[michaelrich]

That is a very good question.

I asked myself the same a few months ago, because I am starting a new forum on my website with it at the moment. I hope it is fine, but I would love to hear what a developer would say about that?

I mean it still seems to be the offical solution and works with the newest wordpress and PHP version.

But alone that you haven’t got an answer for weeks makes me a bit nervous…
My website now is really dependent on it…

I used it because it meets my requirements by far the best.
But it had kind of a bad taste because of that.
A new WordPress, PHP version or security vulnerability could break it and on my host I am forced to update PHP regularly.

Normally I am not installing any plugin which haven’t got an update in the last year because normally this is a pretty red flag.

[Robin W]

these additional plugins will help

1. not 5 stars, but allows voting

bbPress Voting

2.

stats in WordPress are notoriously unreliable, I don’t know of a plugin that does this.

3.

Inline Image Upload for BBPress

[ibnat]

Hi, I am trying to remove an image upload button that was placed on the TinyMCE reply editor by an image upload plugin. When I uninstalled the plugin the image on the editor has remained and is linkable to a broken page (obviously as the plugin has been removed). The topic on the plugins author page is here but we can’t seem to find a solution. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removed-plugin-but-image-add-icon-still-visible/

“This plugin enables the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor for BBPress forum topics and replies and adds a button to the editor’s “Insert/edit image” dialog that allows forum users to upload images from their computer and insert them inline into their posts.”

Can anyone point me to a way to remove this image upload button or is there a way to edit the layout and options of the editor with a different plugin?

Thanks in advance

[Steve Manes]

Using globally-scoped CSS to style elements and override classes in WordPress, like the garden-variety style.css. It has nothing to do with bbstyle.

Ex.

#bbpress-forums {
font-size: 14px !important;
font-weight: 500 !important;
font-family: Roboto !important;
}
.bbpress-wrapper {
font-size: 14px !important;
font-weight: 500 !important;
font-family: Roboto !important;
}
.bbp-breadcrumb, .bbp-breadcrumb-home {
font-size: 14px !important;
font-family: Roboto !important;
}
.bbp-topic-permalink {
font-size: 15px !important;
font-weight: 500 !important;
}
.bbp-header, .bbp-reply-author {
background-color: #F8AA3C !important;
font-size: 16px !important;
font-family: Roboto !important;
}

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

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

at look at item 9

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>topic counts

[annllose]

Hello, first of all sorry for my English.
I have a wordpress site under construction with bbpress, budypress and gamipress linked.
I have several questions, so I put them in different topics. Here is this query:
I have an achievement system set up on the website for completing actions, tasks, etc.
Could the achievements achieved by users be seen in the forum, for example under the avatar?
Greetings and thanks for the help.

[annllose]

Hello, first of all sorry for my English.
I have a wordpress site under construction with bbpress, budypress and gamipress linked.
I have several questions, so I put them in different topics. Here is this query:
Would it be possible that when someone writes in the forum, the total number of messages they have written in the forum appears? In other forums I have seen it under the user’s avatar.
It would be something like what I attached in the link.
Link
Greetings and thanks for the help.

[annllose]

Hello, first of all sorry for my English.
I have a wordpress site under construction with bbpress, budypress and gamipress linked.
I have several questions, so I put them in different topics. Here is this query:
At the time of writing a topic or answer, could the writing bar where the bold, italics, etc. appear, be changed?
I would like it to be like that of many forums where by simply clicking on the chosen button, the action is executed and the labels of said action do not appear.
It would be something like what I attached in the link.
Link
Greetings and thanks for the help

[Steve Manes]

No, it’s a WP 6.3.1 site I built specifically to test BBPress. It’s mostly just Elementor and Astra (Pros), the Classic Editor, Simple Custom CSS and JS PRO and BBPress. It’s behavior I haven’t seen with CSS overrides in WordPress before.

As you can see, the class specifies Roboto for the breadcrumb but it’s showing a serif font, even in the sample rollover in Inspector’s Styles window. The class works fine from the parent page but not in /forums/topic/

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

will let you style bbpress, and has integration for the Astra theme

[Steve Manes]

I’m confused. Does BBPress get its CSS and template support from the active WordPress theme or are there optional plug-in themes one can install that only apply to styling your BBPress implementation?

