[Robin W]

interesting..it looks ok on my test site, but I can see it doesn’t on yours.

I should state that I am just a bbpress user who helps out here, not the plugin author.

2 choices

1. amend the actual widget file – yes that is said by many to be bad practice, but bbpress does not do frequent releases, and if it is your site and you know what you changed, is probably the quickest and easiest answer

2. clone the widget to your theme’s child functions file. so take the whole function that starts

class BBP_Forums_Widget extends WP_Widget {

Now you’ll need to rename it, so change BBP_Forums_Widget wherever quoted to something unique, and change names/title in these lines

public function __construct() {
		$widget_ops = apply_filters( 'bbp_forums_widget_options', array(
			'classname'                   => 'widget_display_forums',
			'description'                 => esc_html__( 'A list of forums with an option to set the parent.', 'bbpress' ),
			'customize_selective_refresh' => true
		) );

		parent::__construct( false, esc_html__( '(bbPress) Forums List', 'bbpress' ), $widget_ops );
	}

	/**
	 * Register the widget
	 *
	 * @since 2.0.0 bbPress (r3389)
	 */
	public static function register_widget() {
		register_widget( 'BBP_Forums_Widget' );
	}

you can then amend the offending line.

[mtissington]

In the main forum/topic view the css is updated with status-closed.

However the Forum and Topic widgets do not update the status.
I would like to change this.

Where does the existing code set status-closed for both Forums and Topics.

Hopefully you can see what I’m wanting to show here

[mtissington]

The html <a> link for the list of forums is wrong – it include white space in the front.
If you don’t think it’s a bug, then where do I place a modified widgets.php in my theme to fix the issue?

this is from BBP_Forums_Widget

				<a class="bbp-forum-title" href="<?php bbp_forum_permalink( $widget_query->post->ID ); ?>">
						<?php bbp_forum_title( $widget_query->post->ID ); ?>
					</a>

and this is from BBP_Topics_Widget which displays correctly with no leading white space.

					<a class="bbp-forum-title" href="<?php bbp_topic_permalink( $topic_id ); ?>"><?php bbp_topic_title( $topic_id ); ?></a>

[patdunn]

The bbPress codex explains that when bbPress is installed it creates three new menu items in the WordPress backend. These are Forums, Topics and Replies.

I do not have the Forums topic. Is there some way that I can add it in?

[force73]

Hi guys,

i have found the file “class-bp-core-login-widget.php” and I need to add an additional link to the users direct messages “https://url/username/messages” right under the users name within the widget (after a user is logged it).

I am able to do in the code but this is not a correct way (break on update), so please help me, is there a way to add this simple link to the widget?

Thanks,
Christian

[apr0424]

Well, if i click on help it directs met here: https://codex.buddypress.org/administrator-guide/extended-profiles/

[flamuren]

Thank you Robin 😊

About the notes. Would you recommend a excel file logging everything I do with any code; for example which files (path) and which line/lines etc?

I have done some changes when reading some easy codes that I understood how to add etc. But dont remember them by now 😅

[jessesansevieria]

Were you ever able to resolve this problem with UnCode? I’m having the same issue where the breadbrumbs are being displayed, and there’s a huge dummy div taking up a lot of space above user profile pages (perhaps others I haven’t looked at yet). I asked UnCode Support and they directed me to check with Buddy Press. When I use the CSS provided above it hides other elements on the site like images on the WooCommerce store front.

I’ve tried both “Methods” of deploying the forums with the same result.

https://staging.sansevieria-international.org/forums/users/admin

[Robin W]

first thing I would do is break this into separate functions

add_filter( 'generate_smooth_scroll_elements', 'th_scroll' ) ;

function th_scroll ( $elements ) {
  $elements[] = 'a[href*="#"]:not(.wp-show-posts-read-more)';
  return $elements;
}

[elliesatt]

I’ve implemented a smooth-scrolling snippet from GeneratePress as documented here: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate_smooth_scroll_elements/

The exact snippet code I use is this:

add_filter( 'generate_smooth_scroll_elements', function( $elements ) {
  $elements[] = 'a[href*="#"]:not(.wp-show-posts-read-more)';
  
  return $elements;
} );

This works for everything on my main site (blog) but does not seem to work for my bbpress forum. I’ve reached out to GeneratePress and got this response:

Hmm I’m not sure why that’s not working unfortunately.

You will need to check with bbPress’ support to see if there is anything from their plugin that’s blocking the code from being executed.

Do you have any ideas on how to solve this? Many thanks in advance!

An example URL: https://300hours.com/forum/cfa/level-2/

[bodcandidate]

New Information:

The forum page is viewable using the shortcode [bbp-forum-index].

When I click on main forum page I can see forums listed as before. When I click on a forum title link as bfore I get this message:

Oops! That page can’t be found.
It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try a search?

