[Robkk]

Here is some common issues that could create the White Screen of Death issue.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors#The_White_Screen_of_Death

You can try to see if another plugin is also causing the issue with bbPress and your site.

And you can try to find some debug information on your site by using WP-Debug set to true.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Debug

[Robkk]

@samuelstraka

In the WordPress backend you will see these new menu items when activating bbPress.

Forums
-All Forums
-New Forum
-Forum Moderators (in 2.6)
Topics
-All Topics
-New Topic
-Topic Tags
Replies
-All Replies
-New Reply
Tools
-Forums
Settings
-Forums

I am sorry but the Czech language is incomplete right now. It will be much appreciated if you do help use in creating a new czech translation for bbPress. If you want create a new topic on this site and I will try to help you the best I can in creating the translation file.

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress/stable/cs/default

@kari1

Sorry Polish language file for bbPress is incomplete also, would love if you helped create the file. If you want create a new topic and I will try to help you the best I can in creating the language file.

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress/stable/pl/default

[tylerkroff]

I’ve switched between about 5 different themes, trying to install bbpress with each one. Each time, the result is the same. I get a message saying that bbpress was installed, but when I try to go back to the WordPress dashboard, I just get a completely white page. I can’t even navigate back to delete bbpress, so I have to do it manually through FTP.

Right now I am using the Genesis Framework theme, but the same problem has happened with the default themes (Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, etc.)

Any ideas what it might be?

My website is http://www.poorpilots.com/

I am using the latest version of WordPress.

[Robkk]

You do not really need to create a page for the forum archive, just create a custom link menu item.

But from what you are getting with -2 being displayed for the page, you already have a page with that /forums slug in the Pages section of your WordPress site. It could a page you already created in the Trash.

[Danny]

@mica123 Placing the login form above on the main Forums page created in your WordPress is easy.

1. Edit your WP page containing [bbp-forum-index]
2. Include [bbp-login] above that line
3. Update the page

And the login form will show above your forum index.

I’ve not fully experimented placing the login above all the forum pages. Though I think it’s very much possible, and the answer may lie in other forum topics.

What I could share though is I tried adding <?php echo do_shortcode("[bbp-login]"); ?> to loop-forums.php and loop-topics.php but it didn’t work.

What happened was the list of forums and topics disappeared.

I hope this was helpful.

[Robkk]

The only table I think bbPress creates is the one for importing forums/keeping extra imported forum data. Most of the data bbPress has are stored in WordPress tables, but all that data should be gone if you ran the reset forums tools(well except the forum roles).

Stored Database Data

If you are looking to delete users you can go into Users > All Users in the WordPress backend and then start bulk deleting users.

[Robkk]

Any testing for the issue in this ticket is greatly appreciated.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2739

[blakeage]

My WordPress plugins directory is sym-linked to another folder on the server. So, the following path:
/wp-content/plugins

Is actually a symlink to /home/bayb_qa/shared/plugins

However, for some reason bbpress uses the absolute path (/home/bayb_qa/shared/plugins), rather than the relative path “/wp-content/plugins” when including its css and javascript, such as bbpress.css and editor.js.

This causes 404 problems loading the two files. Is bbPress not designed to handle a symlinked plugins dir?

[jscmusic]

Hello, after updating to WordPress 4.3.1, I’ve noticed that there is no content area for topics in my 2.5.8 bbPress Forum. What gives?

https://www.area103ppg.com/forums/topic/international-flights/

Thanks for your help!

[Dominykas]

You should try Rating Manager by Elementous. https://www.elementous.com/product/premium-wordpress-plugins/rating-manager/

It’s compatible with bbPress, buddyPress and WooCommerce, but Rating Manager is a premium WordPress plugin.

[UgoDimma]

@Robkk
Thanks for your support.
I finally added define( 'WP_DEBUG', true); in my wp-config.php, and I am getting this error report;

Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called <stromg>incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->inot(). Please see debugging in WordPress forore onformation. (This message was added in version 2
3.) In ******\blessed\wp-includes a functions.php on line 3622

Notice: the called constructor method for WP_Widget is deprecated since version 4.3.0! Use
__construction()
Instead. In ******\blessed\wp-includes\functioms.php on lime 3457

Please am sorry to bore you this time again, am not good incoding, how can I resolve this issues

[Robkk]

Since you are not very confident with PHP you can just install this plugin.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

[Robkk]

Thank you. I found this not on the All users page but on clicking the Edit button for a user I was able to get to another page and there I could change the role for the Forum.

Yeah that works too.

Do moderators have access to the backend? If they do, how can I disable it? They should do all the editing or deleting posts from the front end only. I sincerely hope this is possible.

Only for moderating topics/replies in the backend. If they are also a subscriber they can also edit their Profile from the backend too and nothing more than that.

There is a confusion in the General settings for automatic registration of new users – should this be for Contributor or Subscriber?

It is subscriber by default in WordPress for users that can only read blog posts. Contributers can edit blog posts and delete them too.

Also, how do I know if all users w3ho register on the front end are participants? They should not have access to the backend.

You can install a plugin like WP Admin No Show

[Robkk]

You can download this plugin and edit the function and add on to it what html tags you want to allow in your forums.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7797990

You can also just create a new WordPress user role with the capability, but I think going with the plugin I placed above is the best route.

