[Unit9]

Hi guys,

Is there any way for me to adjust the current BBPress and get back profile activity posting, so whenever someone posts in the forum, it shows on their Activity feed?

Thanks!

[Denver Prophit Jr.]

@johnjamesjacoby I read https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-0-updates/ and am just wondering if I create a forum topic with an external URL that it will tell that blog that I pinged them, now?

[unklee]

Hi Stephen, I understand you have many things to do and mostly in your “spare time”, but I think some documentation like this would reduce the number of questions and promote the product.

I don’t know enough yet to write anything, but if/when I resolve my problems, I might give it a go. I am sorry to see that people don’t always come back to the thread they started with a question when they have the answer, to tell us what they worked out, so I had already planned to do that.

Thanks for your response.

[Stephen Edgar]

@unklee Thnaks for your feedback, all great ideas and it is just really a time issue, our 9-5 day jobs get in the way of spending more time with bbPress 😉

Anyone with a WordPress/bbPress/BuddyPress username & password can edit and update the codex so we may not mention this fact as often as we should and are extremely grateful when new contributions occur.

Just go to https://codex.bbpress.org/ and click ‘login’ and have at it 🙂

[unklee]

Guys, I have been a WordPress user for a couple of years, but just beginning to work out bbpress. It looks great (thanks!) but I’m finding a few difficulties working out a few things.

I want to suggest that you enlarge the Codex slightly to assist new users, with a section titled something like “Some common issues”. It could include your recommendations and suggestions on the following:

Getting sidebars the way you want them:
Outline the various common problems and the recommended approaches/plugins to solving them (there are many threads on this, not all resolved):

• remove all sidebars
• Get the same sidebars as your blog
• Different sidebar to blog

Styling
Do we need a special CSS or can we use the CSS from the blog?

Features of most forums
Most forums have features that it is sometimes hard for newbies to find the right way to get them, so giving us some good advice would really help:

• List of forums in sidebar
• List of recent posts in sidebar
• Login/register box
• HTML/BBCode buttons – is a separate plugin useful?
• Admin & moderation

I know you probably don’t want to favour some plugins over others, but giving us your best advice, and maybe listing a couple of alternatives, would be very helpful.

Thanks.

[baylock]

I really hope someone will be able to help you on this but I believe, as long as BBpress works ok out of the box, that the question should be asked to your main theme maker.
Maybe it was supposed, at some point, to work on some previous version of BBPress?

Anyway, if you know how to use css, this should be something that could be solved within minutes.
I would help if I could but without having this specific theme styles, it’s difficult to know remotely what to tweak.

Anyway, I hope you’ll find your answer around here!

Regards.

[mrmandinga]

Hello. I have a theme which is supossed to be compatible with BBPress, but for some reason the forum looks weird: the lines or rows are broken. I couldnt find a solution. This is a screenshot:

Anyone had the same problem or knows how to solve it?

[unklee]

Hi Robin, I tried what you said (exactly, including logging out) and I’m afraid it didn’t work for me. I still see the blog sidebar with about 8 widgets in it, and not the bbpress sidebar with just one (trial) widget in it.

I note that others talk about changing the permalinks and I haven’t done that because I’m not sure exactly what they mean.

I really want to get this sorted, and I’d prefer not to have to do it by changing some of the php files, because I’m a very rough php coder! I wonder whether there’s anything else I should do that is so obvious to everyone that they’re not saying it, but it’s not obvious to me.It would be good if we could work out a definitive set of instructions, because a lot of people seem to have this issue.

[baylock]

Ok, thank you!

I achieved what I wanted, this way:

Forums list:

<p class="bbpx-topic-meta">
    <?php
    $forum_id  = bbp_get_forum_id();
    $last_active = get_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bbp_last_active_time', true );
    if ( empty( $last_active ) ) {
        $reply_id = bbp_get_forum_last_reply_id( $forum_id );
	if (!empty( $reply_id)){$last_active = get_post_field( 'post_date', $reply_id );} 
        else 
        {
	    $topic_id = bbp_get_forum_last_topic_id( $forum_id );
            if (!empty( $topic_id)){$last_active = bbp_get_topic_last_active_time( $topic_id );};
	};
    };
    $date= date('d/m/Y',bbp_convert_date( $last_active ));
    $active_id = bbp_get_forum_last_active_id( $forum_id );
    $link_url  = $title = '';

