[theeohiostate]

Just installed BBPress to replace my proboards forums , and i like the theme integration.

All is working fine , but i could not find a way to change the page title for the forums that is displaying in the browser tabs , as it was showing “Forum Archive” . So i read about the shortcodes and decided to just make a page and title it Mysite Forums . So now the page title is displaying and all working good , but i notice that when i click on any category , topic and/or click back to the forums link via the BBPress menu bar , i am being directed to another version of the forums which was created by BBPress. How can i get all the forum categories , topics and post to have the same URL string as the new page i set up.

mysite.com/mysite-forums – this page is generated with BBPress
mysite.com/mysite-forums-2 – this url is generated when i create a page for forums and use the shortcode

[yoosuke]

Hi! Mr Robin W!

Now, my Website is likely to complete.
Thanks to you. (Detailed description of PHP codes was very helpful for me!)

My Website is a site to help people.
Near future, some troubles might be found in my Website.(It might be tomorrow..orz)

At that time,
I would be happy if you come back and advice me.

Best regards.

[Robin W]

‘Why is there no way to control this with shortcodes and nobody has found a solution 🙁 ‘

Solutions require problems, and clearly not enough think this a problem. 🙂

There are probably several hundred things that the developers are working on or could work on (I’m not a developer, just a volunteer helping here).

I’m not actually sure what you are saying isn’t there – is this just controlling the numbers, or are you after more functionality.

If you could write a detailed problem definition, I’ll take a look !

[Anonymous User 13302461]

I can’t believe there isn’t more info on this.

I want to have maybe 5 topics listed at the top of my home page that have no replies. [bbp-single-view id="no-replies"]

Maybe under that I would like to have the 5 most popular topics, then the 5 most recent.

Why is there no way to control this with shortcodes and nobody has found a solution 🙁

[yoosuke]

I really appreciate your response!
bbPress support is great!

I’ve worked for about 3years as a Web designer.
So, I can understand HTML and CSS3,
and how to edit and ftp files as well.

For php, I learned the just basics before.
So, I can read basic php codes,
but I can’t write php codes by my own.

Thanks for telling URL “Shorten freshness wording”.
The codes should be helpful for me.
However, I have no idea to customize the codes to get to my Two goals…

[Robin W]

You would need to cut some code, but basically you would be looking at

using some code from the widget to find the latest topic

then maybe using the shotcodes

[bbp-single-topic id=$topic_id] – Display a single topic. eg. [bbp-single-topic id=4096]

and if it has a reply

[bbp-single-reply id=$reply_id] – Display a single reply eg. [bbp-single-reply id=32768]

using the do-shortcode function https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode

If you do this, please post the result here for the benefit of others !

[Solidify]

My theme comes with an option in the settings to add my own CSS codes. I love it because I’m just starting out and learning a lot about CSS by just putting snippets of code in there and seeing what it does. Of course none of it fazes my forum and that really really sucks because I’ve read a lot of great reviews about bbPress and I’d like to use it on my site.

Why doesn’t bbPress have the same feature? Is there an up to date plugin I can use, or do I have to create a custom style sheet?

[JBBoY]

Hi community,

My forum in BBpress It’s working properly and It’s awesome! congratulations! nice job guys!!

But hope you can help me with a little problem. If I access the forums normally styles are ok, but when I show the forums via shortcodes like [bbp-forum-index] then the text fonts are different from what they should be. Is there a way to show the same font using the forum directly from url and with the shortcodes application?

Thank you in advance for your help and time.

[Stephen Edgar]

I just checked the difference between the current version included with bbPress and that version you linked above. The version included with bbPress has quite a few enhancements, password support, forum categories, author IP, closed topics, sticky topics and topic tag slugs.

The difference that you need is the BBCodes:

// This is what is currently included with bbPress for YouTube:

$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[video\=youtube;(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/video\]/', '$2', $vbulletin_markup );

//And this is what we had in that custom linked version:

// Replace '[video=youtube;$1]$2[/video]' with '$2"
$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[video\=youtube;(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/video\]/', '$2', $vbulletin_markup );
		
// Replace '[video=youtube_share;$1]$2[/video]' with '$2"
$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[video\=youtube_share;(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/video\]/', '$2', $vbulletin_markup );
// Replace '[SOUNDCLOUD]$1[/SOUNDCLOUD]' with '$1"
$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[SOUNDCLOUD\](.*?)\[\/SOUNDCLOUD\]/', '$1', $vbulletin_markup );

So the addition of these two BBCodes:

[video=youtube_share;$1]$2[/video] and [SOUNDCLOUD]$1[/SOUNDCLOUD]

Do you know if both of these BBCodes are included with all vBulletin versions or are these custom BBCodes you manuallly created in your vBulletin install?

Either way I just updated that gist with the above BBCode that you should be able to download and test as you did 8 months ago, it has ‘all the things’ above included in it. 🙂

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/513187363f36b56ec77d

[ThemeTon]

I saw there some styling from your theme (ShopAndBuy). That style adds fontawesome icon for every LI elements. But bbpress has so many ul/li structure for formatting forum section and that style makes this issue there. Please manage or remove that styles from line 350 of “ShopAndBuy/css/shortcodes.typography.css”

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, I will take a closer look in the morning, it’s late here down under and the brain is to fuzzy to dive in right now 😉

Can you confirm which importer you used, did you import using the vBulletin3 or vBulletin importer and what is the exact version of the vBulletin forum you are importing from. I’ll try to take a closer look at those BBCodes and also make any updates as needed.

