[Aimee]

Hello,

I want to include WP template tags in bbPress templates and vice versa.

For example in user-profile.php in my bbPress template, I want to include <?php echo get_the_author_posts(); ?> (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_author_posts), which is a WP template tag.

Similarly, for author.php in my WordPress template, I want to include topics started by the author.

I imagine I’d have to query the user, so is there a way of doing this?

[julienborne]

Thanks for your answer, I did add the code snippet in the theme’s functions.php file but nothing shows… 🙁

In BBpress forum settings, a crossed the wordpress fancy editor’s box as well as the Auto-embed links and the Fancy editor full ones.

My problem mainly is that there is NO editor at all.. I would be happy even to have a non-fancy one ^^

[Erlend]

The fancy editor is disabled by default. You have two choices:

Enable Visual Editor

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

It’s for good reason that it’s disabled though. It considerably slows down mobile devices and is just all around far more unpredictable than the plain editor in terms of how users might mess up with it.

[ncshort]

Is it possible to remove the parenthetical topic and reply number from the index as it appears when one uses the bbp-forum-index shortcode? If so, what do I do?

Many thanks

[hitkid]

I’m trying to edit "user" started the topic "Topic" in the forum "Forum" in the activity header of my buddypress activity page. I looked forever to try and find it in wp-content/pluggins/buddypress/bp-languages/buddypress.POT and couldn’t find this: %1$s started the topic %2$s in the forum %3$s I eventually found it in
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/languages/bbpress.POT I then did this:

1. edit the file bbpress.pot file in poedit.
2. create the folder “bbpress” in the wordpress content languages folder. Make the languages folder if you need to so your path looks like this: wp-content/languages/bbpress
3. save the edited bbpress.pot file as bbpress-en_US.po
4. upload the created po and mo files to the bbpress folder in lanugaes. reset your cashe to see it working

I found that in this thread: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/language-file-isnt-working/

I also tried
define ('WPLANG', 'en_US');

Nothing. Am I doing this right?

Please help, I’ve been stuck for weeks on this.

[b a]

Hello,

I’m developing theme for my site where I made it look pretty much like this one here.

So how I did it:

First of all in bbpress.php (in the root)

<?php if (is_post_type_archive( 'forum' )) { ?>
	<div class="entry-content row">
		<div class="forum-sidebar span3">
			<h3 style="float:left;margin-bottom:11px">Forums:</h3>
			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-forum-home' ); ?>
		</div>
		<div class="span7">
			<h3 style="float:left">Recent Topics:</h3>
			<div class="bbp-new-topic-form" style="float:right">
				<button id="bbp_forums_new_topic" class="btn"><i class="icon-edit"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;New Topic</button>
			</div>
			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-topic-home' ); ?>
		</div>
	</div>
<?php } else { ?>

so in my achive-topic-home I use this template:

	<?php if ( bbp_has_topics() ) : ?>
		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',       'topics'    ); ?>
		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>
	<?php else : ?>
		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback',   'no-topics' ); ?>
	<?php endif; ?>
	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_topics_index' ); ?>

I didn’t touch much of the template files.
The problem is pagination.
For example second page in pagination links to http://example.com/page/2
where my forums are located at http://example.com/boards
where I try to navigate to http://example.com/boards/page/2 it gives me an 404.

——

Also interesting what I found:
first archive-forum-home template:

<div id="bbpress-forums" class="forum-news">
	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_forums_index' ); ?>
	<?php if ( bbp_has_forums() ) : ?>
		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',     'forums-home'    ); ?>
	<?php else : ?>
		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback', 'no-forums' ); ?>
	<?php endif; ?>
	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_forums_index' ); ?>
</div>

so when I delete everything inside, now pagination points to
http://example.com/boards/forum/SOMEFORUMNAME/page/2/

I don’t get how it chose this SOMEFORUMNAME..

Maybe you guys here have an idea what going on
If you need any more information I can provide, please ask

Thanks

[markemark]

bbpress 2.3.2 on WP 3.6

get 3 errors logged in php errors.