    //these two next lines are beyond me: same condition, two results for the same variable...
    if (empty($active_id)){$active_id = bbp_get_forum_last_reply_id( $forum_id );};	
    if (empty($active_id)){$active_id = bbp_get_forum_last_topic_id( $forum_id );};

    if (bbp_is_topic($active_id)) 
    {
	$link_url = bbp_get_forum_last_topic_permalink( $forum_id );
	$title    = bbp_get_forum_last_topic_title( $forum_id );
    } 
    elseif (bbp_is_reply($active_id)) 
    {
	$link_url = bbp_get_forum_last_reply_url( $forum_id );
	$title    = bbp_get_forum_last_reply_title( $forum_id );
    };
    $time_since = bbp_get_forum_last_active_time( $forum_id );
    if (!empty($time_since) && !empty($link_url) 
    {
	$anchor = '<a href="'.esc_url($link_url).'" title="'.esc_attr($title).'">'.$date.'</a>';		
        ?>
        <span class="bbp-topic-freshness-author">
          <?php
              bbp_author_link(array('post_id'=>bbp_get_forum_last_active_id(),'size'=> 14));
          ?>
        </span>
        <?php	
    }
    else {$anchor = 'esc_html__( 'No Topics', 'bbpress' );};
    ?>
</p>
		
<?php
echo apply_filters( 'bbp_get_post_time', $anchor, $forum_id, $time_since, $link_url, $title, $active_id );
?>

Topics list:

<p class="bbp-topic-meta">
    <span class="bbp-topic-freshness-author"><?php bbp_author_link(array('post_id =>bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(),'size'=>14)); ?></span>
        <?php
	$topic_id   = bbp_get_topic_id();
	$reply_id   = bbp_get_topic_last_reply_id();
	$title      = bbp_get_topic_last_reply_title( $topic_id );
	$link_url   = bbp_get_topic_last_reply_url( $topic_id );
	$date   = get_post_time( 'd/m/Y', $gmt, $reply_id, true );
	$anchor = '<a href="'.esc_url($link_url).'" title="'.esc_attr($title).'">'.esc_html($date).'</a>';
	echo apply_filters( 'bbp_get_topic_freshness_link', $anchor, $reply_id, $result, $link_url, $title );	
	?>
</p>

As you can see, I didn’t hook anything already. So far I just got rid of the “bbp_topic_freshness_link()” in the templates and simply replaced the initial function by these lines, just to make a test. I still have to make a function out of these.

Not happy with this mess as I’m sure it’s more complicated that it should be, but it works.

Thank you for your guidance koendb!

[tajenli]

I installed bbPress on Customizr theme. It’s supposed to show a list of forums in a table view. But all forum title becomes plain (no link) & stacks up like no format.
http://tajenli.org/wp01/forums/
Other forum page works just fine:
http://tajenli.org/wp01/forums/forum/web-developers/
I am not sure this is bbPress issue, or the theme issue. But I have tried it on other themes, like 2013, 2012, and elegant themes, all works just fine.

Could you help? If I can’t solve this issue, which means I have to change the theme. That won’t make my life easy.

Thanks,
Darren

[bhomis]

How do I add some padding to the left and right of the words “log out”?
bhomis

[Marcosbcn]

Hello

I installed bbpress but the forum comes close by the presence of the sidebar, how can eliminate the sidebar to the full width of the page is for the forum?

Regards

Mark

[uncertain143]

Hi,

I have this forum page Im having problem with the appearance. The forum section looks compressed and prob is the sidebar has a fixed area, so Im thinking if I could customize the size of the forum section. The page has a fullwidth template, everytime I deactivate bbPress, the sidebar disappears but whenever I activate it, it comes back again, maybe because there’s a sidebar call function in bbpress?

So by inspecting the elements, the column where it shows the forums has a size of 390px by 27px, is it possible to reduce the width to, lets say, 300px by 27px so that the Topics, Posts and Freshness columns moves closer to the left. This would align the elements below to their correct columns.

Thank you!

[CezKrol]

Hi there,

I want to open my website for discussions other than just about our articles. Therefore, I would like to allow unregistered users to create topics and write replies without the need to register (that’s already done). To encourage posting, I want the avatars and names to link (no-follow) to their own blogs. I’ve spent 5 hours trying to do this. I’d be very grateful if someone could help.

Thanks,
Cez

Link to forum: http://etramping.com/forum
Wordpress version: 3.7
BBpress version: 2.4.1

[oprcsingapore]

thanks markafoote , as none techy guy i did not know how to apply your suggestion which worked for me.

once i activated the bbpress, I made a new page and pasted “[bbp-forum-index]” in the body of the page, then press published, at last after 2 days of trying and searching it worked.

I dont know why this step is totally ignored by all the youtube clips i saw of how to install bbpress

from what i understand the forum needs a page to show the forums and topics
hope this helps others

[Stephen Edgar]

Onto the ‘other’ bits of your last post.

For the most part the standard /wp-admin/users.php user admin dashboard panel is ‘enough’ to get day to day tasks done for ‘most’ situations as it does have search (top right) to make this usable.

The delete users wp-admin/users.php?action=delete&user=123 is all WordPress and bbPress does not alter this behaviour though as you state it would be nice if this could be improved for sites with large user bases. To resolve this we will have to wait until WordPress implements some changes here.

