Just a simple and maybe a stupid question: Where do i find the Forum ID?
I tried to copy the permalink but this wasn’t it.
@thecolab – A lot of the things you mention are more functions of a complete site than they are functions of only a forum. As such, bbPress can only predict so much of how any theme is setup, and sticks hard to the WordPress conventions of shortcodes, widgets, and theme hierarchy.
Since WordPress doesn’t have ‘section specific widgets’ neither does bbPress. Some people want full-width forums, others do not. bbPress comes with some examples on how you can make some of these things happen, but it doesn’t yet work for 100% of all themes and sites all the time.
Really what bbPress needs is for someone (other than me) to start developing themes and widgets for it. Until that happens, some things will remain balkanized my design to appeal to the greater 80% of WordPress users.
In addition, having someone contributing code patches and new features is also helpful. For a while Gautam was able to consistently help, and Jared helped with Genesis integration. If someone wants to dream up new features and code them under my tutelage, I’m happy to help someone else get things done.
Glad to see BBpress so tighly integrated with regular wp now, still it seems getting it running smoothly out the box is a bit of a challenge for the non-developer.
For instance, using the shortcodes scenario to list forums in a regular wp page is fine, but then when you click any of the forums the bbpress template is used instead, so any sidebar content which might have been added like logins, topics etc needs to be placed into the bbpress templates as well.
any advice on how to set it up so we can have a forums home, with all the bbpress widgets in the sidebar, and then maintain those throughout the forums.
Also off the bat the homepage of the forums doesn’t even have login or register buttons.
Finding some of the simple things you would expect missing.
Yes, I found one theme where everything works fine. (short codes can be placed in sidebar by pulling there text bar and shortcode on it)
How to make it work on other themes?
OR….
How to make new widgets for bbpress plugin? There is default login, list of topics etc, but I need let’s say Tag Cloud on the sidebar.
Yes! I very much want to use bbpress template tags within wordpress theme files. I tried it and get an error. I know the bbpress 2.0 codex will come out soon, and maybe that will help. But in the meantime? Thanks!
Also, why attempt to use the shortcode in the sidebar when it would be much better to just use the forum list widget?
Shortcodes don’t naturally work in sidebars. 
Possible your theme has them enabled?
I have a WordPress with WPML plugin and it works ok in all the pages, menus, widgets and plugins.
Now I added the bbpress 2.0 plugin, and there is no way that WPML can read the language .mo files of bbpress.
I tried with CodeStyling Localization (another translate plugin) but the bbpress language files are not available. Localization section of WP shows this:
Textdomain: bbpress
Versión: 2.0
Estado: active
Descripción: bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.
Compatibility: Loading Issue: Author is using load_textdomain instead of load_plugin_textdomain function. This may break behavior of WordPress, because some filters and actions won’t be executed anymore. Please contact the Author about that.
How can I make bbpress 2.0 will be multilingual as the entire content?
Thanks!
Hey,
Does this allow BBpress template codes within WordPress posts and pages? I asked about here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/using-template-codes-within-wordpress
If it does, could you offer some guidance on implementing the codes?
Thanks.
Hello, shortcodes works well when I put them on the pages, but when Im trying to put them on the sidebars, its not working.
Heres the example: http://warezjasz.cal24.pl/
shortcode: [bbp-forum-index] is on the page and on the sidebar, but working only on the page.
I tried this on many templates, and its always the same.
ps: I also have another site, and the whole bbp shortcodes works there very well, even on sidebars, I have no idea what is the reason.
Hey, pretty simple question, is it possible to use the PHP template codes within WordPress themes? If so, how?
Also, how about tags inside posts/pages within WordPress, is that possible?
Thanks.
Just bumping it up as I still can’t find a conditional to use for determining if I am on the forum front/homepage.
*I am not using shortcodes but rather custom templates
also need a few other conditionals please:
What conditional can I use to see if I am on a topic-tag, or topic-tag-edit page?
finally, conditional for being on the users/users-edit page?
*trying to change titles around above the breadcrumbs in my template. and also using conditionals to remove breadcrumbs when on user page as they dont work on user pages yet.
thanks
I believe the only options available in shortcodes are for [bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] and [bbp-single-topic id=$topic_id].
I agree that (a lot) more would be very useful.
I don’t know if this is possible at the moment. I started writing a plugin to try and add this functionality but my knowledge of php is not good enough.
I have achieved a similar solution, though it lacks some functionality, by using a multisite wordpress install, and having each site with its own forums, and making each site only viewable to members. Then, if you want a user to be able to see a forum you make them a member of the site. The downside of this is that you have multiple forum areas.
I have created some shortcodes to allow you to list forums from multiple sites on single page, but have not got around to adding it as a plugin yet.
