[Jared Atchison]

bbPress search has been implemented from scratch in bbPress 2.3 release. The new search does not piggyback off of WordPress search (which is what happens when you add the code above) and works extremely well.

Version 2.3 is actually in RC1 right now and is very stable, so you could upgrade to that and it would give you the new search feature.

bbPress 2.3 – Release Candidate 1

My recommendation would be to give 2.3 RC1 a whirl. Of course since it is RC1, do a backup before upgrading 🙂

[Jared Atchison]

You need to edit that page where you are using the shortcode. Below it you likely have a bunch of empty lines (delete those) which are being converted to empty paragraphs.

[Jared Atchison]

Dunno why that wouldn’t work.

Threw this code in firebug and it works just fine.
`table.forum-table tr.odd td {
background:red;
}`

[clickmac]

https://wordpress.org/ and see this guide in installing it https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

and you can get live help here just sign up and post in the forums

[Nazaire]

I’m wanting to edit the css of bbPress to tweak the appearance of my forums, specifically the font size. I’m running WordPress 3.5.1, bbPress 2.2.4, and using a twentytwelve-child theme. My forums are at

http://www.asgoth.net/?post_type=forum

I found the “bbPress Custom CSS File” plug-in but according to the description I do not need it.

** This plugin is for bbPress 2.1.x. If you are using bbPress 2.0.x please upgrade. If you are using bbPress 2.2, read below.**

bbPress 2.2+: As of bbPress 2.2 this plugin is NOT needed. bbPress will auto-detect the CSS file if it exists in the right location.

Copy the CSS file from wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-default/css/bbpress.css to wp-content/themes/[yourtheme]/bbpress.css.

Following the instructions above I have copied the bbpress.css file from the bbpress plugin’s css folder to “wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-child/bbpress.css”. When I go into the WordPress dashboard under appearance-edit the bbpress.css is available for editing.

So assuming I have the bbpress.css file in the right place (if I don’t please instruct me where I need to put it for editing), which line of code in the bbpress.css file do I need to edit to change the font size on my forums.

Any assistance in this matter will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[fencer_x]

Ah wait — nope, just a trick of the eye.

It seems changing the permalink structure gave me two similar looking addresses:

website.com/forum (a page I made using the shortcode into the top page of the forums)
website.com/forums (the default top page, linked in the breadcrumbs and unable to be altered)

So the problem persists, just with a different name :/

[fencer_x]

What I mean to say is I can access my forum via two routes: website.com/forum (a page I made the forum top using the shortcode) and website.com/?post_type=forum

website.com/forum has a sidebar I set with the recent topics and comments widget–I can manipulate this just fine and am glad to have it as the forum top.

website.com/?post_type=forum has a sidebar I CANNOT manipulate for some reason (even though I can alter it in the admin settings–it never takes) and displays a strange “Archive | time” title in the title bar.

The only way you can get to website.com/?post_type=forum is via the breadcrumbs–but I don’t want people accessing it via the breadcrumbs or at ALL. I need to either be able to remove it altogether or fix it to allow the sidebar to be manipulated and the title to display properly.

[redheadkelly]

I would like to change the word Forum to the word Discussion in my entire bbPress instsall.

I followed the directions in a post on the BuddyPress site. http://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

I used POEdit to create a .po file an a .mo file containing my desired changes & I uploaded it to the wp-content/languages directory.

It doesn’t work. Is there something else I have to do somewhere?

Thanks.

[kraigg]

I’ve been testing the latest bbPress 2.3-rc1 and BuddyPress 1.7 beta2, and I noticed that the subscribe to topic link and “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” checkbox no longer appears. “Favorites” appear as normal, but not “Subscribe”.

I had a look at the code inside bbPress/form-reply.php and bbPress/form-topic (http://jsfiddle.net/kraigg/jVvzv/) which calls bbp_is_subscriptions_active. It seems that the conditions aren’t being met, and so the subscribe link and checkbox no longer appear. If I remove the If statement from the code, the subscribe link and checkbox appears on the page again, but I’m afraid it might break something else later down the track.

I was logged in as the administrator and viewed an open topic. I also looked inside Dashboard > Settings > Forums and verified that the checkbox “Allow users to subscribe to topics” was ticked.

