[readwriteandedit]

I’m trying to format the background and the border for the lead topic, just as you’ve done here in the bbPress forum. I used Firebug to see your code, which is

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-lead-topic li.bbp-body {
    border: 1px solid #dd6;
}
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-lead-topic li.bbp-body div.topic {
    background-color: #0099FF;
}

But when I add this to my child theme’s CSS (where I’ve successfully made other bbPress changes), nothing changes.

I don’t know if something else I’ve changed is preventing this from changing or maybe if you have something in the setup that I don’t have, something that allows you to style this in CSS when I can’t.

Any suggestions? The forum is private, but I can get you in temporarily, if that would help. Or I could paste into a comment all the changes to bbPress I made in my CSS.

(Note: I changed your color for testing purposes)

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Beth

[Robkk]

@pilxy i can see on my mobile device but not really on desktop

and you should just revert any changes you made that involves this issue ,and just wait until your theme author updates the theme.

like i said the main problem is that the div class that they used for the reply link in the comments section is just .reply and to make sure it doesnt have conflicts with bbPress it should be just like .comment-reply or any other class besides .reply .

And when they use .reply a they could have just used .comment-reply-link since thats the a class

there is some css that needs to be fixed that uses .reply , in the style.css and some in the rtl.css

and there is also probably some css in the mobile stylesheet

there is a function that uses .reply a and .reply a:hover in the custom-styles.php file.

all these things and probably more if i missed something need to be changed

[dxlwebs]

thank you so much for your support with that link in the end i ported the code from an original wp theme(stock with the install) into a file called bbpress.php and inserted that file into the custom theme im using, i also removed the edit function from the original code as its not required on that page.

my next question if i can is that that page shows its name in the tab as kixeyeunion.uk/forums instead of saying Forums is there anyway to change that?

[Robin W]

see

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

and

Custom Capabilities

you need to play with setting up some new roles probably one that has topic capabilities but not reply capabilities, and setting that to the default.

[Preston]

Thanks, I got it figured out as far as text fields keeping content when editing.

I changed the start of my bbp_applications_fields to the following (in case anyone comes accross this thread):

function bbp_application_fields() {
	$forum_id = bbp_get_forum_id();
	$application_forum_id = 34;
	$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
	$topic_edit_id = bbp_get_topic_forum_id( $topic_id );
	if( $forum_id == $application_forum_id || $topic_edit_id == $application_forum_id ) {

My select fields still don’t retain their content when editing, but I suspect that’s due to some jQuery I’m using to show/hide certain options based on other select boxes.

**EDIT**
It looks like none of the select fields come back with their saved value, just whatever the starter value is. I’ll keep playing around with it.

[aniaorome]

Solved it!

For future reference, try commenting everything in your custom theme functions.php file.

In my case, the problem came from a custom pre_get_posts action hook.

Good luck!

[Robkk]

see if creating a bbpress.php would help

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

[Robkk]

ok on this you have to contact your theme author and tell them to change this in your theme in its next update.

in file style.css on line 1475 change .reply a {

to a.comment-reply-link {

in the file custom-styles.php in parabola/includes/custom-styles.php
on line 212 and 213 change

.reply a { to a.comment-reply-link {

and .reply a:hover { to a.comment-reply-link:hover {

they should also change the .reply div class to something else maybe like .comment-reply

because bbPress has a .reply for all of its replies

[Robkk]

@pilxy

you need to change this css code to make sure its only shows in the comments/replies content.

im not so sure on how to do this one.

contact your theme author

i just checked and they use bbPress for their support forums.

im sure they would help more than i can right now.

[Robkk]

whatever thats in your css that starts with

.reply a

is causing the problem.

[Robkk]

I’ve also noticed my ‘Submit’ button is way further down the page and out of line with the ‘Tags’ input box, any ideas here too?

thats normal , you can see it is aligned on bbpress.org because thats something custom.

bbpress.org uses this css …i guess you can go off of it as an example.
but it causes an issue on smaller device sizes this will make it collide with the tags input.
you will need additional media query css to make it look better on smaller devices.

#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-form fieldset.bbp-form button {
float: right;
margin-top: -120px;
}

I can’t also seem to make the quicktags bar the correct width, always seems to over-run the width despite me trying lots of different styles etc.

you can fiddle with the padding but the below css will not make it over-run.

