[Robin W]

If you want forums as a list, then you need to change the following

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css

Line 120-122

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
	display: inline;
	font-size: 11px;

change to

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
	display: list-item;
	font-size: 11px;

This’ll then produce the vertical list

Now I expect to be told off for directly editing a plugin file, and if someone else knows how to get it to do the same with a themes functions.php or style.css, then I’d love to see how to do it.

You will need to make a note of this, as every bbpress plugin update will rub it out

[blessedtoes]

Hi people-
I am clueless on php and css, and frankly don’t even know if it’s a bbPress-theme conflict that is causing my problem. In other words, I don’t know who to ask for help – a WP expert or a php expert. Any direction or guidance would be DEEPLY appreciated.

I’m running bbPress in the OptimizePress theme (all versions the most current, including WP), and the forum homepage won’t show the parent and child forums as a list.

It looks like this:
http://thrivingdiabetics.com/forum-2/

and I was really hoping it would look like every other forum on Earth, where all forums (parent and child) are listed in a vertical column. Right now you can only see 3 of 20 forums on that landing page.

Any insight, direction, guidance, total solutions, encouragements to give up would be appreciated. I was hoping to launch my site this week but am stuck here. I know I can re-structure the forums so there are no parent/child relationships but I can’t believe there isn’t some simple issue/fix here.

Thanks in advance!
With gratitude,
Matthew

[DeysonOrtiz]

Hello and good day!

It seems I keep getting a missing css file when I do a speed check, this file is missing: wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/bbp-twentyten/css/bbpress.css?ver=2.4.1

This is my website that gets the above error, but the forum is working fine: http://motion-master-templates.com

Thank you for the time and please let me know what I can do to fix this. 🙂

[inspirationally]

I just installed my forum at http://mydomain.com/forums, which is the same as http://myseconddomain.com/forums – and used

1. the multidomain plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/multidomain/

2. templates and menus based on the domain you see – this includes a different index loop file and different custom menu.

This also works with subdomains.

Here the code of index.php:

<?php
/**
 * The main template file.
 *
 * This is the most generic template file in a WordPress theme
 * and one of the two required files for a theme (the other being style.css).
 * It is used to display a page when nothing more specific matches a query. 
 * E.g., it puts together the home page when no home.php file exists.
 * Learn more: https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Ten
 * @since Twenty Ten 1.0
 */

get_header(); ?>

<?php if ( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'mydomain.com' ) { ?>

			<?php
			/* Run the loop to output the posts.
			 * If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
			 * called loop-index.php and that will be used instead.
			 */

			 get_template_part( 'loop', 'index-mydomain' );
			?>
<?php } elseif ( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'myseconddomain.com' || $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'sub.mydomain.com'  ) { ?>

			<?php
			/* Run the loop to output the posts.
			 * If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
			 * called loop-index.php and that will be used instead.
			 */

			 get_template_part( 'loop', 'index-myseconddomain' );
			?>			
<?php } ?>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Then there is loop for the main site, and one for the forum including the forum overview.

In the header I have

<?php if ( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'mydomain.com ) { ?>
<?php wp_nav_menu( array('container_class' => 'menu','menu' => 'Mydomain.org' )); ?>
<?php } elseif ( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'myseconddomain.com' || $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'sub.mydomain.com'  ) { ?>
<?php wp_nav_menu( array('container_class' => 'menu','menu' => 'Myseconddomain.com' )); ?>
<?php } ?>

(the same for sidebar widgets etc.)

Of course you could work with special forum templates for the forum sites.

(real example see johnny-depp.org/deppheads.com)

I think, I will have to add some kind of rewrite to not have duplicate content in the future.

[ikidre]

I just migrated my legacy Buddypress forums to bbPress, and at first it seemed that everything was working great. Then I clicked on a topic and saw the notice info, and the reply form, but I presume that posts should be displaying in between. There’s nothing there in the code (so it’s not a CSS issue).

I created a brand new forum, a brand new topic, which you should be able to see here: http://atdp.berkeley.edu/forums/topic/test-topic-2/
There should be two posts (the topic post and a reply), but there’s nothing.

