[Anointed]

I took a quick peek at your link. Honestly I do not see anything at all which would cause the spacing like that.. it is very strange.

One place you might try asking is over at css-tricks, as they have a great forum for css issues and Chris is a genious at that kind of stuff.

As to removing the info boxes:

Unless you have manually replicated all of the bbPress templates and added them manually to your theme, then you are actually using the bbPress twentyten theme templates. (they are found inside the bbPress plugin folder)

In there you will find files like content-single-forum.php, content-single-topic.php, etc..

In those templates are functions like:

<?php bbp_single_forum_description(); ?>, <?php bbp_single_topic_description(); ?>, etc...

Those are the functions used to output the information blocks. You would need to remove those lines from the files in order to get rid of the boxes.

**Now obviously if you modify those files, then you will loose your changes every time you update bbPress, not advised….

Instead check out the theme compatibility thread in the forums here to learn how to make child themes so you can make changes without loosing those changes.

Or.. you can always take the ‘easy’ way out and simply add some css rules to your stylesheet to hide them. Not at all elegant but effective.

.div.bbp-template-notice.info { display: none; }

[ChrisOGwynne]

<?php user_favorites_link(); ?>

I can’t find the direct text in order to change what this says? Any assistance.

Thanks

[ChrisOGwynne]

On the front page you havee

Started By

Chris

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The username however isn’t linked. Is there any tag which will link the post starters name?

[Anointed]

Maybe this will explain it a little better:

<?php _e( 'Pages: ', 'wptumble' ); ?> <?php bbp_forum_pagination_links(); ?>

That basically adds ‘Pages:’ right before the page links. The ‘downside’ is that ‘Pages:’ is output to the browser even if there are no links available.

what I am trying to do is something like:

<?php bbp_forum_pagination_links('before_links' => 'Pages:'); ?>

[amirsaam]

In the Standalone I jus use this <?php bb_latest_topics_pages(); ?> for what you wanted Maybe you can use it by changing bb_ to bbp_ like something else that it worked!

[David]

I’ll think on it more but the basics are that I have a customized bbPress theme installed as a child theme in wp-content/themes/ . This is a copied and modified version of bbPress’ base theme (I included all the theme files since I’ve needed to get into a lot of them). I’ve renamed that bbPress child theme (and its directory) bbps.

All the topics are entered via the front-end forum vs the admin panel.*

Finally, I don’t know that the tag archive was ever working correctly on these sites and then stopped. I’ve only seen it print all the topics instead of the respective tag’s topics.

For now I’m still accepting tags on new topics but I’m not displaying them on the single topic listing or the single topic edit page. If there was a way to remove the A tags from the tag list outside of core code I would do that so that I could at least display the tags in the short-term but it’s not a primary need.

If I can answer more questions about my installs let me know.

*I had an issue with a couple topics that I had started in the WP forum admin that was resolved after I deleted those and re-entered them through the forum itself, so I’ve stuck with that approach for now. The issue, as an aside, was that the topics were reflected in the Forum Archive topics count for each forum but the forum’s page showed no topics and the topic’s pages were 404.

[Anointed]

Just bumping it up as I still can’t find a conditional to use for determining if I am on the forum front/homepage.

*I am not using shortcodes but rather custom templates

also need a few other conditionals please:

What conditional can I use to see if I am on a topic-tag, or topic-tag-edit page?

finally, conditional for being on the users/users-edit page?

*trying to change titles around above the breadcrumbs in my template. and also using conditionals to remove breadcrumbs when on user page as they dont work on user pages yet.

thanks

[John James Jacoby]

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[MT Prower]

I need help performing a basic function. I have a WordPress blog with bbPress installed as a plugin. I would like all of my forums pages (ever) to show up on a custom two-column WordPress page template that I made (template-twocolumn.php) rather than the default three-column template for my site’s theme. I can put a forums shortcode on a WordPress page with a custom template, but the forums will still really just be using the three-column template, and it will show when I click any links to a new forums page. Can someone please help me make it so that the entirety of bbPress uses one particular non-default template page style?

I have WordPress 3.2.1 and bbPress 2.0. My website is at http://www.vgreboot.com/ . Thanks.

