[Col_Blimp]

Hi, you know the sites SSL only and the browser warnings for non SSL images are overkill and off putting so I would rather the site have the green padlock all the time and have the users find a decent image host than show all images but have browser warnings.

Usually removing the http:// altogether works and the browser will show the green padlock for non SSL images but WordPress doesn’t seem to like it when you do that and wont show any image.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Steve,

As Robin answered, you could look into his coding for the bbP Style Pack to see how it works.

There is also https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#8-add-edit-profile-to-a-wordpress-menu that might give you a hint.

Pascal.

[stefaanc]

Hello Pascal,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, the kind of forum I have in mind is one forum per question. The question would be one that triggers opinions rather than exact answers. If students would read the already available answers first, opinions tend to cluster around the ones that were given first. If they have to formulate their opinion before being able to read the others, there is much larger variety of opinions. And yet they can engage in discussions about each other’s opinions afterwards.

I’m new to WordPress and bbpress, but from the try-outs and tests we have been doing over the past week it looks like the LearnDash plugin in combination with bbpress would be suitable for our needs. We’re ready to invest some work in this if needed. Hence, if you have a suggestion about suitable plugins or would have specific advice for the ‘short coding’ you mention, we will surely investigate.

Thanks !

[Robin W]

How do I add a link to my menu for people to access their profile an update it.

use my style pack

bbp style pack

and go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>login and set the options there

[Martin]

Hi!, I need to do this in my wordpress. I’ver already installed rpb-chessboard and bbpress-do-short-codes plugins, but i don’t know where i have to call function
add_filter (‘pw_bbp_parse_shortcodes_cap’ , ‘publish_topics’ ) ;

When I active bb-press-do-shot-codes [pgn] and [fen] sections were disappeard.

Thanks!

[stefaanc]

I am looking for a WordPress forum plugin for an educational environment, and came across bbPress. It has many promising features, but there is one essential feature I need for which I cannot find confirmation in the documentation whether it is available in bbPress. This is it:

When a user (student) posts for the first time to a forum — typically in answer to the question related to that specific forum — I want they cannot read the available forum posts until they have submitted their first post: I see nothing/I submit my first post/now I see all other posts.

This is a ‘trick’ often used in educational settings, because it stimulates every student to think about the question from scratch, unbiased by the previous answers. Such an approach stimulates a larger diversity of answers.

Is such a tool available in bbpress?

Thanks for your insight!

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for the detailed explanation @tweichart 🙂

This has been fixed for the upcoming bbPress 2.6

It was fixed via https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6113

[Robin W]

bbp profile information

[Dustin L.]

WordPress 4.7.3
bbPress 2.5.12

Everything was working fine with WooCommerce 2.6.14. I had forum root set to ‘community’ and I created a page with the slug ‘community’. When navigating to /community WP was displaying my page.

After updating to WooCommerce 3.0.1 WP now displays the forum root (archive-forum.php) instead of the my custom page (page-community.php).

If I switch to storefront or any of the recent Twenty * themes the problem goes away. If I use my theme and disable all other plugins, the problem persists. So this seems to be a conflict between my theme and WooCommerce that is causing this issue.

I can resolve the issue by changing either the forum root or my page slug but I would prefer not to do that. Any ideas on how I might be able to resolve this and keep my URLs intact?

[nesiditsa]

I think you should review some meta fields in WordPress DB if you can. You may find meta “menu_order” in last post of topic and “_bbp_last_active_id” meta field of first topic post. It needs to review both fields after posting in long topic with issue.

[Robin W]

great – glad that worked.

yes use my style pack plugin

bbp style pack

[nesiditsa]

Hi, dayan89! You should do corrections in core code of bbpress – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5338. After that it needs to run “Recalculate the position of each reply” repair tool (Пересчитать положение каждого ответа – in Russian).

[5lions]

I AM a hosting provider. Crazy fast servers. Siteground can hold a candle to what I run 😉

But when software is this bogged down, the hardware cost is just too high to justify. I would have to charge my customers 10X to make up for the performance difference and new hardware requirements.

