[PureRover]

I have tested several forums with WordPress. Both as separate program and as integrated program/plugin. Every forum we tested had major issues that would prevent being used on our site.

We have installed bbpress plugin and found it very flexible with the exception of being able to hide the sidebars.

Why can’t the whole forum be put into a short-code so it can be applied inside a full-width page?

This forum is full of questions and requests for ppPress to be imbedded via short-code right into a full-width page. Why is it so hard to accomplish this. Afterall, ppPress is written by the same people that created wordpress.

This is very frustrating.

-Mark

[ptruong]

Hi, I recently install bbpress on my site. I created a login using the shortcodes but for one it prompts that you can’t register and also if you do sign in using my admin it will show already signed in and will not go to the forum. For the forum I cannot find a way to connect it to a page either. Perhaps if anyone could shed some light on this that would be great. Thank you very much

[Anointed]

I am adding a number of new options to bbPress and want to add the user inputs to the bbPress options page. Instead of messing around with the default options page, I simply want to add a few tabs to the page where I can add my options.

I do know how to do this when writing my own page from scratch, but do not yet know how to add tabs and options to an existing bbPress options page.

example of what I am talking about:

http://digitalraindrops.net/2011/02/tabbed-options-page/

Can anyone point me to a plugin, or code snippet that would show me how to extend the bbPress options page with tabs and options?

thnx

[ThemeFUist]

It looks like wpList is set up in:

**YOUR SITES WP DIRECTORY**/wp-includes/js/wp-lists.js

Have a look at the page source in your browser and see if the above file is called BEFORE:

**YOUR SITES FORUM THEME DIRECTORY**/js/topic.js

[Andre]

That would probably require bbPress 2.0. You could insert a topic specific short code into the discussion tab. You’d also have a separate area that has all of the forum content, but you wouldn’t have to put a visible link to the forum anyplace.

[bbp-single-topic id=$topic_id] – Show a single topic

[Justin Mason]

Hello,

On my current homepage, I was displaying 3 comments at a time per blog post by using the following code :

<?php

$number=3; // number of recent comments desired

$post_id = get_the_ID();

$comments = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_post_ID=$post_id AND comment_approved = ‘1’ ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT $number”);

?>

<?php if ($comments) :

foreach ( (array) $comments as $comment) :

echo ‘<div class=”ddcomment”>’;

echo ‘<p>‘, comment_author() . ‘ says:</p>’;

echo comment_text();

echo ‘</div>’;

endforeach;

endif; ?>

This code works perfectly in displaying my comments on the homepage. However, I’ve decided to add bbpress forums and sync my topics with my posts.

If you add a reply now to a post, it is not reflected on the homepage comments (since it is a reply from bbpress, not a wp comment). I am trying modify this code so I can pull the correct replies for that particular Post or Topic ID, since it is now synced together.

The site is currently located at http://www.propaintball.tv

Is there a specific database query I can use to replace my $comments variable with the topic replies? Thank You for your help!

[antonchanz]

I think I read somewhere that the way to do this would be to extend a WordPress plugin that adds bbcode to wordpress posts, such as the bOingball BBCode plugin to also apply to bbpress posts and replies.

I also need this feature and would be willing to do the work coding it. At the moment though I’m not sure how to begin unless someone can quickly teach me the basics for making a wordpress shortcode active in bbpress forum posts… ^-^

[happycappy]

Hello! Have been looking things over here and I’m wondering if this is the solution to my problems. I’m working on a web site with the following requirements:

1. Admins, and only admins, start new topics.

2. One topic, and one topic only, needs to be embedded in a web page. Each of the similar web pages will have a different topic.

3. Users can add their comments to a given topic (once they register.)

Can / how can this be done with bbPress? If not, do you have any suggestions about other software that can do this?

Thanks so much.

[David Decker]

I see you’re using Genesis – so you could hook in via functions.php or Simple Hooks Plugin and just add some content/message after that notice.

bbPress already has a shortcode for registering: [bbp-register]

So you might add that via Simple Hooks which supports placing of shortcodes.

