[leanderbraunschweig]

@Bart: I just texted you – let’s make this happen 🙂

Any results will be shared here, so others may benefit. Hang in there.

[2c5designs]

Testing something.

• This reply was modified 12 years, 2 months ago by 2c5designs.

[bartleynen]

Hi Henning,

Funny I came across your topic. I’ve been looking for days for a way to integrate bbPress into a memership site using Optimizepress. I was starting to feel kinda lonely as I began supposing I was the only one with this wish.

I was thinking maybe we could help each other. I think it’s reasonable to assume nobody will come along and help us out here after 6 days. I suppose we’re on our on own on this one. So if you feel like it, you can contact me at bart.leynen(at)gmail.com and we can see if we can mean something for each other…

Thanks

Bart

We can always come back later and post the solution here…

[goddess_dix]

Thanks so much for all the work on this! My first bbPress, as the plugin makes it more accessible.

Having an issue with the Fancy Editor. One of my plugins (WP-Amazon) is forcing a button onto the editor for shortcodes. Since the shortcode is turned off and the button breaks the layout, is there a way to force it not to display on forum pages?

I realize this is plugin specific but my thinking is that it can’t be the only rogue plugin, so if there’s a reasonably easy way of suppressing a particular button, it could help others. Thanks for any suggestions you may offer.

[bradsucks]

I want to override the bbPress page I get when I go to mysite.com/forums/ with a WordPress page containing bbPress shortcodes but I haven’t been able to get it to work.

• My WP page slug is ‘forums’ and contains:
  [bbp-topic-index]
  [bbp-topic-form]

• In my bbPress settings my ‘forums base’ is set to ‘forums’.

I’ve tried a bunch of other things (like setting the WP page template to ‘bbPress – Forums (Index)’ and deleting archive-forums.php in my theme. Nothing seems to work.

Also if I change the the page slug & permalink to ‘forums2’ and visit that, it works as intended.

Any ideas? I’m thinking about an .htaccess workaround but that seems excessively hacky. Thanks.

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you seen the shortcodes included with bbPress?
https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

• This reply was modified 12 years, 2 months ago by Stephen Edgar.

[leanderbraunschweig]

Hi there – and sorry upfront for yet another question with regards to bbPress-Themes…

• I have been doing thorough research in the forums, no answers for me…
• Versions: WordPress running 3.4.2, bbPress is 2.1.2

My situation_

I have setup bbPress to work with my custom theme (OptimizePress) and embedded the [bbp-forum-index]-shortcode into a single page (“forum”). Here I could obviously pick a site-template and therefore the forum is nicely embedded into my site-layout.

Since I cannot continue using shortcodes & (slug-)pages for dynamically generated topics, I went ahead and followed the customization instructions. I can ensure that the right (template-)files are called upon (inside my /theme-directory) because I played around with content-single-forum.php f.ex. and also checked for the correct CSS-reference.

I also followed the instructions concerning the functions.php (in /theme):

add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );
remove_action( 'bbp_enqueue_scripts', 'bbp_theme_compat_enqueue_css' );

Now I need to wrap the forum-specific template-files with the page-template used by my custom theme. I already tried integrating the bbPress-code into the exisiting page-template with no positive result (no server-response or strange loop-behaviour).

Either I went down the right road but am weak in skill at modifying PHP-Code or there is a far easier approach I haven’t seen/figured out yet (which again doesn’t compliment me on my skill-level…).

Anyways, maybe someone can help me out / hint me into the right direction.

Thanks so much in advance,
Regards

Henning

[Pedro Maia]

I’m looking for this too. I found a shortcode that do this, but I’m not sure if it’s the same of this forum. The shortcode is: [bbp-topic-index]

[Stephen Edgar]

Why not use the shortcodes that come with bbPress?

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

[Stephen Edgar]

No, you do not need BuddyPress installed.

Is the bbPress plugin activated on your plugins settings? (if it is deactivate it and reactivate it)

There are three new menu items on your WordPress navigation menu. These are:

Forums – create and manage your forum.

Topics – topics are created within forums, they are the issues that are being discussed.

Replies – replies are made to topics, this is the actual discussion.

You should be able to see your forums at http://yourdomain.com/forums/

You can also create a standard WordPress page and add a shortcode eg. [bbp-forum-index] (This will Show your entire forum index) to the page content.

You can then add either to any of your main WordPress menus for easy navigation.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress does allow shortcodes for security reasons, you should look at something like https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist/

To order your replies in reverse order add the following code to your themes functions.php file.

https://gist.github.com/3414353

[Stephen Edgar]

Try this and post the link back here:

• Create a WordPress page eg. bbpress-test would be http://pedalterapi.net/bbpress-test
• Add the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] to the page https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

Does this now include the forum description?