[samuelstraka]

Hi Rob,

I have single site installation only. I could try it with Chrome and Firefox and it was same in both browsers.
But I tried to install bbpres 2.6 alfa yesterday. After installation same problem exist. Today afternoon I tried to look once again to WordPress dashboard and there was added menu item Forum with submenu Settings where I could setup bbpress.
I don’t know how it make. I didn’t make anything after this unsuccessful installation. It seems bbpress is OK now.

[Robkk]

You should be able to see the Forum role beside each user in Users > All Users in the WordPress backend.

You can change the Forum Role of a user by checking the checkbox by the user and then you will see a change forum role dropdown above the user list. Click the forum role dropdown and select the role Moderator, then hit the change button next to it and the user will now be a moderator.

[Robkk]

On this site it is custom links in the WordPress toolbar.

You can follow this tutorial to add custom links to the admin bar.

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-custom-shortcut-links-to-wordpress-toolbar/

There is also this plugin that can add links above forum pages.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-login-register-links-on-forum-topic-pages/

And also you could just place the bbPress login widget in a sidebar you have and input additional authentication links in the widgets input fields.

[mica123]

I am afraid that I have many problems finding my way around bbpress.
One of the things I didn’t realise is that anyone who registers is actually
going into the list of users in WordPress. How do I know that they are all participants?
If there are many users the list will be very long which is rather worrying.
I also would like to know how I assign the moderator role to a user? I can’t find anything about it anywhere.
I would very much appreciate your help.
Many thanks.

[UgoDimma]

Hey buddy

I have bbpress install with buddypress in my WordPress, all with the latest version as at the time of writing this post.

My forums and topics redirects to 404, page not found when my users clicked on any of them, except the forums that are part of the buddypress group the said user is a member of.

As an admin, I can view all of them the normal way without any form of restriction and redirection both at the front and back end.

Even forum category that is the mother of some forums and topics are been redirected to 404 page even if the user has a forum he/she has an access to.

I have followed some directives of people on similar cases, but none works for me, wp-admin –> tools –> forum and recalculated everything there, and went to wp-admin –> tools –> buddypress and recalculated everything.
I went to permalink and update it, but nothing seems to be working.

Please some help.

[bo-oz]

I suppose activating the plugin should create some tables in the database… but this doesn’t happen. Only thing I see is 3 records added to the wp_options table. Is there something I can do to pinpoint why the plugin is not working?

I even uploaded a the plugin from another website to the current website. This plugin is working on the other wordpress, but still doesn’t do anything on my new installation. It’s not running any plugins different from the one on which it’s working. The working website has about 50 records in the wp_options table.

[thunksalot]

I have a private WordPress community in which I am not concerned about members posting malicious code. The site is a dues-paying professional networking site and the profession is non-techie, so it would be really odd for someone to get malicious on it, and I have back-ups I can restore with were that to happen. That said, I don’t want to make everyone an Administrator because that gives users control over other people’s content, which I don’t want to give them. I just want to give all Participants the ability to paste unrestricted HTML content so that they can copy and paste from Word or a website and have it come through looking just fine, the way I can as an Admin with the “unrestricted HTML” permission. How can I achieve this?

[bo-oz]

Hi,

I tried installing bbPress, after activation I was redirected to a page which told me “you have insufficient rights”. After a refresh, the plugin was activated but nothing changed in the menu (no formums menu option, also no settings -> forums was added). I tried deactivating -> activating and completely re-installing the plugin, but nothing worked so far.

I use wordpress 4.3.1 and the latest version bbPress to automated plugin install.

I’m also using WPML, could that be causing conflicts?

[Robkk]

I do not use the plugin, I just found it in the WordPress repository.

The plugin author has been active in the support forums in the past few weeks, so I assume people are using it still and with at least most with the latest version of WordPress.

You can contact the plugin author in their support forums if you have any concerns with the plugin working with the latest version of WordPress.

If a bbPress post contains a word that you put in the comment blacklist, the topic or reply will be marked as pending, and will be pending until moderation approval.

Moderation and BlackListing

The plugin I linked to just replaces profanity words you list with characters such as ***

[mica123]

Thanks very much. I had a look at the wp-content-filter but this is compatible
to WordPress 4.0.8 and it was last updated more than a year ago. Are you using this
plugin yourself?

I read the topic you pointed me to. It is not clear to me if bbPress has its
own profanity filter?

Thanks.

[Robkk]

Which one did you link me?

Robin’s plugin for just bbPress fields.

What I did, which seems to work fine for now…

Yeah I told you the WordPress code would work. If you want cleaner templates you may nee to use the hook.

bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details

I might be saying very stupid things here (gotta learn some way), but I tried changing bbp_theme_before_topic_title to bbp_topic_class which is what my inexperienced self thought would do the trick, but it didn’t.

Oh, you are trying to make a post class. You can try this to see if it adds a new-topic post class to any new topics. I haven’t tested this though.

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_class','rkk_unread_topic' );
function rkk_unread_topic($classes) {
	$offset = 60*60*1; 
	if ( get_post_time() > date('U') - $offset ) {
			  $classes[] = 'new-topic';
		  return $classes;
	}
}