I’m now using bbpress 2.0 and buddypress 1.2.10 and the shortcodes and widgets have been very useful to the not so techy users like me.
The situation is that I want to show only one forum’s latest topics, is there any plan for releasing shortcodes with more detailed options or a way to make it possible manually?
Thank you in advance!
alrighty, with your help, anointed, I’m getting the hang of this now. I’ve created new pages with bbpress shortcodes, and linked them accordingly. Now I am testing the registration process and I have one question.
Instead of having new users login via the WordPress Dashboard, can I make it so they stay at the frontend? Does that make sense? I do not want them logging into any kind of WordPress backend.
Thanks again buddy.
Hi,
I have the same problem as elmalak.
I would like to use a page to put my shortcode in – however if you do this then the links all revert back to the default forum slugs?
Jamie
I’m having the same problem…I installed bbPress about two months ago and it worked right out of the box, then I got going on other things and just came back to work on it again and I can’t get the forums to display. If I go to the forum page, it has the title; but before, there was a listing of forums and I could navigate through to the topics. I’ve tried using the shortcodes and they work fine, but I’d like to get things working through the standard hierarchy (e.g. forums, topics, etc.).
I’ve cleared the cache, flushed the permalinks, and changed the name of all the slugs (they’re currently changed back to the default names), uninstalled, then reinstalled the plugin (but didn’t delete settings from the database). Also, I know I’ve updated the plugin at least once since first installing it.
Some sample pages:
http://powerofmoms.com/forums/ (should show listing of all forums, but just get blank page)
http://powerofmoms.com/forums/forum/general-discussion/ (should show topics for this particular forum. Shows description text, but no listing of topics)
I haven’t made any changes at all to the template yet…just wanting to get things working again. Any suggestions?
Same as above i would like to see a codex how to use those all PHP codes.
I often can understand the WP Codex and build unique themes because i can view the codex and work thing out.
Now i would like to create my own bbPress theme and forum layout-/display but i don’t have a codex to view what options i can use.
Shortcodes are great but not the most flexible.
I see, you are using shortcodes, so my idea doesn’t work then.
Personally, I like to have complete control over every template in my theme, so I bring over all the bbpress files into my current theme and modify from there.
As I don’t use shortcodes, I’ll have to let someone else chime in and help you out.
Hi,
Is there a way to make the shortcode [bbp-topic-index] displaying only a certain amount of topics ?
Something like [bbp-topic-index n=$number]
Thank you,
Sulliwane.
ps: your plugin is just awsome…really awsome, thank you so much
@reply myself.
I was stupid, and sleeping! (my mistake)
Shortcodes is the solution to pull this off.
@reply myself.
I was stupid, and sleeping! (my mistake)
Shortcodes is the solution to pull this off.
@anoited – I’m probably haven’t made myself clear on exactly what I want.Just to clarify what I have and want doing:
Main Template Theme is BuddyPress default
Using shortcodes to display my main Forum Index
In my Child Theme I have added a folder called bbpress with one file called loop-single-forum and changed the bbp_list_forums() part.
Am I suppose to copy the whole template of bbpress into my child theme. As at present everything is working exactly how I want it except for the part where it displays it displays the subforums with (0,0) next to it. I just want it to be removed.
Ahh wow, cool, that looks great! I don’t have BB Press installed on my live site yet but will set up a test and have a look.
It would be awesome to place shortcodes on pages for stuff like this. Where you could perhaps show x number of latest topics etc.
Is there any news on an exporter by the way, to export old Buddypress groups/ forums into the new BB Press plugin.
I want to get rid of groups and just have some forums like on test-bp.org.
The group names would effectively become the main forum names and then the topics would appear in each forum.
Is that on the cards?
Thanks again! 
I’m also looking for something like as it will be very useful. I’m not much of a coder so wouldn’t know where to start. This will be great as a plugin though.
JJJ > My site is only a test site, how would I turn the shortcodes on? I only want to see what it would look like. It’ll be a while before my site goes live. If you don’t want to post this on the forum, then i’ll understand.
I suggest using the WordPress plugin version of bbPress, version 2.x. bbPress 2.0 uses the same WP theme your site is using. It can also import data from a 1.x installation.
This thread will tell you how to display forum content the easiest way. – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
This thread will tell you how to display forum content in a more customized way. – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility
When using BuddyPress with BBpress, it acts all screwy…
[bbp-topic-index] and [bbp-topic-form] both show “BLOG ARCHIVES NOT FOUND” when I use those short codes:
http://montecristoowners.com/topics/
[bbp-login] and [bbp-lost-pass] don’t work at all. Just show the title of the page … with no content at all.
