[Jaja..]

I know bbPress is all about basic, clean and minimalism code but not adding an unique class or ID to a sticky topic or a closed topic is a huge missing part i think.

(the function works just no way to style it)

Will the bbPress (2.+) version be the same as the bbPress (1.0) version?

Without 25 different must have plugins is just not worth installing it?

Don’t get me wrong, i love the option to add plugins that can make bbPress do more advanced functions, but a feature like sticky and closed topics should be styled in the core files not by a plugin.

Not talking about lock icons , stars icons and different forum icons just a light gray or green background would be nice to have out of the box.

[anamariav]

Now using bbpress 2.0.

One last shot to see if someone could help me out with this, as I still am stuck.

Thanks.

[David Dean]

Let me help get this going by adding what I know from building the bbPress Topics for Posts plugin:

1) Yes, it works perfectly even without BuddyPress.

2) Having a post on one site and the forum on another will probably NOT work. Forums and topics are considered posts themselves, and those are per-blog. Anything is possible, but that would be messy.

…

5) This isn’t too hard, but takes a little trickery with the bbp_has_replies_query filter. It’s a feature of the plugin if you want to take a look to see how it’s done.

[WebEndev]

If you don’t know of a way… it doesn’t exist then

Thanks!

[Jared Atchison]

Currently with bbPress there is no way easy do that, unfortunately – at least not that I’m aware of!

[WebEndev]

Hi Jared,

That will definitely help

I was actually referring to a Forum *only* search, and not sight wide using the site search. Most forums have this feature.

Thanks

[Jared Atchison]

Check out http://gist.github.com/1243500

As mentioned, you are going to have to do some poking around in order for the results to be returned in an orderly fashion

[Jaja..]

I have no idea how to change that.. (PHP isn’t my game)

I’ve got the same problem. Thats why I think that the bbPress (team) is still working on it.

I found this inside: (theme) > bbpress > user-details.php

<?php if ( bbp_is_user_home() || current_user_can( 'edit_users' ) ) : ?>

After that comes the Edit link but that PHP IF statement isn’t working correct.

bbPress is still very Glitchy if you ask me.

Lots of Glitch i don’t understand.

[amirsaam]

@BJ

I CAN SAY WOW! What a fantastic skills that coder had! It looks like used BuddyPress too, nah?

I just worked with Stand-Alone versions but that is so fantastic! I hope @JohnJamesJacoby write a better doc than now for us

[Jaja..]

On my homepage i show the forums and behind that the last topics and last replies.

This shows the Avatar of the last person active on a topic (replies):

<?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_forum_last_active_id(), 'size' => 32, 'type' => 'avatar' ) ); ?>

Very cool, and works.

But now i would also like to call for the authors (topic starter) avatar of the last topic on a forum.

So i tried this but nope

<?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_forum_last_topic_author_id(), 'size' => 32, 'type' => 'avatar' ) ); ?>

It gives me random avatars from everybody.

[Ed]

thanks

[Razva]

Thanks for your reply, much appreciated!

Is there any way to “force” BBpress keep it styling? We really can’t change the theme…

[Ravi]

I am using bbPress 2.0 plugin version and could not find a file called loop-single-reply.php

I could find a single-reply.php and it had a code like

<td class=”bbp-reply-author”><?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( ‘type’ => ‘avatar’ )

I tried adding ‘size’ => 100 to this but did not work.

We are also using BuddyPress inside the site and guess the avatars are loaded from BuddyPress.

[amirsaam]

For PM you can use WordPress Private Messege. Need some act to using it

[Jaja..]

No Private messages at this point,

In Overall there is not much bbPress (v.2.0) plugins available, and we can only hope WordPress will release a statement on wordpress.org about the release of bbPress 2.0. If they don’t i doubt we will see tons of plugins for bbPress in the first year or two.

Beside all that, this Toolbar plugin works perfect on my forum,

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-toolbar/

And if you Valid the code and delete lots of ‘ugly’ included code it’s even a better product.

But again, out of the box it works great. (many thanks to the author)

My tuned version of this plugin:

http://master5o1.com/topic/show-your-customized-bbpress-post-toolbars-here/

* Still working on my Forum and i don’t know if i’ll ever gonna place it public (live) because for me bbPress is still very Glitchy.

[Patrik Berggren]

Ok … new to bbPress and have installed v2.

But … before I can go live with that forum I really need an WYSIWYG-editor, including “smilies”, PM (Private Messages) functionality … otherwize, my forum members will go ballistic

Is there a list of working plugins for bbPress v2? other than “repository” at wordpress.org?

[adams21]

Lets hope somebody will soon jump into this bbPress plugin code and start writing tutorials and info about different ways to list forums.

