Hi there,
I’ve got a problem with custom page templates and wordpress pages with bbcode shortcodes.
I’ve created a page “Forum “with shortcode [bbp-forum-index] and made it main Forum Page. Since most of my pages use sidebar, the one with forum index was meant to be fullwidth. I tried to set a custom page template but with no effect. The Twenty One template uses only default theme template and keep displaying sidebar.
I do know how to create custom page templates for wordpress but they just don’t work with bbpress plugin 
Anyway, I don;t know how to make bbpress work with my custom templates.
Any ideas?
@Tammy
I don’t think that the template files are currently used, even if placed within your currently active theme. According to JJ< bbPress 2.1 should make this much easier.
Right now, the only way I know how to change the appearance in your own theme is to actually remove the shortcode actions and write your own custom shortcodes.
You can of course add a bbpress.php/forums.php page and place that within your theme to do some basic changes such as removing sidebars.
Add this to your functions.php so that you can add shortcodes to the widgets –
add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);
Add this to your text/html widget box:
[bbp-topic-tags]
http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-add-shortcodes-in-sidebar-widgets
#1 yeah, that’s kinda how it works right now. It’s in need of some love.
#2 https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-no-admin/ removes ability for users to post bbPress content in admin area.
#3 When doing it that way, there is a forum and topic selection dropdown on the right hand side above where you publish the post. The idea being that a user can select the forum and topic right there.
I really think that is more just a quick way for an admin to post a reply, though I can’t see why I would ever use it myself.
#4 probably a bug.
There are also plenty of code snippets online in order to completely remove the admin bar or remove menu’s from the bar if you want. Pretty much just decide what you want to do and check google for the code snippets or plugins.
Yeah, I’m not sure how to get it to work. I just tried it myself, and while I get no errors, I am not able to use shortcodes in my forum topics. Maybe JJ, or someone will jump in and let us know how to properly whitelist shortcodes.
*I know I have my site setup correctly as I can use shortcodes in my other custom post-types. Best guess is that bbPress has some rather strong filtering going on or something. Which btw is not a bad thing, would just help to know what/why it’s happening.
Thanks a lot, but once I install that plugin, my forum goes down
I’m using the plugin version of bbpress.
I’m using WP-Syntax plugin to display some program codes on my blog.
It uses this syntax:
“Syntax highlighting using GeSHi supporting a wide range of popular languages. Wrap code blocks with <pre lang=”LANGUAGE” line=”1″> and where LANGUAGE is a geshi supported language syntax. The line attribute is optional.”
I want to use the same syntax even on my forum.
These codes eg. “:twwr5fiw” are NOT added by the converter, they are actually in the raw phpbb database tables, phpbb strips these codes before rendering on the page display.
The converter is copying the content correctly and in essence before running the converter you need to strip these from your phpbb installation first.
I haven’t found an easy way to do this yet but that is what stage I am up to before trying my next conversion. More info can be found by looking around phpbb.com for “Magic URL” & “Short URL” though I haven’t found much that could actually help us out here. It looks like I will try replacing the eg. “:twwr5fiw” & “<! — m –>” info manually with search and replace SQL Update queries directly into the phpbb database tables before conversion.
If that extra info is being added during the conversion then something is wrong with the bbcodes converter that bbconverter is using. I will let AWJunkies know about it when he gets back in the office.
thanks for the heads up
It kind of helps to know what plugin you are talking about.
There are a couple of plugins that might help though:
http://bbpressbbcode.chantech.org/
http://bbpressbbcode.chantech.org/shortcode-whitelist/
those allow you to use shortcodes in bbPress, and also choose which ones you allow users to use.
*allowing all shortcodes for users is dangerous, asking for trouble.
**I didn’t write the plugins, and don’t know much about them other than I tried them once and they worked. Just trying to help
The bbcode is going to take a special process to convert. I mean what in the world does ‘b:twwr5fiw’ mean anyhow? Notice that when you paste it in here, bbPress is not converting it?
Just like with WordPress where anyone can register anything as a ‘bbcode’ there is no standard between software packages, much less between single sites even. Other than a few standard ones my bbcodes are totally different than yours for example.
In those instances, I can almost guarantee it would require a custom setup. I know AWJunkies was offering this service at one time.
I personally have no idea how it would even work because what are the definitions for the original bbcodes?
My best guess is that AWJunkies would have to go through each persons install one at a time in order to check for bbcode definitions, plugin by plugin, and then create a custom translator.
