[MediaSVI]

Nope I just had to make a New Page, named it Forum and then put short code [bbp-forum-index] .

Still not sure if this plugin is going to work for me, I am not that happy with the way it is arranged, it is a bit hard to understand how to see the different forums as they are just text and no color bars to differentiate them. Plus I need to have “Youtube” & “Picture” embed buttons to make it easy for people to share.

[nickritchey]

I disabled all of the plugins and thought it was W3 Total Cache at first, but then I ended up with other errors.

I disabled all caching and it was still broken. I addressed each problem individually, and after a few hours of trying different things, I changed

memory_limit = 62M      ;

to

memory_limit = 128M      ;

in php.ini in my root folder and re-enabled the W3 Total Caching. That seemed to fix the problem.

Resolved!

Thanks for your help!

[mluther]

bbpress.org/forums/ editor messed up my child sidebar.php code in my previous post. My child sidebar.php code is pasted on http://codetidy.com/3282/

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

[mluther]

Dear Netweb and all other helpful folks,

I looked in my Child theme’s folder and I have three files in there.

1. footer.php
2. sidebar.php
3. style.css

When I temporarily renamed my Child’s sidebar.php to sidebar.phpTEMPCHANGE, I was able to see the bbpress sidebar.

I remember now why I created a Child sidebar.php file, and it is because I did not want any sidebar to show up when a website visitor uses the search feature. See https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archives-and-meta-widgets-show-up-on-search-results-pages for my post and people’s suggestions.

My child’s sidebar.php contains this:

    &lt;!-- https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1383cda0f1903ca0                     'monthly' ) ); ?&gt;                                                                                                                --&gt;    <!-- #secondary .widget-area -->

What can I do to both:

A. Keep the “Login” and “Meta” from showing up in the nonforum pages

AND

B. Make the bbpress sidebar appear?

Thank you!enter code here

[Stephen Edgar]

You will need to copy the templates into a subdirectory of your theme

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

[tbguitars]

I’m trying to get bbpress to let me use a regular page on my site for the main forums page which I want to populate using the bbpress shortcodes. This is not hard to do, but the issue I’m stuck on is that once you go into the forums the breadcrumbs will only link back to the page with the “Forums” (or whatever you change it to in the settings)slug, and that page works like an archive page and wont let me write anything on it or use shortcodes etc.

I’ve wasted many hours already trying to figure this out, any help would be so much appreciated.

Thanks!

using latest updates of wordpress and bbpress

[Stephen Edgar]

Take a look in form-reply.php/form-topic.php/form-forum.php templates.

If your going to edit any of these I suggest you copy them to your theme folder so you don’t edit the core files and will not lose any custumizations you get bbPress updates.

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

[Stephen Edgar]

Take a look at https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

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

[Stephen Edgar]

@capsx Those are phpBB ‘magic_url’ and phpBB by default will truncate/shorten all URL’s to 55 characters. It does this so there are not extremely long URL’s in posts. eg. This URL is 63 characters in length, phpBB will leave the ‘href’ in tact but shorten the displayed URL to 55 characters.

<a href="http://www.example.com/directory/directory/directory/directory/">http://www.example.com/directory/directo ... directory/</a>

phpBB SQL DB stores this in the posts table with the following code

<!-- m --><a href="http://www.example.com/directory/directory/directory/directory/">http://www.example.com/directory/directo ... directory/</a><!-- m -->

There is more info on ‘magic_url’ here and here.

Thanks for posting your example code above.You may also want to look at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1884

• This reply was modified 14 years, 2 months ago by Stephen Edgar. Reason: code formatting

[MTPrower]

Using WordPress 3.4.1 and bbPress 2.1.2.

Ever since I began using bbPress, about two years ago, one thing has driven me up the wall– the forums root, or forums index, or forums archive– whatever you want to call it. It’s the page that you land on when you go to the forums, the page that you get to when you click the root page “Forums” in the breadcrumbs, the same “Forums” link after “Home” in the breadcrumbs. No other forums system except bbPress uses a slimmed-down, so-bland-it’s-not-worth-looking-at template for the root of their forums like the Forums Index.

I tried several ways to make the root page of the forums look like a Single Forum page, in all its not-slimmed-down glory:

• Rename the Forums Base on the settings page to “forums-index” and use a WordPress page with “[bbp-single-forum id=####]” in it for the landing page of my forums. This, however, still keeps the breadcrumbs link, “forums”, linking to the Forums Index. Since I can’t figure out how to change that link, this method doesn’t work.
• Edit content-archive-forum.php so that it displays the content of my WordPress page with “[bbp-single-forum id=####]” in it, and nothing else but the site header and footer and whatnot. Having a custom Forum Index page like this would be ideal, but for some reason it glitches out, displaying like the normal Forums Index, but with the entire forums index, including all categories, under a single category header. For every new single-forum shortcode you add to show another forum, it just repeats what the first shortcode did, too.
• I could rename the forums base to “forums-index” like said before, and redirect “forums-index” to my WordPress page, but it’s a little ridiculous that I would have to rely on something as sloppy as a redirect hack…

Somebody please help me figure out what I can do. Every other forums out there shows their forums index in what bbPress calls “single forum” view. I just want to do that with bbPress too.

