[Mrskt]

One possible solution is to use a plugin called BBP Improvements for Yoast which is a helpful tool to make Yoast wordpress seo support bbpress better. You can install and activate this plugin from your WordPress dashboard and see if that helps.

Another possible solution is to use the excerpt variable in the Admin > SEO > Search Appearance > Content Types (tab) section. There you will have a ‘Topics (topic)’ section where you can add a default meta description using the excerpt variable. This will automatically output the first part of every topic as the meta description.

[Robin W]

ok, I cannot replicate that issue.

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users

Health Check & Troubleshooting

Then come back

[Robin W]

this plugin whilst old might help

BBP Improvements for yoast

[enkoes]

Hi, here is my test site. Still under construction.

I found that most of the time WordPress display correctly in “display name publicly as” using NICKNAME. But there are times where it displays USERNAME in “display name publicly as” even though users have already registered their nickname in Ultimate Member profile.

[imFiles]

This one works for bbpress: https://wordpress.org/plugins/contextual-related-posts/ if you want only related topics just go into Contextual Related Posts Settings and on the List tuning tab and on Post types to include select topic only. One thing it doesn’t have an automatic option to add the related items, so you need to added them either manually or the best way is with a fucntion.
I use this one to add it after each topic:

//add adsense after topic
add_action( 'bbp_template_after_replies_loop', 'rew_other_topics' );
function rew_other_topics () {
	 $topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id() ;
	 $forum_id = bbp_get_topic_forum_id($topic_id) ;
	if ( function_exists( 'echo_crp' ) ) { echo_crp(); }
}

[enkoes]

Hi, I would like to display nickname (and not username) in the whole bbpress forum.

For topics list, I modified the code from a previous topic Show username instead of full name / display name and it works well so far.

See https://paste.pics/MVA62

The modified codes that I use is as follows:

add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_author_display_name' , 'rew_reply_change_to_nickname', 10 , 2 ) ;

function rew_reply_change_to_nickname ($author_name, $reply_id) {
	// Get the author ID
	$author_id = bbp_get_reply_author_id( $reply_id );
	$nickname = um_get_display_name( $author_id );
return $nickname ;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_author_display_name' , 'rew_topic_change_to_nickname', 10 , 2 ) ;

function rew_topic_change_to_nickname ($author_name, $topic_id) {
	// Get the author ID
	$author_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id );
	$nickname = um_get_display_name( $author_id );
return $nickname ;
}

Note: I use Ultimate Member (UM) plugin to display user details.

However, when comes to user profile, I’m struggling on how to force display nickname right above the avatar. Hope you can help me with that.

See https://paste.pics/MVA6A

Note: It’s very tedious to modify “display name publicly as” from the WordPress dashboard for every registered user. Thus hopefully codes may well do the job for me.

[bertroode]

We encountered a severe problem. A couple of weeks ago we converted our PHPBB forum to bbPress.
The converted forum was doing all functions as expected. Since three days ago users who where already member on the PHPBB forum cannot login after renewing their password when they donot spell the nice-name correctly.
Then they get the message: Warning: register_shutdown_function(): Invalid shutdown callback ‘BBP_Converter_DB::__destruct’ passed in E:\wamp64_bert\www\forum\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\admin\classes\class-bbp-converter-db.php on line 35
So far we have traced that it must have something to do with the information stored in the table usermeta with meta_key ‘_bbp_class’. When we remove that record the user can login as expected.

The only change to the systems has been the update of WordPress. May be that has something to do with it. Our knowledge of debuging is rather limited so we need urgent advice on how to fix this problem.
We have seen that similar problems have been reported in the past but no solution other then removing and reentering the user was mentioned. That is not a reel solution because the orignal name of the author is lost.

Wo can provide us a solution or hint to solve our problem.

Best regards,
Bert

[Robin W]

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users

Health Check & Troubleshooting

Then come back

[apizio]

Hello everyone,

we use bbpress 2.6.9 with wordpress 6.1.1, both acutal version. On the edit my profile page the update profile button does not appear, so nobody can save changes to their profiles.
Can somebody help me please? Do you need any more information to solve the problem?
Many thanks,

Antonio

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>forum roles and you can set the topic author

[enkoes]

Thanks Robin! All topics & replies can already display freshness.

