[Pascal Casier]

@jkw217,
I have no idea about this error but can you please provide the version of bbPress and WordPress that you are using?

[jkw217]

I am experiencing 404 errors on forum and topic views. It appears to be at random and not all the time.

Got error 'PHP message: PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/capabilities.php on line 80\nPHP message: PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/capabilities.php on line 62

I have re-saved permalinks, changed->saved then changed-back->saved and still have the 404 errors occasionally.

I googled this error and found:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capabilities-undefined-offset-error-with-bbpress/

I tried updating the capabilities.php file as discussed but still having issues.

Does anyone have any experience with this problem and have a fix?

[knelsonkris]

I am having a problem with permalinks on livelikeaviking.com WordPress 5.2.2

Every couple days the forum stops working correctly – today when topic was clicked, user was sent to the home page.

Flushing permalinks resolves the issue, but the problem is happening often enough that the users are getting frustrated.

Any solution?

[austex]

There are 5 tickets open, and at least one was worked on recently (within the past week or so) – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.6

Hopefully they will find some time, but for now I’m running with the RC.

[knelsonkris]

I am having a problem with permalinks on livelikeaviking.com WordPress 5.2.2

Every couple days the forum stops working correctly – today when topic was clicked, user was sent to the home page.

Flushing permalinks resolves the issue, but the problem is happening often enough that the users are getting frustrated.

Any solution?

[rodrigueadm54]

Hello,

My site http://adm54forum.fr is on WordPress 5.2.2 and bbPress 2.5.14.
I use a theme called “Socialized”.

When I post a message on the forum as an administrator, under my profile picture is indicated my role. It says “Admin bbPress”, but how can I change that? I have no role with this name

[ginaginagina]

Hey Robin, thank you so much for your help. I don’t see a plugin that we have that specifically does any type of post moderation once written by the user. The only plugins I have are one for uploading attachments (GD bbPress Attachments) to the posts and one that restricts access to the forums through our membership plugin (Ultimate Member bbPress Extension). Here’s more info on those:

Ultimate Member bbPress Extension:

bbPress


Documentation: https://docs.ultimatemember.com/article/74-bbpress-setup

GD bbPress Attachments:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/

[Robin W]

basically you will need a link from teachable to fire up code in wordpress to create the user.

I can only suggest you contact the ‘teachable’ authors to see if they have a hook you can use, or google for linsk eg

https://zapier.com/apps/teachable/integrations/wordpress

[ginaginagina]

Wordpress 5.2.2
bbPress 2.5.14
URL: forums are private, so URL won’t be helpful.

There’s no button or link to approve anything in my forums. Everything’s just pending. In the past, I replies showed up (when we first installed this; we haven’t used it in a long time, and just getting back into getting these set up). When I click to preview the replies/topics, they are just titles, nothing is written about the topic. We’re testing the forums with my team, so I know each team member wrote something and submitted it — they didn’t just write a title. Additionally, each of them are moderators, wouldn’t their posts just go through since they have the power to approve posts, too (or should, if this was working)?

What is happening? Why:

is nothing showing up for the content part of their replies and topics

why aren’t their posts going through automatically (since they are moderators)

why can I not — as the admin/keymaster, see the “approve” link?

Here’s a screenshot:

https://share.getcloudapp.com/Z4uZkZ2K

[kevengland]

Thanks for your reply.
My course is hosted outside of WordPress, on a platform called “teachable”, so my students are not members of my WordPress site. I’m wondering if there is a way to automatically register someone, when they purchase my course. I can automatically add them to Mailchimp, Convert Kit, etc, b so I’m wondering if it is possible with bb Press (WordPress).
Cheers.

[designserve]

I installed the following plugin on my dev site:

https://wpfavs.com/plugins/import-export-for-bbpress

Export is working perfectly (latest wordpress and bbpress).

Import not working at all but I might be doing something wrong. Very disappointing because this plugin looks so promising.

Giving up for now, I hope this helps someone I’ll actively update this if I make any progress.

[designserve]

Hi All,

I’ve spent the last 10 hours 36 minutes trying to import a few topics into my forum from CSV. I’ve tried many different techniques and plugins. I am updating this because maybe it will help someone, or you might be able to help me.

I’m assuming that Stephen’s method worked when he posted it. It appears to me that post_parent does not behave as it used to. I have used Stephen’s files from Github and imported them into my forum. I’ve very carefully followed every nuance of his post, as far as I can tell. Ultimate CSV Importer and WP ALL IMPORT EXPORT (I have the extended pro version) do not expose post_parent in the mapping. However, Ultimate CSV Importer (now known as ‘Import Export Post as CSV File’) does say in the documentation that it will pick up post_parent when importing. Unfortunately I didn’t check in the database before running the repair tools and they always seem to remove the hierarchy when i use them.

When I import using the fields bbp_forum_id and bbp_topic_id I am able to make some progress in that the Topics show that they are in the correct forum in the backend. But they don’t show up in the frontend.

See this post for some useful information:

Bulk-move bbPress topics

Anyway, when I import Stephen’s files, the Topics and Replies won’t show up for me. post_parent is incremented in the database when importing as far as I can tell. I have read many posts on this and other forums virtually begging for a bbpress csv importer and many of the replies mention post_parent as being central to the issues.

