[Shmoo]

Solved:

It’s the bbPress threaded replies function, if the checkbox is activated and set to two levels deep it breaks the pagination.

If I disable this function all pagination works.

[Shmoo]

bbPress isn’t that populair at all. Who needs forum software today?

Companies and developers do, often for support about their products but when you look back in time lets say 10 years ago forum software was also used in general to make any kind of discussion platform.
Simply because there was no social media where you could connect with each other so easily and share or thoughts and opinions about anything.

Forums are still great today but limited to a smaller target audience.

[Mycelus]

Ok but I don’t understand, bbPress has been around for years, it is extremely popular, NO ONE has made a plugin for this so far??? That’s all Im looking for.

[Shmoo]

True, because it’s not possible right now! bbPress is no WordPress easy coffee that you can install and run away with.
Everybody can activate a plugin and add content but when you would like to change some of the core functionalities in bbPress the difficulty curve goes up with like 300%.

When I’m done with my site I have gained some more experience about filters and actions and I will try to write a plugin that lets you group and order lists of forums based on the WordPress menu structure.
I’m still learning myself each time I do something in bbPress.

[Shmoo]

Not, because Forums is a Post Type like Posts, Pages, Topics, Replies, Products, Books and more of those options you often see in WordPress.

You order the items them when they get pulled from the database based on X or Z.

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I’ve been trying for years now to find the best ‘new’ way to GROUP + ORDER custom lists of forums without having to make Parent forum categories.

Think about how Menu’s work inside WordPress, it’s one of the most powerful and easy to use features in WordPress and it can + should be used in more ways then just making menu’s. It can’t be that difficult to alter or hook into that wp_nav_menu functionality.

To be honest the main functionality is already there,
If you go to the Menu’s page inside your WordPress back-end you can see on the left side an option to add all, or most used forums, or just a single forum item to your website’s menu-bar.
( if this option is visible from the options menu at the top )

That’s a feature almost nobody uses right now because lets face it, how often do you link to a single-forum-item from your website’s main navigation bar? If so you can also use the Add Custom Link option, visit the single-forum-page front-end > copy the link and add a custom Menu Link to you menu. Done!
Mostly you just link to the general forums-index page with a list of all forums, that’s a link you show inside your website’s main menu-bar.

Just try it, add a single forum-item to your menu bar but now think about how cool it would be if that link would also show your topics + posts count behind it.
Default right now:
– /single-forum-title/
What it could be:
– /single-forum-title/ – ( 7 ) – ( 32 )

See where I’m going with this, if you have that structure of a link layout you can group and order very easily your index forum pages or at any other page where you can add a menu – even in de sidebar you could make powerful easy to use lists of forums you want to group together.
This is so flexible you can make 50 different versions of lists – all you need is a few custom_menu_locations who are made for bbPress forums only.

All this isn’t rocket science for somebody who knows PHP, wp_nav_mennu already has special hooks to add to page_nav_items so you can include data behind those menu-links, even bbPress already has a forums Widget that can do almost the same as I just told you by just adding 2 lines of PHP.

I think this is the way forward in making unique forums index pages.
I think we all love to group X forums together without using a category forum and try to pull that list behind the scene based on the category_forum_id. You just want to make forums + group the manually together like Menu-items, combine + order -items > Add them them into unique menu_locations and you can make little kinda Widgets of related forums content.

Look what I made over the years and it was a frustration to find the right tags to use while it can be so much easier done by just hooking into the WP Menu function.

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!! Of course keep your respect to the people doing all the hard work on this lovely bbPress source !!

[Shmoo]

Look at those pages,

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Shmoo]

Just go to the Plugins section of your WordPress admin + Click Add New Plugin –> Search for bbPress and activate it!

After that change some bbPress settings and start adding forums, topics and replies.

– Always make sure you back-up WordPress once in a while!

[Shmoo]

@koendb,

Very nicely!
Well integrated with the entire theme.

Just one question:

How did you change the time-format at each last_activity.
By default bbPress shows something like this, (two items)
– 2 days, 3 hours ago
– 8 hours, 37 seconds ago

But you only show one item,
– 2 hours ago
– 6 days ago
– 1 years ago

I like your format better.

[brachi]

How do I install the plugin bbpress forum has some kind of code?

[koendb]

I would show a little more appreciation for the people making all of this possible.

That being said, this is my bbpress forum: 24Baby (dutch). Looks exactly like the two you linked to. I would be happy to provide some code, but before I put any effort into it, please make sure bbpress is the forum software of your choice.

[SickSquirrel]

I backup daily, twice, just to be safe. It’s automatic no having to remember fortunately. I don’t think the kid I hired did coding in the site but was install, integrate, load old phpBB site in and go.

WordPress was just the vehicle to carry bbPress. I’d hire someone but don’t want to invest any more $$$ I can’t afford.

Thanks. I guess since you gave a standard response and not a warning about specific issues, there are no known issues between WP 3.81 and bbPress 2.3.2.

[SickSquirrel]

I backup daily, twice, just to be safe. It’s automatic no having to remember fortunately. I don’t think the kid I hired did coding in the site but was install, integrate, load old phpBB site in and go.

WordPress was just the vehicle to carry bbPress. I’d hire someone but don’t want to invest any more $$$ I can’t afford.