Is there a fix for this? Should I add this as a new Trac issue?

[mferris2]

Greetings, I would really appreciate some help on getting by bbpress plug-in to work. Currently I cannot see my forums or topics when I click on preview or view page from the admin panel nor can I view the discussions on my website when I click on the title from the “Forums” page I created. I can see the forums and discussions on the “Forums” page (used the shortcodes)they apparently link to now where :)Working with WP version 3.5.1 and bbpress version 2.2.4.

Reading the other forums I have tried the following:
1. Switched to twenty-eleven and twenty-twelve theme, doesn’t make a difference.
2. Gone to permalinks and saved, again, no change.

Any help would be appreciated, please see the link to the site below.
http://hsg.trg-learning.com

[jetsoftworx]

i have a page called /forum that has the shortcode to display the forum index. When I click on a item it will go to that post. In the breadcrumb there will be home->forums->post, clicking on /forums takes me not to /forum where my shortcode is located but to the hard coded thingy that is defined in the plugin setup? So I have to mess around with trying to make templates just to get it working with my theme, when it just seems that if you make use of shortcodes for the operation of the forum, it would be compatible with ALL themes more or less. Is that a correct assumption?

As it stands now, I don’t think I will be able to use this plugin because I do not have the time to workout all the different things just to make it work with my theme. I really should not be complaining for something that is free to the community and it is not to diminish the great work of the developers, this is not my intent. After fiddling for days trying to get this to work correctly, I just came to the conclusion that maybe it would be better if shortcodes where used exclusively for the functionality of the operations, then all of these sorts of problems should become non existing.

if I could have a page called /forums that would override the /forums settings defined in the plugin then that would work, but how can you tell wordpress to do this? I looked and tried different things, but it all becomes way more work then it seems it should be when a shortcode would do the trick. Any way, I am curious to know how other people are getting bbPress to work properly with their themes. I am open to suggestions, ideas and thoughts.

Oh, one thing I did was to setup a redirect from /forums to /forum (forum index shortcode) and that seems to be working so far. Not sure yet what side effects maybe lurking as a result. So far so good. But when I sit back and think about it, what keeps coming to mind is… why? Why should I even have to do something like this??

Thanks

Jarrod

[clickmac]

you don’t need to to use shortcodes,
its already into your page

see
http://www.yourdomain.com/forums

and its their already

[maggieymae]

I finally found a widget manager that works! It is called widget context. It allows you to use wildcards such as forums/*
It works so well I no longer need to use the shortcode.

[maggieymae]

Sorry- I didn’t see your reply earlier
Yes the BBpress widgets work nicely.
The issue is that I want to decide which widget shows on which page.
I have tried numerous widgets and when the forum pages show, they are all messed up. They fill in with the forums only all scrunched together.

I’ve als tried putting the shortcode in a page and that has helped when assigning widgets except for when on the “forums” part of the breadcrumb after entering a board. It goes crazy.
sitename/forums/etc

I found one custom widget plugin that makes a widget “drag and drop” page in the editor for each page and post editor area but the person that will be using this will have a difficult time using it. When using that plugin if I make all the forum widgets to be the default setup and just add/subtract widgets per page – it won’t show the craziness.

I don’t think I can describe this any better. It just looks like craziness and it isn’t in the forum widgets… The forum contents fill up any available widget on the sidebar even if the widget isn’t “assigned” to the forum and it is only when following the breadcrumbs AFTER being in a board.

[Gettinitdone]

It seems the focus on member roles has taken away from the structure of the forums made with bbpress.  It would make sense to me to develop forum structure and information availability.

This could be accomplished by having the ability to create a forum and lock the locations of topics.  By code and visually as they appear on the site.

I think limiting ability to make topics or replies for each each individual post when created by admin, would develop forum content more efficiently than limiting abilities for individual users.

In other words.  Rather than limiting abilities by access level.  Is there currently a way to lock forums and topics the way they are?

In other words.  When I develop the forum as an administrator, can I limit the ability of all users to contribute to those posts?

I think a more even balance can be achieved, between content contributed by admin, and relevant information contributed by users, if the admin can limit users ability to alter the structure of the forum.

[Anonsetowarzyskie]

I switched from phpBB to bbPress recently thanks very much in part to a script found in these forums.

