[Robin W]

bbPress uses your theme’s page templates to wrap the code in, so you will need to use a page from your theme that doesn’t have a sidebar, and rename this.

see https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#8-make-sure-bbpress-uses-the-page-template-we-want

So once you know which page template file you need, copy this and rename the copy to bbpress.php

Place this file in the root of your theme ie wp-content/themes/%mytheme%/bbpress.php where %mytheme% is your theme’s name.

come back if any of that is not clear, and I’ll try and help further !

[lizat]

I want to change the template used for my forums index and the forum itself – currently it is using a default that has a sidebar that I don’t want.

I think they live in …/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress. So I can create new ones in my child theme if I only knew which to copy?

Is there a list anywhere of which is what…. the codex doesn’t seem to have it. Right now I need to know the ones for:

• Forums Index page
• Forum list of threads page
• Thread Page

Thank you

liz

[Majijiboo]

Create a file called functions.php which would be in your Child theme and then place the following text in your file and then place the code mentioned above and then you should be good to go.

<?php //Opening PHP tag

[Magic-Komplex]

I’d like to use this as well, but not sure how to implement this. Should this be in an own file (named how?) and added to my childtheme’s subolder bbpress, or should I place the code somewhere in an existing file?

[Robin W]

think its as simple as lacking the hash (#) at the start

ie

#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content p,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content p {
font-size: 12px ;

Come back if that doesn’t work and I’ll look further.

If it does, let me know and I’ll change the docs !

[Stephen Edgar]

Let’s try it here with code and codes

Here is the tag code : https://bbpress.org/forums/topic-tag/code/ <-That works perfectly
Here is the tag codes : https://bbpress.org/forums/topic-tag/code/ <-That works perfectly
Here is the search code : https://bbpress.org/forums/search/code/ <-That works perfectly
Here is the search codes : https://bbpress.org/forums/search/codes/ <-That works perfectly

is there a way to set up so all the tags appear on a page? e.g. Tags Page? Thanks.

You would need to start modifying your bbPress templates, have a read of some of the docs on the codex that @Robin-W has pointed out to you already.

[Stephen Edgar]

You just need to add the following sbnippet of code to your themes functions.php file:

function custom_bbp_list_forums() {
  $args['separator'] = '<br />';
  return $args;
}
add_filter('bbp_before_list_forums_parse_args', 'custom_bbp_list_forums' );

[Stephen Edgar]

This time, it converted the users, all of the topics, and about 220,00 replies, then started just outputting dashes again. What does it mean when it starts outputting dashes? What is the program doing?

As I stated above it can be for many reasons and is a bug/error that we have not been able to isolate to fix, we have not found a way to trigger the bug allowing us to reproduce the bug and create the fix. It is a random thing as I outlined in my previous reply.

I opened a new window and re-started the conversion from that window, but instead of picking up where it left off, it started converting topics again. Am I going to have two copies of each topic in the BBPress forums now? Should I reset the forums again?

If you want the importer to resume from where it left off you need to make sure you don’t check the checkbox in the following screenshot, if you do check it then it will start again from the start and you will end up with two of everything.

Instead of using “reset forums,” can I just empty some of the MySQL tables?

This should be sufficient for most cases and because bbPress uses custom post types it shares the same wp_posts and wp_postmeta tables with WordPress and any other plugin or themes custom post types. It should be quite fast and behind the scenes it is actually doing direct MySQL queries to remove only the bbPress forums, topics, replies and topic tags from the posts, postmeta and taxonomy tables.

I know it can be frustrating getting this to work as I have been were you are now and is the reason I started using bbPress. I went through the same problems trying to import from phpBB to bbPress, I eventually got it working and started learning PHP and now as a novice PHP programmer I try my best to help others migrate their forums to bbPress and improve bbPress as best I can and it’s not easy and for an old dog learning new tricks I reckon I’m doing alright.

[Stephen Edgar]

Finally I’ve written a small script to migrate kunena attachments to GD bbPress attachments

@cybnet Awesome thanks for this, I added it to the (still sparse) Kunena docs here.

I’ll take a closer look when I get the chance and see what ideas I can come up with. I was at a WordPress Meetup a couple of months ago that demoed a few different ways to move media from one install to another that once time permits I’d love to take a shot at including it in our importer.

Now I’d like to write a script to convert kunena BBCode into bbPress HTML because there are some bbcodes not converted.