[bbp-register] is the only one that works, pointing the user to registration page.
Have you tried using one of the shortcodes to generate the forum index?
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
It looks like your theme is displaying the forums with an archive view instead of using bbP’s forum view.
I am a relative novice, so forgive me if this is posted in the wrong place. I searched and didn’t see an appropriate topic.
On my bbPress Forum page, I have used shortcodes as follows:
[bbp-login]
[bbp-register]
bbp-lost-pass]
[bbp-topic-index]
The topic index overlays other text on the page, specifically, “Viewing 2 topics – 1 through 2 of 2.”
The url is http://bulimiatips.org/forum-2/ if you wish to see what I am talking about.
Can anyone suggest what the problem might be and how to fix it?
Thanks.
Yup, I’m not logged in.
What are the other short codes?
I got a little more info from the theme (Sofa OPNPress from ThemeForest) owner… these are his words exactly:
“Yeap, I’m afraid breadcrumbs will not work with BBpress. And I think there’s no function or a plugin that will actually do the job properly. This theme is using Dimox breadcrumbs function (see http://sum.mx/4apyd2). Maybe you could ask for author advice on that subject… as far as I can see all the breadcrumbs logic relies on if-else clauses and if there’s a clause that can be used to “detect” BBpress – you are on the horse.”
To answer your question, and I’m sure I’m over simplifying, I guess I was just going to use short codes to get the forums to show up and then rely on the built in breadcrumbs to do their job. But if I could figure out at least what is causing the conflict and causing the page to break the I could fix that and if 2 breadcrumbs were show I’d settle for that. Or, said a different way, if the main site breadcrumbs are more important to me than the forum breadcrumbs if that makes sense.
I’m more of a frontend coder with the ability to do minor tweaking to existing function files which is why I’ve gotten to this point. It’s a bit over my head on how best to address it. I hate being the unique scenario guy but would love to use bbpress for facilitating my community interaction. Any more help is deeply appreciated.
Thanks!!
Ah! that makes sense. Yeah, I wouldn’t want everyone to have the ability to post a shortcode. But the challenge sounds easy enough.
Thanks!
I have them turned off for now, as many shortcodes assume the post author has the trusted ability to post content, which for forums might not be best.
It would be a rather simple plugin to create, although you’d probably want some kind of UI to map shortcodes to user roles. You may not want every registered user to post a poll, but you might want to allow users to use code formatting, for example.
Does the bbPress plugin (2.0-RC-4) allow shortcodes from other plugins?
I wish to enter a poll into a discussion using wp-polls, but the shortcode comes through instead of the poll.
http://skullclan.com/topic/features-poll/
Thanks!
Good question. The main reason it loads all the time is shortcodes. bbPress doesn’t have any way to know that the_content contains a shortcode when the head of the page is being processed, so including it all the time is the safest bet for most people.
If you want to dial in your installation, you can wrap the CSS enqueue in a is_bbpress() check. is_bbpress() returns true when WordPress is loading up a bbPress specific page.
I created a page with the permalink http://montecristoowners.com/register/ with the following content…
[bbp-register]
… but it just sends the user to my homepage.
My other shortcodes work fine…
Login page: (http://montecristoowners.com/login/
Lost Password page (http://montecristoowners.com/lost-password/)
Question: I installed BuddyPress so that I could get some more control over my forums. Is that why the shortcode doesn’t work for Register anymore? If that is not the reason, then why isn’t it working?
Personally, I disabled the Forums functionality within BudddyPress, and let bbpress use the Forums slug. Then I created a blank page called Forums within the plugin “Page Links To” that redirects to the Forums slug.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/
Or you could simply use the bbpress shortcodes on the page.
Hello everyone and good morning.
Has anyone been able to get bbpress to with the hybrid theme?
On the Hybrid Forum were discussing BBpress and how I could not get it to work on the Hybrid Theme, when one of the members said it worked on his without having to go the custom route. This is what he stated:
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‘ “All you have to do to get bbPress active on a Hybrid theme is activate bbPress 2.0 via the plugin repository, then create new page called forum or whatnot via the normal page editor. In the editor, just enter a couple of shortcodes, similar to this:
[bbp-forum-index]
some content to separate forums
[bbp-topic-index]
This will show your main forums and also a recent topics list. You can also use other shortcodes built in to bbPress for different functionality.
The only thing I had to change was the overall table width of the forum, which easy enough to target with the Chrome web developer tools.”
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I unfortunately was not able to get this to work.
I am just curious if anyone has been able to get bbpress to work on the Hybrid Theme without any customization. I am a video editor and motion graphics artist, so coding is not my forte.
Thank you for any help.
