[LeafyGrove]

While adjusting the topics/reply color for my site, I seem to run into a bit of a snag with trying to change the admin links coloring. I’m using Catch Evolution for a theme and as such there is a area in options to put custom css code. This is what I have thus far:
” #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header, #bbpress-forums a.bbp-admin-links { color: #404040; }
”
I do plan on having admin links a different color, I just tossed it in there to test to make sure it’s correct/changes.

[tatort]

Hi,

i dident find a new version of BBpress Standalone. So i install WordPress an add BBPress via Plugin.
First my URL look like these:
Forum-Root = http://forum.domain.de/forums/forum/
Forum-Forums = http://forum.domain.de/forums/forum/test1/
Forum-Tropic = http://forum.domain.de/forums/topic/ins-herz-zuerst/
;-(
But after deaktivate (Prefix all forum content with the Forum Root slug (Recommended))
it lock like
Forum-Root = http://forum.domain.de/forum/
Forum-Forums = http://forum.domain.de/forum/test1/
Forum-Tropic = http://forum.domain.de/topic/ins-herz-zuerst/

This look better but i dident want to use WP as CMS oder Blog. I only want a root install.
Look like
Forum-Root = http://forum.domain.de/
Forum-Forums = http://forum.domain.de/test1/
Forum-Tropic = http://forum.domain.de/topic/ins-herz-zuerst/
is there a way to do that?

[Robkk]

@robin-w i couldnt get the if ( bbp_is_topic function working

i wanted to test out if i could do this , took code from this

<div class="dropdown" id="dropdown">
				<input type="checkbox" id="drop1" />
        <label for="drop1" class="dropdown_button">Topic Tools</label>
        <ul class="dropdown_content">
            <li class="active"></li>
              <li> <?php echo bbp_get_reply_to_link(); ?></li>
              <li><?php if ( bbp_is_topic( $r['id'] ) ) {
echo bbp_get_topic_reply_link(); ?></li>
              <li><?php if ( bbp_is_topic( $r['id'] ) ) {
return bbp_get_topic_reply_link(); ?></li>
        </ul>
        
    </div>

then make a dropdown menu from that i guess , but im just swinging the dark not really getting a exactly great way of doing what i want to achieve.

plus i might have to go to a jquery menu template like this

because the css menus arent working on all replies.

[ninjaunmatched]

I know it does cascade but if you are not familiar with writting the code to STYLE over attribiutes you can go looking for lines that alter font sizes. One way you could try is to get Notepad++. This text editer is just the greatest. Never edit code without it or something like it. You can use it to search for code. In this case I would try to search for “font-size:” within the CSS file being referred to in this thread. It will find every line where the font-size is being changed.

Trying it now it finds 28 hits in the bbpress.css file I have in one of my sites. This I think will get you started. May not be the best way though. Just looking at the hits I can see some of the IDs or Classes also have a SPAN tag in them. Whichs tell me that the default span font settings would also have to be changed.

I’m not sure where your HTML knowledge is but the SPAN tag when used is like a commenting or caption section (sort of) for text and it tends to be in a smaller font.

for example:

While jumping around the hits I see this:

li.bbp-header div.bbp-topic-content span#subscription-toggle,
li.bbp-header div.bbp-topic-content span#favorite-toggle,
li.bbp-header div.bbp-reply-content span#subscription-toggle,
li.bbp-header div.bbp-reply-content span#favorite-toggle {
float: right;

You may be able to get the look you want by just changing any

font-size:

entry you find but if things or some things still look too small for you then that span tag may be what you need to change to get it the way you want.

Now I’m still just maybe a intermediate in my kowledge of things. I know what I was taught by learning myself and having taken Wed Design and Development I and II at a local college. But I am no developer. So I can read through css and understand what is going on. But because of the cascading way of CSS you can make changes that will not stick due to a higher level attribute being set so you have to play detective which wastes alot of time.

I do agree though as the responses are too vague. Looking for the same answer I find this thread and so I am sharing what I have done so far to figure this one out. I did find something that mentions being able to use an IF statement on the themes main style sheet (CSS file) that will find all bbpress related entries and change whatever attribute you designate which in this case would be the font size. Now someone mentioned this in this thread without stating how which is close to pointless if the intention is to help you solve it. At least when you make the suggestion state it in a simple way so its understood by all. I ran into this code during my research on it but I am currently here. I will copy paste the code if I can find it again. By now I assume you found the answer but for anyone else that runs into this thread. (which by the way showed up on top of a google search in like its own special section).

