(.*?):(.*?)\]/', '<span style="font-size:$1%;">', $phpbb_uid );

You can see the SMF regex here and the phpBB here. There are probably quite a few that we can repurpose and if not make up a list for me and I’ll work towards getting them added to the Kunena importers in a future release.

[batmanfan]

Thanks Robin.
I could see something… /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/js/editor.js?ver=2.5.3-5249

what does this mean? which theme/template they use?

[batmanfan]

Thanks Robin. You have been a great help.

I read through and tried https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-styling-crib/

What I did,
1. installed Simple Custom CSS plugin – all ok
2. insert the below code. and changed the font-size: 1.1em; to 1.6em

#bbpress-forums div.odd,
#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
background-color: #fbfbfb;
}

#bbpress-forums div.even,
#bbpress-forums ul.even {
background-color: #fff;
}

IF post is sticky or super sticky, then

.bbp-topics-front ul.super-sticky,
.bbp-topics ul.super-sticky,
.bbp-topics ul.sticky,
.bbp-forum-content ul.sticky {
background-color: #ffffe0 !important;
font-size: 1.1em;
}

but the rest doesn’t seem to work…especially
Number 5. Various texts

bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content p,
bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content p {
font-size: 12px;

I change the font-size: 20px

nothing happens. 🙁

what did I do wrong? basically I wanted to increase font size for all forum section from 1 to 8. How please.

Thank you in advance

[Robin W]

are you using threaded replies

dashboard>settings>forums>reply threading

see https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/edit-topic-reply-changes-post-order/

[Robin W]

Glad you found it.

There are a whole set of things you can change listed here

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[Robin W]

you’re ‘here’ didn’t work

gave you checked

bbPress Styling Crib