[PaulieP]

Hi everyone. I’ve seen this come up a lot after having googled these issues but didnt find a consistent answer (e.g. some were from like 2009-2010 dealing with older versions.

I’ve tried numerous things and I still get the common messages at the bottom of this post when going to Appearance/Themes from WP admin.

1. This was a clean bbPress plugin install, latest version, done just a few days ago.

2. Immediately after install, I saw the messages below when clicking the Themes link. I had not moved/changed anything. Seems this comes up, strange that the default bbpress plugin install creates these two error messages by default?

3. I’ve tried copying the files/subfolders from the bbp-twentyten theme to the root directory of my custom theme and adding **add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );** (minus asterisks) to the functions.php of my custom theme. That got rid of the first error message, but the forum appearance was screwed up and definitely not correct, and the second error message about a Broken Theme was still there.

4. I did not overwrite the style.css in my custom WP theme folder when I copied the bbp-twentyten files over. I assume I DO need to copy that stylesheet somehow, but how do I do it without overwriting my WP theme’s stylesheet?

5. I do have key master and file/directory permissions are fine.

6. Copying bbp-twentyten to the my-templates subfolder within the bbpress plugin directory (and of course bbp-twentyten was 755 I checked) still yielded nothing, the two messages at the end of the post still appeared.

Sorry if this is are common issues. I’ve tried some of the suggestions I saw in past posts and they are not working. Any help appreciated. Thanks.

ERROR MESSAGES BELOW:

“Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.”

“Broken Themes

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

Name Description

bbPress (Twenty Ten) The parent theme is missing. Please install the “twentyten” parent theme.”

[lusitanoflickan]

I can’t get Human Test for bbPress to work on my site. I have uploaded the plugin and activated it, but I can’t see any change on the registration page. What is wrong? Is there any other good alternative to this plugin that I could try instead?

Thanks a lot!

[POS2012]

Ok, I tested now on the test-server.

Write my experience here for you who wonder yourself:

I have Wp lasest installed

I had installed and tested bbPress 2.1 the last week

I now installed BuddyPress as a plugin and did the installation without activating the forum.

Then did go back to the BP settings and activated site wide forums. Then voilá the forum was integrated part of BuddyPress.

Way to go!

I like

[rikvanderkroon]

I am having an issue with the width of posts in a topic.

The first post displays correctly, but all consecutive posts are all too narrow.

You can see how it goes wrong via this link:

http://waterstadtoren.nl/forums/topic/test-topic/

Can someone tell me where and how I should fix this?

I did a clean “install” to no avail, this problem seems to stem from the original unedited files.

[POS2012]

Is this a plugin I can test now, or “in the works”?

[POS2012]

Tested on WP lastest + bbPress 2.1

I can verify that the plugin mentioned above works.

[POS2012]

May be you can use this plugin (have not tested it myself):

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/peters-login-redirect/screenshots/

[POS2012]

It is the same as to register in WordPress.

http://yourdomain.com/wp-login.php?action=register

When registered in WP they can participate in the forum. At least my test forum works like that.

[POS2012]

Have you done anything else than installing bbPress 2.1?

Any configuration?

I have tried to paste YouTube original URL and the short embed URL, but none of those are working. I’ll do some more testing with turning off different plugins to see if that affects it.

Thanks for clearing it up

[brianrubin]

OMG YES PLEASE!

[Silversurfing]

I am having the same issue with Oxygen. You can see it here:

http://englishintirol.com/ESiT/full-width-test/

Tried the ‘.bbp-forums .hentry . . . ‘ as suggested above, tried playing with a variety of table settings, with no result. I’ve looked in Safari Web Inspector which suggests it could be in bbpress.css, tried playing around with bbpress.css as a result, also with no joy. Any help would be appreciated.

[Torsten Landsiedel]

Yes, I know. I wrote this is in my first post:

I see this on http://de.forums.wordpress.com and I know this is not the latest version running there.

Thank you for hoping with me …

[sagajagds]

Please test it. It’s new code with a new approach, so I’d like to get some fresh eyes on things right away to avoid a long beta period like 2.0 had.

[Sniper Kitten]

Is it possible to insert a search form in the forum header? I have tried to create it my theme’s searchform.php with these code :

<form id=”search” name=”searchform” method=”get”>

<input type=”search” id=”ts” name=”ts” title=”Search Topics” placeholder=”Search Topics” />

<button type=”submit” value=”search” id=”searchsubmit”>Search</button>

</form>

<form id=”search” name=”searchform” method=”get”>

<input type=”search” id=”rs” name=”rs” title=”Search Replies” placeholder=”Replies” />

<button type=”submit” value=”search” id=”searchsubmit”>Search</button>

</form>

The first one search for topics when in a specific forum (e.g. http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/forum/test)

The second one search for replies when in a specific topic (e.g. http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/topic/this-is-a-test)

The problem is, I just want the first one to appear in “/forums/forum/test” and the second one in “/forums/topic/this-is-a-test”. Where should I insert those codes?

Or do anyone here have a better idea to make a search form? I tried to make a bbpress search-by-categories page but I’m kinda stuck.

[Jaja..]

Probably everything what you asked for can be done, but you need PHP skills and change the template files.

I don’t know about the online status, you probably need JavaScript for that.

I have none PHP skills so i have been looking around and testing Vanilla yesterday. From what i’ve been seeing at the start it looks very good. Not yet changed some template files so i can’t tell how easy that will be but i really like the features they have by default.