This I can most definitely help out with now.

The SMF and phpBB importers both have some good examples of converting BBCode to ‘native’ bbPress (WordPress) code. I am simply use regular expressions to convert them on the fly as each topic or reply is converted.

eg. This Replaces [size=$1:XXXXXXXX] with <span style="font-size:$1%;">$3</span>

$phpbb_uid = preg_replace( '/\[size=(.*?):(.*?)\]/', '<span style="font-size:$1%;">', $phpbb_uid );

You can see the SMF regex here and the phpBB here. There are probably quite a few that we can repurpose and if not make up a list for me and I’ll work towards getting them added to the Kunena importers in a future release.

[batmanfan]

Thanks Robin. You have been a great help.

I read through and tried https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-styling-crib/

What I did,
1. installed Simple Custom CSS plugin – all ok
2. insert the below code. and changed the font-size: 1.1em; to 1.6em

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

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

IF post is sticky or super sticky, then

.bbp-topics-front ul.super-sticky,
.bbp-topics ul.super-sticky,
.bbp-topics ul.sticky,
.bbp-forum-content ul.sticky {
background-color: #ffffe0 !important;
font-size: 1.1em;
}

but the rest doesn’t seem to work…especially
Number 5. Various texts

bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content p,
bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content p {
font-size: 12px;

I change the font-size: 20px

nothing happens. 🙁

what did I do wrong? basically I wanted to increase font size for all forum section from 1 to 8. How please.

Thank you in advance

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m quite sure this is possible… Yes, done 😉

A quickly whipped up plugin https://gist.github.com/ntwb/9887310

function ntwb_bbp_bp_pm() {
    if(function_exists('bp_send_private_message_link') && is_user_logged_in() ) {
    	?>
    	<a href="<?php bp_send_private_message_link() ?>" title="Private Message">Private Message</a>
    	<?php
    }
}
add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details', 'ntwb_bbp_bp_pm' );

[Robin W]

Glad you found it.

There are a whole set of things you can change listed here

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[Robin W]

you’re ‘here’ didn’t work

gave you checked

bbPress Styling Crib

[Stephen Edgar]

Is there anything else I need to do to ensure I get that performance increase?

Be ready for bbPress v2.6 😉 We have a few performance improvements coming with this release.

The downside of our planned improvements means there is a pretty high chance we will break sites thus we have lots of testing and lots of extra code to write to make sure we don’t break anything.

[Stephen Edgar]

Run the repair tool ‘Recalculate last activity in each topic and forum’ and that should fix your issue.

https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

[Magic-Komplex]

Unfortunately there is no button to change this, I wanted the same thing for my forum. But it’s really not a huge thing you have to change within the code. See the detailed explanation how to achieve this here, it’s quite easy:

http://www.thespiritualpath.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/error.jpg

4. Adding code to our child theme’s style.css

[CliffhangerL]

Hi,

I’m new to BBpress and need some guidance. I have tried to search for the problem I have but I have not been able to understand if the posts I find really have to do with my problem.

What I want to do is to make (see picture below) a list where Fictional literature, where posts are lined up below each other.
Fictional Literature (0, 0),
Fictional News Post (0, 0),
Fictional Media (0, 0)
etc…

I found some answers saying I need to add a code in a PHP-file called loop. But that seems too extreme to fix something “simple” like this? The plugin seem very complete and I would guess theres just a box to click to make this change.. or I’m I asking for too much? 🙂

In my picture below is what I see when I go into my Forum.

[batmanfan]

I’ve created a topic with ‘tags’ e.g. tags: codes, code.
But when try searching for the tags: ‘code’ or ‘codes’ it’s not showing up! How to make it show up on ‘search’? also, is there a way to set up so all the tags appear on a page? e.g. Tags Page? Thanks.

[shpitzyl]

I’m struggling with this one for a couple of days. Your code solved my problem, Thanks.

[Robin W]

Put the following code in your functions file

function change_no_topics ($anchor) {
if ($anchor=="No Topics") {
$anchor=" " ;
}
Return $anchor ;
}
add_filter ('bbp_get_forum_freshness_link','change_no_topics') ;

This will blank it.

If you want it to say the same each time, just change the $anchor=” ” to whatever you want it to say.