None of the bbPress widgets do this Widgets – the list of users is loaded under one or more widgets

So yes, these things are not just under consideration they are actively thought about constantly and we have tried to keep from implementing this pain in bbPress, but for now until we can get some changes upstream in WordPress core some of this pain will remain.

As I mentioned above on the ‘clobber-spam-users’ plugin I mentioned this plugin as it is not very complex and could be modified to ‘help’ with your cleaning up of 17,000 users topics & replies.

[Stephen Edgar]

Stephen, I don’t think I ever said I had a handful of users. The actual number is over 17,000

This snippet from your original post was the only context I was referring to for the ‘handful’ term so that even though the experience is painful it will get THIS part of your job done as long as you are not trying to do this for 17,000 users.

A way to delete users an reattribute their posts/topics/replies to another user (mainly for a handful of folks who already had accounts on the WordPress side before migrating vBulletin over)

[koendb]

This should get you started: bbp_get_reply_post_date on sourcexref

I feel the same way. It’s great how much work is being put into this plugin, but the support isn’t great. And finding out what information is still valid for the current bbpress version is sometimes difficult.

But in general: you could google every function and after a few days you’re used to and can guess the very logical named function names.

Good luck. (and keep me updated)

[baylock]

Please guys, this is not something trivial.

I tried to work it out but I couldn’t as there is not a single post around here answering that and there is nowhere I can find a comprehensive list and description of the BBPress functions.

All BBpress functions I happened to find that are related to the dates are displaying them in a sophisticated way, there is none I could find that just displays the date in its simplest form.
I tried to “date()” and “strtotime()” every single variable I could find but with no success.

There are posts telling how to use flat dates around here but these posts are very old (4 years..) and they make use of functions that don’t exist anymore.
There was supposed to be a plugin for that but this plugin doesn’t exist anymore neither.
And the more recent questions about this issue are just not answered.

I hope this will not be taken the wrong way: I’m very grateful for this plugin and for all the people working on it. Really. I just don’t know how to move on with an unanswered question and some outdated answers.

PS: I asked you how to get the latest post date in the forum list view but now, I also (and mainly) need to know how to achieve this in the topic list view and posts view as they are not documented neither.
Long story short: how to get real dates everywhere!

It’s been two days and I’m still in the dark. If it’s there somewhere, my bad, but please be assured that, as obvious as it might be, I tried my best.

Thank you very much for your help.

[Nova]

Hello

A forum without inline attachments to display image etc. is not really a forum and can’t really be used (nobody wants to go to imageshack etc. to upload images, they do it just because they are forced). I saw people asking for that since almost 5 years (each time i type “inline image bbpress” on google it returns messages from 4-5 years of people asking this feature and wondering why it”s not included).
Even classifieds from WPMUdev, which is a wordpress plugin allow to uplad images within classifieds, so why not bbpress? And the better is that they allow this through access to wordpress media library via FRONT END ACCESS (which is great because nobody wants his users to have access to wp-admin backend. and that what you upload, even if it’s on the wordpress media library can’t be seen by others memebrs, so nobody can “still” image”.

So will you finally include the front-end upload of inline images into bbpress? And if yes, when can we be excepted it? Any time soon?

Thanks

[Martyn_]

My users have lost their edit button (bbp-topic-edit) during the move to 2.4.1 (admins can still see the edit link)…

[baylock]

I answered to the post of @tansu (called “Theme issues”).
I just began using BBpress so I’m not a BBPress savvy but I had this part working.
I hope it will help you both.

[baylock]

There are two ways for achieving what you need and it took me quite a long time to figure it out too:

1) You create a child theme just like you did but what I didn’t know is that, after doing it (not forgetting to declare the parent template and the “@import” path accordingly in the css file located inside your child theme folder), you NEED to activate the child theme in your theme section of your WordPress admin. This last part is the one I didn’t know about, which is why it didn’t work at first.

2) the easier and a little more messier technique is straight forward:
Just write your custom BBpress css styles at the end of your main theme css file. It’ll work.
And if you need to change the bbpress template files, just copy the needed files inside your main WordPress theme folder and make the changes there. These files will overwrite the default ones that are in the original bbpress template folder. As simple as that

Both will work and will not be a problem in case of a WordPress or BBpres update.
The first technique is to be preferred because you will gather your BBpress children files within a same recognizable folder when the second technique will blend the BBpress children files among the ones of your main theme. Not to mention that if you decide later to switch the WordPress theme, you will have to extract the bbpress children files and styles from the previous WordPress theme to put them in the the new one.
But ultimately, the result will be the same.

Hope it helped.

[tansu]

I think noone understands this new themeing bull..t

[koendb]

To me it seems it all works perfectly. Just add
.two_third { width: 100%; }

to your .css file