[John James Jacoby]

Don’t worry about defaults.bb-htaccess.php. It’s part of the version of bbPress that you’re using.

No idea what your ‘data folder’ is, so can’t say for sure if it’s correct or not.

And no, I can’t really just fix your problem for you. You’ll have to do some digging. Searching for something like “apache htaccess redirect” should be all you need to do.

[John James Jacoby]

I don’t think it’s the theme you’re worried about, I think it’s the content. Which, won’t show up until there is some, just like your blog.

Make some forums, then go to yoursite.com/forums. There they are.

[kevindp]

Thanks, John! Will you provide instructions on changing just that page with an edit to htaccess? My googling is not working out.

I’ve got 2 htaccess files, both in my /public directory:

defaults.bb-htaccess.php

in the bbpress includes folder

.htaccess

in a data folder

Thanks for your help!

[John James Jacoby]

mr_pilot,

The BuddyPress permalink structure is hardcoded to look for specific criteria in specific positions. It doesn’t really scale well, and we’re going to change it in future versions to use proper rewrite rules, but until then it would be a huge nightmare to change; even then, your changes would end up broken when we make improvements to the API.

The rewrite rules themselves get created in register_post_type() in /wp-includes/post.php. Lots of complex logic in there, and I doubt there are many better examples on how to write your own rewrite rules completely from scratch than inside that function.

[John James Jacoby]

However you did it originally. You’ll have an easier time running it directly from a Subversion checkout. If you’re unfamiliar, a Google search should return tons of good results on how to do this. Makes the life of running bleeding edge code much easier.

[John James Jacoby]

Shortcodes do non currently accept any arguments at all. Would not be difficult to do, but committing to future-safe attributes will be key.

There’s a trac ticket for this already, so it’s on our radar to do in a future release. If it’s something that you need to write yourself, it’d be a great way to contribute back directly to the core project.

[kevindp]

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

I have a website built in Ruby on Rails. My site has a webpage, located at “example.com/communityboard”, that you can use to enter a separate Community area. The community area is built with bbPress.

I want users who type in the URL “example.com/community” to be redirected to “example.com/communityboard” . It used to work this way, but for some reason, the redirect no longer works in any browser but IE.

We accomplished this redirect by placing an index.html file in the /community folder where bbPress had been installed. The entire code for the index.html file reads

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://example.com/communityboard">

Back when we built the site, I was told that a meta refresh redirect using an index.html file was the best option. The redirect had to address ONLY a single page (http://example.com/community) and not all of the sublevels of the community bb (which lives at http://example.com/community/index.php). Otherwise, the community bb and all of its sublevels would be redirected.

So… my questions:

Why is the meta refresh redirect not working anymore? How can I fix it?

[arturex]

Do the shortcodes have some how to limit the number of topics that can be shown with the [bbp-topic-index] shortcode ?, per example i have a page where i only want to show the last 5 topics not all of them.

Thanks!!

[imbleedin]

i cant find themes that are working with 2.0.2 version.. anyone?

in facts, i just need to remove breadcumb, modify characters and put a rounded bg instead of the original squared (sorry for bad english guys). need one of the two

[mr_pilot]

Hi!

I´m running a wordpress/buddypess/bbpress combination and I also need to change the permalink structure, in a bit different way then eleram – I´m looking for a more logic structure in all forums: example.com/forum/name-of-forum/name-of-post/

-> replace slug “forum” by name of forum

-> replace “topic” by name of topic

I can customize the code, but I´m not sure where to look on.

@John: “WordPress handles the rewrite rules for bbPress’s content types” -> where do I have to look for (bbpress´ custom post types) to adjust the permalink logic?

Of course I will share my customization as soon a sfinished.

Thanks!

[arturex]

Hey Jared, just to share this with you, i finally did what i need it in the front page with a tabs plugin found at

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-post-tabs/

and the shortcodes found at

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

you can check it out in the main page of quimbumbia dot org any comments will be apreciated..