[trivum]

I have an issue that seems to be with the theme I am using. When I install bbPress, it doesn’t register a title when I look at my view source code. I also get an “Error 404” message in the breadcrumbs of my site’s theme (NOT in the bbPress breadcrumbs).

I don’t get this when I switch to a default WP theme, so it seems related to my theme (WPzoom’s Manifesto).

I have run a buddypress update plugin thinking this might help, but it doesn’t. I also get this message with BuddyPress compatibility: “Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.” (I’m fine with the bbPress default styling, by the way. Just wondering if the first part of that message might relate to my problem in any way.)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[John James Jacoby]

Despite the inflammatory remarks from their team in the topic you linked me to, I tweeted the Pagelines guys about getting access to their forums or getting things figured out together.

Considering you are paying them for support, I think the ball is in their court. If there’s a problem with their theme and bbPress they need to put a guy on it and send me a theme to test, similar to how StudioPress and Genesis handled it for the 2.0 release.

If bbPress is doing something that’s causing headaches, I’m happy to fix it – the difference being that bbPress’s code is immediately accessible to them, and their themes are not to me.

[djlynchpin]

I tried to install from plugin in wp admin and got api error. So i dwnlded full version and ftp’d it to my server. Then when I try to activate it I get the following error: Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 26214400) (tried to allocate 291800 bytes) in /home/lynchpin/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbpress.php on line 449

I upped my php.ini to 64m , tried adding code to wp-config and htaccess. Nothing has worked. Any suggestions? I’d even be willing to let someone log into it and take a look. Help Please!

[David]

I believe the only options available in shortcodes are for [bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] and [bbp-single-topic id=$topic_id].

I agree that (a lot) more would be very useful.

[David]

One cool option I forgot to mention earlier…

If it’s important for you to have the topics of each forum listed on your forum index page you can call them individually by using a shortcode for a particular parent forum (in this case, using WP’s do_shortcode):

<?php echo do_shortcode('[bbp-single-forum id=1234]') ?>

where 1234 is the ID number of the parent forum. I’ve experimented with this for a *Category* type parent forum and it works well. I imagine it would do the same thing for a *Forum* type parent forum. You’d obviously want to lead it with a header title for the parent forum.

Call each parent forum this way and you’ve got a nicely organized index page. (NOTE: you can call individual (non-parent) forums this way too but by default they call the entire single forum template part that includes the form. If you’re interested in messing with this it’s handled in [your bbPress directory]/bbpress/content-single-forum.php.)

The disadvantage is that it’s built manually for each parent so any new parent forums will have to added manually as well, but you do have a lot of control.

[David]

@LifeFreeOrDie, I can’t answer your question completely but maybe I can give you a little help.

You can order your forums by defining the Order in the respective Forum’s admin page. Counting starts at 0, which is the default.

Creating sub-forms is simply a matter of creating a parent forum and then for each child (sub-) forum make that parent forum the Parent in Forum Attributes. (Parents that are defined as type Forums can contain their own topics but parents that are Categories only contain other forums.)

Unfortunately, in the forums index sub-forums are necessarily presented with their topic and reply counts in parenthesis as defined in bbp_list_forums() in loop-single-forum.php. What’s worse: there is no containing element around the count so it’s not possible to style those separately from the sub-form name. [@johnjamesjacoby or other admin: Can this be updated outside of core code?]

However, you can style the sub-forums with CSS as they are listed as a

.

[David]

I’m working on the User Profile page and it looks like there might be an issue with bbp_is_user_home().

Issue 1: When I’m not signed in I’m still seeing the (Edit) link next the username. The template calling that is bbpress/user-details.php in which bbp_is_user_home() calls <?php _e( '(Edit)', 'bbpress' ); ?>.

Issue2: In user-subscriptions bbp_is_user_home() seems to be doing the same thing: <?php bbp_is_user_home() ? _e( 'You are not currently subscribed to any topics.', 'bbpress' ) : _e( 'This user is not currently subscribed to any topics.', 'bbpress' ); ?> is printing the first message “You are…” instead of “This user…”. Again, I’m not logged in and I’m seeing this for each user I view not just my own previously logged in account. (This same situation happens in user-favorites.php.)

Are others having the same issue? How are you dealing with it?