[jamesamack]

Hi guys,

I was hoping you could help me out here, first up I’m working with BBPress V2.5.4.

I’m building a private members only forum and I’ve got everything up and running but every forum has the tag Private: in front of it. So when i end up opening things I end up with the page header as “Home › Forum › Private: Private: FORUM NAME TEST” for example.

Is there any way you can remove the Private bit? Without making everything public?

Sorry I can’t share the site but as it’s all hidden behind a membership section there isn’t anything to show.

Thanks in advance for the help

[Stephen Edgar]

So to be clear, you feel that if I were to implement a work around for ‘last active time’ or wait to install BBPress version 2.6 that I can confidently run BBPress on a forum that size?

Indeed, as you stated you need a fairly robust server though it sounds like you already have that. As bbPress 2.6 continues development I’d suggest you set yourself up a test install on your local PC and do some benchmarks and test the vBulletin importer as ~6.5 million posts will take a bit of time to import and familiarising yourself with how this works is worth knowing so you know what has to be done before you switch over your live site.

Is ‘last active time’ really the bottle neck? As I understood this issue, it had to do with bbPress sharing the DB table with the WordPress posts.

Yes, ‘last active time’ is the primary bottleneck as by default we sort topics based on the latest reply in a topic, though if a topic has no replies this is slotted in also.

The full technical details of this are here https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1925, it is not the easiest read and as there are two potential methods discussed. Primarily because of this ticket is why bbPress 2.6 is running late as there is a boat load of testing to be done to make sure we don’t break backwards compatibility.

Lastly, do you have a target date for v2.6?

3 weeks late 😉

[peter-hamilton]

Been busy making lots of updates on css, could use a few feedbacks to see if it is extremely slow or not friendly UI.

I made an useraccount to test if you like:

username: demo
password: deom

BBFacelook | Cultivators Forums

thanks in advance.
Peter Hamilton

[Sam Rohn]

the separate bbpress dynamic caps have been very frustrating for me, i had actually been able to rig something up as the OP described a few years ago with user role editor plugin, but it was broken by the caps change in 2.2 🙁

Roles and Capabilities in bbPress 2.2

an interface to set granular permissions per forum by user or user role for bbpress would be a HUGE boon, this is a core feature of all other forum software i am aware of

otherwise, here is an article on customizing bbpress dynamic caps, haven’t tried this one yet

http://gawainlynch.com/customising-dynamic-roles-in-bbpress-2-2/

i have seen robin’s new plugin too, might do almost what i need but i haven’t had a chance to test it yet, but ultimately my goal would be the ability to create different forums for different customized (custom code or URE etc) member roles which are auto-assigned by s2 member

sam

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress’ system requirements are the same as WordPress’ system requirements:

Requirements

https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/

PHP version 5.2.4 or greater – MySQL version 5.0 or greater

Using ‘Project Nami’ or whoever suggested it to you to use it I do not know, I would not recommend it and nor do the Microsoft Azure team recommend it.

You should use a MySQL database and that is also what Microsoft Azure recommend and have ‘one click install’ for Windows Azure, Microsoft work with the WordPress Core team to include compatibility with each release of WordPress for both Windows IIS installs and Azure installs.

The majority of bbPress ‘in theory’ should work with ‘Project Nami’ but there are specific parts of bbPress that never will, if WordPress Core supports MSSQL one day then we will update bbPress to also work with MSSQL, until that day though bbPress will only work 100% using MySQL.

Here is my Windows Azure bbPress test site and it is using MySQL
http://azure.netweb.com.au/forums/topic/this-is-bbpress-running-on-windows-azure-with-mysql/

You should look to backing up your site including files and database and then export your WordPress content and start again using MySQL.

Details on setting up WordPress with MySQL on Windows Azure are here:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-php-web-site-gallery/

[Michael Bryner]

/edit.php?post_type=topic

reset and still nothing changed.

they were on postname I put to default and back to postname, and nothing happened.