Ive been optimizing for weeks, but the sad truth is, I could run on 1/5th-1/10th the hardware if I simply switched to other forum software that was built from the ground up to run forums. WordPress architecture has bbPress’s hands effectively tied.

[5lions]

Well, even after killing the heartbeat, and running a hardware/software that is probably at least 400% faster, my users are complaining about how slow everything is.

I may have to start the nightmare of migrating to yet another solution. 🙁

The newish wpForo forum plugin for wordpress looks very nice, and yhey use their own set of tables so probably very fast.

***BUT*** they have no 301 redirect solution from bbPress which means I would lose all my google rankings. So thats a deal breaker.

Its 2017 and forum solutions are still bad. Frustrated as hell. Cant find anything that works well and integrates with wordpress well. Burned soooo much time on this.

[dayan89]

Hello fellow bbpressers,

I have a problem. Latest reply link in sidebar widget is not functioning properly in a thread with big amount of replies. On other threads it is functioning correctly.

Link is like this: http://dailyfantasysports.ru/forum/topic/ponesli-sandali-mityu/#post-21564

You see? There is no page slug in URL!

It has to be like this: http://dailyfantasysports.ru/forum/topic/ponesli-sandali-mityu/page/53/#post-21564

But it’s not!

How to fix it?

I’ve tried to repair forums (WordPress Dashboard -> ‘Tools’ -> ‘Forums’ -> ‘Repair Forums’ ) It helps. But only until next reply in this thread. After new reply link is broken again.

Please tell me how to fix it. Cannot solve this problem for whole month!

[tananaev]

I added functions to “functions.php” in my theme:

I’m not a PHP developer and I’m not a WordPress expert, so I’m sure it’s far from perfect, but here is my code:

function custom_bbp_notify_topic_subscribers( $reply_id = 0, $topic_id = 0, $forum_id = 0, $anonymous_data = false, $reply_author = 0 ) {

    // Bail if subscriptions are turned off
    if ( !bbp_is_subscriptions_active() ) {
        return false;
    }

    /** Validation ************************************************************/

    $reply_id = bbp_get_reply_id( $reply_id );
    $topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_id );
    $forum_id = bbp_get_forum_id( $forum_id );

    /** Topic *****************************************************************/

    // Bail if topic is not published
    if ( !bbp_is_topic_published( $topic_id ) ) {
        return false;
    }

    /** Reply *****************************************************************/

    // Bail if reply is not published
    if ( !bbp_is_reply_published( $reply_id ) ) {
        return false;
    }

    // Poster name
    $reply_author_name = bbp_get_reply_author_display_name( $reply_id );

    /** Mail ******************************************************************/

    // Remove filters from reply content and topic title to prevent content
    // from being encoded with HTML entities, wrapped in paragraph tags, etc...
    remove_all_filters( 'bbp_get_reply_content' );
    remove_all_filters( 'bbp_get_topic_title'   );

    // Strip tags from text and setup mail data
    $topic_title   = strip_tags( bbp_get_topic_title( $topic_id ) );
    $reply_content = strip_tags( bbp_get_reply_content( $reply_id ) );
    $reply_url     = bbp_get_reply_url( $reply_id );
    $blog_name     = wp_specialchars_decode( get_option( 'blogname' ), ENT_QUOTES );

    // For plugins to filter messages per reply/topic/user
    $message = sprintf( __( '%1$s wrote:

%2$s

Post Link: %3$s

-----------

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to a forum topic.

Login and visit the topic to unsubscribe from these emails.', 'bbpress' ),

        $reply_author_name,
        $reply_content,
        $reply_url
    );

    $message = apply_filters( 'bbp_subscription_mail_message', $message, $reply_id, $topic_id );
    if ( empty( $message ) ) {
        return;
    }

    // For plugins to filter titles per reply/topic/user
    $subject = apply_filters( 'bbp_subscription_mail_title', '[' . $blog_name . '] ' . $topic_title, $reply_id, $topic_id );
    if ( empty( $subject ) ) {
        return;
    }

    /** Users *****************************************************************/

    // Get the noreply@ address
    $no_reply   = bbp_get_do_not_reply_address();