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-the-content-wrapper div.quicktags-toolbar {
padding: 5px 0;
min-height: 30px;
width: 100%;
float: left;
}

I’ve still not found how to deal with the strange ‘e’ character,

i asked if you edited any templates , i didnt really get an answer but if you did,

it could be an edited reply-form.php and a topic-form.php .

so if you already copied these files to your child theme, check them out and see if you left a stray character somewhere.

other than that i guess make a bbpress.php if you havent sometimes if users dont it adds some additional stuff that are only suppose to be on blog posts.

more info about creating a bbpress.php

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

[Robkk]

easy way i think would be to just install this and choose the dark color.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-new-ui/

you can also use this below css and copy it where ever you can put custom css

jetpack css module
custom css plugin
you can find the exact css in bbpress.css and just replace it with the one im posting.

you can of course change inherit to and other color like black or its hex #000 for example.

if im missing something please reply back

/* header and footer that says AUTHOR , POSTS , VOICES, TOPICS , FORUMS */

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header, 
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-footer {
background: inherit!important;
border-top: 1px solid #eee;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 8px;
text-align: center;
}

/* this is the background of the forums and topics that display the title, the freshness stats and so on. */

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum, 
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.topic {
border-top: 1px solid #eee;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 8px;
background: inherit;
}

/* this is the header that shows the post date and post ID */

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-header, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-header, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
background-color: inherit;
}

/* try to make these two different types of dark shades if you care about having an AB color pattern of replies/topics/forums. */

#bbpress-forums div.odd, 
#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
background-color: inherit;
}

#bbpress-forums div.even, 
#bbpress-forums ul.even {
background-color: inherit;
}

[wookey]

I managed to implement a custom function to search by $forum_id and it’s all working and great, and it was done using the instructions from this page.

What I need is a way to search by user. Here’s what the search by forum function looks like:

function my_bbp_filter_search_results( $r ){
	//Get the submitted forum ID (from the hidden field added in step 2)
	$forum_id = sanitize_title_for_query( $_GET['bbp_search_forum_id'] );
	//If the forum ID exits, filter the query
	if( $forum_id && is_numeric( $forum_id ) ){
		$r['meta_query'] = array(
			array(
				'key' => '_bbp_forum_id',
				'value' => $forum_id,
				'compare' => '=',
			)
		);
	}
	return $r;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_has_search_results_parse_args' , 'my_bbp_filter_search_results' );

I tried changing all instances of the word “forum” to the word “user”, but no dice. I tried doing searches like this:
http://mysite.com/search/?bbp_search=testword&bbp_search_user_id=123

But nothing I does works and I’ve spent many hours tearing my hair out trying to get it working. I would hugely appreciate any assistance making it happen.
Thanks

[Robkk]

Why would some one pay for support on a non working plugin lol

its works for other users

I dont have caching but with all plugins deactivated other then the ones needed for forums its not working

again im just trying to bring up possible conflicts that might be causing the issue.

or just give up on having bbCode.

well i guess you just tell your users that your site has oembed and it can be used in the forums as long as you have Auto-embed Links checked in the forum settings.

and that any youtube/vimeo video link will automatically embed
imgur/flickr will automatically embed and so on.

images from other sources can use the img button in the quicktags toolbar

and options like bold/italicize/link/block-quote can be used from the quicktags toolbar.

we have been using block-quote button back and forth so to replace quotes you can do that too.

list of available oembed providers

https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

more on forum settings

https://codex.bbpress.org/forum-settings/

[atfpodcast]

probably , the guy does have a separate support forum just for premium plugin users

he might just be busy and more concentrated over there more since the plugin provides income for him

Why would some one pay for support on a non working plugin lol

i tested the plugin in the latest firefox and chrome , not IE though.

it could be a cache system/plugin or a minify plugin minifying the direct quotes plugins javascript wrong but im just guessing right now.

I dont have caching but with all plugins deactivated other then the ones needed for forums its not working

i would say contact as much people as you can to help solve the issue.

or just give up on having bbCode.

[Robin W]

1) just use the

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

shortcode on the page to do that

2) That can all be done using coding, but would require a lot of code and expertise both within bbpress/wordpress and to link it to a payment product to take the money, and you’ll lose a lot of revenue in commission on 75p payments on say payal, who take a 20p a transaction charge as well as 3.4% commission.

