This definately looks like an issue with your theme.
Try using WordPress Twenty Eleven to ensure bbPRess works as designed and then contact the theme author to see if they can give you some tips on getting the theme to support bbPress.
In the meantime create a WordPress page called ‘forums’ (or ‘forumi’) and add the bbPress ‘shortcode‘ `[bbp-forum-index]` to this page and this should get you going.
Hi everyone. I’m in the process of migrating my website from phpBB to bbPress. In modifying the template, I feel like I’m pretty limited to what I can change without getting into modifying core files.
Basically, this is what my phpBB forum looks like – 
And this is how my bbPress looks like right now – 
I want to retain the look of the former, but in the archive-forum.php template file, the only code that is being called in that area is “bbp_get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘archive-forum’ );”
It looks like bbp_get_template_part() is calling the entire thing, whereas I’m used to phpBB giving me individual tags – I guess their equivalent to what you’d call shortcodes? – for the category name, the forum name, number of posts etc to place them precisely where I want them in the template.
So what am I missing? What file can I modify, or what functions could I call, that would allow me that same level of control?
Hopefully this is coherent. I’m pretty new to using bbPress – and BuddyPress, and WordPress… – so I feel a bit mentally fatigued from learning these systems, lol. Any help would most certainly be appreciated. Let me know if anything needs clarification, and thanks in advance to anyone who reads this wall of text. Cheers.
make a new page and add the register shortcode to that page, then add the url for that page to the widget
`[bbp-register]`
more shortcodes here
https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
You can use a widget in your sidebar https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/
Or create a page with some shortcodes https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
I tried to use the bit of code postet here above by Anointed.
I put it in the functions.php file of my buddypress theme.
It didn’t have any effect…
On the other hand, I found a plugin that does the job, but just partially:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/orbisius-bbpress-enhancer/
(Orbisius bbPress enhancer)
This plugin works fine, but it allows me to change only the COMMENTS authors, not also the REPLIES authors.
(forums in bbPress consist hierarchically in: FORUM > TOPIC > COMMENT > REPLY)
I Would be grateful if any coding specialist among you would tell me what to do with the codes above, to get them working (for comments AND replies).
Greetings, I would really appreciate some help on getting by bbpress plug-in to work. Currently I cannot see my forums or topics when I click on preview or view page from the admin panel nor can I view the discussions on my website when I click on the title from the “Forums” page I created. I can see the forums and discussions on the “Forums” page (used the shortcodes)they apparently link to now where :)Working with WP version 3.5.1 and bbpress version 2.2.4.
Reading the other forums I have tried the following:
1. Switched to twenty-eleven and twenty-twelve theme, doesn’t make a difference.
2. Gone to permalinks and saved, again, no change.
Any help would be appreciated, please see the link to the site below.
http://hsg.trg-learning.com
i have a page called /forum that has the shortcode to display the forum index. When I click on a item it will go to that post. In the breadcrumb there will be home->forums->post, clicking on /forums takes me not to /forum where my shortcode is located but to the hard coded thingy that is defined in the plugin setup? So I have to mess around with trying to make templates just to get it working with my theme, when it just seems that if you make use of shortcodes for the operation of the forum, it would be compatible with ALL themes more or less. Is that a correct assumption?
As it stands now, I don’t think I will be able to use this plugin because I do not have the time to workout all the different things just to make it work with my theme. I really should not be complaining for something that is free to the community and it is not to diminish the great work of the developers, this is not my intent. After fiddling for days trying to get this to work correctly, I just came to the conclusion that maybe it would be better if shortcodes where used exclusively for the functionality of the operations, then all of these sorts of problems should become non existing.
if I could have a page called /forums that would override the /forums settings defined in the plugin then that would work, but how can you tell wordpress to do this? I looked and tried different things, but it all becomes way more work then it seems it should be when a shortcode would do the trick. Any way, I am curious to know how other people are getting bbPress to work properly with their themes. I am open to suggestions, ideas and thoughts.
Oh, one thing I did was to setup a redirect from /forums to /forum (forum index shortcode) and that seems to be working so far. Not sure yet what side effects maybe lurking as a result. So far so good. But when I sit back and think about it, what keeps coming to mind is… why? Why should I even have to do something like this??
Thanks
Jarrod
you don’t need to to use shortcodes,
its already into your page
see
http://www.yourdomain.com/forums
and its their already
Create a new wordpress page called “registration” (or whatever you wish to call it). On that new page add the shortcode [bbp-register] and publish it. Then add the link to the new page you just created on the sidebar widget, for example: your site.com/registration/
Here’s a list of all the shortcodes you can use: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
Hi,
I simply want to use shortcodes to keep the forum on my page. I can get the the index to show up and it seems to work fine, but the breadcrumbs link back to /forums, not to my page. I’ve been looking around and I see where other people have been having the same problem yet there does not seem to be any solutions. I will continue looking I guess. If anyone knows of a solution I would love to hear it. I just don’t get why this is even a problem. Why not just use shortcodes rather than those hardcodes paths in the settings? One thing I am considering is adding a redirect from /forums to my page with the shortcode…. but then I keep thinking, why should I even have to do this? Any way, if there is a solution out there I would love to know about it.
Regards
Jarrod
Thank you so so much fontadoni for the detailed reply. Works perfect fine. I had no idea what shortcodes were; my bad, should have read the documentation properly. Also, thanks for explaining how to use these shortcodes on the required page!