Now, many of the existing posts contain links to each other in the old phpBB format /topic.php?t=123. Since the topic IDs have stayed the same in the conversion process, I’d like to use ModRewrite to automatically redirect to the new /topic/123 URL scheme. I’ve tried the following in my .htaccess, but it doesn’t appear to work. (Admittedly, my knowledge of ModRewrite is shaky at best.)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/forums/viewtopic.php?t=([0-9]+)$
/forums/topic/$1 [R]

(In the real code there isn’t a linebreak on the second line.)

Does anyone have any advice?

[fontadoni]

Create a new wordpress page called “registration” (or whatever you wish to call it). On that new page add the shortcode [bbp-register] and publish it. Then add the link to the new page you just created on the sidebar widget, for example: your site.com/registration/

Here’s a list of all the shortcodes you can use: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[jetsoftworx]

Hi,

I simply want to use shortcodes to keep the forum on my page. I can get the the index to show up and it seems to work fine, but the breadcrumbs link back to /forums, not to my page. I’ve been looking around and I see where other people have been having the same problem yet there does not seem to be any solutions. I will continue looking I guess. If anyone knows of a solution I would love to hear it. I just don’t get why this is even a problem. Why not just use shortcodes rather than those hardcodes paths in the settings? One thing I am considering is adding a redirect from /forums to my page with the shortcode…. but then I keep thinking, why should I even have to do this? Any way, if there is a solution out there I would love to know about it.

Regards

Jarrod

[bergblume]

ok! I solved it now!

how?
I copied my header.php and renamed it to header-activity.php
in this file I copied the following code in the

in my index.php I`ve replaced
“
with
“

I hope it helps s.o. else with the same problem of using the post-box as stand-alone on any other wordpress-site!

[dsherer]

I need help I have installed my bbPress plugin and setup all my forums but I do not know how to get it onto a page. I have found a shortcode but my forum front page looks like this

http://guardian247.us/?post_type=forum

if you click on a link then the the next page looks like a forum. How do I get it to look like a forum on the fron page?

[redknite]

I’m trying to figure out how to replace the page title (in my case “forum”) with an image. So far all I’ve been able to figure out is to code a background image to “.the-content #post-0 h1” css tag.

The problem is that this leaves the page title still on the page in the top corner.

my website is fishwire.rudtek.com

Thanks a bunch!

[Justin Tadlock]

Add new roles with a roles plugin. You don’t have to use code. See: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members

[bergblume]

Hi,

I have integrated successfully the post-form of what´s new within my index.php of my theme by integrating this code

unfortunately I do not see here the activity plus buttons (for links, images and videos).

what do I have to do to get them also on my front page?

thanks a lot for helping!

bergblume

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-activity-plus/

[fencer_x]

When I installed BBPress on a new site, I noticed that the default forum page (/?post_type=forum) gave me a strange title at the top of the browser (“Archive | ##:## [time]”) as if it were being dynamically generated every time I refreshed the page–and the sidebar widgets were my generic ‘page’ widgets and not the ones I’d explicitly set for the Forum/Reply/Topic pages from the Admin panel (the Reply/Topic pages display just fine; it’s only the base Forum page that’s giving an issue).

I thought I’d solved this problem by making the ‘Forum’ link in my header menu link to a generic page I made that I slapped the bbpress forum shortcode onto–and all looked well–but now in the breadcrumbs, if I click ‘Forum’ from a reply or topic page, I’m sent back to “/?post_type=forum” and left with the same issues.

Any idea what’s going on or how to resolve it? Why isn’t the Forum page accepting the sidebar widget I’ve assigned it, and why is it giving me a dynamically generated, non-helpful title?

[Stephen Edgar]

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

The following shows the current progress of bbPress translation to French for the ‘dev’ & ‘2.2.x’ versions:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev
11% – 111 Translated – 879 Untranslated – 628 Waiting

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.2.x
% – 0 Translated – 952 Untranslated – 533 Waiting

So quite a few are done but needs an authorised ‘validator’ to approve the ‘waiting’ translations.

You can contact your local translation time via https://fr.wordpress.org/contact/ to find out who the bbPress validators are or if no luck request to become a validator yourself via https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/