One example statement says “The standard WordPress Importer only sets a post’s post_parent if that post also exists in the import; it can’t map an imported post to a post that already exists in the database.”

With that in mind, I went into the database after importing Stephen’s files and I manually updated post_parent for the Topics and Replies. When I do that, the Topics and Replies show up in the frontend as they should. At least I’m understanding what needs to happen for the Topics and Replies to show up on the front end.

Having edited post_parent in the database (using phpMyadmin) I then ran the forum repair tools. Counts were updated and everything is where it should be.

I’m now almost at the point of letting sleeping dogs lie. However, I’m going to try an old plugin on my dev site and I’ll post the results of that shortly.

[Robin W]

use then alternate template in

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>forum templates

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses wordpress users, so if they are registered as part of your course, then bbpress will allocate them the default role (if you change nothing, then that is participant) on first login

[ginaginagina]

I’m in bbPress 2.5.14
Wordpress 5.2.2
Avada theme 5.9.1 (and yes, I tried disabling it 🙂

I’m not sure how to get the breadcrumbs to show above subforums and topics so that users can navigate back to the main forum page as they go deeper into the threads. I tried the troubleshooting steps in the “Getting Started” section, but to no avail. The forums are private, so I’m not able to share a useful URL. Not sure what I can share to help get this solved. I tried Robin’s bbstyle pack, too, under the “breadcrumbs” section and no go for me.

If the img embed doesn’t work, the screenshot can be seen here: share.getcloudapp.com/E0uln5v2

[designserve]

Thanks I actually feel better too that I have some company!

So, so many late nights. I’m looking at very old plugins and searching around the Internet at the moment. Wondering whether to try installing old versions of wordpress and bbpress so that they will work with old plugins, and then transfer to the latest bbpress somehow. I’ve been scraping my sites to get the CSVs and now I can’t import them, I actually can’t believe the situation I’m in. I decided on bbpress with buddypress for my new system last year and I’ve spent months setting it up, I can’t bear to start from scratch again.

Thanks for listening 🙂

[designserve]

I think I have a very similar issue (my replies are in the thread regarding CSV importing). Having imported Topics and replies WordPress is telling me they are in the same forum but I can’t get them to show up in the front end without editing them. I desperately need some help from a bbpress expert regarding importing forums via any reliable method please.

[amandainjames]

I think you want to add a custom widget in your theme. You can add custom widget adding this code in functions.php

function wpblog_widget()
{
    register_sidebar(array(
        'name' => __('Primary Sidebar', 'wpb'),
        'id' => 'primary_sidebar', // unique-sidebar-id
        'description' => '',
        'class' => '',
        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
        'after_widget' => '</li>',
        'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
        'after_title' => '</h2>',
    ));

}

add_action('widgets_init', 'wpblog_widget');

Reference: WordPress Custom Widgets

[amandainjames]

I will suggest you to go through a WordPress custom taxonomy tutorial. Here are three steps to create a custom taxonomies in WordPress. To create a custom taxonomy you have to add this code in functions.php

add_action( 'init', 'create_cw_hierarchical_taxonomy', 0 );
//create a custom taxonomy name
function create_cw_hierarchical_taxonomy() {
$labels = array(
'name' => _x( 'Topics', 'taxonomy general name' ),
'singular_name' => _x( 'Topic', 'taxonomy singular name' ),
'search_items' => __( 'Search Topics' ),
'all_items' => __( 'All Topics' ),
'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Topic' ),
'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Topic:' ),
'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Topic' ),
'update_item' => __( 'Update Topic' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Topic' ),
'new_item_name' => __( 'New Topic Name' ),
'menu_name' => __( 'Topics' ),
);
// taxonomy register
register_taxonomy('topics',array('post'), array(
'hierarchical' => true,
'labels' => $labels,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_admin_column' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'topic' ),
));
}

[John James Jacoby]

You won’t get much advice about other forum software in these forums, as these forums are for bbPress (not against it.)

The support in these forums is all volunteer based. No one gets paid to be around to help. Everyone is passionate, but no one is obligated. We have great moderators that keep things clean, but your experience is not uncommon – it helps to be your own site admin.

I see you’ve created 6 topics here, 1 of them was asking for some code help, and 2 of them (including this one) are general gripes with (not) getting things working how you’d like them to without anything really to say back?

bbPress is intentionally simple forum software. It’s opinionated but flexible, so you get a pretty basic experience out of the box, but it requires a bit of determination to customize it to do exactly what you want it to.

You’re right that most hosting providers are generally disinterested in helping with websites themselves; they’re in the business of making sure websites work, so they’re not spending much time deep into how plugins and themes look or feel or work with one another. They’ll probably redirect you back here for most bbPress questions.

If you’re the only person running your community, and you’re unable to keep things working on your own, I can understand why you feel the way you do. I can tell you that bbPress.org runs an unmodified version of bbPress that has required very little ongoing maintenance. All we’ve done here is create a WordPress theme to make things feel a little bit more like a forum than a blog. Together with WordPress.org we do have 11 million user accounts and a high volume of concurrent users across multiple different forums.

