[inspirationally]

Hey there,

I have a problem I can’t find a solution for (all latest versions, but it was the same before) at deppheads.com:

Every few seconds, I can see a new revision coming up in the database. I just removed the revisions of the last month and there were over 50000! I mean my forums have a few hundred thousand posts, and they are some kind of reply/topic revisions to existing posts/topics as copies of existing replies (I think). Very curious.

I have no idea how to disable them from being created. I already set auto_save to define('AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 86400);

and added

add_action('admin_init', 'disable_revisions');
function disable_revisions(){
       remove_post_type_support('revision', 'revisions');
 remove_post_type_support('topic', 'revisions');
    remove_post_type_support('reply', 'revisions');
}

to my functions.php, but they still appear.

And I disabled revisions for bbpress posts in the settings page.

Any ideas??

Visitors are allowed to post, and I’d like to keep it like that, because it is also my comments system and I know many would not comment if they needed to register.

Here are the last 20 exported as sql (couln’t copy it in, so as a link:)

http://deppheads.com/insert.txt

Here one example of the “parent” http://deppheads.com/forums/reply/359207/

[piccart]

Hello!

I am using the default template of bbpress and I’d like to customize it

My issue is divisible in 3 parts:

1- I’d like to cut off the “add your reply form” from the bottom of the comments list
2- I’d like to make a custom page with the form, which I’ve seen I can make with a shortcode
3- I’ll need to build up a button “post reply” on the topic page, which I think it will have to pass to the form page a variable with the id of the topic, otherwise it won’t be possible for that form to append the reply to the correct topic, isn’t it?

I think I’ve found where to cut off the displaying of the form but I’d like you to confirm before I make mess. is it in this file:
bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-topic.php
and if I’d like to cut off the form from the topics archive lists as well, the file should be this:
bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.php

point 2 should be easy, but I am wondering how I’ll have to pass the variable of the topic which has to be commented.. anyone can explain me how this works?

in point 3 I have no idea.. I’ve browsed millions of files today and found millions of functions and hooks so I don’t know which I have to use and how. by instance I’ve found a bb_get_forum_id() and a get_forum_id() and who knows if there are more similar that I’ve missed. which has to be used to retrive the current topic id? and how it has to be used?

Thank you very much for reading this topic, I hope someone will help me.
Cheers!
Andrea

[mallika12]

I tried this using while creating forums page with the tag [bbp-forum-index], i selected the dropdown of page template to my custom page template but its not reflecting in the topics page and reply page and when point the forumindex page using the breadcrumb also its coming with default tempalte.

Please can any one help regarding this. I feel there should be code where its picking default template page if you know where its picking i can manually put custom page template there

Thanks in advance

[piccart]

Hello!

I have a client who wants to display the bbpress sidebar in the forum pages in a different way.
He want to make it narrow and with smaller fonts.

the problem is that the bbpress sidebar is registered with no particular wrapper id, so if I edit the css, all the sidebars in the website will be changed and not only the forum one.

I am looking to find the file where the sidebar is registered, in order to alter the code and add a specific id (like #bbpress-sidebar) to the sidebar, so I’ll be able to make a custom css for the sidebar sub-classes only for the children of that id.

I’ve looked into millions of files but I haven’t found it, can someone please help me?
Thanx!
Andrea

[Stephen Edgar]

You probably want to use bbp_get_user_profile_url rather than comment_author_url

bbp_get_user_profile_url

[Stephen Edgar]

Take a look the codex for all the options available for bb_list_forums also.

bbp_list_forums

An advanced way of doing this is also in this gist https://gist.github.com/ntwb/3133449 which is based on @lynq topic here https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/customising-bbp_list_forums-last-poster-block/

[Stephen Edgar]

This should do the trick 🙂 Then just add some styling via CSS or the HTML markup in the function below and add it to your themes functions.php file.

function ntwb_forum_link() {
	?>
    <a class="bbp-forum-title" href="<?php bbp_forum_permalink(); ?>"><?php bbp_forum_title(); ?></a>
    <?php
}

add_action( 'bbp_template_after_replies_loop', 'ntwb_forum_link' );

Update: Or just download the gist here and install it as a plugin 😉
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/8295783

[Stephen Edgar]

You can also make a copy of your themes page.php file (or page-no-sidebar.php) and rename this file to bbpress.php and your forums will now use that same template giving you a full width forum. 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

The default ‘freshness’ is calculated by the last reply.

