[oskarlin]

I’m looking for a widget or a php funcion for listing latest replies including latest topics width its topic text.

Because of limited space I don’t want two separate listings for recent created topics and then recent replies. For me the topic text is also some kind of reply to the topic title.

[Stephen Edgar]

It is indeed, just follow the instructions via the docs 🙂

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[guylabbe]

Hi,
This seems very simple to do but I couldn’t get it working. I want the default bbpress theme but wrapped with my theme.

I added the CSS file in my theme and I added a forum index shortcode in the main forum page. Right now the forum index renders OK (the forum index is the content, everything is correctly wrapped by my theme, interpreted by page.php I guess).

But as soon I get to a topic page, it’s the single.php or page.php that is used, without any bbpress template file (no breadcrumbs, etc., there is only the post).

I don’t want to customize bbpress, just want the bbpress template to appear in my theme content templates. Any way to do this easily? I would like to avoid customize all pages one by one and keep built it theme integrity…

[Earthman Media]

I am having this problem with span and p tags showing up as code in the posts, after the latest update.

I tried your advice above and added the following function, but it did not work (p and span tags are still showing, not parsing as html).

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, please. A screenshot of the output can be viewed here: http://screencast.com/t/CKTLbqHVb

add_action( 'bbp_kses_allowed_tags','pyg_kses_allowed_tags',999,1);
function pyg_kses_allowed_tags($input){
	return array(

			// paragraphs
		'p' => array(
			'style'     => array()
		),
		'span' => array(
			'style'     => array()
		),

		// Links
		'a' => array(
			'href'     => array(),
			'title'    => array(),
			'rel'      => array()
		),

		// Quotes
		'blockquote'   => array(
			'cite'     => array()
		),

		// Code
		'code'         => array(),
		'pre'          => array(),

		// Formatting
		'em'           => array(),
		'strong'       => array(),
		'del'          => array(
			'datetime' => true,
		),

		// Lists
		'ul'           => array(),
		'ol'           => array(
			'start'    => true,
		),
		'li'           => array(),

		// Images
		'img'          => array(
			'src'      => true,
			'border'   => true,
			'alt'      => true,
			'height'   => true,
			'width'    => true,
		)
		
		
	);
}

[chuckingit]

Hi – i just wanted to follow up with a recent workout of success in that David Chandra over at ThemeHybrid.com posted a thread that helped me greatly to get bbPress working 100% beautiful with my Shell child theme thus share as follows in case this helps …

turns out that not only were my default forum and topics permalinks blown out, but also so were the author and topic tag defaults — meaning if i was in a forum and clicked a forum tag or a forum author, i would get a forum page that did not look like a forum but a generic blog post …

so i ended up creating four custom child theme bbPress files and placed them in a bbpress sub directory off my child theme root … the four files were archive-forum.php, archive-topic.php, single-user.php, and taxonomy-topic-tag.php … i found that these four files worked if placed in my child theme root or if placed in my child theme bbpress sub folder but thought it best to keep in bbpress sub folder …

the whole wierd bbPress create a topic form thing went away too given David Chandra’s approach … which was to use replace the child theme shell_get_atomic_template section with the bbp_get_template_part (see his example below) …

BIG kudos to WP community of forums and those who share … viva the bb’s 🙂 cordially, chuck scott

==============
From this post David Chandra wrote -> http://themehybrid.com/support/topic/shell-bug-with-bbpress-forum-index-page#post-79074

you can just use bbp_get_template_part to replace shell_get_atomic_template.

1. create archive-forum.php in child theme,
2. copy the content of index.php from shell theme to your child theme
3. change shell_get_atomic_template( ‘content’, true ); with bbp_get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘archive-forum’ );

if you need to modify the default bbpress template bbpress content-archive-forum.php you can copy the files from wp-content\plugins\bbpress\templates\default\bbpress and add it in your child theme in bbpress folder.

for example you can add it in your-child-theme/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php, you can copy and files in wp-content\plugins\bbpress\templates\default\bbpress in your child theme if you need to override it and load it using bbp_get_template_part(); function.

i usually just copy everything to my child theme, but it’s not really future proof, since bbpress tend to delete/add new functions in every release, so full bbpress template override might broke your site. just override the template you need to modify.

your archive-forum.php in your child theme may be something similar to this:

