[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

@deepblue5 can you give me an example of a coulpe of themes from the above which don’t work – free ones so I can take a look without paying money 🙂

and I’ll see if I can find any commonality

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

that would tend to indicate an issue with bbpress and elementor working together, which I have already seen with their Hello theme.

bbpress works to WordPress standards, many theme builders exist because they see WordPress as a restriction and feel they can offer improvements, so stretch and alter what WordPress does, which can then can make plugins have issues.

Because it is open source, and there are no definitive rules, it is wrong to say that it is a bbpress problem, or indeed an elementor problem or a divi problem, each makes their own code to work, but you cannot guarantee interoperability of everything with everything.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

Sorry – you seem to want to abuse me as being stupid. I just help out here for free so phrases such as

I do not see the connection with the question ever.

and

Certainly I took a while to understand what you wanted to explain but I did it.

are not welcome.

I hope you are able to sort your issue, which may be site related or that you are doing something I am not.

Maybe try and do here what you are doing on your test site – this site is bbpress.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

so can you do this as a series of steps please so I can understand the difference, as that is what I did

I got up the video
I click share
I click copy
that produces ‘h ttps://youtu.be/HIGuTCY–xc’
which I pasted into the topic, which produces the preview above.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

ok, that link come up as not found, presume because I am not logged in.

But I see my graphic twice, once as Group Administrators
Then below again the same grapnic and “Visit” group

can you explain what you mean by graphic and where this is showing – basically I am not understanding the question.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

You can use almost any theme – some integrate better.

to style bbpress use

bbp style pack

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

ok so I pasted ‘h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIGuTCY–xc’ without the space here and this is what I get.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

No, that’s what it does.

I don’t know of anything that does exactly what you want.

bbpress is forum software – it does not try to emulate FB – sorry

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

thanks – that will help anyone finding this topic later 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

Just tried it and yes just produces empty pages.

I’ve asked the authors to take a look.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

it is theme related, but add this to the custom css part of your theme

#bbpress-forums {
	padding: 15px !important;
}

I can’t help with the subscribe, as that only shows to logged in users.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

quoting the actual code you used would be useful 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

try

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>unread posts

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

That is how it is supposed to be.

The dashboard is for administration, generally sites hide the dashboard from ordinary users either by using code or a plugin such as

Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

I had NOT set bbpress notify to override bbpress subscriptions, so not sure why it was still disabling those notifications.

I suspect that plugin assumes you want to override the subscriptions – but no idea.

However, the email seem to have been addressed to noreply@domain, with the user email Bcc’ed

Yes this is how bbpress now does this. The idea is that many mailservers chop lots of emails being sent at once, so this avoids that pitfall in theory. The fact that the noreply goes nowhere is not an issue as such, and you’ll find that many sites use this method.

You can use this to amend that, though old this plugin still works

AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions

and if you want to amend the sending email use

bbp style pack

and dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Subscription Emails

Finally you might want to try

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-notify-nospam/ as a better version of the notify plugin

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

not what I am seeing on my test site – standard fault finding applies 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

Parent Forum
Subforum, Subforum, Subforum

That is the default bbpress display 🙂 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

works on my test site and these are native to wordpress

Using Smilies

If it’s not working for you, then try the usual fault finding.

If you want more, I’ve not used any, but

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/emoticons/

try one that says it works with custom post types

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

great – thanks for posting the answer !

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

sorry not sure how this is a security issue.

since anyone with an admin permission can access both back and front end and these are both rendered through a browser, the effect is exactly the same.

ie there is no technical/security difference between

site.com/wp-admin/user-edit.php?user_id= etc.

and

site.com/forums/user/userxx/edit/

They are both simply pages renedred through a browser.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

ok, If you are certain that

1. the box is being ticked (by default it is left blank), and that
2. emails are working from within bbpress (ie if someone else subscribes to the topic they get an email)

then the standard fault finding applies…

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users

Health Check & Troubleshooting

Then come back

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

Yes, that is standard bbpress behaviour – replies are not sent to the author on the grounds that he does not need to be told that he has posted a reply 🙂

I think bbpress notify follows that principal as well.

There is a filter that could be used to change this behaviour if it is critical, but it will probably annoy as many posters as those who like it. Personally I have enough emails 🙂

If you like, I’ll take a more detailed look, but it may not be a free answer.