[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress uses WordPress ‘Custom Post Types’ so there are not any bbPress tables to index.

That said we are looking to improve the performance with bbPress in a few areas, take a look at Trac Ticket #1925 for further reading 🙂

[j w]

Hey all. The “Next Page >>” & “<< Previous Page” links do not seem to be working correctly on the Forums page. We should have 2 pages of Forums, but instead have 11 and they all show the same first of the two pages. We are never able to see the second page (the Forums that begin with the letter toward the end of the alphabet: o, p, q, r, s…etc.). Any ideas about what could be causing this?

WordPress 3.7.1
bbPress 2.4.1

[Novadrake1111]

I am trying to change the coloring of some things on my forums. I just installed but can’t figure out why it’s so white…

http://gyazo.com/2710d7ee2944f6329dbf164a3a7265c4

I’m trying to change it to match the background but pop out a bit. Can’t figure out how to change the tan/white.

Please help!

Thank You!

[mayabi]

Hello,
i’m working on an alumni network site, and while trying to work with bbpress and buddypress, i got everything figured out just fine. Problem is, after creating new forums (through the group creation page), i can’t delete them, even after deleting the group itself. I only have an option to “show” the forum and not edit/delete it…
I wouldn’t mind keeping it this way, but when showing the index forums page, ALL the forums are appearing there, even those of the deleted groups, which is not good 🙁

Is there a fix for that?

Thank you!
Maya.

[thirtyfivemill]

Robin, that’s very kind of you and thank you for the thoughtful reply, it’s appreciated. I’m basically familiar with tweaking the css for styling, so that bit will be fine once I get the new theme installed. What I’m struggling with is getting the newly downloaded bbpress theme (the main theme will stay as is, this theme is solely for the forums and will work within the main theme) to function.

This is the theme I’m trying to install and activate:

http://www.spyka.net/bbpress-themes/static-blue-bb/

At some point they had a link to an installation guide but does that link work now? 🙂

[jeffmax]

I imported a huge forum from PHPBB (Over 1M posts and 100K users). It’s very slow to load and submit posts. Any suggestions on the indexes that should be created? It doesn’t look like the default BBPress indexes are sufficient for forums this size. I thought BBPress would be able to handle it with it’s default structure. Thanks in advance.

[jeffmax]

Hey There,
Is there a more up-to-date suggestion regarding BBPress and Indexes? I imported a huge forum from PHPBB (over 1M posts + 100K users) and it’s very slow! Any suggestions on how to optimize all of the tables?
Thanks!

[Robin W]

Yes, and I totally agree, the documentation is woeful, unfortunately those that know the answers won’t update, and the rest of us work out bits that function, but are never sure whether these are the best ways.

Anyway onto your question.

bbPress is a plugin, and out of the box it works well with twentyten, and I understand twentyeleven.

Beyond that you’ll need to style it.

This consist of two elements :

Functionality
Styling

Functionality

I create a page called “forums”, and then put whatever forum text at the top followed by the forum shortcut [bbp-forum-index]

See http://www.gospbc.co.uk/forums/ for an example

Then loading a plugin called bbPress WP tweaks adds a forum sidebar to your widgets area.

I have loaded this with a login widget, forum list, recent topics and recent replies, as well as some other stuff from my website. See link about for what is in there.

This then gives you a basic forum area.

Then onto

styling
bbPress using the default bbpress.css as it style doc unless you tell it otherwise

You can customise look and feel – fonts, colours, background quite easily by using one of two methods, knowing what to change is the hard part !

If you have an existing child theme, you can override the bbpress default for elements by adding them to your own child theme style.css BUT you need to put !important into them to prevent the bbpress plugin from loading later and overwriting them with the default

As an example if you wanted to change the font-size of the forums list you’d put the following into your css

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
	font-size: 11px !important;
	}

The alternate method, and perhaps better if you want to make lots of changes, is to copy the default bbpress.css from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css
to /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/css/

you can then edit it there to your hearts content, and you don’t need the !important bit.

OK so how do I know what to edit?

You’ll need to get familiar with using something like firebug with firefox. This lets you examine sections of your website and see precisely what css element is styling it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdIk2PztcL0 gives the start of a tutorial on this

When I get a moment, I’ll start to add this to the bbpress documentation.

I only started with WordPress and bbPress in March, and am still learning the basics !

[thirtyfivemill]

I would say you’re spot on Bobby. 2 years down the line from this thread and I’m beggared if I can find clear, concise documentation on how to install and activate a simple bbpress theme. I just don’t get the point of spending all this time and effort to create forum software and then refuse to properly help people to use it. Like you said, more people will just give up than actually install and use at this rate.

I can honestly say it was easier to integrate phpbb3 with wordpress using a complex modification than it is to properly set up a bbpress forum, which is meant to be seamless.

Might be time to look for another solution if this is the future. Not wishing to be snappy and I know this is free software, of which I’m sure we’re all appreciative, but this has to be one of the most frustrating installs I’ve ever encountered.

[thirtyfivemill]

Guys, I’ve searched goodness knows how many threads, read the two standard documentation posts and I cannot for the life of me fathom how to activate a simple bbpress theme. Every thread I read tells of others with the same problem or notes that the documentation is out of date.

Has anyone written a concise and easy to follow step my step instruction post on how to install and activate a theme using the current release of bbpress? Or a video? I just can’t figure how I can spend an entire day googling and searching the site for something which virtually every new user would look for within the first phase of bbpress installation and setup? Have a I missed it?