<?php
/**
 * bbPress Archive Forum Template
 */
get_header(); // Loads the header.php template. ?>

	<?php do_atomic( 'before_content' ); // shell_before_content ?>

	<div id="content">

		<?php do_atomic( 'open_content' ); // shell_open_content ?>

		<div class="hfeed">

			<?php do_atomic( 'open_hfeed' ); // shell_open_hfeed ?>

			<?php if (!is_singular() ){ shell_get_atomic_template( 'loop-meta' ); } // atomic context template, in "loop-meta" directory  ?>

			<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

				<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

					<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'content', 'archive-forum' ); ?>

				<?php endwhile; ?>

			<?php else : ?>

				<?php get_template_part( 'loop-error' ); // Loads the loop-error.php template. ?>

			<?php endif; ?>

			<?php do_atomic( 'close_hfeed' ); // shell_close_hfeed ?>

		</div><!-- .hfeed -->

		<?php do_atomic( 'close_content' ); // shell_close_content ?>

		<?php shell_get_atomic_template( 'loop-nav' ); // atomic context loop template, in "loop-nav" directory ?>

	</div><!-- #content -->

	<?php do_atomic( 'after_content' ); // shell_after_content ?>

<?php get_footer(); // Loads the footer.php template. ?>

[rxcosta]

I found the following code being suggested to remove the forum search bar:
/*Remove forum search above forum */
.bbp-search-form {
display:none;
}

It works on some themes, but not my current theme at villagepca.org. Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

[beardydan]

Hello again.

New problem – the shortcode post now can’t be found externally, though weirdly, when I’m logged in, it works fine.

Be grateful for any thoughts.

thanks
dan

[Asif Somy]

I tried many latex plugins but they work with normal posts and pages. I want to use latex code in topics and forums.

Wordpress Version 3.5.1
bbPress Version 2.3.2

[fuseful]

In my forum here http://systemsfortraders.com when I insert the short code bbp-topic-tags it works fine – As you can see it displays my tag cloud but when I click on one I get an error – e.g. http://systemsfortraders.com/forums/topic-tag/infographics/

Please can someone help here ?

[beardydan]

Hi everyone

I’m one of those novice newbies i’m afraid.
Trying to create a simple forum site.
Have selected great theme – Spun
Using bbPress as forum plugin.
When I redirect the permalink for post selected to contain the forum I get this view: but when I use the shortcode for the forum index it displays just as I’d like Though this isn’t navigable.

It looks to me like it’s trying to fit the forum in one column. Could anyone tell me what code I’d need to create what I see using the shortcode on the /forums page so it’s usable? Or is there a way of running the forums using the shortcodes?

Many thanks

[fencer_x]

It’s possible, and you probably could’ve found it with some searching, like I did: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-plugin-forum-order-doesnt-work-not-appearing-in-correct-order/#post-112828

The file that’s referenced isn’t in the same place anymore–I believe it’s in plugins/bbpress/includes/forums/template-tags.php these days.

Keep in mind it’ll get written over with the original code with each update, though.

[jrman]

I don’t know if this is possible, but I was wondering if there was some way to automatically “close” or “hide” threads/posts after a certain period of time with no activity. I currently have about 8 pages of threads/topics on my site, sorted by freshness, and some of the older ones haven’t had a new comment/post in over a month.

Instead of manually closing or trashing all of the older posts, I would love it if there was a piece of code that would automatically do that.

*I found a way to do this by age of the topic, but not by freshness.

(All up-to-date)
Wordpress 3.5.1
bbPress 2.3.2
BuddyPress 1.7.1

[chrishe]

P.S. It is possible to achive the output I want by hacking the common/widgets.php file, (not that I am suggesting this is good, as will be overwritten on upgrades!)
in widgets.php, changing the Topics widget query on lines 743 and 764 as below does what I want! Maybe not too hard for author to add customise this properly?
HACK:

			// Order by most recent replies
			case 'freshness' :
				$topics_query = array(
					'post_type'      => array(bbp_get_topic_post_type(),bbp_get_reply_post_type() ), //HACKED!
					// 'post_type'      => bbp_get_topic_post_type(),

[chrishe]

Hi, I am using bbPress as part of a wordpress site. I would like to show “recent activity” in a sidebar widget without using too much screen space. In other words a combination of the “recent topics” and “recent replies” widgets, e.g. as below (1 topic, 1 reply, but able to set number would be good also)
“Recent Forum Activity”
Latest Topic…
Latest Reply…

Is that possible with shortcodes? else maybe a way to combine the output of the two current widgets?
Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

I moved your reply in this topic to a new topic as they are separate issues.

