I have a follow up question on the above topic. In the old BB we had each topic showed with a short summary field of the post content (usually just the first X characters of the content). Is there a way to do that with bbPress Forum topics? I do not see any existing widget that does this. In fact, is there even a field mapping for such a thing?
In WordPress terms this is known as ‘the_excerpt’ and is a function that will only show ‘x’ words of a post, this is not something you can transfer, it is a ‘display’ function in WordPress.
Oops, forgot another item. I want to bring in topic tags as well. How do I do that.
These are a little tricky mainly because understanding how they are implemented in WordPress is not an easy task as they are distributed throughout three tables.
Upload a csv file to http://gist.github.com or http://pastebin.com with a couple of examples of how your data currently has ‘tags’ associated to the topics and I will try to come up with something that is a little clearer than mud for you 😉
Hey, hopefully this is a simple fix.
I have identified a simple change I want to make to BBpress CSS:
div.bbp-breadcrumb {
float: left;
display:none;
}
I have disabled breadcrumbs globally on my site and also on the individual forum page but that did not work, so I went to try and change the BBpress CSS to achieve what I wanted.
Using any browsers inspect element feature, I can go into the CSS, enter the above alteration and it does exactly what I want…. herein lies the problem. I am using a custom theme (Jupiter) and general bbpress functionality is fine. However, entering the above CSS alteration into the themes stylesheets does nothing. So I tried to go a little further and I went directly to the BBpress CSS file and made the above alteration and saved…
Here is the strange thing, the BBpress CSS file has been altered correctly (I downloaded it to my desktop to confirm) but for some reason, the change is not being reflected on the forums on my site – When I inspect element, the alteration to the breadcrumbs is not being recognised and its as if it is continuing to load an old version of the CSS file. I have used various browsers, deleted my cache etc but nothing seems to work…
Any ideas?
Hellop,
this is a very good thread.
I would also like to see such a hierarchal feature on the next bbpress release.
Any news about this?
regards
I am not sure how to do the patch. I thought that I just replaced the old with the new, but when I did I ended up with an error and had to restore in order to be able to see the site at all. Maybe I don’t understand.
You have a template css conflict, problems are in your theme css and not in bbpress css.
First DIV not have a class called “reply” and not present issue, other post are a reply and have this class..
a.reply have problems with bbpress css.. You must to open your template css and remove line with issue.. But.. if you remove this line, you may have problems with other parts of your entire site.
Italiano: Hai un problema con il css del template che richiama classi che sono presenti anche in bbpress, devi sistemare il css del tema, però devi stare attento perchè modificando quello potresti incorrere in problemi ad altre parti del sito!! Inoltre il tuo sito è molto ma molto lento… forse è il caso che cambi template!!
Thanks for your answer,but which css,where i can found ? css of bbpress ? this ?
httpdocs / wp-content / plugins / bbpress / templates / default / css / bbpress.css ?
For example, when I go to the support forums for bbPress I see a widget on the left that lists links for tags that have appeared in the forums/posts. How would get that?
Sorry about the multiple messages.
Oops, forgot another item. I want to bring in topic tags as well. How do I do that.
thanks
Hello Stephen,
I have a follow up question on the above topic. In the old BB we had each topic showed with a short summary field of the post content (usually just the first X characters of the content). Is there a way to do that with bbPress Forum topics? I do not see any existing widget that does this. In fact, is there even a field mapping for such a thing?
thanks,
Mike
Hello,
i am going to build a forum with bbpress, i already have a genesis license,
i saw the genesis layout extras plugin mentioned in the plugin section but after looking at
the details i wanted to ask a question :-
what are the benefits of Genesis layout extras ?
and which is used as the child theme if any ? Genesis or bbpress ?
many thanks for your response
You are right niuserre, let me apologize,
As far as I am aware, we are not using shortcodes (we have not created any page for showing the forums but using directly the templates and urls filled on the settings).
I am working with a tweenty twelve child theme. My wordpreses version 3.6.1. My bbpress: Version 2.4 localized to spanish.
The exact issue is that whenever I try to edit a written post, raw html appears in the text area for editing. The html that appears is not only the one corresponding to the content of the reply i would like to edit.