• This reply was modified 12 years, 3 months ago by Stephen Edgar.

[Stephen Edgar]

Set the forums base slug to the same as your page slug and your custom WP page with shortcodes should take precedence.

[Clementtang]

Open bbp-common-template.php from bbp-include
find

// Wrap the separator in a span before padding and filter if ( !empty( $sep ) )

and edit

$sep = '' . ' EDIT HERE ' . '';

You can change it into any text or image w/ codes.

• This reply was modified 12 years, 3 months ago by Clementtang.
• This reply was modified 12 years, 3 months ago by Clementtang.

[MTPrower]

I’m going to explode, here.

You’re kidding me, right? Who or what are you getting defensive about? I’m not even TALKING about that! We can already DO exactly what I’m talking about inside a normal page with only several single-forum shortcodes! The problem is, because of breadcrumbs not linking to the new page I can create for that, I can’t use a different page. I have to use the .php page that is the forum-index.

Let me make this as simple as humanly possible. This is all I want on my “forums index”: what you get when you put the following into a page:

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id-1]

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id-2]

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id-3]

Let’s assume those are the id’s of forums of my choosing. In this case, those are the id’s of my three top-level categories. Whatever you get when posting those three shortcodes into one page is EXACTLY what I want as my forums index page. (By the way, all other forums systems already look like this. And don’t assume that everyone likes bbPress’ current index page, which is the only index page of its kind. That is speculation.)

That is all. Nothing more. We can do it on a single page or post, so I know we can do it on a .php file.

And finally, don’t be smart with me. bbPress is the only forums system that integrates with WordPress as well as it does. To have a multimedia site with a completely separate forums is to KILL YOUR SITE. I understand why, if your forums isn’t the landing page of your site, you MUST have full integration between your site and forums in order to keep traffic. That is why I can’t use things other than bbPress.

If you’re going to respond to me, at least read the first post. Just reading the latest two posts isn’t going to give you enough info to respond well without annoying the poster. Please, for the love of god…

[rameesareno]

Hi,

Im no css Guru. Can you throw in some sample codes for that?

[Lynq]

Have you created the login and register pages using the shortcodes: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ ?

Are you just having trouble with getting the actual links onto the forum area or you need to create the pages aswell?

Are you using a sidebar?

[MTPrower]

I want the option for it to go to a page of my choosing. People often don’t like the default forums-archive page (which ends up being the root/home page), so they create a WordPress page with bbPress shortcodes in it to be the forums’ home page. The problem is, when they do that, the breadcrumbs root link, which says “forums”, doesn’t go to that page. it goes to the archive page, or forums-index– which is the page they were trying to avoid.

• This reply was modified 12 years, 3 months ago by MTPrower.

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, you can just ceate a page and add the shortcode to the page.

Here are some docs to help get you going

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

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

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[JayteeHong]

I’d like to be shown topic no or topic id in topic list.what should I edit in loop-single.php file? please show me getting topic id codes. thanks.

• This topic was modified 12 years, 3 months ago by JayteeHong.

[tbguitars]

I’m trying to get bbpress to let me use a regular page on my site for the main forums page which I want to populate using the bbpress shortcodes. This is not hard to do, but the issue I’m stuck on is that once you go into the forums the breadcrumbs will only link back to the page with the “Forums” (or whatever you change it to in the settings)slug, and that page works like an archive page and wont let me write anything on it or use shortcodes etc.

I’ve wasted many hours already trying to figure this out, any help would be so much appreciated.

Thanks!

using latest updates of wordpress and bbpress

[Stephen Edgar]

Take a look at https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

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

[moneyonlinetalk]

I have been trying for ages to make this works for my website, i activated the bbpress forum and create a page name forum, insert some few bbpress shortcodes and all i get is the “Forum is Empty” is there anywhere this can be resolved? Is there any tutorial on it?My site is at Latest Universities Newsany help will be appreciated.

[capsx]

those was RAW data from MYSQL DB …

i actually DON’T NEED to convert BBCodes – i need original post texts, and that is the problem, cause bbpress converter convert [quote] to DIV

temporary fix was – to get original text from the phpbb_posts table via wp_postmeta key _bbp_post_id

• This reply was modified 12 years, 3 months ago by capsx.
• This reply was modified 12 years, 3 months ago by capsx.

[LabSecrets]

I was thinking we could provide a “users guide” with videos (think like Shawn has done with WP101) for bbPress “users” and in the same area the “admin guide” with info about running the site. Perhaps we can set aside the user content in a way that can be shared universally by site admins. We have the means and mechanism to deliver the content that way via a plugin, embed codes, etc. so a site owner could have generic “this is how to use it” instructions…. again, very much like wp101. We would donate our time and effort to produce this for bbPress if you guys are open to receiving the same?