[Pinhead149]

…i mean full width

http://pvpelite.de/forum/ here’s my page.

When you’re clicking on a link in the forums, the sidebar will appear again

[MTPrower]

It’s been 24 hours since my last post, so *bump*.

[richardpd]

Hi

On my bbPress (& buddypress) enabled blog I have a forum page that is blank (no sourcecode-html or css)-why/how is this?

The page link on my blog is http://richard-dickinson.com/forums/

(theme is a bbPress child theme)-grateful for helpful advice/replies-thanks

[Manapunk1]

I am looking for a button bar editor plugin for bbPress, for posts. I have a lot of people posting on my forums that do not have familiarity with hashing bbcode / html manually into a post, so I would like to find a nice button bar / editor plugin for posting. Unfortunately it looks like the BBcode Wysiwig Editor has gone sour as it is throwing errors whenever I try to activate it.

Are there any others out therE?

[MTPrower]

After screwing around with various options for permalinks and for the location and links for my forums, I have decided, once again, that it is best to hack up the archive-forum.php. In fact, I think this very page should be completely changed to allow you to choose whether you want to display the forums archive there, or if you want to use the wordPress page editor to display shortcodes or whatnot. This should be an option in the bbPress settings.

This would solve pretty much everyone’s problems with permalinks and breadcrumbs, and I think it would be easy to do.

[MTPrower]

The problem I had before is still here, and so I still need to change what the Archive Page shows. Changing the settings as said above worked at first, but now bbPress reverted back to showing the forum Archives on http://mysite.net/forums/ instead of what I put on my WordPress page at that location.

In my site’s main menu, I have a link called “Forums” that leads to “http://mysite.net/community/forums/”. This page is the custom page I made, to show the forum_id’s of my two forum categories, rather than showing the forum Archives.

My WordPress theme has a breadcrumbs system, as does bbPress. On the page that I created, WordPress says my breadcrumb path is:

Home » Community » Forums

While bbPress says it’s:

Home › Forums › Community › Forums

bbPress has this annoying thing about insisting that if you are inside the forums, it will add extra “sub-menus”, or path items, or whatever you call them, to your breadcrumbs.

In the bbPress settings page, I set my “Archive Slugs > Forums base” to “archives”, rather than the default “forums”. For “Single Slugs > Forum prefix”, I unchecked the box “Prefix your forum area with the Forum Base slug (Recommended)”.

bbPress seems to hate playing nicely with your site’s permalinks and breadcrumbs. I’ve always had this problem, ever since I started using bbPress.

I would be more than happy to hack up bbPress a bit so that I can fix the breadcrumbs and permalinks myself. I consider this a very persistent issue, as I see many people to this day wondering how on earth to get their forums to display at the proper location.

If there’s anything I can do to help get this problem fixed more permanently, I’d be more than happy to help.

[zzweb]

Hi everyone, I have this page here:

http://www.complianceupdater.com/mortgage-compliance-checklist-questions/

It is running off BBpress plugin. Right now, you’ll see that the new topic form does not work. If you submit, it asks ‘Are You Sure You Want To Do This?’. That form is hardcoded in, however as the encryption codes change frequently, I need that to be ‘soft coded’ in via PHP. How would I do this? Please write back if I’m not being clear, I’ll explain more. Thanks!!!

[craftcore]

Oh my goodness, this was driving me CRAZY! I figured out a solution that I hope will help you budddypress + bbress users out too!

Go to loop-single-reply.php in the bbpress theme files.

Find the line:

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />' ) ); ?>

This seems to be what is generating the avatar by default, so I commented it out and used the following code instead:

<?php // bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />' ) ); ?>



<?php



$replyauthor = bbp_get_reply_author_id();



if ( function_exists( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar' ) ) :

echo bp_core_fetch_avatar( array(

'item_id' => $replyauthor,

'type'     => 'full',

'width'    => 100,

'height'  => 100

));

endif;



?>

My forums are happy and unfuzzy now. Hope it works for you too!

[Jared Atchison]

I would definitely go with Lynq’s approach. Simple and it should get the job done

[Jared Atchison]

If 3.4 + bbPress is causing you get an error saying “bytes exhausted” I recommend either installing this plugin

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/memory-bump/

or bumping the memory manually through the wp-config.php

https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

[shanebp]

fyi – BuddyPress has Codex page specifically for setting up Group and Sitewide Forums

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

[wpmhweb]

Hello,

I am almost finished configuring bbPress and I just notice trying to publish a page with the URL mydomain.com/forums that it shows the default forums template and not the page that I have created with the shotcodes. There is anyway to fix this? I would like to have my own custom /forums page display.

Thanks for the help!

[Lynq]

Did you try just doing #bbp_topic_tags { display: none; } ?

Check it in firebug (which I highly recommend using) and add further elements in front of it to make sure it isn’t hiding something else for example…

#bbp_topic_tags { display: none; }

Check it is still hidden

p #bbp_topic_tags { display: none; }

Check it is still hidden

.divelement p #bbp_topic_tags { display: none; }

Check it is still hidden

Best way to do it if your not confident with CSS, just check each stage and if it stops being hidden, then you have specified an incorrect element in your CSS.

