[ouyagamingsource]

Hello BBP Forum,

I got nearly everything set up with the BuddyPress and bbPress forum plugins, however there’s a few tweaks I need to finish it off and I’m trying to figure out which files I need to adjust the html settings to match my custom theme of my other pages.

Going from these directions: http://codex.bbpress.org/legacy/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/ I created a child from my Alyeska theme and copied the Default bbPress Theme to the child theme folder. This helped get the forum page a little closer to my custom theme style, but still not there yet; the sidebars are missing, the forum BG is white, amongst a few other issues, but it’s getting closer. I’m just not sure where the CSS master file for this page is, I tried editing the two files in the child_theme/bbp/CSS folder but it didn’t make any change: http://ouyagamingsource.com/forums/, any ideas?

Thanks ahead of time!

–Bryan

[Gary3000]

Just as the title says, I’m curious to know how the current main page at bbpress.org/forums/ is set up. Ideally, I’d like to have my forums main page set up in exactly the same fashion.

Am I correct in assumming that it’s done as a Page (“forums” being the slug) with the bbPress shortcode “[bbp-topic-index]” as its content?

I notice for Latest Topics it lists 28 topics, however in the bbPress Codex listing of shortcodes, it says that particular shortcode only lists 15 of the most recent topics. How does one go about configuring it to show more (or less) than the default of 15?

The other thing I’m curious about is how one gets the nicer “Forums” sidebar widget. The one on bbpress.org/forums/ is styled with a header containing “Forum” and “Topics” column headers, and then a striped list of the Forums with the associated topic counts. In the current public version of bbPress (2.1.2), the “Forums” widget only shows a straight, plain list of the Forums — no header/columns, and no topic counts. Is the widget used on bbpress.org/forums/ from the current SVN of bbPress, or was it customized specifically for bbPress?

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you looked at these two docs to help get you started?

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/ and https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

(The thread that you linked to above is out of date as it is only relevenet to the old stand alone bbPress and not the current plugin bbPress 2.x )

[ffadler]

Specialty question, piggybacked onto this topic. 🙂 Mr. Jacoby’s answer got me thinking.

Is there a special function that I can use that will redirect the link associated with

$args['root_text'] = 'Forums';

to another location on my site. Preferable an existing WordPress page. Comes back to the link of that breadcrumb goes to an archive page. I would rather it go to an index…or a WP page which is acting as an index. Thanks.

[ffadler]

MTPrower

You stated my exact problem which I am currently having. I am a noob. But I can usually google search my way out of any problem. (Which led me here, but with no answer) I see that the “forums base” archive slug field is used in the breadcrumb for bbPress. When I click on the link in the breadcrumb, it takes me to the archive page….not what I want my users to be able to do at all. I want them to be able to get back to a forum index from anywhere inside bbPress.

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I setup a WP page and used the bbPress shortcodes to give me a Forum index; which is the main portal to all of the topics and posts on my site.

However, once a forum/topic is selected by a user, the bbPress *.php takes over and the pages are dynamically generated ( i guess ). How do I send people back to the forum index WP page from anywhere inside bbPress? I would prefer the breadcrumb worked or at least could be redirected to the WP page. Linking me to an archive page does NOTHING for any user, when trying to get back to an index.

Hope that was descriptive enough to workout a solution. Thank you.

http://www.sailhavasu.com/event-forum/ <- WP Page with bbPress short codes creating a forum "index"

http:www.//sailhavasu.com/bbpress/forum/hpcc-2013/ <- bbPress page where the breadcrumb "Forums" links to an archive page. Would rather it linked to an index; either a WP page or a dynamically created bbPress page with an actual index. (Note: "bbpress" is what I named the Forums base Archive Slug; another issue that appears weird to a noob.)

[Phill]

With the bbpress.php would I just paste the page.php code into it and then adjust it from there? I’m too having sidebar issues.

[John James Jacoby]

Look inside the bbp_author_link() function; there’s a great bunch of documentation in there on how to get that information out.

To say the code “isn’t very clean” is kind of silly; the best thing bbPress has going for it is how clean the code is to read and follow.

[Shmoo]

Hello, i didn’t know a better title but i’ll try to explain what i meant to say.