It sounds like your forums might be more active than ours here, but it’s hard to know exactly what glitches and problems you’re having, and most things aren’t as easy as coding a snippet for you and having you drop it in someplace.

I’m sorry that your experience with bbPress hasn’t been pleasant. I’m not sure what more to say, other than if you keep with it and keep learning, it is a very capable and fun piece of software that helps hundreds of thousands of communities run really smoothly. Hopefully that continues to include yours!

[John James Jacoby]

The breadcrumbs are automatically generated based on the page or archive hierarchy.

Try: Admin > Settings > Forums

Forum Root: community/fora
Forum Prefix: Unchecked

Then for all of the Single Slugs, prefix them with community/.

You could also try creating a WordPress Page hierarchy that has “community” as the first slug and “fora” as the second child page, then use a bbPress shortcode in the content of that page.

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses WordPress registration, so anything that does WordPress registration will work fine, including many free custom add-on plugins

you can also use the bbpress registration shortcode on a page

Shortcodes

[ginaginagina]

I thought this would naturally happen as a super sticky topic. Basically, I want the same message to show up at the top of each forum so that members see it before they start posting (sort of like a “Read this before you get started” pinned topic). However, as soon as I started creating other sub-forums and topics, it got pushed to the bottom of the page, which obviously means a lot of people will miss it entirely.

How do you get it to stay at the top of each forum as a reminder?

My forums are all private, so you wouldn’t be able to see it (hence, I’m not adding a URL), but I am including a screenshot.

Wordpress version: 5.2.2
bbPress version: 2.5.14
Screenshot: https://share.getcloudapp.com/eDuoLJGy

Unfortunately, I can’t test a different theme; I just tried in staging to do that and the site broke completely, so I don’t want to test in my live site. However, this doesn’t seem like a theme issue.

[rickmunroe17]

I am using Divi theme version 3.2.2.5 and the latest version of the BBPress wordpress plugin.

Trying to have a full width forum without the sidebar.

Cannot figure out how to hide the sidebar in both desktop and mobile.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Robin W]

As the ‘about’ page says ‘We’re keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system.’

so bbpress will be maintained, but their will not be lots of features added – many are provided by others eg

Private groups This Plugin creates unlimited private forum groups
bbp style pack Lets you style bbpress, and add display features
bbp topic count Adds any combination of topics, replies and totals under the authors avatar in topics and replies
bbp profile information Adds up to 4 fields to the bbp user profile and displays any combination of these under the authors avatar in topics and replies
bbp user ranking Lets you add ranking and badges to topics and replies and profiles
bbP Toolkit Swiss knife tweaking and hacking Toolkit for bbPress. Set global options and style your forums.
bbpress sort topics/replies Sort topic replies in ascending or descending order for each bbPress Topic. You can choose to save setting for each topic, for the whole Forum or set globally for every Topic
bbPress Genesis Extend Provides basic compatibility with bbPress and the Genesis Framework with a few extra goodies
bbPress – Moderation Tools Add the ability to moderate and approve new topics and replies in bbPress
bbP Signature This plugin adds user signature support to bbPress
bbPress2 BBCode This plugin adds support for popular bbcode forum code to posts, comments, pages, bbpress forums and buddypress activity and group forums.
GD bbPress Attachments Implements attachments upload to the topics and replies in bbPress plugin through media library and adds additional forum based controls.
bbPress Go To First Unread Post Allows registered bbPress users to quickly jump to the first unread post in a topic
bbPress Topics for Posts Replace the comments on your WordPress blog posts with topics from an integrated bbPress install
Inline Image Upload for BBPress Upload inline images to BBPress forum topics and replies.
bbpress Simple Advert Units Insert advert units (such as adsense or Amazon widgets) into your bbpress forum.
bbPress – Private Replies A simple plugin to allow your bbPress users to mark their replies as private.
bbPress Messages bbPress Messages – User Private Messages with notifications, widgets and media with no BuddyPress needed.
bbP Move Topics Move topics from one forum to another, convert post/comments into topic/replies in the same site.
bbp user online status A WordPress plugin to show user online/offline statuses in bbpress topics and replies
bbp-valoration Adds thumbsup, visits and replies count to topics on bbpress, display results on a widget.
BBP Auto-Close Topics BBP Auto-Close Topics will automatically close bbPress topics after an admin-specified time period.
bbResolutions bbResolutions, will let you set topic resolutions (Resolved, Not resolved and Not a question).
Inline Image Upload for BBPress Upload inline images to BBPress forum topics and replies
bbPress Advanced Statistics Achieve phpBB / vBulletin-esque statistics for your bbPress Forum
bbPress Custom Email Notifications Modify subscription emails sent to users
Canned Replies Let’s moderators and keymasters create standard replies and use these in responses
BBP Improvements for yoast This is a very simple but very helpful tool to help yoast wordpress seo support bbpress better.
bbPress GDPR bbPress GDPR plugin extends new Data Export & Data Erasure feature bundled with WordPress 4.9.6 Release.
AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions Amends how bbpress sends emails

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