[David]

@alieninformer, thanks for sharing!

You can also call an alternate sidebar in bbPress just as you can in your base WP install, so <?php get_sidebar('alternateside'); ?> would call sidebar-alternateside.php and that file can be kept in the WP theme folder so that it could be shared with other non-bbPress pages.

[Crisium]

@John,

I have tried to follow you procedure for getting bbPress intergrated into my current theme. After 10 hours of copying/pasting directories, files, adding code… I finally gave up.

As you said your self the bbPress as only one theme that supports it and that is the theme you have created, which is a modified twentyten. I think the bbPress fails as user friendly, because I need to manually change things on my harddrive and code to get my current theme to work.

Apparently there are not very many forum plugins for wordpress (well, not that many good ones). I would like to use yours and this is also why I invested 10 hours of my time trying to integrate it.

I’m going to try and explain what I have done, perhaps I misunderstand something with your procedure:

1. I’m using WordPress 3.2.1, theme Suffusion, forum bbPress 2.0

2. With this installment I can see I need to use your procedure description:

If this is not a custom theme under your control (meaning you are not the author) you’ll want to copy the entire “/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten” folder into your “wp-content/themes/%YOURTHEMENAME%” folder, and modify your style.css to make it a custom Child Theme of whatever your current theme is.

3. I copy my folder: C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentyten and paste it into C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusion

4. This means I now have a folder in my suffusion directory called “bbp-twentyten”

5. I now open the style.css file in the “C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusionbbp-twentyten” directory and add “@import url(“../style.css”);”

6. I modify the styles.css file in the “C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusionbbp-twentyten”, so that the plugin header now says “template: suffusion”

7. I now open the functions.php file in the “C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusion” directory and add: add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

As I understand your procedure that is what I’m suppose to do? Did I miss something?

regards,

Peter

[sjd4]

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com$

RewriteRule ^folder/folder/?(.*)$ “http//yourdomain.com/folder/$1″ [R=301,L]

Sorry, my ISP requires a lot of escapes

[eraleks]

I just can’t make this work…

If I click on the show source code I can find the problem, but I just don’t get where and how I can remove the avatars in the files provided.

You can see my forum here: http://revyportalen.no/forums/forum/revyportalen-forum-2/

Help is very much appreciated! Especially if someone could point me straight to the solution since I don’t really know css

Aleks

[Trobee]

I don’t know if this is possible at the moment. I started writing a plugin to try and add this functionality but my knowledge of php is not good enough.

I have achieved a similar solution, though it lacks some functionality, by using a multisite wordpress install, and having each site with its own forums, and making each site only viewable to members. Then, if you want a user to be able to see a forum you make them a member of the site. The downside of this is that you have multiple forum areas.

I have created some shortcodes to allow you to list forums from multiple sites on single page, but have not got around to adding it as a plugin yet.

If you would like to try it out then you can grab the code from the pastebin link here https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/multisite-displaying-forum-list and just create an empty folder in your plugins directory, then copy the text from pastebin into a new php file in that folder.

The usage is a bit strange and explained in the other thread

[Benjamin Allison]

There’s just an extra quotation mark on line 103 of bbp-core-widgets.php. It appears in the login widget’s login button.

[grafics]

So I thought we had the 404 issue resolved, but not quite. Forum Directory showing (used short code on page) and links from there to primary forums works just fine. I have now discovered that child forums get 404 error. Updated permalinks, tried default theme, still no luck. Tried making the “parent” forum a category, no joy that way either.

Tried moving the bbp-twentyten template files into child theme (and adding theme support to functions.php) and everything went haywire.

One thought is to use pages with shortcodes for the child forums, but this site is going to have tons of child forums so that is not an appealing option and would not be user friendly for the client.

Any ideas?

[Gautam Gupta]

Thanks for the share! You might want to use is_bbpress() function (found in bbp-includes/bbp-common-template.php instead of $uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; if ( strpos($uri,'YOUR-FORUM-BASE') !== false ) {

I have wrapped your code blocks in backticks for easier reading.

[sjd4]

Yeah, I eventually uncommented the code and went the .htaccess route. I was hoping someone with more php experience or a developer could identify the issue based on those few changes.