[hydrogriff]

The current support bbPress has a neat theme. It will be helpful if we can refer it for the best practices and customization. I searched and could not find the source code for the forum’s theme or WordPress’s support theme. Where to find it? Is it open source?

[hydrogriff]

My bbPress installation is customized a little and has subscribe and favourite buttons in a different place. Since 2.6 extra favourite and subscribe links are appearing in the lead topic header. Is there a way to remove the default ones and keep the ones generated by <?php bbp_topic_favorite_link();?> and <?php bbp_topic_subscription_link(); ?>?

[Robin W]

ok, so you could use

Private groups

then when you set up each forum ‘I put the Forum creating shortcode on a page.’ you could also set up a group for the forum, add the creator as a member and give him permission to create topics.

It is a but labor intensive, but would work.

How many forums are you planning ?

[theicebooky]

I use User Role Editor to allow subscriber to add Forums. Then, I put the Forum creating shortcode on a page.

I’m using bbpress not buddypress.

However, I want to restrict the Topic creator to only be able to create a Topic inside of the Forum they created. Is there a way to do that?? Thanks!!

[Robin W]

ok, try this instead

#bbpress-forums ul.forum-titles li.bbp-forum-info
			{
				font-size:  10px !important ;
			}
		 
			#bbpress-forums ul.forum-titles li.bbp-forum-topic-count{
				font-size: 10px !important ;
			}

			#bbpress-forums ul.forum-titles li.bbp-forum-reply-count{
				font-size:  10px !important ;

			}

			#bbpress-forums ul.forum-titles li.bbp-forum-freshness{
				font-size:  10px !important ;
			}

[Chuckie]

In an attempt to manually indicate that a given forum has sub forums I added the following to the forum description:

Have you found a bug in the Midweek Editor? Or do you have a suggestion for a new feature? Then this is the forum to use. Sub forums: <a href="https://www.publictalksoftware.co.uk/support-forums/forum/meeting-schedule-assistant/midweek-editor/midweek-editor-styles/"><em>Custom Templates</em></a>, <a href="https://www.publictalksoftware.co.uk/support-forums/forum/meeting-schedule-assistant/midweek-editor/sample-midweek-editor-styles/"><em>Custom Templates – Samples</em></a>, <a href="https://www.publictalksoftware.co.uk/support-forums/forum/meeting-schedule-assistant/midweek-editor/monthly-workbook-information/"><em>Monthly Workbook Information</em></a>

It works. The problem is if I add new lines into the description they get stripped.

[dotplus]

Hi Robin,

If I put it in the CSS section of my theme it doesn’t work. Is there another place where I can put this code? Thanks!

[mvaneijgen]

Sadly I had to publish my site with the old 2.5.x I’ve managed this by changing the version number of the plugin in bbpress.php and readme.txt to some insane version number which will never be hit in the near future.

I would still love some pointers on how to implement the pagination of treaded replies, which works with the hack for 2.5.x version of bbpress.

[Chuckie]

According to the trac it states:

Add bbp-has-subforums if forum has subforums

Why am I not seeing this class present in the latest version of bbPress 2.6.4?

[Chuckie]

I saw this discussion:

a way to check for subforums

It implied it was fixed in bbpress 2.1:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1803

But I don’t get it.

This is a sub forum with child forums:

<a class="bbp-forum-title" href="https://www.publictalksoftware.co.uk/support-forums/forum/meeting-schedule-assistant/midweek-editor/">Midweek Editor</a>

This is a forum with no child forums:

<a class="bbp-forum-title" href="https://www.publictalksoftware.co.uk/support-forums/forum/meeting-schedule-assistant/assignments-editor/">Assignments Editor</a>

As you can see, the code is exactly the same. I understood from the associated discussion that the forum with child forums would have a additional class specified so that we could use pseudo before / after to add a symbol to indicate it is a forum with sub forums.

Or do I have to go about this differently?

I am using bbp style pack.

Thanks for shedding any light on this.

[Chuckie]

I found some links about this with custom code but I don’t know how reliable that is because someone spoke about getting a white screen.