You shouldn’t have a problem with your setup if you follow the docs:
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

[Stephen Edgar]

Currently the phpBB import script only supports phpBB v3

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb/

You could upgrade phpBB v2 to phpBB v3 and then import to bbPress.

You will still have issues with user passwords though and each user would need there password manually changed. This is due to different password algorithms between phpBB v2 & v3.

[touqir76]

hello,

i want to remove a search bar from header can i delete this code from my website ( http://dramasonlinetv.com ).

<div id="top-search">
		<?php get_search_form(); ?>

[Dignified Labs]

@Karloy I have the same issue. please can you describe how you fixed this issue? What file did you edit and what code exactly was edited. Thanks in advance

[Stephen Edgar]

1. can more than 110 000 users be imported

This should not be a problem.

2. My website runs a specific version of phpbb SEO for allowing permalinks for every forum – will this be imported ? (so that there is not a lot of redirect)

No, these will NOT be imported and you will need to manually set your permalinks and make some redirects using .htaccess

3. My website stores custom profile fields for every user (more than just ICQ, but also custom ones). How could I have the same kind of functionalities using bbpress ?

Currently when importing from phpBB we are importing and storing the default phpBB user fields as outlined here. You could modify the import script to include any of your custom user profile fields so they also get stored in wp_usermeta.

After that you would need to find a WordPress plugin that supports extended user profile fields to utilize that data. I am not sure of any specific plugin that can really do that out of the box with bbPress at the moment but at least you ‘would’ have all of your users advanced profile data stored.

4. What about performance – will it be better than phpbb. I know bbpress is very powerful for small forums, but I have no idea regarding huge ones. Can wp caching plugins work for bbpress as well ?

There are some large sites running bbPress and I would suggest you setup a test site to see how it works for yourself personally.

As to caching it appears that ‘WP Super Cache’and ‘W3 Total Cache’ do not work well with bbPress as discussed in this topic though there is ‘Lite Cache’ which appears to work with bbPress as per this topic.

5. Is the entire UI translated in French – it doesn’t seem to me, but maybe I’m wrong.

The current status of the French translation is at 11% translated with 879 strings untranslated though 734 of those strings have been translated and are waiting for the fr_FR translation validator to validate the translations.

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

6. Can I use any plugins writter for wp for bbpress ?

I am not sure what you mean for this question

Any more questions please ask away…

[Stephen Edgar]

The strings you mention from what I can see are all currently able to be translated.

Take a look at this to get started with bbPress Translation files

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[wcnomad]

Hi.

I am having the blank page issue. I tried adding a shortcode to it, but it stayed blank.

I am using Widezine theme with a BBpress Child theme.

website: westcoastnomads.com

Can someone help, please?

I’m a coding newbie, so please dumb it down. 🙂

Jill

[koreancandy]

Before the upgrade I was using a TinyMCE plugin on my forum that was recommended by other BBpress users.

Using that, the members could post videos and change font colour etc via the visual editor, but since the upgrade, when they do this, it just shows the html code and doesn’t display well.

Is there any way to fix this? it’s highly frustrating as it was working perfectly before this upgrade.

Thanks! 🙂

[kitchin]

My theme uses index.php in the main directory for most pages, by the way. (In other words, my theme does not have page.php, single.php, etc.) So you can sorta see what happened, it got overridden as in a subtheme.

[kitchin]

I added a bbpress subdirectory to my theme and got a blank screen. I was using a “silence is golden” index.php file in the subdir and removing that fixed it. I guess the subdir acts as a subtheme or something (though it has no style.css file).

Interesting thing is I could also fix it by dropping in the files from plugins/bbpress/templates/default/extras to my main theme directory, following the instructions here: `http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

Posting this in case it helps anyone else.

[Jared Atchison]

As of ~2.3, the “allowed tags” are filterable within bbPress.

Look for the filter bbp_kses_allowed_tags. It’s in includes/common/formatting.php.