[hardel]

Hi John, just following up to see if you’ve had a chance to look into the points I mentioned in my previous post.

Last night I had some free time to test this further. I set up a brand new WordPress install with only BBPress and BuddyPress. I then created a forum with 16 posts.

Using the Twenty Twenty-Four theme, I was unable to view Page 2 of “Topics Started.” The only way I could view it was by installing the BP Classic plugin.

The most recent change to that plugin was:

Version: 1.4.0 — Ensure bbPress topics/replies pagination behaves as expected with BuddyPress 12.0 & up (See #44).

Here are the changes that imath added to fix the pagination issue.

—

I’ve now seen this issue in 3 places: my public website, the website I sent you via PM on Instagram, and a clean install. I hope that I’ve been able to provide enough examples that this issue still exists.

[Robin W]

do you also have

bbp style pack

Installed?

[Robin W]

For those who are less keen on code, or who install or already have

bbp style pack

then just go to

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

and use option 6

[Ricsca2]

Hi everyone,

I’d like to share a very useful snippet for bbPress that I had a hard time finding on Google, but which can save a lot of time.

For many communities it’s extremely helpful to have the “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” box checked by default. This way, users are automatically notified of new replies and are more likely to come back to the forum and engage in the discussion.

Here is a simple solution that works on the latest WordPress + bbPress. Just add it to your theme’s functions.php or into a small custom plugin:

// Auto-check the "Notify me of follow-up replies via email" box (topic + reply forms)
add_action('wp_footer', function () {
    if (is_admin() || !function_exists('bbp_is_subscriptions_active') || !bbp_is_subscriptions_active() || !is_user_logged_in()) {
        return;
    }
    ?>
    <script>
    document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
        var t = document.getElementById('bbp_topic_subscription');
        if (t && !t.checked) t.checked = true;

        var r = document.getElementById('bbp_reply_subscription');
        if (r && !r.checked) r.checked = true;
    });
    </script>
    <?php
}, 99);

With this snippet, whenever a logged-in user creates a new topic or reply, the subscription checkbox will already be checked by default.
Of course, the user can still uncheck it if they don’t want notifications.

This small trick makes it much easier to keep members engaged and ensures they don’t miss important replies.

Hope it helps others too, since I believe this should be more widely documented!

[internationaljack]

Thank you for helping me interpret that!

This is what was on that line:
<p class="logo_tagline"><?php bloginfo(description); ?></p>

I added single quotes to 'description' and now the forums fully load (when FS_METHOD is set to direct). That line was basically the only difference between the original bbpress.php and the child theme’s copy of bbpress.php.

Unfortunately, that fix only works with FS_METHOD set to direct. I need it set to ftpext so WordPress requests FTP credentials (for things like plugin updates), because otherwise WP doesn’t have write permission.

When I change FS_METHOD to ftpext, the forum pages start giving me the ol’ “There has been a critical error on this website” message.
The log gives me this:
[08-Aug-2025 17:23:55 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: ftp_fget(): Argument #1 ($ftp) must be of type FTP\Connection, null given in /var/www/vhosts/[SITEURL]/httpdocs/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php:146

That’s not a bbPress file, so I think I’ll have to talk with our webhost about this.

Thanks for your help!

[Robin W]

This has been removed probably because it no longer worked.

Since bbpress just uses WordPress login, If you google ‘modal popup login wordpress’ you’ll find both code and plugins that do this

[yt]

Hello everyone

My site was created with WordPress 6.8.2 and BBPress 6.2.14 with the WordPress 2025 theme block template.

In the BBPress documentation titled: “Layout and functionality – Examples you can use” at:

Development & Updates

in line 12 it says:

12. Add a modal login (pop-up) window
This is quite neat and the instructions add it to the menu and, if necessary, add the login/logout.

The login looks like this
https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/53/2014/02/modal-login3-300×144.jpg

There are different styles available and you can have your own style.

Instructions can be found here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/modal-login-in-a-menu/

I tried to access it, but unfortunately the link gives an error of
Error 404 – Destination Not Found.

Please advise on how I can enable the above mentioned forum registration and login pop-up in my site’s forum?

Thank you in advance for your help.

[Ricsca2]

I found this one which is built for buddypress but the forum section is great even if you don’t use buddypress.

BuddyX

[manojmohandev]

line #956,

// Only update if reply is published
if ( ! bbp_is_reply_pending( $reply_id ) ) {

As per the comment, it should check if reply is published. But this condition will be true even if the reply is marked as spam. Instead it should use if ( bbp_is_reply_published( $reply_id ) ). Same thing I have observed for topic as well. If topic is marked as spam by akismet, the last active parameters reflects the spam topic instead of last published topic.

