[Michael]

It looks like the editor munged my code, so here’s a pointer to the code (in a .txt file): http://www.dalluva.com/temp/topic-excerpt.txt

Cheers.
Michael

[Michael]

Okay, I’ve made some progress with this, though it’s not quite where I want it to be. I’ve been playing around with the function calls in bbp-topic-template.php, and been able to create a block of code that creates excerpts of topics (though not replies to topics…yet).

Here’s the resulting output: http://www.dalluva.com/temp/example-excerpt-block-getting-there.JPG

And here’s the code block (so far):

$max_shown = 3;
$parent_forum = 'any';
$excerpt_length = 200;
$avatar_size = 60;

$topics_query = array(
    'author'         => 0,
    'post_type'      => bbp_get_topic_post_type(),
    'post_parent'    => $parent_forum,
    'posts_per_page' => $max_shown,
    'post_status'    => join( ',', array( bbp_get_public_status_id(), bbp_get_closed_status_id() ) ),
    'show_stickes'   => false,
    'meta_key'       => '_bbp_last_active_time',
    'orderby'        => 'meta_value',
    'order'          => 'DESC',
    'meta_query'     => array( bbp_exclude_forum_ids( 'meta_query' ) )
    );

$topic_query = new WP_Query( $topics_query );
if ( $topic_query->have_posts() ) :
    $first_time = 1;
    ?>

        have_posts() ) :
            if ( $first_time == 1 ) : $first_time = 0;
            else : echo "" ;
            endif;
            $topic_query->the_post();
            $topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_query->post->ID ); ?>


                <a class="home-topics-a" href="" title="">
                In Forum ""
                By , Posted about 


                <a class="home-topics-more more" title="Join the Conversation" href=""> READ MORE


     <?php
endif;

I'm going to keep working this and I'll post my final results in the coming days. Any comments/input are appreciated. Cheers. Michael

[Michael]

Checking the function code in bbp_topic_template.php, the call bbp_topic_excerpt() already accepts a $length argument; the default is 100, but it can be changed. Doh! It can be used as-is.

Michael

[Shmoo]

Just curious, i’ve worked with bbPress before but it looks like the WordPress Hierarchy is broken by bbPress.
http://codex.wordpress.org/images/1/18/Template_Hierarchy.png

Normally i could make a page template and call it page-forums.php to make sure WP would use this page template for a new page created by the slug forums

But for some strange reason this doesn’t work anymore with bbPress 2.2.1 and WP 3.5 Beta and Twenty Twelve.

How can i make sure WP or bbPress uses a different page template then page.php for showing the forums and category -index on the forums slug?

I’ve tried everything, Copy/Paste the page-front-forums.php from the Extra’s folder to my Theme’s Root -> Created a new page inside my Dashboard and called it Forums… Nope doesn’t work.. Even when i use the Shortcode [bbp-forum-index] on that last created page.. It keeps using the page.php by default..

Anybody who can help ?
Because this it totally not very cool 🙂

[venntom]

Hi,

Great forum plugin!

I am however experiencing some annoying theme compatibility issues…

My forum page (with [bbp-forum-index] shortcode) was wrongly picking up my theme’s css, instead of the bbpress css.

Resulting in an unusable forum layout.

I have applied the theme compatibility actions by copying the necessary bbp-theme-compat directory/files to my theme root.

By setting the correct bbpress page template via its page attributes, the main forum page (now without shortcode) seems to pick up the bbpress css. But shortcodes are still picking up the wrong css via the default theme page template..

Any suggestions to make shortcodes work with the bbpress css instead of the theme’s css?

Are there any additional css styles available that work with the bbpress theme-compat templates?

I am using wp 3.4.2, bbpress 2.1.2 and my theme is generated with Artisteer 4.

Regard,Tom

[Shane Gowland]

Somewhere in your bbPress theme file there is an unneeded comma sitting between two quotation mark characters.

Remove ", " …and you should be good.

As for features; it really depends on what you’re looking for. GD bbPress Toolkit has some cool features; like attachments, signatures, custom views etc.

[Shane Gowland]

bbPress is a WordPress plugin. It doesn’t operate independently; so you will need to either create a second install of WordPress on the subdomain or create a WordPress network.

[@mercime]

> This is intended to be a site-wide forum and not group specific.

If you do not intend to use the internal BuddyPress Group Forums, then go to Settings > BuddyPress > Components panel and uncheck Discussion Forums component. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/

[htz77]

I solved this with some CSS. First, in WP-Admin > Appearance > Menus, i added a custom CSS class to my tabs (at least my Forum tab and News tab). If you don’t see the CSS-classes field, toggle it on in the Screen-Options. For my Forums tab, i set a CSS class of “nav1-forum” and my News tab got “nav1-news”.

Then in my CSS file (style.css), i added this to my Active-tab styles
.bbPress #main-menu #menu-main-menu li.nav1-forums a,
which makes the Forum tab highlighted whenever bbPress is “on” (based on the body class “.bbPress”.

