[cybarmitzvah]

The only reason I would be a bit concerned to do it again is because my sidebar is fine for now, but if I switch it, then all my users would be confused for the few day while we figure it out. Also whats my source code?

Sorry, I am new to this,

JB

[Stephen Edgar]

Indeed it would have helped and by switching back you have enabled the error to occur again, redo what you did and then create a new topic and include the source code of your bbpress.php file and the name and link of the theme you are using and we can help get your sidebar back.

[Stephen Edgar]

Oh! The version included in bbPress 2.5.4 is the r5191 version, the smf3 you refer to is older than that, essentially there is no need to download any files from trac manually to replace the files that already exist in bbPress 2.5.x.

That said “if” you do download any versions of the importers from trac, you need to match the main bbPress converter.php file, this is not the ‘dropdown’ you refer to.

Looking closer at your original message, indeed you did use the smf_ prefix, my bad.

Can you open up phpMyAdmin and open the smf_members table and post a screenshot like mine below (if there is sensitive data there then just the column headers would be fine)

For some reason it appears your table is missing the member_name column and that is why the error occurs.

What version of SMF are you trying to import?

And lastly, no forum is to big for bbPress 😉

[Piani]

I havent tested any of the siggestions below. But you can play around with changes as example and change parameters:

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-title h3,
	font-size: 30px;
	color: #CC00CC;
}

….ad this as as separate controls in the code above.

Find colors that you want at: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colorpicker.asp

You dont need uch change. Just add controls on the text types you want to change woth an } to close the code.

[freshwater]

on her site/post she said we can control the icon size by css or add_image_size. can anyone give exact code for us? i don’t know what “name” we’re supposed to add size to in her above code.

and / or could we see the css code exactly and i guess we put this code in our child theme?

thank YOU!

[Yolle]

Hi!

I finally managed to do it.
I added this code so the avatar is at the top of the text

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author {
	float: none;
	text-align: center;
	}

Then when the text was below the avatar I inserted this code to the mobile part of the css:

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content {
		margin-left: 20px;
		padding: 0 0 0 0;
		text-align: left;
}

Thanks for getting me on the right track.
It concerns a closed forum and I was already preparing an access for you but then I managed by myself.
Thanks again!

[Robkk]

you can try this for right now, im not sure how it works though

input #bbp_search_submit.button {
padding: 9px;
border: solid 1px #E5E5E5;
outline: 0;
font: normal 13px/100% Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif;
width: auto;
background: #FFFFFF url('images/bg_form.png') left top repeat-x;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left 25, from(#FFFFFF), color-stop(4%, #EEEEEE), to(#FFFFFF));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #EEEEEE 1px, #FFFFFF 25px);
box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0, 0.1) 0px 0px 8px;
-moz-box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0, 0.1) 0px 0px 8px;
-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0, 0.1) 0px 0px 8px;
}

[Robkk]

It has nothing to do with bbpress.

contact your theme developer
make a topic on wordpress support

or you can

create a folder called images in your theme if you dont have one already find a facebook icon and rename it fb.jpg

and use this

<a href="fbico"><img style="border:0;" src="fb.jpg" alt="Like Me" width="42" height="42"></a>

and just place it in the right template file

then position with css

links with images:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_imglink

[freshwater]

wm, this worked perfect, THANKS, i’ve been searching on/off to do this for 1.5 years, (i’m not sure if that says about me?) LOL! i would like to do something extra, do you know how? i would like – your code enlarged the Forum Parent text size, how can i also enlarge the Child Forums that display under the enlarged Parent Forum text?

and can we change the font color in your code?

Thanks a BUNCH!!!

[Robin W]

yes, you would be looking in the usermeta table 9noramlly called wp_usermeta at meta-key wp__bbp_subscriptions

this is comma deliminated, so if I was user ID 3, and was subscribed to topics 10, 12 and 15, and forums 1, 3 and 6, I would see

user_id 3
meta_key wp__bbp_subscriptions
meta_value 1,3,6,10,12,15

So to add category 246, you would just add this to the end, or create if not there

Someone cleverer than me out to be able to give you a sql string or two that would do this which you could run on phpmyadmin.

Logically you’d create two statements, the first would say

for all the user_id’s if wp_bbp_subscriptions exists, then make the meta_value equal to the meta_value concatenated with ‘,246’
Then second one
for all user_id’s if wp_bbp_subscriptions does not exist, make meta_key wp_bbp_subscriptions equal to 246.

I’m not good enough at sql to code this without lots of checking – anyone good at this stuff?

[Robin W]

I don’t know either of the two plugins, but essentially I don’t let anyone have access to the backend of my site – it jars with the front end.

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

contains a list of the capabilities, and most restriction plugins should list these, and you hopefully should be able to find or see edit_topics as a capability that you can restrict.

It may well be that one plugin is conflicting with the other as they both sound like they are trying to do the same job.

[Robkk]

you probably decrease the margin-left and add the @media at top

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content {
margin-left: 130px;
padding: 12px 12px 12px 0;
text-align: left;
}

need a link to just make sure though.