And if your community will get going you can always upgrade to the paid version and get the Badges Feature! Thats the coolest thing i’ve ever seen inside a communty.

http://vanillaforums.com/blog/news/introducing-vanilla-reactions-and-badges/

It will help your community grow faster for sure.

Everybody likes the get Awards.

[POS2012]

Hi, I am going to convert from Kunena to a WP based forum. Simple:press and bbPress are the 2 finalists.

The thing I absolutely love about bbPress is the loading time. Sooo much qucker than SP on my test server. That is a VPS. Actually Kunena is quicker loading than SP. That is when I have 1000 posts in Kunena, and only 10 in SP.

But bbPress has almost half the loading time than SP.

But there is something Iack in bbPress:

In the “Forums” layout:

– It currently says: Total topics, total posts and last refreshed for each forum

– Can I also show “Last post title” by “Author” ?

– Is it possible to show an excerpt of the last reply?

In the “Topics” layout:

– It currently says: Total topics, total posts and last refreshed for each forum

– Can I also show “Last post title” by “Author” ?

– Is it possible to show an excerpt of the last reply?

In the “Topic view” (thread):

– Can I somehow get the number of posts per user? (same place where the IP adress shows when I am logged in as admin)

You see : I like to know how many posts a user has made. That tells me of how active they are or not.

I would also like to see:

– Member Since: (date)

– Online status

PS: I have been testing bbPress 2.0.2, and have now installed 2.1 and find that even better

[jmessick]

Same problem. I actually have 2.-02 working on a test site but when I activate the plugin on my live site the page just shows the “white screen of death” until I deactivate the plugin. Fortunately I still had the dashboard open in another tab so had to problem turning it off.

[POS2012]

I have installed the latest 2.0 WP plugin, and there the feed shows a little different.

I found this code in the bbp-topic-functions.php:

(line 2994)

/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-topic-functions.php

<title><?php bloginfo_rss( ‘name’ ); ?> » <?php _e( ‘All Topics’, ‘bbpress’ ); ?></title>

If you alter that you could probably get the RSS title to say whatever you’d like.

I also found this:

/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-reply-functions.php

line 1372

<title><?php bloginfo_rss(‘name’); echo $title; ?></title>

I have ony 2 days of experience with bbPress, but this might help you…?

[Torsten Landsiedel]

The topic title in bbpress rss feeds is “(author) on (title)” which is really bad, because I can’t sort on title anymore. This is sort by author, because the author is the first string in the title.

And it is redundant, because there is a author field which I can see in my feed reader.

Maybe you can change this to “(title) – (author)” (or similar) …

I see this on http://de.forums.wordpress.com and I know this is not the latest version running there. So if this is changed in the latest version, just tell me!

Thanks in Advance!

Kind regards

Torsten / zodiac1978

(Moderator German support forums WP.com)

[Jaja..]

@Jaredatch,

What’s the best and worst difference between the two, Vanilla VS bbPress.

I have been testing and building bbPress a few times locally but it has never gave me that final push to go live with it, I just don’t trust it..

Every website i make i pick WP as my default CMS because i truly 300% believe in the product it has made my life so much easier. While 3 maybe 4 years ago i was always scared of the word CMS i loved Static content and doing lots of work.

bbPress never gave me that final push of confidence that it could be the Tool you need.

Example, i help solving a lot of questions on the Dutch WordPress forums and all new users i can tell what the power of WP is and all it’s Easy to Use features like the Menu system (my fav.) but when somebody asks me if i know a good forums software i always end up saying bbPress BUT i don’t know if it’s for everybody.

There is still that level of difference. While a user don’t understand why. a plugin = a plugin they can activate and it should work.

[trissietris]

Hi, im using the latest version of buddypress+bbpress.

I installed sitewide forums.

Used the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] on http://portal.thedrughouse.eu/forum/

It works, but after you click on a sections you cant do anything anymore. cant start a topic, it just puts the description in the page

[BobHatcher]

Any updates on the status of 2.1? The way it deals with theme compatibility is great.

I installed the 2.1 beta on a test site using harnold007’s directions (I wish he’d tell us what the modifications were in steps 3 and 5!)

When I tried to change themes, or even to deactivate 2.1 I got this error. Anyone know how to fix it?

Fatal error: Class ‘BBP_Theme_Compat’ not found in /homepages/6/d396770293/htdocs/Clean_Test/wp-content/themes/bbp-twentyten/functions.php on line 32

[kriskl]

Hi,

I am testing bbpress 2.1 plugin, and topic tags seems to be an unnecessary feature,

How to disable / remove it completely? (tags are so out of fashion these days)

It would be nice if in the future version there was a tick box in forum settings to turn it off

[paulychilds]

Hi – I have a wordpress blog (installed on my own mySQL Database/webspace) and have added bbPress as it seemed the best forum plug in I could find. I am using the theme Graphene. These are all the latest version as of 19/04/12.

I have created a blank page called Forum which, when the menu item is clicked, forwards to the bbPress forum main page and which appears on the top menu, along with Home and Blog.

Here is where things get difficult…

I would like for the ‘Forum’ menu item (page_item_419) to be highlighted when I am in the bbPress Forum but currently, when I am in the Forums it is the ‘Blog’ menu item (page_item_146) which is highlighted.

Any idea what I need to do? I am not a great deal of coding experience so go easy on me

Many thanks

PC

[mtp1032]

I forgot to mention that I’m using the latest stable release of bbPress, version 2.0.2.