[yt]

Hello @robin-w

The code is tested and works fine. Thank you for that.

It seems that the code needs two modifications to be converted into a complete code. These two modifications are:

1- Modification related to the user
Absolutely directing the logged in user to the first page of the site is not useful in most cases, because

Suppose the user has entered a forum topic and wants to reply to it. For this purpose, he enters the forum by entering his user information. In the default WordPress mode, the user who is on the current page is considered a logged in user and can send a reply

However, with the above code, the user is redirected from the current page to the first page of the site and must return to the initial page of the topic in question with a few clicks. This causes user annoyance and increases the bounce rate from the forum.

Therefore, the code needs to be modified so that the user on the current page (meaning any page of the forum or site that has a comment) is logged in on the same page as the current user after entering his user information and logging in, but at the same time does not have access to the counter.

2- Correction related to the site and forum administrator
The same problem as above is true for the administrator. For example, the administrator enters the forum and wants to create a topic or reply to a topic, so he enters the login information. In the default WordPress mode, he is considered logged in on the current page, but at the same time, the WordPress admin bar is displayed at the top of the forum or site, which means he has access to the counter.

However, with the above code, the administrator is redirected from the current page to the counter, which should return to the original current page with a few clicks, just like the same user.

Is it possible to modify the code as described?

Thank you very much in advance for your valuable help.

[Janell2]

Thank you Robin. I was afraid to update since the WordPress version was older, but took the plunge. it now works perfectly…again!

Much appreciated!
Janell

[Janell2]

Hi,
We have been using bbPress for a long time, and it has never given us any problems, so something has changed, and I can’t figure out what.  I don’t have a caching plug-in.  If you go to the Forum, click on the Topic, it says “This topic is empty” in the Topic (there has been for years.)  I have not changed the theme, or WordPress version, it just stopped working.

Forum path: domainname/company-bulletin-board/companyforum/company-calendar/
Topic that appears as link in the above Forum: domainname/company-bulletin-board/topic/key-dates/    When you click the link in the Forum, the topic says, “This topic is empty” which it is not.

I tried as an experiment to substitute, “/companyforum/company-calendar/” for “/topic/” but that did not work.  This is happening for ALL the Topics, they all show “This topic is empty.”

When I go to the list of Topics and click on the View in the WordPress Dashboard, again it says for every single topic, “This topic is empty.” Each topic has a lot of content.

How do I fix this please?  I am out of ideas, especially since it just, “stopped working.”

Thanks so much for your help.  Much appreciated. This is a members only Forum, so I worry about publishing the links. I have been through earlier posts from folks that have had a similar problem, but nothing has worked.
Janell

[jennypins]

What Happened to “Views” in bbPress 2.6.14?
In earlier versions of bbPress, Views were visible as a menu item in the WordPress admin under Forums > Views.

In version 2.6.14, the admin menu link to Views was removed by default as part of bbPress cleanup and streamlining.

However, the Views themselves still exist — they’re just hidden from the admin menu unless you’re actively using or registering them.

How to Restore the “Views” Menu
You can manually re-enable the Views admin menu by adding a small code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file or a custom plugin:
add_action( ‘bbp_admin_menu’, function() {
add_submenu_page(
‘edit.php?post_type=forum’,
‘Topic Views’,
‘Views’,
‘manage_options’,
‘edit.php?post_type=topic_view’
);
});

[Robin W]

now corrected in codes, to this

/**
* WordPress function for redirecting users on login based on user role
*/
function my_login_redirect( $url, $request, $user ){
if( $user && is_object( $user ) && is_a( $user, 'WP_User' ) ) {
if( $user->has_cap( 'administrator' ) ) {
$url = admin_url();
} else {
$url = home_url();
}
}
return $url;
}
add_filter('login_redirect', 'my_login_redirect', 10, 3 );

[yt]

Hello everyone

My site is using the latest WordPress 6.8.2 with WordPress 2025 theme and BBPress community

To change the color of closed topics in

13. Preventing closed topics from going grey

At address:

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

The following code:

#bbpress-forums .status-closed,
#bbpress-forums .status-closed a {
color: #aaa !important;
}

is introduced.

I put it in the css snippet of WPCode plugin. but the code doesn’t work.

Can anyone help me fix the problem?

