[Danny89]

I’m actually looking into this as well 👀

I’m planning to convert my existing WordPress site into a full forum using bbPress, and the classic/default theme setup is something I’m trying to understand better.

From what I’ve gathered so far, it seems like the process is:

* install and activate bbPress plugin
* create forums from the dashboard
* then adjust the theme (or use a child theme) to make it look more like a proper forum

I’m still a bit unsure about the best way to properly switch or enforce the “classic” bbPress layout across the site.

Would love to hear how you approached it — especially if you managed to fully convert your site into a forum-style experience rather than just adding forums as a section.

Thanks! 👍

[Robin W]

I suspect you are using a block theme also known as “Full Site Editing” or FSE theme

This is one of the “block themes” – this is the new way that WordPress plans to develop themes. BBpress authors are working on a fix for this, but in the meantime, add this additional plugin

Enable bbPress for Block Themes

Come back if this does not work

[nickydeep]

https://vitaemagazineblog.com/forums/forum/family-tree/

wordpress.com couldn’t resolve my problem and they shorn me over to the bbpress.org website to handle the problem … i want to do a bbPress forum on that website but i can’t get it started and wordpress doesn’t know why we tried a different theme and that didn’t work … i uninstalled all the plugins and that didn’t help … i checked the root directory and made a change to it and broke it and changed it back and got back to square one so i think the root directory is fine … i couldn’t and can’t reset the permalinks because i’m not at that level yet on wordpress … this occurred directly after installation and i created a forum and it went to the white screen when i checked the permalink and then i started a topic and that permalink went to the white screen … i’m just a writer this is already too much code for me to handle

so if anyone knows anything about this let me know …

[Robin W]

Add this additional plugin

Private groups

once activated, go to dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>help tab and read through how to set this up.

1. so for instance if you wanted ‘editors‘ to have their own private forum, then in

2. dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>group name settings and set up group 1 with a name ‘say editors-private-forum’. but could be whatever you want.

3. then in

dashboard>forums – create a forum, or edit an existing forum, and then under the description you will see a section headed ‘Forum Groups’ – assign this forum to the group you set above

so this forum is now only accessible to users who have that private group assigned.

4. then in

dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>assign groups to roles

set the editors role (or whatever role you want to access the forum that you set up in step 1) to the group.

and that should set editors to be able to see and access that forum only

All other forums remain as they were.

[Robin W]

some great fault finding carried out there, many thanks for that.

To start at the end, twenty twenty five is a FSE theme and pending the next release of bbpress you need to add

wordpress.org/plugins/enable-bbp-block-theme/

It looks like you have an issue between Highend Theme 1.0.2 and buddypress, which might be difficult to get resolved.

As highend is a paid theme, I cannot check it out, but I would start by asking them, as you can show it working with a wordpress default theme, but not with highend#

[didier59450]

Hi,

WP-optimize suggets BBPress could be concerned.
So I change page with BBPress shortcode into a comment and I’ve desactivated BBPress. Today at same time I can read this in php-errors.log:

[28-Feb-2026 13:08:58 UTC] PHP Deprecated: La fonction seems_utf8 est obsolète depuis la version 6.9.0 ! Utilisez wp_is_valid_utf8() à la place. in /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[28-Feb-2026 13:09:50 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key “edit-page” in /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/ionos-essentials/ionos-essentials/inc/dashboard/blocks/next-best-actions/class-nba.php on line 110
[28-Feb-2026 15:46:51 UTC] PHP Notice: Function is_search was called incorrectly. Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.1.0.) in /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[28-Feb-2026 15:46:51 UTC] PHP Notice: Function is_404 was called incorrectly. Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.1.0.) in /homepages/22/d4298730425/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[28-Feb-2026 15:46:51 UTC] PHP Notice: Function is_feed was called incorrectly. Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.1.0.) in /homepages/22/d4298730425/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[28-Feb-2026 15:46:51 UTC] Erreur d’événement de déplanification de tâche pour le crochet extendify_fetch_partner_data. Code d’erreur : could_not_set. Message d’erreur : La liste des évènements planifiés n’a pas pu être sauvegardée.. Données : {“schedule”:false,”args”:[]}

No fatal error with BBPress desactivated.
A surprise with cron task extendify not listed in cron task.
The only paused one is userfeedback_usage_tracking_cron, but no userfeedback plugin install, maybe linked jetpack (desinstalled) or MonsterInsights.
Or linked with Ionos Hosting as he is mentionned in first warning with Ionos-essentials.

[didier59450]

Hi,

Every day at same time, I can read PHP fatal error, concerned with 2 plugins:

BBPress for a forum with very few articles and comments,

WP-Optimize, for page cache and image compression.

No idea where it comes from. No cron at that time….

Every thing is up to date: WP6.9.1 PHP 8.3.30, all plugins with automatic update.