I did send him a message, but I’m guessing that his office is closed for the holidays as I didn’t hear back from him.
bjj and I have the same concern here. I too have posted above similar results with the conversion. My board has been converted and the strange codes remain.
I tried editing the post to the original bbcode but it doesn’t work.
Does bbPress use bbcode at all? I thought it does…
Any help for any of these questions?
I’d love to know more on this too.
I figured that you’d be able to override default bbpress pages with custom pages containing shortcodes and changes to the permalink structure.
I haven’t been able to achieve this and I’m struggling to find information on the logic behind all this.
I am now in the midst of converting my phpBB3 forum to bbpress using this converter. I am having to keep refreshing the page every few hundred posts as it keeps stalling. I’m now at around post 15000 being converted. I have 47,000 posts, so there’s still some ways to go.
I have checked the converted posts results in the meantime and noticed that for posts with images, using phpBB’s BBCodes [img]tags, these posts contain strange characters. An example:
[img:33mwiaq9]http://www.swafineart.com/images/30.4.07/images/NightOfHeros_lr.jpg[/img:33mwiaq9]
Night of Heroes – The Dambusters by Philip West.
The original phpBB post would have read:
Night of Heroes – The Dambusters by Philip West.
I would like to ask if the Converter doesn’t retain the bbcodes as is, but introduces these strange characters? Or is this part of the conversion process and after it is completed, I should see it return to normal?
I am using the following shortcode, [bbp-single-topic-tag id=12], in a page and for some reason nothing is being output. I have tried several other shortcodes and they work fine.
I have several topcis that are tagged with the tag that is id# 12. Am I not understanding how this works? I would have thought I would get a list of all topics tagged with this tag.
I have a wordpress site ( soviettruck.com ), and would like like to add the bbpress forum plugin. The theme I have (Adventure Photography WordPress Theme 2.0) does not have the necessary template/CCS file for bbpress. This means the forums do not display properly. This needs fixing. Also soviettruck.com/forums gives a ‘Not Found’.. maybe needs some additional config?
Offering $40 by paypal if someone can fix this ASAP, should be pretty quick. Send me an email at davidzweig at hotmail dot com, and I’ll send you the SSH/FTP/Wordpress passwords. Site is hosted by Webfaction.
Once the CSS/template file is fixed, I’ll then use shortcodes to integrate the forum into the rest of the site.
To be precise:
I’ve installed a wp plugin for displaying programming codes with numbering and coloring.
we should write the code inside some tags.
Now I want to use the same tag even in the forum and get the same effect. Is this possible ?
Kamikazeek,
This is the best way to add forums
pick a theme that supports menus
1)create a page
2)add page to menu
3)select menu as active
4)add all of the shortcodes from the shortcode sticky thread to your newly created page
5)take out the shortcodes you do not require
Thats the way I do it at least.
Regards
Dennis
I found this page: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
But when I paste the following on a newly created WordPress page, nothing is displayed:
[bbp-single-forum id=1]
@Anointed
I can’t find the appropriate short codes to use.
Do you know what they are?
@jumpmuz: it does not….i’ve tried…
I’m just getting a new site up and running and I have some setup questions.
[1] I’ve created a page, called it ‘Register’, and put the shortcode [bbp-register] in it. When people visit the page, they can fill out their username and email address and click ‘register’, but after submitting the form there is no confirmation back to the user that anything actually happened. They simply see the form again. Is this the expected behavior?
[2] When a user is logged in, by default their account allows the ‘Toolbar’ when viewing the site. This is handy so they can edit their profile, logout, etc…. but there are also links to create a new topic or a new reply. This takes them to the wp-admin section of the site which feels strange. Is there a way to force people to only create new topics and replies from the “front-end” of the site?
[3] Along similar lines, people can create a ‘New Reply’ from this toolbar without even viewing a thread. What exactly are they creating a reply to?
[4] Right now all of the forums are marked as ‘Closed’. When viewing the site from the homepage everything looks good and users cannot create topics, replies, etc. However if they use the toolbar to go into the wp-admin section they can create new topics there. Is this a bug? Since all forums are ‘Closed’ the topic doesn’t get assigned a forum and doesn’t appear on the main site, but it is still there with “(No Forum)” assigned.
Sorry, I can’t help you there.
It should be pretty simple however. Just create those 2 pages, paste those shortcodes, and you’re done.
You need to create pages and use shortcodes.
See https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
For example have a login page that contains [bbp-login] and a registration page that has [bbp-register] – this will allow you users to register for an account (which they need to post) and and area to login at.
Also there are plenty of plugins available on WordPress.org that let you put a login for into widget areas etc.