I think I would be happy just to have some kind of symbol next to the forum to indicate it has sub-forums. That would be less code requirement and might be able to be part of bbp style pack as an option?

[Robin W]

try

.bbp-header {
font-size : 10px ;
}

[Oxibug]

Hey Guyes,

This issue because you are using this function [bbp_list_forums] in [loop-single-forum.php] with old (2.5.0) default args array in your active theme.

You must use [bbp_get_forum_id()] in function’s args, So try to find this function inside the active theme and change the value of the [forum_id] argument.

bbp_list_forums( array(
    'before'            => '<ul class="bbp-forums-list">',
    'after'             => '</ul>',
    'link_before'       => '<li class="bbp-forum">',
    'link_after'        => '</li>',
    'count_before'      => ' (',
    'count_after'       => ')',
    'count_sep'         => ', ',
    'sep'               => '',
    'forum_id'          => bbp_get_forum_id(), /* Fix for bbPv2.6.3 */
    'show_topic_count'  => true,
    'show_reply_count'  => true 
) );

Hope it helps.

[Oxibug]

Hey Guys,
Since bbPress v2.6.4 undefined variable message appears in both admin and frontend pages

Notice: Undefined variable: topic_id in [PATH]\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\replies\template.php on line 456

Notice: Undefined variable: topic_id in [PATH]\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\replies\template.php on line 461

Notice: Undefined variable: topic_id in [PATH]\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\replies\template.php on line 467

I found variable [topic_id] inside two if statements in function [bbp_get_reply_url] so I think that you should move the variable definition in the function scope not inside the if.

If you google that [undefined variable: topic_id replies\template.php] you will find that a lot of online forums using bbPress generate that error in the front-end pages.

P.S. some people taking about BuddyPress but I think it should be fixed in the bbPress functions.

Thanks

[haddly]

@robin-w
The reason that it is dequeued is that it was built that way by the software company that built our theme. This, I assume, was so that the forum would look like the rest of our site.
My issue, by adding the ($args) arguments (to that snippet of code) and by removing that one line of CSS has now resolved this issue completely.
Thank you!

[1ef501b557]

you can use this code :
*/
class phpBB extends BBP_Converter_Base {

/**
* Main Constructor
*
*/
public function __construct() {
parent::__construct();
}

/**
* Sets up the field mappings
*/
public function setup_globals() {

// Setup smiley URL & path
$this->bbcode_parser_properties = array(
‘smiley_url’ => false,
‘smiley_dir’ => false
);

/** Forum Section *****************************************************/

// Old forum id (Stored in postmeta)
$this->field_map[] = array(
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forums’,
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘forum_id’,
‘to_type’ => ‘forum’,
‘to_fieldname’ => ‘_bbp_old_forum_id’
);

// Forum parent id (If no parent, then 0, Stored in postmeta)
$this->field_map[] = array(
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forums’,
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘parent_id’,
‘to_type’ => ‘forum’,
‘to_fieldname’ => ‘_bbp_old_forum_parent_id’
);

// Forum topic count (Stored in postmeta)
$this->field_map[] = array(
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forums’,
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘forum_topics’,
‘to_type’ => ‘forum’,
‘to_fieldname’ => ‘_bbp_topic_count’
);

[haddly]

I have it dequeued in my functions.php file:
wp_dequeue_style( 'bbp-default' );

[haddly]

@robin-w, @hydrogriff:
Hi, for me, the CSS styling issue is definitely a theme problem. In my styles.css file I have additional CSS for the styling of BBpress forum.
#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {font-size: 11px;}
I simply removed this line (font-size) from my style sheet and the standard BBPress kicked in.

[hydrogriff]

Regarding the first code, you are right. This dequeues bbPress related style-sheets for most of the users who don’t visit forum page.

The second code highlights the lead topic, like it does on this forum. I used the code from the codex.

[chickencurry]

Dear Robin,

thanks for coming up with a solution but this is not working for me. Because of two reasons, if I create a page for every forum (and subforum I am using), I don’t have real forum overview anymore.

The second reason is, I am using BuddyPress, where people can create facebook like groups. Those groups will get there own forum, which won’t appear on the site if I do it this way.

