[Robin W]

hmmm…could be lots of things

I see you’re using the twentyeleven theme, how have you set the forums page up?

Easiest way is to create a page called ‘forums’ and put this short code in it

[bbp-forum-index]

Then add that page to your menu’s

Then as the page is set to display the sidebar it should all work

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress blocks shortcodes by default.

You will need to use this plugin to setup ‘allowed’ shortcodes:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist/

[Cory]

I created a page on our site and I’m using code from the “Newest Topics” template to make this page generate the most recent topics.

But this shows me the most recent activity, not the most recent topics. So, any topic that gets a new response then becomes the most recent topic, even if it was started a long time ago.

What I WANT to show are the most recently started topics, like the Newest Topics widget shows. Is there an adjustment I can make?

Can I include a new query in my page template that will order them differently?

Is there a different template for this altogether?

[CraigM1970]

Okay, I managed to work this out for myself eventually. It was quite simple once I realised I was dealing with the Teeny version. Doh!

For anyone else who wants to add the Visual editor and also have it only paste plain text from Word etc. here’s how.

/*  Enable visual editor on tinymce in bbPress  */

function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

/* Enable TinyMCE paste plugin */

function bbp_add_paste_plugin($args) {
  array_push($args,'paste');
  return $args;
}
add_filter( 'teeny_mce_plugins', 'bbp_add_paste_plugin');

/* Enable paste_sticky as default */

function bbp_myformatTinyMCE($in) {
	$in['paste_text_sticky'] = true;
	$in['paste_text_sticky_default'] = true;
   return $in;
}
add_filter('teeny_mce_before_init', 'bbp_myformatTinyMCE');

[Bryan Morgan]

I am using the latest install of wordpress, buddypress and bbpress as well as gravity forms. I am needing to place a Gravity From inside a private bbpress forum topic as this form is meant to be seen only by members of this private buddypress group. When using the typical “add form” button at the top of the edit topic page which adds the shortcode to embed the form it places the shortcode there but then the shortcode is the only thing that appears when viewing the topic, not the intended form. Is shortcode not the way to do this and if not what is the best way to proceed to allow only members of this private group access to this form?

[Angel Candelaria]

Hi @lomyn.

On the bbPress install package, there should be a file called bbpress.css (under bbpress/templates/default/css). Just extract that file from the package, add the code at the end of the file, and copy it to your theme’s css directory.

[CraigM1970]

Wordpress 3.6.1, bbPress 2.4, Buddypress1.8.1 Site is http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com

I’m using the visual TinyMCE editor on my bbPress Forum pages and also on my normal WordPress blog pages.

Some users have issues with spans and other code being copied in when they paste. I have been able to stop the pasting issue on the blog comments with the following code which added the paste plugin to TinyMCE:

function myformatTinyMCE($in) {
	$in['plugins'] = 'inlinepopups, paste, wordpress, wplink, wpdialogs';
	$in['paste_text_sticky'] = true;
	$in['paste_text_sticky_default'] = true;
   return $in;
}
add_filter('tiny_mce_before_init', 'myformatTinyMCE' );

However, it doesn’t affect TinyMCE on the Forums. They seem to be separate. I instigated the visual editor on the bbPress topics with the following code:

function bbp_enable_visual_editor($in) {
  $in['tinymce'] = true;
 return $in;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor');

I’ve tried lots of different things, but I can’t seem to affect the bbPress TinyMCE the same way I can the blog TinyMCE.

For example, this didn’t work:

function bbp_enable_visual_editor($in) {
  $in['tinymce'] = true;
  $in['plugins'] = 'inlinepopups, paste, wordpress, wplink, wpdialogs, tabfocus';
  $in['paste_text_sticky'] = true;
  $in['paste_text_sticky_default'] = true;
 return $in;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor');

Anybody any ideas how to add paste to the plugins and possibly add paste_text_sticky etc as well? I’m a bit new at this.

Thanks.

[FreeWPress]

Replace with this:

	#content {
		float: left;
		width: 68%;
	}

You must to remove your code and replace…

No max-widht no # ok?

[FreeWPress]

Open your style.css, go to line 1089 and write this:

#content {
    float: left;
    width: 68%;
}

[seamtv]

I have Genesis 2 and a responsive child theme. In my case, the forum index is working, but I, too, get this mysterious image thumbnail and cannot – for the life of me – figure out why it’s appearing. I looked at the code on the page and tracked down the image in my media library but have no idea where the instructions to display it on the page are coming from. If you ever figure it out, please let me know!
If it’s any help, the index appears to be using an ‘archive’ css of some kind. I am wondering if there was a setting at some time to have an image header that has since been deprecated in my theme but has resulted in errant code haunting me?

[benjito]

I want to create a custom landing page which displays my forums.

I have created a page with the bbPress shorcode [bbp-forum-index] which works fine.

However, the breadcrumb “forums” link goes to a different page which contains a load of text jibberish!

I changed the forums slug in the settings to my page (and updated the permalinks) but instead of the breadcrumb link going to the page with the shortcode, the page itself gets over-written by the text jibberish.

It actually looks like the bbPress sidebar is loading into the main content field, though i don’t know why or how to fix.