Thank in advance for helping

Didier

[26-Feb-2026 15:46:52 UTC] PHP Notice: Function is_search was called incorrectly. Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.1.0.) in /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[26-Feb-2026 15:46:52 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get() on null in /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/query.php:29
Stack trace:

0 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template.php(2204): get_query_var()

1 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template.php(2193): bbp_get_query_name()

2 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template.php(891): bbp_is_query_name()

3 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-optimize/cache/file-based-page-cache-functions.php(376): bbp_is_search()

4 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-optimize/cache/file-based-page-cache-functions.php(1003): wpo_restricted_cache_page_type()

5 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-optimize/cache/class-wpo-page-cache.php(206): wpo_can_serve_from_cache()

6 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-optimize/includes/class-wpo-page-optimizer.php(54): WPO_Page_Cache->should_cache_page()

7 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-optimize/includes/class-wpo-page-optimizer.php(39): WPO_Page_Optimizer->maybe_cache_page()

8 [internal function]: WPO_Page_Optimizer->optimize()

9 /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php(5481): ob_end_flush()

10 /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(341): wp_ob_end_flush_all()

11 /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(365): WP_Hook->apply_filters()

12 /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/plugin.php(522): WP_Hook->do_action()

13 /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/load.php(1308): do_action()

14 [internal function]: shutdown_action_hook()

15 {main}

thrown in /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/query.php on line 29

[davidqutta]

If you’ve already unchecked “Allow topics to have tags” and the tags field is still appearing, it’s usually caused by one of the following:

First, clear all caching (plugin cache, server cache, and browser cache) and then refresh the page. Sometimes the old form layout is being cached.

If that doesn’t fix it, temporarily switch to a default WordPress theme. Some themes override bbPress templates and manually include the tag field, which makes it appear even when disabled in settings.

Also try disabling other plugins briefly—especially SEO, forum add-ons, or customization plugins—to check for a conflict.

If the setting still doesn’t apply, go back to Settings → Forums, enable the option, save, then disable it again and save once more. Occasionally the option doesn’t update properly until it’s re-saved.

If none of that works, it’s most likely a theme template override forcing the tag field to display.

[Robin W]

I suspect you are using a block theme,

Install

Enable bbPress for Block Themes

[24serag]

Hello bbPress Support Team,

https://oudmajlis.net/forum/

I am having an issue with my bbPress forum on my WordPress site. When I try to open the forum, it displays a blank white page.

I also received a warning about a potential slug conflict:
“Potential bbPress conflict: Forum slug”

Here is what I have tried so far without success:

Changing the forum slug

Deactivating and reactivating bbPress

Checking for conflicting pages or posts

Flushing permalinks

Clearing browser and server cache

The forum contains important data (topics, replies, users) that I cannot afford to lose.

Could you please advise how to resolve the blank page issue and the slug conflict safely while keeping all forum data intact?

Thank you very much for your help.

https://oudmajlis.net/forum/

[manojmohandev]

I’ve noticed some strange behavior and I’m not sure if it’s intended. When a topic is approved after being sent to moderation, and the user subsequently edits that topic, the revision log displays two revisions instead of one. Ideally, the log should only display the specific edit the user marked for logging, rather than all revisions.

I found this line of code which appears to accept any revision, including those not typically found in the bbPress log. Ideally, it should skip any IDs that are not explicitly present in the bbPress log.

[Robin W]

ok so I now have 2 different things

1. clicking profile goes to the users own profile
2. clicking profile says sorry you are not logged in

Without a consistent problem definition it is hard to help, but as stated above, clicking someone’s name should take the user the that person’s profile.

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]

Ok, I am just a volunteer who helps out here, I am not a bbpress author, but I have written a number of bbpress related plugins.

I also took over a defunct plugin called

Post Comments as bbPress Topics

I did not write this, I just did enough coding to get it working again.

if you are code savvy, then function build_topic on line 485 of index.php should give you some code that you could maybe use in a plugin or use the code snippets plugin.

otherwise if you only have a few posts from which you want 2, you could enable it convert, disable it and then delete the topics (posts) you don’t want.

[Robin W]

yes you are right, it does do that if the topic id is set to 0.

I’m pretty sure that this has not always been the case, so I suspect a newer version of software (say WordPress or php) is doing this.

I will take a look when I get a moment, but if you create a reply in the backend, then it must know what topic it is attached to, so you need to fill in the topic id.

If you complete a topic ID then it all works.

I suspect that very few people ever create a reply in the backend – users should not have access to this, so it is only moderators and keymasters that can see this – as without a topic ID it is pointless, and you would almost always be in the front end when you spotted that you needed to post a reply.

so thankyou for reporting this, and if you have a compelling reason to need to use the backend, do come back.

[Joakim Nömell]

I’m encountering a strange behavior in my new bbPress installation. Here’s what happens:

Setup:
• Forum: “General”
• Sticky post in this forum containing the rules (closed for replies)
• A test topic: “Now I’m drinking coffee”
• A reply added to the test topic

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create the topic “Now I’m drinking coffee” in the “General” forum.
2. Add a reply to this topic. Everything works as expected.
3. Go to wp-admin → Topics → All Topics.
4. Move the “coffee” topic to the trash.