We use Buddypress groups, and the group forums have the same behavior. The forum and topic ULs look like they imported fine, but no posts appear when you click on a topic. So the symptoms persist for both pre- and post-migration forums, and for both group and site-wide forums.

I can see all topics and replies just fine in the backend and in the database, though it’s confused me that posts seem to be saved in the wp_posts table, not wp_bb_posts. I also can’t figure out where the new forum gets saved, because it’s not in wp_bb_forums, nor do new topics appear in wp_bb_topics. Anyway, they appear in Buddypress activity streams, and I can edit them in the backend, so it seems they’re just not making it to the page.

I’m using the theme Custom Community 1.17.3, and thought maybe that was the issue. Nope. Same exact behavior with Twenty Twelve and the default Buddypress theme.

I went through the standard toggling of plug-ins and saw no change.

WP version is 3.6.1, Buddypress 1.8.1, and bbPress 2.4. I updated to 2.4.1 in the hopes that that might fix something, but nope. I closely followed these instructions for migrating my data.

I’d love some troubleshooting ideas, because I’m about out!

[Halo Diehard]

Hello, I am once again seeing if I can switch over to bbPress, since WP-United does not play well with so many phpBB3 and WP social extras, and upon import I am only getting posts up to four months ago, with nothing for the last four months. Also, somehow the import process is switching some authors. I’m not sure if I should be importing the users or not (I think I’ve tried both), or what the best practice is since I already have a WP userbase of the same people who made the posts that I’m importing from phpBB3. In fact, because of WP-United, they are linked in some way.

Any help would be appreciated! I’ve been at it for a number of days. My WordPress version is 3.6.0 and my bbPress version is 2.4.

You may be surprised to see my bbPress forum: I’m currently altering the css to make it look like my phpBB3 one, using @Lynq’s bbPress starter theme and Daniel St. Jules’ CoDFaction phpBB3 theme.

Forums

[Center11Forward]

Hey, hopefully this is a simple fix.

I have identified a simple change I want to make to BBpress CSS:

div.bbp-breadcrumb {
float: left;
display:none;
}

I have disabled breadcrumbs globally on my site and also on the individual forum page but that did not work, so I went to try and change the BBpress CSS to achieve what I wanted.

Using any browsers inspect element feature, I can go into the CSS, enter the above alteration and it does exactly what I want…. herein lies the problem. I am using a custom theme (Jupiter) and general bbpress functionality is fine. However, entering the above CSS alteration into the themes stylesheets does nothing. So I tried to go a little further and I went directly to the BBpress CSS file and made the above alteration and saved…

Here is the strange thing, the BBpress CSS file has been altered correctly (I downloaded it to my desktop to confirm) but for some reason, the change is not being reflected on the forums on my site – When I inspect element, the alteration to the breadcrumbs is not being recognised and its as if it is continuing to load an old version of the CSS file. I have used various browsers, deleted my cache etc but nothing seems to work…

Any ideas?

[FreeWPress]

Hi, this is my solution:

<div class="bbp-forum-last-topic-name"><a href="<?php bbp_forum_last_topic_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php bbp_forum_last_topic_title(); ?>"><?php bbp_forum_last_topic_title(); ?></a></div>

Create a class in your bbpress css named bbp-forum-last-topic-name and give your personal style…

Put all code into <li class="bbp-forum-freshness"> </li>

[niuserre]

Uppercase is probably caused by CSS somewhere in your theme, look for

text-transform:uppercase;

and change it to

text-transform: none;

To hide the [0,0] I think you need to write a function to modify bbp_list_forums but check what classes are around it and maybe you can hide it with CSS.

[Angel Candelaria]

Hi @lomyn.

On the bbPress install package, there should be a file called bbpress.css (under bbpress/templates/default/css). Just extract that file from the package, add the code at the end of the file, and copy it to your theme’s css directory.

[palmakan]

Thank you freewpress.

