[kpolkson]

Hi all,

thanks for making such an easy forum solution, I’ve been quite pleased with how much functionality comes right out of the box.

Though I am getting confused when it comes to best practices for making some typical theme customizations so that I can keep a custom look with future updates of bbpress.

At this time, I am really only trying to change font styles and sizes and some of the coloring and minor layout items with how the forum renders to match my custom wordpress theme (built off of HTML5 boilerplate).

I’ve reviewed:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-0-theme-compatibility/ &

http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

but, I don’t feel like it helped and am not sure if things have already changed since those have been written. either that or i am just lost in the number of files that seem to control the theme in bbpress with the added bbp-theme-compat files.

For instance, i am told to copy over everything from bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/bbpress directory, yet none of those files include the bbp-theme-compat/css files. which is what I will probably doing the most modification of (right?)

Then it says to copy over the bbpress/extras directory (optionally), but all I can find is the bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/extras directory, is this what was meant?

Again, really just want to make minor style changes that universally affect the bbpress fonts and colors, yet still want to specifically target those bbpress items.

Might increase the complexity of the customization, but right now just want to start small and use bbpress best practices so that I don’t lose my customization when upgrading anything.

thanks

[Will Earnhardt]

I’ve seen numerous threads on this very subject for the last few years and JJJ has been posting the same response every time. It more or less says “This is the way it is. If you don’t like it, come up with your own solution.”

I understand his reasoning for saying that’s just the way it is, but IMO, I wouldn’t have released this product with the URLs in this format. How can a topic be considered part of a forum, yet the URL not represent that?

This is the logical structure. (assuming everything exists in a forums subdirectory):

Viewing a Single Forum:

domain.com/forums/forum-name/

Viewing a Thread (or topic):

domain.com/forums/forum-name/thread-name

With comments being this or something similar:

domain.com/forums/forum-name/thread-name#comment-35

.

This is what we actually get.

Viewing a Single Forum:

domain.com/forums/forum/forum-name

Then click on a Single Thread:

domain.com/forums/topic/thread-name

You lose all acknowledgement that you were in a particular forum. It’s like the threads are just floating about aimlessly…not attached to anything in particular.

If BBPress operated like WordPress, Let’s say that “Forums” are “Categories” and “Topics” are “Posts”. Well, with WordPress, you can set your permalinks to read:

domain.com/category-name/post-name/

So why not be able to do that with BBPress? The problem is that in order to get all of the various settings applied to both Forums and Topics, they have both been created as separate Custom Post Types. The individual Posts in Topics simply have a custom field that ties them to a specific Forum.

Now, I haven’t tested this at all, but in theory it may be possible to tap into some WordPress action and filter hooks and create our own rewrite rules to fix what I see as the biggest flaw with BBPress. I found a thread on another site recently where the user used a custom field value to generate the permalink for a custom post type. That seems to me would be exactly what we need to do here. If I can get some free time, I’ll see if I can get it working and maybe build a plugin to handle it.

[tommycopeland]

Hey guys, using most updated WP and BP files. I’ve got this code I’m working with: But stringing together the action and max parameters is for some reason not working. The updates work, but it’s not being limited to 1. Any help is appreciated! Thanks! T

[jshultz]

Well this is the way I ended up doing it. I created a new div above the table that lists the topics and then did me up some jquery:

var rows = $('table.bbp-topics').find('tr.super-sticky');

        rows.each(function(index) {
            var headhref = $('a.bbp-topic-permalink', this).attr('href');
            var headline = $('a.bbp-topic-permalink', this).html();
            var excerpt = $('.excerpt', this).text();
            var author = $('a.bbp-author-name', this).html();
            var photo = $('a.bbp-author-avatar > img', this).attr('src');
            var replies = $('.bbp-topic-voice-count', this).text();
            var followers = $('.bbp-topic-reply-count', this).text();
            var freshness = $('.bbp-topic-freshness > a', this).html();
            var meta = $('p.bbp-topic-meta', this).text();


            var newrow = '' +
                '' +
                '' + author +' ' +
                '<a href="' + headhref + '">' + headline + '</a><a></a>' +
                '' + excerpt + '' +
                'Replies' + replies + ' ' +
                'Followers' + followers + ' ' +
                'Updated' + freshness + ' ' +
                ' ';

            $('#supersticky').fadeIn().append(newrow)

        })

[viktora]

I have spent this evening by trying to install the “bbpress threaded replies” plugin. No success. I am not able to see “reply to” link in replies.

