[Robin W]

Ow!! Sorry – believe it or not, that is the first time anyone has tried that !!

I’ve coded a fix for the next release that will stop that happening in future.

Can you tell me where you are adding those snippets? I’m more dubious on the first, but the second should work.

[Robin W]

ok, I think the first is your theme, but try adding this to the custom css

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-content, #bbpress-forums p.bbp-reply-content {
    color: #1e73be !important;
}

and also add this for the Reply to :

.entry-content fieldset legend {
    color: #fff !important;
    }

[james8181]

Hi Robin,

I have been trying to persevere with this but i am having problems styling this still. I used the parts from the codex to style the background as below, and that is working nicely.

/*1 Forum Header and Footer*/
/*2 Reply header*/
/*3. Template notice info*/
(also manually changed the background color of the reply form)

Everything past that up to 8 does not take effect. I would like to just have all of the text in the forum as black as it is currently white on white. My theme settings for text are set to black so i am not sure why it does not inherit this.

I have tried manually changing each element on there but nothing takes effect (tried prefixing them all with #bbpress-forums like your snippets too). IF you could spare a moment could you take a look at the page (I’ve changed it to show when not logged in) and advise me on what i am doing wrong. Below are all of the areas of text i need as black which i am just appending with { color:#000000;}

A) On the list of all forums page:

bbp-forum-info
bbp-forum-topic-count
bbp-forum-reply-count
bbp-forum-freshness

B) on any topic page with create a new topic option:

bbp-forum-description
bbp-topic-permalink
bbp-author-name
bbp-topic-freshness

(The following bit of text are just showing as “label” in chrome inspect so not sure how to target them)
Topic Title (Maximum Length: 80):
Notify me of follow-up replies via email
Attachments:
No file chosen

C) within a topic with reply option

bbp-reply-content
bbp-topic-description

(The following bit of text are just showing as “label” in chrome inspect so not sure how to target them)
Topic Title (Maximum Length: 80):
Notify me of follow-up replies via email
Attachments:
No file chosen

2)

I have noticed a seperate issue:

http://clashingbeavers.com/beaver-forums/
If i enter any forum and then navigate back by clicking on the Home > Forums link within bbpress UI it will take me to a diffrerent url

http://clashingbeavers.com/forums/

and this one looks different. How to stop it taking users to this other url?

Sorry this went on a bit and your advice is much appreciated!
Many thanks

[james8181]

Actually, i will just use change the css using this very informative article:

bbPress Styling Crib

I was being lazy not to have done this originally!
cheers!

[james8181]

Hello,

When any user posts in any forum the following error messages appear, however the message DOES actually post. Anyone know what is causing this problem? and how to fix it. I am not a programmer so the code does not mean much to me

Warning: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, class ‘BBP_Admin_Replies’ does not have a method ‘update_reply’ in /home/clashing/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 524

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/clashing/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php:524) in /home/clashing/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1174

WordPress 4.6.1
bbpress Version 2.5.10
Beaver Builder Child ThemeVersion: 1.0
http://clashingbeavers.com/beaver-forums/ (although the forums are hidden when not logged in)

Thanks for you help

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, you sure can, either way you mention would work, another option is multisite.

That said, for either way you mention you’d utilise “shared user tables”

See this codex doc on setting that up: https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Custom_User_and_Usermeta_Tables

[Fourmi]

Sorry my message was lacking one useful info! I’m using it from a theme file’s code, using
echo do_shortcode('[bbp-single-tag id=19]');
(19 is a correct topic tag id)

It’s printing the same content that’s in the page I’m looking at (ex: in a forum I see the topics of the forum instead of the topics with the tag). It’s working if I update the query before calling the shortcode:

$wp_query = new WP_Query(array('post_type' => 'topic'));

I thought it should be working without having to add this but now it works so I’m happy!

Thanks for your help!

[Robkk]

It works fine for me, remember to use a topic tags id instead of a name.