I went to line 1089 of style.css in wp-content/themes/picochic

It had the follow in

#content {
float: left;
#max-width: 67%;
max-width: 68%;
#margin-left: 15px;

I added the width in to make it this.

#content {
float: left;
width:68%
#max-width: 67%;
max-width: 68%;
#margin-left: 15px;

Yet it is still the same in bbpress Forums page (when you click forums from my main menu)

Any other ideas?

[FreeWPress]

Open your style.css, go to line 1089 and write this:

#content {
    float: left;
    width: 68%;
}

[seamtv]

I have Genesis 2 and a responsive child theme. In my case, the forum index is working, but I, too, get this mysterious image thumbnail and cannot – for the life of me – figure out why it’s appearing. I looked at the code on the page and tracked down the image in my media library but have no idea where the instructions to display it on the page are coming from. If you ever figure it out, please let me know!
If it’s any help, the index appears to be using an ‘archive’ css of some kind. I am wondering if there was a setting at some time to have an image header that has since been deprecated in my theme but has resulted in errant code haunting me?

[Xevo]

CSS issues cant really be repaired if I cant see the website.

[BuckyOHare]

The problem is topics tend to be much longer than forum names or general pages on my wordpress site and need to be styled differently than a default .entry-title css. I imagine this could be done with a filter or by altering a core file of bbpress. I don’t know how to create a specific filter for this job though.

If I can’t do that then I’d like to be able to at least not display the topic title on the topic page but I can’t seem to differentiate .entry-title css from any bbpress specific page title attributes and end up just altering all wordpress page titles in the process.

[jason103]

I have installed bbPress forums into my Genesis/Dynamik Website Builder parent/child theme and it works nicely. However I have some confusion on how to alter the CSS of the bbPress forums.

The general site settings have a black background with white font used. The white font is displaying on the bbPress forum pages, but not the black background.

This will be a question for those who are familiar with Genesis/Dynamik Website Builder.
I have put the following code into the Genesis/Dynamik Custom CSS field but it still displays with the default light background colors in bbPress posts.

#bbpress-forums div.odd, #bbpress-forums ul.odd {
background-color: #222222;
}

#bbpress-forums div.even, #bbpress-forums ul.even {
background-color: #444444;
}

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jason Davis

[Fredriks]

I’m afraid that doesn’t work either. I think it would look better if it could get removed in the source and not hidden with CSS.

I asked the theme developer and he told me it is a core-function, nothing to do with the theme Im using. I have my developing site under the following URL http://dala.se/forum – where you could see the “Reply To”.

I have tracked it down to the following files:
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php
Row: 1789-1806

function bbp_topic_last_reply_title( $topic_id = 0 ) {
	echo bbp_get_topic_last_reply_title( $topic_id );
}
	/**
	 * Return the title of the last reply inside a topic
	 *
	 * @param int $topic_id Optional. Topic id
	 * @uses bbp_get_topic_id() To get the topic id
	 * @uses bbp_get_topic_last_reply_id() To get the topic last reply id
	 * @uses bbp_get_reply_title() To get the reply title
	 * @uses apply_filters() Calls 'bbp_get_topic_last_topic_title' with
	 *                        the reply title and topic id
	 * @return string Topic last reply title
	 */
	function bbp_get_topic_last_reply_title( $topic_id = 0 ) {
		$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_id );
		return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_topic_last_topic_title', bbp_get_reply_title( bbp_get_topic_last_reply_id( $topic_id ) ), $topic_id );
	}

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php
Row: 471-491

function bbp_reply_title( $reply_id = 0 ) {
	echo bbp_get_reply_title( $reply_id );
}

	/**
	 * Return the title of the reply
	 *
	 * @since bbPress (r2553)
	 *
	 * @param int $reply_id Optional. Reply id
	 * @uses bbp_get_reply_id() To get the reply id
	 * @uses get_the_title() To get the reply title
	 * @uses apply_filters() Calls 'bbp_get_reply_title' with the title and
	 *                        reply id
	 * @return string Title of reply
	 */
	function bbp_get_reply_title( $reply_id = 0 ) {
		$reply_id = bbp_get_reply_id( $reply_id );

		return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_reply_title', get_the_title( $reply_id ), $reply_id );
	}

But tracking it further just lead me to a WP core file and function:
/wp-includes/post-template.php
Row: 102

[FreeWPress]

Go in your css and find and add this display none!!

