[carasse64]

Hi Robin

I run a Buddypress site.

I have decided to add a bbpress forum to my buddypress site because it allows to sort, archive and retrieve easily threads. In fact, when a user posts a question in the “what’s new” text box in buddypress and when other users comment this post, the thread quickly diseappears under the newsfeed activity. So, it becomes impractical to retrieve this interesting thread later. That’s why I prefer to prevent the users from posting anything on the newsfeed page and to force them to create a forum topic to launch a discussion.

With a bbpress forum, the topics and the different forums allow to have a look easily on every topics created and it is very simple to search any type of topic with the search feature.

So, to get a perfect combination of Buddypress and Bbpress, I am trying to get the next features :

1. Disable the “Comment” button when a forum topic is displayed on the newsfeed = we can configure it in the buddypress general settings = OK.

2. I would like to allow the user to directly reply to the topic by clicking on the comment reply button (https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/25491233?key=5f722a0092c6fc6fb5d7e7dcbf3adce1). Actually, if he clicks on this button he just will be able to commment the activity. It would be great if by clicking he could reply to the topic.

The new link for the comment reply button would be the direct link to reply the topic : https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/25491342?key=6df01354ef860a0351170ced90f89800

3. Hide the “what’s new” text box at the top of the newsfeed page = I did it with css/display=none. I have created instead a “new topic” button in a widget (https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/25600135?key=a39ade63109934dbde5356a38eef49e5)

4. When a user creates a buddypress group, a forum should be automatically created with the same name as the group (the user can’t choose if he wants to create a forum or not). Is it possible to force that ?

5. When a user creates a new topic from a buddypress group forum, the “Create new topic” button (instead of the “what’s new” text box) should create a new topic directly in the group linked to the forum. Is it possible to force that ?

6. Once a new topic is created, when you push the “Submit” button, you should be linked to the newsfeed page to see how the topic you have just created is displayed on the newsfeed = I have already opened a new topic on bbpress forum for that 🙂

I hope you understand all what I mean with my poor english. I have contacted the theme’s author (BuddyX/Webcom design) but they answered they can not help me.

Do you think it is possible to configure such features ?

Thanks a lot.

Fabien

[DeepBlue]

bbPress will never die. It will only get better.

Thank you, everyone, again, for being patient and for your interest in bbPress. It’s a pretty cool piece of software with some of the best contributors and forum moderators around! I’m working on bbPress everyday, sometimes in my head, and sometimes on other projects that bbPress will inherit someday. It’s always on my mind, even if the commit log doesn’t show it. 💕

Beautiful words John James

Thank you a lot for your great commitment

I love bbPress too and i think there is one lacking feature : bbpress themes, other forum softwares have themes, and i can provide one theme myself, this bbpress official forum has a theme too, that would help newcomers and those without dev skills who cant customize bbpress, as we must admit at first install the output is not great, without a huge CSS work, so as my designers have spent almost one month working on bbpress design, i would be happy to provide a theme, and im sure others would too

or maybe i missed something and there is place where people can find bbpress themes ?

Have a great day

[Robin W]

it is theme related, but add this to the custom css part of your theme

#bbpress-forums {
	padding: 15px !important;
}

I can’t help with the subscribe, as that only shows to logged in users.

[DeepBlue]

Great Robin it works ! thanks 🙂

i will need to manually change html on the topics listings (forum) template, which file should i edit then ? (i want to rename “started by”, change the way freshness avatar is showing with html (not possible with css) etc

and therefore is there a way to manually add this date directly on that file ?

Thanks 🙂

[curlcomjl]

Hi @robin-w

I’m still a WP beginner and I’m not a native speaker (I use Google Translater, that doesn’t make it easier 😀 ) and I really need help. Sorry to write again on this topic, but unfortunately I didn’t fully understand the instructions.

I have exactly the same problem as most others.
I create a community with bbpress forum. For this I use Ocean WP Theme (I also tried Hello Theme because of your plugin, but unfortunately it didn’t work.) and Elementor (Unfortunately only the open source version, not Pro).