    // Setup "From" email address
    $from_email = apply_filters( 'bbp_subscription_from_email', $no_reply );

    // Get topic subscribers and bail if empty
    $user_ids = bbp_get_topic_subscribers( $topic_id, true );

    // Dedicated filter to manipulate user ID's to send emails to
    $user_ids = apply_filters( 'bbp_topic_subscription_user_ids', $user_ids );
    if ( empty( $user_ids ) ) {
        return false;
    }

    $to_email = apply_filters( 'bbp_subscription_to_email', $no_reply );

    do_action( 'bbp_pre_notify_subscribers', $reply_id, $topic_id, $user_ids );

    for ( $i = 0; $i <= count($user_ids); $i++ ) {
        if ( $i % (50 - 1) === 0 || $i === count($user_ids) ) {
            if ( $i !== 0 ) {
                $headers  = apply_filters( 'bbp_subscription_mail_headers', $headers );
                wp_mail( $to_email, $subject, $message, $headers );
            }

            $headers = array( 'From: ' . get_bloginfo( 'name' ) . ' <' . $from_email . '>' );
        }

        if ( $i < count($user_ids) ) {
            // Don't send notifications to the person who made the post
            if ( !empty( $reply_author ) && (int) $user_ids[$i] === (int) $reply_author ) {
                continue;
            }

            // Get email address of subscribed user
            $headers[] = 'Bcc: ' . get_userdata( $user_ids[$i] )->user_email;
        }
    }

    do_action( 'bbp_post_notify_subscribers', $reply_id, $topic_id, $user_ids );

    return true;
}

function custom_bbp_notify_forum_subscribers( $topic_id = 0, $forum_id = 0, $anonymous_data = false, $topic_author = 0 ) {

    // Bail if subscriptions are turned off
    if ( !bbp_is_subscriptions_active() ) {
        return false;
    }

    /** Validation ************************************************************/

    $topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_id );
    $forum_id = bbp_get_forum_id( $forum_id );

    /**
     * Necessary for backwards compatibility
     *
     * @see https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2620
     */
    $user_id  = 0;

    /** Topic *****************************************************************/

    // Bail if topic is not published
    if ( ! bbp_is_topic_published( $topic_id ) ) {
        return false;
    }

    // Poster name
    $topic_author_name = bbp_get_topic_author_display_name( $topic_id );

    /** Mail ******************************************************************/

    // Remove filters from reply content and topic title to prevent content
    // from being encoded with HTML entities, wrapped in paragraph tags, etc...
    remove_all_filters( 'bbp_get_topic_content' );
    remove_all_filters( 'bbp_get_topic_title'   );

    // Strip tags from text and setup mail data
    $topic_title   = strip_tags( bbp_get_topic_title( $topic_id ) );
    $topic_content = strip_tags( bbp_get_topic_content( $topic_id ) );
    $topic_url     = get_permalink( $topic_id );
    $blog_name     = wp_specialchars_decode( get_option( 'blogname' ), ENT_QUOTES );

    // For plugins to filter messages per reply/topic/user
    $message = sprintf( __( '%1$s wrote:

%2$s

Topic Link: %3$s

-----------

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to a forum.

Login and visit the topic to unsubscribe from these emails.', 'bbpress' ),

        $topic_author_name,
        $topic_content,
        $topic_url
    );

    $message = apply_filters( 'bbp_forum_subscription_mail_message', $message, $topic_id, $forum_id, $user_id );
    if ( empty( $message ) ) {
        return;
    }

    // For plugins to filter titles per reply/topic/user
    $subject = apply_filters( 'bbp_forum_subscription_mail_title', '[' . $blog_name . '] ' . $topic_title, $topic_id, $forum_id, $user_id );
    if ( empty( $subject ) ) {
        return;
    }

    /** User ******************************************************************/

    // Get the noreply@ address
    $no_reply   = bbp_get_do_not_reply_address();

    // Setup "From" email address
    $from_email = apply_filters( 'bbp_subscription_from_email', $no_reply );