I tried it once before too. I wonder if all the browsers are just being slow in refreshing, but the only way to test it out if that is if someone goes to my site registers and tries to post in the forums. If they see something posted, then its my computer not the internet, browser, or server. For some reason my computer is not updating or something.

[Robin W]

long answer I’m afraid and in two parts

part 1 – setting the user permission to allow delete topic and delete reply

delete is easy, making it only trash is in part 2 !

Basically you’ll need to change a couple of capabilities of the participant role

see

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

you see the abilities delete topics and delete replies (as distinct from delete others topics and delete others replies)

Whilst you could amend the participant role, I haven’t documented that, so easiest is just for you to create a new role and give it the participant capabilities plus the ‘delete topics’ and ‘delete replies’. This article explains how

Custom Capabilities

add this code to your functions file – see

Functions files and child themes – explained !

part 2 – changing the function, so that delete is only shown for keymasters

This code will only allow a keymaster to permanently delete a topic

add the following to your functions file

add_filter ('bbp_get_topic_trash_link', 'topic_dont_delete');
add_filter ('bbp_get_reply_trash_link', 'reply_dont_delete');

function topic_dont_delete( $args = '') {

		// Parse arguments against default values
		$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
			'id'           => 0,
			'link_before'  => '',
			'link_after'   => '',
			'sep'          => ' | ',
			'trash_text'   => esc_html__( 'Trash',   'bbpress' ),
			'restore_text' => esc_html__( 'Restore', 'bbpress' ),
			'delete_text'  => esc_html__( 'Delete',  'bbpress' )
		), 'get_topic_trash_link' );

		$actions = array();
		$topic   = bbp_get_topic( bbp_get_topic_id( (int) $r['id'] ) );

		if ( empty( $topic ) || !current_user_can( 'delete_topic', $topic->ID ) ) {
			return;
		}

		if ( bbp_is_topic_trash( $topic->ID ) ) {
			$actions['untrash'] = '<a title="' . esc_attr__( 'Restore this item from the Trash', 'bbpress' ) . '" href="' . esc_url( wp_nonce_url( add_query_arg( array( 'action' => 'bbp_toggle_topic_trash', 'sub_action' => 'untrash', 'topic_id' => $topic->ID ) ), 'untrash-' . $topic->post_type . '_' . $topic->ID ) ) . '" class="bbp-topic-restore-link">' . $r['restore_text'] . '</a>';
		} elseif ( EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS ) {
			$actions['trash']   = '<a title="' . esc_attr__( 'Move this item to the Trash',      'bbpress' ) . '" href="' . esc_url( wp_nonce_url( add_query_arg( array( 'action' => 'bbp_toggle_topic_trash', 'sub_action' => 'trash',   'topic_id' => $topic->ID ) ), 'trash-'   . $topic->post_type . '_' . $topic->ID ) ) . '" class="bbp-topic-trash-link">'   . $r['trash_text']   . '</a>';
		}
		
		if ( bbp_is_topic_trash( $topic->ID ) || !EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS ) {
		if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster()) {
		$actions['delete']  = '<a title="' . esc_attr__( 'Delete this item permanently',     'bbpress' ) . '" href="' . esc_url( wp_nonce_url( add_query_arg( array( 'action' => 'bbp_toggle_topic_trash', 'sub_action' => 'delete',  'topic_id' => $topic->ID ) ), 'delete-'  . $topic->post_type . '_' . $topic->ID ) ) . '" onclick="return confirm(\'' . esc_js( __( 'Are you sure you want to delete that permanently?', 'bbpress' ) ) . '\' );" class="bbp-topic-delete-link">' . $r['delete_text'] . '</a>';
		}
		}

				// Process the admin links
		$retval = $r['link_before'] . implode( $r['sep'], $actions ) . $r['link_after'];

		return $retval ;
	}
	
	function reply_dont_delete( $args = '' ) {

		// Parse arguments against default values
		$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
			'id'           => 0,
			'link_before'  => '',
			'link_after'   => '',
			'sep'          => ' | ',
			'trash_text'   => esc_html__( 'Trash',   'bbpress' ),
			'restore_text' => esc_html__( 'Restore', 'bbpress' ),
			'delete_text'  => esc_html__( 'Delete',  'bbpress' )
		), 'get_reply_trash_link' );

