[Stephen Edgar]

Use the ‘Views’ widget in a sidebar or shortcode [bbp-single-view id="no-replies"]

https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/ https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[jetfalcon]

Sorry!

The login widget, including register and lost password links.

I know there are shortcodes for each of them, but I want it to look like the login widget.

Thanks!

[Xaveus]

I have installed bbpress on multiple wordpress sites and seem to always have the same issue. On the main forum index page it says 0 voices and 1 posts no matter how many posts you create this never changes. Being that this has occurred on every site that I have included bbpress and being different themes and installs I can only conclude that I must be missing something when I set it up.

If anyone can help I would appreciate it….because you cannot run a forum that says there is only 1 post in it 🙁

Also I use no shortcodes, I just install bbpress then go to http://www.example.com/forums and start posting.

[Robkk]

This is the Image of forum. Right above the emoticons there is a letter “p”. I am not too sure what that is for:

i dont really know either, but i think it indicates what heading style you are on , you see that list box that says paragraph click Heading 2 , now your p symbol should show h2

This is the image of what user posted on the forum and ended up with all the codes showing up:

it might be because participants cant post any other html tags than what bbpress allows, im not for sure though.

easy way to test it is for keymaster to post using span style, if it works then its allowing participants to use restricted html.

The user just replied that once he highlight any part of the content, that’s when it shows with all the codes.

how??

link me to your site ,give me some demo login details and ill sign up and try it out??

[desiamerican26]

The user just replied that once he highlight any part of the content, that’s when it shows with all the codes.

[desiamerican26]

Hello @robkk,

All the buttons I needed is showing up as it is.
For the Media ones, I will contact the Author and ask them about it if anything can be done or else I will find another way to show video as per your suggestion.

I just received a message from one of the user that he encountered a problem while posting on Forums.
Please see the Links below and let me know the solution:

This is the setting section of TinyMCE Advanced of how I have it:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/5ycbdzwtx4yddp9/Untitled8.png

This is the Image of forum. Right above the emoticons there is a letter “p”. I am not too sure what that is for:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/bx36jo5qjyf1y02/Untitled9.png

This is the image of what user posted on the forum and ended up with all the codes showing up:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/7c9p4c0oa4fjqnf/Untitled10.png

How can I resolve this issue?

Thanks you again for your time and help….

[Robin W]

yes, just change it !

you can then do one of two things

1. just make a note, so that each time I upgrade this plugin, you’ll need to go back and change the code again

2. rename the plugin in line 4 – say to

Plugin Name: bbP shortcodes robkk

and then change the directory the plugin sits in to something else

Worpdress will then tell you that you have a plugin installed but not activated called bbP shortcodes robkk, and that the plugin bbp shortcodes no longer exists, and you can then delete it.

[Robin W]

One I’ve been playing with

bbp additional shortcodes

[Robkk]

which one would you suggest?

i have no idea , i have no opinions on any of them since i havent tried any of them.
You can try each one on a local site if you want and make your decision off that.

But what i can say is that this rating plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/rating-widget/

is on https://codex.bbpress.org/feature-plugins-tracking/

and it also has some integration with bbpress.

Basically I want it to show up in only a few of my subforms next to the bb codes on top ^^^

I have no idea how your going to show the ratings on a few subforums , your probably going to need help on that too, (i have no idea how to help you on this)

[cybarmitzvah]

which one would you suggest?

Basically I want it to show up in only a few of my subforms next to the bb codes on top ^^^

[Robin W]

yes you need to set up pages for these functions.

So set up a page called ‘registration’ and put

[bbp-register]

in it.

and a page called ‘lost password’

and put

[bbp-lost-pass]

in it

You can prefix these codes with some text as well so for instance lost password might say

Enter your email address, and we'll send you a new password

[bbp-lost-pass]

[Robkk]

they use , the bbpress shortcode for the new topic form.

[bbp-topic-form] – Display the ‘New Topic’ form where you can choose from a drop down menu the forum that this topic is to be associated with.

more shortcodes https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

create a page , lets say “new topic”

add that shortcode, and save

place an html link in loop-forums.php

the link should look like

<a href="http://sitename.com/new-topic/">New Topic</a>

style it with css with

a.bbp-new-topic-button {
background:#009375;
color:#fff;
}

[Robkk]

Hi Robin, so you don’t like feedback here? I seemed to have hit a sensitive nerve with you! I did try to make some positives as well as what I thought were honest concerns. I looked on the support forum and there were also other older threads with no replies, not just mine, If you can’t take feedback about what you do then I’m sorry to say you will never learn or grow. As for it been free, well I’m not going to go into a debate about that. But I believe there would be ways to make money out of this like here: http://www.packtpub.com/bbpress-complete-comprehensive-guide/book

bbpress is open source , i dont think the community is going to try to make money off of something thats open source, thats probably why there is no ads on this site too.

that book was just written by some guy thats not really affiliated with bbpress. Its like if i myself made a book of all that i know from reading all the documentation. (i dont work for bbpress, i am a volunteer )

topics with no replies, people are busy , there is like only 2 official people that check out this forum occasionly , robin and stephen

jjj might check out the forums though but he also works on wordpress core i think i am not sure.

Other than that the others are volunteers like myself , which i am helping out people because robin helped out me , idk i feel i got to repay them somehow haha

Your own layout looks promising, I hope it goes well.

im on the fence if i should put it on github or not, i feel like i dont want people jacking my forums style sometimes

As for examples

Just any thing that looks like a forum:

bbpress looks like a forum ,its just a really simple one.

which is great because not all people need extravagant features, but if they want they can add wordpress plugins, and also custom functions that you may find on this forum.

if we compare features in bbpress compared to other forum software there is not much of a difference.

