[ratsoid2]

Hello guys,

Well, after seeing that the final 2.0 is short to come, I took mathers into my own hands so I started working hard on a theme. With this thread, I am willing to share my knowledge. All I ask is to not waste my time by asking questions that are already answered in these threads:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

So, the site I am referring to is http://futezatorii.ro/ and if you happen to be romanian, LUCKY YOU! If not, Google Translate will help you and so will I because I am better than Google.

Ok, first off, by clicking on the red button on top (Cont Nou), you will see a beautiful register page. This was done using Register Plus and Lightbox Plus, so having said that… it’s a plus. Also the login form and forgotton my password form are all in there. Did I mention they use BBPress Shortcodes? Well, they do.

By navigating to the forum ( http://futezatorii.ro/forum/ ) you will see a custom logo for the forum. This was done using conditional tags. Also you will see a different kind of front forums because I thought that if I was going to start a new forum, I mind as well make it NEW! so you don’t see any Freshness and Last Poster. This is an old format and I think it sucks. It may be one of the many reasons that forums are not doing so good in these times. Also, you can see the last replies in the widget.

Going forward at the topics page ( http://futezatorii.ro/subiect/meme/ ) you can see that the New Topic button (Topic Nou) has a nice sliding effect. Basic jQuery shit, but it looks nice. I figured that having the whole new topic form there is just bleh. The same idea is applied to the “new reply form”.

On the topics view, there’s nothing much there, but I will say this: I removed the tags (why the hell would someone use tags on a topic? Why complicate a thing so much?) and I also disabled adding favorite topics. The forum is fresh and I didn’t thought it was a good idea. Maybe in the future I will look it up again.

ONWARDS TO THE PROFILE PAGE!

My profile is here: http://futezatorii.ro/cont/rats/

You can see that there are a couple of buttons there… well, I added some new fields with Register Plus and called them in user-details. Thus, if someone adds their G+/fb/tw/yt/www link, a nice button will appear. I thought that having a profile with only the “Created topics” and “Subscribed topics” is boring. Having said that, the “Created topics” and “Subscribed topics” has the same sliding effect as the “New Topic/New Reply” form. Kind of buggy now, but I’m lazy. (* – on the bottom of this post I will like to add something about this particular page).

Now the profile edit page, that you can see in this screenshot (and only in this screenshot because you are evil): http://i.imm.io/7JFn.png you can see the custom fields I was talking about and the upload avatar thingie. Yes, I got that. I used the User Avatar plugin for WP and it works awesome.

So that’s basically it (but believed me, I worked for weeks for this forum to be as it is now), but I am looking forward for a few things also:

– as soon as this is resolved: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/20rc1-loop-authorphp the commenters links will link to their profile (if they have one, if they don’t, tough luck) and (*) it would be great if there would only be a page for an user’s profile.

– a proper BB Code plugin

– fiuguring a way to connect some of the plugins with bbpress like: Pure CSS Emoticons, Lighbox Plus (and I think that’s about it)

– A SEARCH BOX! Please JJJ, I really need this. I know you are wondering how to implement it, and the answer is simple: make the WP Search Box just search in the forums. Why? Because the blog and the forums are two seperate entitites. If I wish to search for a street, I usee google maps and not google images. Those two shouldn’t be mixed!

If you need any tips and if I can help in any way, I will surely do so. I did not made this thread to spam or something like that (the site is in romanian, so yeah).

Sorry for any typos, any non-sense – english isn’t my native language and I’m in a rush.

P.S. There should be a preview button because I AM NOT SCROLLING UP TO SEE ANY MISTAKES.

[Chloe.Flanery]

Ok so I think I have this worked out. I copied everything out of the “bbp-twentyten” folder except functions.php. I then put these files inside my child theme folder. Then I copied everything from the functions.php within “bbp-twentyten” and pasted it into my child themes functions.php. The final step was to add theme support by placing add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ ); inside my child themes functions.php. This appears to be working because the forum is now pulling styling from the bbpress.css file inside my child theme. Now to try to edit some page templates.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@Jordi

You are using the bbPress plugin and not the standalone version.

Themes for standalone version aren’t compatible with the plugin one.

What you need is some CSS fixes because the forums are already under your WordPress theme.