[Stephen Edgar]

Except for the default BBCode [b], [i], [u], [img], [url] etc the vBulletin importer only has [quote], [mention], [youtube] BBCodes added at this time. You would need to manually edit your topics and replies for any SoundCloud embeds.

To test this any further I will need your vBulletin version you importing from so I can take a closer look, firstly to see if I have a copy of a vBulletin ‘version xyz’ to test against and then to see if I can see any reason why it would not be importing everything correctly.

[orionghf]

Hi
yes this is what Im using .. but Im still using WordPress 3.8.3
The MCE editor is displaying perfectly and I can use all its features .. but when I save the content from the front end, the content is displayed with the html codes ..
Could it be a theme problem?

[Stephen Edgar]

@landshark I wouldn’t say you were being ignored, we are all volunteers here and if and when people have the time to help others they do, myself included.

What is the BBCode for images on your SMF forum?

bbPress converts these default BBCode [img] to `<img src=”…”>
[img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/img]
[img=http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif]
If you have any custom BBCodes this will not work and you could either fix this in your SMF forum before importing or if your comfortable with MySQL you could update these in your database directly.

[BeethovenWC]

Hello.

I made some changes in localisation (via Codestyling Localization plugin) and suddenly disappeared all my BBPress widgets from administrator’s widget menu.

Please help.

[Stephen Edgar]

The bbPress shortcodes are:

[bbp-login] – Display the login screen.
[bbp-register] – Display the register screen.
[bbp-lost-pass] – Display the lost password screen.

I suspect some of your issues are more WordPress related rather than specificly bbPress

[Stephen Edgar]

Do you think there is a limit with database size?

No, all size constraints are upstream and relate directly to WordPress and the size you are talking about is not an issue.

There is almost 100,000 posts and the database is bigger than 350 Mb

That’s fine…

Now the fine print, this will take a while to import, depending on your setup it might be a couple of hours right through to 8, 16 or 24, “how long is a piece of string” theory.

I am not sure what tools Invision includes but optimizing and cleaning the database first is a very good idea.

As bbPress imports the topics and replies it parses all the BBCodes ([b][i][url] etc) through a custom conversion script, if it comes across data it doesn’t like it will stop and no longer continue. Thus it is advisable to setup a local MAMP/XAMPP install and perform an import on your local machine as it gives you a good idea on how the process works, how much time it will take and the data integrity. Once your happy with all that then give it a go on your webhost.

[Pietmar]

Hi

WP 3.9
BBP 2.5.3
TwentyTen

I use WPPA a lot on my blog and would like to integrate in BBPress.

When I add it in topic i get this:

http://goandstay.co.za/blog/forums/topic/testtopic-2/#.U15rdfmSySo

The code instead of the slideshow.

Jacob Breedtveld . aka Opajaap (author of this amazing plugin) (http://wppa.opajaap.nl/ & https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-photo-album-plus/) says:

If this also does not work, ask the BBPress boys if there is a possiility that on the particular text shortcodes can be expanded ( $text = do_shortcode( $text ); ) or that the standard content filters can be run. ( $text = apply_filters( ‘the_content’, $text ); )

I don’t have a clue what Jacob says, but think you will know!

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

I suggest you have a read of some of the docs, most of what you are asking about is in the docs.

For example you can use shortcodes and widgets for login and register actions:
https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

The majority of bbPress actions including moderation can all be performed in the ‘front end’ and only some specific actions (configuration and settings) are required to be performed in the WordPress dashboard (back-end).

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

Codex

[ww_hoax]

once again: I want to disable only 2 dysfunktional bbcodes – e. g. link and img. This buttons works also not in this forum – try it! It’s a bug!
I make no sense to frustrate user.

[ww_hoax]

Dear tharsheblows, I know this function, but I will only deactivate 2 or 3 bbcodes – e. g. “img”.
This bbcode does not work.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kkeoj8bqrs0jok5/Topic.png

[ww_hoax]

I mean the bbcodes above the forum editor. Is it not possible to delete individual buttons.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kkeoj8bqrs0jok5/Topic.png

No effect, if I comment out line 109
Many thanks

[Robin W]

if you mean the bbpress shortcodes, they’re held in

includes/common/shortcodes.php

at the simplest just comment out line 109

ie change to

//add_shortcode( $code, $function );

bbpress upgrades will overwrite this, so keep a note to change again as bbpress upgrades are issued.

[ww_hoax]

Is there any simple solution to delete default bbcodes. In which file the default bbcodes defined. Many thnaks for any hint.

[Jakob Langlois]

If I understood you correctly this is what you’re after.

When in the dashboard, navigate to Settings > Reading.

Change the option that’s called Front page displays to a static page and choose the home page (assuming you’ve created a page to be the front page).

Now navigate to Pages > All Pages and edit the page you selected to be your home page (usually “home”).

Enter the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] and then publish.

For a full list of available shortcodes, visit https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

Upon further testing, I noticed that this will not edit the breadcrumbs and will show Home > Forums (linking to domain.com/forums). I also tested this by changing the forum root slug in Settings > Forums to “home” (the page I have set to be my front page) and it now shows Home > Home

I am unsure as to how this would be fixed though…