[Spencer Hill]

Thanks for the reference Stephen. I had seen this but didn’t want to spend the time on it without a reference that it functions the way I need it since, as you mentioned, the setup was rather complicated. But thank you! I’ll give it a shot now and report back here for future users.

PS I wouldn’t expect this to be a core BBPress feature either but that’s helpful to know either way.

THANK YOU for your time Stephen.

[Nashwan D]

Congratulations! .. nice to see the bbPress Trac new updates too 😀

[rickey29]

Hello,

Is there a mobile-friendly bbPress theme? If not, is it a good idea if I develop one?

I check this support forum with keyword “mobile theme”. Someone ask the same question, the answer is no. If I miss a solution, please let me know. I also Google “mobile bbPress theme” and read the first three pages carefully. There are some good discussion and even achievement, but these topics are not active anymore for three years.

My target is, for example, for the next three websites:
http://mophpbb3.flexplat.com/
http://mosmf2.flexplat.com/
http://momybb.flexplat.com/
When you visit from (1) desktop web browser or (2) mobile web browser, the result are completely different — I will make the same theme for bbPress.

If you need a mobile theme, please reply this thread, so I can make sure this work is necessary.

Any comments are welcome.

Rickey

[DarraghDevEire]

Hi, I’m looking for a solution to display a list of sticky posts. I currently have a list of all recent topics displaying -> http://kohler.surefiresocial.com/featured-articles/ but I want to restrict this to just sticky posts. I am using the short-code [bbp-topic-index] to display the topic index.

Basically, I am stuck as to should i modify and create a short-code or drop in a custom query? any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

WP Version – 3.8
BBPress Version – 2.5.1
URL – http://kohler.surefiresocial.com/featured-articles/

[Stephen Edgar]

Ok, I’m out of options for you with bbPress.

Maybe take a look at some of the ‘membership’ plugins such as ‘Members’ by Justin Tadlock or S2Member. I think these ‘can’ do what you are after but have a look around and see what you can find.

[wiste]

Disregard, found in ..wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php

[wiste]

In which file(s)/locations can I find the code for the built in bbpress widgets? Most specifically I’m looking for the recent topics widget. Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I’ve never needed to modify a widget before now and my searches have turned up nothing.

I am wanting to make my own version that will allow it to recursively check sub forums of the specified parent forum as well so a category can be specified instead of just a single forum.

Thanks!

[Stephen Edgar]

I had a quick look on Pagelines forums but as I don’t have an account this was limited. I saw a couple of your posts there and I’d suggest you post another question on how to get it working with bbPress.

[iambob]

Ahh, so close … Thank you Stephen! The appearance of data in the columns now absent.

Next trick that yet evades my efforts and understanding is to have any long (> 55 characters) Forum or Topic titles (and/or any description of either), extend the full width across the defined space these columns (still) occupy, rather than wrap ‘half-way’ across. Is this a simple ‘width’ change within bbpress.css (and/or other files)?

With this change, the appearance (of forums & titles) would better fill the real estate, as Replies do, especially on a smartphone.

Much obliged,
Bob

[Stephen Edgar]

@wiste What I think/expect is the following:

1. \wp-content\plugins\bbpress\templates\default\bbpress\loop-forums.php
2. \wp-content\themes\mytheme\bbpress\loop-forums.php
3. \wp-content\themes\mychildtheme\bbpress\loop-forums.php

I’ll try to have a closer look at this sometime in the next few days and report back 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Much of this is theme related, we have a ticket in Trac for some microdata additions for breadcrumbs be the actual format for forums, topics & replies doesn’t have an ‘official’ spec so there really isn’t an easy way of supporting scheme.org or microformats with bbPress at this stage.

Your best workaround is to customize your bbPress templates to fit a markup of your choice and this really comes down to how your theme is currently doing this.

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

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2269 “Add rich microdata markup to breadcrumbs”

[Stephen Edgar]

You would probably be best of making a copy of some of the bbPress templates.

Details on getting started with this are here https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

Then take a look at the content-statistics.php template and add that code with the styling you want to content-archive-forum.php

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for the follow up, your right you probably don’t need the bbpress.php file now.

(I replied to your other topic about the admin replies link.)

[Stephen Edgar]

Do you have any plugin conflicts?

To try and resolve conflicts with other plugins please disable all your plugins except bbPress to see if the error persists. Re-enable each plugin one at a time and if things break again you should be able to now know which other plugin is causing the conflict.

[Stephen Edgar]

You would need to customize your templates. To get started with this follow the steps here to make copies of your templates for use in your theme.

