[Toni]

Somehow the menu is in order this time. And…

I found what you were explaining to me, and the shortcode (what I was searching for):

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

Thanks again, I knew exactly what to look for this time.

[2cats]

I am using WP 4.0.1 and bbPress 2.5.4; forums are for members only so I can’t send you a link. I have topics and replies set to show 20; this limitation is also applying to my search results, even if there are more than 20 results for a search term, when I search I am told I’m viewing 20 of 20 found, with no option to see anything more. Is there a way around this? Have I missed a setting, or is there a code snippet I can slip in somewhere? Ideally I’d get 20 results per page, with pagination and the total number of results found. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Toni]

Wait – what is the shortcode? I know how to use them – but I don’t know them.

[Toni]

Also – I had to get instruction from the forum about the purpose and what to do with the /forums/ page that is blank. I still have not found the shortcode.

[Toni]

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

Odd that it takes a couple of links to get there.

[Robin W]

can you post the view.php template with your added code here please

[Robin W]

ok, the function needs the existence of a variable called $user_id (being the wordpress usreid of the profile user.

How/where are you adding this code?

[Robin W]

That is what the original code does in profile – what happens when you click the links?

[Robin W]

you can call the page using an html button

Just get the permalink for the new topic page (at the top of the dit screen for that page)

the where you want it put

<button type="button" onclick="window.location.href='http://www.mysite.com/page1'">Read More</button>

with the correct url

[Robin W]

the code that profile uses is

<p class="bbp-user-topic-count"><?php printf( __( 'Topics Started: %s',  'bbpress' ), bbp_get_user_topic_count_raw() ); ?></p>
			<p class="bbp-user-reply-count"><?php printf( __( 'Replies Created: %s', 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_user_reply_count_raw() ); ?></p>

The function is expecting the profile user to be in a variable called $user_id

Suggest you refer to the userpro support site for how to integrate this

[Doulacare]

This also doesn’t explain why this shortcode doesn’t work either http://ontariodoulas.org/forums/

[bbp-forum-index]

[siddardha]

yes, i have done that, but with no result.

ok, first i created a new page and put the short code [bbp-single-forum id=105] as per my forum id and then changed the required parent page and published. thats it right?

[siddardha]

hello,

i am using a plugin “user pro for social login”

with custom css the profile of bbpress is changed into user pro profile page, you can have a look at cahive.com/profile/siddardha

i want to insert the “topics and replies posted” by the user using shortcodes or any other method possible on the users profile page.

thank you for your help.

[Robin W]

Depends what the issue is.

I suggest this approach as it helps define whether on a ‘clean’ default theme with no other plugins bbpress is experiencing issues.

If it is ok in a clean site, then I’d suggest talking to your host provider – most are good with wordpress, and may identify any issues.

If you can identify a conflict, then we can look at a solution, sometimes it is easy, often it might be harder 🙂

I presume your test site is on a local server?

If you’re ok/good with web stuff, then you might consider putting a test site on-line so that it is an exact match for the live environment, most host providers allow sub-domains and if you switch on discourage search then it doesn’t interfere see

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

then you can be happier that live will work.

Anyway just a thought !!

[medousa]

Hi and thanks for your reply but I have a parent theme and can not create a child theme.
Can I paste this code into a parent theme and if yes, at what function file?
There are plenty into the dashboard.There is bbpress-functions, there is theme functions, functionsbu.php. Can you pls specify? I would deeply appreciate this!

[yarashicr]

It worked Robin. The problem was with the stylish single quotes in the shortcode on the link, I copied it as it is in the site. I changed it to normal single quotes and it started working. Thank you so much for your help and for such an awesome plugin.

[HighRollerUSA]

I just installed bbpress 2.5.4 on WordPress 4.1, on two different websites.

On my test site, everything is working as expected, but on my live site (which has SSL) every time I try to access the default https://mysite.com/forums/ I get the following error:

Fatal error: ob_end_flush(): Cannot use output buffering in output buffering display handlers in /homepages/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3269

I can create a new page with a different name than “forums” and use the shortcode successfully, but the breadcrumbs have a direct link to the “/forums” and it gives the same error.

Any idea what may be going on?

Thanks!

[Piani]

Thanks for the tip! Problem solved 🙂

I also found this code to put in my custom functions.php to to solve this withouth the extra plugin.

function fix_auto_subscribe( $checked, $topic_subscribed  ) {

    if( $topic_subscribed == 0 )
        $topic_subscribed = true;

    return checked( $topic_subscribed, true, false );
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_form_topic_subscribed', 'fix_auto_subscribe', 10, 2 );

[yarashicr]

And I also want to know whether these shortcodes work on a wordpress widget.

[yarashicr]

Thanks a lot Robin. I tried the shortcodes as mentioned in the above page after installing and activating the plugin. It did not work for me. I used putting respective forum ID as well. Can you kindly help me on this. I am stuck fixing this for a long time now.

[siddardha]

Thanks for the info robin.
I have a small doubt, pls clarify.
So I will create a new page and paste the required short code and select the parent page, right? That’s all?
Thank you once more.

[Zemi12]

Thank you, I solved it.

#bbpress-forums div.odd,
#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
font-size:12px;
margin-top:0;
}

#bbpress-forums div.even,
#bbpress-forums ul.even {
font-size:12px;
margin-top:0;
}

[Robin W]

Like many plugins the documentation is not great, and as a humble user I have added to it as I have learnt, a good deal of the documentation is mine.

bbpress is a complex plugin, and I sympathise that it is not great to grasp.

With templates, all functions are written to allow you to filter what is there, this is a standard wordpress/php process, so you’re sort of expected to know about it as part of wordpress! I did try to explain it in

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 5

you can filter many bbpress functions using ‘parse args’ capability – a standard wordpress technique or just filter the whole function, you’ll see a return apply_filters in all template functions and this is the hook that you use.

so for you you could us the code in your other post

Display the last topic updated in the forums loop

If you’d like to help with documentation, just find where something is poor and write what you think it needs changing to, it is newcomers like you that can really help improve what is there

[Robin W]

try

bbPress Styling Crib

[Robin W]

just use shortcodes

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

in particular

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id]