[Robkk]

You can follow the last entry i added to the very bottom.

it should help with most of the topic icons.

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

i will put how to use CSS at the bottom later.

but the category/forum icons you might need a custom way to list the forums , im going to need more time on that.

your CSS is wrong too .

you can use these as examples

.bbpress a.forum-title:before {
  font: normal 16px/1 'Fontawesome';
  content: '\f07c';
  margin-right: 5px;
  float: left;
  padding-top: 3px;
  color: #222;
}

.bbpress a.forum-link:before {
  font: normal 16px/1 'Fontawesome';
  content: '\f016';
  margin-right: 5px;
  float: left;
  padding-top: 3px;
  color: #222;
}

[comixfreak]

I am using most current WP with a theme called news code. I have installed bbpress and after a brief search I found creating a bbpress.php file in my child themes directory might work. It has not and I am able to post new topics to the forum, however I cannot view any of the topics as shown in the image.

If anyone can lead me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Thanks!

[Robkk]

only thing i can recommend really is backup your site a few times then perform an upgrade to the latest version to see if that fixes the issue.

also make sure you have the latest version of WordPress.

and that your theme is upgraded to the latest version with and make sure you follow these guides if theme compatibility just doesnt work anymore.

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

heres a guide for backing up your site
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups

[Robkk]

you can use the bbpress shortcodes

codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

but it will only affect that one page not the rest of the other ones.

i suggest creatng a bbpress.php file , these two guides will help

to find the file bbPress uses you can use the What the File plugin.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

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

[Robkk]

You should follow this guide too, some users say that throwing all the templates into a child theme resolves theme issues too.

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

[Robin W]

if you only have one forum, then use

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

and don’t use the index

[hazedesigns]

2nd finding:

The answer was in the codex!

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

This page explains the way to make copies of the files from the plugin directory into the theme directory and/or subdirectories in the theme directory for the purpose of customising those templates. Turns out that the only problem was that warp7 couldn’t find them in their default location within the plugin folder, so simply copying the /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress folder into the /wp-content/themes/my-theme/ folder and then copying the files from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/extras/ into the /wp-content/themes/my-theme/ folder seems to have rectified all issues! Yet to test completely but this is looking good – I was praying for an easy fix! Thanks so much to Robkk for pointing me in the right direction!

[hazedesigns]

Thanks Robkk, I will have a look at that what-the-file plugin and a look at the codex documentation and see what I can find. I’m really stretching my skills here so it’s interesting and informative but not always making much progress!

I have traced some of the files involved in the page displays with warp7, it is pretty complex and convoluted! Basically so far I have it mapped out a bit like this:

request > index.php (calls ‘warp’ system) > template.php (loads in the widget positions etc including calling for the content) > filtering to decide what kind of content ‘content’ is (ie page, archive etc) ##### AT THIS POINT BBPRESS TAKES OVER AND STARTS MAKING THE SPECIAL BBPRESS CONTENT #####

> if still with warp, goes into styles > layouts > individual override templates

> if now in bbPress goes into bbPress.php then to the bbPress template files, but somewhere here some of it gets lost!

I could of course be completely wrong, I have never dissected a theme this thoroughly, let alone something of the complexity of the warp framework!

Thanks for the offer of inspecting the theme for me, that would be great! As the website is live I can’t provide access to that site but I’ll get a version up and running elsewhere and not live and I’ll send you admin details. Hopefully there is a fairly simple solution that can be shared with others who are suffering this problem! Up until this hurdle I had nothing but love for the warp7 framework, now there is a bit of a cloud over it in my mind if it is indeed responsible for these issues. Whizz-bang features are great but not at the expense of overall integration with existing plugins etc!

I will be in touch with login details!

[goldstatusuk]

Hello

I have been trying to find out a way to change my forums page title for about 10 hours now. I have created a forums page and added the forum index shortcode. I then added the title on that particular page using seo by yoast.

But it does not change the title.

Its so frustrating

Any help would be much appreciated

website: http://bit.ly/1Q3Zr1f

[jesse09]

Hey guys and gals

Hope all is well!

First off, thank you taking the time to help, it’s appreciated.