[Thu Aug 29 14:41:32 2013] [error] [client 202.46.56.52] PHP Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /var/www/html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3012
[Thu Aug 29 14:41:44 2013] [error] [client 119.63.193.196] PHP Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /var/www/html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3012
[Thu Aug 29 14:42:11 2013] [error] [client 54.246.119.211] PHP Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /var/www/html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3012

searching all my files this only seems to occur in the bbpress plugin.

find . -name “*.php” -print | xargs grep bbp_setup_current_user
./plugins/bbpress/includes/core/sub-actions.php: * @uses do_action() Calls ‘bbp_setup_current_user’
./plugins/bbpress/includes/core/sub-actions.php:function bbp_setup_current_user() {
./plugins/bbpress/includes/core/sub-actions.php: do_action( ‘bbp_setup_current_user’ );
./plugins/bbpress/includes/core/actions.php:add_action( ‘set_current_user’, ‘bbp_setup_current_user’, 10 );
./plugins/bbpress/includes/core/actions.php:add_action( ‘bbp_setup_current_user’, ‘bbp_set_current_user_default_role’ );

[Stephen Edgar]

That site is the old bbPress 0.9/1.x version… The bbPress 2.x plugin does not support number of or users online.

For the other stats you can use the bbPress shortcode [bbp-stats] To display the forum statistics on any page or the widget for your sidebar.

[jezza101]

I wanted to enable a WP shortcode I have written within bbpress, it seems the common way to do this is to use do_shortcodes($content) on the post, this works fine and I’ve seen it in a number of published plugins.

The problem with this is that it enables all shortcodes including the bbpress ones such as login, stats etc. In fact a number of published plugins suffer from this issue (oops).

The best solution I’ve come across is using the whitelist plugin:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist/

But I was wondering if anyone had any other ideas?
Could a new bbpress action for registering shortcodes be added? Then any plugin author just has to register their own new one and not have to worry.
My other idea is to do a find/replace on “[” before my do_shortcodes call, switch them to something else, and then switch them back after, but leaving my own shortcodes unchanged.

Anyone else had this prob? Anyone using a plugin that hasn’t taken this into consideration?! (try adding a bbpress shortcode to a post and seeing what happens!)

[Unsal Korkmaz]

If you willing to use https://wordpress.org/themes/firmasite theme for bbpress, i can make customization for it.

Default forum example: http://demo.theme.firmasite.com/forums/ (You can change style from top-left icon)

There is a customized version of bbpress style: http://social.theme.firmasite.com/forums/

Before i start to build your theme, you have to provide some things:
▶ Your custom website design ideas. All details. You cant change this one after i start to build your theme.
▶ All design assets if you need any. (logo,images etc)
▶ Your preferred custom/premium bootstrap skins. Yes, you can select multiple and change whenever you want! (Please dont request more then 5) You can create yourself or buy from: http://codecanyon.net/category/skins/bootstrap
▶ Your preferred custom/premium icon font pack. (I can include my premium icon pack for your theme. Example icons: http://shop.theme.firmasite.com/premium-icons/ )

I can finish this in 10~days with 3 revision for 700$ and 1 year bug fix support. You can pay from paypal. If you want to keep your theme up-to-date after 1 year, you can pay 200$ per year.
You can contact me from http://unsalkorkmaz.com/iletisim/

[MediaSVI]

Ok Steve I got the forum all imported and install and looked over it and for the most part it worked out great things imported nicely.

I think your added code to the Convert VB.php file will come in handy to others.

Thanks for your help.

[mst]

Thank you @lynq for the initiative writing this up 🙂

If you like to show the sub-forum description you could use get_post() and modify the code from @lynq to fetch it.

Something like this:

$get_sub_desc = get_post( $sub_forum->ID );
$show_sub_desc = $get_sub_desc->post_content;

then add $show_sub_desc to the output.

[Nitac]

Ive managed to get a full forum migration to complete. After upgrading our server and trying on my local machine (mac laptop) i thought i’d have a try on my local machine at work (iMac with decent processor & ram), and after ~6.5hrs the whole forum had been migrated over.

After speaking with a couple of people it turns out that wp_insert_post has a memory leak, and could be causing the import process to slow down and eventually stall on a large migration. I’m happy for anyone to jump in and clarify whether this may be the case and expand on this.

After the migration I ran all the ‘repair forum’ functions and it assigned all the topics and replies to their correct parents.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

[strangelife]

Hi Everyone!

For my main forum homepage or the archive i want to display different forums into sections rather than having a list of forums that is the bbpress default.

So this is the code used to display all the forums,

<?php while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum(); ?>

	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-forum' ); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

So how would i add some arguments to this to display certain forums from there ID’s?