If you would like to try it out then you can grab the code from the pastebin link here https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/multisite-displaying-forum-list and just create an empty folder in your plugins directory, then copy the text from pastebin into a new php file in that folder.
The usage is a bit strange and explained in the other thread
So I thought we had the 404 issue resolved, but not quite. Forum Directory showing (used short code on page) and links from there to primary forums works just fine. I have now discovered that child forums get 404 error. Updated permalinks, tried default theme, still no luck. Tried making the “parent” forum a category, no joy that way either.
Tried moving the bbp-twentyten template files into child theme (and adding theme support to functions.php) and everything went haywire.
One thought is to use pages with shortcodes for the child forums, but this site is going to have tons of child forums so that is not an appealing option and would not be user friendly for the client.
Any ideas?
Because the skeleton plugin adds the capability of adding theme templates which do not require added markup such as the header/footer/etc.
The way it is now, bbPress has a bunch of twentyten specific templates which handle all the output for bbPress. Each of these templates carries the overall ‘layout’ for twentyten instead of just what is output by bbPress.
If my understanding is correct, I would create a single bbpress.php file that holds just the twentyten layout. ‘The_content’ would then be auto replaced according to what page you are on.
This would mean that in order to get a custom setup in any theme, I would only have to modify one template file, ‘the twentyten base layout’ instead of modifying every file.
Basically I am trying to find a way of making it easier for me to build and market bbPress templates that work in any theme.
An example would be people that don’t want a sidebar. You would simple change the bbpress.php file to remove the sidebar, change the css attribute for the content area to be fullwidth and your done. You don’t have to modify the other bbPress templates.
*Yeah, I know, there are shortcodes, custom page templates etc already avail, but trying to find an even better approach.
I am using custom theme templates from bbPress within my own theme. So no shortcodes or creating pages etc.
What I am trying to do is to show the list of most recent topics below the forum list on the forum homepage.
I am using the following code:
<div id="forum-front" class="bbp-forum-front">
<div class="entry-content">
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-forum' ); ?>
<br><br>
<h3><?php _e( 'Recent Topics: ', 'bbpress' ); ?></h3><br />
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-topic' ); ?>
</div>
</div><!-- #forum-front -->
This seems to work, however, the pagination for the topics is wrong. Currently it tries to go to /forums/forum/last-forum-title/page/2/
It should go /topics/page/2/
Using the default bbPress templates within my own theme, what would I add to the archive-forum.php file in order to show recent topics with pagination that works right?
*I saw that devpress managed to pull it off, so asked over there as well.
@Gautam Fair point.
@anointed I hope so, perhaps the new version might have better out of the box support
@letheos I think I will have another go with bbcodes, this does now seem like the best option. I’ll post back if I have any luck.
Thanks for the replies.
You can use shortcodes and just add some custom css styling.
Dario,
1. Create a page.
2. Make it a homepage.
3. Add the right shortcodes.
4. Add proper styling.
The latest versions now have admin settings in the dashboard that allow the admin to create additional whitelists of supported tags. It also detects Viper’s Video Quicktags and allows all those tags to be added to the whitelist via a single checkbox.
I’ve implemented a means by which other shortcode plugin developers can make their plugins get automatically detected by the whitelist, declaring which safe shortcodes they support, and giving them the same single checkbox ‘add to whitelist’ functionality that I’ve currently done with my bbPress BBCode plugin and Viper’s Video Quicktags.
Has anyone been able to get bbPress 2.0 and the Thesis theme to work together?
I have tried a number of things but I just can’t get it to work.
If I do nothing and rely on the default theme the forum is totally unusable. Not only is there no styling but none of the functionality works (no links appear for a start!).
I have tried creating a child theme as per instructions on this forum, tried using shortcodes and I have also tried copying the relevant parts of the default theme over to the thesis theme folder.
This seems to get slightly better results in the sense that I get the forum functionality, but there is no styling. You can see my current attempt here:
http://www.jezza101.co.uk/forums
It seems to me like part of the theme’s framework is somehow breaking bbPress, there must be some fundamental incompatibility in there somewhere – but I really don’t know enough to debug this.
I have asked over at the Thesis support forum but there seems to be little understanding of what’s going on over there. Is there anyone over here who has any suggestions?
Don’t modify the core function. Makes a plugin and make your own Shortcodes instead. You’ll need to look into how switch_to_blog works. You’ll also need to see how my Switch Site Rewrite plugin reloads the permalinks for each switch. The reason this isn’t in core is its a labor intensive set of requests for the server to pull off, particularly across multiple servers or data centers in large installations.
you can use short codes listed here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
but even easier, if you are ok with the default layout, is to just use the template, “bbPress – Forums (Index)” for the blank forum page you’ve created (under page attributes on the edit page).