-Dave

[David Decker]

Back in summer I had similiar issues with the betas and RC’s… When I had templates in theme/child theme and combined bbPress functions.php with my theme/child theme’s functions.php I had problems with still enqueueing the scripts from the included bbPress-twentyten, so I just removed these lines of code from my combined functions.php and got it working. After that my template files/css etc. were called and used correctly.

It’s only a suggestion to just check the source code of your forum index what stylesheets and what scripte are loaded from what source. Then compare it with the calls from the functions.php files. Maybe you can find some issue…

I didn’t liked all these combining and integrating so I just added some css rules to my theme stylesheet (most with “!important” but I don’t care that much about this…) and left all other on default bbPress which worked best for me

Hope this helps a bit, Dave

[ChrisEnd]

Hey!

Ive for ages trying to find a solution to my problem. I need a forum for my website and the Ive chosen BBpress. The thing is that I don’t want the bbpress theme to affect my wordpress theme. I´ve downloaded several themes, but have no idea where to install and how to activate. I also wonder if there are any place out there where I can download free or premium bbpress 2.0 themes?

I feel quiet stupid, since I look at my self as a person that usually figure things out

Thanks,

Christoffer

[nuobodu]

@grafics: It really seams that you have to chmod you .htaccess file to 777

@travishill: The most strange thing has happened.

i once again unchecked “Prefix your forum area with the Forum Base slug”

and the links started working

but at the same time the forums stopped using my custom templates and reverted to the templates from the child bbpress theme

I checked the checkbox back, and the links still work. But the templates did not revert to my custom templates

I see that many people in this forum, who have this problem, eventually get it solved, but they cannot explain how

Going fishing my template now…

[David Decker]

Hi there!

Like some other users I noticed a missing search feature for the new and awesome bbPress 2.0+ plugin. So I just released a small and leightweight plugin for that:

bbPress Search Widget

Info & download at WP.org:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/

-> it’s limited to the custom post types of bbPress: forums, topics, replies

-> there’s a drop-down to select one of these (a must) – so it also helps fine tune the search for the visitor…

-> it’s fully localized so you might translate the few strings into your language – I will attach any translations which are submitted to me!

I hope it’s useful for you.

Have fun

Any feedback is very welcomed of course!

-Thanx, Dave from Germany

[David Decker]

@nathanbunn:

I noticed the same thing as you and just released a small and leightweight plugin for that:

bbPress Search Widget

Info & download at WP.org:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/

I hope it’s useful for you.

Have fun

Any feedback is very welcomed of course!

-Thanx, Dave from Germany

[David Decker]

@travishill:

You’re welcome

Thanx for this awesome idea and making it a plugin! I will use it soon on an own project!

[David Decker]

@Erlend:

I know this already, but that doesn’t help here yet because the plugin developers have to implement the gettext strings first, so it actually becomes translateable.

That’s a pity with a lot of great plugins: all hard-coded text strings so nearly unuseable for international users. Since we’re two thirds of all WordPress users worldwide – and growing – localization/internationalization is a really hot and important topic. EVERY WordPress developer should consider this.

In NO way I want to disregard the awesome work of the devs of this support plugin just encourage them to make this final step

-Thanx, Dave

[travis.hill]

Looks like some styling needs done.

I don’t know how you’ve implemented bbPress, but a start would be something like this:

remove the left float from div.bbp-breadcrumb in bbpress.css (line 39)

create a css rule for the table class .bbp-forums and give it a width:

.bbp-forums {

width: 100%;

}

That should get you going in the right direction.

[PureRover]

I have installed bbPress plugin. The forum itself is wonderful. I am having a rough time displaying it properly on my site. Using the shortcode [bbp-forum-index], I have setup a page with a full-page attribute. The page is full-width but the forum is not.

http://purerover.com/test/

I am assuming the forum’s widgets are taking up the space right of the forum. I don’t need them and rather the forum took up 100% of the available space.

I see there are additional templates for bbPress. Does this hold true for the plugin version? If so, how can additional templates be selected since this is not an option in the bbPress settings.

I am not a programmer but can following directions. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[grafics]

I’ve been developing WP for some time, but this is our first buddypress/bbpress project. Having the same problem described above.

