[crzyhrse]

Because I have no idea how Robin might get it otherwise, I’ll put this here as well, though the subject may call for a new thread? (although in a sense the subject here has also been about communication…)

In case you want to put this in the crib..?

Went looking for a way to change the submit button in bbpress, bigger, colors… Finally was able to assemble searched out bits and pieces from a couple places and with some experimenting accomplished my goal with this, put into the theme’s child style.css:

#bbpress-forums .submit {
background-color: #a0668d;
color: #FFFFFF;
float: center;
vertical-align: middle;
border-radius: 10px;
height: 35px;
width: 80px;
font-size: 18px;
}

I laud your efforts Robin, there really are not that I’ve ever found any organized simple ways or directions to make simple changes to simple and common things for us simple and common folks, neither for bbpress or wordpress… And a lot of what is there is old… The two links you’ve offered above are the best I’ve seen so far, and are apparently still works in progress…

No complaints here at all, just a recognition of the difficulties that are present in volunteer community efforts, especially one as widespread as all this is… WordPress is amazing, sort of like the whole world reaching to itself for shared community, open source community, so to speak…

[Andreasjj]

I am using the listings theme by umbrella, and would like to use the supprtte theme for the bbPress forum at my site.

I have no clue about how to install this bbPress theme while still using the listings theme.
– How do i do this? 🙂

Thanks in advance,
Andreas.

[hitkid]

Hello all,

I am trying to add bbpress functions such as bbp_get_topic author and so on.

<?php
			$args = array( 'post_type' => 'topic', 'posts_per_page' => 10 );
			$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
			while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
				the_title();
				bbp_get_topic_author_link ( array( 'size' => '60' )  );
			endwhile;
			?>

I can get the_title(); and the_content(); but am having problems with getting this in:

bbp_get_topic_author_link ( array( 'size' => '60' ) );

and more so. Is there anything I’m doing wrong?

Thank you for any help I might get 🙂

[crzyhrse]

Well, After a lot of doodling around I’ve accomplished my goal, increased all the forum’s various text font sizes… Here is the gist of it…

I took a copy of the bbpress.css and put it into TextWrangler. Searched for all instances of font-size, made that all be listed at the top in a split window as a guide, then went through and searched and replaced for each different font-size, adding 2px to the px sizes and 0.2em to the em sizes.

Then on a copy of that, with all font-size instances again listed at the top to guide me, I went through and eliminated everything BETWEEN the sections that had a font size in them. I ran all that was left through a code checker- http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator -which said it was good.

I then tried what Jared suggested at the beginning of this thread and that I’ve seen suggested elsewhere (often by Jared), I created a folder in the theme’s child folder called bbpress, and copied that modified and reduced bbpress.css file into that folder…

No go, that did not work… So, I then copied and pasted that very same code directly into my child theme’s style.css, and yea, it was working, changed it all… Went back and got rid of thee above mentioned folder, and it still worked..

It may be that there are things that didn’t need to change to accomplish my goal, but it works, nothing is too big and all of it is now easy to see without squinting… 🙂 I could imagine doing a similar process for other sorts of changes, if a change seems to be called for…

Here is the modified code… I believe I could have also eliminate everything but the font sizes and the parts that do the targeting (properties?), but I think this makes it easier to place where things are at in the full file, and I might want to change some other font attributes at some point…

Hoping this might be helpful… I’ve sured learned some things today…

/**
 * bbPress specific CSS
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

#bbpress-forums {
	background: transparent;
	clear: both;
	margin-bottom: 20px;
	overflow: hidden;
	font-size: 15px;
}

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-lead-topic,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topics,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-forums,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-search-results {
	font-size: 15px;
	overflow: hidden;
	border: 1px solid #eee;
	margin-bottom: 20px;
	clear: both;
}

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
	display: inline;
	font-size: 13px;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-title h3,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-title h3,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-title h3 {
	background: none;
	border: none;
	font-size: 18px;
 	line-height: 1em;
 	margin: 8px 0;
	padding: 0;
	text-transform: none;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author .bbp-author-role,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author .bbp-author-role,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author .bbp-author-role {
	font-size: 13px;
	font-style: italic;
}

span.bbp-author-ip {
	font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;
	font-size: 13px;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #aaa;
}

div.bbp-breadcrumb,
div.bbp-topic-tags {
	font-size: 15px;
}

span.bbp-admin-links a {
	color: #bbb;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size: 12px;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	text-decoration: none;
}

