[Jared Atchison]

Just delete the bbpress directory in your plugins folder and replace with the new one. You don’t need to do any uninstalling in WordPress, no.

[rhek]

I am having some problems generating a forum index page.

Once I created my forums I thought that by adding the url http://cyclistzone.com/vozcycling/forums/ to the menu I would be in business. Going to the url shows a featured article and the bbPress sidebar, not a forum index.

Since I did not get a forum index I created a new page and named it Forums. I then pasted the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] into the body of the page and nothing changed. The same results were displayed as if I did not have a page. Almost seems like bbPress ignored my page.

Here is the link to the page…

http://cyclistzone.com/vozcycling/forums/

The next thing I did was to create another page and name it “Test Forum.” I inserted the shortcode and this page displayed a forum index for me.

http://cyclistzone.com/vozcycling/test-forum/

The problem I am having now is that the slug “test-forum” only relates to this page and not to any of the forum pages because the slug “test-forum” does not exist in the bbPress settings. Those settings use the slug “forums/forum”. If I change the “forums” slug to “test-forum” I end up back to my original problem.

I would like to leave my slugs defaulted to their original values. I just want a forum index page using the bbPress slugs and have a bbPress sidebar.

This is probably simple, but I have not figured it out yet, so I hope someone can shed some light on what I am doing wrong.

Thanks,

Rhek

[ddlg2007]

Thank you John, I use bbPress 2.1 and using Shortcodes actually improve something. The list of forum looks better. But still not working correctly, you can see it again in http://site.teamcyanide.eu/example-forum.

I know no one will take so much trouble but if you want I can give you access to the web or create an instant portable wordpress (http://www.instantwp.com/) with themes, plugin and everything ready to see what errors have. If not, nothing happens, I understand that you do not waste time on this with me.

John thank you very much for your help, really appreciate it

[Jared Atchison]

Unfortunately, to my knowledge, this isn’t possible. Though hopefully someone will correct me if I’m wrong

[ladymeg]

Seconding the alphabetic part.

We have a lot of forums/sub-forums that are alphabetized and it’s a pain to add a new one somewhere in the middle of the list. I wish there was an option to change the default sort order. Or that I knew what change to make in the code so it would do so.

[Jared Atchison]

Well the best thing would be to contact the theme author if possible. Otherwise you’ll have to see if you can track down the problem

[Jared Atchison]

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

[DarwinsDream]

Always do thanks

[Jared Atchison]

The 2.1 upgrade should be smooth, however yo should certainly make backups before you update.

Avatars are through http://en.gravatar.com/

[areaphoto]

WOW!!! Weird…not I can see my forums again.

[Jared Atchison]

See what happens when you take out everything in the <?php ?> except the_title();

[Jared Atchison]

If you are using bbPress 2.x (which you are) all the users are shared and everything is taken care of automatically – so no need to worry

The article you were reading might have been for bbPress pre 2.x.

[michaelh1990]

You were right, I tracked down the code that is causing it from the Page Template (page.php) to this line of code:

<h2>

<?php

if(!empty($headline[0]) )

{

echo $headline[0];

}

else

{

the_title();

}

?>

</h2>

I can delete it all to just <h2>Forums</h2>, but then it changes all the page names to Forums.

I realise you don’t support every theme, but do you have any ideas on this? I’m sure its a simple code change.

Thanks again

[Jared Atchison]

I see what you mean. I’m not sure, I played around with the CSS but couldn’t get it to work either.

It’s worth noting that bbPress 2.1 actually has switched to a tableless layout

[Jared Atchison]

You don’t need to bump a thread you just posted. I mean seriously – it’s Sunday and you can’t wait longer than 30 mins?

To answer your question you will either have to edit your theme or you can hide that stuff using CSS, eg

.bbp-forum-info ul.bbp-forums { display:none; }

[Jared Atchison]

Hmm I see what you mean.

I’m not sure where that is coming from. That portion (the heading) is controlled by your theme, not bbPress.

If you switched your theme to TwentyEleven my guess is that the problem would go away.

You will have to look and see if you can find what code the theme is using and it might help track down where this is coming from.

[DarwinsDream]

thanks jaredatch,

i did this…

” Easiest thing to do would be to set a width for (instead of relying on auto)

#content td.bbp-topic-author “

it did nothing across platforms, but thank you very much for a quick reply.

here is the code i used and is still in place on the live site.

#content td.bbp-topic-author,

#content td.bbp-reply-author {

padding: 15px;

text-align: center;

vertical-align: top;

width: 100px;

I also tried width values of % and pt

I also attacked the column next to it, but i think the issue is in the author column…. Any other ideas?

#content tbody .bbp-topic-content,

#content tbody .bbp-reply-content {

vertical-align: top;

padding: 5px 10px 0px 0px;

overflow: auto;

[michaelh1990]

Thanks for your reply.