I don’t understand why it’s very easy to get all info that you need from the Topic Starter and when you need the same info from the last person who has replied on a topic it’s very difficult.

Look at my screenshot and you’ll see what i’m trying to say.
http://i48.tinypic.com/33op6wz.png

Everything on this picture is done by CSS the only images you’ll see are the Gravatars,
At the left side it’s the Gravatar of the Topic Starter with a Hover effect when i took the screenshot.

I didn’t use the default PHP code that bbPress provided because it wasn’t very clean so i searched around and found a few simple and easy to understand PHP tags who could help me build my custom lay-out.


php bbp_topic_author_url(); = provides a clean url

php bbp_topic_author_display_name(); = provides clean text without url

php bbp_topic_author_avatar( $topic_id = 0, $size = 60 ); = provides a gravatar with url


I love those simple codes because i can add and wrap HTML around it and position everything i need on every corner of the website if i would like so..

But when i try to make the same Gravatar at the right side it’s getting difficult because there aren’t a few simple tags i can use to get the same clean code from the last person who has posted inside a topic.


php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), 'type' => 'avatar', 'size' => 60 ) ); = provides a gravatar with url okay

php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), 'type' => 'name' ) ); = this doesn't provide clean text but a name + url


It’s a huge bummer because i can’t make the Hover effect on the Gravatar without clean code tags.

[Shmoo]

Search on the Codecanyon website inside the WordPress plugins there is a guy who has made a plugin that works with bbPress.

[Shmoo]

Thanks,

I’ve been searching inside the ‘includes’ folder to see if i could understand whats possible with some tags.

[Stephen Edgar]

Follow the steps outlined here https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/ for the files you want to customize by copying them to your theme directory.

[fuzzybee]

I am using BuddyPress 1.6.1, bbPress 2.1.2 and WordPress 3.4.2

I follow the guide here.

In the end, I did the trick pointed out by Sarah Gooding because mywebsite.com/forums was blank right after the above installation

• Created a page called “Forums” with permalink mywebsite.com/forums
• Insert bbPress shortcode [bbp-forum-index] into “Forums” page

My questions are

1) How do I customise page templates for the forum e.g. Forum page, topic page etc.

My current theme is a child theme of twentyeleven and it has the following structure

> themes/bp-twentyeleven/

>

> /activity/

>

> /blogs/

>

> /forums/

>

> index.php

>

> forums-loop.php

>

> /groups/

>

> /members/

>

> /registration/

>

> header.php

>

> sidebar.php

>

> style.css

Notes

• Apparently, bp-twentyevelen/forums/index.php is being ignored.
• The reason for this set up is that I need the site to looks like TwentyEleven and has BuddyPress’ functionality at the same time

2) How do I make sure that bbPress functions will work for my site e.g. do I copy and past all the functions in functions.php of bbPress’ default theme over my theme’s functions.php?

3) How do I ensure that whatever I will get from 1) and 2) (probably from bbPress experts somewhere) will not conflict with BuddyPress’ functionality or my theme?

BuddyPress setting screenshots are here and here.

bbPress settings screenshot is here.

[zaerl]

It’s in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-core-shortcodes.php. Don’t edit a core file. Use a filter.

[zaerl]

The function doesn’t accept an array. See get_avatar: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.4.2/wp-includes/pluggable.php#L1583

bbp_topic_author_avatar(0, 80);

[concon3]

I would like to have a form like the shortcode forms, [bbp-topic-form] is what I need but without the drop down box for choosing a forum but rather a forum already been chosen.

From looking at the short codes the following looks exactly like what I need:

[bbp-xxx-xxx id=$forum_id]** – Display the ‘New Topic Form’ for a specific forum ID.

However I don’t believe this has been added. Is there any way to achieve this? Or any plugins that can do this?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[concon3]

I would like to have a form like the shortcode forms, [bbp-topic-form] is what I need but without the drop down box for choosing a forum but rather a forum already been chosen.

From looking at the short codes the following looks exactly like what I need:

[bbp-xxx-xxx id=$forum_id]** – Display the ‘New Topic Form’ for a specific forum ID.

However I don’t believe this has been added. Is there any way to achieve this? Or any plugins that can do this?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[elpix]

Hi all,

I ask your help beacause I’ve already tried everything that I knew before to make a query work in few seconds

I’m on BP 1.5.5/

Before, everything was working well, but one day, access to our forum became very very long (170 s average).
After many tests, I think that it’s a cache problem.