[Chloe.Flanery]

Thanks. Honestly, im not even sure the 2010 theme is loading. It seems the forum is using my wp theme css rather than the default css. Ive tried copying the CSS from the bbp-twentyten into my themes style.css and still no luck. The forum is basically a blank slate right now.

[hlwinkler]

Thank you John, I installed branch and it now excludes subscribers from posting in a closed topic.

BTW, every time I install a new version I need to change the permissions on bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/css/bbpress.css from 600 to 644 after FTPing it up or I have no styles in my forum, maybe a bug or maybe my FTP client but I don’t usually have issues with permissions after uploading.

[pimarts]

CSS is your friend

[benniebob]

Ah, thank you.

I noticed that there is no “register” section. Perhaps that is a CSS issue?

Also, when I typed in the domain/forums/register.php, it gives me a 404 not found error.

Could that be css? Do I need the genesis connect plugin?

[pimarts]

I run a combination of bbPress & Buddypress and this worked for me, I did put the following code in functions.php:

function disable_all_widgets( $sidebars_widgets ) {

if (is_bbpress()) {

$sidebars_widgets = array(false);

remove_all_actions('bp_register_widgets');

unregister_sidebar( 'bp_core_widgets' );

}

return $sidebars_widgets;

}

add_filter( ‘sidebars_widgets’, ‘disable_all_widgets’, 1, 1);

This removed all widgets aside from the user login, but that’s quite handy to be present at the forum pages. I put that on top of the forums with CSS.

[UG-Ltd.de]

I have a German webseite powered with WordPress (formerly with Redaxo).

Now I tested the new bbPress plugin, but problems with languages, further bbPress plugins… nice try, but better would be a separate installation of bbPress with integration.

So I adapted my tmeplate, use the css files from WP and integrated ist in the navigation.

The forum is at http://www.ug-ltd.de/service/forum.html

Also I changed some permalinks, date functions and so on.

[John James Jacoby]

@Carsten.M – You need to use the numeric ID of the forum. I realize this isn’t the easiest for everyone, but it’s the easiest and fastest way to develop it for now. In the future we’ll open this up to other things and build a UI for it all.

@Nate – I updated the instructions at the top with more details. Give them another go. All you need to do is copy the contents of bbp-twentyten into your theme, and merge the style.css and functions.php files together so they fit what you need – this I can’t help with because it involves code only you probably know.

[Nate]

I’m having an issue and not understanding how to fix it is driving me bonkers. I’ve followed the steps above but let me explain how I did it.

Once the plugin was installed I copied the bbp-twentyten folder from the plugin directory;

C:xampphtdocsempt-wpwp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentyten

and put it into my main themes directory and renamed it to bbp-empt.

C:xampphtdocsempt-wpwp-contentthemescostbbp-empt

I opened the bbp-empt style.css and changed the Template name to;

Template: cost

and added an import for the css.

I have every file in the “bbp-empt” folder than was in the original “bbp-twentyten” folder plus files like archive.php, page.php and single.php from my “cost” folder.

I’m confused as to how I get the forums to use the template files in “bbp-empt” and not the files in the “cost” main directory. Which is what is happening right now.

Small update

After some experimenting I changed the bbp-empt folder style.css in the plugins folder to say cost in the template name and changed other details. Noticed the change in the Appearance menu so I clicked to activate the template and now I’m using a child theme of my main theme with the bbpress using the bbp-empt files.

So now I’m honestly just confused, if this works whats the point of moving it to your main themes directory?

[CrownOfMars]

I’m wanting to change the default page.php being used. I found this earlier on in this thread.

add_filter( ‘bbp_template_include’, ‘foo’ );

function foo( $file ) { return ‘page-forums.php’; }

This is no longer working. It worked perfectly on a previous site but not this current one. I get the following error:

Warning: include(page-forums.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:Program Filesxampphtdocsspawp-includestemplate-loader.php on line 43

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘page-forums.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.;C:Program FilesxamppphpPEAR’) in C:Program Filesxampphtdocsspawp-includestemplate-loader.php on line 43

The page-forums.php file does exist so that’s not the problem. Any ideas?