Is some here able run it on 2.1. bbpress plugin version? Pls send a link just to see how it works. Or… just place the code what has to be modyfied to make this threaded plugin running… Thanks a lot.

[jshultz]

I found the problem. I had a function in my functions.php was malformed. The correct way was this way:

// Add classes to posts
add_filter('post_class', 'my_post_classes');
function my_post_classes( $classes )
{
    $postType = get_post_type();

    if ( $postType == 'post' ) {
        $classes[] = 'clearfix';

    }

    return $classes;
}

[Erlend]

I don’t think this should be a priority for bbPress. You’re doing the right thing by “outsourcing” it. But even that might be unnecessary. Most websites would be better served by adjusting to bbPress, not the other way around.

Those strongly opposed to change should simply consider options such as SimplePress, which follows the traditional (legacy imo) style of forum structure.

Maybe the teaching route is better than the development route in this case? An instructional blog post or codex page to ease people into bbPress’ new concepts could go a long way. That’s the Git approach for instance.

[Unconformed]

Man I tried to post here ages ago. I can’t believe no one has replied

SoundCloud Shortcode

That’s a plugin for wordpress I use. Will work in the forum.

[nielsvanrenselaar]

It’s not that hard…

                                                                 $post->ID, "links" => array("edit" => bbp_get_reply_edit_link(), "trash" => bbp_get_reply_trash_link() ))); ?>

• This reply was modified 14 years, 2 months ago by nielsvanrenselaar.

[aaclayton]

Have you taken over control of bbpress templates using theme compatibility? If so you can modify yourtheme/bbpress/loop-forums.php and remove the list item:

li class=”bbp-forum-freshness”

Next from yourtheme/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php remove the same section and its contents:

li class=”bbp-forum-freshness

Finally you’ll have to adjust the CSS of your forums to compensate the width of the remaining forum columns for the missing freshness. Hope this helps.

EDIT: sorry, I tried to post the exact code blocks to remove, but the forum here isn’t letting me embed the code 🙁

[kbunt]

Having the same issue in a footer widget as well as the sidebar. BBPress is overriding the footer 1 and primary widgets on the /forum/. I’ve made the page forum full width via a custom CSS file to make it disappear in the sidebar as a short term solution, but can’t seem to find the issue in the code.

See, http://www.divorcingmatters.com/forums/

[jshultz]

This would be better:

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_forum_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_topic_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

function ja_return_blank() {

    return '';

}

[MTPrower]

I want the option for it to go to a page of my choosing. People often don’t like the default forums-archive page (which ends up being the root/home page), so they create a WordPress page with bbPress shortcodes in it to be the forums’ home page. The problem is, when they do that, the breadcrumbs root link, which says “forums”, doesn’t go to that page. it goes to the archive page, or forums-index– which is the page they were trying to avoid.

• This reply was modified 14 years, 2 months ago by MTPrower.

[AAShepAA]

This really should be put into the original code. Great tip.

[zikadonfeur]

Hello,i’m french 😐 (sorry)

I use a WordPress 3.4 and a buddypress 1.5.6. With it a bbpress 2.1.2.My WP theme is Frisco for buddypressmy bbpress theme is BBpress default because I can’t select another one.

My bug is on a “members/username/forums/“My sidebar is running out.all over pages are ok.

How I can resolve it?

I used a http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/ but how I can select it in the adminpanel.

Thank’s a lot.

Franck

[bryanforst]

ok, never mind. The above code works, just the redirect needed some value, thought that blank would redirect to the home page….

bryan

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, you can just ceate a page and add the shortcode to the page.

Here are some docs to help get you going

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

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

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

[tiberiusCA]

It is possible to get permanent link to last post of topic? Something like has mybb engine ?action=lastpost for example http://www.example.com/forums/topic?action=lastpost

• This topic was modified 14 years, 2 months ago by tiberiusCA.