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

[jason103]

I want to style the bbpress colors, but I am not seeing my changes when I add custom CSS to my Genesis child theme (Dynamik Website Builder).

It is odd because I am using Firebug to isolate which parameters need to be changed, I can alter them within the firebug window and see them change to what I’d like to happen… then when I put that code in Genesis>Dynamik Custom>CSS (my child theme’s area to add to the CSS) it does not display.

Things like this have no effect:

#bbpress-forums div.odd, #bbpress-forums ul.odd {
    background-color: #222222;
}

#bbpress-forums div.even, #bbpress-forums ul.even {
    background-color: #444444;
}

Any advice?

[jchambo]

Greetings,

I’ve been on the hunt for weeks now, and there seems to be numerous threads out there for people who want to remove ONLY the Buddypress sidebars, to enable Full-Width Forums, Groups, Profiles, Members, and more pages.

However, nobody seems to have a concrete way of doing this. And if they figure it out, they don’t share it and the thread dies. I’m trying to remove the sidebars so I can get full width pages on JUST my Buddypress pages.

MY SITE INFO:
Theme: deTube (Themeforest)
URL: http://www.shredlounge.com

I’ve tried creating a child theme, creating buddypress.php from full-width-page-template.php, creating a style.css file in the child theme, etc. etc. Somewhere along the way i’ve goofed it up. So i’m searching for someone to help me do this from scratch. Please list them out in steps (1., 2., 3.) on what I should be doing.

Thank you so much in advance!

[CC-Cailin]

Hi, I want to edit the way the subforums on the homepage is displayed, so that it looks sort of like an ipb/phpbb forum. I have been able to edit the css and move the code around. But I want to know, is there a way to get the subforum’s description & freshness displayed on the homepage?

I’ve googled A LOT and seems like everyone is looking for this. I found this post, but the solution on there doesn’t seem to be working anymore…
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/customising-bbp_list_forums-last-poster-block/page/2/#post-137229

[joejozwowski]

I am using a modification of the Recent Activity widget for a horizontal display, rather than on a vertical sidebar. The only modification I have to it are scritly CSS based:

http://creepypastanetwork.com/

As you can see, the recent forum activity (under the main navigation) is not in the correct order from left being most recent to right being least recent of the five.

Any ideas as to why?

[PureLoneWolf]

Thanks – The CSS worked perfectly.

The view source on the subforum view is http://pastebin.com/YDU3fNqm

I always edit with notepad++, always have. In fact, the edits performed on the other site were done in the same way.

I keep thinking a plugin has caused this behaviour, but can’t track it down. As the issue exists on every theme that I upload to the site.

Ah well, it’s sorted now and I thank you very very much for your efforts and help. It is much appreciated 🙂

Thanks
Dave

[Kaliceos]

I went to clan.wolflan.com and your source code looks like some paragraphs were added by your editor as I see some <p> and </p> in weird places. What software did you use to edit loop-single-forum.php or your functions.php ?

I was not able to check because some of your forums are private, but what’s the html source code for the list of subforums ? (I mean in the browser) Is there a <br /> between the list of subforums ? Because, when I watch your screenshot, subforums are not separated by a comma, so I guess the function did his job, but your code may be broken because you used WordPress editor or an other editor that deleted the <br />.

Anyway, in your case, the simplest solution may be using some CSS. And as you said, simple stuff first ! You wouldn’t need to change any php template. You may try something like that in your style.css or Custom CSS if you use Jetpack :

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
  display: block;
}

If it works, I don’t know what was the problem with the bbp_list_forums() function, but you will not need to use it and you can delete the custom loop-single-forum.php that you copied to your theme’s directory if you had not made other edits.

[FreeWPress]

Go to bbpress.css and find:

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author img.avatar, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author img.avatar, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author img.avatar {
border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
}