So it looks like I have to do some tweaks to the code that adds topic title to the output. Honestly it’s really weird that bbPress is behaving like this. I’ve never seen a forum that doesn’t show a titles on the front page.

[Robin W]

ok it is showing what I would expect.

topics are shown only when you go into each forum which is standard bbpress behavior.

If you would like all the forums listed with titles, then create a WordPress page for your firums and put a list of forums in it as shortcode

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] – Display a single forums topics. eg. [bbp-single-forum id=32]

so for instance out this on a page

[bbp-single-forum id=32]
[bbp-single-forum id=33]
[bbp-single-forum id=34]

.

[Robin W]

this is theme specific issue, so could be many things.

you could try

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

item 3 method 2, that might force your theme to use a page name

[Robin W]

and this one tends to suggest that your theme or anther plugin is doing stuff with the replies side of bbpress

//Lead Topic Enable
function custom_bbp_show_lead_topic( $show_lead ) {
  $show_lead[] = 'true';
  return $show_lead;
} 
add_filter('bbp_show_lead_topic', 'custom_bbp_show_lead_topic' );

[Robin W]

looked in pastebin.

I’m not sure what this function is there for, except possibly to speed up site display if they have not accessed the forum part ?

function dequeue_bbpress_style() {
    if ( class_exists('bbPress') ) {
      if ( ! is_bbpress() ) {
        wp_dequeue_style('bbp-default');
        wp_dequeue_style( 'bbp_private_replies_style');
        wp_dequeue_script('bbpress-editor');
      }
    }
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'dequeue_bbpress_style', 99 );

it does tend to suggest that you have bbp_private_replies enabled ???

[Robin W]

The best solution is to clone this widget and then amend.

so put this in your functions.php

It creates a duplicate login widget, but you’ll find it in dashboard>appearance>widgets called
(mat) login Widget. You can then add your code to this version

function register_mat_login_widget() {
    register_widget("MAT_Login_Widget");

}

add_action('widgets_init', 'register_mat_login_widget');

class MAT_Login_Widget extends WP_Widget {

	/**
	 * MAT Login Widget amended
	 *
	 */
	public function __construct() {
		$widget_ops = apply_filters( 'mat_login_widget_options', array(
			'classname'                   => 'mat_widget_login',
			'description'                 => esc_html__( 'A simple login form with optional links to sign-up and lost password pages.', 'bbpress' ),
			'customize_selective_refresh' => true
		) );

		parent::__construct( false, esc_html__( '(mat) Login Widget', 'bbpress' ), $widget_ops );
	}

	/**
	 * Register the widget
	 *
	 *
	 */
	public static function register_widget() {
		register_widget( 'MAT_Login_Widget' );
	}

	/**
	 * Displays the output, the login form
	 *
	 * 
	 * @param array $args Arguments
	 * @param array $instance Instance
	 */
	public function widget( $args = array(), $instance = array() ) {

		// Get widget settings
		$settings = $this->parse_settings( $instance );

		// Typical WordPress filter
		$settings['title'] = apply_filters( 'widget_title', $settings['title'], $instance, $this->id_base );

		// mat filters
		$settings['title']    = apply_filters( 'mat_login_widget_title',    $settings['title'],    $instance, $this->id_base );
		$settings['register'] = apply_filters( 'mat_login_widget_register', $settings['register'], $instance, $this->id_base );
		$settings['lostpass'] = apply_filters( 'mat_login_widget_lostpass', $settings['lostpass'], $instance, $this->id_base );

		echo $args['before_widget'];

		if ( ! empty( $settings['title'] ) ) {
			echo $args['before_title'] . $settings['title'] . $args['after_title'];
		}

		if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>

			<form method="post" action="<?php bbp_wp_login_action( array( 'context' => 'login_post' ) ); ?>" class="bbp-login-form">
				<fieldset class="bbp-form">
					<legend><?php esc_html_e( 'Log In', 'bbpress' ); ?></legend>

					<div class="bbp-username">
						<label for="user_login"><?php esc_html_e( 'Username', 'bbpress' ); ?>: </label>
						<input type="text" name="log" value="<?php bbp_sanitize_val( 'user_login', 'text' ); ?>" size="20" maxlength="100" id="user_login" autocomplete="off" />
					</div>