		$actions = array();
		$reply   = bbp_get_reply( bbp_get_reply_id( (int) $r['id'] ) );

		if ( empty( $reply ) || !current_user_can( 'delete_reply', $reply->ID ) ) {
			return;
		}

		if ( bbp_is_reply_trash( $reply->ID ) ) {
			$actions['untrash'] = '<a title="' . esc_attr__( 'Restore this item from the Trash', 'bbpress' ) . '" href="' . esc_url( wp_nonce_url( add_query_arg( array( 'action' => 'bbp_toggle_reply_trash', 'sub_action' => 'untrash', 'reply_id' => $reply->ID ) ), 'untrash-' . $reply->post_type . '_' . $reply->ID ) ) . '" class="bbp-reply-restore-link">' . $r['restore_text'] . '</a>';
		} elseif ( EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS ) {
			$actions['trash']   = '<a title="' . esc_attr__( 'Move this item to the Trash',      'bbpress' ) . '" href="' . esc_url( wp_nonce_url( add_query_arg( array( 'action' => 'bbp_toggle_reply_trash', 'sub_action' => 'trash',   'reply_id' => $reply->ID ) ), 'trash-'   . $reply->post_type . '_' . $reply->ID ) ) . '" class="bbp-reply-trash-link">'   . $r['trash_text']   . '</a>';
		}

		if ( bbp_is_reply_trash( $reply->ID ) || !EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS ) {
		if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster()) {
		$actions['delete']  = '<a title="' . esc_attr__( 'Delete this item permanently',     'bbpress' ) . '" href="' . esc_url( wp_nonce_url( add_query_arg( array( 'action' => 'bbp_toggle_reply_trash', 'sub_action' => 'delete',  'reply_id' => $reply->ID ) ), 'delete-'  . $reply->post_type . '_' . $reply->ID ) ) . '" onclick="return confirm(\'' . esc_js( __( 'Are you sure you want to delete that permanently?', 'bbpress' ) ) . '\' );" class="bbp-reply-delete-link">' . $r['delete_text'] . '</a>';
		}
		}

		// Process the admin links
		$retval = $r['link_before'] . implode( $r['sep'], $actions ) . $r['link_after'];

		return $retval ;
	}

I haven’t fully tested this code as my test site is in some disarray whilst I test something else, so you’ll need to check that it works

[Michael Bryner]

I know you’ve done themes already, but you need to test if it works on a default theme with just twentyfourteen and the bbpress plugin. If it doesn’t then something in your site is screwed up 🙂

I just did that with twentyfourteen, because I don’t have twenty twelve on it, and this is what it says with under that just reply box and buttons with no content, just like avada theme, but avada does not even show the below text.

Your account has the ability to post unrestricted HTML content.

[Robin W]

did you install any other plugins in between?

try

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

I know you’ve done themes already, but you need to test if it works on a default theme with just twentyfourteen and the bbpress plugin. If it doesn’t then something in your site is screwed up 🙂

[thecatholicwoman]

Robin you are so my kind of person. I love that pep talk that you gave me and it is just what I needed. 🙂 Thanks.

I will play around with the color in the test area tonight.

[Robin W]

yes it was supposed to change the color to black.

You can change it to whatever color you want

see

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp

and maybe use

http://colorcop.net/

to find the right color

Please don’t stop – keep improving that is what you are supposed to do, you’ve come a long way – learned how to create a test site, add functions and styles, but it requires effort ! Learning firebug will help you tailor your site’s styling. Adding color cop will let you choose colors – please keep working at getting a site that is what you want. 🙂

‘ I am afraid to mess with these things like firebug. 🙂 ‘ – 1. that is what the test site is for, 2. conquering fear is part of life’s journey, and surely this is only a very petty fear – work through it !

I’ll come back on registration when I get a moment.

[feb992]

hello, I am using bbpress in my theme, I have diferents page themeplates, full-width, left-widget-colum…

when I load the bbpress forum in a page, i select the full-width, and it works fine, but, when click in a sub-forum, it load the default page themplate (“left-widget-colum”)

This is the link of the page wher the forum is:

Complete User Integration

This load in full width

and when I click in the subforum, it redirect to:
http://s454230239.mialojamiento.es/rideanddrift/?forum=test

And this width the widget bar

How can I modify this?