And I added this to my Inactive-tab styles:
.bbPress #main-menu #menu-main-menu li.nav1-news a,
which forces my News tab (which is for my normal “posts” post-type, the blog area of my site), to appear as Inactive, even though its element actually does incorrectly have the class “current_page_parent”.

Of course you may need to adjust the IDs in the css, to match your html.

[htz77]

Has a solution been found for this yet? When viewing any page of my Forum, my Menu (from wp_nav_menu) actually shows my NEWS tab (the LI element) (the normal “posts” post-type, for the blog section) with the “current_page_parent” class. So my forum looks as if it’s in the News section. I do have a Forum tab in my menu, but it is the Forum index page (using a shortcode). I suppose i can just use CSS to fix all this, but i would think bbPress would be able to avoid incorrectly triggering the “current_page_parent” class on the wrong element.

[Rethink]

Wordpress and bbPress are up to date. This is part of a WordPress multisite install.

http://anabaptistworship.com/category/community-music/

I am using a custom child theme and there is no error when I switch to twentyeleven.

I recently started getting this error, even on pages that aren’t part of bbpress on my site. I’m not sure when it started–maybe with a recent update?

---

Error:

Warning: Missing argument 2 for _bbp_has_replies_where() in /hermes/waloraweb048/b1387/as.rethink/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-reply-functions.php on line 1381

Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /hermes/waloraweb048/b1387/as.rethink/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-reply-functions.php on line 1384

---

Lines 1381-1385 of the file it mentions:

function _bbp_has_replies_where( $where, $query ) {

    // Bail if no post_parent to replace
    if ( ! is_numeric( $query->get( 'post_parent' ) ) )
        return $where;

Any suggestions? Thanks!

[htz77]

I have a custom WP_Query outside the main loop, in my header.php, and also another one in footer.php. On my Forums List page (the top/base level of bbPress that lists all my Forums), the custom WP_Query in both header.php and footer.php, no longer works. It shows another instance of the bbPress Forums List, instead of showing the correct content (as it does on every other page of my site, including all other bbPress pages). My custom WP_Query is
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'page',
'page_id' => 218
);
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();

the_content();
endwhile;
wp_reset_postdata();

I also tried get_page, which also didn’t work.
$page_id = 218;
$page_data = get_page( $page_id );
$page_content = apply_filters('the_content', $page_data->post_content);
echo $page_content;

I tried using a bbPress ShortCode in a WP-Page called “Forums”, and then also without a page, just using bbPress Permalink “Forums”, without a wp-page and shortcode. Same problem either way.

Why would bbPress conflict with these core WP functions? And why would it happen ONLY on the Forums List page? I also tested this in TwentyEleven, and the problem is there too.

[tamarazuk]

Hi,

I am unable to view the topic or reply content. With debug on I receive the following error

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘FORCE INDEX (PRIMARY, post\_parent) WHERE 1=1 AND (wp\_posts.ID = 647 OR wp\_posts.’ at line 2] SELECT SQL\_CALC\_FOUND\_ROWS wp\_posts.* FROM wp\_posts JOIN wp\_icl\_translations t ON wp\_posts.ID = t.element\_id AND t.element\_type IN (‘post\_topic’) JOIN wp\_icl\_languages l ON t.language\_code=l.code AND l.active=1 FORCE INDEX (PRIMARY, post\_parent) WHERE 1=1 AND (wp\_posts.ID = 647 OR wp\_posts.post\_parent = 647) AND wp\_posts.post\_type IN (‘topic’, ‘reply’) AND (wp\_posts.post\_status = ‘publish’ OR wp\_posts.post\_status = ‘closed’) AND t.language\_code=’en’ ORDER BY wp\_posts.post\_date ASC LIMIT 0, 15

I have had this error since I installed this plugin over a month ago and have not been able to fix it. At that time I found this ticket1 which lead me to this 2 line change2. I decided to add these two lines but that did not help either.

I have switched themes to Twenty Ten bbPress, Twenty Eleven, and the standard Twenty Eleven. I have also disabled almost all plugins (not WPML because I’ve had bad experiences with disabling and re-enabling it). None of this troubleshooting actions have helped. I then sat around waiting for an update, but unfortunately one has not come yet.

Since we are reaching the launch date I would like any help from anyone who has encountered this issue and successfully fixed it.

Thank you so much! Tamara

• This topic was modified 14 years ago by tamarazuk.

[N3RI]

I have the same problem.

[Francesco Bigiarini]

The class is “status-closed”. You can change the title of a topic in this way:

add_filter('the_title', 'custom_the_title', 10, 2);

public function custom_the_title($title, $post_id) {
    if(get_post_type($post_id) === bbp_get_topic_post_type() &&
        bbp_is_topic_closed($post_id)) {
        return '[Resolved] ' . $title;
    }

    return $title;
}

• This reply was modified 14 years ago by Francesco Bigiarini.
• This reply was modified 14 years ago by Francesco Bigiarini.