Afraid not, the name/title of the forums is “favourite destinations”, when it should be “forums”. Check the link in my post.

I really don’t want to go meddling through the code too much.

[Jared Atchison]

Easiest thing to do would be to set a width for (instead of relying on auto)

#content td.bbp-topic-author

[LabSecrets]

HI there,

sounds to me that you have missed a couple simple but necessary steps:

1) You need to ensure that the sitewide forums have been installed as well as the buddypress group forum. Both are installed from the “forums” tab of the buddypress setup menu;

2) You need to be sure to delete AND empty the trash, of any page slug that was created which has “forums” as its name. This is necessary to allow the sitewide forums to use that slug.

3) Be sure that you create a new page for buddypress group forums that is anything other than “forums” (call it “group-forums” for example)

4) Be sure to go to Settings/Permalinks and hit “save” one time after all of this is setup.

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

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

Cheers!

Spence

http://labsecrets.com

[nax_89]

Do you find a way to disable tags?? Im looking for the same

[highexistence]

@johnjamesjacoby – Here is the error, verbatim:

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'http://hethens.com/people/jordan/' rel='nofollow'>@jordan</a>, <a href='http://h' at line 1]

SELECT ID FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = 'reply' AND post_status != 'trash' AND post_author = 2382 AND post_content = '<a href='http://hethens.com/people/jordan/' rel='nofollow'>@jordan</a>, <a href='http://hethens.com/people/jaygran7/' rel='nofollow'>@jaygran7</a>, hello!' AND post_parent = '60294' LIMIT 1

Looks like an issue with using @replies?

[Jared Atchison]

Thanks for your response.

I’m going to take a look at that plugin and see why it’s not working and see if I can fix it.

I’ll try to get the author to updated the plugin with a fix, if not I’ll fork the plugin.

Anyways thanks for the kind works and I’m glad you are taking a fancy to the bbPress project

Please let us know whenever you have any questions and we will do our best to help!

[chuckingit]

Hi Jaredatch – thank you for looping back to me and your links … i did indeed read in a post by John James Jacoby about security issue(s) so i can appreciate that … i also tested the plugin you mention but it kicked out errors which i posted in the WP forums so perhaps the plugin author will have info or fix down the road ..??..

in a bit of thinking outloud and in the for-whatever-its-worth depts … the first time i saw shortcodes work in a WP forum solution was with Simple:Press plugin … i was actually suprised that shortcodes did work and then i got excited about using them – e.g., wrapping some forum content so that it was public, while other forum content reserved to be private and require login … also, the audio shortcode to play clips within forum posts, all of which was cool … thus not sure if Simple:Press introduces security issues by allowing shortcodes or not ..??..

my only problem with Simple:Press was / is that it was too much configuration (in turning off stuff) and i liked the clean, minimalism inherent in bbPress … and now that it is plugin and works within WP, means i’m throwing my hat in this bbPress forum ring and look forward to seeing it’s ongoing growth …

in the meantime, i’ve had to rethink my shortcode issue – namely media files … e.g., where do i put these files in WP if i don’t want to create a post for them, but have them referenced from within forum posts … which lead me to discover a really cool program, open source, and share as fyi in case others might be interested …

the program = http://ajaxplorer.info … it comes with a bridge for WP so user accounts can be shared by both … it is a file manager of sorts for your web site that makes it pretty easy to keep files private or make them shareable … i’m almost done testing this and i’m pretty sure at this point that it will be my go to tool to upload media files*, then create the shared-encrypted links, then put those links into my bbPress forum posts … thus keeping my forums to mostly text, yet linking out to media files as need be via using Ajaxplorer …

lastly, i just wanted to go on record with BIG gratitude for all the hard work your bbPress team does in helping the rest of us in the WP worlds have really nice forum solution – Kudos to you and your seed – and i hope the Divine blesses you all for i certainly feel blessed / lucky to have tools like bbPress and forums like this for knowledge sharing – THANK YOU!

cordially, chuck scott

*yes i know that i could use WP Media Gallery but that gets a bit unruley since uploads are stored in blog-id-year-month folders … thus if i had ten pop tunes i wanted to upload to server, easier to create a dedicate library system with folder called music and subfolders under that … then it is easier to add new files to those folder collections versus having to track down different folders and try to remember what is in the 2011 folder vs 2012 let alone what blog-id it might have been uploaded under but i digress …

[DELETE ME]

Ok, for someone who is NEW to ‘how to do’ this .. that did not help much. Just saying.

Does anyone know how I can Change the Forum Background Colour, Text Colour, Font Type? I am not very CCS friendly or do not know much coding .. would be helpful if you can either provide a code or a plugin/fix that can do this for me.

The website I am trying this on right now is http://revivechallenge.com – please check the forum it is ‘WHITE and text is invisible’ because the entire font is white too and the website theme is black/dark.

Please help.

Thanks

SzebastianOne