[Matt]

WordPress Version: 4.8
bbPress Version: 2.5.13
Site Address: https://www.explodingbush.net

Hello,

Recently, I started using bbPress and it’s been fantastic so far. One of the things I’ve been trying to complete was an announcement/important information forum. I want to let users read the topics and comment, but not post anything on this specific forum. I have other forums where I want the users to have access to posting topics.
I’m not sure if this is possible or if it was brought up in the past.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My best,
Matt

[janurmas]

Hello, I currently using SMF on my forum site. I have no idea how to connect my SMF to my WordPress blog, as the forum is part of the blog, which is installed under its subdomain. Please, help me give an idea how to convert SMF to bbpress!

[TrustedOrb]

Sorry, the problem is solved after installing bbPress 2.6 beta 2 from https://bbpress.org/download/. I was on bbPress 2.5.13, WordPress 4.8, PHP 7.x

[TrustedOrb]

Set up WordPress on my Windows PC. When I click on “Forums”, I get the error
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\forums\functions.php:1800 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\class-wp-hook.php(298): bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility(Object(WP_Query)) #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\class-wp-hook.php(323): WP_Hook->apply_filters('', Array) #2 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\plugin.php(515): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\class-wp-query.php(1683): do_action_ref_array('pre_get_posts', Array) #4 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\class-wp-query.php(3248): WP_Query->get_posts() #5 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\class-wp.php(617): WP_Query->query(Array) #6 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\class-wp.php(735): WP->query_posts() #7 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\functions.php(955): WP->main(Array) #8 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\includes\post.php(1072): wp(Array) #9 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\includ in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\forums\functions.php on line 1800
New forums can be created without any errors, but when I click on the URL of the new forum, I get the same error again.

[ganapathi9]

Hi all,

I am aware of this plugin BBPress Topics for Posts : “https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/”.

It creates wordpress posts as topics in BBPress Forum and also posts all the comments of that post as replies to the same topic created in the Forum.

The problem with this plugin is it replaces the comments in the WP post with a link to the forum topic for further discussion and one cannot comment further.

Along with the link for discussion, I want the comments to be enabled so a user with no time can just leave a comment and go.

I read this feature is going to be part of core BBPress 2.6. Could somebody confirm on this?

Any solutions availabe also, I am ready to pay.

Regards
Gana

[Robin W]

fairly major bit of work.

If you were talking about participants, my private groups plugin has the ability to restrict users down to just posting topics, so you could set up a forum where only topics can be posted.

Private groups

But making this a visitor only is an entirely different ballgame.

[Shmoo]

Well, if you’re not afraid to dive into the template files you could walk though them and comment-out the parts where the replies get included.

I this part for example.

But when you start doing this you need to understand how to override bbPress template files by copying them over to your own WordPress theme directory. You can find more about that in the codex.

It’s just walking through paths and following the hierarchy.

OF course, back-up and always test this first locally. Never do stuff like this straight on live websites.

[Robin W]

Not sure where it is set in your theme, I see the resultant output in a browser inspector.

If you theme has a custom css area, then put the above in there and play with the settings

If you don’t then there are several custom css plugins (google) or my style pack plugin has a custom css tab

bbp style pack

you may need to put !important after a setting to get it to take eg

img {
height: 28px;
min-width: 0;
width: 100px !important;
}

[margley]

Hi
Is it possible to limit the WordPress plugin bbpress to a single forum? I want to only have a single forum on my site, where users can create new topics within that forum. I’d like to remove the Forum List page entirely as well.

I’ve tried putting the shortcode from this post (Restricting bbpress to a single forum) on my individual forum page, but that didn’t seem to work…

Please let me know your thoughts!

[mwheelermindbox]

I am using WordPress 4.8 multisite and noticed a bug in bbPress 2.5.12 and 2.5.13 (possibly older versions as well) with PHP 7.1.6.

Lines 1798-1805 of includes/forum/functions.php is

// Default to public status
if (empty( $post_stati ) ) {
	$post_stati[] = bbp_get_public_status_id();

// Split the status string
} elseif ( is_string( $post_stati ) ) {
	$post_stati = explode( ',', $post_stati );
}

For me $post_stati looks to be an empty string so the if is evaluating to true and the next line is failing with this error:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in /srv/www/tilth.org/current/web/app/plugins/bbpress/includes/forums/functions.php on line 1800

Changing line 1799 to:

if (is_array( $post_stati) && empty( $post_stati ) ) {

looks to fix the error.

Perhaps adding a line inside the conditional of

$post_stati = array();

is a better fix.

