[Robkk]

because otherwise you can just make a custom bbpress theme

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 3

[Robin W]

@netweb thanks for posting that, thought there would be but couldn’t find it offhand.

@mathijs-lemmers ok so try

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://mysite.com/forums/users/<?php global $current_user;
      get_currentuserinfo();

     echo  sanitize_file_name($current_user->user_login). "";
      
?>/edit/">

[Robkk]

yehhhh your theme is acting weird..

make sure you added it correctly, other than that try this css code

div.bbp-template-notice.info {
display: none;
}

[Robkk]

place this inside your child themes functions.php

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_forum_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_topic_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

function ja_return_blank() {

    return '';

}

[Robkk]

mann your bbpress is acting weird….

try

span.bbp-topic-freshness-author img {
width:20px;
height:20px;
}

[tonydes]

It does show 14. I replaced it, but it didn’t change. Do I need to add any code to the CSS editor?

[Robkk]

okay on loop-single-topic.php in your child theme

look for

<span class="bbp-topic-freshness-author"><?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), 'size' => 14 ) ); ?></span>

does it show 14 on your theme??, to remove it replace with this

<span class="bbp-topic-freshness-author"><?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id()) ); ?></span>

did it work??

[Robkk]

when you edited the template , did you just remove the array( 'size' => '14' )

because when i look at http://revlanka.com/forums/forum/automotive-news/local-news/

it doesnt even show started by: Admin anymore, just remove the array code and that should remove the avatar and thats it.

[tonydes]

I just tried out the code as well and it didn’t work.

[tonydes]

@robkk

So I did what you said and added the loop-single-topic.php to a folder in my child theme labelled bbpress. I edited out that code, but unfortunately nothing changed!

[Stephen Edgar]

Robin, WordPress includes functions for this:

e.g. sanitize_file_name($current_user->user_login);

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/sanitize_file_name
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/sanitize_title
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/sanitize_title_with_dashes
(There are quite a few of them, they are linked in the ‘related’ sections of the above articles)

[Robkk]

@tonydes i just forgot about this, do this first

pay attention to the started by image on the link to your forums in the above post.

add this for custom css ,

span.bbp-topic-started-by img {
width:20px;
height:20px;
}

does that change the size??

[Robkk]

first one more question , do you have custom css rules that you added already that include modifying images?

I don’t have a bbpress custom theme

okay create a bbpress custom theme now, add all the templates into your child theme.

more info here https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-3/

lets work on this first http://revlanka.com/forums/forum/automotive-news/local-news/

since it has the issue on the notice , started by and freshness authors

now go to loop-single-topic.php and find

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

does it say 14 ?

if you dont want the started by author image remove make it where its like this

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

tell me if that works

I’m pretty novice at this, but does this mean that I have to edit from the style sheet?

all of the images that have issues (started by, notice, freshness), are sized in the templates in php rather than css .

[tonydes]

@robkk, I’m using a premiumpress theme. I tried again after disabling all my plugins, but the code still didn’t work.
I don’t have a bbpress custom theme either. I’m pretty novice at this, but does this mean that I have to edit from the style sheet?

[tonydes]

@robkk haha I know, the images are absurdly huge! I tried the code but unfortunately it didn’t work 🙁 Honestly I ‘d prefer if none of those avatars were there except for the one in the post. However, I’ll take smaller avatars any day rather than those big pictures!

[tonydes]

@robkk haha I know, the images are absurdly huge! I tried the code but unfortunately it didn’t work 🙁 Honestly I ‘d prefer if none of those avatars were there except for the one in the post. However, I’ll take smaller avatars any day rather than those big pictures!

[Robkk]

@tonydes you dont know how much im laughing, its like your forum is bombarded with a gallery of your self portrait. xD

do you want the started by and freshness authors still if they were just a smaller size??

and also the notice author image if it was a smaller size??

but first try this if you dont want any of those avatars, see if this code works.

.avatar-14 { display: none !important; }

[Robkk]

Is there some code generator and if not the plugin, I guess I can add it in “Style.css”

I just need when people posting in forums they have options to change color and size of font. I am unable to find something

you want a code generator , so that users have an option to change font color and font size, I do not know how to do this, so i cant help much here.

as for CSS I am not very familiar with that.

everything in the documentation says all about using css ,and how to, using firebug.

give me something specific to change the font size and color ,and ILL help you there.

[tonydes]

So the css editor works, and this code got rid of all my avatars, but I’d like to keep the one in the post itself;

.bbp-author-avatar {
display: none;
}

Here’s a link to the over sized pictures: http://goo.gl/wmTgBo

Thanks for taking a look at it! Much appreciated!

[Robkk]

dont reply on the other topic you made

pretty much just copying the same thing from this

Finding .css style file

give me a link to your site

so i can see if its a special code in your template making the avatars huge
if its a .avatar css rule making all the avatars on your site big
or if i could find something else.

I’m pretty sure my theme does not use a conventional style sheet so I may have to edit this in the root folder?

thats not a good idea , it will be lost next upgrade.

[Robkk]

give me a link to your site

so i can see if its a special code in your template making the avatars huge
if its a .avatar css rule making all the avatars on your site big
or if i could find something else.

I’m pretty sure my theme does not use a conventional style sheet so I may have to edit this in the root folder?

thats not a good idea , it will be lost next upgrade.

[Robin W]

ok try this, which should tidy most usernames

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://mysite.com/forums/users/
<?php global $current_user;
      get_currentuserinfo();
$string = $current_user->user_login ;
     //Lower case everything
    $string = strtolower($string);
    //Make alphanumeric (removes all other characters)
    $string = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9_\s-]/", "", $string);
    //Clean up multiple dashes or whitespaces
    $string = preg_replace("/[\s-]+/", " ", $string);
    //Convert whitespaces and underscore to dash
    $string = preg_replace("/[\s_]/", "-", $string);
    return $string;
echo $string . "";      
?>/edit/">

[tonydes]

@Robkk Thanks for the response, but I moved the file to both locations, and edited the css but nothing worked. I used this code to resize the images:

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-template-notice img.avatar, #bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta img.avatar {
width: 20px !important;
height: 20px !important;
}

I’m pretty sure my theme does not use a conventional style sheet so I may have to edit this in the root folder?

[Stephen Edgar]

None of those plugins standout as something that would cause the issue, though I expect most likely it is one of them…

You state:

When the bbPress plugin is deactivated, I can not. Instead what I see is a page that displays:

And then:

I disabled then deleted bbPress and still saw the error reported above. I then re-installed and re-enabled bbPress and the error went away.

If you can’t access /wp-admin with bbPress disabled, how exactly are you re-activating bbPress?

[KevinBCarney]

Sorry. I forgot to include that.

Quite a few.

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