[Steve]

Someone delete “wealthmass” looks like a load of spam

@anointed here is the link to the CSS file thats currently in use

http://www.streetphire.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/themes/funki/style.css

there is also

http://www.streetphire.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/themes/funki/themify/css/shortcodes.css

http://www.streetphire.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/themes/funki/media-queries.css

and the BBPress one

http://www.streetphire.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/css/bbpress.css?ver=3.1.3

Cheers

Steve

[Anointed]

It’s just a simple css issue. If you can provide a link then I can track it down

[Nate]

http://www.mandressed.com/forums

… a few details on adding function support would be welcomed.

[Anointed]

It is probably related to the theme you are using and the order in which the css files are called. If you can provide a link to the forum, I can take a quick peek and see the css load priorities.

It also depends upon whether you are simply using the template files within the plugin, or whether the theme you are using has all the bbPress template files loaded within your theme directory or not.

The way I did it on my site was to add the function support for bbPress into my custom theme’s functions.php file. I then copied all of the needed template and css files over from bbpress into my theme directory. There were a few other changes needed to do this, but once setup, I am able to edit the css files for bbPress within my theme directory. This means that I don’t have to worry much about upgrading bbPress and loosing any changes I have made.

Anyhow, a link to the forum would help a lot.

[Nate]

should all of the CSS be modifiable by editing the bbp-twenty ten/css file? the only reason i ask is because after playing (extensively) with the file, it still renders poorly; some elements (link color, font size, tables, forum listing etc) – regardless of how much i edit – remain unchanged.

i wonder if this is related to the customized theme that i purchased, or if i’m missing the obvious.

thanks

[zaerl]

File forum/bb-templates/blog_theme/style.css

Line 405 (rule .infobox) add: float: left;

Line 511 (rule #thread) add: float: left;

or something like that. Have a nice day.

[Anointed]

edit the buddypress.css file line 1218

table.forum {

margin: -9px 0 20px;

width: auto;

}

If you are using a child theme then it is better to make the change there, as every time buddypress is updated you will loose the rule above.

[Nate]

i’d like to add to this if possible, as i think i’m encountering the same problem as leemon. if my custom theme is doing a bit’o hijacking with the css, where would i find and disable this body class code?

[Anointed]

@Textdriven

Most likely it is just a matter of adjusting some css rules, as with the plugin you don’t actually assign page templates to the forums.

*I am assuming you are using the bbpress plugin

[Anointed]

@Textdriven

Most likely it is just a matter of adjusting some css rules, as with the plugin you don’t actually assign page templates to the forums.

*I am assuming you are using the bbpress plugin

[Nate]

thanks john. i followed the instructions, and edited the style.css in /wp-content/themes/bbpresslifestyle …

snippet:

* Theme Name: bbpresslifestyle

* Template: lifestyle

and activated the child theme via dashboard. the result is:

http://www.mandressed.com/?forum=mandressed-forum

and some of my page elements from the parent theme (not all) are no longer displaying. again, i wonder if it’s because of the theme’s custom framework.

or i’m really, really close…

(betting on the former).

meh.

thanks!

[Nate]

i hate asking for help with opensource (free) software, but i can’t seem to resolve this via the issues presented by others. which sucks, because that’s my normal course of action …

my problem: going to mandressed.com/forums results in just the display of my Home page. Choosing to ‘View’ a forum displays the following: mandressed.com/?forum=mandressed-forum

i’m using a wordpress theme developed by another provider (themefuse), and it involves their own framework. and i’ve followed john’s theme compatibility post by doing the following:

-copied all files from bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten into my theme folder (/wp-content/themes/lifestyle), including single-forum file, etc etc, and creating a /bbpress/ folder within it for the single bbpress css, respective js file, etc.

-i am admittedly confused by the ‘modify your style.css to make it a custom child theme of whatever your current theme is.’

maybe that’s the dilemma.

if i’m missing the obvious or you guys can’t respond, that’s cool. normally i have a lightbulb moment and resolve it in time. just asking for some direction.

thanks,

nate

[Anointed]

@mhjerde99 Can I make a suggestion on the template?

Add the following to your woothemes custom.css file in order to get full width forums. I saw your post over there, but didn’t really have time to answer your questions as I am also very busy building a custom woo theme.

#content table.bbp-topics, #content table.bbp-forums, #content table.bbp-replies, #container table.bbp-topics, #container table.bbp-forums, #container table.bbp-replies, #main table.bbp-topics, #main table.bbp-forums, #main table.bbp-replies {

width: 100% !important;

}