It comprises also the breadcrums and much more tags and content of the page. Exactly inside the editor appears all the content inside the <div class=”entry-content”> tag (this element is the parent of<div id=”bbpress-forums”>).
I do not what that can be related with…
Thank you for your time,
For those saying they have the same thing, please can you be more specific to help identify the problem?
So versions and theme being used plus the steps you take to produce the error (imagine you’re talking someone on the phone through how to get the same problem you did so they can see it too, imagine they’re not good at this stuff so you have to be really obvious about everything).
Also, are you using bbpress shortcodes in a page to display your forums or not?
You took them from https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.4.x ?
It says Dutch is 0% complete therefore there are no translations in those files, just the framework for future translations.
Hey there,
This is about a WordPress installation with bbPress installed as a plugin.
The WordPress language is Dutch, also accordiong to the wp-config.php file.
On this website we downloaded the languagepack for dutch language, I exported it as .mo and named it bbpress-nl_NL.mo and it is uploaded to /wp-content/languages/bbpress/
I downloaded the right version ( 2.4 ), the wp-config is configurated dutch and I do not understand why the language of bbpress in font and backend is still english.
The backend doesn’t really matter, but since it is a dutch website it would be weird to have an english forum.
Does anyone know what we did wrong?
Thanks a lot for your answer!
Unfortunately for me I do not have the Topic info anywhere (is that a widget? Where can I get that?)…
The only thing I have is a “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” tick box under the reply box, like the one on this page.
I do not think it is the theme because I never saw those links before and I changed theme two three times since I am using bbpress :/
Hello everyone!
I am using buddypress V1.8.1 with a bbpress V2.4.
It seems that I have a fairly simple question but I just cannot seems to find the answer anywhere.
How do we unsubscribe to a topic? Is it completely necessary to post a reply in order to unsubscribe or can I find a button somewhere on the thread to just unsubscribe?
Any help will be greatly appreciated 🙂
Best regards, and thanks for those awesome plugins!
Emmanuel
I’m just a user but I think you need to create a new template in your theme (or child theme) directory called single-user.php
If you have that then the user profile page will use that template.
You can find an example of this template in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/extras
To do this I would:
- Create a child theme of my current theme if I did not already have one.
- Create a sub-folder in there called bbpress.
- Copy the single-user.php file from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/extras into my new /themename/bbpress folder.
- Edit the file.
This template also calls other parts from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bpress which you might also want to modify, in which case you would also copy some other files across for editing. I think it calls content-single-user.php which then calls user-details.php etc.
Can someone point me to the update procedure? The automatic update doesn’t show on my plugin page.
Hi,
Anyone know how to call the profile from the bbpress user profile to a custom page template? Tried a few pieces of code and searched this site but having no luck! Would appreciate any advice…
I told them about those titles a month ago and thought it would have been fixed by now. It’s a pretty serious problem if you rely on traffic from the search engines.
Yep – I’ve just installed an old version of BBPress and it’s working – I’ve got a default forum again.
It’s also fixed the bug where page meta titles don’t work on WordPress blog posts.
Just finished up going from bbPress 1.0.1 to 1.2 to 2.4. Importing everything seems to have gone fine, though when viewing a forum it shows 1 post for each topic (when there are many more than 1 post).
Wondering if anyone has encountered this? I’ve done the recounts in the tools (after deleting much spam).
Biggest reason it is an issue is for the ‘freshness’ aspect; it is not updated after a post since it has each topic with only 1 post (in turn, it shows the most recent topic instead of most recent post).
Thanks.
Just finished up going from bbPress 1.0.1 to 1.2 to 2.4. Importing everything seems to have gone fine, though when viewing a forum it shows 1 post for each topic (when there are many more than 1 post).
Wondering if anyone has encountered this? I’ve done the recounts in the tools (after deleting much spam). http://www.lordyuanshu.com/forums/forum/destiny-of-an-emperor
Biggest reason it is an issue is for the ‘freshness’ aspect; it is not updated after a post since it has each topic with only 1 post (in turn, it shows the most recent topic instead of most recent post).
Thanks.
This is exactly what I’m talking about. I also remember having a default forum in a previous version of the bbPress plugin, but this may just be wishful thinking.
I’d like this too. For some reason there was a default in my previous bbpress site, but in the latest installation, I have ‘No Forum’ selected.
Any way we can change this?