Ballpark say £100-£200 for a coder to write that all for you (without looking that’s the sort of figure I’d expect to charge to write that, but it could be a lot more)

You would do better to look at a ‘membership’ site plugin, and take a payment per say ten ‘ads’, and use something like ‘bbp notify’ to know when they’ve posted, and a simple excel spreadsheet which you manually update. Then suspend membership or block posting when they have used up their limit.

[Robin W]

At a guess (and I haven’t checked) I’d say that

bbp_get_forum_id() 

works for a new topic, but returns a null when editing, hense your ‘==’ is never fulfilled.

Since you should have $topic_id set in either case, maybe try something like

$forum_id = bbp_get_topic_forum_id( $topic_id );

to get the forum or just use that if editing?

Have a play and see if that fixes.

[Robin W]

you can just untick the toolbar option for each user in dashboard>users and edit a user

If you want to disable for all but admins, put this in our functions file

<?php

//disable toolbar for non-admins

if (!current_user_can('manage_options')) {
show_admin_bar(false);
}

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Robkk]

I wonder if I said I wanted to go pro I bet he would reply

probably , the guy does have a separate support forum just for premium plugin users

he might just be busy and more concentrated over there more since the plugin provides income for him.

I manually did the quote and it put it in the lower area of the post.

you probably have to contact your theme author, on how to fix that.

it might be you have float:left; or clear:left; in the css and that might be causing the issue.
switching both to none should fix it.

I don’t see anything with this new plugin either… 🙁 Not even a quote either.

It’s working in IE not firefox. grrrrrrrrrrr I don’t know why it worked in raindrops when I installed it and now it wont and I cant find any plugins messing with it.

i tested the plugin in the latest firefox and chrome , not IE though.

it could be a cache system/plugin or a minify plugin minifying the direct quotes plugins javascript wrong but im just guessing right now.

i would say contact as much people as you can to help solve the issue.

hosting support
plugin support
theme support

[Preston]

WordPress Version: 4.0
bbPress Version: 2.5.4
Theme: Lightly modified Skeleton (http://themes.simplethemes.com/skeleton/)

I’m using this code: http://pastebin.com/7NQnubJP to add custom fields in a specific forum. Everything is working great except for when I try to edit an existing topic. When I try to edit an existing topic, the custom fields aren’t displayed on the page, and therefor aren’t editable. Only the normal Title and Content fields are displayed.

The issue still happens while using an unmodified Twenty Fourteen theme (besides adding the relevant code to the functions.php file, of course).

I haven’t had any luck finding out what the problem is, but I’m hoping it’s something simple.

I appreciate any help!

[akyboy]

Thanks Mr Rob, couldn’t do it without you!!

I used FF Inspector too (you suggested that to me too) to steal some css goodies i like from this site 🙂

[Robkk]

im not sure about the e

have you been editing templates??

did your theme come with bbpress templates already in it??

but i did find this other little bug that shows the little checkbox thats right by Notify me of follow-up replies via email thats all awkward and what not.

#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form input {
margin: 0 0 8px;
width: auto;
}

[Robkk]

the issue now is that your theme already has some !important statements.

your original blockquote css is

blockquote {
font-style: italic !important;
width: 200px !important;
float: left !important;
clear: left;
}

since float:left has !important on the end

and the new css for float:none !important

my new statement doesnt do anything.

posting the code into your child themes css stylesheet should fix it.

since the child themes stylesheet code overwrites the parent themes stylesheet.

so put it into your child themes stylesheet and see if it works.

[akyboy]

Hi Rob,

i have bbpress.css in my theme css folder

when i was setting it up i read instructions and i think i did it right 😛

so it is in:
/themes/tank/css/bbpress.css

I have used code you just posted and i see difference but still not the way it is supposed to be )

[Robkk]

@akyboy

hopefully you are putting it into your child themes stylesheet
or in a plugin like jetpacks custom css

it doesnt have to be in the bbpress.css file, because the code is in your themes stylesheet.

since it didnt work try this.

blockquote {
font-style: italic !important;
width: 200px;
float: none !important;
clear: none !important;
padding-bottom: 15px;
}