.bbp-row-actions #favorite-toggle a {
	text-decoration: none;
	padding: 0 3px 1px;
	color: #7c7;
	border: 1px solid #aca;
	background-color: #dfd;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 15px;
}

.bbp-row-actions #subscription-toggle a {
	text-decoration: none;
	padding: 0 3px 1px;
	color: #7c7;
	border: 1px solid #aca;
	background-color: #dfd;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 15px;
}
	
#bbpress-forums .bbp-forum-info .bbp-forum-content,
#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta {
	font-size: 13px;
	margin: 5px 0 5px;
	padding: 0;
	word-wrap: break-word;
}

	.bbp-topic-pagination a {
		font-size: 12px;
		line-height: 11px;
		padding: 1px 3px;
		border: 1px solid #ddd;
		text-decoration: none;
}

body.page .bbp-reply-form code,
body.page .bbp-topic-form code,
body.single-topic .bbp-reply-form code,
body.single-forum .bbp-topic-form code,
body.topic-edit .bbp-topic-form code,
body.reply-edit .bbp-reply-form code {
	font-size: 12px;
	background-color: #f0fff8;
	border: 1px solid #CEEFE1;
	display: block;
	padding: 8px;
	margin-top: 5px;
	width: 369px;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-the-content-wrapper textarea.bbp-the-content {
	width: 100%;
	margin: 0;
	font-size: 15px;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-the-content-wrapper input {
	font-size: 15px;
	padding: 5px;
	margin: 0 2px 0 0;
	line-height: 1em;
}

	#bbpress-forums #bbp-your-profile fieldset span.description {
		margin: 5px 0 0 20%;
		font-size: 15px;
		font-style: italic;
		float: left;
		clear: left;
		width: 60%;
		padding: 5px 8px;
		border: #cee1ef 1px solid;
		background-color: #f0f8ff;
}

	div.bbp-template-notice p {
		margin: 0.5em 0 6px 0 !important;
		padding: 2px;
		font-size: 15px;
		line-height: 140%;
}

.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: 1.2em;
}

#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-reply-revision-log {
	border-top: 1px dotted #ddd;
	width: 100%;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 8px 0 0 0;
	font-size: 13px;
	color: #aaa;
}

.bbp-logged-in h4 {
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 1.6em;
	clear: none;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
}

#bbpress-forums h1 {
	clear: none;
	font-size: 2.1em;
	line-height: 1em;
	padding-bottom: 10px;
}

#bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper h2.entry-title {
	font-size: 1.6em;
	margin: 0;
	padding-bottom: 10px;
	padding-top: 0;
	clear: none;
}

#bbpress-forums div.row-actions {
	font-size: 13px;
	visibility: hidden;
}

	div.bbp-search-form input,
	div.bbp-search-form button {
		font-size: 13px;
		padding: 2px;
}

	#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
		display: block;
		font-size: 13px;
}

	#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author .bbp-author-role {
		font-size: 15px;
		font-style: normal;
}
	#bbpress-forums .bbp-body div.bbp-reply-content {
		clear: both;
		margin: 10px;
		padding: 0;
}
	#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header,
	#bbpress-forums li.bbp-footer {
		font-size: 12px;
}

[JeremyCh]

After thinking, it should not be that difficult, if we can see the file via which new posts are getting added / deleted, we can simply call bbpress’s native bbp_user_post_count to update the post count in the database, right ?

[JeremyCh]

Strange … I have just posted this, and see in bbpress’s forum page that I have posted this more than a year ago …

[JeremyCh]

Hi guys

I’m wondering if we could store the post count in the database. That also means we need to update the database everytime someone adds / delete a message.

I’m using the memberlist plugin, and this could have helped me to display the member count of each member (without having to call bbpress’s method for each member individually) and I could also sort members list based on their post count.

Any idea ?
Thanks guys.