[Francesco Bigiarini]

bbp_get_user_profile_url( $user_id = 0, $user_nicename = '' )

is the function for retrieving the user profile URL. If you don’t pass an ID it takes that current user ID.

\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\bbp-theme-compat\bbpress\user-details.php
\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\bbp-theme-compat\bbpress\user-favorites.php
\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\bbp-theme-compat\bbpress\user-subscriptions.php
\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\bbp-theme-compat\bbpress\user-topics-created.php

are the template files that you can override in your own template.

[counterfoxx]

Hi,

I have created a custom registration which works and has custom fields. In my header I have added code which checks if the user is logged in. When logged in I want to have a link to ‘My Profile’ for the user. I would like to know where I can find out this information and where it is generated.

Also I would like to know what files create the user profile page, as I would like to customize it.

Thanks for your help in advance.

[applesqaz]

yep currently i have no reason to use BBpress. The above reply or elese where on the forum is that it is only 500 lines of code. Okay thanks no thanks.

Im here to download and use this program as how the demo look, not how it looks minus 500 lines of code. You could write Download BBPress minus 500 lines of code see how many download.

Like I said Im willing to pay for theme. I dont see logic of withholding it. All it does is make me forget about bbpress. Not everyone installing these scripts is a programmer / designer. 500 lines might as well be 1 million to me and others.

I thank the guys who created this for their great effor, it looks nice.

[bjstone906]

I’ve found where the code lives! Now I don’t know how to change it to point to the bbpress profile (see below).

&lt; ?php printf(__(&#039;Logged in as <a href="%1$s">%2$s.'), get_option('siteurl') . '/forums/users/', $user_identity); ?&gt; </a><a href="" title=""></a> 

I’ve tried changing the href to

href="http://retreadwerks.com/forums/users/%1$s" 

but that’s not working either. I dont know what bbpress users for its profile url but I’ll keep looking. In the meantime does anyone have any suggestions?

• This reply was modified 14 years ago by bjstone906.
• This reply was modified 14 years ago by bjstone906.
• This reply was modified 14 years ago by bjstone906.

[eBierek]

Hi,

I’m wondering if anybody have some advice how to achieve this:

I have created 3 roles called; member, steeringgroup and board, with Justin Tadlocks Members plugin.
Now I’d like to restrict those roles to the following bbpress forums:

Category forum A (can only be viewed by logged in users, in role member, steeringgroup and board)
 - Forum
 - Forum

Category forum B (can only be viewd by logged in users, in role steeringgroup and board)
- Forum
- Forum

Category forum C (can only be viewd by logged in users, in role board)
- Forum
- Forum

Not logged in guests should not see anything of the forums, they will be redirected to a sign-up page. (have fixed this one).

Currently all 3 category forums and sub forums are visible to all logged in users at all times.

Running WordPress 3.4.2, bbPress 2.1.2, Members 0.2.1

Thank you in advance for any help/advice.

/emily

[nchiari]

Hi everyone!

I’m using bbPress (last version, with lastest WP too in a single site) and have the General Forums activated (not the group ones). I activated the option to use the WP WYSIWYG visual editor for the comments, which had a black background and a white text color. Usually it worked very well, but one day (too far ago), the color of the text changed to gray (check the image below).

I don’t remember changed anything on the code. Maybe it was a plugin update or something like that, but I couldn’t change it back.

Thanks!

Example: http://gameshock.vg/foros/topic/juegos-populares-nacionales-y-peronistas

[nirzol]

I don’t understand.
I used the buddypress default theme –> shortcode not work
change the slug –> not work
Try this solution : http://mysitemyway.com/support/topic/infocus-bbpress-20-root-slug –> not work
change to twety theme forum theme –> not work
desactive plugins…

[bbp-single-forum id=44] doesn’t work on forum page…. 🙁

But [bbp-topic-index] this shortcode work.

what can I do more ?

[renai42]

hey John,

I appreciate your response.

I’m sorry, but I don’t agree bbPress’ code or the process of implementing it is nicely documented. In fact, very little of it is documented that I can see — and much of what does exist refers to bbpress 1.x. As an example, I found it almost impossible to find any documentation this week on how to install a new bbPress 2.x theme, or how to modify existing themes. For a WordPress plugin … this is pretty unusual.

I appreciate that this is an open source community … I guess I’m disappointed because I feel what bbPress is doing has the potential to be revolutionary — and that its difficulty of implementation is limiting that potential. WordPress has needed what bbPress is doing for many years.

Cheers,

Renai

[Paul Hermanson]

I replaced with the following:


• This reply was modified 14 years ago by Paul Hermanson.

[Paul Hermanson]

I can’t get my freaking code to show up. What gives?