Search for:
Search …

[stevendrew]

Hi, still setting things up here…

I was just wondering if there was a shortcode or something to add a contact for to my forum?

My site just has a contact page already created, with the text: [contact-form-7 id=”4″ title=”Contact Form”]. But I don’t see that plugin installed.

I would prefer to add a contact form / widget natively if possible. If not, is contact form 7 plugin the way to go?

Thanks guys!

[raja123a]

@egyptimhotep
Forum title remains numeric

Below is the code in single.php

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
	<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>    
	
		<div class="article">
			<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>			
			<?php the_content(); ?>	
			<h2>Forum: <?php echo basename(get_permalink()); ?></h2>
			<?php 
			$post = get_post(get_the_ID());
			$mypost = get_page_by_title(get_the_ID(),OBJECT,'forum');
			echo do_shortcode( '[bbp-single-forum id='.$mypost->ID.']' ); ?>
		</div>

	<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

It would be great if you could help me find, where i made a mistake 🙂

[Robin W]

ok, several ways to go about it, these are in no particular order

a ) as it is a paid theme with presumably support – ask the theme provider – most will say it is out of scope, but occasionally you get lucky.

b) see this link – item 8

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

c) this plugin is old but still works, and lets you try different theme templates to see if they work better

bbPress WP Tweaks

[tw2021]

Hi Robin,

Would you be able to assist with this. I have got the code that i would like to change the min height so that the option in the drop down box fits nicely.

on the Topic Type and Topic Status drop down box, the font of the drop down selection is way too big and it looks cut off.I want to make sure the selection eg. “Normal”, “Sticky” etc fits nicely in the drop down box

#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form input[type=text], #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form select
{
min-height: 35px;}

I tried with ! important and it doesnt fix the formatting. Not sure why. I inserted this in the css section in bbstyle pack.
Thanks

[juventino199]

Hi, Robin thank you for your reply,

is there a way to add in a background refresher then? Maybe the form of an external plugin etc? Or some code that will automatically refresh the page without the user knowing?

If not then don’t worry but if there is a way, (and it’s not free work) I am happy to pay!

[Robin W]

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[kaanair]

I would like change avatar style for media….480px responsive design which I attached screenshots.I use custom theme on my local server.I tried some of code in stylesheet but didn’t worked.
Default code about avatar and author section

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body div.hentry {
    display: block;
  }
  #bbpress-forums li.bbp-body div.bbp-topic-author,
  #bbpress-forums li.bbp-body div.bbp-reply-author {
    -ms-flex-align: start;
        align-items: flex-start;
    width: 100%;
    margin: 0 0 16px;
    padding: 0 0 16px;
    border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-divider);
    box-sizing: border-box;
  }
  .vikinger-forum-reply-author {
    -ms-flex-align: start;
        align-items: flex-start;
        
  }
}

[Robin W]

ok, this raises a number of questions, but let’s start with

You talk about a sidebar, but I cannot see this in the code sent to the screen. How are you adding the sidebar to your forums page?

I’d suggest that instead of rendering a register form on the sidebar, you have the login widget which has a register link on it, which you can direct to a register page with the register shortcode on it.

[Robin W]

hmmm…

Titles are not put in that part as default – bbpress uses the theme/page to do that, so I would not expect to see an <h2> tag after the <div id="bbpress-forums" class="bbpress-wrapper">

do you have a theme or plugin that is altering bbpress display?

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users

Health Check & Troubleshooting

Then come back

[r083r7]

I wish I could but the way that bbPress has implemented the CSS there is no middle.

Please review the screenshots I took

Index page with forum title
https://monosnap.com/file/tKb4Y6GEkWf2GUMB88ghljeprh37Nt

Topic page with topic question
https://monosnap.com/file/M3hhJhX7wW4on9Ym2s4ecMcFqmjHOj

This is the code that bbPress outputs for both the index page and topic page title

<div id="bbpress-forums" class="bbpress-wrapper">
<h2>main forum topipc</h2>

If I get rid of one I get rid of the other one 🙁

Still searching for a solution.

[neon67]

write the css selector #bbpress-forums ???? h2 more precisely – there will be a difference

[neon67]

in the menu (after installing bbpress) Nothing will appear – you must create and customize the menu yourself.
Or use bbpress shortcodes for home page.

[Robin W]

untested but this should do it

add_filter ('bbp_current_user_can_publish_topics' , 'rew_disallow_anon') ;

function rew_disallow_anon ($retval) {
	if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) $retval=false ;
return $retval ;
}

[neon67]

How to allow unauthorized users to post replies in threads only, but disallow new topics?
There is a check-box in the forums tab – “Allow unauthorized users to create replies in topics.”
But when I turn on, anonymous can create both: replies and new topics also ((

How to split this permission? maybe code in functions.php…

Thanks 🙏