Thanks

[yt]

Hi everyone

My site is using the latest WordPress 6.8.2 with WordPress 2025 theme and BBPress community

In
27. Custom Redirect After Login

At address

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

The following dual-purpose redirect code:

/**
* WordPress function for redirecting users on login based on user role
*/
function my_login_redirect( $url, $request, $user ){
if( $user && is_object( $user ) && is_a( $user, ‘WP_User’ ) ) {
if( $user->has_cap( ‘administrator’ ) ) {
$url = admin_url();
} else {
$url = home_url();
}
}
return $url;
}
add_filter(‘login_redirect’, ‘my_login_redirect’, 10, 3 );

It is introduced that I have it in the php sippet file of the WordPress plugin code but I am getting the error

Your changes are saved but your snippet was deactivated due to an error, please check the syntax and try again. Error message: syntax error, unexpected token ;

It seems that there is a problem with the code.

Can anyone help to fix the problem?

[Robin W]

Yes, this widget is no longer available.

For you if you have the style pack plugin, you can use the bsp-profile shortcode instead

[bsp-profile label="amend profile/password" edit="true"]

You can simply add a shortcode block after the login widget.

bbp style pack

[yt]

Hello everyone

In the WordPress dashboard, Settings, Forums submenu,
in the section:

Community Features
Community Features can be turned on or off

There is an option called:
Topic Tags: “Allow Topics to be tagged”

By unchecking it, the tagging of forum members when writing and submitting a thread is disabled. This is sometimes necessary depending on the case.

But the problem with this deactivation is that in addition to creating the above possibility, it also causes the defined tags of each thread to be disabled and not displayed, while this should not be the case because

An administrator may want to prevent inappropriate tags from being inserted by non-professional users to manage the tags of the forum threads of his site and instead define an appropriate tag for that thread by editing the thread posted by users, so the defined tags of each thread should be displayed and there should be no reason for it to be disabled.

Is there a solution to fix the problem stated?

Thanks

[yt]

Hello everyone

In 3. Adding an ‘amend profile/password’ to the login widget
At

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

The RKK Login Widget plugin is introduced in the gist results with the link

https://gist.github.com/robkk/f558f4abe867ef7b9952

It shows a 404 error.

Either the link is broken or such a plugin does not exist.
I also searched for this plugin in the WordPress repository but there were no results.

[Ricsca2]

Could you recommend a good free theme for bbpress?
Actually, I only found this one:

Responsive Forum

I like it, but it’s very basic…

[rameshb]

Hi @robin-w,

Thank you for taking the time to look into my issue. As per your suggestion, I installed the bbp Style Pack plugin. However, the moderation feature doesn’t seem to be working as expected. Unlike the WordPress contributor role, unapproved users are still able to publish posts directly without moderation.

Could you please check and guide me further on how to ensure posts go into moderation before being published?

Thanks again!

[yt]

Thanks for your reply

I mean the twentytwentyfive WordPress theme block template.

To view live errors, you can:

1- By entering the forum home page address

https://ghazavatonline.ir/forums/

In the forum search form, enter a desired phrase and then press enter. Instead of displaying the search results, you will see in the header the error:

Warning: Undefined array key “archive” in /home/ … /public_html/wp-includes/block-template.php on line 180

Warning: Undefined array key “archive” in /home/ … /public_html/wp-includes/block-template.php on line 180

2-Also, when you click on any of the tags that have topics assigned to them, instead of displaying the tags, the above error code is displayed and no topics are displayed

For this, visit the address

شکایت از قاضی دادگاه به علت عوض کردن جای متهم ها

Click on the tag “تخلفات انتظامی قضات”

Or go directly to the link

https://ghazavatonline.ir/forums/topic-tag/disciplinary-breaches-of-judges/

to see the same errors in the header and that no topic associated with the selected tag is displayed.

Of course, it should be noted that the above errors are only generated when the twentytwentyfive block template is activated

But when the twentytwentyfour and twentytwentythree templates are activated, they are not generated and work without problems.

[Robin W]

bbpress works fine with classic themes (ie non block themes), so you should have no problems.

However bbpress is an integral plugin to your website, so it will use whatever theme your site is using, so you cannot have one theme for wordpress and another for bbpress.

[yt]

Hello forum members

My site is using the latest version of WordPress 6.8.2 and the 2025 Block Theme and BBPress Forum.

I want to use the classic theme for BBPress Forum instead of the Block Theme

Please guide me how can I activate my favorite classic theme instead of the default BBPress theme?

Thanks

[sbask]

I’m not a wordpress developer, I just inherited and run a site. Can I hire you do to this?