[kampot888]

bbPress Live Topic Suggestions

bbPress Live Topic Suggestions

I used to use WPFORO because I liked its topic suggestions, but it was difficult to make it multilingual, so I went back to BBPRESS.

This plugin hasn’t been updated in 10 years, will it ever be introduced as a core plugin for BBPRESS?

[borjag]

Hi, problem fixed. I am using an external plugin for registration and it was there the problem, I didn’t look at the assigned role on first login inside that plugin. On wordpress and BBPress I had it well configured.
Thank you.

[Robin W]

I suspect you are using 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

[casperrues1]

I’m looking to add a creative “broken screen” effect to my bbPress forum. The idea is to make it look like the screen is cracked, either when someone first enters the forum or after performing a specific action.

I’m unsure of the best way to achieve this. Should I use custom CSS or JavaScript to create the effect? Or is there a plugin or feature in bbPress that could help with this?

Any suggestions will be very helpful for me.

Example page: Broken Screen

I’ve explored custom CSS and JavaScript options, and also checked out the following resources:

bbPress

Codex

https://wordpress.org/plugins/

Even after going through these, I’m still unsure of the best way to achieve the effect.

[casperrues1]

I’ve just installed bbPress, but after the installation, I’m getting a white screen when I try to access the forum.

Some things which I have tried so that it get fixed:

Clearing my browser cache
Disabling all plugins (except bbPress)
Checking for errors in the wp-config.php file
Reinstalling bbPress

I’ve checked these resources, but they didn’t resolve the issue:

Codex

Troubleshooting

https://wordpress.org/support/

The white screen still shows up, and I’m not getting any error messages. Has anyone else faced this issue or have any suggestions?

[Robin W]

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

[borjag]

Hi! In setting/Forum I put the role participant to be automatically assigned to every registered visitor, but looks like not being working, because when a new user registers on my website, he/she doesn’t get any role assigned, and I have to do it manually from the dashboard.
Any clue why is did happening?
I am using an external plugin for registration, not the wordpress default option.
Thanks for any help.

[Ricsca2]

Is there a way to import categories from a csv file?

If not I could create the categories on wordpress with the plugin “wp alla import” and then import them on bbpress if there is a way.

I found this read with a plugin but it is old

Any Way to Convert WordPress Comments to BBPress

[Robin W]

I suspect that you are using 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

[fleurdor]

Bonsoir, j’ai un souci. J’ai créé un forum sur bbpress version 2.6.9 avec WordPress version 6.6.2, cependant lorsque je me rends sur le site pour voir le rendu ça affiche une page blanche. j’ai essayé de désactiver bbpress puis le réactiver mais rien n’y fait. j’utilise xampp server version 8-2-12. J’ai essayé avec les version les plus récentes à savoir bbpress 2.6.11 et wordpress 6.7.1 mais toujours rien. Aidez moi s’il vous plait!

[gustavsanchezgs]

Se ha producido un error crítico en este sitio web. Por favor, comprueba la bandeja de entrada del correo electrónico del administrador del sitio para recibir instrucciones. Si sigues teniendo problemas, prueba en los foros de soporte.
Eso sale en el mensaje al entrara a editar la página de inicio de mi pagina en wordpress,en las otras paginas si puedo editar pero ya llevo mas de 3 semanas con este problema y no se como solucionarlo aparte que no me ha llegado ningún correo.
si a alguien le ha pasado y ha podido solucionarlo agradecería me pueda ayudar.

[elsoar]

PLZ.. I want to change the logo image for the bbPress forum only, not for the whole WordPress blog.

TIA

[Robin W]

function rew_change_text( $translated_text, $text, $domain ) {
if ($domain!='bbpress') return $translated_text ;
  $translated_text = str_replace('Forum', 'Elephant', $text) ;
return $translated_text;
}

add_filter( 'gettext', 'rew_change_text', 20, 3 );

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]

Install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Profile

[Robin W]

can’t see your screenshot, but can you go to

dashboard>users>all users and tell me what roles your username has for wordpress and bbpress

[Robin W]

Yes they need to be published to show, and yes most likely your own doing, but don’t worry we were all where you are in the past, it takes time to learn the peculiarities of each part of wordpress and plugins !!

so dashboard>topics>all topics

Then you will see options for ‘draft’ and ‘pending’ which you can select and then approve

you can do this individually, or use the boxes on the left to ‘bulk select’ and the ‘bulk actions’ to select ‘edit’ and then change the ‘status’ to publish.

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses the woprdpress posts table – it is what wordpress calls a ‘custom post type’ many plugins use this method.

[ocglimited]

I tried to find the topics table in the wordpress database, and found one of my missing posts in the wp_12_posts table!

I’m not sure if this is normal, but I have wp_X_posts for 5/6/7/8/9/10/11 (replace X is table name). Is it correct to have posts in various wp_X_posts tables?

Next..looking at the row attributes for a sample post that is missing, I see:
post_status: inherit
comment_status: closed
ping_status: closed
menu_order:0
post_type: revision

Any clue there what’s wrong? Do I have to somehow force bbpress to regenerate indexes/names/etc?