    // Get topic subscribers and bail if empty
    $user_ids = bbp_get_forum_subscribers( $forum_id, true );

    // Dedicated filter to manipulate user ID's to send emails to
    $user_ids = apply_filters( 'bbp_forum_subscription_user_ids', $user_ids );
    if ( empty( $user_ids ) ) {
        return false;
    }

    $to_email = apply_filters( 'bbp_subscription_to_email', $no_reply );

    do_action( 'bbp_pre_notify_forum_subscribers', $topic_id, $forum_id, $user_ids );

    for ( $i = 0; $i <= count($user_ids); $i++ ) {
        if ( $i % (50 - 1) === 0 || $i === count($user_ids) ) {
            if ( $i !== 0 ) {
                $headers  = apply_filters( 'bbp_subscription_mail_headers', $headers );
                wp_mail( $to_email, $subject, $message, $headers );
            }

            $headers = array( 'From: ' . get_bloginfo( 'name' ) . ' <' . $from_email . '>' );
        }

        if ( $i < count($user_ids) ) {
            // Don't send notifications to the person who made the post
            if ( !empty( $topic_author ) && (int) $user_ids[$i] === (int) $topic_author ) {
                continue;
            }

            // Get email address of subscribed user
            $headers[] = 'Bcc: ' . get_userdata( $user_ids[$i] )->user_email;
        }
    }

    do_action( 'bbp_post_notify_forum_subscribers', $topic_id, $forum_id, $user_ids );

    return true;
}

function custom_bbp_init () {

    remove_action ('bbp_new_reply', 'bbp_notify_topic_subscribers', 11);
    add_action ('bbp_new_reply', 'custom_bbp_notify_topic_subscribers', 11, 5);

    remove_action ('bbp_new_topic', 'bbp_notify_forum_subscribers', 11);
    add_action ('bbp_new_topic', 'custom_bbp_notify_forum_subscribers', 11, 4);

}

add_action ('bbp_init', 'custom_bbp_init', 99);

[Pascal Casier]

Hi @tananaev ,

It took me some time to look around, but maybe https://wordpress.org/plugins/asyncronous-bbpress-subscriptions/ can help you ?

[Brandon Allen]

@giobby

What I can tell you for sure as a general feedback is that since I’ve moved to bbPRess from phpBB the forum has suddenly died and users are pushing me to roll back to phpBB as they don’t find bbPress as user friendly.

Humans are generally resistant to change. That doesn’t mean they’re wrong, but it also doesn’t mean they’re right. If you would be willing to share specific feedback your users have given you, we would love to look it over and see what we can do. There’s lots of room for improvement.

2.6a has been there for a while and I am wondering when a stable version will be available and what new functionalities will be available.

I’m curious about what specific version of 2.6-alpha you’re running (this should be listed in the admin on the plugins page, e.g. – 2.6-alpha-XXXX). Ultimately, it doesn’t really matter though, because we’re currently at 2.6-beta-2 (https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.2.6-beta-2.zip).

I would suggest updating to 2.6-beta-2 and seeing if anything improves. 2.6 will have a lot of improvements. Performance is one of those improvements. The biggest performance improvements won’t becoming until beta-3 is released, but you can always download the development version (https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip).

Do let us know what comes of any changes.

[John James Jacoby]

This is a classic question/problem, that has many-many possible answers.

Your first resource for improving anything should be what’s available on this codex page:

Improving Performance

Everything that’s on that page should be considered, implemented, and tuned. Most of that isn’t specific to bbPress (and is appropriate even just for most WordPress installs) but plugins like bbPress will show huge improvements with adequate caching available.

* Concurrent users
* Database slowness
* Page load times
* Excessive database queries

Improving each of those 4 things requires tweaking & tuning specific things for your specific hardware setup. And if you’re on shared hosting, you might not be able to change any of that configuration at all.

The “concurrent users” problem that BuddyPress & bbPress sites have is actually a good problem to have – it means people are using your site and participating in your community. Server configuration is critical here, as is having adequate hardware that will be ready to serve those requests to your users.