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

Then start by taking a look at loop-replies.php

[mosaicrob]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for your response. I’ve spoken w/ Pagelines about this earlier, who informed me there is no module needed for Pagelines DMS (which I’m using), only for the Pagelines Framework. I can confirm that BBPress is installed and working on my site… it’s just the layout of the index page for the forums as well as the tags page that seems to not have any formatting.

(Just to be sure, I tried the pagelines module and it creates an error.)

Is there another way to approach this issue? I tried using BBPress WP Tweaks plugin to have BBPress use index.php for the default template page (Pagelines has an index.php file). This didn’t work either.

http://rad.mosaicearth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Screen-Shot-2014-01-12-at-8.23.30-PM.png

Here’s the error I get on the frontend:
http://rad.mosaicearth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Screen-Shot-2014-01-12-at-8.16.21-PM.png

[Stephen Edgar]

That was a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project and is an awesome plugin.

You should take a look at @rmccue’s bbPress plugin https://github.com/rmccue/bbPress-Reply-by-Email. It works quite well but is a little complex to setup.

There are no current plans to integrate this feature into bbPress core and the recommendation is to use a plugin for this feature.

[Stephen Edgar]

Why am I showing only MY activity in the activity area

That is a BuddyPress issue https://buddypress.org/

Also, how do I make the subscribers become members so that we can communicate in the forum?

Once a user logs into bbPress for the first time they are given the default bbPress Role ‘Participant’ and are now able to contribute to your forums.

[nzguyyy]

I am new to CSS and trying to change the formatting of my post-content div. My forum home page, and topic pages look okay but the margin in my post content page isn’t quite right. I can fix it by inspecting element and performing the change below, but then it reverts to being broke again.

I change it to this:

#bbpress-forums .post-content p {
margin: 0px 0px 0px !important;
display: block;
}

but then it reverts to this:

#bbpress-forums .post-content p {
margin: 0px 0px 20px;
display: block;
}

Any idea what I’m doing wrong? Forum is here:

http://www.planitnz.com/new-zealand-travel-forum/

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool 🙂 Drop a link to the forums in https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/pimp-your-press/ once you’ve finished, would love to take a look 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

@mosaicrob Pagelines have a bbPress module for there themes that should fix your issue, contact them for the link or search around their site.

[Stephen Edgar]

Try making a copy of the Twenty Eleven page template sidebar-page.php file and rename it to bbpress.php

[Stephen Edgar]

1. The legend of bbp-form gives no indication of the difference between a reply to topic versus a reply to a reply. I have to look at the URL displayed by the browser to tell the difference.

Will take care of this in the ticket you created 🙂
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2509#comment:5

2. When I go to the link of a post given by the RSS feed, it displays starting below the post’s toolbar. Now I know there is a toolbar above the post and can scroll up to click the REPLY link, then go reply. BUT – I really, really don’t want to have to educate every one of my moderators and users about this. From some Google searching about this, it seems that having the post’s reply link above the post is a more recent feature. I don’t think it is very intuitive, especially when a post link ending in “…/#post-416″ gets me to post 416 with the toolbar for that post invisible until you scroll up to see it (if you knew to do that).

I get where you are coming from on this and this is pretty hard to implement in bbPress as we don’t know what toolbars, headers etc your theme uses and there are soooo many.

I’m far from a CSS guru but is there some CSS trick that will allow some margin padding to fix this?

3. Some of my moderators have pointed out to me examples of the “Freshness” column in the Forum index pages being just plain wrong. To be more specific, the “Freshness” entries in question say a particular category is several days old (even after an F5 browser refresh), when by going down to a topic in that category you can see that it should have been 30 minutes old.

This does happen from time to time, hopefully with the patch in #1925 this will also be resolved. https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1925

I get the same ordering issues with only some of the Topic threads.

Is there/ Have you seen anything that determines if the issue occurs?

Are the topics that work as expected before Threaded Replies were enabled for example?

I also have a particular thread where a reply to a reply does not show any thread indentation and ends up after all comments on the topic, just as if it had been a reply to topic.

Probably need to take a closer look at that entire topics topic, replies and replies to looking at the post id’s and relevant data.

The ‘Threaded Replies’ issues I am tracking in ticket #2397 if you come across anything that may help diagnose these issues further that would be great.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2397

[Stephen Edgar]

Is there a migration path on moving previous threaded replies in the plugin to bbpress? Does just simple deactiving the plugin make the previous threads show up?

I actually do not know, all I can suggest is giving it a try 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

Try disabling all your ‘other’ plugins first leaving bbPress and your widget plugin, with some luck it won’t be ‘that’ plugin.