[UlrikGorm]

Hi.

How do I display ‘Recent Topics'(widget) like bbpress.org does on the index page?

Thanks.

[sephiroticvm]

WordPress 3.8
bbpress 2.5.3
http://organicconservative.net/?topic=oil-pulling-for-clean-teeth

On this topic page, when the window is resized to about 464px wide or less, the avatar images (the actual image element, not its div as far as I can tell) are removed and positioned absolutely at the top left part of the page, all in one stack.

What causes this, what is the fix, and do I really need to worry about it since I can’t think of a environment that is 464px wide?

Thanks!

[giggio]

I use bbPress-2.5.3 and BuddyPress-1.9.1 for my forum.

I want to add a couple of new forum roles + existing 5 default roles. How to do that?

For example, I want to have forum roles – ‘beginner’, ‘advanced’, ‘senior’, ‘veteran’, etc. with capabilities – ‘participant’. And other forum roles with custom names with capabilities – ‘moderator’.

Thanks in advance!

[Stephen Edgar]

post_author = 0

In a bbPress context is an ‘Anonymous User’, check that you don’t have this enabled.

Also check what WordPress settings are in /wp-admin/options-discussion.php

Ack! Disabled all plugins and still getting lots of dummy revisions.

Is this with bbPress disabled?

[powermaniac]

When I’m logged in as admin and trying to make a sticky, it sends me to the login page. Once I log in again and try once more, it does the same thing. I’m using the latest version of both bbpress and wordpress. Any ideas?

[bpark73]

so “bbpress” itself does not have a PM feature? I thought this was fairly basic feature for forums?

[papas_fritas]

This is out of control! There are dozens of new dummy revisions just since I posted this. Will try disabling all plugins except bbPress now.

[Nermoz]

Hi There,

I spent a couple of hours looking for a solution and couldn’t find one. Does anyone have an idea how to address my challenge:

I am using “Restrict Content Pro” to create a few groups on my site and I have a dedicated sub-forum for each group.
I would like to subscribe all the members of group X to sub-forum X. So they will all start getting email notifications for every activity within that sub-forum.
Any suggestion how to achieve that? (I don’t use BuddyPress, only BBpress)

Thanks!

[Roitduck]

Hi again,
It worked before, but stopped after i made some changes in the code. But i can’t find the error or where in the code the problem is. I’ve also updated to the new version of bbpress, do you think it has any effect?

[Markic]

First of all, I’m not asking any questions, I’m offering solutions for people who, like me, had these specific problems, are googling for a solutions and can’t find any. Some of you think this is pure amateur stuff, but there are people out there who will spend hours trying different things and this can save them so much time. If you want to delete this topic, I don’t care, I’m here to help…

How to load bbpress.css before your yoursheet.css?
Intro: When WordPress is loading stylesheets, they’ll load all the theme .css files first and then they’ll load plugin css. That way plugin css has higher priority than your css and only way you can override it is with !important. As we all know, that is a bad practice.

Also, you can create your own bbpress.css in your theme but that means more files to keep up with (although, that’s the cleanest solution). Here’s another way to do this:

paste this code into functions.php…

if (class_exists('bbPress')) {
add_action( 'wp_print_styles', 'deregister_bbpress_styles', 15 );
function deregister_bbpress_styles() {
wp_deregister_style( 'bbp-default' );
}
wp_enqueue_style( 'bbpress_css', plugins_url().'/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.min.css');
}


So, let’s get into details:
– first, if you have active plugin ‘bbPress’ it will exicute the following code which removes all the .css files from it
– second, it loads bbpress.min.css again, but this time where you want it…
– be sure that you enqeue your stylesheet after this code

Note: there are two problems that might arise from this techique
-if bbPress developers decide to rename, remove or split bbpress.min.css, you’ll have to change the code again
-there’s other .css file named “bbpress-rtl(.min).css”. Well, some cultures (Arabic), read and write from right to left. And what this file aligns everything to the right. bbPress has some system of deciding whether it should load this file or not, but by doing this technique, you’re disabling that system.

How can I remove all the breadcrumbs from the templates and set them at the top of the page?
Intro: Many of us are creating our own themes with existing breadcrumbs systems which are in the header. But bbPress has it’s own idea where to display breadcrumbs, and sometimes that’s at the top of the page, sometimes that’s below search form and sometimes it’s below title. Here’s how you can change that quickly.

1. If you haven’t, create “bbpress.php” in the root folder of your theme. (You can copy-paste page.php)
2. Add
<div class="truebreadcrumbs"><?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?></div>
where you wan’t to show your breadcrumbs
3. Add this CSS:

div.bbp-breadcrumb {
display: none; /*this will hide all breadcrumbs*/
}

.truebreadcrumbs div.bbp-breadcrumb {
display: block; /*this will display breadcrumbs you've created*/
}


Sure, HTML will still generate all the breadcrumbs and css will hide the unwanted ones, but this is the easiest way to do this without going into templates…

[billseymour]

Hello- First time poster to the bbPress forums.

I am giving bbPress (WP plugin) a good test workout, and overall find it a great piece of work.

I am working up a set of forums where (with the Members plugin) I have a few forums for ‘Board members’, while most forums are for all members.

Q: Is there a way to generate a topic-index that excludes selected forums, that correctly paginates? I can easily exclude topics in ‘forum xyz’ by customizing loop-topics.php, but the topic pagination still includes those excluded topics in the pagination count.

It seems to me that many bbP users would benefit from the ability to list selected topics by excluding forums (ie, topics for all forums except forum-xyz).

Can this possibly be done via wp_query? Is the ‘forum name’ attached to each topic a Custom Field?

Thanks for any information. –Bill

[moes88]

Hello,

I installed BBpress and liked it very much, everything is working fine but when i try to start a topic the whole topic page is messed up! The text field is okay but my menu is at the bottom and my footer next to my textfield so my whole lay out is messed up! Also the link is weird, i made a forum with subfolders in it and when is post a topic the link is voetbalwedtips.nl/topic/jaja instead of voetbalwedtips.nl/forums/forum/jaja?? i dont have a clue anymore?

[koendb]

You could change your forum lay-out with a template and let your other pages stay the same. It’s going to be though to achieve this result without ANY coding languages. Even when you use other’s code you’ll need to change the .css to change the colors etc.

If you however decide to try it yourself, you should start reading here.

[Mycelus]

I could swear I’ve seen a plugin for bbPress where you can manually order the forums and categories…

[Shmoo]

Try this.

Your HTML and CSS isn’t very pretty but this will do the trick I believe.

.type-reply.user-id-1 {
     background: #91CDEA;
     border-top: 1px solid #BEC3C7;
     border-bottom: 1px solid #BEC3C7;
     overflow: hidden;
}

Btw, if you have copied the default bbpress.css stylsheet from the plugins folder to your own theme ( wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/css/ ) folder you can edit and customize that new bbpress.css file. You don’t have to place all your custom CSS inside the style.css – just customize the bbpress.css inside your theme folder.

Right now you’re working too much with the !important; attribute just trying to overwrite default stylings while it’s not needed if you simply customize the bbpress.css stylesheet.

[Shmoo]

Screenshots:

Default:

Shows pagination:

Activated:

Gone pagination:

Added a Trac ticket

[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?