WP 3.2.1

Buddypress 1.5

Created a “forums” page with shortcode which correctly shows the forum index. Clicking on a specific forum works as well, showing list of topics within that forum. The 404 comes when clicking on a specific topic. I’ve assigned the topic to the specific forum. The resulting url seems to be correct

mysite/forums/specificforum/topic title

I’ve also found that I have the “create new topic” form on the specific forum, when I submit the topic I get the page-not-found, but if I navigate back to the forum the new topic is indeed listed.

Any help is MUCH appreciated!

[John James Jacoby]

Use the WordPress one. It’s just posts and taxonomies.

[OAEErra]

Hi, i’m using BBPress 2.0 with BuddyPress 1.5 which were installed seperately and aren’t integrated through BP.

My BBPress forum is great, however after moving from SMF many members have asked for a “New Topic” button and a “Reply” button in the forums. They can reply or start new topics with the form at the bottom of the page, but for usability i’d like to make their transition a bit easier.

Is it possible to add a reply button to each post – one which quotes the post made?

Also, a reply button at the top/bottom of the thread which takes the user to a page with the posting form would be great.

Also is it possible to have a “New topic” button on the forum index?

Lastly, what files would I edit to make these changes?

Thanks in advance

[bardo]

@Vayu: happy it worked

@Moddey: your first try should have worked (look at Vayu’s solution). It’s normal that nothing changes if you edit the pot file: pot files are like “translation sources”, po files are the translated version in a human readable form, mo files are their machine-readable form. So tou should need only bbpress-da_DK.mo in your /wp-content/languages/bbpress/ directory.

Are you sure the file permissions are ok and the web server can read them?

[travis.hill]

Well at this point in the stack I’m calling a theme or plugin issue.

I’d start with plugins. Deactivate and see if anything changes.

If yes, find culprit plugin and remove/find replacement. If no, move to theme related issue.

So the contents of your child theme folder somewhat follows:

/bbpress/

/css/

/js/

archive-*.php

**functions.php

page-*.php

single-*.php

**style.css

And these files all represent files from /bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/{files}?

If so, you’ve created a PAGE, with either the bbpress shortcode or page template?

Have you tried the bbpress packaged theme?

I don’t personally know of any directly conflicting plugins with bbpress, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t exist. It still seem’s URLish to me. .htaccess maybe.

Either way, the last thing you’ll want to do, i’m guessing, is a fresh install. We’ll try to get you there before that’s the (possible) solution.

[Vayu Robins]

Hi Bardo, thanks for helping.

This worked for me finally.

So I have these 2 files here like this:

/wp-content/languages/bbpress/bbpress-da_DK.mo

/wp-content/languages/bbpress/bbpress-da_DK.po

Nothing else.

Vayu

[Anointed]

@eraleks

Let’s assume that you created a new sidebar called ‘bbpress’ via your functions file. This means that when you go to the sidebar manager, that you can see one called bbpress.

Next, take the sidebar.php file from your theme and make a copy. Name it bbpress-sidebar.php.

Here is an example of my bbpress-sidebar.php code.

<div id="sidebar" role="complementary">



<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('bbpress') ) : ?>

<?php endif; ?>



</div>

Finally there are a number of bbpress templates that call the sidebar. Replace those calls with:

<?php get_sidebar( 'bbpress' ); ?>

Wrapping up:

1. You registered a new sidebar called ‘bbpress’

2. You created a new template file called bbpress-sidebar.php

3. You edited the bbpress-sidebar.php file to ask for the bbPress sidebar.

4. You replaced all the calls to the sidebar with the new call to the bbpress sidebar.

That’s about it. If it is still causing you problems then I suggest reading a few resources.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/11/08/sidebars-in-wordpress

*Author avatars.

JJ already thought about this and added in a filter where you can choose to display just the username and not the avatar.

<?php bbp_topic_author_link( array( 'type' => 'name' ) ); ?>

You will see a lot of functions like the one above throughout the bbPress templates. Anywhere you find an avatar that you want to remove and just show the username, simply add the ‘type’ => ‘name’ and your good to go.

**There may be a global way of doing this, but I did not look as I didn’t need it myself.