I’ve started to build a wordpress blog ( Fat Burner Depot ) It’s wordpress 4.2.1, if that helps.

I’ve seen a site where bbpress loads into a standard static wordpress page. Shouldn’t I be able to copy and paste the index code into the body of the page text? Just as long as the paths to the rest of bbpress files are right? Is there a better way to go about this?

Anyone can help me out?
Thank you!!

[Robkk]

Really appreciate the response, I get NOTHING from yootheme which is a bit sad 🙁

yeah ive seen quite a couple people not get support on their end for this common issue.

i had a user with the similar issue say that the first wp fix resolved the issue they had with the warp7 framework.

for now you can install this plugin and find the file your forums are using for bbPress.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/what-the-file/

then maybe copy that into a child theme and rename it to bbpress.php from it and remove any unwanted code.

this guide will help hopefully

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

you can also create an admin account for me so i can check out your theme files and see how to fix this. send the login details to my email.

robkkdev.wordpress.com/contact

[Robkk]

spammers are loving your topic

usually creating a bbpress.php from a copy of page.php or sometimes single.php and removing unwanted code for comments and blog specific content would fix most theme problems.

follow this guide on creating a bbpress.php

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

contact your theme author too since this is a premium theme, and that i cant be more hands on and look at the code of your theme without buying it.

need more help on this reply back.

[kruglikov]

I have old version 2.2.4 of bbpress installed on our site.
I have to use old version because already for a long time have problem that
if I update the plug-in forums page breaks!
From forums/ page disappears forums list but all subpages like forums and topics are working and I can access them in browser.

Forums page is created with Method 1 here https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#method-1

I spent a whole day trying to find out what’s wrong with newer version but could not find the reason why Forums page disappeared.

Please help!

P.S. I found that forums/ page is registered when forum post type registration happened, but I could not find out where exactly in bbpress code forums page template is plased. Could anyoone at least help me with that?

[j0n4h]

I posted a bunch of images of examples that I thought would be useful, however the anti-spam tool this forum is using chose to delete my post. That being said, @robkk , these options:

• Icons for Subcategories that help to differentiate between subcategories – simple css
• “New” icons for new posts – show icon from date of creation.
• “Sticky” icons for stickied posts – simple css
• “Hot” icons for posts that are popular -show the label when a reply level hits

Would be tremendously useful for me, and though you claim they would be easy to implement, have thwarted me so far. I tried to create a post about it, however apparently the excess of example links deemed it un-postable as dictated by the anti-spam tool.

I’ve searched for the answer and found this:

.bbp-forum-34 i:before {
  content: "\e112"; /* glyphicons_ */
}

but I’m trying to complete using Font Awesome icons, so I’d imagine I’d have to try:

.bbp-forum-1168 i:before {
  font-family: FontAwesome;
   content: "\f095";
}

however, I have no idea where to pass this into. And I’m also not sure if this is appropriately how you use Font Awesome as read by CSS.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve been thinking much about what is mentioned here of late…

For now, check out some of the plugins on this page https://codex.bbpress.org/feature-plugins-tracking/

p.s. Post counts will ship with bbPress 2.6, so that is one removed from that list.

[majecdad]

Hi all,

I’ve continued to test this with both the capabilities plugin from @johnjamesjacoby as well as some nice custom code to create an entire new bbp role from @robin-w … to no avail. In neither case can I get a bbp user to see private posts unless they can see hidden ones too (or if I make the forum ‘public’).

Might this be related to my usage of ‘sub-forums’?

I’m working hard to try different things to figure it out. Can anyone point me in a direction that might resolve?

Thanks.

[novicechess]

I believe the left shifting aspect of the posts is the default, but centering my home page and play page posts involved adjusting those specific page dimensions. It seems as though something in the bbforum code is conflicting with the left-shifting aspect of the twenty fourteen theme.

[j0n4h]

More functionality without plugins and options to change certain aesthetics would be, in my opinion, pretty routine for a forum codex.

Now I realize that these options are all viable in bbpress, however, not everyone has the time necessary to learn how to implement these things themselves. Many of these things I already have in my forums, but now without extensive research in addition to plugins designed to enable such desired functionality. The thing is, though, should I really need a plugin to allow for signatures or post count?