[Robin W]

ok, I’m not entirely confident on your question.

But if you mean can you set the editor in topics and replies to visual you can use

bbp style pack

which you already have active, and go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Topic/Reply Form

[Robin W]

If you use the bbpress profile rather than the wordpress one, it lists all topics and replies by a user – just click on a user link in the forums to see.

you can use

bbp style pack

(which also has lots of add-on features) to set the default profile to bbpress

see

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>login

For ranking you have

bbPress Voting

and/or

bbp user ranking

also if you want users to add information about themselves, then

bbp profile information

[missioninvictus]

Hello

I am not very experienced in coding, as the page has been built by an agency.
Means that the changes that now have to be placed has to be learned the hard way 🙂
But the forum here gave me already some helpful inputs.

As we are running a wordpress site including a forum, there is still some adaptation to be done.
To give you a bit of insights. The versions we are running:

Site URL https://mission-invictus.com
PHP Version 8.1.31
WP Version 6.7.1
Multisite False
Theme Mission Invictus Child Theme 1.0
Theme Type Traditional Theme
bbPress Version 2.6.11
Plugin Version 6.1.6

Active Plugins Name and Version
– active1 WPML Multilingual CMS 4.6.15
– active2 Advanced Custom Fields PRO 6.3.11
– active3 Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5.3.5
– active4 bbp style pack 6.1.6
– active5 bbPress 2.6.11
– active6 Crowdsignal Forms 1.7.2
– active7 Event Tickets 5.18.0
– active8 GD bbPress Attachments 4.7.3
– active9 GD bbPress Tools 3.5.3
– active10 Site Kit by Google 1.142.0
– active11 GP Premium 2.4.1
– active12 Gutenberg 19.9.0
– active13 If Menu – Visibility control for menus 0.19.2
– active14 Jetpack Boost 3.6.1
– active15 Jetpack 14.2-a.3
– active16 Layout Grid 1.8.4
– active17 MemberPress Registration Restrictions 1.0.7
– active18 MemberPress Pro 1.11.33
– active19 Page Optimize 0.5.6
– active20 Crowdsignal Polls & Ratings 3.1.2
– active21 Popup Maker 1.20.3
– active22 SVG Support 2.5.8
– active23 Advanced Editor Tools 5.9.2
– active24 User Switching 1.9.1
– active25 WordPress Importer 0.8.3
– active26 Yoast SEO Premium 24.1
– active27 Yoast SEO 24.1
– active28 WP Mail Logging 1.13.1
– active29 Nested Pages 3.2.10

How can I set the default style setting of the visual editor to it’s standard?
It shall only be the buttons within the visual editor and not the ones for the rest of the forum.

Actually the button settings are inherited form the customized theme and it looks horrible within the editor.

[yt]

Thank and that very kind of you, Mr Robin.

In addition, as the 2025 WordPress block theme has other problems with your “bbp style pack” plugin, if it is possible for you to check and fix them.

These are:

1- When the bbp style pack plugin is active and you go to the theme editor section and click on Show all templates, only one template is displayed, not all templates that can be selected. The problem is solved by disabling the plugin.

2- In the Topic/Reply Form plugin tab, in section 18. Limit Topic Tags to a list, when this option is activated and you refresh the site, at the same time and a little later it causes the editor section to go to the bottom right and the forum template to be broken.

3- In the Topic/Reply Form plugin tab, in section 10. Topic Posting Rules, when the visual editor is activated, HTML codes are also inserted into the text, while this should not be the case.

4- When the sidebar is activated for the forum through the bbp style pack plugin block or by ourselves, this sidebar is only displayed on the first page of the forum or the forum index, but is not displayed on the pages of subforums and topics, while like the classic template, it should be displayed on all sidebar pages.

Thanks in advance.

[Allinop]

Issue: bbPress User Roles and Hidden BuddyPress Group Forums

I’ve encountered a problem where bbPress user roles cannot be edited, which creates a conflict when using bbPress forums within hidden BuddyPress Groups.

The Problem:

Members of hidden BuddyPress Groups can read the associated group forums but cannot post.
The rest of BuddyPress and bbPress functionality works as expected, but this limitation seems to stem from the bbPress Participant role.

What I’ve Tried:

I attempted to modify the Participant role using the Members plugin, but bbPress roles appear to be non-editable.
According to a support topic on Members, this restriction was recently enforced by bbPress.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/members-plugin-unable-to-edit-bbpress-plugin-roles/

Question:

Does anyone know how to override or adjust bbPress roles?

[yt]

As I said before “WordPress block theme 2025 “

[missioninvictus]

Hi

I am not very talented in wordpress. The site has even been built by wordpress themself. But actually the support of wordpress has diverted me to you, to solve my issues.

Having mentioned my poor knowledge, I have discovered, that on our page the plugin of bbPress is installed and running in the version 2.6.11 and it is active.
But the menu “Forum” is not shown in either the admin interface style “classic” nor in the “default” style.
I was using as well the stating page to disable all possible plugin’s. Without success.

Is there a concurring plugin such as memberpress?
How can I make the menu visible to admin the forum?

Thanks for any valuable hint.