[Robin W]

just confirm this is the bbpress profile, not the wordpress one.

ie you get to this by clicking the username in a topic/reply in the forums

[Robin W]

try

bbp style pack

Loads of styling changes and features

[webspaceunlimited]

Hi there

I am hoping you can help.

I have otter blocks – block editor theme on a wordpress site and I am using bbpress – I have used “enable bbpress for block themes” plugin which has the forum working fine – I do however need to change the text sizing
I am wondering what the full list of css elements I need to change are ?
Or if there is a better way to improve the way the forum appears ?

[Robin W]

ok, we need to make you a keymaster

Install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Bug Fixes.

you will see an option to set yourself as keymaster, tick that and click save

you will then see that you are a keymaster, and should now be able to see the forums in dashboard>forums

Once you can see this you can decativate and delete the style pack plugin

then in dashboard>forums you can close the forum

[WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas]

Hello,

Just an update here, the Enable bbPress for Block Themes plugin was released on WordPress.org plugins repository. You can install it via your WordPress dashboard now. Enjoy 🙂

[WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas]

Hello,

Just an update here, the Enable bbPress for Block Themes plugin was released on WordPress.org plugins repository. You can install it via your WordPress dashboard now. Enjoy 🙂

[WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas]

Hello,

Just an update here, the Enable bbPress for Block Themes plugin was released on WordPress.org plugins repository. You can install it via your WordPress dashboard now. Enjoy 🙂

[WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas]

Hello,

If you are using a block theme, I’ve just released Enable bbPress for Block Themes plugin that may help. Enjoy 🙂

[WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas]

Hello,

I’ve just released Enable bbPress for Block Themes plugin that might help here. Enjoy 🙂

[WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas]

Hello,

Just an update here, the Enable bbPress for Block Themes plugin was released on WordPress.org plugins repository. You can install it via your WordPress dashboard now. Enjoy 🙂

[Robin W]

As a test, can you try

add_filter ('bbp_get_topic_reply_count', 'rew_return_int', 10 , 2) ;

function rew_return_int ($replies, $topic_id ) {
return int($replies) ;
}

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 let me know if it works

[Robin W]

either

Install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Topic/Topic/Reply Order>replies>Descending and tick and save

or

add_filter ('bbp_show_lead_topic', 'rew_true') ;

function rew_true () {
	return true ;
}

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

[webspaceunlimited]

thanks Tob, I have to say I feel quite stupid today . I am not a fan of wordpress and avoid it when I can so when I hit an issue with wordpress its always counter intuiative in how to fix it.

With your plug in the theme works perfectly BUT doesnt have the pages header or footer aor follow any of the page constraints that I would expect

With Webmasdesign the forums page displays as I would expect BUT as soon as I look at any content the headers andfooters disapear and only the forum is there

This suggests the error here is mine and I am missing something in the block theme

[Robin W]

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

[duffy50]

I was trying to use the Latest Activity (style pack) Widget with a specific Forum Id in a sidebar and in a custom widget area. The problem I ran into was that the options to customize the widget in the custom widget area will not open up. I did also try and use the Widget multiple times within the sidebar and ran into the same issue.

My WordPress and bbpress are current, I also have the style pack plugin. My site is built using Divi.
https://iowaminiz.com/membership-forum/

Is there a conflict if the Latest Activity Widget is used more than once and is there a workaround?

Thanks.

[Robin W]

I suspect you are feeling some frustration as am I !. I have been supporting bbpress for 14 years, and I wrote the first version of bbp-style-pack over 10 years ago and have developed and supported it since then.

Every website is a combination of WordPress and its settings, your theme and its settings, any adjustments to that theme, and all the plugins and each of their settings. That’s before we look at things like php versions, apache stuff, ht-acess, hoster settings and limitations and a bunch more stuff.

That makes most sites pretty unique, so site A will never replicate site B in it’s problems and issues, so what works on my test site is not guaranteed to work on your site.

So what I ask you to do is based on my best view of what might be the issue, but I am using past skill and knowledge to make informed guesses.

so can you send me a screenshot of the following page

dashboard>settings>bbp-style-pack>Dashboard Admin

thanks

[Robin W]

Install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Breadcrumbs

and you can disable all breadcrumbs, or tailor to what you want

[cristoff]

Hi, is there a way to remove the path above the forums please? WordPress version 6.7.2, bbpress version 2.6.12, Learndash version site: https://dataciseopenlearning.org/

[Robin W]

Apologies, I have been on holiday.

I am not a bbpress author, but I have added this feature into one of my plugins.

Install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Dashboard Admin>item 5 and tick to enable

[John James Jacoby]

Can you provide any insight into the status of 2.7.0 Alpha? I’m assuming that, if I knew how, I could at least query Trac to find out which bugs are attached (if that’s the right term) to that release, and so on

There are a few ways, but I usually use the Roadmap.

See: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap

You’ll see the various releases as headings there, and you can click around to get the various ticket reports.

It’s all pretty fluid though. For example, the 2.6.12 release wasn’t really planned, so the minor issues got bumped to 2.6.13, and if a new security release needs to happen quickly, they’ll get bumped again, etc…

I appreciate the kind words. I love bbPress, and I do hope to be able to put a lot more time towards it again!

[John James Jacoby]

Read the blog post here: https://bbpress.org/blog/2025/02/bbpress-2-6-12-is-out/

Go get 2.6.12 from: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress 💚

[John James Jacoby]

👋 Hi there!

It’s mostly still me working on bbPress, with bug reports & help here and there from the community which are always helpful and appreciated!

I simply forgot to update the Codex page, so thank you for asking here 😅

The build & release process is still pretty manual, because it includes updates to multiple WordPress pages & such (as you’ve all noticed here).

(I do read the forums almost every day, and think they work best when I stay out of them and the community helps itself & each other – and moderators like @robin-w are obviously especially helpful.)

[novawebb]

Possible Explanation for bbPress replies import issue

It seems we may have found an explanation for the issue with importing replies in BBPress.

From what we now understand, bbPress has changed the way replies are linked to topics. Previously, topics and forums were connected using the post parent meta field, making it easy to import and structure data. However, it appears that replies now reference a different column that contains the topic ID.

The issue arises because the old database contains topic IDs that are unique WordPress-generated values. When importing into the new site, these IDs don’t match because the new site generates different IDs for topics. As a result, replies are unable to connect to their corresponding topics since they are searching for IDs that do not exist in the new database.

• In the old database, the topic IDs are unique WordPress-generated values.
• When importing these into the new site, the IDs don’t match because the new site generates different IDs for the topics.
• As a result, the replies don’t know where to connect since they are searching for IDs that do not exist in the new database.

This change in how replies are structured seems to be the root cause of the problem. If anyone has encountered this before or has suggestions for handling ID mapping efficiently, feel free to share your insights.

[Robin W]

thanks for all that – I’ll take a good look when I get back

as a by the by, they might ask you to change the title – they made me change one I inherited which started with ‘bbpress’ they said made it look like it was owned and written by bbpress whose name is owned by WordPress. There as plenty of plugins that do this already and haven’t been asked so you may get away with it, but I had to change it from ‘bbPress Topics for Posts’ to ‘Post Comments as bbPress Topics’

[WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas]

Just in case anyone is looking for a solution, I’ve just released a plugin fixing the bbPress display in block themes.

The plugin needs to undergo a WordPress plugins repository review, which queue times are long currently, before being available at WordPress plugin repository. So, meanwhile you can download bbPress for Block Themes plugin at GitHub.