[P4p3Rc1iP]

I’m quite new to WP and don’t know anything about PHP, so please don’t mind me asking stupid questions…

Anyway, so I’ve installed the bbPress plugin, set up a forum, etc. and now I want users to be able to register and post. When users click the register button and fill in their details, they’re taken to domain.com/wp-login.php which displays just code.

When they refresh the page they get a login screen, but they’ve not received a password. Users are created and visible in the admin panel.

Do they not get an e-mail because the page wp-login.php page is broken or the other way around? Or is it something entirely different? I’ve searched around for a while but nothing that seems to answer my question.

Site: http://convoy-games.com/index.php/forums/

Don’t mind the theme/layout/colors. Wanted to get functionality before visuals.

Thanks!

[Sculp]

Robin,
1) Files deleted.
2) Searching for BBpress…
3) Received warning: This version of BBpress is not tested yet with this current version of WP (or something like that)
4) Installing…
5) On screen:

Plugin bbPress 2.4.1 wordt geïnstalleerd. (will be installed)

Downloaden installatiepakket van https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.2.4.1.zip…

Uitpakken van pakket… (unzip file)

De plugin installeren… (install plugin)

Plugin bbPress 2.4.1 is succesvol geïnstalleerd. (Successfully installed)

6) activate plugin
7) Warning: You don’t have permissions to access this page.
8) Back in browser to address -> Dashbord -> Plugin..
9) Plugin is activated now (Somehow).
10) Settingsbutton: “Warning: You don’t have permissions to access this page.”

[Robin W]

suggest you uninstall bbpress and then re-install it.

Come back if that doesn’t work

[Sculp]

Hi Robin, Nothing….

I just installed BBpress.
After installation, open the dashboard -> plugins -> BBpress settings or About (both not working)

Screen display: You don’t have permissions to access this page

Because of this error, I tried to install bbPress Admin Bar Addition 1.7.1.
It’s on the server now, but this program is also giving this same permission error…

[wolverineguy7575]

Hello,
I’m trying to do the convert from mingle to bbpress. I found the post

Importing Mingle Forums into bbPress?

Which Stephen Edgar was assisting someone on and was able to get it to work. I put in the information to start the convert and got this error:

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘\”wp_forums_\”forum_forums AS forum_forums LIMIT 0, 100’ at line 1]

SELECT convert(forum_forums.id USING “utf8”) AS id,convert(forum_forums.parent_id USING “utf8”) AS parent_id,convert(forum_forums.name USING “utf8”) AS name,convert(forum_forums.description USING “utf8”) AS description,convert(forum_forums.sort USING “utf8”) AS sort FROM \”wp_forums_\”forum_forums AS forum_forums LIMIT 0, 100No forums to convertStarting Conversion

I’m not a database expert by any means and I don’t want to screw up anything. If anyone could help me with getting this done I would appreciate it very much. Mingle is slowing down my site and I need to get to something better.

Thank you,
Scott

[rahman.mahfuz]

I was also using a Child Theme of Woothemes Canvas Theme. In my case, it was resolved using the following (I found this solution in this site – http://www.pootlepress.co.uk/2013/06/65-tips-tricks-and-css-tweaks-for-woothemes-canvas/):

Fix for BBPress and Canvas (5.2 and higher)
———————————————

Matty Cohen from WooThemes provided the fix for this one 🙂

Add a file called “bbpress.php” into your child theme. This file can be downloaded here: https://gist.github.com/mattyza/1b01583441b11c8d04d0
Add the following code in the designated area of your “functions.php” file: https://gist.github.com/mattyza/f210cadb7f70188d513d

[april]

I’m having some issues with this plugin. Hopefully someone here can help.

I’ve installed on a local installation, using Instant WordPress.

I’ve read everything on here about this error and it’s all about ports but I do not know how to make a change to a) Instant WordPress or b) bbpress to fix the issue.

My error is ERROR: Are you sure you wanted to do that?

Yes. Yes I am.

Can anyone offer some insight? Explain it like I’m 5, because the existing answers do not seem to work for me.

I have the most recent versions of WordPress and bbpress installed. I can create forums and topics with the WordPress dashboard, but not replies. I cannot create forums, topics or replies using the plugin at all.

Thank you!

[bbp-fan]

I just found this old post:

Font (text) is so small, how can I fix it?

If you follow the link
http://hearthstone.no/forums/
then you will see what I want to change in my forum.

The first forum there is called: “Hearthstone Beta” = forum-title
I would like (for me) a larger font.

If you click the forum “Hearthstone Beta”, you come to the list of topics. Look for example Topic “turnering”. This is the topic-title, for which I also want a larger font.

But only for this two titles (forum-title und topic-title), not for the rest of the fonts like it is on this site.

[bbp-fan]

Hi Robin,
no, unfortunately, that also does not work. It changes the title in the blog, not the bbpress-forum.

It’s absolutely crazy.
I just made ​​some changes to the existing CSS in my child-theme to see if the css file is ever used. But EVERYTHING works. Only with these two bbp-titles (forums und topics) nothing works.
I’ve just tried the following:

. bbp-forum-header a.bbp-forum-permalink,
. bbp-topic-header a.bbp-topic-permalink,
. bbp-reply-header a.bbp-reply-permalink {
font-size: 18px;
}

Nothing happens.
But: Somewhere the size of this fonts must still be defined!! (???)

Apparently no one of the bbpress programmers reads here in the forum. Too bad. 🙁
I give up now.

Thank you, that you were so kind and patient!

[Sculp]

Dear All, I’m new here, and this may be a wrong topic.
But I have installed bbpress 2.4.1 and WP version 3.7.1
After installation I can’t open the bb-press settings, because it says:

Je hebt onvoldoende rechten voor toegang van deze pagina. (dutch language)
translation: You don’t have permissions to access this page.

But i’m administrator! What should i do?
Your prompt response will be appreciated.
Thxs!

[bbp-fan]

Hi Robin, thank you for your patience!

I have a child-theme in wp-content/themes/myTheme. Inside is MY style.css. Here I have copied all the passages from the bbpress.css that I wanted to change. It has always worked fine! Just changing the font size in the forum-title and the topic-title is ignored. Despite !important.

You also can check a topic-title in bbpress with Firebug. I did ​​it like this: highlight the topic-title, mouse-click (right) and then check by Firebug.

[Robin W]

ok, would be worth a double check with firebug as to which css is being used.

is it definitely bbpress.css? and on what directory are you using it (ie is it the default directory or a copy you have made, and if the latter which directory have you put it in?

[Stephen Edgar]

Run each of the Repair Tools one by one 🙂
https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

[inthedistance]

Hi all,

I created a new WP site with a new bbPress install (all updated), and imported the .xml files for the forums, topics and replies, and successfully mapped them to existing users (also imported).

When I view the forums now, it says something like:
– (blue) This forum contains 2 topics and 3 replies, and was last updated by ** 6 months, 2 weeks ago.
– (yellow) Oh bother! No topics were found here!

When I create a new topic in the forums, it displays fine.

What do I need to do to get the old topics to display correctly?

Many thanks,
Matt

[Stephen Edgar]

That theme you are trying to install ‘Static-Blue-BB’ is for the old standalone version of bbPress and will not work with the current version of bbPress 2.x Plugin for WordPress.

bbPress now use’s your WordPress theme, i.e. your ‘main theme’, if you want to tweak the templates of your theme click the ‘themes’ link at the top of this page and follow the link there.

[Stephen Edgar]

Closing this topic as it relates to the old standalone bbPress v0.9/v1.2x version of bbPress.

None of this information is valid for the current bbPress v2.x Plugin for WordPress.

[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.