[5ngua]

I already post this topic in pollddady support forum because I don’t know who can fix this, maybe bbpress team, maybe polldaddy team…

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polldaddy-shows-rating-on-bbpress-forum

[Stephen Edgar]

the admin icons for forums, topics and replies are missing. May you please check it? I’m using the latest wordpress.

Try clearing your browser cache/history or hard refresh

[Zoee]

Hi all, I have a members only forum on a clients site that is protected by s2Member so only level #1 members can access all /forms/forum pages. The client reported yesterday that their forum wasn’t working – all pages got to our custom 404 page.

They upgraded there website to 3.8 last week – usually we run there updates, I don’t think they checked the forum after running the update so I don’t know if the update caused the issue or not. Likewise they didn’t take a full site backup as instructed when doing updates.

When I switch off permalinks the pages work (though the forum overview /forums/ doesn’t). I’ve tried:
– resaving the permalinks (switching off, back on etc in various different combos)
– deleting the .htaccess and resaving permalinks
– uploading an old .htaccess
– reinstalling wordpress 3.8
– deactivating all other plugins
– switching to a default theme

I really don’t want to have to move them to a fresh install, the site is massive. Likewise I don’t think reverting to an older version of WordPress is really a solution.

Any more suggestions of what to try would be appreciated!!!

Thanks in advance!

[Zoee]

Hi all, I have a members only forum on a clients site that is protected by s2Member so only level #1 members can access all /forms/forum pages. The client reported yesterday that their forum wasn’t working – all pages got to our custom 404 page.

They upgraded there website to 3.8 last week – usually we run there updates, I don’t think they checked the forum after running the update so I don’t know if the update caused the issue or not. Likewise they didn’t take a full site backup as instructed when doing updates.

When I switch off permalinks the pages work (though the forum overview /forums/ doesn’t). I’ve tried:
– resaving the permalinks (switching off, back on etc in various different combos)
– deleting the .htaccess and resaving permalinks
– uploading an old .htaccess
– reinstalling wordpress 3.8
– deactivating all other plugins
– switching to a default theme

I really don’t want to have to move them to a fresh install, the site is massive. Likewise I don’t think reverting to an older version of WordPress is really a solution.

Any more suggestions of what to try would be appreciated!!!

Thanks in advance!

[Stephen Edgar]

I had a look at the data in both your previous posts and I can only find SELECT SQL statements, there are no INSERT INTO or UPDATE SQL statements that cause the creation or updates into the database so these don’t help us much, not sure what/where we should be looking for more help here.

There is the following plugin by one of the WordPress core devs @dd32 https://wordpress.org/plugins/revision-control/

I have sent him an email asking for some tips on what else we should be looking for.

[shearamariz]

the admin icons for forums, topics and replies are missing. May you please check it? I’m using the latest wordpress.

[Stephen Edgar]

Much of this is theme related, we have a ticket in Trac for some microdata additions for breadcrumbs be the actual format for forums, topics & replies doesn’t have an ‘official’ spec so there really isn’t an easy way of supporting scheme.org or microformats with bbPress at this stage.

Your best workaround is to customize your bbPress templates to fit a markup of your choice and this really comes down to how your theme is currently doing this.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2269 “Add rich microdata markup to breadcrumbs”

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for the follow up.

You can backup your forums, topics and replies via the WordPress Export if you ever need to back these up 😉 http://example.com/wp-admin/export.php

[Stephen Edgar]

1. The legend of bbp-form gives no indication of the difference between a reply to topic versus a reply to a reply. I have to look at the URL displayed by the browser to tell the difference.

Will take care of this in the ticket you created 🙂
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2509#comment:5

2. When I go to the link of a post given by the RSS feed, it displays starting below the post’s toolbar. Now I know there is a toolbar above the post and can scroll up to click the REPLY link, then go reply. BUT – I really, really don’t want to have to educate every one of my moderators and users about this. From some Google searching about this, it seems that having the post’s reply link above the post is a more recent feature. I don’t think it is very intuitive, especially when a post link ending in “…/#post-416″ gets me to post 416 with the toolbar for that post invisible until you scroll up to see it (if you knew to do that).

I get where you are coming from on this and this is pretty hard to implement in bbPress as we don’t know what toolbars, headers etc your theme uses and there are soooo many.

I’m far from a CSS guru but is there some CSS trick that will allow some margin padding to fix this?