[bbp-single-tag id=$tag_id] – Display a list of all topics associated with a specific tag. eg. [bbp-single-tag id=64]

https://codex.bbpress.org/features/shortcodes/

To find a topic tags id, you can go to Topics > Topic Tags in the WordPress backend, then edit a topic tag and look at the url. You should see something like this. You can also hover over each edit link and look at the bottom left and see the same url appear. You will see tag_ID=(number).

yoursite.com/wp-admin/term.php?taxonomy=topic-tag&tag_ID=4&post_type=topic&…

To make it easier to find an ID of a post, tag, user, you can also install the Reveal IDs plugins to add a column to tables that show the ID.

[Fourmi]

I’m trying to use this shortcode and it’s not working. I saw this issue was reported several times by the past and it seemed to be resolved but it’s still not working for me.
I think this was the original ticket: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1948

I want to achieve the same comportment – get a list of topics classified under a specific topic tag. Is there a way I can get the shortcode to work OR could you help me code a workaround?

Thanks in advance!

[Robkk]

See if the code in this topic helps.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/show-usermember-join-date/

[pawankumarr]

$user = get_userdata( $user_id );
$registerdate = $user->user_registered;
echo date(“Y-m-d”, strtotime($registerdate));

in this code please provide full code with bbpress user id

there we can print actual date

[Stephen Edgar]

You’d need to first get the Discourse database converted to MySQL (I think it’s Postgres?)

Once that’s taken care of a custom importer script could be created

Custom Import

I don’t know of anyone that has tried the above, but that method should work

[traypup]

Thanks @robkk — oddly, that didn’t do anything at all to the buttons. But, I added an !important and that did the trick. Thanks again!

[Jon Fergus]

Hi Robkk. I’m interested in allowing unrestricted html for certain known and approved members. I was able to use a User Role editor to allow specific users to post unrestricted html using the unfiltered_html capability, and when I log in with a test member (participant level), I can see the warning “Your account has the ability to post unrestricted HTML content” but when I make a reply with that member the reply doesn’t show up (after I click “submit” the page reloads but there’s no new reply). Seems like it’s being blocked from posting or something. Do you know what else I need to do in order to allow this member to reply with unrestricted html and have it actually work?

p.s. I tried this https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7797990 but it didn’t solve the problem of regular members not being able to copy/paste from other programs (like Word) without the code showing up in the reply. See here:

[Jon Fergus]

When someone makes a reply to one of our topics, the automatic emails sent to subscribers of the topic contains style formatting that makes it very difficult to read.

This is an example from a recent reply:

<p class="MsoNormal">“The two schools of Buddha's doctrine, the esoteric and the exoteric, are respectively called the ‘Heart’ and the ‘Eye’ Doctrine. Bodhidharma called them in China — from whence the names reached Tibet — the <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Tsung-men</span> (esoteric) and <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Kiau-men</span> (exoteric school). It is so named, because it is the teaching which emanated from Gautama Buddha's <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">heart</span>, whereas the ‘Eye’ Doctrine was the work of his head or brain. The ‘Heart Doctrine’ is also called ‘the seal of truth’ or the ‘true seal, a symbol found on the heading of almost all esoteric works.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Secret Heart" is the esoteric doctrine.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 5;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice</span><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> of the Silence</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">, Fragment 11. The Two Paths. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/voice/voice2.htm#nn1</p>

Post Link: http://nexus.universaltheosophy.com/groups/art-of-living-study-group/forum/topic/weekly-theme-for-contemplation-the-law-of-love/#post-3548

This happens when people copy/paste into their reply from another program (i.e. Word, etc.). How can we strip this formatting in the emails?

Details: we’re using the TinyMCE editor for replies, with “Text” and “Visual” field options. If members paste into the “text” field and then switch to the “visual” field before posting, there’s no issue, as wordpress cleans the content itself. But if people paste into the visual field, the formatting remains and gets sent as part of the auto email.
Also, we’re currently running bbpress 2.5.10 and WordPress 4.6.1.

[Scopique]

I am trying to get bbPress to work with a theme that doesn’t have support for/within bbPress, and can fake it using custom Admin-created pages and shortcodes, and would also like to know this.

[Robkk]

It could be a somewhat common CSS related issue where buttons have white text color in a theme.

Try this custom css to see if it fixes it. Place the custom css in a custom css plugin or in a child themes style.css file.

This is just an example and you might need additional css if the button background color changes on hover to something dark as well.

