[Robin W]

writing an entire forum code for wordpress as a solo project seems to be a significant challenge, so using bbpress and amending that would seem to be a good strategy.

ok, since you seem to be very php savvy, suggest you go to

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

and simply amend one of the templates there for your forum.

[Lisa]

I’ve made the decision to develop my new websites using WordPress. My goal is to eventually re-write my PHP code as a WordPress plugin, but, until then I need to use what’s available, and bbPress seems like a good option. I need to import/map my current tables to work with bbPRess, but not sure how?

Here is the existing schema along with one parent record, and one child record:

Forum_1962 (
Forum mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
Forum_Title varchar(200) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
Forum_Author varchar(100) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
Forum_Author_Email varchar(100) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
Forum_Text text NOT NULL,
Forum_Parent mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’,
Forum_Ancestor mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’,
Forum_Category smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’,
Forum_Approved enum(‘0′,’1’) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘1’,
Forum_Entered_by varchar(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’,
Forum_Date_Created datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,
Forum_Last_Changed timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY (Forum),
KEY Forum_Parent (Forum_Parent),
KEY Forum_Category (Forum_Category),
KEY Forum_Approved (Forum_Approved),
FULLTEXT KEY Forum_Title (Forum_Title),
FULLTEXT KEY Forum_Text (Forum_Text)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1;

Parent thread
=============
(19261, ‘Can I rent an RV?’, ‘BillB’, ‘bill@web-crafter.net’, ‘I\’d like to give RVing a try, but there\’s no way I\’m going to plunk down thousands of $$ to buy an RV. Is it possible to rent an RV like you\’d a car?’, 0, 19261, 1962, ‘1’, ‘rvcn’, ‘2002-12-12 13:52:29’, ‘2002-12-12 13:53:25’);

Ancestor thread
===============
(19262, ‘Re: Can I rent an RV?’, ‘Mark’, ‘mark@ittelligent.com’, ‘No problem. Just check your yellow pages for a rental agency in your area. I know there are a few national outfits too. Cruise America and El Monte come to mind off the top of my head.’, 19261, 19261, 1962, ‘1’, ”, ‘2002-12-12 13:59:42’, ‘2002-12-12 13:59:42’);

You’ll notice that there are fields for both parent and ancestor, which allows for infinite sub-topic threads (those replies to replies under one parent). Also, I the author name and email are also stored in this table, and not tied to a separate user table (so will need to address that). Each MySQL dump is between 1MB and 3MB.

Need any more information? Please advise.

My goal is one of two options:

1. Import/Map existing table dumps in several websites to WordPress and bbPress using above forum schema as source, OR
2. Convert my existing PHP forum code to be compatible with WordPress and forget about bbPress altogether if I can’t easily map the table (I don’t know WordPress enough to even think about doing this myself, even though the code is simple and fast, and will ne advice on someone who can)

I am doing this so I can better control the mobile templates and have a more robust way of controlling my websites. I need to do this for about 6 websites, and would like the method to do this myself after the first time.

Thanks in advance,

Lisa

[Robin W]

in your functions file

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Shaktimaan]

Thanks it is fixed.

I used patch below for bbPress: Version 2.5.6

// Get the activity stream item, bail if it doesn't exist
$existing = bp_activity_get_specific( array( 'activity_ids' => $activity_id, 'show_hidden' => true, 'spam' => 'all', ) ); 
if ( empty( $existing['total'] ) || ( 1 !== (int) $existing['total'] ) ) { 
$existing = new BP_Activity_Activity( $activity_id ); 
if ( empty( $existing->component ) )
return null; 
}

[John James Jacoby]

Check in bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-search.php

bbPress employs some “theme compatibility” magic to insert itself into your existing WordPress theme, and that directory is where those template parts live to try and fill in the gaps

[patifonik]

Hi!
PLease, help me to fix this!

I don’t understand: bbpress in my site uses template page.php. In this template we have:
<?php get_template_part('inc/page-title'); ?>.
In /inc/page-title.php we have:
<?php elseif ( is_page() ): ?><h2><?php echo alx_page_title(); ?></h2>

But in http://muzl.it/forums/ we have title
<div class="page-title pad group"><h2>Темы</h2></div>
and in http://muzl.it/forums/topic/lorem-ipsum/ we haven’t title:
<div class="page-title pad group"><ul class="meta-single group"><li class="category"></div>

How to fix it?