I can customize forum index page with Elementor exactly as I want with motion effect, borders, additional widgets…
When I click on a topic, bbpress uses the default theme without my Elementor editing.
I understand that bbpress creates a new page for each topic and only uses the default theme. How can I tell bbpress to use my Elementor template?

If I understood it correctly with FTP?
I’m having trouble finding my template in the files and I don’t know where to go for bbpress.

Or CSS?
Can I change the loading instruction for the template somewhere in the bbpress stylesheet? If yes, where?

I would be grateful for the help, I’m desperate.

[RalfM]

Hi,
I found that the bbpress index is not shown in a Divi page made with the theme builder. While the forums work fine, the index is not. I can insert the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] into the page, but then only the index is shown and nothing else.
After some writing back and forth with ET, I found that a not-given design shows the forum and the index as it should (besides a sidebar that CSS could delete), but the page – of course – is not in the design of the other pages.
Is there another way to implement the forum into a page design? Any ideas?
Every response is highly appreciated!
Best regards

[Robin W]

to hide

#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form label {
	display: none;
}

put this in the custom css of your theme or the custom css of my style pack

[Robin W]

Put this in the custom css part of your theme

#bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper h2.entry-title {
	display: none;
}

[Robin W]

put this in the custom css part of your theme

.bbp-forums-list {
	display: none;
}

[Robin W]

the forum is for members only, but it looks exactly like this, it basically goes all the way up to the top of the page, and writes over my page menu/header: https://gyazo.com/ac8e4ee8ca7d772124fac635e9342ea4

Your photo is appreciated, but it is the equivalent of sending me a photo of your car engine and asking me to tell you what’s wrong. It is probably some css that needs changing, but without being able to see what is being downloaded to a web browser I can’t help further – sorry.

[kodzaks1]

Hello,

I am having problem with search results page, it looks like this, it overlaps with my theme header: https://gyazo.com/ac8e4ee8ca7d772124fac635e9342ea4

Where can I modify the search results page?

Also, the forum style looks super dated, how can I make it o look like this: https://gyazo.com/1a26b445dd8db18ac64b0ad793602b4b

Does it have to be done through custom css only, are there any templates or ready to use css somewhere?

Thank you in advance!

[AdventureRidingNZ]

Thanks Robin.

After your comment on my other issue I pasted this code into the custom css part of my child theme and it worked when placed in there.
So I went back to my child theme and found a typo in an earlier entry which meant nothing after that was being picked up. Once that was fixed and the document version updated it picked up both these changes.

The child theme css is /themes/newsphere-child-theme/style.css?ver=1.0.2
and I’ve put “my child theme css ATTN Robin W” in it to make it findable.

So my forum-Author column is now wider as I had wanted thank you, but the forum-content area has not reduced correspondingly meaning the author section overlaps the content section and I can’t see a specific width designation for the forum-content area to update.

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-content, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content {
    margin-left: 130px;
    padding: 12px 12px 12px 0;
    text-align: left;
    position: relative;
}

[Robin W]

try this is the custom css part of your theme

#bbpress-forums div.wp-editor-container {
     line-height: inherit !important;
}

[AdventureRidingNZ]

The Author section seems to have a width of 115px and I’d like to widen that. I’ve tried using the below code which I pulled from a the inspect bar in Chrome and pasted into my child themes styles.css but it doesn’t work.

Can anybody help?

EddieB’s BMW R100GS

/* Make Forums author section wider */
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author {
    width: 140px !important;
}

[OSCOWP]

Hi guys!

I want to remove this part of my forum which appears on every single topic and I dont want to.

I just want to show just the name of the topic and the date so any ideas of removing that bit?

[regnalf]

I use the bbpress body class to design the forum (especially the background).
With the last update, however, the error may have slipped in that the “bbpress” body class is also included on other pages even if it is not a bbpress page! They are now also styled with CSS although they should not!

I also use the bbpress style pack and the private groups plugin. But the error occurs even if these two plugins are disabled.