#bbpress-forums .wp-editor-container .button {
  color: black;
}

[Robkk]

I personally do not need login info, because I think I know exactly what you are talking about. I am not sure who redacted your info, but know that it was to protect your site from untrusted users.

What you are looking for is already part of bbPress, its just that the js code that it uses doesn’t quite work for all browsers, and only in IE.

To fix the issue, you can create or copy the existing reply.js file in a folder called js that should be in the root of your child theme that consists of the new code that is in a trac ticket that fixes this issue.

This guide will help with what you would need to do with the js file.

Basically you create a folder called js in your child theme. And just place the new reply.js file.

https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/

Here is the code for the file. You can also just download the file.

https://gist.github.com/robkk/e193a869a627f955b427440c13493fa6

[Stephen Edgar]

Ideally you should be using a child theme for your custom bbPress templates. That way you don’t have to worry about this issue 🙂

Take a look on the docs codex for some help with getting started with custom templates:

https://codex.bbpress.org/?s=child+theme

With that said though, here is a link showing the changes from 2.5.9 to 2.5.10, it’s a single change to includes/users/template.php, and is quite important you upgrade your templates with this change.

[Stephen Edgar]

Hopefully some of the links on our codex docs page will help get you started:

Codex

[Robkk]

There are a few guides in the codex that might help.

Are there any specific things you want to know how to customize??

Customize is such a broad term, and relating to bbPress it can go from creating code snippets, installing plugins, to styling, to adjusting the bbPress theme to your needs in a child theme, or just creating a custom theme/theme package all together.

[Robkk]

There is a few guides that might be helpful for you in the codex.

Import Forums

Custom Import

Import Troubleshooting

Share your custom import file here if you imported successfully, and maybe a detailed explanation for other users. If you need anymore help please reply back and someone will help you.

[Don46]

WP 4.6 BBpress plugin 2.5.10
I am using some of the super BBpress code suggestions at https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/ and most work just fine ‘out of the box’ but I am not sure what I should be putting in place of ‘ my_nav_menu_profile_link’ in this one. If I put in the code as is….

// Filter wp_nav_menu() to add profile link
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_nav_menu_profile_link' );
function my_nav_menu_profile_link($menu) {
    if (!is_user_logged_in())
        return $menu;
    else
        $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
        $user=$current_user->user_nicename ;
        $profilelink = '<li><a href="/forums/users/' . $user . '/edit">Edit Profile</a></li>';
        $menu = $menu . $profilelink;
        return $menu;
  
}

I get this when trying the menu link……
Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
localhost
Apache/2.4.23 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.2h PHP/5.6.24

If I replace the ‘ my_nav_menu_profile_link’ with the actual link like this…..

/* Profile link in menu....................*/
// Filter wp_nav_menu() to add profile link
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/profile.php' );
function http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/profile.php($menu) {
    if (!is_user_logged_in())
        return $menu;
    else
        $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
        $user=$current_user->user_nicename ;
        $profilelink = '<li><a href="/forums/users/' . $user . '/edit">Edit Profile</a></li>';
        $menu = $menu . $profilelink;
        return $menu;
  
}

I get this as soon as I go to the site…

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’, expecting ‘(‘ in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\twentytenchild\functions.php on line 49
What should I be entering and when I move to a live site will it need to be further changed?

[Robin W]

ok, I’ve spent several annoying hours trying to work out how to do this, and failed miserably!!

I expect the answer is just a few brief lines of code, and linked to the way bbpress handles both templates and wp-rewrite, but can’t fathom it out in the files

Sorry, but I am having to give up !

[Robkk]

Here is for the revision log avatar fix. You can remove the custom CSS you added earlier that I think you tried to fix this issue with. The reply author avatars looked fine yesterday, now today they look small at 24px.

use this code anywhere you can put custom css. I see that you are modifying the bbPress stylesheet, so hopefully you have placed that bbpress.css file in a child theme in a folder called css instead of editing core files.

https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-reply-revision-log img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topic-revision-log img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-template-notice img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_topics img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_replies img.avatar {
  float: none;
  margin: 0;
  vertical-align: middle;
  border: none;
  width: 14px;
  height: auto;
}