[Robkk]

ya didnt need to bump your topic after 20 minutes.

try that, it just changes it to black and white. change the colors to whatever you want

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-the-content-wrapper input {
font-size: 12px;
padding: 5px;
margin: 0 2px 0 0;
line-height: 1em;
background: #222;
color: #fff;
}

put it anywhere you can put custom css in

[cybarmitzvah]

Hi all,

I am not sure this is necessarily a plugin or just a bit of code I need. But I am trying to get Twitter and Facebook buttons (maybe 32×32) (that link to our social sites) in the header of the site http://www.astronomertalk.com:

http://s24.postimg.org/p71o3hp5x/Screen_Shot_2014_08_15_at_6_18_27_PM.png
http://s24.postimg.org/p71o3hp5x/Screen_Shot_2014_08_15_at_6_18_27_PM.png

It is a responsive layout so it may not be too easy to to, but all help will be appreciated.

*I want a facebook and twitter button (aka image), not the writing in the picture. I just don’t know how to use photoshop 🙂

Best,
JB

[Robin W]

In fact took a look today and done !

bbp additional shortcodes

You now have a template of ‘short’ which just does the titles and topics, no search or other stuff.

see the web for full details on how to do this, but for example

[bbp-display-topic-index show=’5′ forum=’29’ template=’short’ ]

[Robin W]

just updated this to do a particular forum as well !

bbp additional shortcodes

[Robin W]

@crushdg

I doubt that would be possible.

This script reverses the logic

so normally the database would have a list of forums you have manually subscribed to.

This changes it to have a list of forums you have manually unsubscribed to, thus you are subscribed by default.

So the code would not work to just have one forum.

[Stephen Edgar]

Ooops, for the topic form, take a look in content-single-forum.php and you’ll find:
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic' ); ?>

[Stephen Edgar]

If you want paste your templates (or code snippets) in a Gist and I’ll take a look and see if anything stands out… https://gist.github.com/

Unless you have named the files incorrectly, this is what they should be:

content-archive-topic.php – loop-topics.php – loop-single-topic.php

You have an extra s on two of the three 😉

[hitkid]

Thanks again @netweb

Okay, I’m glad too see I wasn’t editing the wrong templates. I was paranoid that I was doing that. Unfortunately, this means something is going on with my archive-topics.php and content-archive-topics.php templates. The other two work great.

What I’m trying to do is add things like: elements, classes, ids, functions I’ve built move around the functions already in the archive-topics.php and content-archive-topics.php templates and so on. When I do this and save changes they don’t appear.

It doesn’t even look like my topic index is using the proper templates because in the content-archive-topics.php template file there is a search function that isn’t appearing in the topic index when I click on a topic off the forum index. eg home>forums>this-is-a-topic.

Also you can create a topic on the topic index page in the website, but I can’t find a call to the form-topics template in any of the topic templates stated in the topic heiarchy. Unless it’s called in another way that’s not something like this:

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic' ); ?>

What could be going on and why could this be ?

Again I thank you for your help!

[Stephen Edgar]

I am sorry, I am not writing custom plugins for people for free, let alone your assumption that that is what you expect, not going to happen.

If you need some custom code written post an advert on http://jobs.wordpress.net

[Stephen Edgar]

Also if you are going to use versions of the importer from the source repo you will need to ensure you also are using the matching the revision of converter.php.

Also not quite sure how you landed on the r5191 revision, there are quite a few since then and a few before!

[Stephen Edgar]

It looks like you left out the table prefix, SMF typically uses smf_

Double check by opening your SMF Settings.php file in the root folder of your SMF install:

########## Database Info ##########
$db_type = 'mysql';
$db_server = 'localhost';
$db_name = 'db_name ';
$db_user = 'db_user ';
$db_passwd = 'db_passwd ';
$ssi_db_user = '';
$ssi_db_passwd = '';
$db_prefix = 'smf_';
$db_persist = 0;
$db_error_send = 1;

[Stephen Edgar]

Argh! Both 😉

Wherever you are testing all of this, the phpBB database must be on the same MySQL database server, not the same actual database, just the same server.

I’m not entirely sure what the ‘wp-united’ does to the phpBB members table but there are a couple of topics here on bbpress.org about it.

Lets skip trying to import phpBB members for a minute and just go with forums, topics and replies for starters. So try your import again without selecting to import “Users”, this should be a good test to make sure that you have a connection to the database and you are indeed using the correct prefix, I expect as you note it most likely should be phpbb3_ as per your phpBB config file.

[hitkid]

@netweb Thank you very much! I will try this.

The only thing I’m kind of left confused about is how the index for topics works? In the Amending bbpress templates codex entry it states the templates for forums work like this:

The index for the forums starts by using

content-archive-forum.php

If you open this up you will see that it them calls a further template by using the function bbp_get_template_part

<?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘loop’, ‘forums’ ); ?>

(this translates to loop-forums.php)

this in turn calls

<?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘loop’, ‘single-forum’ ); ?>

(this translates to loop-single-forum)

and so on.

So the template hierarchy for the the forums index would look like this:
archive-forums.php>content-archive-forums.php>loop-forums.php>loop-single-forums.php

Would the template hierarchy for the topics index look like this:
archive-topics.php>content-archive-topics.php>loop-topics.php>loop-single-topics.php

Thanks again for taking the time to help me!