I’ve been asked to add forums to an existing Elementor-built site running the Astra Pro theme which apparently has no support for BBPress. Because the web site is already built, approved by the bosses and currently live I can’t change the WordPress theme. But the default styling in BBPress doesn’t work for them either (we have an approved font family, size, color, etc too).

I’m fairly adept with CSS and WordPress but I’d rather use a design by someone who actually knows the software. That, and I’m a bit graphically challenged.

I noticed that there’s a dropdown for “Forum Theme Packages” in Forum settings and was hoping that such BBPress-specific child theme plug-ins exist which allow WordPress to use another parent theme. Do such plug-ins exist and is there a repository of them somewhere on the net?

[Robin W]

untested, but this should work

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topics_per_page', 'rew_amend_topics', 10 , 2) ;

function rew_amend_topics ($retval, $default ) {
	$forum = bbp_get_forum_id() ;
	if ($forum == 123) $retval = 10 ;
	if ($forum == 456) $retval = 5 ;
return $retval ;
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[shimdayo]

I use bbpress in Japanese.

In the bbpress search window, if you search for two or more words with double-byte spaces, no search results will appear.

I tried replacing half-width with full-width, and it worked in the wordpress search window, but not in the bbpress search window.

advice please.
thank you.

function empty_search( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_search && ! $query->is_admin ) {
    $s = $query->get( 's' );
    $s = str_replace('　',' ', $s );
    $query->set( 's', $s );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'empty_search' );

[Mike Witt]

I have a bit of a mystery here, which I *think* involves an interaction between bbPress and BuddyPress. I’m going to put it out here, just in case anyone has any ideas. I have NOT tested this on a clean site with only bbPress and BuddyPress so it’s also possible that there’s some other interaction.

What’s happening is that BuddyPress notifications times look right with the exception of notifications for bbPress forum post/replies. Notifications for forum replies are offset by the site’s offset from UTC. So, for example, if the WordPress Timezone setting is “New York” (which is currently UTC-4) the a forum notification says “4 hours ago” immediately.

Any ideas?

[Robin W]

nope – that’s how WordPress themes work!!

[Robin W]

the theme used on this site is

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/bb-base

[Robin W]

with bbpress active, I normally only let users see that profile.

You might want to disable the WordPress admin bar for ordinary users. There are a bunch of plugins that do this.

eg

Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles

[Robin W]

Not quite sure why you are asking here if you are paying a designer to create a site like this??

but if you are using an FSE theme, then this plugin is needed

bbp style pack

once activated, navigate to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack, and you should see the first tab called ‘Theme Support’ – if you don’t see this, come back.

In that tab, select

Enable Theme Support

and save

The forums should then display

If it isn’t an FSE theme, the the plugin will give you several widgets that are used on this site.

[Robin W]

no problem.

on no. 3 there is a bbpress profile and a wordpress profile. Other plugins may also add their own profile pages.

If it is not the bbpress profile page you want it to go to, then do come back, I can probably give you some code.

[waprothero]

Another thought…Is there any setting in the bbstylepack plugin that could affect,the wordpress user role setting? I have only seen ways of configuring the forum role setting, and the wpform registration plugin has a setting form that maps the Forum Role to the wp dasboardd user settings.

[Robin W]

Without specific access to your site, this will let you set where breadcrumbs go :

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Breadcrumbs

[Robin W]

bbpress works with smtp as far as I know, so it may be that the sending address is not liked by something in the email system.

If you are using the professional version, then enable logs to see if messages are leaving the site.

If you are not using the professional version of SMTP, install the ‘check and log email’ plugin which does much the same.

finally, try changing the sending email address using

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Subscription Emails

and change the sending email to a real one.

[newtech1]

My forum is set up so that a forum user can only post in the backend/dashboard of my wordpress site because I never was able to get ACH plugin to work on the forum frontend. On the backend the ACF is working fantastic when a user posts a new topic.

However, the new issue is that the only way a forum user can see the topic link in the dashboard is if they are a moderator or higher. My users will not be moderators but participates. Is there a way via code to make it so participants can log into the dashboard and see the topic link.

[waprothero]

By the way, it did set the bbPress role to “Participant”, which is what I wanted for that person. However, for the main wp user role, which is essential for other parts of the web site, it left it blank.

I can set the wordpress user role to the “Subscriber” role, manually in the dashboard. Unfortunately, after the user logs in, they will not be able to see other content that requires the “Subscriber” role to be set in the wordpress default role assignment system.