For myself i can say this is the best bbPress forum layout (listing) i’ve ever seen

[adams21]

simple used the insert code (which I was looking for but didn’t see and assumed not available) within my main template instead of using teh bbPress subtempate

[adams21]

If you changed the BBPress Forums base name to “theboards”, then make a new wordpress page with the same permalink “theboards”. So your forum will be located at mywebsite.com/theboards, regardless of if you create new forums or topics, theres nothing there. Create a page, pop in that shortcode or any of the ones at the link below and ZAP BOOM POW, go to mywebsite.com/theboards and its there! lol

[FlipFlop]

Well props to you on a very well thought out post. I am in exactly the same situation as you and am too just a persistant & enthusiastic designer.

As far as I can tell the shortcodes allow you to embed specific areas of your forum onto specific pages, so for example if you had a support forum – you could add that to the forum submenu on your website and send people directly there.

Of course once they start navigating via the forum links they aren’t going to be sent to your embedded pages so I’m not sure I would like this solution myself as it seems inconsistent.

I’m a newbie too so will be keeping an eye on this thread, good luck

[Jaja..]

I was searching for an option to set the max topic length to 70 instead of default 80.

Now I think I’ve found the code inside the (Core files) bbp-core-options.php but I can’t change the core files because it will be overwritten when bbPRess updates.

So how could I place a filter? inside my functions.php to do this?

Just like this? (copy-/paste)

function bbp_title_max_length( $default = '70' ) {

echo bbp_get_title_max_length( $default );

}

[Kasper Isager]

Sounds good Kudos to the bbPress team!

[lckitchen]

I am very interested in that ‘bbpress.php’ file, having the same issues as “elmalak”; once I go into the forum pages, or topics, everything gets lost, for example, I used a specific page template for the forum page I created with the short code, but once I go into the topics or so, it reverts back to the regular page template.

What do I put in the bbpress.php file to make it a “wrapper”?

Thanks

[lckitchen]

Hi there, first I want to say thanks for creating this, seems like a great forum plugin once you get it working.

To start, I have read the entire thread on the forum on theme compatibility; http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility and a few other treads and topics relating, unfortunately I am still having some problems.

I am including screen-shot links to be as clear as possible in hope for great support.

What I have done so far;

A.) I decided to go with the child theme option since I am using a custom theme that I am not the author of and prefer not to clutter that folder.

I copied all the files (except functions.php) that were inside “bbp-twentyten” (/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten) and put them in my “gridlocked-child” folder that I placed inside /wp-content/themes/ (next to my custom “gridlocked” theme folder)

I added the “theme name” and “template” name to the empty “style.css” in folder “gridlocked-child”. screenshot: http://grab.by/cJ7R

I put the ” add_theme_support( ‘gridlocked-child’ ); ” code in my “gridlocked” (not child) functions.php file. screenshot: http://grab.by/cJ7S

At this point, after just test creating a few forums and topics, it looks like the plugin is “functioning” like it should. I can tell that it’s using some of the styles from my main theme style.css (colors, fonts etc), the MAIN PROBLEMS that I have now is the fact that it’s not taking to my page template widths in my main theme (gridlocked), it wont use a full-page-width template (or let me pick) and the default that it is probably using, is also supposed to be full width, plus something is wrong with the padding and it snugs too tight to the page edges.

Here are some screenshots to show you what I mean;

Forum home page: http://grab.by/cJ7I

Forum named MINGLE page and test topics: http://grab.by/cJ7J

I would like the forum to look like this; http://grab.by/cJ7H

and fill up the entire width of a full page, with nice padding. I achieved that preview by adding shortcode [bbp-forum-index] in the html section of a “page” picking the “full-width-template” option in my theme.

Ok, here comes the questions:

1. Did I set everything up correctly in the directories and files?

2. What files do I need to modify to tell the bbPress forum to use a full page width template? Can I copy code from my main theme “template-full-width.php” into one or more template files inside my new child theme?

2. Do I need to add code/functions into my main theme “template-full-width.php”? and if so, what kind of code? and on a scale, how easy should these edits be? (I have asked, but I am not getting any support with this from my theme support forum, otherwise great forum but they wont help with plugins, understandable)

3. How does shortcodes work? Are those simply just for placing certain parts of your forum on different pages as previews/links but not for use throughout the FULL forum?

Do you have ANY ideas on how I can solve this issue, I feel pretty lost and I am not a developer or programmer, just a stubborn, enthusiastic designer that loosing her hair about this.

I HIGHLY APPRECIATE ANY HELP WITH THIS!

Thank you!

[Erlend]

So both bbPress and BuddyPress are now entering a new era of WordPress integration. Both plugins have become much more standardized and seamless.

Now all you need is more eyes and idle hands on the code, documentation and forums. There’s still no word of the renewed bbPress or BuddyPress in the admin panel’s “WordPress Blog” feed. The news that was once in “Other WordPress News” has since been moved far down the list where most people won’t see it.

A mention on wordpress.org could quite realistically make hundreds of thousands of WordPress users aware of these recent monumental developments. I think these plugins represent a crucial part of WordPress’ future; you ought to let the world know what’s happening on these new fronts.