If you don’t know how to do any of this, come back

[Stephen Edgar]

This is weird, as you say there is only one copy of the forums in the backend yet two on the front :/

I see http://elitegamingcomputers.com/forum/ & http://elitegamingcomputers.com/forum/page/2/

Yet picking a forum via either page above eg http://elitegamingcomputers.com/forum/social/in-game-strategy/ is the same resulting URL from either page, the same for a topic from either forum page eg http://elitegamingcomputers.com/topic/dthpwns-pvp-keybinding-guides/

If there were duplicates from an import you would see the duplicates in the back end and when viewing the forum or topic typically one of them would end with -2, for example you would have example.com/forum/my-topic and example.com/forum/my-topic-2 as each page. forum, topic must have a unique slug.

What I do see that is weird though is your main forum page is:
http://elitegamingcomputers.com/?post_type=page&p=4947 <- That is weird
http://elitegamingcomputers.com/forum <- This is what I expect you should be using

Do you have a custom page setup for your forums and by chance do have you used the bbPress shortcode [bbp-forum-list] twice?

The topics section of your site looks and appears ‘mostly’ to work as expected:
http://elitegamingcomputers.com/topics/
The ‘By’ section in the below screenshot should not be there though.

Looking at the source of your site I know see your using a Genesis theme, do you have the Genesis bbPress Extend plugin installed and activated? https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/ as you will need this.

One more thing is that this could be an issue with your rewrite rules. To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

[kvr28]

thank-you, you want to see a awesome forum, look here

http://www.itinerantangler.com/blog/board/forums/

zach was kind enough to share his css with me on this thread

Fly-Fishing Site

so I copied and pasted it into my themes custom css and tried it, some things worked well, some things didn’t with my theme, so it got me thinking, since I know pretty much nothing about css, I started looking at other bbpress forums and just started inspecting elements to see how they got the affect that I liked, I spent about two weeks doing this, here is the css I ended up with and I use that loop-forums on the other thread, not sure why it’s giving errors for you, I found another example of a loop-forums I found and tested on my staging server and it is pretty close to what you want I think, the link for that is on the other thread

.single .entry-title { display: none; }

.entry-title { display: none; }

div.bbp-template-notice.info {
border: #B6A9A6 1px solid;
background-color: #f0ead6;
}

#bbpress-forums div.even,
#bbpress-forums ul.even {
	background-color: #fbfbfb;
}
#bbpress-forums div.odd,
#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
	background-color: #fff;
}

/* =Breadcrumb and Tags
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
div.bbp-breadcrumb {
	float: none;
	display:block;
	border: 1px solid #e4e4e4;
	padding:9px;
	-moz-border-radius: 3px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
	border-radius: 3px;
	-moz-background-clip: padding;
	-webkit-background-clip: padding-box;
	background-clip: padding-box;
	background-color: #f5f5f5;
}
div.bbp-breadcrumb p{
	margin:0 !important;
}
.bbp-breadcrumb a{
	position:relative;
}
.bbp-breadcrumb a:before{
	border-bottom: 20px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
    border-left: 18px solid #E1E1E1;
    border-top: 20px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
    content: " ";
    display: block;
    height: 0;
    left: 100%;
    margin-left: -7px;
    margin-top: -19px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 49%;
    width: 0;
    z-index: 1;
}
.bbp-breadcrumb a:after{
	border-bottom: 20px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
    border-left: 18px solid #F5F5F5;
    border-top: 20px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
    content: " ";
    display: block;
    height: 0;
    left: 100%;
    margin-left: -8px;
    margin-top: -19px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 49%;
    width: 0;
    z-index: 1;
}
a.bbp-breadcrumb-home,
a.bbp-breadcrumb-root,
a.bbp-breadcrumb-forum,
a.bbp-breadcrumb-search,
span.bbp-breadcrumb-current  {
    display: inline-block;
    line-height: 20px;
    padding: 0 10px;
	font-size: 1em;
	color:#818181;
}
div.bbp-breadcrumb,
div.bbp-topic-tags {
	font-size: 12px;
}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-breadcrumb p,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-tags p {
	margin-bottom: 10px
}
div.bbp-topic-tags {
	float: right;
}
div.topic-author-displayname,
div.reply-author-displayname {
	
	color: #EB4B00;
	font-size: 16px;
}
	.user-id-1 div.topic-author-displayname,
	.user-id-1 div.reply-author-displayname{ 
		font-weight: bold;
	}