All i can see that is different is shortcodes on bottom, which i showed a user how to do in a topic before. using bbpress forum statistics shortcode, and the do shortcode function.

forum icons, which is possible there is a function somewhere if you search this forum.

category and hierarchy layout , if you search the bbpress trac people have shared how to do this if users want that specific layout.

ip boards topic sorting you can create something similar using bbpress views in simple html links.

and the rest is just styling with css, in the documentation it explains… go to this https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/

[bm_kabin]

Yikes I think I may have spoke a little too soon. Having done your recommended method, it doesn’t seem to isolate the changes made for the shortcode. I have removed the original modified file and created a duplicate named ‘content-single-topicb.php’. This corresponds with the change to line 335 in shortcodes.php with bbp_get_template_part( 'content', 'single-topicb' );.

Any idea why it’s not working?

[Robin W]

ok so if your code savvy, two approaches

1. the hack

I haven’t tried this, but it should work fine

go into

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/shortcodes.php

and look at line

355 which says

bbp_get_template_part( 'content', 'single-topic' );

change that to

bbp_get_template_part( 'content', 'single-topicb' );

That will then get bbpress looking for a php file called ‘content-single-topicb.php’

so then you can use the method in my first post to create that file in your theme ie as per first post, but just rename the file with a b at the end.

YOU WILL need to change this each time bbpress upgrades as it will overwrite – hence why it is the hack ! But that’s hardly difficult !

2. the proper way

Would be to create your own version of the shortcode, by copying all that particular shortcode into your themes functions file, BUT renaming it (or you’ll get already loaded errors), and then lots of editing to get it to work.

Personally I’d go route 1, and just make a note to change that file each time bbpress upgrades

[Robin W]

yes use

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-do-short-codes/

[SAPinfoASAP]

Hi,

Is it possible to allow shortcodes in the forum? These shortcodes are not part of bbpress, but other wordpress plugins I have installed.

For example one short code allows me to add an optin form, I would like to add this to the end of my forum post.

Thanks in advance,

[Pavle123]

Stephen and Robkk, once again thanks for everything you do here.
I will continue improving my bbPress and will post some codes once I´m done.

[Herophantom]

Thank you.

I would also like to update, so after reading some more last night, I found the documentation on the short codes. I tried making a dedicated page and using the short codes to load the main forum index. Now this works in almost every way, including using the proper sidebar that I want, however, the search option at the top is now off set, with the button below the bar instead of next to it. I have been fiddling with the CSS for awhile to see if I can get it to align properly, but so far no luck. And now, even the page provided by the bbpress plugin is doing the same thing. So maybe I messed something up, or maybe I’m just missing something, but if I can get this solved, I will have a perfect solution.

[Pavle123]

It would be useful if you could share the link or something.
Have you pasted the forum shortcode on a page?

Forums

[bbp-forum-index] – This will display your entire forum index.

[Robkk]

Amazing work man, thanks so much.

your welcome 😀

I need to figure out where to post each code in my theme,etc.

Should I also put codes in bbPress plugin, or not? Since it might get deleted once updated, right?

you copy bbpress templates into your child theme so its okay when bbpress updates, i explain exactly what template to copy and also i show you a snippet of where to put the code by the original code.

you put custom css into anything that can handle custom css

in bbpress.css in your child theme(you copy the original in your child theme)
in your child themes css stylesheet
the jetpack plugin module custom css
a standalone custom css plugin

[acornale]

At the moment, I have a standard WordPress search box on the top of my page. It seems to return posts and pages but not bbpress forums or topics.

I can use the bbpress shortcodes to display a forum search but I don’t want two search boxes.

Is there a way to extend the native wordpress search so it returns posts, pages, topics and forums?

At the moment, it seems I can search bbpress OR search wordpress posts / pages. I want to search both?

[Pavle123]

Wow @Robkk

Amazing work man, thanks so much. I will need few days to set everything up.

I need to figure out where to post each code in my theme,etc.

Should I also put codes in bbPress plugin, or not? Since it might get deleted once updated, right?

[Jerry]

Hi Robin. I’m on my way to the UK to support the Farnborough airshow, so I can’t access my home computer to replicate the error for another week. What I can tell you is; when I removed the switch_to_blog id input parameter and instead assigned a variable $cat to ‘post_parent’, and set $cat = $attr[‘id’];, I received no errors. I hard-coded to the blog site, then I can adjust the id to equal the forum id. So my feeling is that shortcodes cannot accept two inputs? If I’m wrong about that, then I will re-address this upon my return to the states.

[Robkk]

For login and register you could create individual pages for login and registration , you could use the login and register form short codes by bbpress and put them in your pages or if you use theme my login or something similar that creates custom frontend membership pages use that. And put an HTML link to both pages above loop-forums.php or above the call of loop-forums.php in archive-forum.php

Round avatar images use border-radius:50%; or something like that , you could probably right click inspect element target the avatar image and get the CSS code right off of quick sprout and put that in your custom css

Unread posts you have to wait til its sunday (time I will be home to see my desktop)

Stats at bottom you could use the bbpress stats short code , if you want it in your templates use the php do shortcode function with the bbpress stats short code

I don’t know how the new thread button fuctions , but you could create a page let’s say “new topic” and link to it the same as the login/register buttons