[Jared Atchison]

Hmmm, that’s a good question. Maybe jjj will have an answer when he gets back in the office

[dpmcalister]

I’m working on a website that has the eShop and bbPress plugins installed. The eShop plugin alters the WordPress profile to include fields for the user’s address while this doesn’t happen with the bbPress profile. Is it possible to either:

1. Force bbPress to use the WordPress profile which has these fields, or

2. Code it so that the bbPress profile grabs these fields from the WordPress profile

I know a little php but both of these options are beyond my skills so any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks.

[Jared Atchison]

I have not personally used SimplePress or bbPress with exceptionally large installations, but there was previous discussion going on at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbp-plug-in-for-wp-scalable

[ddlg2007]

Well I come here 1 more time because I really can not do more and I need a little help please.

I am using a child theme called Arras Classical Gamer. I test many times and try a lot of tutorial but is really impossible fix problem with bbpress.

You can see my website here http://www.site.teamcyanide.eu working perfectly with buddypress and pluging like BuddyPress Template Pack. That was my first hard mission but I do it well and everything work good with some change on CSS.

Now the only problem I have is that forum bbpress dont work good. For example I creat a forum called Starcraft 2 and when I clic on view look what happen:

http://site.teamcyanide.eu/board/forum/starcraft-2

I create a category of Starcraft 2 forum and look:

http://site.teamcyanide.eu/board/forum/starcraft-2/protos

So is simple, dont work but I continue looking here on forum and google then I try use Shortcodes from here http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes, and look what happen:

http://site.teamcyanide.eu/example-forum

You can see ok I can fix the CSS to make it look better, but if you clic on forum or category continue with same problem, just test yourself and can see it.

So guys please, some one can tell me please what can I do for implement my forum of bbpress in my website?

I know on internet I have other forums and scripts, but I really love bbpress and all software make it by wordpress, buddypress, etc.

Someone have mercy on me and help me a little?

Thanks.

[jmatthewgore]

OK, thanks… I’ll be looking forward to it

[raphaelsuzuki]

First, you don’t need that page with the shortcode to load bbPress.

bbPress is loaded by the forums slug you defined in its settings page.

You can easily and freely modify your menu with any link you want. Just create a custom menu entry linking to: /forums

It is long because you created a page named ‘forum’, then named your forums slug ‘forum’, then named your forum ‘forum’.

Just set your slug as forums, and your forums with category names: tennis, basketball, soccer, etc.

[Jared Atchison]

Great, you had most of it figured out though.

That’s totally understandable – I couldn’t remember it off the top of my head either and had to go dig through some code – but that’s the best way to learn

[lusitanoflickan]

I think I solved it! I just put the same code that you gave me in the CSS-file but changed .forum to .topic. Apparently the topic pages have their own class…

I do however have another related problem. As it is now, when you click on the Forum-link in the top menu, you end up at a WP page where I simply put a shortcode to load the forum. This means that you at the first page now see the WP sidebar, which seems not so logical. I would like to end up at this page right away instead: http://demo.agxe.se/forums/forum/forum/ (Btw, does the URL have to be so long and with so many “forum”?)

Any ideas?

[Jared Atchison]

You are close. bbPress does not use the tag taxonomy, that is strictly for posts.

You’ll need to use tax_query as you mentioned. This is untested but should give you a general idea

$mytopics_args = array(

'post_type' => 'topic',

'numberposts' => 15,

'tax_query' => array(

array(

'taxonomy' => bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id(),

'field' => 'slug',

'terms' => 'you-tag-slug'

)

)

);

$mytopics = new WP_Query( $mytopics_args );

[cookiebear]

I am working on a wordpress template page.

i am trying to retrieve a list of topic threads and filtering by tag.

I can get topics without tag filtering by using something like this

$forumargs = array(    'post_type' => 'topic', 'numberposts' => 15 );

$mytopics = new WP_Query( $forumargs );



while ( $mytopics->have_posts() ) : $mytopics->the_post();

the_title();

echo '<div class="entry-content">';

the_content();

echo '</div>';

endwhile;

but when i try to filter by tag , it returns nothing.

$forumargs = array( 'tag'=>'mytagname', 'post_type' => 'topic', 'numberposts' => 15 );

i have seen that there is something called tax_query, but i cannot figure out if i can use that, or how to use it.

how should this work?

[Dan Griffiths]

Already did, theme author isn’t supporting bbPress. I’m more than willing to do the work myself, if I knew what bbPress needed, problem is there doesn’t seem to be any documentation on what it actually does at that point in the codebase.

[Tgg1990]

I’m not very familiar with CSS, but shall look around the internet and check, thanks for all help

[Tgg1990]

Ok,thanks for all the help

[Jared Atchison]

I can’t tell you exactly what code to use because I don’t know you use case.

As I said each forum has it’s own CSS class, such as bbp-forum-4. You can use this sto style the various areas however you see fit.

Are you familiar with CSS? If not then there really isn’t going to be an easy way, unfortunately.

[Tgg1990]

Do you know which code I should use?

[Tgg1990]

Don’t understand that completely. Is it possible to make a new comment field and field when you post a topic with shortcodes?

[Jared Atchison]

I have not personally tried that, so I’m not 100% sure. However I think you best bet is going to be using shortcodes to try and do this.

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

[Jared Atchison]

This is totally possible, bit you need to piggy back off a better foundation.

For example, bbPress 2.1 + Genesis Framework + bbPress Genesis Extend plugin allows exactly this.

It provides ton’s of layout options for bbPress – you can inherit the site-wide Genesis layout, set your own site-wide layout just for bbPress, or set layouts on a per forum basis – like I said, tons of options.

Bottom line is using the Genesis Framework (or anything similar) it’s really simply to provide this functionality as the foundation is already there.

Trying to tackle this – and have it work for all themes and use cases – within bbPress seems like a logistic nightmare.

Having dealt directly with tons of frameworks, I can say this with pretty good confidence

[Jared Atchison]

Closing this topic as it’s attracting bozos. Plenty of solid recommendations above

[Jared Atchison]

Yep, that’s a some-what common issue.

In 2.1 table layouts have been ditched for the much preferred clean xhtml (lists, and what not) however some theme’s choke on it.

There are some wrappers in place (such as #bbpress-forums) you should be able to use to reset the styles that are needed,

[raphaelsuzuki]

Ok.

In the forum page you created, try adding this shortcode: [bbp-forum-index]

It’s not the natural thing to do, but will force WordPress to display bbPress.

[Martin]

Hi,

When I created my forum menu, I used the permalink i.e /forum

Now I find I would like to add some preface instructions to give my users (especially casual posters) some informative instructions on how to post. How to do this is often lost on people wanting to post first time questions.

Is there a way to do this? Can I convert from the permalink to an actual Page with a shortcode and still keep the same URLs / permalink setup I have now?

Clues?

[Jared Atchison]

If you edit the topic in the WordPress admin dashboard, you will see the topic ID in the URL.

For example http://wptrunk/wp-admin/post.php?post=6&action=edit where the topic ID would be 6,

[Jared Atchison]

There is a filter in place you can use to tweak this, bbp_get_title_max_length

See bbp-core-options.php around line 370 or so.

[Jared Atchison]

Appears like you got this figured out (by the way your site looks)