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installing bbForums on existing buddypress site


  • Steve Ford
    Participant

    @privateenglishportal

    Hello fellow Buddypress webmasters!
    I have a wordpress MU-Buddypress customized theme site
    http://privateenglishportal.com
    and my curiosity is if I proceed with bbpress forums installation, will it
    affect my existing customized layout of my page. Per Andy’s description,
    that ‘bbpressforums’ installs directly into groups. I am guessing since I
    have groups already running on my buddypress page that there would be no problem.
    Should I go for it and do the one-click installation? Could I always uninstall forums
    if I end up modifying my customised theme?

    Many Thanks!

    Steve Ford

    Online English Teacher/Video Maker

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  • r-a-y
    Keymaster

    @r-a-y

    Do you have your own separate bbPress forums already setup?
    If not, just go ahead with the one-click forums install!


    Steve Ford
    Participant

    @privateenglishportal

    Thanks Ray! I was successful at installing BBpress forums by making sure that file was cut and pasted to my root directory.
    Admin panel on wordpress says that bbpress forums has been successfull integrated into buddypress.
    Sadly I can’t get it to show up on my groups tab nor my header on my page.
    I was able to get the forums by typing in the following address:
    http://privateenglishportal.com/forums
    When I try to post new topic, everything just disappears as if I had posted nothing.
    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

    Thanks,

    Steve


    Steve Ford
    Participant

    @privateenglishportal

    PS. In response to your question, I had no prior bbpress installed prior. This was a first time install onto my Worpress MU/Buddypress


    r-a-y
    Keymaster

    @r-a-y

    There’s a bug with the “New Topic” dropdown menu that will be fixed in the next release of BP.

    You first need to enable the discussion forum for each group before you can post a topic.

    Navigate to the group admin page for the group you want to add a forum to. Go to “Group Settings” and enable discussion forum. Save.
    Now attempt to post a new topic.

    See if that works.


    Steve Ford
    Participant

    @privateenglishportal

    Ray! Thanks! I just got it to work . Faaaaaaabulous.
    There is one issue with the Forum title being larger in text size than the field can take. http://privateenglishportal.com/forumsTEXT.jpg
    Any ideas how I could change that?

    Thanks so much!

    Steve


    r-a-y
    Keymaster

    @r-a-y

    Add the following to your theme’s stylesheet:

    div#topic-meta h3 {padding-bottom: 1em;}


    Steve Ford
    Participant

    @privateenglishportal

    ok, I think I am almost there…… I have css style sheet for buddypress here:

    /*
    Theme Name: PEP New Theme
    Theme URI: http://www.privateenglishportal.com/
    Description: This is the WPMU + BuddyPress theme customized specially for privateenglishportal.com
    Version: 1.0
    Author: Tejaswini
    Author URI: http://www.clickonf5.org/
    Tags: buddypress, fresh
    Template: bp-default
    */

    @import
    url( _inc/css/default.css );

    @import
    url( _inc/css/adminbar.css );

    @import
    url( _inc/css/custom.css );

    and style sheet for main MU page is much longer, wasn’t sure where to paste your code.

    Thx

    Steve


    r-a-y
    Keymaster

    @r-a-y

    Either add the snippet to /_inc/ccs/custom.css or add it directly to style.css.


    Steve Ford
    Participant

    @privateenglishportal

    Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabulous!


    Steve Ford
    Participant

    @privateenglishportal

    Ray! I have just installed your oembed plugin and it is working fine on my forums on buddypress!
    Is there any way to resize the youtube video size which embeds through your plugin?
    Perhaps some way of centering it on the forum page?
    here’s the link:
    http://privateenglishportal.com/groups/peppy-advanced/forum/topic/test/


    r-a-y
    Keymaster

    @r-a-y

    New version of the oEmbed plugin will allow you to define a fixed width in the activity stream and activity permalink. I guess I could add a resize option for forum posts.


    bplove
    Participant

    @bplove

    @r-a-y would be great to have it like facebook where the video / picture etc. is quite small int he activity stream, but when you want to check it out, you click it and it expands full width. That way doesn’t take up a lot of real estate unless you want to check it out.


    r-a-y
    Keymaster

    @r-a-y

    @bplove – This idea has been requested before; I’m looking into this for a future version. The upcoming one will probably not support this though.


    jimhellas
    Member

    @jimhellas

    Is there any quick way to resize the oEmbed videos for now, while we wait for the next version of oEmbed plugin?

    when is the release of the next version? I’ve been waiting to get the videos resized too!!

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