Thanks. I guess since you gave a standard response and not a warning about specific issues, there are no known issues between WP 3.81 and bbPress 2.3.2.

[Mycelus]

This is something else I don’t understand. Who uses numbers to manually order stuff? Is this a joke? This is something I would expect from 2 decades ago. This is WordPress / bbPress, why is drag and drop re-ordering not supported outta the box?

How do I go about re-ordering my forums via dragging and dropping rather than manually renumbering every forum?

Ive searched online and couldn’t find a post on how to do it.

[Mycelus]

I don’t know what the designers were thinking when they designed bbPress, but it looks like crap, not the theme, just the way the stock design is where the forums are just all bundled up underneath the category.

Look at the forums for example:

https://linustechtips.com/main/

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/

The categories are nicely separated in a hierarchy, with the posts and replies being shown to the right.

I need my forums to look like this, cause I’d like to avoid using crap paid software or open software like phpBB, vBulletin, IP Board, etc.

[Mycelus]

I want bbPress to look like this:

https://linustechtips.com/main/

See how the categories are above and separated from the rest?

My current forums look like this –> http://www.skyforgelabs.com/?post_type=forum , and I HATE that, the way the forums are under the category with the stupid 0’s is ugly and I don’t know why bbPress is like this by default.

[Shmoo]

I know they don’t try to keep information from us but it can be frustrated at times if you wanna learn something but for X reasons you can’t find it or you just can’t understand it :S

And it becomes extra frustrated if you know for sure something similar works 1000 times easier inside WordPress out of the box.

The link you gave me explained it very well, I’ve read it twice and now I made my very first filter.

bbPress

// Adding extra CSS
function shmoo_extra_css( $classes ) {
		$classes[] = 'tab-row';
		return $classes;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_class', 'shmoo_extra_css' );

Doing the same thing in WordPress

<?php body_class( 'tab-row' ); ?>

Because this simply doesn’t work.

<?php bbp_topic_class( 'tab-row' ); ?>

[SickSquirrel]

I run 3.7 right now. I was afraid to upgrade WP in case there wee issues with bbPress. So … if I update to 3.81 (the latest) can I expect issues or should it go smoothly?

I hired someone o set up my site with WP and bbPress. He hasn’t worked on the site after that so if I run into issues, I’m stuck. I’m only online two hours a day and can no longer code or fix errors (due to illness).

I’m leery about upgrading but know I have to do it.

[Tafita]

I’m using the Genesis framework and bbpress does not seem to disable nested replies.

[mabbas64]

I’m customizing my bbpress a bit.
How do I generate new replies. I have to display some Login credentials as a 2nd reply – everytime a new topic is created. I couldn’t find anything about generating replies from code via Google or via searching on these forums.

Thank you.

[Robin W]

shmoo,

don’t think there’s any conspiracy to keep this stuff secret, rather that the clever people who write this stuff are generally the same type of people who hate documenting – they enjoy the code and getting it to do stuff, not the this is how I did it.

I’d love to see a crib on the structure of the bbPress plugin – a list of the directories and files, and a description of what each file did – eg loop-single-forum.php does this, and content-single-topic does that etc. but unless I do one, don’t think it will happen.

I’ll try to unravel the filter side of the plugin at some stage !

[Shmoo]

What happens if you do the same inside a WP Blog Post ?

Do you have the right Twitter link?

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Edit:

Looks like it doesn’t work here at bbPress.org as well so maybe a core problem 🙁

[Shmoo]

Because it doesn’t work like that out-of-the-box.

WordPress checks some values based on a Submit action – a page-load is needed to check and push the error_msg into your page and because of the page-load the browser will go back to the top of the page by default.

If you want functionality like that you have to search at Javascript Validations ,there are lots of them online.

Personally I really like Foundation’s Abide
http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/abide.html

It can check if a field is valid when writing and if it’s not it blocks the Submit button from being pushed in the first place.
I used it in a BuddyPress site and it works very nice.

[Shmoo]

Thanks, IF I knew how it worked I would also like to write about it but for some reason they keep this very secretly while 98% of all bbPress changes have to happen through filters.

I’ve read the WP Codex about this a few times but I just don’t see it, I can’t connect the dots + all tutorials online are often talking about this in a global way, they make up ‘some’ function and add it to another ‘something’ function.
Pippin often has easy to follow tutorials but I lost him in the second picture.

A Quick Introduction to Using Filters

Respect for your link!
I will make some time for it and read it very slowly today, looks like a very good one because I saw a heading HOW to SPOT a filter!

[Roitduck]

Hi folks,
Is there anyone who can help me to find out why bbpress don’t scroll automatically down to the ”error”-section when you press the ”submit”- button on the bottom of my page without filling in the fields: http://www.dicud.com/forums/topic/keep-up-the-motivation/?

This is the error-section and its red.

ERROR: Invalid author name submitted!

ERROR: Invalid email address submitted!

ERROR: Your reply cannot be empty.

ERROR: Slow down; you move too fast.

[Robin W]

best explanation I know is here :

Filters Explained

I plan to write some bbPress specific documentation for this when I get my head around it enough to pass it on (I am relatively new to wordpress as well).