Hey there,
The answer might be a no brainer for others that have been using the plugin version of bbpress for a while, but just like you I just migrated from the standalone version and suddenly I felt completely lost as I was used to editing the php templates for everything. I probably missed this explanation as it’s been a while since I visit bbpress.org.
Here’s the deal. You need to use the shortcodes provided here: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
That’s the short answer. What I didn’t know was that you need to add these shortcodes on the page you create in WordPress for your forums. So, say you have your forums at yoursite.com/forums. You need to create a page in wordpress called “forums”, after you have done that, you can add the shortcodes on the page to customize bbpress to your liking (others can correct me if I’m wrong as I just recently figured this out).
So adding [bbp-forum-index], will display your entire forum index. Then you would need to add [bbp-topic-index] to display the most recent 15 topics across all your forums with pagination.
What I still have not been able to figure out is that when you add the login tag [bbp-login] on the homepage (not the sidebar), there’s no option for login out once you’re logged in. If you find the answer for this, let me know. Hope this helps.
I used the login shortcode, but it doesnt let me logout after signing in. Is there a logout shortcode?
I am a new WP (version 3.5.1) user, and I don’t know much about html and other codes. I have set up WP with help from firends, and I have managed to create a forum myself with bbPress (version 2.2.4).
It looks good, but my problem is that when I return from a topic to my main forum page the title of the page changes to the first topic in the list.
As a work-around I found a solution that suggested creating a new wp page and adding “[bbp-forum-index]“. This works and looks good, but when I click on Forum to go back to my main forum menu, I am returned to the bbPress main forum menu where the title is wrong. How can I return to my own WP forum page after visiting a topic?
Is there and address or a code string I can add somewhere in the plugin program? – or perhaps it isn’t that easy? Can anyone please help me?
you need to use something like GD bbPress Tools to enable shortcodes for bbpress
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-bbpress-tools/
sam
Hello all.
I’ve just deleted Simple Press, because I couldn’t import editor except plain editor.
I’ve installed this bbpress forum and I have no information about change or basic development.
For example I have a page that was installed simple press upon it. http://www.oyundragon.com/forum
And it is full-width. That’s why I want to use that page to show bbpress forum. Inserted shortcoded, good, it works But what a pity there is a bbpress forum page as you know http://www.oyundragon.com/forums
What should I do ?
Secondly how can I change “forum” title in the top of every forum sections in the content ?
Just follow the steps in the document https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/
Set `define (‘WPLANG’, ‘fr_FR’);` in your WordPress `wp-config.php`
Download the .po & .mo files
Rename the files
- bbpress-plugin-fr-fr.po to bbpress-fr_FR.po
- bbpress-plugin-fr-fr.mo to bbpress-fr_FR.mo
Upload both files to `/wp-content/languages/bbpress/ `
I would suggest you use the following page to ask if anyone in the French WordPress community has fully translated bbPress as the translations linked above are 0% & 11% https://fr.wordpress.org/contact/
If you are trying to translate the theme DynamiX or ‘codestyling localization’ plugin then they are issues with their respective authors.
Hi!
I’ve done everything in the installation guide (http://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/) to traduce it in french.
But I think I am missing something here, do I have to activate something, do I have to use codestyling localization to complete the traduction?
Is just uploading the files and having my WP dashboard in the same language should get everything translated^
Thanks
Hmm, how strange that it shows correctly for you, as it’s like this for me on two different machines.
Regarding the custom buttons, I don’t think those should be displayed by default in the forum editor, no. Custom buttons and icons can be very useful in posts, but I don’t see them being useful to the majority of forum users. That said, I also think that custom buttons/shortcodes is plugin territory.
I am trying to use pdf embed plugin and the embed codes [embed]file[/embed] to use as the first post of the topic …
If I use this on a page it displays the pdf fine but it does not do so in the topic it just displays the text with the embed codes stripped
Anyone advise why not or what I can use instead
Many thanks
George
I believe you can add a shortcode to a page:
[bbp-topic-index]
It’s in the codex here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
You should have access to the wp-admin panels when user role is ‘Keymaster’.
The ‘Moderator’ role though outlined here only has the following permissions:
Moderator – Forum Capabilities: publish_forums, edit_forums, read_private_forums, read_hidden_forums
At this stage Moderators cannot see to wp-admin ‘Forums’ panel though it is planned for a future release.
The workaround at the moment is to indeed use the ‘forum’ shortcodes.
Hey again..
I mucked around with BBpress a while back and managed to use the WP “featured Image” to insert a icon for each different forum.. Now since about one month ago ive actually forgotten how i managed that.. Could anyone assist me with this again.
Thanks in advance.
If it helps i am trying to build a custom forum page (forum home page).. still unsure how i am going to achieve this, whether i use shortcodes or create a custom page im still not sure what the best method would be.. but i would like to be able to add forum title headers with custom images for each forum category.
Thanks for feedback @beggers, glad its worked for you 🙂
The forum order is already fixed for upcoming bbPress 2.3 with lots of extra tweaks also… storing old phpBB user profile fields.. ‘all the BBCodes’ are converted bbPress HTML…
I recently installed Buddypress and BBpress and was thinking about how I could add all the nifty features of phpBB such as BBcodes and stuff. Then I remembered that hardly anyone uses most of them and here’s a big reality check – Facebook doesn’t even let you use bold or italic and they have a BILLION users.
Bottom line – don’t waste time adding a bunch of stuff that you think might be cool but actually have little or no effect on activity.