Observed Behavior:
• The reply added to the trashed topic also goes to the replies trash.
• Its post_parent changes from the “coffee” topic to the sticky rules post (still published).
• If I restore the topic from the trash, the reply is no longer associated with the topic.

Expected Behavior:
• The reply’s post_parent should remain linked to the original topic.
• When emptying the topics trash, the reply should be deleted along with the topic, similar to how comments are handled with regular posts.

Environment:
• bbPress latest version
• WordPress latest version
• No child theme active
• Plugin: “Enable bbPress for Block Themes”

Has anyone else experienced this, or is there a fix/workaround?

[hebhansen]

Let me try again… How can I get these links to work for my site? This a cap from wordpress.org forum.

Inside settings I have these

[Robin W]

ok, so every website is a unique combination of themes, plugins, settings and content.

Whilst WordPress has a string set of protocols that authors use, different themes and plugins may clash.

I have just tried Kadence and get an error of ‘No matching template found’.

Sorry but the instructions work for a default WordPress theme.

If you have got the site working, then great. If you still have problems, then can you ask Kadence if they can help.

Do come back if you get further info.

[vixel]

Thanks for the suggestion 🙏

However, I checked the bbp style pack plugin on WordPress.org and it doesn’t add email notification functionality to admins — it mainly adds styling options and display features for bbPress, not admin notifications. 

Do you know if we should use something like:

👉 bbPress Notify (No-Spam), a dedicated plugin that actually sends emails to site admins when new topics or replies are posted? 

Thanks again!

[Robin W]

bbpress is a ‘light’ plugin and you will need an additional plugin to ensure admins get notified

Install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>moderation

for how to set this up

[vixel]

Hi there 👋

We’re using bbPress on a WordPress site and we’ve noticed that the forum administrator is not receiving email notifications when someone creates a new topic or replies to an existing one.

Here’s what we’re seeing:
• WordPress email is working fine — we’re using SMTP and other emails are being delivered correctly.
• Users who subscribe to forums or topics do receive notifications with no issues.
• The only problem is with the forum administrator / super admin, who does not receive any notification emails at all.

Environment:
• WordPress: 6.9
• bbPress: 2.6.14

Our questions:
1. Does bbPress send notifications to administrators automatically?
2. Is there a specific role, setting, or filter we should enable so administrators receive all notifications?

We need the admin to be notified so they can reply within 24 hours, but without email notifications this becomes difficult.

Any help or guidance would be much appreciated — thank you!

[dugenou93]

Bonjour,

Je me permets de vous contacter concernant un problème d’accessibilité sur le forum BBPress du site rayons.handivelo.fr. Plus précisément, j’utilise le shortcode [bbp-topic-form] pour permettre aux utilisateurs de créer un nouveau sujet.

Problème rencontré :
– Je parviens à lire les champs du formulaire avec mon interface vocale, mais la liste déroulante des forums/catégories n’est pas accessible.
– Mon lecteur d’écran indique qu’il y a 19 éléments dans la liste, mais je ne peux pas les lire ou les sélectionner correctement.
– Pour information, je suis non-voyant et j’utilise un logiciel de synthèse vocale pour naviguer.

Questions :
1. Existe-t-il un autre shortcode ou une alternative pour rendre cette liste déroulante accessible ?
2. Serait-il possible de remplacer la liste déroulante par des boutons radio ou des cases à cocher pour faciliter la sélection ?
3. Avez-vous des bonnes pratiques ou des plugins à recommander pour améliorer l’accessibilité des formulaires BBPress ?

Contexte technique :
– Site : rayons.handivelo.fr https://rayons.handivelo.fr
– CMS : WordPress + BBPress
– Interface utilisée : Lecteur d’écran (ex : JAWS, NVDA)

Je reste à votre disposition pour tester toute solution que vous pourriez proposer. Merci par avance pour votre aide, et je vous souhaite une excellente année 2026 !

Bien cordialement,
Christophe

[temporary10]

I have a new problem in my forum (theeagleye.net/forums).

My one forum (Off-Topic Lounge) has a problem I have not had before. Unlike every other forum I have, this one always shows the user as signed out (even if they are not, and the other forums do not show this). When they try to sign in, it still does not allow them to sign in. I already tried clearing the cache and checking all the settings in this forum, but they are all exactly as they are supposed to be and nothing is solving the problem.

Has anyone else had this issue and what can I do to solve it?

I use the Twenty Twenty Five theme, have WordPress 6.9, bbpress Version 2.6.14, and my site is theeagleye.net/.

[John James Jacoby]

This will be fixed in 2.7.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7385

[Robin W]

I am not a bbpress author, I am simply someone trying to help out.

The slugs do whatever the plugin author codes them to do, and this plugin does not do that.

You can add this additional plugin

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>shortcodes

and you can see a shortcode you can use in a page

[bsp-profile]

with options for wording and edit

[hebhansen]

I don’t have a user “fred”, so using those as links obviously do not work. I assume the slugs in settings will auto detect a signed in user. Why are these links not showing? On wordpress.org they look like so