/* =Forms
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form legend {
	padding: 5px;
}
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form label {
	margin: 0;
	display: inline-block; 
}
#bbp-edit-topic-tag.bbp-form fieldset.bbp-form label,
#bbp-login fieldset label,
#bbp-register fieldset label,
#bbp-lost-pass fieldset label {
	width: 100px;
}
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form p,
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form textarea,
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form select,
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form input {
	margin: 0 0 8px;
}
form#bbp-your-profile fieldset.submit {
	border: none;
}
textarea#bbp_reply_content,
textarea#bbp_topic_content,
textarea#bbp_forum_content {
	width: 98%;
	box-sizing: border-box;
	-webkit-box-sizing:border-box;
	-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
	-ms-box-sizing: border-box;
}
textarea#bbp_forum_content {
	height: 210px;
}
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-forum-form-attributes {
	width: 200px;
	float: right;
	clear: none;
	margin-left: 25px;
}
.bbp-topic-form,
.bbp-reply-form,
.bbp-topic-tag-form {
	clear: left;
}
body.topic-edit .bbp-topic-form div.avatar img,
body.reply-edit .bbp-reply-form div.avatar img,
body.single-forum .bbp-topic-form div.avatar img,
body.single-reply .bbp-reply-form div.avatar img {
	margin-right: 0;
	padding: 10px;
	border: 1px solid #ddd;
	line-height: 0;
	background-color: #efefef;
}
body.page .bbp-reply-form code,
body.page .bbp-topic-form code,
body.single-topic .bbp-reply-form code,
body.single-forum .bbp-topic-form code,
body.topic-edit .bbp-topic-form code,
body.reply-edit .bbp-reply-form code {
	font-size: 10px;
	background-color: #f0fff8;
	border: 1px solid #CEEFE1;
	display: block;
	padding: 8px;
	margin-top: 5px;
	width: 369px;
}
	.form-allowed-tags code {
		background: #bcd7f3 !important;
		font-size: 11px !important;
		border: none !important;
		width: auto !important;
		color:#333 !important; 
		white-space: normal !important;
	}
#merge_tag,
#delete_tag {
	display: inline;
}
div.bbp-submit-wrapper {
	margin-top: 15px;
	float: left;
	clear: both;
}

#bbpress-forums div.odd,#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
background-color: #f3f3f3;
}

#access {
background: #D9D9D9;
padding-left: 0 !important;
padding-right: 0 !important;
}

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header {
background: #D9D9D9;
border-top: none !important;
width: 99%;
border-bottom: 1px solid #d3d3d3 !important;
}

#footer-area {
background: #D9D9D9;
}

.bbp-footer {
background: #D9D9D9;
}

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header {
        font-size: 1.3em;
}

.bbp-topic-title {
   font-size: 1.1em;
}

.widget_display_topics .bbp-author-avatar { display: none ! important; }

.bbp-topic-freshness-author  .bbp-author-avatar { display: none ! important; }

blockquote:before {content: ‘\275d’; color: #555; font-size: 15px; width: 15px; height: 15px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: -70px; margin-top: 10px; float:left; }

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
background-color: #afafaf;
}

.bbp-admin-links a {
color: #00548c !important;
}

.bbp-admin-links a:hover {
color: #d54e21 !important;
}

[kvr28]

I’m not sure, I thought I had found that as a example on here somewhere, but I can’t seem to find it, it’s what I use on my forum and I’m not getting any errors, I just found this example and just tried it on my testing site and it works well, see if it gives you any errors

https://code.google.com/p/ogre3d-fr/source/browse/wp-content/themes/ogre3d/bbpress/loop-forums.php?r=25

also lynq made a pretty sweet template pack, maybe try that and see if you like the look

I have created a bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel

[Robin W]

@kvr28 great looking modification. Just tried it and it fell over with a parse error :

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘=’ in….line 44

which is

bbp_has_forums(‘post_parent=’.bbp_get_forum_id());

Any ideas?

[Robin W]

Yes (at least it was in my case) – unless the old system used the same password system, then the encrypted password is alien to WP, so unless it just believes that all users are genuine, then it has to reject users.

Password lost works as a good mechanism as it sends email to user, so confirms identity.

I just created a page in my menu headed “old forum users” and put a message in there that they wuld need their password reset for security reasons, and to click lost password. I then used the [bbp-login] and [bbp-lost-pass] shortcodes to display that on screen under the message.