Also on the main page i want to show 5 recent topics, i believe the loop code is this,

<?php while ( bbp_topics() ) : bbp_the_topic(); ?>

	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-topic' ); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

If anyone has managed to use a custom loop using the above code to display 5 recent topics or a custom WP_Query, i’ll be very grateful if you could show some example code.

Kind Regards
~ Matt

[strangelife]

Hi,

Your best bet would be to create a custom page template for your WordPress theme where you basically display the header and footer without the sidebar.

Create three custom templates, sidebar, left sidebar and right sidebar, for your default page.php file in your wordpress theme make it so it doesn’t have any sidebars. Then by default bbpress will use this page to display the forum.

[strangelife]

You can use the following css,

th.bbp-forum-info {
	text-align: left;
	width: 85%;
}
th.bbp-forum-topic-count, td.bbp-forum-topic-count {
	text-align: center;
	width: 5%;
}
th.bbp-forum-reply-count, td.bbp-forum-reply-count {
	text-align: center;
	width: 5%;
}
th.bbp-forum-freshness, td.bbp-forum-freshness {
	text-align: center;
	width: 5%;
}

~ Matt

[strangelife]

Hi,

A couple of reasons why the shortcodes won’t work.

1. Make sure the bbpress plugin is installed an activated.
2. The theme strips out the any use of shortcodes in the write panel.

Have you tried using the shortcodes in the “Text” panel rather than the “Visual” box?

~ Matt

[Morgensonne]

Hi John James,

Thank you for this information. Good to know.
The Codestyling Localization plugin really seems to be very strict. I do not need it necessarily. Anyway, I work better with the poedit.

Morgensonne

[John James Jacoby]

The warning in Codestyling Localization is too strict. Both bbPress and BuddyPress allow for loading translation files in the core languages location: wp-content/languages and as a result, do not call load_plugin_textdomain but instead load_textdomain with the correct filters.

Does the CS plugin allow you to override their error reporting? I remember that plugin being pretty robust.

[Ocelot0526]

On this page http://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ they say “To use any of the shortcodes simply insert the desired shortcode into any WordPress page.”

So far I’ve tried these three

[bbp-forum-index]
[bbp-single-forum id=1]
[bbp-topic-index]

nothing happens except they show up as text. Why?

[Volvon]

It was my theme, so if anyone finds this page via a search engine, it probably isn’t to do with bbppress itself, more likely your theme CSS messing it up a bit. Every theme is different so your problem might be different that mine. But don’t go messing round with BBpress, that seems fine, I went though most of the code and Css for it! lol

[solhuebner]

Try adding

function subscribed_by_default() {
	echo '<script type="text/javascript">jQuery("#bbp_topic_subscription").prop("checked",false);</script>';
}

add_action('bbp_theme_after_topic_form_subscriptions', 'subscribed_by_default');
add_action('bbp_theme_after_reply_form_subscription', 'subscribed_by_default');

to your functions.php

[Sven]

Howdy everyone,

I want to migrate an old bbPress forum 1 to bbPress 2.3.2. I used the importer tool to import the old topics an so on. But I am missing the attachments and the user-avatars. The attachments shortcode is shown, but not the image and no avatar. Can anyone help me please?

Wordpress 3.5.1 and bbPress 2.3.2

Kind regards,
iGoras

[mafton]

Hey guys
i am using one bbp theme and it uses “search-topics.php” file for searching among topics but unfortunately is shows private message as results as well.
any idea of how i can achieve this by changing the code ?

thanks for your help

[Volvon]

Hello,

I am having an issue with the forum. The original posts are fine, but any replies made to the OP and the avatar is small, and misaligned along with the username not being formatted correctly either.

See for yourself here: http://www.amazing-auroras.eu/forums/topic/moved-reply-to-hi/

I use WP User Avatar, but I de-activated it, deleted it, de-activated BBP, all made zero difference, so I am not sure it is related, especially as the original post in forums displays everything correctly, it is only replies that have the issue.

I have searched through this support forum for days without finding a fix.

I have also gone through most code that I think might affect it but have not found anything.

I cannot find the code that says the avatar should be smaller in replies, is this normal for BBP or is my theme making this happen?

So any ideas even if you can tell me if it is a theme issue, BBP issue, or whatever. I am totally at a loss where to look now.