[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

thanks, do keep us updated.

as this is a commercial theme, I do not have access to it, but agree it would be good to have it fully working with bbpress

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

that’s an interesting view given that the Divi Theme authors think it is a divi theme issue (but have not done anything about it).

2023 is an FSE theme which has a whole bunch of different issues I am working on.

I presume you tried the fixes suggested by Dozza above ?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

so moving bbpress forums between 2 websites is really very hard, and requires preparation on source site and extraction of meta data on target site.

the wordpess export/import tools are not sufficient.

the last time I did it I ended up with a 57 stage process, and I’ve still not found anyway to describe to someone not versed in bbpress how to do this.

sorry beyond free help, but if you’d like me to help on a paid basis, contact me via

Contact me

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

@webcreations907 – good spot – I hate reply threading with a vengeance, so don’t have it switched on.

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

I’m just a guy sat in his kitchen who was helped several years ago when I was setting bbpress up, so I try to help others – I’m not a bbpress author.

Updates from the bbpress authors are few and far between, I think they are on other projects now, and maybe consider bbpress as a mature product. The philosophy was always to keep bbpress small, and let other plugins add stuff that was needed.

I do ask them to update the ‘tested to’ but it rarely happens. I test bbpress with new versions.

That is and will always be the issue with open source software – it relies on people doing stuff for free, and people’s focus changes and people move on. That is annoying, but the reality of life.

If you have things that need core updates, you can raise them on trac

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/report

That way at least stuff that is wrong or could be done better gets logged.

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

sorry, but something on your site is affecting this. If you carried out the problem finding suggested in the other post, then there is not a lot more I can suggest.

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

this plugin adds many features which you might feel are lacking

bbp style pack

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

add this plugin

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Freshness Display

and you can set what shows in this column

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

now we are definitely crossed wires, the ability of the language to say exactly what you don’t mean 🙂

I was apologizing for MY post sounding rude, I was typing as you posted yours, so ‘that reads as being rude’ means my post saying I was just a guy in his kitchen etc. – when I re-read it , it didn’t read as intended, and should have appeared immediately below my first one !!

Have a great day 🙂 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

sorry, that reads as being rude, it is not intended to be – written to try and be helpful whilst buried in code 🙂

Please do report back, I’ll try and make a note here when I release it, but probably a week or so’s time .

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

it would, but I am just a man in his kitchen, I’m not a bbpress author.

Style pack is much more than just styling (it may have been mostly that when you tried it), and you don’t need to use the styling bits to take advantage of the functionality.

Anyway it’s free and what I write, so that’s where the blocks will be.

If you just want to use blocks in the custom post types, then just add this filter

add_filter ('bbp_register_forum_post_type', 'rew_gutenberg_editor') ;
add_filter ('bbp_register_topic_post_type', 'rew_gutenberg_editor') ;
add_filter ('bbp_register_reply_post_type', 'rew_gutenberg_editor') ;

function rew_gutenberg_editor ($settings) {
	$settings['show_in_rest'] = true ;
	return $settings ;
}

If you want to impose blocks on your users in topics and replies, then use the ‘blocks everywhere’ plugin.

If you want block widgets, that is what will be in style pack when I have finished writing it.

If you want bbpress in FSE themes, that will also be in style pack in due course

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

I am currently working on adding the block widgets to my bbp-style-pack plugin

bbp style pack

and then getting FSE themes to work aa well.

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

instructions for them

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

go to line 248 and change

? esc_html_e( 'You cannot create new topics.', 'bbpress' )

to

? esc_html_e( '', 'bbpress' )

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/form-topic.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

great – glad you are fixed, and thanks for posting then solution, this will help others 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

do you know how to ftp files, if so I’ll let you know what to do

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 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 1 year, 9 months ago]

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

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

can you say how this relates to bbpress?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

ok, so that approach will not work, I was hooking to a wordpress filter, but it is used in too many places.

I’ll re-think

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

perhaps you could outline what you think is missing?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

I’ll add this functionality to style pack in a few days, but in the meantime

add_filter ('the_title' , 'rew_add_close_to_topics') ;

function rew_add_close_to_topics ($title) {
	if ( bbp_is_topic_closed()) {
		$closed = '[Closed]' ;
		$sep = ' ' ;
		$position = 'after' ;
		if (($position == 'before') && !str_contains($title, $closed)) $title = $closed.$sep.$title ;
		if (($position =='after') && !str_contains($title, $closed)) $title = $title.$sep.$closed ;
	}
return $title ;	
}

and amend words/position etc. as you wish.

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

and change the background of the closed block to match your theme

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

dashboard>settings>forums>topics and replies per page

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

so is this with this function installed?

add_filter ('bbp_get_topic_post_date' , 'rew_change_to_freshness', 10 , 6) ;
add_filter ('bbp_get_reply_post_date' , 'rew_change_to_freshness', 10 , 6) ;

function rew_change_to_freshness ($result, $topic_id, $humanize, $gmt, $date, $time) {
	$result = bbp_get_time_since( bbp_convert_date( $time ) ) ;
	
return $result ;
}

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 9 months ago]

should be doable – let me think about this …….