I’m trying to get bbpress to let me use a regular page on my site for the main forums page which I want to populate using the bbpress shortcodes. This is not hard to do, but the issue I’m stuck on is that once you go into the forums the breadcrumbs will only link back to the page with the “Forums” (or whatever you change it to in the settings)slug, and that page works like an archive page and wont let me write anything on it or use shortcodes etc.

I’ve wasted many hours already trying to figure this out, any help would be so much appreciated.

Thanks!

using latest updates of wordpress and bbpress

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 4 months ago]

Set the forums base slug to the same as your page slug and your custom WP page with shortcodes should take precedence.

[@garindan Participant 12 years, 4 months ago]

I have the same problem. The forums base slug is ‘forums’ as default and so is my page, but my custom WP page is not taking precedence. The bbpress one is, which is causing problems as I can’t set page options, sidebar etc etc. Any idea’s?

[@garindan Participant 12 years, 4 months ago]

I can either get the theme/wordpress to allow my page to take precedence, or change the bbpress breadcrumbs ‘root’ to point to my page instead of the bbpress base page.

Any idea’s how I can do that? Many thanks!

[@chuckingit Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

ditto here in how to tweak the breadcrumbs – e.g., add alt tags for hover; pre-pend the breadcrumb with new link (to the primary site on multisite network); change text from Home to something else (e.g., other page name) … accordingly, thanks in advance for any pointers that can be shared … cheers – chuck scott

[@sonjafoust Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

I’m having the same problem. Is there a fix for this yet?

[Garindan]

I found out how to change the breadcrumb url, alt and text myself. You can change the code in bbp-common-template.php (/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-common-template.php) on line 1889…

// Add the breadcrumb
        $crumbs[] = '<a href="/forums/">Forums</a>';

It’s just a normal link tag so you can name it and add alt tag as you wish 🙂

• This reply was modified 12 years, 3 months ago by Garindan.
• This reply was modified 12 years, 3 months ago by Garindan.

[@sonjafoust Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

Thanks– that worked! I’m worried that it will get over-written when I update the bbpress plugin, but I guess I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. 😉 http://pintester.com/forums2

[@garindan Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

Yes it would do, but it’s a simple change. I just keep a changelog of things i’ve changed so they can be restored on updates 🙂

[@nirzol Participant 11 years, 10 months ago]

I have the same problem. I have buddypress.
This file doesn’t exist anymore … :/

An other solution ?

[@garindan Participant 11 years, 10 months ago]

Its now in ‘wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template-tags.php’ on line 2026. bbPress of course not buddypress 🙂

[@nirzol Participant 11 years, 10 months ago]

Thx Garindan 😀 ! I do it like that for the moment. But is not good to modify core :/

Hope a nice solution will be find to that….

or a solution for shortcode work with the default page forums ?

thx

[@am71722 Participant 11 years, 4 months ago]

Has this been fixed yet? I would really like to not change my core files.

[@ristana Participant 11 years, 3 months ago]

Hi guys,

Has there been any other fix to this problem, as I don’t have direct access to our server I can’t modify core files either. Problem is same as above if the Forum root “forums” shares a name with a page it does not use the page settings but tries to display it like a blog layout. So if you click Forums in the breadcrumb it takes you to a blog archive type page instead of the index page it should. I am using latest version of wordpress 3.6.1, latest version of bbpress 2.4 and use Headway theme 3.5.5. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Link to site is http://thaimarket.co.za/forum/ Thanks

[@halydris Participant 11 years, 3 months ago]

I just found this and have the same problem with my page not taking precedence. Is there a ticket for this?

[@antonyc Participant 11 years, 2 months ago]

Me too 🙁 I’ve also come across this in several other threads with no satisfactory solution either!

[@strangechild Participant 11 years, 2 months ago]

I’m going to try garindan’s fix for now, but I’d also love an easier way to fix this. Seems silly that I can change the slugs in settings but nothing else matches it.

[@antonyc Participant 11 years, 2 months ago]

My theme designer has supplied me with two templates for my forum root/archive and this has resolved my problems. It’s because my theme wasn’t able to handle the recent change regarding buddyPress and bbPress.
Cheers, Antony

[@pekmez Participant 11 years, 2 months ago]

as garindan post, pls try this file to edit.

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template.php

Line 2249

change

// Add the breadcrumb
// $crumbs[] = '<a href="' . esc_url( $root_url ) . '">' . $r['root_text'] . '</a>';

to this

// Add the breadcrumb
// $crumbs[] = '<a href="' . esc_url( $root_url ) . '">' . $r['root_text'] . '</a>';
$crumbs[] = '<a href="/forum/">Forum</a>';

[@freewpress Participant 11 years, 2 months ago]

Is not good idea to change core code… And when bbpress is updated you lost all your modifies…

[@mosaicrob Participant 10 years, 11 months ago]

Thank you @pekmez!! That is a perfect fix.

Note, this code is now on line 2266.

Cheers

[@kmiwa Participant 10 years, 11 months ago]

I just registered with this forum just to say THANKS pekmez!

I confirm the change worked for me.

[@demonboy Participant 10 years, 7 months ago]

Can’t believe after almost two years this is still a fundamental problem.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

@demonboy as per other post

have you seen

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[@siteber Participant 10 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks, Robin, it helps alot

[@se7en1216 Participant 9 years, 11 months ago]

Robin, your link is very helpful, but doesn’t explain how to change the breadcrumb forum root link.

For instance, I want to leave the breadcrumb in place, but change the link from the root page to the new forum layout page.

Forum Root Page: /forum-root
New Forum Layout Page: /forums

Can this be done using the theme’s functions.php page?