[Chad R. Schulz]

I’m building what while be a discussion board style website. I will embed a single forum through a shortcode in each/every post.

This will allow standard WordPress navigation and give each forum its own post/page.

I will not allow users access to any part of the natural bbpress forum hierarchy (categories/forums/subforums/etc.) and will use redirects to ensure that all requests for specific forums end up on the appropriate post/page that uses the embedded shortcode.

My question: Without the need to query numerous (potentially hundreds) of individual forums through traditional forum navigation, do I still need to spread the forums out among multiple categories/sub-categories when building the forums on the backend.

Remember, no user will ever need, nor get, access to the forum hierarchy/structure. ALL forums links will redirect to the appropriate post.

Having to create a needlessly complex hierarchy/structure is daunting and would make a mess for moderators to dig through.

Just curious. Appreciate any guidance in this matter.

Thanks,
Chad Schulz

[manavforum]

Where to put the above code?

[screenwavemedia]

I’m extending an existing WordPress theme with bbpress functionality. I’ve gotten everything up and running except I can’t seem to find the base template for search results to customize everything AROUND the BBPress search results code. It looks like by default it’s pulling from page.php or single.php, but I would like to use a more specific template for it. I’m not seeing anything in Extras that fits the bill.

[goclones]

Thanks. I replace the code with what you suggested and I don’t see any changes. Although the file is in the bbpress > templates > defauly > bbpress folder. Is that where it should be?

[goclones]

Robkk, can you tell me which file this code is in?

[Robkk]

@andrew55

I’m still hungup on getting the overflow figured out.

link to your site and i could help with that.

It appears they have the avatar somehow wrapped in a span, and the span has the overflow assigned to it.

i dont think you need a span for it , i could add it into the code but im sure it will be fine with just a float:left;

@stagger-lee

what is that ? Is that bbPress forum ?

that was not a bbPress forum, its something else.

[Stagger Lee]

This is for custom info block above comment form:

function ntwb_custom_topic_form_notice() {
	?>
	<div class="bbp-template-notice">
		<p>Something here...</p>
		<p>Something else...</p>
	</div>
	<?php

}
add_action( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_form_notices', 'ntwb_custom_topic_form_notice' );

[Stagger Lee]

Try with this:
(I am not sure if it is this 100%, but try)

//* Notice the line 7, 8, 10 and 11
function my_bbp_change_avatar_size($author_avatar, $topic_id, $size) {
    $author_avatar = '';
    if ($size == 14) {
        return $author_avatar;
    }
    if ($size == 80) {
        $size = 110;
    }
    $topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_id );
    if ( !empty( $topic_id ) ) {
        if ( !bbp_is_topic_anonymous( $topic_id ) ) {
            $author_avatar = get_avatar( bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id ), $size );
        } else {
            $author_avatar = get_avatar( get_post_meta( $topic_id, '_bbp_anonymous_email', true ), $size );
        }
    }
    return $author_avatar;
}

/* Add priority (default=10) and number of arguments */
add_filter('bbp_get_topic_author_avatar', 'my_bbp_change_avatar_size', 20, 3);
add_filter('bbp_get_reply_author_avatar', 'my_bbp_change_avatar_size', 20, 3);
add_filter('bbp_get_current_user_avatar', 'my_bbp_change_avatar_size', 20, 3);

[Robin W]

Custom Capabilities

[lanhuong11022]

You can refer to the source code in http://camaushop.net/

[Robkk]

only thing i can think of is changing this

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

		<a class="bbp-topic-permalink" href="<?php bbp_topic_permalink(); ?>"><?php bbp_topic_title(); ?></a>

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

to this

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

		<a class="bbp-topic-permalink" title="<?php bbp_topic_excerpt?>" href="<?php bbp_topic_permalink(); ?>"><?php bbp_topic_title(); ?></a>

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

[Robkk]

1.

change the size to a 48

put this into your child themes functions.php file or a functionality plugin

function rkk_topic_av() {
	    	echo bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( 'size' => '48' , 'type' => 'avatar'));
}
add_action('bbp_theme_before_topic_title','rkk_topic_av');

then use this CSS

put this into anywhere you can put custom CSS

a child themes style.css
jetpacks custom css module
any standalone custom css plugin.

li.bbp-topic-title .avatar-48 {
  float: left;
  margin-right: 5px;
}

2. i guess use the text-overflow property in CSS

here is an example.