Thanks

[thecatholicwoman]

I now see what you mean. Also I got the font to change in both the test and live site.

About the title color I probably did not use the right term. I meant the latest topic title under the column latest post that also shows up on the sidebar under recent topics. It would be if I could change the color of both of these titles to be different that the date time stamp and user name if possible.

Thanks again

[Robin W]

No 2 did not seem to work on the test so i did not add it live. I added it to the bottom of the style.css so I am unsure if that is the issue.

No 2 changed the font colour and size of the forum list – look at ‘prayer requests’ in you test and live sites to see the difference.

What else do you want to change?

[thecatholicwoman]

One more thing Robin and I am only asking it now because I am not sure if it is easier to do it when changing the font type. I was wondering if it is possible to change the topic title color under latest post and for it to also show up in that color in the sidebar. I was just asking so that visually it does not look like all one item but it clear what the topic title is with one glance. Let me know. Thanks again.

[thecatholicwoman]

Robin I did both. No.1 worked both on my test and live. Fantastic outcome 🙂

No 2 did not seem to work on the test so i did not add it live. I added it to the bottom of the style.css so I am unsure if that is the issue.

[thecatholicwoman]

Robin,
Hearing someone as successful as you say that is very heartening and speaks well of your character. So often success leads to people thinking that there is nothing more to learn. It is the mark of true wisdom to know that exactly the opposite is true. I doubt that I can show anything to you but I think that the statement attests to your humility and that is even more impressive than your accomplishments. Also another true sign of character is willingness to help when there is nothing to gain for yourself. You have been helping me so selflessly out of pure desire to help and that is something that you do not see often in today’s world. Don’t ever lose these things because combined with your skill it will ensure that the sky is the limit for you.

p.s I also noticed your name ( now I know to look for name 🙂 ) on the private groups plugin I am using to provide restricted forums for women dealing with special issues to find support. Thanks for that one too.

I am working on these two tasks in my test site and will let you know once I implement them.

Per your questions.

Registration

user does this – Fills out form and chooses his/her own password
what user info you want- name, username, address, country, home parish (optional to display in the forum), hobbies (also optional)
emails goes from..to…saying – going to user thanking them for signing up for the forum and giving forum rules and online safety guidelines from noreply@thecatholicwoman.com
Site manager does that… I am not sure but if necessary approves of registration

etc. ie design your ideal process 🙂 not sure what is possible but would like the registration o look similar to registration at a regular social media site with the ability to rescind membership if need be. Hope that helps.

[Stephen Edgar]

Drupal v7 is supported, I have had a quick play with Drupal v8 alpha/beta but I have never looked at Drupal v6 so what the database tables look like I have no idea 🙁

Two options:

1) Can you copy your Drupal v6 database to a test server and upgrade it to Drupal v7?

2) We create a new Drupal v6 import tool

[Robin W]

@zdev1 – yes thanks, I’ve responded to you on my plugin page.

Any testing help you can give me to resolve would be appreciated !

Let me know if you can help !

[thecatholicwoman]

I am getting bluehost to restore my site which fixed things and I set up a test site. http://162.144.36.76/testing/ . That was some great advice. Talk about creating peace of mind???

[Robin W]

ok try

Deactivate bbpress tweaks
Dashboard>plugins>bbpress tweaks>deactivate

Go into widgets
Dashboard>appearance>widgets

And look at the bottom of the left hand side. You’ll see an “inactive sidebar”, with your entries on
Below this is an “inactive widgets”
Drag all the entries from the inactive sidebar to the inactive widgets area.
This then allows wordpress to delete the sidebar
I normally log out and in again at this stage – probably not needed, but I’ve never bothered to check
Then basically reverse the above
Re-enable bbpress tweaks
You see the bbpress sidebar returns
Drag the entries back from the inactive widgets area to the sidebar

As soon as you’ve got the site vaguely going again, you need to STOP !!!! YES STOP!!!!!!!!!!

Then take a breath, and create a test site – you cannot continue to develop your site in live, and you need a child theme. So you’ll need to read.

Functions files and child themes – explained !

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

Once you have a test site, you can change things there first and then when you are happy put it into live.