Thanks for the support!!

the only thing i need to find now is a shortcode for most visited and most commented

[John James Jacoby]

1. Create a WordPress page with the same slug as your forums root

2. Add the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode to that page’s content

3. Make this page the front page of your site

[Laughing Cat]

I got this solution… which is probably not so clean but it works; previously I had already created a function to retrieve the full width bp avatar in wordpress, now I looked at the bbp code and filtered the function fetching the avatar in replies with that function I had previously created

function sg_author_avatar($size) {

global $post;

if ( function_exists('bp_core_fetch_avatar') ) {

echo apply_filters( 'bp_post_author_avatar', bp_core_fetch_avatar( array( 'item_id' => $post->post_author, 'type' => 'full', 'height' => $size, 'width' => $size ) ) );

}

elseif ( function_exists('get_avatar') ) {

echo get_avatar(get_the_author_meta('ID'), $size );

}

}



function sg_bp2bb_author_avatar() {

$author_avatar = sg_author_avatar('150');

}

add_filter('bbp_get_reply_author_avatar', 'sg_bp2bb_author_avatar')

[johnwww]

I have a site displaying my forum on the homepage using the short codes on a page. My problem is that when you drill down to a topic the breadcrumbs display –

home > forums > general > topic

Home and forums are basically displaying the same thing (a list of forums) so what I need is a way to display a list of the forums on the home page without this un necessary item in the breadcrumb list.

Can anyone help me either remove this item or suggest a better way to do this?

Thanks

John

[Laughing Cat]

if I use that in bbpress templates I get:

Call to undefined function post_author_avatar_link()

[arturex]

Hi all. I’ve read that there is no way that the main page of wordpress can be the forum itself, but i wonder if I can take the code of the bbpress that hanlde all the forums and insert it as an include into the wordpress index.php. if that is posible an some one help me telling me which part of the code is the one I can copy to call the forum and topics in to the very front page.

I’ve seen i can show all that in the sidebar, but i would like to make it the main page like the forum page with the latest topics, most comented and most visited.

Thank you

[Jared Atchison]

Put this in your theme’s style.css

.bbPress #content {

width: 67%;

}

[Jared Atchison]

You need to use Firebug or Chrome inspector to check out the CSS.

I’ve looked at things and it’s all simple conflicts that are happening due to the CSS that’s in place with you theme.

For example .hentry is being floated left which is screwing up the forum index.

You will want to put some tweaks in place (in your theme’s style.css). For example:

.bbp-forums .hentry {

float:none;

}

[Jared Atchison]

Thanks for the report back

[Jared Atchison]

Can’t say I really understand what you are asking for, but if you are looking for shortcodes

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

[LabSecrets]

We’ve done a little tutorial video to show how you can setup either a BuddyPress Group Forum, a SiteWide bbPress 2.0 Forum, or a custom hybrid forum page using shortcodes. You can have all three at one time. Hope this helps

You can keep the previous forums, but the data from BuddyPress group forums does not migrate automatically into bbPress site wide forums.

http://labsecrets.com/2012/01/23/buddypress-and-bbpress-forums-made-easy/

Cheers!

Spence

http://labsecrets.com

[folgerj]

Ok just like I thought (yes I’m not smarter than a fifth grader and I should have checked this first) it’s a plugin [Simple Facebook Connect] that is causing my forum page to show the last topic post instead of the page with my short codes.

I know it’s not your problem but I thought you would want to know about it in case it comes up again.

I’m sending Otto a not that it is causing a problem with your plugin.. I’m going to activate it and see if I can find something else that will do the same thing but not conflict with yours..

Thanks for a really great plugin…

[folgerj]

Hi JJJ, I have an issue with my forum and I don’t see anything in the community (I may be searching for the wrong thing)

My forum is http://jeff-foliage.com/fall-foliage-forum/ and I think it did great last season.

Somebody asked me what shortcodes I used and when I went to the page in the dashboard it will only serve me the last created forum topic.

So if under pages I click the page for the forum to view the codes it returns this http://jeff-foliage.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=735&action=edit (I hope I can’t be hacked by giving this out…

This is a forum post topic that I created last year. If I trash this post it will return the next newest post topic for the forum.

Can you or someone tell me if there is a simple solution? Is this most likely a plugin problem? (I know most are and I suppose I could go through and deactivate them and see if at any point see the page)

Or is this a pure database problem, thoughts?

Oh I’m getting nice comments about how mine looks and I don’t know if my forum looks all that great since I’m in compatibility mode using Weaver theme. But folks seem confused and feel I’ve done great pimping on the CSS when it’s all the theme for colors and what it looks like.

Jeff “foliage” Folger

[acesup]

I want to remove these lines

This one bellow that is above forum in the site

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[Jared Atchison]

You are using 2.1, which is good.

What you need to do is tweak the CSS, I don’t recommend editing core, I would use this instead https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-custom-css-file/

bbpress.css, line 48 is what you need to change, ie

#bbpress-forums .status-closed, #bbpress-forums .status-closed a {

color: #CCC;

}