WP: 3.8.1
BBPress : 2.5.3

[crzyhrse]

Hi Robin,

Adding the !important, I have placed the below into the theme’s child, and then just to see what would happen when that didn’t do anything, placed it at the bottom of the bbpress.css file, here- /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css

Neither attempt made the change I am looking for, to increase the font size of all the forum text in general, which is presently about the same size as this text is here… I’ll tweak the number once something I try is effecting a change… I am always clearing all caches when I ever do any changes, just to confirm that…

bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content p,
bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content p {
font-size: 16px !important;
}

I am going to keep looking and playing with it but wanted to report this now… I am accepting your offer of help. Some feedback is that in a lot of searching in the past I hadn’t come across the pages your links above sent me to, and they are helpful, though still with some vagueness and gaps that can leave on a bit floundering… I you want to hear more let me know…

[Anonymous User 13302461]

I have noticed a few bugs.

The freshness is displayed wrong sometimes, seeming to point to the time the thread was made and not the latest activity, or perhaps to recent activity on the wrong thread, because:

Some topics I click on “recent post by” next to the freshness, it takes me to a completely different topic!

The forum “subscribe” link is missing

The topic “subscribe” or “unscubscribe” links make a popup box saying “Undefined”

Shame because default bbpress layout for multiple forums, categories and sub categories is awful.

[napalees]

Hi, I’ve updated to newest version recently. And I’m experiencing a serious bug… If I remember correctly. I installed BBpress some time arround november. It workewd OK for me. Now when new user registers with me he does not get forum role automatically. I must assign it manualy. In forum settings Automatically give registered visitors the Participant forum role is checked.
I’d appreciate your help on this problem or link to the older version whitch was official around the end of november

TIA

[Robin W]

ok think I understand now. If you make a copy of your custom page template eg. page.php file and rename it to bbPress.php then all your bbPress pages should use this template.

[Robin W]

Certainly works in the template both in childtheme and if you do it in the original location – just tested the latter.

It could be that either I’ve not explained well enough or or we’re talking about a different “Forum” position.

The change you make should be from :

<li class="bbp-forum-info"><?php _e( 'Forum', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>

to

<li class="bbp-forum-info"><?php _e( 'Elephant', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>

if you want it to say Elephant.

If that is not the issue, can you confirm that it is the “forum” in the top left of this example that you’re talking about

https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/53/2013/11/forum-5.jpg

[boriskamp1991]

Hi guys!

First of all! thanks for this amazing plugin! I’m really excited to use it!

I have installed BBpress along with Buddypress.
Now I would like someone to take a look if everything is ok? I have no idea if everything is ok, for example, I am missing the breadcrumbs for the forum, maybe I am missing more.
Here is my forum

Also, is it possible to get all the topic pages, forum pages (basically all pages that are related to the forum) on a custom page? Like I did with the http://www.militaryscalemodelling.com/forum/ page?

Thanks!

[Robin W]

If you’re reasonable at php, download a plugin I wrote for adding town and county to bbpress, and crack this open.

bbPress town and county plugin

It has the code to add two fields (town and county) to profile, which displays under the avatar on topics and replies. But you can alter and use this code to add any fields the users profile so that they can edit and update.

[Robin W]

There are probably much cleverer ways to do this but find the following file

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-forums.php

On line 19 you’ll find the following

<li class="bbp-forum-info"><?php _e( 'Forum', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>

change the ‘Forum’ to whatever you want it to read.

If you just change it in this location, it will be overwritten each time bbpress updates.

What you really need to do is to put it into your theme – see

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 3

item 3 for how to do this, and part 2 of the guide (go to the codex home for this) discusses how to set up a child theme

[redkite]

This happened in the last couple of weeks – level 1 and level 2 s2members can no longer see the original post in a bbPress forum topic, but they can see the replies. These level 1 and 2 members are Participants in the forums and can create their own topics, but now can’t see their own posts.

Admins and level 3/4 members can see both the original topic and the replies.

The forum posts are restricted to level 1 or higher.

I found this (unresolved) thread on bbPress forums that describes exactly what’s happening here:

first entry missing on single topic page // visible only for admin

I’m on bbPress 2.5.3 and s2Member Pro v140105.

[nidhibth]

I have looked around a lot on this but didn’t get any workable solution.
I accidently trashed a topic in bbPress and it went to trash. I went to trash to restore it.
When I click Restore, it gives a fatal warning –

Are you sure you want to do this?
Please try again.

Hence, I am unable to restore the trashed post. However, when I select the topic from the left checkbox and select do bulk “restore”, then it restores successfully. But in any case, I want to fix the issue of restoring it by clicking the Restore link as well.
Please help. Urgent!!