Good luck!

[Lynq]

I think I saw a similar problem to this on the forums recently.

A page called “Forums” and having your base slug as “Forums” will conflict with each other. If you visit yoursite.com/forums and your forum base slug is set to /forums it takes you to the archive and not the page.

Check out the post and see if it helps, be warned I didn’t read it 100% through

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-use-the-bbp-single-forum-idforum_id-shortcode-in-a-template-file

Good luck!

[Lynq]

You could use jQuery…

jQuery(".bbp-login-form #rememberme").attr('checked','checked');

jQuery(".bbp-login-form #rememberme").hide();

Good luck!

(Also check that jQuery, I don’t know if it is going to work perfectly lol).

[MTPrower]

I can’t think of much, except for adding a warning stating that if the Forums base is “forums”, then the forums archive is going to override the page http://www.mysite.com/forums if the person chooses to make a forums page at that location.

On the opposite end, it should be noted that IF they want to put a forums page in that location, then they can’t use “forums” as their archive base.

Sometimes there is a warning that certain pages conflict with each other or with pages in the WordPress installation. I think that if both a WordPress page/post and a forums base/slug are the same “word”, that the error should say more than just “possible conflict”. I think it should say that the slugs or bases will override your WordPress page or post, and explicitly state that those pages or posts won’t show the WordPress page or post content as intended.

Helpful and informative warning messages are indispensable. Vague ones aren’t understood and are soon ignored…

[John James Jacoby]

Yeah; the way WordPress handles archives automatically for us makes it a bit strange to figure out at first. Once you get it, it makes perfect sense though.

Any suggestions on how to better label the fields that would have made it easier to understand?

[MTPrower]

That was the problem. You see, under the Settings page for bbPress, there is the Archive Slugs section. Under this is two settings: “Forums base” and “Topics base”. Due to the wording, I never knew that having the “Forums base” setting at its default, which is “forums”, I would never be able to use my WordPress-made custom forums page at http://www.mysite.com/forums , always getting the archives page instead of what I put in shortcodes on my custom page.

Maybe the labels for those settings should be clarified, and the default setting changed. I see lots of people having trouble with this part, and I’ve been using bbPress for a year and just discovered the answer.

Thanks for replying. I appreciate it. If I knew some PHP, and my site was done and I could spare some time, I’d help you with bbPress a bit. I know it must suck not having very many people helping out…

[MTPrower]

I found the bug. You cannot make the “Forums” page that you put shortcodes into a parentless page. If the page is http://www.mysite.com/forums , then going to that URL will only take you to the archive page. Actually, it seems there I might be able to edit that in the settings page. I just had no idea that THAT was what that setting meant. I’m going to go take a look.

I’ve been using bbPress for about a year, and I just NOW discovered what was wrong with my permalinks. I think maybe the “archives” part of the settings page should be set to the word “archives”, not “forums” by default, so people don’t have trouble with this.

Anyway, I’m gonna go mess with that setting and see what happens. I will post my results here for future people to see…

[John James Jacoby]

Easiest way is to use the shortcode, and use CSS to hide the bits you don’t want.

If this isn’t satisfactory, you’ll need to make custom template parts to override the output.

[John James Jacoby]

You figuring it out doesn’t usually involve others handing you an answer.

I think you might be over-thinking things. Rather than trying to overload the WordPress template loader with a new archive-forum.php and trying to run something through a shortcode, why not just use a WordPress page, set the slug to /forums, and put the shortcodes and div’s in there instead?

[icandygraphics]

I am using a customized child theme, which has a default layout with a sidebar. My activity, members, and register pages are all using the default template of my child theme, and the sidebar is showing. I am having trouble with the forums page, though. If I add a page called “Forums”, select the default template, insert the shortcode [bbp-forum-index], and add the page to my menu, it looks great and has the sidebar. However, if I put “forums” as the Forums Base slug, then the page goes to full-width content with no sidebar. If I put “forum” as the slug, the page looks good, but as soon as you use the breadcrumbs to navigate, it takes you to http://www.example.com/forum, which has the full-width content. I think it might have something to do with the template hierarchy, but I don’t know enough about that to figure this out. Can anyone help?

[MTPrower]

It’s been 24 hours, and I can’t do anything with my site until I figure this out. So… “bump”.

[zuckerbaby]

I “solved” this by using this plugin.

It automatically reversed the reply order for me – although the topic description also gets pushed to the bottom. Whatever you do, don’t use this plugin to reorder topics, or you will get an error and will not be able to recover your topic list.

http://www.nsp-code.com/wordpress-plugins/post-types-order/

[Hwyatbig]

I just installed the bbpress plugin on my wordpress site but I’m dealing with a problem I don’t understand…

When reading the codex, I see it should be very simple, and I think I’m doing what’s explained to create my forum.

for the example I just created a forum named “exemple” (and let the attributes as they were) and then when I have a look at the address which has been created I have nothing but the name “Exemple”, and the description I gave. But no way to create a post or anything.

(you can have access to the page in question in my profile)

Did I miss something ?