					<div class="bbp-password">
						<label for="user_pass"><?php esc_html_e( 'Password', 'bbpress' ); ?>: </label>
						<input type="password" name="pwd" value="<?php bbp_sanitize_val( 'user_pass', 'password' ); ?>" size="20" id="user_pass" autocomplete="off" />
					</div>

					<div class="bbp-remember-me">
						<input type="checkbox" name="rememberme" value="forever" <?php checked( bbp_get_sanitize_val( 'rememberme', 'checkbox' ) ); ?> id="rememberme" />
						<label for="rememberme"><?php esc_html_e( 'Keep me signed in', 'bbpress' ); ?></label>
					</div>

					<?php do_action( 'login_form' ); ?>

					<div class="bbp-submit-wrapper">

						<button type="submit" name="user-submit" id="user-submit" class="button submit user-submit"><?php esc_html_e( 'Log In', 'bbpress' ); ?></button>

						<?php bbp_user_login_fields(); ?>

					</div>

					<?php if ( ! empty( $settings['register'] ) || ! empty( $settings['lostpass'] ) ) : ?>

						<div class="bbp-login-links">

							<?php if ( ! empty( $settings['register'] ) ) : ?>

								<a href="<?php echo esc_url( $settings['register'] ); ?>" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Register', 'bbpress' ); ?>" class="bbp-register-link"><?php esc_html_e( 'Register', 'bbpress' ); ?></a>

							<?php endif; ?>

							<?php if ( ! empty( $settings['lostpass'] ) ) : ?>

								<a href="<?php echo esc_url( $settings['lostpass'] ); ?>" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Lost Password', 'bbpress' ); ?>" class="bbp-lostpass-link"><?php esc_html_e( 'Lost Password', 'bbpress' ); ?></a>

							<?php endif; ?>

						</div>

					<?php endif; ?>

				</fieldset>
			</form>

		<?php else : ?>

			<div class="bbp-logged-in">
				<a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>" class="submit user-submit"><?php echo get_avatar( bbp_get_current_user_id(), '40' ); ?></a>
				<h4><?php bbp_user_profile_link( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?></h4>

				<?php bbp_logout_link(); ?>
			</div>

		<?php endif;

		echo $args['after_widget'];
	}

	/**
	 * Update the login widget options
	 *
	 * 
	 * @param array $new_instance The new instance options
	 * @param array $old_instance The old instance options
	 */
	public function update( $new_instance, $old_instance ) {
		$instance             = $old_instance;
		$instance['title']    = strip_tags( $new_instance['title'] );
		$instance['register'] = esc_url_raw( $new_instance['register'] );
		$instance['lostpass'] = esc_url_raw( $new_instance['lostpass'] );

		return $instance;
	}

	/**
	 * Output the login widget options form
	 *
	 * 
	 * @param $instance Instance
	 */
	public function form( $instance = array() ) {

		// Get widget settings
		$settings = $this->parse_settings( $instance ); ?>

		<p>
			<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'title' ); ?>"><?php esc_html_e( 'Title:', 'bbpress' ); ?>
			<input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'title' ); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'title' ); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo esc_attr( $settings['title'] ); ?>" /></label>
		</p>

		<p>
			<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'register' ); ?>"><?php esc_html_e( 'Register URI:', 'bbpress' ); ?>
			<input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'register' ); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'register' ); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo esc_url( $settings['register'] ); ?>" /></label>
		</p>

		<p>
			<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'lostpass' ); ?>"><?php esc_html_e( 'Lost Password URI:', 'bbpress' ); ?>
			<input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'lostpass' ); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'lostpass' ); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo esc_url( $settings['lostpass'] ); ?>" /></label>
		</p>

		<?php
	}

	/**
	 * Merge the widget settings into defaults array.
	 *
	 * @since 2.3.0 bbPress (r4802)
	 *
	 * @param $instance Instance
	 */
	public function parse_settings( $instance = array() ) {
		return bbp_parse_args( $instance, array(
			'title'    => '',
			'register' => '',
			'lostpass' => ''
		), 'login_widget_settings' );
	}
}