One more thing about lead topic. I’d like to add a label like “Thread Starter” on top of the avatar of the topic starter for every reply (EXCEPT the lead topic) from the topic starter. In this case we will always keep track on who is the topic starter as the conversation goes on.

It is similar to the screenshot below (from other WordPress forum):
https://paste.pics/MRVM6

Regards.

[Robin W]

you can leave the template for time unchanged.

add_filter ('bbp_get_topic_post_date' , 'rew_change_to_freshness', 10 , 6) ;
add_filter ('bbp_get_reply_post_date' , 'rew_change_to_freshness', 10 , 6) ;

function rew_change_to_freshness ($result, $topic_id, $humanize, $gmt, $date, $time) {
	$result = bbp_get_time_since( bbp_convert_date( $time ) ) ;
	
return $result ;
}

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

[alandev123]

I am using WordPress version 6.1.1 and bbPress version 2.6.9. I need to add a next and previous button to navigate to next and previous topics in the forums. Currently we are reading a topic and there is only back button to navigate to other topic. Is there any option to add next and previous buttons in forum discussion page.

[Robin W]

Install this additional plugin

Private groups

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>help to see how the plugin works, but then look at ‘topic permissions’ tab, which has the exact example you are after.

[norcom41]

Created a forum (for a school) with the top level being a category, directory type closed to act as a single parent. Created a sub-forum as a child to act as a school class (one of more to come). There will be a fixed number of topics underneath, each representing an assignment for certain chapters. Students will create replies but cannot add topics because they are fixed. However, I understand if you close the sub-forum to prevent topics from being added you also prevent any replies. There apparently is no easy way to circumvent this. I have the latest WordPress installed and it’s a Twenty Sixteen theme. The site is http://www.biblebookletschool.com.

[sirhc]

I saw that thread before and few others but could not find any solution, literally spent ages trying to sort this out. At the end installed WPforo, but really wanted to go with bbpress since it’s made by the WordPress developers and has a lot of users. Although it has very infrequent updates.

So I understand bbpress creates their own pages in php. This is not a divi problem because it doesn’t even load with those php search pages but does for other forums index, topics and stuff. It’s a shame

[Robin W]

maybe look through these, bbpress simply uses custom post types of ‘forum’, ‘topic’ and ‘reply’, so any that will let you add custom posts types should be fine

https://blog.hubspot.com/website/best-wordpress-related-post-plugins

[Robin W]

This is one of the new FSE themes, so you need a fix to work with bbpress.
install

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

[elsoar]

Excuse me, sir. What do you mean?
I mean related topics at the end of the topic or widgets.
There are plugins that do this, but they do not work with bbpress. like: YARPP.

[scott43c]

I installed bbpress 2.6.9 and bbp style pack 5.4.2 and I set up two forums and one test message so far. I was able to change most of the look with the bbp style pack but what I can’t figure out is how I change the root page of the forum. All I see is above the two forums is the word “Forums” in big red letters. I tried using elementor pro and the regular editor but it doesn’t work.

I’m using WordPress 6.1.1 and site is behind a maintenance plugin under development.

[Robin W]

This code will truncate the title

add_filter ('bbp_new_topic_pre_title' , 'rew_limit_topic_length' ) ;
add_filter ('bbp_edit_topic_pre_title' , 'rew_limit_topic_length' ) ;

function rew_limit_topic_length  ($topic_title) {
	$length = 40 ;
	if (strlen($topic_title) > $length) {
		$topic_title = substr($topic_title, 0, $length);
	}
return $topic_title ;
}

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

for your second issue, it is site/theme specific, I’d need to see the site and a real example

[Robin W]

ok – thanks

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Profile

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Subscription Management

and activate

From that screen you can set up new users to be subscribed

and from

dashboard>forums>all forums>and for each forum click subscriptions and you can subscribe all then current users to that forum in a couple of clicks. Repeat for all current forums

[emmanuelle64]

Wordpress 6.1.1; BBpress Version 2.6.9

Hello,

My website is dedicated to a private community. It uses BBpress to give access to several forums organised hierarchically. The members need to be informed of every message that is posted but they do not want to subscribe to every forum of the the site by hand.

Is there a way to automatically set subscription parameters of every forum to on when a new account is created ? Each member could then unset the subscription parameter to off il he doesn’t want it anymore.

The default setting for subscribe to forum, would actually be “on”.

Thanks for your answer

[Robin W]

install

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