Page with shortcode > activenaturalist.org.uk/anforum/
Forums breadcrumb text jibberish > activenaturalist.org.uk/fmsforum/

If anyone thinks this post looks familiar it is because i posted about something similar in the past then went under siege from a Chinese bot, the website has only recently been allowed back up by my host.

WP 3.6.1
bbPress 2.4

[lomyn]

Hello, which file did you insert the code into? I’m a bit of a coding novice. Appreciate the help!

[zandfabriek]

Ok, thanx!
I’ll give it a try…

zandfabriek

[Xevo]

bbPress is just using WordPress’s custom post type function, so you can just use the standard loop that you use for Worpdress and edit it to only load the forums custom post type.

[zandfabriek]

Hi Kenny,

Any luck figuring out how to show a forum with php only? I’m trying to do the same, but can’t find any relevant info.

Regards,
zandfabriek

[Xevo]

You can edit the theme files and remove it from there.

Here’s more info about editing the bbPress theme files.

[Xevo]

You can find your answer here.

[BuckyOHare]

I figured out how to do this and more, unfortunately I have found little documentation about using the extras folder in the BBPress template files and how really wonderful they are for advanced customization without the use of additional hooks.

EXTRAS Folder located at:
plugins/bbpress/templates/default/extras

To increase the amount of items you can customize in your bbpress theme, copy pages from out of here and paste them into the folder:
plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress

In this case I needed to customize the individual topic page titles so I copied single-topic.php from out the extras folder pasted it into the bbpress folder. Then I opened up my theme’s page.php file and compared which style, entry-content, and container tags needed to be pasted into the single-topic.php page. I then exchanged bbp_topic_title() for bbp_forum_title() and styled it with my default WordPress styling tags and placed the topic title below it in a smaller more reasonable font than my site’s default .entry-title style.

The end result is the topic page displaying the forum name up at the top in the site-standard page styling with the topic title below it in a smaller reasonable font, as topics are generally WAY LONGER and should not be styled with the site’s main title styles by default.

[Biswadip]

Thanks Stephen maybe you are right.

Perhaps I was being too ambitious in hoping for a solution where the forum id can be used to access the forum name without me having to manually include the forum id and forum name in my code every time the user creates a new forum?

And in which database table can I find the forum names pray tell? It is not in wp_posts as far as I can see.

[jayce103]

Thanks for the reply Stephen!

It seems to be a question that nobody can answer, or, I am not asking it correctly

Basically I want images that I attach to a topic post to appear in the [bbp-topic-index]. This is inline so that they appear on a home page style set up.

I have achieved this using BuddyPress and their activity shortcode, but don’t like the way in which only one forum can be used for all groups. I really want 1 group to have more than one forum attached to it.

If anyone can help with the above please let me know as it is driving me bonkers!!! Other forums such as IPS board can do it so there must be a way of adding a little code to get it to work.

Cheers,

[Stephen Edgar]

The problem I cannot seem to solve is – where to get the name of the forum from? Without getting the name of the forum from somewhere in the database

The ONLY place the forum name exists is in the database :/

Just include the forum name and forum id into your logic, each topics `post_parent’ points to the parent forum id and then you can get the forum name at the same time.

SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = ‘forum’

[Biswadip]

I am using WordPress 3.6.1 with plugins Buddypress 1.8.1 and bbpress 2.3. I am trying to import the latest topics and replies from specific bbpress forums into specific wordpress pages.

I started with a Mysql query:

$query=”SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = ‘topic’ OR post_type = ‘reply’ ORDER BY post_date DESC”;

Then (in pseudo code) I planned to do the following:

// since forum is a parent of topic which is a parent of reply
// if post is topic get forum id
// if post is reply get forum id from the parent of the topic
//create an array of latest topics and replies associated with their forums
//print latest topics and replies for each forum to different wordpress pages.

The problem I cannot seem to solve is – where to get the name of the forum from? Without getting the name of the forum from somewhere in the database, my only option would seem to be to hardcode the forum id’s of each forum with their respective names. Which means every time a new forum is created this needs to be added in manually in the code. None of the tables I see in the wp database seems to contain the names of the different forums. Even if one of the other tables did contain it I am still not sure how I would then associate the forum id’s from the wp_posts table with the forum names from another table – presumably I would have to do some kind of join? Or maybe I am going about it completely the wrong way – is anyone able to help an inexperienced developer out of his depth navigate his way through this problem?

[Kaliceos]

I checked the code of this plugin and it uses a filter on bbp_has_forums that tries to catch the $args from the original query but they are not transmitted through the filter in bbPress, so it uses the default ones and doesn’t take care of the post_parent argument. You should try to contact the author of the plugin, maybe he can alter the query without parsing all args again. The Codex says it is possible with $query->set().

[inspirationally]

Aaaah there we have it. I use Tehnik BBPress Permissions, too!
Now I have to see how to combine both. With deactivating your code works perfectly!

Thanks so much!!

[Kaliceos]

Indeed, it looks like the new parent is not caught. It’s strange because in the code, the ID of the parent forum is correctly read as we can see in the <ul id="forums-list-17150" class="bbp-forums"> and is seen as a category. It seems like the post_parent argument is not used.

Have you (or your theme creator) applied a filter to bbp_has_forums ?

Can you check with an other theme ? (use https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-test-drive/ if you don’t want to disturb your visitors)