The reason most WordPress installations don’t have the same problem, is because there are fewer (if any) logged in users interacting with a traditional blog, news, or website without participation. Comments are the only database interaction, and most people disable them these days anyways.

There are companies (such as WeFoster) whose primary focus is on optimizing their hosting environments for active communities. They’ll offer all of the above and more to help you tune specific things.

In my experience, it’s easier to identify a specific performance concern, and improve that one thing until you’re happy enough to move onto the next concern.

[Roman Matovsky]

I use last version. And I downloaded from here https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress/stable/ru/default
But problem is: files shouldn’t be here /wp-content/languages/bbpress/ , files should be here /wp-content/languages/plugins/
Change instruction please https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/bbpress-in-your-language/

[kbaldac]

We are running WordPress 4.7.3 with bbpress 2.5.12 at http://one-name.org. This mysql error started appearing last night when accessing any forum, topic or reply. I believe it relates to the ‘AND ((()))’ clause:

Apr 06, 13:03:46
WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near ‘))) AND ggx_posts.post_type IN (‘topic’, ‘reply’) AND (ggx_posts.post_status = ‘ at line 1 for query SELECT ggx_posts.* FROM ggx_posts FORCE INDEX (PRIMARY, post_parent) WHERE 1=1 AND (ggx_posts.ID = 29822 OR ggx_posts.post_parent = 29822) AND ((())) AND ggx_posts.post_type IN (‘topic’, ‘reply’) AND (ggx_posts.post_status = ‘publish’ OR ggx_posts.post_status = ‘closed’ OR ggx_posts.post_status = ‘retained’ OR ggx_posts.post_author = 5528 AND ggx_posts.post_status = ‘private’ OR ggx_posts.post_author = 5528 AND ggx_posts.post_status = ‘hidden’) ORDER BY ggx_posts.post_date ASC made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-includes/template-loader.php’), apply_filters(‘template_include’), WP_Hook->apply_filters, call_user_func_array, bbp_template_include, apply_filters(‘bbp_template_include’), WP_Hook->apply_filters, call_user_func_array, bbp_template_include_theme_compat, BBP_Shortcodes->display_topic, bbp_get_template_part, bbp_locate_template, load_template, require(‘/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-topic.php’), bbp_has_replies, WP_Query->__construct, WP_Query->query, WP_Query->get_posts

[Roman Matovsky]

Didn’t work 🙁
I have /wp-content/languages/ So, I created /wp-content/languages/bbpress/
I dowloaded .PO from here https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.4.x/ru/default
Changed what I need. Saved as bbpress-ru_RU.po Compilated to .MO and put both (PO and MO) to /wp-content/languages/bbpress/ (bbpress-ru_RU.po and bbpress-ru_RU.mo)
I even clean cash. But nothing.
Help me please.

[Pascal Casier]

That a standard feature of WordPress: Subscriptions.

If somebody is subscribed to a forum, that person will receive an email upon new topic creation.
If somebody is subscribed to a topic, that person will receive an email upon new reply creation.

When you are in a forum, somewhere on top it should say ‘subscribe’. Clicking there should send you emails when new topics are created.

If you, as admin (keymaster) or moderator wants to deal with (manage) subscriptions, have a look at my bbP Toolkit plugin that has ways of activating/deactivating for other users.

[angrywarrior]

1.) I have tested and deactived all plugins, but there is no difference. BBpress just throws 404 on all child forums.

2.) i have tested with permalinks. Nothing works except for “default”, then it finds the sub forums and displays them all other permalink modes/options fails.

3.) I have checked .htaccess and cannot find anything special that could make a difference. I haven’t changed anything for sometime. It (bbpress) has worked fine until now.

4.) I’m using the latest version of wordpress, bbpress & buddypress.

Any idea what could be worng here? I would appreciate anything that would point me in the right direction!

Thanks!

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
bbPress translation is centralized here: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress/stable/ru/default

If you want to propose a new translation so everybody in the world that uses it in Russian gets your update (when it gets approved), then you can do that using the above link.

If you only want to change it on your local installation, you can read the codex on https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/bbpress-in-your-language/