[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 Every thread I read tells of others with the same problem or notes that the documentation is out of date.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?

[George]

On my site, if a user clicks to go to the Profile Forum section, they see nothing. No topics, no replies, just says that there is nothing to be found.. rendering this section useless.

My questions is:

Why would a site would look to buddypress/bp-legacy for the profile forum template instead of bp-templates? This seems to be the root of my issue. If I try to force it, my site throws a 500 error on the profile forums page.

[Robin W]

Ok, you can add the following to it

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-title h3,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-title h3,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-title h3 {
	font-size: 16px !important;
 	}

16px is what it is currently set to, just alter the 16px to whatever size you want

h3 by the way is “heading 3” there are a number of different heading sizes that bbpress sets and uses, that are separate from your main themes h3

[Robin W]

Great, glad you’re fixed

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Well, 10 minutes after..I see there’s not much around. Went to the code and did a little tweak. I’m sharing this in case anybody need it:

add_filter( 'is_bbpress', 'my_bbpress_page' );

function my_bbpress_page( $retval = false ){
	
	if ( is_page_template( 'my-template.php' ) ) {
		$retval = true;
	}
	
	return $retval;
}

I’ll try and see if I have some time to make some docs around this. Having documentation is the key to have more things around this plugin.

Best,
Juan.

[austinator414]

@robin-w I actually fixed it.
I installed bbPress when the Twenty Thirteen theme for wordpress was also installed.
When I changed to “Clean Black” Theme, bbPress was still using the Twenty Thirteen style. So I uninstalled it and reinstalled it so that it would gather its styles from ‘Clean Black”. All fixed now. 🙂

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Hello,

I’m using this function in order to enqueue some custom CSS when a forum related page is loaded.

The problem is for example, the “New Topic” page – Part of bbPress – gives FALSE when I call is_bbpress()

Is there any place where I can check about this function besides going through the core code? I’ve searched over the Documentation and couldn’t find anything.

Thanks,
Juan.

[FreeWPress]

Hi, this is a problem by Yoast WordPress SEO plugin and other seo plugin wich don’t love bbpress…

You must to go in yoast settings to find any setting to configure it.. if is possible.. I have same problems with All in One SEO plugin.. And i writing to author plugin to resolve this issue…

Before to use a custom function to replace it, go in plugin settings and found one solution..

[Cars10]

I have set up a Multisite.
I added bbPress and NOT activated it on Network level
I added a sub site (network)
I activated bbPress ONLY for that sub site
I created two forums
I navigated as super admin to the network dashboard to the theme’s Appearance–>Menus section just to find that I cannot see any Forum bars from which I could add any Forum to the Custom navigation –

I know from a non Multisite installation, that I should be able add an existing forum from a “Forums”-bar, but that bar is NOT there.

I scanned Google for hours and this forum usually came up but no replies had anything to do with it or helped even when I tried.

I do not want to workaround the problem by creating “links” in the top menu. I would like to see all the tool-bars of bbPress in the menus section of appearance.

1. Latest WP (fresh)
2. Multisite
3. no disturbing plugins
4. Standard TwentyTwelve Theme

Thankful for any hints

[connielk]

I had a heck of a time getting my theme Customizzr to work with bbPress. But your fantastic theme support made it possible. I have one weird thing left to fix still. The forum looks great, the user pages look great, the search works. But when you click on a user link, and it displays the user pages, notice that the title bar at the top of the browser says: Page Not Found | RedHorse CRM – Mozilla Firefox.

Any idea how I can fix that?

http://redhorsesystems.com/forums