http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/tryit.asp?filename=trycss3_text-overflow

[Stagger Lee]

functions.php:

/**
* webdeveloperswall.com/buddypress/check-if-a-user-is-online
**/
function is_user_online($user_id, $time=5){
	global $wp, $wpdb;
	
	$user_login = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "
SELECT u.user_login FROM $wpdb->users u JOIN $wpdb->usermeta um ON um.user_id = u.ID
WHERE u.ID = $user_id
AND um.meta_key = 'last_activity'
AND DATE_ADD( um.meta_value, INTERVAL $time MINUTE ) >= UTC_TIMESTAMP()
" ,APP_POST_TYPE
));
	if(isset($user_login) && $user_login !=""){
		return true;
	}
	else {return false;}
}

pastebin.com/hEfRfKGe
members-loop-php (BuddyPress)

pastebin.com/9AyQJHBe
member-header.php (BuddyPress)

Probably the same process for bbPress alone. Cannot ruin now all to test it.
Font Awesome needs to be activated for frontend. Or more easy, activate Dashicons for frontend and use some other SVG icon.

Some CSS:

.bp-user #buddypress .online .fa-wifi {
	color:green; 
	font-size:22px;
}
.bp-user #buddypress .offline .fa-wifi {
	color:#cf4d35; 
	font-size:22px;
}
.bp-user #buddypress .online, 
.bp-user #buddypress .offline {display:inline-block; text-align:right;float:right;}
.members #buddypress .online-list .fa-wifi {color:green; font-size:15px;}
.members #buddypress .offline-list .fa-wifi {color:#cf4d35; font-size:15px;}

#buddypress .online-list,
#buddypress .offline-list,
#buddypress .offline,
#buddypress .online {font-size:12px;}

[mrbrooks89]

1,i have several problems atm i am using bbpress and buddypress one i have a random yellow block on my forum page

http://lexmotoownersclub.com/forums/

2, my topics show up under all parents ie lexmoto adrenaline show stay under lexmoto adrenaline and not show up under all category

3, This forum contains 1 topic, and was last updated by Profile photo of ADMINB ADMINB 1 day, 16 hours ago. want this removed

i have tried changing themes and also pluging im no good at messing around in code noobie here
thanks 🙂

[andrew55]

Great – thank you very much. Works fine and looks great.

A couple quick questions:

1. Any suggestions on how to get the “Started by” text and username to display right under the topic title, to the right of the avatar, just like the topic title? Right now it is under the avatar.

2. Long topic tiles are now wrapping under the avatar. Any suggestion on how to style the second line of title so it doesn’t wrap, but stays indented as the first line of the topic?

I’m looking at the code and css and can’t figure it out. Thanks!

[Robkk]

you can use this PHP function

function rkk_topic_av() {
	    	echo bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( 'size' => '32' , 'type' => 'avatar'));
}
add_action('bbp_theme_before_topic_title','rkk_topic_av');

here is some custom CSS you can use.

li.bbp-topic-title .avatar-32 {
  margin-right: 5px;
}

then to remove the small one you can copy loop-single-topic.php into your child theme into a folder called bbpress.

look for

<span class="bbp-topic-started-by"><?php printf( __( 'Started by: %1$s', 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( 'sie' => '14' ) ) ); ?></span>

change it to.

<span class="bbp-topic-started-by"><?php printf( __( 'Started by: %1$s', 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( 'type' => 'name' ) ) ); ?></span>

[Robin W]

I did end up creating a local test environment to find that solution

Having a test environment is something that every site should have !!

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

[Robin W]

Not one I’ve heard of.

I can’t find the word ‘unable’ in this context within bbpress at all – can you get your user to get the EXACT wording including capitals, spaces and punctuation, so that I can track whereabouts in the code it appears.

Also what plugins are you running that could have this in them?

[Robkk]

bbPress i think will have @mentions in a future release, but for now you can use BuddPress’s own scripts for bbPress using this function.

add it to your child theme functions.php or a functionality plugin

function custom_bbpress_maybe_load_mentions_scripts( $retval = false ) {
	if ( function_exists( 'bbpress' ) && is_bbpress() ) {
		$retval = true;
	}
 
	return $retval;
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_maybe_load_mentions_scripts', 'custom_bbpress_maybe_load_mentions_scripts' );