3. Some of my moderators have pointed out to me examples of the “Freshness” column in the Forum index pages being just plain wrong. To be more specific, the “Freshness” entries in question say a particular category is several days old (even after an F5 browser refresh), when by going down to a topic in that category you can see that it should have been 30 minutes old.

This does happen from time to time, hopefully with the patch in #1925 this will also be resolved. https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1925

I get the same ordering issues with only some of the Topic threads.

Is there/ Have you seen anything that determines if the issue occurs?

Are the topics that work as expected before Threaded Replies were enabled for example?

I also have a particular thread where a reply to a reply does not show any thread indentation and ends up after all comments on the topic, just as if it had been a reply to topic.

Probably need to take a closer look at that entire topics topic, replies and replies to looking at the post id’s and relevant data.

The ‘Threaded Replies’ issues I am tracking in ticket #2397 if you come across anything that may help diagnose these issues further that would be great.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2397

[wiste]

@netweb, I get that and that’s where the CSS files are, but when I try to change any php files that are located in the subfolder which is also names “bbpress” it simply doesn’t see them. My understanding from the WordPress documentation is that if you put the file in a child theme in the exact same heirarchal location as it is in the parent theme it should pick it up, but that’s not how it’s working.

I made a custom loop-forums.php. The structure of the default folder is that this file is inside a folder already called bbpress. When I copy over all the files form default in my parent theme to bbpress in my child theme I end up with a bbpress folder containing all of the php files inside of the bbpress folder that I created for the child them. Then upload my custom loop-fourm.php to the folder where it normally resides, it doesn’t pick up the change. When I put it at the root it does pick it up. However, changes to the CSS files in bbpress/CSS get picked up.

I’m having this same problem with other files in the child theme where I can’t figure out where to place php files to have them be recognized in the child theme, so it might be something wrong with the way the theme handles child themes, but I have no way to know this.

[Stephen Edgar]

I can directly add the vimeo url to the topic and it seems to work. Is that the best way to do it?

This is the easiest and best way to do it as WordPress is actually controlling this rather than you having to use shortcodes.

See this for more info (and other links that work the same way) https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

[Stephen Edgar]

Sweet 🙂 Will have a play later 🙂

In a similar vein there is also this from @MZAWeb https://github.com/MZAWeb/bbpFauxData

I have a set of sample data that I use for all the different forum importing tests I have done and should really package it up as a WXR file, similar to the WordPress Theme Tests Data as it includes virtually every type of bbPress forum, topic, topic tag, reply and reply to options available.

[Stephen Edgar]

The subscribe to email notifications was a bug, it is now fixed in bbPress 2.5.3

I installed that plugin, pulled up a user who was a Participant, and changed “View hidden forums” from “Default” (which was set to “Denied”) to “Allowed.”

And then boom, the Participant account could then view the forums.

Here’s the odd part though: we have 3 forums and they are all set to Private, not Hidden. So changing this setting shouldn’t have made any difference. Private forums are visible to Participants by default.

…

I realized that one of two things were off: either the participants were NOT allowed to view private forums, or else the forums were NOT private. Had to be one or the other.

The repair tool “Recalculate private and hidden forums” has a bug in it 🙁

When that repair tool is run private and hidden forum are assigned both _bbp_private_forums and _bbp_hidden_forums statuses so this is why a user with the Participant role could not read a private forum as after that tool had been run it was also been given the hidden status also.

The workaround for this is to do exactly what you did by “changing each forum from Private to Public back to Private” as this doesn’t touch the broken repair tool and sets the visibility status correctly.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2512

Thanks for your patience here @martyn-chamberlin and your detailed info helped a great deal finding said bug, just need to write a patch for it now. 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

This will be an issue for WPTouch Pro 3 Support

http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/ OR https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wptouch

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly looking at https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language#Finnish_-_Suomi_.28fi.29 and https://i18n.svn.wordpress.org/fi/trunk/dist/wp-config-sample.php

You should be using define ('WPLANG', 'fi'); for WordPress
You should be using bbpress-fi.po and bbpress-fi.mo for the bbPress filenames.

Now the Finish translations they are only at 77% translated, 814 translated, 234 untranslated & 48 waiting approval.