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

[MTPrower]

This problem isn’t solved. I’m using bbPress 2.1.2 now, and I can’t, for the LIFE of me, find any way to make it so that “content-archive-forum” looks like “content-single-forum”. Or make it so that the breadcrumbs root, “forums”, just goes to a page of my choosing, ignoring “content-archive-forum” altogether. I wish content-archive-forum just looked like content-single-forum to begin with. That would solve ALL my problems!

This is getting real old. It is, and has always been, the one thing ruining bbPress for me…

[capsx]

in example above, the problem is the DOTS.if we will remove those dots, parsing will be correct:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29725651@N02/sets/72157630105769752/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/29725651@N105769752/</a>

is parsed to:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29725651@N02/sets/72157630105769752/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/29725651@N105769752/</a>

[capsx]

also btw – in the bbpress is bug in link parsing:

link:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29725651@N02/sets/72157630105769752/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/29725651@N ... 105769752/</a>

is parsed to:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29725651@N02/sets/72157630105769752/"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29725651@N">http://www.flickr.com/photos/29725651@N</a> &#8230; 105769752/

[capsx]

this textarea suck …

cant post normal CODE …

see here

• This reply was modified 14 years, 3 months ago by capsx.
• This reply was modified 14 years, 3 months ago by capsx.

[Stephen Edgar]

Give this plugin a try if you only want to do some CSS tweaks.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-custom-css-file/

If you do want to go down the custom templates route https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[John James Jacoby]

You should add this to the codex showcase page.

[John James Jacoby]

You can stop bumping this. I don’t know what “proper attention” means to you, but I can’t look at it any more than I already am. If it’s critical to you and your site, dive into the code and start fixing things.

[John James Jacoby]

Not a bbPress problem. Looks like your theme is a child theme of BuddyPress’s bp-default, and it uses hardcoded relative paths in its @import rules. Any number of things could be going wrong here, but it wasn’t updating bbPress that caused this to happen.

[Stephen Edgar]

Don’t copy any templates into any of the bbPress plugin folders (/wp-content/plugins/bbpress)

The details of what to do are here: https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen Edgar]

Check the Codex https://codex.bbpress.org/ for the latest docs and to get you up and running please see:

‘Getting Started with bbPress’ https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

If you would like to help us get the docs updated please login with the same credentials you use here on bbpress.org to https://codex.bbpress.org/wp-admin and help out however you can.

• This reply was modified 14 years, 3 months ago by Stephen Edgar. Reason: verbiage!

[Stephen Edgar]

OK, I’m with you now, are you going to use a BBCode plugin for bbPress to render the HTML output?

I have just started working on a patch to add CSS for bbcode_quote, bbcode_quote_head, bbcode_quote_body and a few of the other CSS classes that are are parsed with bbp-parser.php

[DNBrawler]

You need to use the login shortcode and the register page template. Theres also a login widget available.

[alturner]

I’ve spent days on this too, and although this topic didn’t help. it’s one i came across in my search, so thought i’d update with what worked for me.

I think it’s now quite simple, but very unintuitive. Hopefully my explanation works for you guys too.

IT’S NOT IN THE BBPRESS.CSS file! Arghhhhhhh

Firstly, I started using chrome instead of iexplore/firefox. Using this I navigated to the topic/reply box that wasn’t letting me see the text, right click, and select inspect element. The box at the bottom, and to the right, can then help you identify where it’s picking up styles from. You should see a section at the bottom saying matched styles, in my case ‘content.css’

If you hover over the style name (content.css for me) it should show you the location file and the section of code you need to change

The file I needed to amend was http://www.your_website_here.co.uk/wordpress/wp-includes/js/tinymce/themes/advanced/skins/wp_theme/content.css

And I just changed the section below, where color: #fff was previously different

body { font-family: Georgia, “Times New Roman”, “Bitstream Charter”, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; color: #fff; margin: 10px; min-height: 100%;}

I really hope this method helps others, as it’s been getting right on my nerves

[meamrussian]

I’m having the same issue. I see two conflicting instructions for theming:

This page shows to make your own template within /my-templates/your-theme/. This page shows to put it in your wordpress theme folder: /themes/your-theme/bbpress/bbpress-files.php. So which is it?

Nevertheless, I tried doing it both ways, and neither show in the dropdown in forum settings. I tried copying the theme-compat theme in order to customize bbpress.

Can someone help, please?

[moneyonlinetalk]

I have been trying for ages to make this works for my website, i activated the bbpress forum and create a page name forum, insert some few bbpress shortcodes and all i get is the “Forum is Empty” is there anywhere this can be resolved? Is there any tutorial on it?My site is at Latest Universities Newsany help will be appreciated.