[chicadieta]

Hi. I’ve been going around this all day and haven’t found the answers to my questions so I’m posting them here.

I’m running:
– bbPress v 2.1.2
– Thesis Theme v 1.8.2
– WordPress 3.5 (Network)

These are my problems:

1) I managed to remove the sidebars for bbPress forums puting a php code on the custom_functions.php file of the Thesis Theme, but I can’t get bbPress pages to be full width. How can I tell bbPress to use 100% width?

2) My main forums page doesn’t show anything. I even created a page with the correspond slug and put on it the short code [bbp-forum-index] but this page is still empty.

3) For some reason, bbPress content font is really small. It’s always smaller than my site’s regular font. I have tried every combination of CSS classes and ids to try and change the font size used by bbPress but nothing changes. What’s the class I need to use for this? How can I get bbPress to use the same font size as the rest of my site?

My site is http://www.tunuevocuerpo.com
And the forums are (supposed to be) on http:////www.tunuevocuerpo.com/foros/
You can check one of the forums on http://www.tunuevocuerpo.com/foros/tema/programa/

Thanks in advance.

[savvystephy]

Hi,

Our forums have been working on our website until recently (perhaps due to an edit we didn’t realize). Currently what is happening is that topics (if posted through the wp-admin) show up, but when you click on the forum you get the error “Page Not Found”.

Would this be an issue with the database or some other code error?

I am sorry, I can’t show the page because it’s for a work project that isn’t allowed to be publicly shared. But a couple screenshots:

Forum not showing:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jx3rue9077p50w9/forumnotfound.jpg

Post showing up:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hompyfucw2j95k2/post-showingup.jpg

Thank you for any help that you might be able to give.

-Stephanie

[hixen]

Hi, don’t know if this is a bug or just my doing it wrong. I have added a twitter and a facebook field to my user details, and removed the yim, aim and jabber fields. I’m also using the events manager plugin, who have added a Phone field to my user details. So when trying to edit my user details, front end with bbpress (form-user-edit.php) my user_contactmethods dosen’t get updated. This is the code i used:
add_action(‘roots_footer’, ‘roots_google_analytics’);
add_filter( ‘user_contactmethods’, ‘my_user_contactmethods’ );

function my_user_contactmethods( $user_contactmethods ) {
    unset($user_contactmethods['yim']);
    unset($user_contactmethods['aim']);
    unset($user_contactmethods['jabber']);
    $user_contactmethods['twitter'] = 'Twitter';
    $user_contactmethods['facebook'] = 'Facebook';
    return $user_contactmethods;
}
 This is the code that shows my stuff front end (well it's your code, from form-user-edit.php) 

http://pastebin.com/iYV5H6jv My problem is that it doesn’t output any values front end, but if I type something and press the update button, it gets updated backend, but still it turns blank front end. Hope you guys understand, any help, feedback or ideas is much appreciated.

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[pcgs51]

I have a login box now in the header of all pages on my site but if the form isn’t filled out and you click submit it doesn’t display an error message, instead it takes you to the wp-login page. How do I avoid that? Is there something I can add to the shortcode that will require information in the form?

http://www.brucechristian.com/ (temporary url for dubaitrailrunning.com) •
WordPress v. 3.4.1 •
bbPress v. 2.1.2

[mluther]

Hi, folks. Please let me know if there are other web files whose source code would be helpful to examine.
Thank you.

[Stephen Edgar]

Why not use the shortcodes that come with bbPress?

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[ryuken2]

I am trying to create login box and register link in shortcode function.

function add_login_form() {
    if(!is_user_logged_in()){
        return wp_login_form();
    }
    else {
        return;
    }
}

So I get the login box but not sure how to add the bbpress register link if the user is not logged in. code where i want to add the register link along with the loginbox,not sure how to do that. Any pointers or suggestion in code?

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[ryuken2]

I have added the BBpress login box using BBpress shortcode but it is adding the vertical login box, which I don’t want. I am looking for horizontal login box that will keep both username and password on same row.

I am not sure how to approach this? Is there any way? I mean using CSS or php tweak?

[Stephen Edgar]

I removed the BuddyPress section from the FAQ as after pointing someone to the FAQ I got a question “Do I have to install BuddyPress?” so to avoid confusion it is now separate.

[Stephen Edgar]

No, you do not need BuddyPress installed.

Is the bbPress plugin activated on your plugins settings? (if it is deactivate it and reactivate it)

There are three new menu items on your WordPress navigation menu. These are:

Forums – create and manage your forum.

Topics – topics are created within forums, they are the issues that are being discussed.

Replies – replies are made to topics, this is the actual discussion.

You should be able to see your forums at http://yourdomain.com/forums/

You can also create a standard WordPress page and add a shortcode eg. [bbp-forum-index] (This will Show your entire forum index) to the page content.

You can then add either to any of your main WordPress menus for easy navigation.

[Stephen Edgar]

> To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress
> Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a
> different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred
> permalink structure and save again.
https://codex.bbpress.org/faq/#404

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress does allow shortcodes for security reasons, you should look at something like https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist/

To order your replies in reverse order add the following code to your themes functions.php file.

https://gist.github.com/3414353

[Stephen Edgar]

Try this and post the link back here:

• Create a WordPress page eg. bbpress-test would be http://pedalterapi.net/bbpress-test
• Add the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] to the page https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

Does this now include the forum description?

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[Stephen Edgar]

Are you adding a forum description to each of the forums you are creating?

eg. ‘Anything’ should also have a description ‘This forum is for anything’ and that will then show underneath the forum title on your forums page.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum

[Stephen Edgar]

Have a read of this to help get you going https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

> Visibility: decide whether your forum is public, private or hidden.

> Public – Anyone can see these forums

> Private – Only logged in registered users can see these forums
> Hidden: Only Moderators/Admins can see these forums

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum

If you want further granular access you should use a plugin to control the access privs:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ or
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/

[Stephen Edgar]

> Try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration
> Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different
> permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink
> structure and save again.

https://codex.bbpress.org/faq/#404

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you had a look at BuddyPress Courseware?

It may have some of what you are trying to do already done, and a bit more 😉

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-courseware/
http://buddypress.coursewa.re/
http://buddypress.coursewa.re/handbook.html

If you just want to keep rolling your own, get started with your own templates customizations here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen Edgar]

For your second issue could you please create a ticket on trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ with as much detail as you can.

For the first issue does repairing the forums fix your problem?
https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress 2.1x includes the import tool now to import from bbPress Standalone, phpBB, vBulletin & Invision.

To get started importing forums have a look at this

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

[Stephen Edgar]

Take a look at this tfor starters
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

[Stephen Edgar]

> To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress
> Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a
> different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred
> permalink structure and save again.

https://codex.bbpress.org/faq/

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress includes widgets for your sidebar go to your WordPpess Dashboard -> ‘Appearance’ -> ‘Widgets’

https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes it uses the same DB and is safe, take a look at this thread regarding performance for starters:

bbPress for Millions of posts?

Yes, some themes support bbPress or you can roll your own see https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/ for starters.

[Stephen Edgar]

Set the forums base slug to the same as your page slug and your custom WP page with shortcodes should take precedence.