Have you run each of the repair tools after your import?
https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

[Stephen Edgar]

Give this plugin a try 🙂

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist/

This plugin is designed to safely allow bbcode shortcodes and other safe shortcodes to be embedded in bbpress topics and replies and also blog comments. You don’t wan’t users entering shortcodes such as [bbp-login] in the middle of their reply.

[pixmagic]

Also,
it would be fine to redirect to a certain page on logout.
I searched through various bbpress files, but since there are lots of them I couldn’t figure out where and how to adjust the code.
I am also using a childtheme.

Thanks!

[pixmagic]

Hi,
I have installed a private forum, and there is a problem with the logout:
when I am using the bbpress widget in the sidebar or footer and a user logs out exactly (!) on the same page its ok, but on every other page it returns a 404. now this really sucks, because people usually click through the forum and don’t stay on the login page.

I have also created a members page and used the login shortcode, same problem.

Any ideas on how to resolve this?
I searched through the forum, however no answer for the current version of bbpress.
Any help will be appreciated,
Thanks

[synergywp]

Hello,

I think this may be a new issue, but, on line 134 of the default template bbpress-functions.php, and on line 141 for RTL, the script is loading with a relative path and therefore not adding https when necessary.

Of course, when accessing site via https, this is giving a “insecure content” warning.

I made a quick edit which is replacing line 134 with:

'file' => get_home_url() . '/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css',

Keep in mind that may not work with every single install, but likely 99%. (those who have a custom wp-content or plugins dir)

Thanks.

[Deaf_Guy]

Hi – thanks for your reply. I know this is going to sound defeatist and lazy but I simply cannot believe that in this day and age of automation that BBP makes you have to do all of this technical stuff.

I run a blog for my client that you can see here on non-hosted WP. They’re very happy with it:

http://hissign.wordpress.com/

You’ll see in the blog that it’s so easy for me to just plug a YTV video in there. So now my client wants a forum where they can allow others to post a wide variety of YouTube videos presented in ASL (like the example in the first post). But what’s mind blowing to me is when I set up BBPress, I’m amazed that this feature of embed is not right there and ready to go; but instead, I have to tweak and do all kinds of complex stuff like adding codes and stuff. Wow.

I chose WP because the blog (not the forum) does all of this for you conveniently so I can do my job of publishing and not have to worry or figure out all of these codes and stuff. Why in the world would bbPress be completely different.

Anyway, thanks for your help and I’m not really sure what to do at this point about my client’s forum needs.

[Andreas]

Hey,

I use some other plugins providing shortcodes. The work fine on every page, but not in topics or response of the bbpress forum.

For example this progress bar plugin
http://wordpress.org/plugins/progress-bar/

How can I add the function that the shortcodes will work in bbpress forums?

Thanks for your help!

[Stephen Edgar]

The bbPress templates should be in /wp-content/themes/yourchildtheme/bbpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

Make a copy of your themes page.php (Or page-no-sidebar.php) and rename the file to bbpress.php in your themes directory.

[Stephen Edgar]

users -> delete imported_user with the option to move all topics/replies to the original users.

Just go to your WordPress Admin Dashboard and select the the ‘imported_username’ and click delete, then select the ‘username’ from the dropdown.

When bbPress does the import if a user already exists then it will be created with the prefix imported_ as part of the username.

Typically this happens after doing the import a couple of times without previously having deleted the imported users.

[wiste]

Thanks, I didn’t realize I could do that. I’ve only been using bbPress for about a week so I’m not sure I’m an authority. I spent the morning working it out and figured I could save someone else the frustration. I will take a look at updating the codex when I get some spare time, but if anyone wants to take this info and add it before I get to it feel free.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for this 🙂

Any chance you’d be able to update the codex so it isn’t out of date?
https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/

(You login with your normal wordpress.org/bbpress.org username & password as anyone can edit the codex)

[Subtopic]

Your good haha. So is there any code I can add to make it resize as a general value?