As far as I’m aware I’ve done everything asked for in these two posts:

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

http://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/

yet having followed them to letter as best I could I can’t quite see how the newly installed “blue static” is to be called into play as functions.php is calling for the default theme?

The two posts above seem to get you about 90% there and then fail to explain the last few steps required to actually make everything work. Or it could be I’m going senile very early in life, in which case please for give me but could someone help me anyway? 🙂

Many thanks in advance for any help you might offer.

[Daniel Lemes]

At least i found how to remove this annoying roles.

Anywhere in your theme (i put on a custom page template), use this:

$wp_roles = new WP_Roles();
$wp_roles->remove_role("bbp_role");

It was the only way to remove bbp_keymaster and bbp_participant roles that keep appearing even after uninstall bbPress.

[phendyr]

Hi folks,
newcomer to bbpress, and I appreciate anyone’s time/effort to help resolve my question. I’m trying to write a php script that will display the most recent 3 topic titles/excerpts from the bbpress forum, onto the homepage of my website.

Existing posts I’ve found so far are from several years ago, and so if there’s something that exists already, I would greatly appreciate getting pointed in the right direction.

Thanks again.

[Robin W]

Haven’t looked at them, but these two might help start you in the right direction

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/support-forum/

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/best-answer/

[inspirationally]

After moving my bilingual 200,000 posts forum from Woltlab to bbPress, I realized, that the completely English forum with English forum descriptions etc. is too difficult for some of the German members, so I would like to somehow filter the German topics.

Already before importing, I created a custom field bbp_language and when creating the topic, they can chose a language, so that in the topic overview, you can see either of the flags – see http://deppheads.com/forums/new-posts/

With qTranslate, I can add German Forum descriptions, but maybe there is an easier possibility with just adding such a field to the Forum descriptions, not the whole site. I will have to write a little custom fields plugin for that.

I have no idea yet, how to set the language…if to display one language only or all – if it is in the profile, Cookie, if it is a little extra-URL like /de/ or a drop down?!?

My bigger problem is, how can I make, in the sub forums, that only threads with German or only English threads will be shown? Is there some filter / hook that I can use?
Any file or function or short code?

Like in „normal WordPress“ it would be

<?php query_posts('meta_key=bbp_language&meta_value=German‘);  ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

[woody800]

We have just moved across from Vanilla forums to bbPress.

Our Users have been duplicated with imported_username & all the replies attached to that User have been attached to imported_username. However, when our Users login with their normal username they have not been assigned any replies. Yet old posts they have made, when they click on the display name it shows the imported_username details & replies.

I presumed I would be able to delete the imported_username and choose to attribute all posts to the old username however for some reason I do not get this option.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[JMG]

Hello, is there any way for my forum members to click the topic and view it’s answer in a drop-down style below the topic/question itself(accordion style) ? I do not want the answer to show up on a different page. Either the answer slides down the question itself or shown in lightbox style upon click. Is this possible ?

I am asking this because my forum is not a discussion forum but Q an A forum where there is only 1 answer to the question asked by members.

Using latest wordpress and bbpress build
Kindly help.

[Robin W]

and that class is the one you tried to change, it is on line 166 of bbpress.css

#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: 16px;
 	line-height: 1em;
 	margin: 8px 0;
	padding: 0;
	text-transform: none;
}

[Cars10]

Urgh…..by default the Screen Options swallow the forum bars and you need to activate them manually.
A slim bar could be activated by default, so that is my suggestion for a default setting in upcoming releases.

Close it

[bassa]

Hello!

I have been looking around for a good forum to use with our website, and am in the process of setting up our forums using bbPress. Thanks for the plugin!

However, I am wondering if it’s possible to let topic posters use a more html-like editor? Many of our users are hardly very technical, and having to rely on them to use html tags to make (for example) a piece of text bold, is not really optimal.

Is there a setting I can change somewhere on my admin pages or a plugin I can install to “upgrade” the topics editor somehow?

Thank you!

[the one b]

Hey @purplep,

Thanks for this. I have just gotten into WordPress and I’m working my way through learning what’s going on. Your directions were easy and to the point.

Thanks,
B

[shearamariz]

I am having a problem with the latest version. My Forum content is not showing.
I am hoping for your kind response. Thanks.

[alcisc]

Hi:

Does the integration between wp-members and BBPress without issues to solve, @html_guru ?

I want to use both WP plugins, wp-members and BBPress but I’ll wait for find out my doubts about compatibility before try it. I’m a WP beginner.

Can anyone solve this question?

Thank you!

Best regards!

[alcisc]

Hi:

Did you get the issue resolved, tred1975?

I want to use both wp plugins, wp-members and BBPress but I’ll wait for find out before try it. I’m a WP beginner.

Can anyone solve this question?

Thank you!

Best regards!

[George]

Anyone found anything for this? I’m lost at how to write this.

Thanks!

[bbp-fan]

Thank you very much for your help!
Unfortunately this I had already tried and it did not work. Now I have just tried again and again without success. I’m really at a loss. 🙁
Why this CSS is ignored? I have several changes in the CSS file (background for sticky post, for example). Everything else works!

Where is the special-bbpress-“h3” defined? What size? I can’t find ist in the bbpress css-file.
Perhaps there would be the solution?