If you’re interested, this is a list I would recommend for bbpress to be more competitive out of the box and more user friendly:

Out-of-the-Box Recommendations:

Functionality:

• Ability to Rename bbpress specific vernacular (IE “Last Post” in place of “Freshness”)
• Posts Count & Join Date Under Username
• Ability to Change Default Titles & Permissions for Usernames
• Icons for Subcategories that help to differentiate between subcategories & also dictate if there are “new” or “unread” posts in certain categories
• “New” icons for new posts
• “Sticky” icons for stickied posts
• “Poll” icons for posts containing polls
• “Hot” icons for posts that are popular
• Sort Forum by Recently Updated, Most Replies, Most Viewed, Etc.
• Attachments
• Private Responses
• “Like” button
• Signatures
• Ability to “Quote” users
• Basic editor for responses including format help
• “Report” Option

Aesthetic:

• Different color names or title icons for easy recognition between staff & general members
• Option to change colors of backgrounds to differentiate between posts or headers and posts
• Format Categories vs SubCategories in Traditional Forum Style

I also completely understand this may not be within the parameters that the bbpress developers have in mind for this product. They may only be interested in providing the foundation for such things, though without these features, this product is not a feasible option for a comprehensive community forum project for a layman such as myself.

[RobbyMcCullough]

Hey all. I wanted to follow up on this in case anyone finds this through searching..

We found out it was the bbPress Private Replies plugin that was causing this on our setup. This plugin overrides the subscription emails, and it uses it’s own code (that doesn’t remove the www) to generate the noreply email address.

I am planning to submit a pull request, but you can cowboy code it and fix with this change:

In bbp-private-replies.php on line 250 use this code:

$do_not_reply = '<' . bbp_get_do_not_reply_address() . '>';

[Estellka]

ok thank you. It would be nice to have such a shortcode

[CreativeWP]

I am working on this website, I added this code (below) to have the profile redirect to our dashboard using WPML. The nav however is out of order, and I do not know how to arrange this nav.

So we have Home | About us | Logout | Profile

The profile is added by the code in the function.php (below), which means it is not arranged by the menu section on the WP. I have a conditional navigation. So when not login, I got Register | Login only. Once I login I have Home | About us |

So the logout and the profile are added by the code below. How do I arrange it that the logout will be at the end?

	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_login ;
        $profilelink = '<li><a href="' . bp_loggedin_user_domain( '/dashboard' ) . '">' . __('Profile') . '</a></li>';
        $menu = $menu . $profilelink;
        return $menu;
 
}

Please and thank you,

[Henrijs Kons]

Tryed repairing forums didnt help. Mybe it is coded so closed topics are excluded from topic query?

[Robkk]

since it has this at the end […], which usually is from your theme thinking this page paragraph is a blog post , yes it is a theme issue.

create a bbpress.php from a copy of page.php or single.php and remove unwanted code that might be affecting your layout.

this guide will help.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

need more help contact the theme author too.

[Robkk]

read this to enable the visual editor and also show the buttons from tinymce advanced.

Enable Visual Editor

as to your + New button, i dont know how to help with that , if you already created it maybe add a conditional to the function to only show it to Admins/Mods , but im not sure.

[muddyfeet]

Hi guys,

I’ve encountered an issue in BBPress 2.5.7 running the Porto theme. Most of the BBPress pages display perfectly fine, however on the user profile pages and the forum details page (which contains number of posts etc.) there is no formatting on any of the text, and viewing the source code shows no HTML tags, it just looks like this:

Profile Topics Started Replies Created Favorites Subscriptions Edit Profile Forum Role: Participant Topics Started: 1 Replies Created: 0

Similarly, the forum details page contains just this text:

Search for: Home › Forums Viewing 5 topics – 1 through 5 (of 5 total) Topic Voices Posts Freshness Happiness and its effect Started by: Mrs Davis in: Member Forum 2 3 1 week, 6 days ago Maria My Needs Started by: rachael in: Member Forum 2 2 1 week, 6 days ago Mary […]

I have read that this might be a theme issue, but we’re not sure what we can actually do to fix it?

Thanks