[Stephen Edgar]

It looks like your theme is forcing all avatars to be 40px x 40px also from a quick look at your CSS.

.avatar{border:5px solid #d5cba4;margin-bottom:-15px;margin-right:10px;width:40px;height:40px}

[Shawn74]

Solved:

I declared as Avatar then i used this code inside theme’s function php file:

add_post_type_support('forum', array('thumbnail'));

function ks_forum_icons() {
	if ( 'forum' == get_post_type() ) {
		global $post;
	    if ( has_post_thumbnail($post->ID) )
	    	echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID,'thumbnail',array('class' => 'alignleft forum-icon'));
	 }
}
add_action('bbp_theme_before_forum_title','ks_forum_icons');

Then i changed the img.avatar style (hope to have not changed anithing else…)

Source:
http://www.kristarella.com/2013/04/bbpress-forum-icons/

[wiste]

The codex page for this is outdated and a lot of the threads are for older versions so here is a version for WP 3.8, bbPress 2.5.2.

Resources

Here are the pages from which I pieced this together.

http://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
http://op111.net/53/
http://perishablepress.com/bbpress-theme-template-files/
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/wordpress-child-themes-dev/

WordPress Child Themes – What, Why & How

Initial Setup

Install WordPress and bbPress.

Step #1: Create a child theme of your WordPress theme.

Even though what you’re wanting to change is bbPress and not your WordPress, there are not separate themes for plugins, so you need to create a child theme of whatever WordPress theme you are using to have a place to put the bbPress plugin child theme files. This will ensure that any updates to bbPress or your WordPress theme will not overwrite your changes. Here is how you create a child theme:

1. FTP to your website
2. Go to ../wp-content/themes
3. Create a new folder for your child theme. Name it yourtheme-child for the sake of organization.
4. Create a new file called style.css and add the below, changing the valuesto the value for your child theme. The critical fields are Theme Name, Template, and the the parent theme directory name (which should be the same as “Template”) in the @import. Everything else is used by wordpress.org for categorizing templates so don’t stress if you don’t know what to put there:

/*
 Theme Name: Your Theme Name Child
 Theme URI: Your website if you don't intend to publish a separate site just for your theme
 Description: A brief description of your child theme
 Author: your name
 Author URI: your website
 Template: parent-theme-directory
 Version: 1.0.0
 Tags:  whatever tags you might want to use for your child theme
*/

@import url("../parent-theme-directory/style.css");

/* =Theme customization starts here
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

5. FTP your newly created style.css to ../wp-content/themes/yourtheme-child

Step #2: Add your bbPress Child Theme files to your WordPress Child Theme

1. Create a folder called “bbpress” on your local machine.
2. FTP to ../wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates
3. Download the contents of the “Default” folder to the “bbpress” folder on your local machine
4. Edit the files you want to change for bbPress (see bbpress-theme-template-files link under resources above).
5. Delete any files you haven’t changed. You can skip this step if it’s confusing, but you should try to only upload files you’ve changed.
6. FTP to ../wp/content/themes/yourtheme-child
7. Create a folder called “bbpress” inside yourtheme-child
8. Copy the contents of the “bbpress” folder in your local machine to the “bbpress” folder inside your child theme folder.

Step #3: Activate your Child Theme

Once you have created your child theme and made changes to the bbPress files in the child theme, you need to activate the child theme in order to see the changes on your site.

1. Log into your WordPress admin panel
2. Go to Appearance -> Themes
3. Find your child theme. It would be the same as the “Theme Name” you gave it in the first line of the style.css you created in Step 1.
4. Click “live preview” and make sure nothing has gone horribly wrong.
5. Activate the child theme.

Since you didn’t change any files from your wordpress theme, the theme for the site will be inherited from the parent theme so the only changes you should see are the changes you made to the bbpress files that you uploaded to your child theme. The only problem I encountered was that because it was a new theme, my custom “header top menu” was not associated with the theme, so I just had to go into the menu and check the box to tell it to use that custom menu as the header menu.

[Shawn74]

P.s. the working code (at least for me) is the one posted by @aashepaa

Thanks again…