[hannibalherman]

Hi, on my site Greenkeepitsimple.dk the profile pictures are too wide, how do i fix it?
I use bbPress 2.5.13-6410
And the newest wordpress version

Here is a picture of the problem

picture

[subhendu77]

Hello everyone,

in my site bbpress multilingual is not working properly. in my site, i use wpml for language dropdown. but in english its not showing the other language name into dropdown, but in dutch language dropdown, english is showing into dropdown. i m giving u the two link.

http://webdev.wordpress-developer.us/bbq/forums/

http://webdev.wordpress-developer.us/bbq/nl/forums/

kindly help me about the issue
Regards
Subhendu

[Rixter]

Thanks for that Robin!
I love plugins, they make WordPress very rich. But sometimes they interfere with other plugins. So I always try to search for a functionality or easy solution before installing an extra plugin. But I will have a look!

Is there a way to do this inside bbPress? Or in the ‘reaction’ settings or somewhere else?

[Milan Petrovic]

bbPress should focus on performance, not features, it has to be flexible to expand and customise, and team working on it needs to be able to maintain the core, not solving theme issues for all possible forum features. It is the same as with WordPress, core features extended by the plugins.

A lot of forums users need basic features, and they find bbPress easy to setup and use. And, there are a lot of other features added through plugins to extended the bbPress, and users can choose what to install and use.

If you need more forum features, I can recommend my Toolbox plugin for bbPress: https://plugins.dev4press.com/gd-bbpress-toolbox/ and few more bbPress plugins you can find on my website.

Regards,
Milan

[Robin W]

my style pack plugin has this feature, along with loads more.

bbp style pack

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>topic/reply form item 6

[TrustedOrb]

Are there any limits on the number of sign ups in forums? Does WordPress limit that either?

[Robin W]

my style pack plugin has a topic order tab, which lets you sort by topic date

bbp style pack

[Robin W]

My plugin private groups will let you have public, private and premium forums

Private groups

[willes]

Hi,

I’m trying to import a phpbb forum (3.0.12) to a new bbpress (2.5.13) installation.

Everything works well, except that I’d like that imported users that exist in the wordpress (4.8) installation are automatically linked to subjects, messages, etc…

As mention in this post, I could delete “imported_…” accounts and choose the existing users. But I have more than 1100 matches. One by one is just terrible…

I tried to modify the “bbpress/includes/admin/convert.php” file but with no success.

Is there any way “automate” this ?
Thank you.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi, do you see the topics in the backend ( /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic ) ? Did you run the repairs (one at a time) from Tools>Forums ( /wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-repair ) ?

If you have run the repairs and still have issues, please give us some info on previous and new site like WordPress version, bbPress version, etc.

Pascal.

[TrustedOrb]

Hi Robin W,

Will it work on latest WordPress and bbPress versions?

[FionaS]

Kia ora from New Zealand 🙂
Just thought I’d let you know that I am also having problems with this since upgrading to PHP 7.1. To trouble-shoot I have changed my theme to the default 2017, I have deactivated all other plugins and instead of just a blank page I now get the HTTP ERROR 500; I had also changed line 1851 (a couple of weeks ago) but that didn’t work either so I was just hoping that the bbPress upgrade to v 2.5.13 would fix this but unfortunately not. I got my host to roll back the PHP upgrade and everything started to work again.
I am not a PHP programmer so cannot give you all the details that tweichart has.
Version of WordPress is 4.8 but also had the same problem with the previous version.

[MrShawnTierney]

Good afternoon BBPress community,

I’m moving an existing site to a new install, and have successfully exported and imported most of the site.

But when I get to BBPress I run into a problem importing the Topics. The built-in WordPress importer says it was successful, BUT no topics show up in the forum or in the dashboard.

Any ideas?

Is BBPress not compatible with WordPress’s built-in Import and Export routines? This would be quite strange as several free plugins I use work fine, so I’m guessing there is a workaround?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Shawn

[robotwealth]

My users can’t edit forum posts that they’ve posted. When the ‘edit’ link is clicked, users are taken to the text editor, but the text is colored white (and is therefore invisible unless highlighted) and all editing tools are absent, other than ‘Ad media’, which is greyed out.

I can confirm that the timeout option is set appropriately.

My website is https://robotwealth.com and I running WordPress v4.8 and bbPress v2.5.13

Example of an attempt to edit a post below:

Any known issues related to this? Anyone else experience something similar?

[subhendu77]

Hello everyone,

in my site bbpress multilingual is not working properly. in my site, i use wpml for language dropdown. but in english its not showing the other language name into dropdown, but in dutch language dropdown, english is showing into dropdown. i m giving u the two link.

http://webdev.wordpress-developer.us/bbq/forums/

http://webdev.wordpress-developer.us/bbq/nl/forums/

kindly help me about the issue
Regards
Subhendu