I installed bbpress on my website http://www.ethansenglishcafe.com/ and the forum is working fine, I was in process of styling it when I noticed all my websites other pages are no longer found. They are all there in the Pages admin section but none will show when I go to the url. If I disable bbpress in the Plugin menu the pages all work fine again.
I assume I’m doing something really foolish, is this a permalinks problem or something (using postname style for my site)?
content.php seems like a weird place to be swapping an image, is this a header image or something?
From the way you’ve worded it I think maybe you need an if else statement around the specific image?
if( is_bbpress() ) {
// bbpress image
} else {
// default image
}
Is that the issue? If not, could you describe a bit more what you’re expecting to happen and what is happening instead please? It could also be that you actually need a BuddyPress if call rather than bb.
Thanks much for the pointer re genesis extend plugin.
Will give it a whirl.
Meanwhile, relying on the good ole bbpress-threaded-replies plugin.
It appears that it could be this bug which is fixed for 2.4.1 but not yet released: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2429
Perhaps try patching with the change (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5109) and see if it works.
You’d need to ask the Genesis folks about bbPress compatibility 🙂 Are you using https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/ ? No idea if it’d help though.
Hello,
I am using WordPress with bbPress(2.4) an buddyPress(1.8.1).
Trying to change the image when I am in the forum.
Trying it with : <?php if ( is_bbPress() ) : ?> in my content.php under my theme…
No effect !
Are there other ways to change the appearance?
Greetings,
Tobias
I have resort to one solution… I think that this error is related with the use of child themes but my knowledge has not let me to go deeper.
The issue is that when bbpress uses single-topic-edit.php on my child theme, it crashes.
“single-topic-edit.php” uses “bbp_get_template_part( ‘form’, ‘topic’ )” and “form-topic.php” calls “bbp_the_content( array( ‘context’ => ‘topic’ ) )” wich I do not know why return the hole html page.
if I withdraw single-topic-edit.php from my template and put its content into php within the apropriate conditional: “if($wp_query->bbp_is_topic_edit):” it runs ok.
I know that it is not an acceptable solution but it is the only one I got.
Thanks again,
Thanks for this. I have had a go this morning and tried adding a bbpress.php duplicate of several different files (index, post, page..) none of which seemed to make a difference.
Apparently the Customizr theme structure is a little complex and the theme is split in parts, i can’t say i understand all that much but that seems to be the problem!
At least for now i have gone with a function which removes the “forums” breadcrumb and prevents linking to that page which i have replaced with the static page containing shortcodes.
bbPress pagination not working to my site – Really appreciate if you could help. http://giaitri60s.mobi/forums.
I set up 10 topics and 10 replies per page – but nothing happened!
It took a little longer than usual for the 2.4.x branch to go up:
If you find some obvious translations missing in the 2.3.x branch try the /dev branch as this is also ‘typically’ updated for most languages and you could also install the Dutch translations from there.
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev
Unchecking Discourage search engines option does fix my issue as well. Site wide forum activity is shown in activity streams on doing so.
You’re welcome, enjoy 🙂
You are a life saver, thanks again for all your help!
Pick the template you want to use and make a copy of it called bbpress.php (in your child theme folder) and bbPress will figure out the rest.
My wordpress page has a few php page templates, the bbpress is using the default one, where would i change it to one of the others?
Wonderful! I have activated the child theme and all is well! Thanks much for your help!
THanks :), I’ll double check it and give it a shot!
Your child theme needs to call your normal WordPress theme as its parent. It will then use your normal theme and add your child theme customisations on top.
If you have followed the instructions there, especially Step 5 (including the bit where it tells you to follow the ones here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) then activating the theme should still use your normal theme as well.
I have followed this guide http://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/
to create a child theme containing the default bbpress theme files. It appears in my wordpress admin CP themes but I don’t see how this lets me apply it to only the bbpress.
If I were to make it active it would retheme my entire wordpress site.
The breadcrumb uses the default Forum Index even if you use a shortcode to display your forum so it will always link back to the automatically created Forum Index.
If you only need the shortcode method because of the template problem then let’s fix the template so you don’t need the shortcode.
From: https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/
On a plain vanilla install of bbPress using a “normal” wordpress theme, the plugin looks for the following templates from the active wordpress theme and “injects” the forum into (i guess) the first one it finds:
‘plugin-bbpress.php’,
‘bbpress.php’,
‘forums.php’,
‘forum.php’,
‘generic.php’,
‘page.php’
I’m guessing your theme doesn’t have one of those so bbPress appears to be using some kind of archive template.
You need to give bbPress a theme template to hook into. In your theme folder (or in a child theme if you want to do auto-updates with your theme) create a bbpress.php template, you can probably just create a duplicate of one of your theme templates and change its name.
Here’s my bbpress.php template: http://pastebin.com/ZquKQfmw (Adept is my theme name, hence @package Adept). I took my theme’s full width template and duplicated it, called it bbpress.php then changed the header information. bbPress will figure out the rest.
Running the latest versions:
WordPress: 3.6.1
BBPress: 2.4
It is best not to make changes to the bbPress core files because they will be lost when you update. The same for your theme files unless it’s already a custom theme. The best way is with a Child Theme.
In your theme folder (or preferably, child theme), create a subfolder called css with a file called bbpress.css so you have /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/css/bbpress.css
The last rule defined overrides any previous, conflicting rules so this file will make your styles the last rules. See if it works then and if it still doesn’t then check for what is overwriting it – because something is.
(Specificity is usually the reason why your CSS doesn’t work the way you think it should. If there are styles in your code that are more specific, they will win. There is a good article on specificity at Smashing Mag.)
Sounds like you want some sort of membership plugin, have a look at https://wordpress.org/plugins/
Something like https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/ or https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/ might do what you want but there are lots of different WordPress plugins for this, just check for one that is recently updated and compatible with bbpress.
It’s not loading but I’m pretty sure that is a custom theme. You can see how other people are approaching this here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forums-index-in-the-same-layout-as-other-bb-software/
You can see news about it in the trac thread that was linked earlier, this enhancement has now been moved to 2.6: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1958
You can also see how other people are achieving this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forums-index-in-the-same-layout-as-other-bb-software/