[JeremyCh]

The idea that I got from https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/profile-user-specified-fields/#post-2670 is not working. Following is the function that I have added in my theme’s functions.php

function get_profile_info_keys_personal() {
	return array(	
		'first_name' => array(1, __('First name')),
		'last_name' => array(1, __('Last name')),
		'nickname' => array(1, __('Nickname')),
		'display_name' => array(1, __('Display name')),
		'telephone' => array(0, __('Telephone')), 
		'city' => array(1, __('City')), 
		'facebook' => array(0, __('Facebook')), 
		'linkedin' => array(0, __('Linked In')), 
		'user_url' => array(0, __('Website')), 
		'signature' => array(0, __('Signature')),
		'dob' => array(1, __('Date of Birth')), 
		'state' => array(1, __('Home State')), 
		'occupation' => array(1, __('Occupation')), 
		'organization' => array(0, __('Organization')), 
		'income' => array(1, __('Monthly Income')), 
		'education' => array(1, __('Education')), 
		'degree' => array(1, __('Degree')), 
		'profession' => array(1, __('Profession')), 
		'description' => array(0, __('Biographical Info')), 
		'user_login' => array(1, __('Username')), 				
		'email' => array(0, __('Email')), 
		'pass1' => array(0, __('Password')) 
	);
}
add_filter('get_profile_info_keys',	'get_profile_info_keys_personal');

And the second question goes, what would be the corresponding page for adding new members ?

Thanks a lot for all your help.
Best.

[JeremyCh]

Hi guys

I was trying to have some more custom user fields in http://www.domain.com/forum/users/user/edit/.

I could see that I can add more fields using form-user-edit.php – however, they are not getting saved on submit.

That means, I need to add the new variables in some other file in order to get them saved.

Can anyone help ?
Best.

PS. I have read in some places that something like add_filter(‘get_profile_info_keys’, ‘get_profile_info_keys_personal’); would work. I tried that and this is not working, I mean, nothing is getting saved from the extra custom fields.

WP: 3.8.1
BBPress : 2.5.3

[gwenm]

Hello, I can not seem to translate into french. I use bbpress 2.5.3 and Poedit.
I use the po file available in /bbpress/languages/bbpress.pot. after translation, I save my file as fr_FR.po, then I transferred to the languages​​, but the change does not appear. I emptied all caches.
Thank for your support

[Bob1nz]

@kaliceos You are a legend!! thank you so much for sharing this. Finally my bbpress resembles a somewhat “normal” layout

[craftersuniversity]

When i get notifications from bbPress that a topic has gotten a reply, the address to the forum page is in pure text and not clickable…is this intended or a bug? How can it be changed to a clickable link?

[craftersuniversity]

Hello

I just noticed a problem that i don’t know how old it is. I have not had much activity on my sites forum area, and no replies to any topics, so this problem might be as old as the forum itself.

When i try to make a reply to a topic, the reply get saved in the database, but i get a completely blank page. Even when i check the “page source” it too is completely empty. If i hit reload, another copy of the reply is entered into the database, but still a blank page. However, if i click the browsers address bar and hit enter, then i get the correct page, the updated forum thread. This is true both on my official site CraftersU.com, and its dev site.

I have tried both Chrome and Firefox, same thing. I’ve deactivated all plugins except BuddyPress and bbPress, same thing. Different themes, same thing. I even deleted and re-installed bbPress without getting rid of this problem…What could possibly be the cause of this?

Wordpress 3.8.1
BuddyPress 1.8.1
bbPress 2.5.3

You are of course welcome to register as a user in order to test this bug for yourself.

[nishantkashyap23]

I installed bbpress on my website and while I get the forums on my backend, I do not see any backend menu for the bbp user profiles (all I have is the default WP user profile) – is that how it is suppose to work? Are users suppose to just edit their profiles from the front end only? Also, if I just want to use the default wp profiles for the forum how do I do that? Further, how do I disable links to the user/author profile in the forums? (Sorry if the questions seem to too naive, I am a WP/BBP newbie)

[angslycke]

Hi!

I’m using bbPress 2.5.3 and BuddyPress 1.8.1 and loving it, however there’s something I miss.

When I visit a users profile in BuddyPress I can click to show that users started forum threads and his/hers replies in other threads. The replies page only lists the users replies and there’s no link to view the entire discussion. This makes it really difficult for another user to reply in that discussion.

Should this be a core feature to lower the threshold for additional replies in forum threads?

Thanks in advance!