[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!

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you played with bbp_parse_args() yet? This is used ~100 times in bbPress to allow you to change array arguments ‘before’ or ‘after’.

BuddyPress introduced bp_parse_args in BuddyPress 2.0, and as they have some good docs and we don’t yet here for bbPress check this out:

https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/using-bp_parse_args-to-filter-buddypress-template-loops/

So for the bbPress function bbp_list_replies() you’d use bbp_before_list_replies_parse_args

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.4/includes/replies/functions.php#L2192

Does this get you on the right track? I hope so as I’ve never played with custom walkers 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

What you should do is tweak the arguments passed to the breadcrumb so you can add/change the CSS classes (and or HTML elements) for the breadcrumbs, the plugin extends what is already listed in the codex docs and shows you all of the options available and you should be able to tweak it for what you are after.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7781901

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[Stephen Edgar]

See the link Robin posted in the other topic or here it is.

[Stephen Edgar]

At a guess, it’s hard to guess without a link or screenshots I’d say your themes including some template content you don’t actually want.

Depending on your theme you need to make a copy of your page.php file and rename it bbpress.php.

To add new fields to a users profile you can add new fields, see this plugin for an example and the relevant WordPress Codex docs:
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/c70caf5a0aa9d3062a6d
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/user_contactmethods

[Stephen Edgar]

A quick look the following tweaks your background colors to match (colors are not exact though) and they should be tweaked to match your themes color scheme etc.

#bbpress-forums div.odd, 
#bbpress-forums ul.odd,
#bbpress-forums div.even, 
#bbpress-forums ul.even,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header {
background-color: #113450;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-header, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-header, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
background-color: #112350;
}

[hitkid]

Thank you @robin-w for the great and speedy reply.

I was just trying to remove the breadcrumb in the content-archive-topics.php template to test if that’s the file I’m suppose to edit. Really I want to rearrange and do a whole lot of different things. Like what it says in the Amending bbpress templates codex entry.

Note* All the forum templates work great! Unlike the topic templates, any change I make to these files appears in the forum index as they should: archive-forums.php>content-archive-forums.php>loop-forums.php>loop-single-forums.php

That’s a great entry in the codex.

7. How can I remove all the breadcrumbs from the templates and set them at the top of the page?

Moving around the breadcrum is more of what I want to do, but I can’t find the template file for the topics to add the <div class=”truebreadcrumbs”> to the bbp_breadcrumb(); to be able to use css to move it around. If that makes sense.

Sorry if I’m being confusing and I thank you very much for your help 🙂

[Robin W]

if you want to get rid of the breadcrumb use

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

what else do you want to achieve?

[hitkid]

I’m trying to get rid of and change the layout of the: bbp-template-notice info and bbp-breadcrumb, in the topics index. So Home>Forums>Test Topic. I’m having trouble figuring out if there is a bug, or I’m missing something, or I just have the template hierarchy wrong.

How I believe the template hierarchy works: archive-topics.php>content-archive-topics.php>loop-topics.php>loop-single-topics.php

I figure the changes I would need to make would be in archive-topics.php or content-archive-topics.php, but when I delete the <?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?> as a test it’s still there.

When I make changes to loop-topics.php and loop-single-topics.php, it works fine. It’s just those two page templates.

I’ve tried editing the bbpress.php file from:

<?php /* Start loop */ ?>
	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<article <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<header>
				<h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
			</header>
			<div class="entry-content">
				<?php the_content(); ?>
			</div>
		</article>
	<?php endwhile; // End the loop ?>

and swapping the content for <?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘archive-topic’ ); ?>. That worked but it messed with my forums index.

I’ve taken a look in the codex to try and figure out what I’m doing wrong and feel lost.
tep-by-Step Guide to Creating a Custom bbPress Theme

Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template

Sorry if this is a bother, but I’m completely stumped as to what’s going on

[Robin W]

Not sure why you only want editing in the backend. Indeed I’m not sure why you want anyone to have access to the backend at all, apart from admins !

However presuming that you actually just want no-one to change their profiles

You will need to modify
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/user-details.php

make a copy of this file, and put in in a directory called bbpress within your theme, so you end up with
wp-content/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/user-details.php

The take out lines 63-69

<li class="<?php if ( bbp_is_single_user_edit() ) :?>current<?php endif; ?>">
						<span class="bbp-user-edit-link">
							<a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_edit_url(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( "Edit %s's Profile", 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ) ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Edit', 'bbpress' ); ?></a>
						</span>
					</li>

				<?php endif; ?>

This will stop any front end editing

[Robin W]

this is interesting…

Your link

Philosophical Movies – I want them

only shows that the coder has changed the lines
‘You must be logged in to reply to this topic’
in
form-reply.php

form-reply.php is called by

content.single.topic.php

on line 44.

Now you could change line 44, BUT and here’s the issue, we are talking php, which is a pre-processor, so by the time it creates the page, you can’t have a conditional and it has processed, so a ‘click to do reply form’ from this .php is not simple.

There’s loads on the net about this eg

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20738329/how-to-call-a-php-function-on-the-click-of-a-button

google something like php click link to do function

All of it talks about using ajax – soemting that is entirely alien to me, and I can’t find an example to use, they all lose me in jargon I don’t know.

It’s definitely do-able, but I don’t know how !!