Here is two queries that make me think that :

SELECT t.*, g.id AS object_id, g.name AS object_name, g.slug AS object_slug
FROM wp_bb_topics AS t
INNER JOIN wp_bb_posts p ON p.topic_id=t.topic_id AND p.post_time=t.topic_start_time
JOIN wp_bp_groups AS g
LEFT JOIN wp_bp_groups_groupmeta AS gm ON g.id = gm.group_id
WHERE (gm.meta_key = 'forum_id' AND gm.meta_value = t.forum_id) AND g.STATUS = 'public' AND t.topic_status = '0'
ORDER BY t.topic_time
LIMIT 20

And the same without the “LIMIT”

SELECT t.*, g.id AS object_id, g.name AS object_name, g.slug AS object_slug
FROM wp_bb_topics AS t
INNER JOIN wp_bb_posts p ON p.topic_id=t.topic_id AND p.post_time=t.topic_start_time
JOIN wp_bp_groups AS g
LEFT JOIN wp_bp_groups_groupmeta AS gm ON g.id = gm.group_id
WHERE (gm.meta_key = 'forum_id' AND gm.meta_value = t.forum_id) AND g.STATUS = 'public' AND t.topic_status = '0'
ORDER BY t.topic_time

The first (with LIMIT) take 150 secondes (At the beginning, it was working well).
But the second (without LIMIT) takes 1.5 secones !!!!

When I’m in PHPmyADMIN, the “show full processlist” tell “copy to tmp table” during the 150 secondes.

So my question is :
Is there a cache limit I’ve reache with my DB (20.000 topics) ?
Where I’ve to modified (I think in my.cnf), and what is the value to put (I’ve make a lot of test, without good results)?

Thank you very much !

Bye

[Shmoo]

Sorry this forum doesn’t except the starting and closing PHP tags.

bbp_topic_author_avatar( array( ‘size’ => ’80’ ));

and

bbp_topic_author_avatar( array( ‘size’ => 80 ));

Both don’t work..

[Shmoo]

I’m just curious because i would like to edit the author’s gravatar and how it’s showed in the source to get more CSS options.

bbp_topic_author_avatar

bbp_get_topic_author_avatar

When i use the bbp_topic_author_avatar() version inside the loop-single-topic.php file it shows a perfect 40 pixels gravatar like explained on the website with all possible bbPress code tags.
Great but when i try to make this gravatar 80 pixels instead of the default 40 there is something wrong because the code doesn’t accept my array when i try do this.

 '80' )); ?>

Even when i do this it doesn’t work.

 80 )); ?>

[mighty_fox]

I have a page which uses the shortcode [bbp-topic-form]
However I would like to comment out some things I don’t want to be viewed. Could anyone point me in the right direction in how to find the file which creates this short code.

Thanks in advance.

[Stephen Edgar]

Add the code here to your themes functions.php file

https://gist.github.com/3815686

[Stephen Edgar]

Start with the docs here https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen Edgar]

The default ‘separator’ for the forum list is a comma (that comma you see on your site).

I see you have tweaked your forum list yourself so that each forum is on a new line.

I can’t see how you did this at the moment as I am using my phone and no CSS inspector.

Take a look at this https://gist.github.com/3797945 and add it to your functions.php of your theme or add it as a standalone plugin. Instead of a ‘comma’ I have a BR element there which if you removed the tweaks you have already made in your CSS for the forum list, this code snippet will give you the result you are looking for.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for this, sadly the code you have posted has been stripped in your post.

Could you try posting it again and/or post the code to pastebin.com, a Gist on GitHub

Better still you could create a ticket over at Trac and submit your patch directly for us.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

[zaerl]

“disable the ability to create new accounts”: Admin panel -> Settings -> General -> Anyone can register (no)

“What’s the prefered way for a newbie to do that? “: Admin panel -> Forums -> All forums -> The selected forum -> right column (Visibility)

“Are these the preferred plug-ins?”: yes indeed

“Do I just copy the code that the author lists into my .htacess file?”: yes, those two vulnerabilities affect every single non-trivial piece of dynamic web software, not only WordPress