You can add the missing translations using your WordPress.org user/pass via https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/fi/default

Then I’d suggest contacting the Finish translation team via https://fi.wordpress.org/contact/

There also might be some related translation discussion at https://fi.forums.wordpress.org/

Let me know if there is anything else I can help out with 🙂

[Lynqoid]

Hey all!

I have recently been developing with bbPress and created myself a plugin for inserting test data into a local WordPress install. Be careful when using this plugin as it does a lot of writing to the database and runs the bbPress repair tools too.

• Adds a forum with nested forums
• Adds a forum with loads of topics
• Adds a topic with loads of replies

http://www.epicwebs.co.uk/bbpress-tutorials/test-data-for-bbpress-plugin/

I hope it helps someone, good luck!

[John James Jacoby]

Discuss bbPress 2.5.3 here!

Check the milestone for a list of fixes: http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.5.3

[trainspotta]

Hello!

I have the newest version of WordPress and bbpress.

My users with participant role can’t see the widgets for newest post, etc. Mods can. The forums are private.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

regards.

[tomxiong]

bbPress version: 2.5.2
WPtouch version: 3.1.5 (all of its official themes available see the same situation below)
WordPress version: 3.8

bbPress topic contents are not displayed on the mobile phone with only topic title seen on the topic detail page.

So is in all of the older versions of them above.

Could you help me out?
Thanks.

Tom

[MT]

Trying to put forums on a page with full-width-page template–no right sidebar. Reading other Topics here with similar problem, I followed the remedy posted, i.e., I created two php files labeled bbpress.php and buddypress.php with a copy of the full-width-page code in them in my file manager under my theme. Created page for forums and checked the full-width-page.

The page loaded only in default page template, though sidebar widgets not visible. I deactivated bbpress, reactivated, repeated everything, now shows in the default template only but this time widgets showing.

WordPress 3.8 running Twenty Fourteen theme. bbPress 2.5.2. http://mtmcclanahan.com/thepainterstongue/.

Thanks

[tjt756]

I have the latest version of wordpress installed on my site. I followed the instructions to install bbPress, then clicking to activate it. But after I do, it just tells me that the plugin has been activated successfully on the top of the page, then shows the normal lists of all plugins on my site. There’s no “Welcome Page”

Additionally, there is no “Forums” option on the left sidebar. Basically, it looks like nothing happened. I uninstalled and tried again, twice. Still no difference.

Is there something I’m missing?

Thanks!

[Spencer Hill]

Kay Hagen, a contributor on the WordPress Core, developed this Post by Email Plugin that could be extended, probably extremely easily, to support Custom Post Types. Which it could then be adopted into BBPress to create a support ticket or help desk scenario.

[zubeek]

Yeah, I’m currently using the Yoo Corona theme. It uses the WARP framework which is something I’ve never worked with before, It doesn’t have a traditional layout so I cant map many of the pages to what people have mentioned in other posts (page.php) etc

Everything on the forums work except delete and edit posts, when I change to the wordpress default theme they work without a problem, I just cant seem to find where in the Corona theme the problem would be located

[Spencer Hill]

Two questions:

1. Does anyone know of a way (like a Plugin) to extend BBPress so that users can post by email? For example, a customer emails support@ourdomain.com and it’s forwarded to BBPress and a post is created. We receive an email notification about their post and reply to that notification via email as well. It also posts to the forums and sends a similar notification back to the customer to which they can respond via email as well. Ultimately they’ll never really have to interface with the forums if they don’t want to.
2. We have customers mention and message us on social media outlets but are tired of having to log into that system to respond. We’d like to respond from within WordPress and it seems like having them become BBPress Posts would make sense since they’re usually support requests anyway.

Thanks!

[mosaicrob]

Hi Stephen,

I’m having similar issues to @aje_1985, however my theme does not have a page.php file. Is there any other way to get the index page to show?

My forum index should be showing at: http://rad.mosaicearth.com/gatherings/

I’m using a minimal child theme, whose parent theme is the default theme from pagelines.com. Their templating system is a little different than traditional wordpress themes, and hence there is no page.php.

Just to try, I duplicated page.php from the twentyfourteen WP theme, and renamed to bbPress.php and put directly into my child theme folder. (Is this the right place to put it?) The result was my forum index page became white, and nothing showed.

Next I tried copying the whole bbpress templates folder to my child theme and again no luck. I’d really appreciate any advise here, as I’m reaching a dead end for what to try.

Thank you.