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Im trying plan our forum layout. I have purchased the Support Desk theme from Hero Themes, but I want to change some things to the forum. Most importantly i want to choose topics in a left pane, and have them load in the right pane. The idea is that people dont have to go back and forth.

Were going to post a project on freelancer.com or similar, but it would be nice to know a little bit more before we go ahead. Is this a simple matter of creating a wordpress template, or do i need a bbpress-expert? Is there a reason why i hardly see this layout on forums i dont know about?

Hello

I am quite a newbie in regards to web design/development, especially wordpress and bbpress are quite tricky to learn when not knowing anything about php etc.

For about 5 months i have been hacking away and pasting existing code to create what I hope to be a nice allround bbpress/buddypress theme.

It is still being worked on but I would love some feedback on my progress.

BBFacelook theme development

Thanks in advance
Peter Hamilton

Hi everyone

We have a client who manages blocks of flats who wants a site focused around a forum. I was looking for some advice as to whether bbPress would would accommodate some of his requirements or if you had another suggestion. Thanks!

– Multiple User levels – so he can assign each user when they sign up to individual forums/threads and they are restricted from viewing any others.
– Capacity to see at a glance live updated list of who has commented in what thread, pulled together for him to view with ease.
– Is there a way to integrate Dropbox into a site like this? He wants to have various documents downloadable by users but doesn’t want to have to reupload all of them to the back end of the site.
– He would like a tag cloud also.

Hi, when users subscribe to a forum or a topic, they receive an email with content of a new topic or new reply. Problem is when the topic or reply is edited by the author some time later, users read the original post in their email and not the updated one on the forum. So they miss information, sometimes important information. I would suggest to send in the email only a short excerpt of the topic content so users are inclined to go to the forum to read the message instead of doing so in their email which may be outdated by the time they read it.

I am trying to use the import tool in bbpress to transfer all the posts and users from my vbulletin forum to my new bbpress forum. The vbulletin forum was set-up and hosted by a web company. I emailed them and asked for the required set-up information and they responded with the following:

Database Server: niagara.localsportsreport.com
Database Port: 3306
Database Name: lsr_niaglsr
Database User: lsr_niaglsr_ro
Database Password: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (password blocked out for privacy)
Table Prefix: forum_

However, when I enter this information into the database settings page on the import page and press start, it comes back with the following:

Repair any missing information: Continue
Conversion Complete
No reply_to parents to convert
No replies to convert
No tags to convert
No super stickies to stick
No stickies to stick
No topics to convert
No forum parents to convert
No forums to convert
No passwords to clear
No users to convert
No data to clean
Starting Conversion

Any suggestions on what could be wrong?

Hi There,

Is there a way to pre-populate example text in a certain forum? For example, I am make a website for friends and friends of friends where we are posting recent whiskey findings.

When ever someone posts in “The Hunt” forum. I would like to have text already in the description area. Something to the effect of:

Name of Whiskey: (Four Roses, Johnnie Walker, etc.)
Whiskey Classification: (Bourbon, Scotch, etc.)
Store Name: (Safeway, Joe’s Whiskey Shop, etc.)
Location: (Street Address, City, State)
Price:
Website:
Phone Number:

Can this be done without major coding in any way?

Thanks!

Out of the box, bbpress shows topics from a particular forum when you are on that forum’s archive page. Makes sense. If that forum has a sub-forum, it will link to those sub-forums, but it won’t show the actual topics from that sub-forum.

I’m trying to modify the default bbpress loop on a forum page (loop-topics.php) to include the sub-forum topics.

Here’s an explanation:

Forum A
Sub-forum A1
Sub-forum A2
Forum B
Sub-forum B1
Sub-forum B2
So when viewing Forum A’s archive page, I’d like to show topics from Forum A, sub-forum A1 and sub-forum A2.

The code needs to be dynamic in order to work with whatever parent forum archive a user is on.

You can pass wp_query args into bb_has_topics(), but I can only only come up with code that shows topics from one forum – not multiple forums.

To better explain what I’m working with, here’s an example of a loop that grabs topics from the parent forum:

<?php

$parents = get_post_ancestors( $post->ID );

$id = ($parents) ? $parents[count($parents)-1]: $post->ID;

$parent = get_page( $id );

?>

<?php $bbp_loop_args = array('post_parent' => $parent->ID, 'post_type' => 'topic'); ?>

<?php if ( bbp_has_topics($bbp_loop_args) ) : ?>

    <?php while ( bbp_topics() ) : bbp_the_topic(); ?>

        <?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-topic' ); ?>

    <?php endwhile; ?>

<?php endif;?>

Any ideas on how this can be achieved?

I keep getting this error when trying to access my forums!

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /xxxxx/xxx/xxxx/xxx/xxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx/forum.php on line 1

Anyone have any idea what the problem could be?

bbPress 2.5.3, WP 3.9.1

I moved a topic from forum A to forum B (on the same site), by editing the topic and updating the Forum field. The topic was properly moved and now appears in forum B, but the post count of forum A still retains the old count when the topic was in forum A (and probably the count of forum B was not updated either but I am not sure of this). To get the count I am using bbp_get_forum_post_count(). Looks like a bug to me. Any workaround?

Hello,

I’m a WP developer, and i tried recently to integrate the bbPress with a wordpress theme, and i can understand why there’s 3 post-types (forums + topics + replies ), why not just one post-type (topic) and forum can be just (taxonomy) related to this post-type and then replies are just normal comments (make the “topic” post-type support comments). that make a lot of thing mush easier.

– like comment/replies moderation.
– manage the forums (taxonnomies) easly.
– reduce the DB size and benefits from the taxonomies, posts, comments tables instead of push everything in posts table which is the largest table.
– and this make the bbPress super easy to integrates with themes. (its just post-type :)).

Is there a purpose from going on this complicated way ???
Anyway thank you for this great plugin, em truly appreciate this effort 😀

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Sidati