is this a new site, or an old one – has this always happened or just started happening?
that is the single topic info on my screen 🙂
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>widgets to see how to use them
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Breadcrumbs
I can only suggest the basic fault finding
viz :
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
which plugins are you referring to?
ok it is probably a combination of plugins/theme, you’ll need to work out which.
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
which sidebar ? do you mean the dashboard?
no sorry not aware of anything – I see you have posted on their support forum, so hopefully someone will help.
This lets you style and add features
bbp style pack
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Subscription Emails
can you try adding
BP Classic
which has a compatibility link between buddypress 12 and bbpress.
Then come back and report
ok, there are thousands of themes and tens of thousands of plugins, your problem might not be the same as any of these. A bit like assuming that as your car is stopped at the side of the road, it has the same issue as the one you saw at the side of the road 5 miles back.
Can you start with which theme you are using?
ok thanks, I’ll ignore unless you come back
I’d suspect you are using php version 8.2 – but can you confirm?
If you are using one of new FSE themes, you need a fix to work with bbpress.
install
bbp style pack
once activated, navigate to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack, and you should see the first tab called ‘Theme Support’ – if you don’t see this, come back.
In that tab, select
Enable Theme Support
and save
The forums should then display
so if you create a wordpress post (ie not in the forum) what date does it show?
you are using the flexiverse theme.
This is one of the new FSE themes, so you need a fix to work with bbpress.
install
bbp style pack
once activated, navigate to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack, and you should see the first tab called ‘Theme Support’ – if you don’t see this, come back.
In that tab, select
Enable Theme Support
and save
The forums should then display
they are correct that it has not been updated for a couple of years.
I am just a moderator here, and not a bbpress author.
The authors tend to release updates every few years, rather than more frequently.
My personal view is that you should consider bbpress to be a ‘mature’ product, ie any releases will be to fix issues rather than add functionality.
bbpress is written really well, and has loads of hooks. There are no show stopper bugs in it, it may throw a few deprecation notices (and these are very few at the moment), but WordPress recommends that you should not show error messages in live sites.
I currently have my test site running WordPress 6.4.x and php 8.2 with no issues.
The only major issue with bbpress at the moment is that it does not work well with FSE themes.
However my bbp style pack plugin has fixes for this
bbp style pack
as well as block versions of the widgets and a ton of styling and functionality add-ons.
All plugins are subject to the authors commitment, and bbpress is no different.
The main WordPress support forums use bbpress, and it would be mega work to move those over to some other product.
they are saved in the database post_meta table against the thread
update_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bbp_extra_field1', $_POST['bbp_extra_field1'] );
and you would need to define what you mean by
I don’t know how to move the various fields
I think adding this additional plugin fixes
BP Classic
I will get back to you, but tied up at the moment 🙂