[Stephen Edgar]

When you create the ‘forum you can assign the following permissions to each forum:

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

[mooapo]

Hi….

I am using the HTML5 Reset Blank theme, and I am designing the theme from scratch. The question I have is this, is bbPress a Theme, or is it just a Forum Page…. Sorry if I am confusing you.

I guess what I am asking is this, can I just create a Page in my Blog called forum, add the Forum to that page using the short code?

Thank you….

[joethephish]

One more attempt to get the code to paste: (I guess it won’t work, oh well. It’s fairly standard.)

get_header(); ?&gt;                        <!-- ?php comments_template( '', true ); ? -->                 <!-- .left-column -->                 <!-- .right-column -->            <!-- #content -->

[joethephish]

Hey,

My company’s website uses a custom wordpress theme, and we’ve been adding bbpress compatibility to it directly (rather than using a child theme). We’ve been working on a staging server initially, before installing the updated theme on the main site.

We got everything working very nicely on the staging server, but the main one seems to have problems. Here’s an example:

• A sample user page: http://www.inklestudios.com/forums/users/joethephish – It seems to be using some data internally from the blog. The article id is “post-561” which actually corresponds to this blog post: http://www.inklestudios.com/archives/561
• The fact that it’s been treated as a blog post means that it’s been structured and styled slightly differently too, and is getting related classes to the tags from the blog post.

I’m very confused, because supposedly there’s no difference in setup between the staging server and the live one.

I have a single top level template file for the forums: forum.php, which looks like this:

    get_header(); ?&gt;                        <!-- ?php comments_template( '', true ); ? -->                 <!-- .left-column -->                 <!-- .right-column -->            <!-- #content -->

[thoughtbludgeon]

I would like to avoid all of the typical wordpress “backend” stuff for my users. For example, when a user registers, he just gets redirected back to whatever page he was at beforehand – there is no notification page or “success” page, just a redirect – how are my users to know they should check their email? How can I create a page that simply says “thank you for registering, please check your email for your username and password” after they register?

I would like to avoid getting redirected to the default “/wp-login.php” and instead use the bbpress login page I created. I would also like to use the bbpress registration page I made (using the shortcode and template) instead of “/wp-login.php?action=register”. Is this possible?

I would like to keep users on the front end of the site.

I created a page for forgotten passwords – after a user fills out the form, they are simply redirected – no notification of what just happened, no message that says “Your password is being email to you”, how can I go about making this more user friendly? If someone uses incorrect login detail, they simply get redirected to “/wp-login.php”, I would like them to stay on the “front end” of the site (I have a login page there after all).

Why does everything redirect in some way or another to “/wp-login.php”? How can I integrate this fully into the site without always jumping to a wordpress page?

Second issue, I seem to be having a problem with some of the other page, if I try to view members or a single member I get a 404. When going to “/index.php/forums/users/”. Any idea why these pages do not work?

Here is my domain: http://www.tbgamers.com

Thanks, I’d appreciate any help.

[JayteeHong]

I’d like to be shown topic no or topic id in topic list.what should I edit in loop-single.php file? please show me getting topic id codes. thanks.

• This topic was modified 14 years, 2 months ago by JayteeHong.

[bryanforst]

Hey all,

I have a website that users log into and would like to sign in/register the user when the go to the bbpress forum. The site is NOT a wordpress site.

I have read several posts on this topic:http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/integrating-with-external-authentication-system/

being the most recent but none of them seem to work. I can successfully log in or create a new user. They show up as logged in on the home page. However when they click any link bbpress does not recognize them as the current user and the login form is displayed again.

We are using bbpress 2.0 db version 2471.

Here is the code I have been inserting either in a file of its own (linking to that file from my system with login parameters passed) or in the header.php file of my businesslike template:

-new_user( compact( ‘user_login’, ‘user_email’, ‘user_url’, ‘user_nicename’, ‘user_status’, ‘user_pass’, ‘display_name’ ) ); if ( is_wp_error($user) ) { echo ” got an error “.$user->get_error_code(); } $user = bb_login( $_GET[‘login’], $_GET[‘password’],1 ); }

$user = bb_set_current_user( $user->ID );

}?>