[zandu]

Please share CSS to display full page

Membership

[SRD75]

Hi Folks,

Our BBpress forum author page (example) is not set within a container, it is 100% width.

Additionally, it is not using the Divi Theme builder global header and global footer, nor is it responding to Divi Theme Options > Custom CSS.

Help appreciated.
Steve

[a7xfanben]

How can I edit the background color of sticky threads in a forum? I cannot find the current/default color in my style.css file or anywhere else so far.

Thanks!

[dalton125]

I’ve been searching for a way to return the titles and links of every topic on my forum. I’m familiar with HTML and CSS, but a PHP novice, which I think is my downfall here.

I found a call to

<?php the_content();?>

which seems to be generating the big grey box with a list of all the topics (image link: https://imgur.com/a/fKamtGH)

However, I just want to return the topic titles and links to each topic, not the entire box. I can’t seem to find / write a PHP method that does this, does anyone have any advice?

[cosmiclove1978]

Hello Regnalf,

I’m happy to report that your fix worked. I had to apply the new class to all the previous CSS code, but it did the trick!!!

This is truly got the time to appreciate firsthand php notions such hook and filters, etc and see them at work. It was neat to be able to fine-tune the bbpress-index class vs bbpress and target one vs all parts of the site. I’m grateful.

Pushing my luck a bit further and modeling your code above and another post I saw elsewhere, I was hoping to get a bit more granular in the way I applied my css to parts of the forum, so I tried this bit of code below to target individual topic pages (or replies?)
but it didn’t work. If it’s not too much to ask, whenever it’s convenient for you or anyone, could you tell me if this code below somewhat does what you just provided me.

function my_topic_class($classes) {
	$classes[] = 'herman-topic-class';
	return $classes;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_class','my_topic_class' );

Nowhere, when viewing the topic page or thread did I see the new class ‘herman-topic-class’ in the Inspect Element utility. With your code, the bbpress and bbpress-index appeared.
thanks in advance for all the support.

H

[regnalf]

I don’t know how you excactly you want to style the forum index page, but i found out that the index page doesn’t have the bbpress class included in the body tag like the sub pages. So i had the problem too that i couldn’t style the index page.

Here is my code i use to add this class, and others, to the body tag for the index page. Then you can style the index page with css.

add_filter( 'body_class', 'bbpress_add_body_class' );
function bbpress_add_body_class( $classes )
{

	global $wp;

	$bbpress_index = get_option ('_bbp_root_slug');
	$bbpress_search = get_option ('_bbp_search_slug');
	

	if (strpos($wp->request, $bbpress_index) !== false)
	{
		$classes[] = "bbpress";		
	}

	if ($wp->request == $bbpress_index)
	{
		$classes[] = "bbpress-index";
	}

	if (strpos($wp->request, $bbpress_index . "/" . $bbpress_search) !== false)
	{
		$classes[] = "bbpress-search";		
	}
	

	return $classes;
	
}

[cosmiclove1978]

Hello,

I don’t know if anyone here was able to resolve their issue, but mine is quite similar to the OP.

Scenario: Created a forum with the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] on page with having slug /custom_forum to output index page. Used css to style the page (no theme builder).. In the forum settings, the root is set to /forums. When visiting /custom_forum, all the style appears great.

However, if I head to Settings–> Forums to change the root from /forums to /custom_forum (where my shortcode is placed), I lose all the styling.

I reset the permalinks as suggested above to no avail. I know it’s been over 7 years this has been reported and I hope anyone out who’s found a solution can assist me. Thanks in advance for your support.

[regnalf]

I want to style the breadcrumbs because the forum page has a darker blue color. But the breadcrumbs have a very limited possibility to design them with CSS.

Only the bbp-breadcrumb-root and bbp-breadcrumb-forum link is addressable with css, the current menu item is no link and has no css class to address at all. This would be only possible with the parrent container, but then you style the forum content also!

It would already help if the breadcrumb would be in its own div container!

[regnalf]

I wanted to style the body tag too, in the subpages like topic or forum the css class is in the body class section. the #bbpress-forums is deeper inside the page.