[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

I’d start with

Recalculate engagements in each topic for each user

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

The way subscriptions worked changed between 2.5.x and 2.6.x

So if you have run the actions in

dashboard>tools>upgrade forums

then I’d suggest you try

dashboard>tools>repair forums> and run one at a time

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

‘recommended’ just comes out worpdress caution of making sure urls don’t clash – I’ve not seen an occasion when they did, so it is a recommendation – you decide 🙂

of slugs must be unique, so no you can’t have the same

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>forum templates

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

if you are after styling the forums, then

bbp style pack

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

dashboard>settings>forums and switch off the forum prefix

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

the theme used on this site is in

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/bb-base

but I suspect your site already has a theme and other plugins.

I would suggest you look at

bbp style pack

which will let you amend many things, and let you add single topic and single forum widgets to your sidebar

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

that post was a spam post, so I deleted it.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

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, 4 months ago]

spectators should not be able to create topics.
Participants by default can.

you will either need to

change participant permissions -see this

Custom Capabilities

or add

Private groups

and set up topic permissions which will then let you set up a group with permission to reply only

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

forums are displayed using wordpress wpquery and post parent. you could add postmeta and add this to the query, but as I say lots of work to make this happen

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

you can make a topic ‘super sticky’ which will make it appear at the top of all forums.

I know of nothing that will do a couple of forums, and indeed the code to do so would need to catch lots of areas, such as subscriptions, freshness etc. which at the moment rely on the ‘post parent’ table element of WordPress, so lots of code might be needed to get it to work.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

I would switch debug on – and see what errors you are getting

https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-enable-debugging-in-wordpress/

and see what error is occuring

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

ok, so when it occurs it is site wide and to all users including yourself? and casual (non logged in) visitors?

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

hmmm….

ok so the function bbp_get_user_topic_count_raw definately exists, so it is possibly a load order issue, but you would expect that to be consistent – or it is something else 🙂

intermittent issues are always hard to trace, can you recreate this, or how often is it happening, or it is happening to particular users (eg participant, subscriber) etc.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

add_filter( 'bbp_get_forum_freshness_link', 'rew_show_forum_freshness' , 10 , 6) ;

function rew_show_forum_freshness ($anchor, $forum_id, $time_since, $link_url, $title, $active_id ){
	return $time_since ;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_freshness_link', 'rew_show_topic_freshness' , 10 , 6) ;

function rew_show_topic_freshness ($anchor, $topic_id, $time_since, $link_url, $title){
	return $time_since ;
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

I am nit a bbpress author, just someine who tries to help out here.

bbpress has never worked well with threaded replies, sorry that’s just the way it is.

it is really hard to do pagination with nested replies and make the display work intelligibly.

If you know js well, then you could do some hide/show in css maybe, not my strong point.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

suspect that as bbpress has custom post types, your sidebar manager is responsible

so standard testing advice is

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, 4 months ago]

may well be theme/plugin related, can you give a specific example please

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

untested, but this should take out newlines and change the excerpt length to 150 – just change the 150 in the code to whatever length you want.

so firstly you need to alter the default in wordpress which is 55 so

add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'rew_change_default_length' ) ;

function rew_change_default_length () {
    return 150;
}

then alter it in the bbpress function, and change to take out line breaks

add_filter ('bbp_get_topic_excerpt' , 'rew_remove_line_breaks', 10 , 3) ;

function rew_remove_line_breaks ($excerpt, $topic_id, $length){
		$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_id );
		//change length here
		$length   = 150 ;
		$excerpt  = get_post_field( 'post_excerpt', $topic_id );

		if ( empty( $excerpt ) ) {
			$excerpt = bbp_get_topic_content( $topic_id );
		}

		$excerpt = trim( strip_tags( $excerpt ) );
		
		//take out line breaks
		$excerpt = preg_replace("/\r|\n/", "", $excerpt);

		// Multibyte support
		if ( function_exists( 'mb_strlen' ) ) {
			$excerpt_length = mb_strlen( $excerpt );
		} else {
			$excerpt_length = strlen( $excerpt );
		}

		if ( ! empty( $length ) && ( $excerpt_length > $length ) ) {
			$excerpt  = mb_substr( $excerpt, 0, $length - 1 );
			$excerpt .= '…';
		}
		
		
		// Filter & return
		return apply_filters( 'rew_get_topic_excerpt', $excerpt, $topic_id, $length );
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

@joel-mohanraj
find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

so you will want to take the link out of line 34

<a class="bbp-forum-title" href="<?php bbp_forum_permalink(); ?>"><?php bbp_forum_title(); ?></a>

and save

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

amending the freshness will require you to amend the bbp_get_forum_freshness_link function. if you are familiar with filters you can use the filter on line 585 of \includes\forums and a str_replace to take out the link

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

sorry, not sure which exact part you want to replace.

so is this the links in the forum list of topics? or everywhere or what?

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

if that works, go for it 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

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