[cranney]

Hi, we are using BBPress on ccwbra.com with WordPress 5.5.6 running Total theme.
Our users can reach the forum landing page(https://ccwbra.com/forums_test/), but get 404 Page could not be found error when accessing any Forum or Topic.

[linguabuddy]

Hi,

I’m experiencing some really odd behaviour when trying to change the slug for my Buddypress group directory (under which all my BBpress forums are housed) and redirect traffic.

My set-up is: BP 9.1.1; BBp 2.6.6, WP 5.8.1

Short explanation:

• traffic to a pre-change (/[old]/[groupname]) group url is being redirected to (/[new]/[groupname]/forum)
• This happens regardless of whether:
  • There is a specific redirect in place
  • There is a regex redirect in place (/[old]/(.*) to /[new]/$1/)
  • There is no redirect at all
• My redirect provider – Rank Math – can’t explain this.

I’ve not modified my hta, and the only other redirect rules in page on the site relate to post-login behaviour. It seems there’s something deep within Buddypress, BBpress or WordPress which is driving this, but I have no idea what.

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this abd how to address it? I dare not make this change on my live site without resolving and having a clear idea what’s behind it.

Appreciate any suggestions…

[Robin W]

I’d start by working out why emails are not arriving.

bbpress just uses the wordpress registration so start with

Email Test – Check if your emails are being delivered

and then look at

WP Mail SMTP by WPForms

[TeqToo]

I recently had an attack on my forum where almost 14,000 posts were made in rapid succession, all with oriental characters. This wasn’t my main forum, but a secondary forum, so the contents isn’t super-important, although I’d like to preserve it if possible.

I’ve tried sending the offending topics to trash, but there are at this point 11,000 of them, and every time I try to delete even 100 using the Bulk actions, I get a Resource limit message with a 503 or 505 error. I can’t possibly delete the topics one at a time! I’ve tried sending the entire forum to trash, but I get the same thing.

In addition, I don’t understand how there could be topics started by Anonymous, when in my forum settings I have that ability UNchecked. After the attack, I upped the flood control settings to 90 seconds, and closed that forum, but I still don’t understand how they got in to do all that!

I’m on bbPress 2.6.6, WordPress 5.8.1, and the site is http://bluebirdnut.com/forums/. The forum where the bogus posts are located is the second one listed, Soup to Nuts forum.

[lisabeavers]

Wordpress 5.8.1
bbPress 2.2.6
antiquebowieknifeassociation.com

Everything was working just fine, until over the weekend. Suddenly started getting an error saying “you do not have permission to start a new topic” for all users except admins. (Every member has participant role for forums)

Looked here and found a tip to remap my users, said that would fix the problem. Remapped users.

Message changed to “you cannot create new topics” for everyone except admin.

Where do I set the permission for all participants to be able to create new topics?

Thank you!

[severbronny]

I contacted WordPress help, and they said to “Disable WordPress.com Secure Sign On.” But doing so carries risks, doesn’t it?

[severbronny]

I’m a newbie with code and web implementation, so forgive me if this is a dumb question. My readers have reported the following: “I’ve been trying to be able to post on your forum. I have a wordpress account, which I use to try to log in. After that it takes me to a jetpack and wordpress site, which Makes me put in my info again. But when I do, it then it takes me back to the original jetpack/wordpress page.”

Here is the forum:

Forum *new*

And yet they can make comments on my site with ease:

Discussion

I installed bbPress using this slug: [bbp-forum-index]

What am I missing? Thanks ahead!

[Robin W]

start with

bbp style pack

[qlqlo]

Hey!

I am kinda new to WordPress and have no experience with coding, but I would like to adjust some details of the forum. Is there a plugin for listed demands? Thank you very much!

1) I would like to change typography of forum and topic title.
2) I want to hide “create new topic widget into spoiler or another eye pleasable format
3) I want to enable replying to individual comments, as in the second picture

PS: I know these might be very trivial questions, but I am total newbie.

[Robin W]

Private groups

[bobdobbs]

I have a solution.

It relies on a couple of assumptions: one being that the structure of URL’s is like this:
‘http://mysite.com/forums/…’

Assumption 2: all users with an account on the website are allowed to access the forum.

This function does the following:
If the user requests a resource under ‘/forums/’ then we test to see if the user has a wordpress account and is logged in. If the user isn’t logged into the wordpress account, then they get denied.

In production I’ve replaced ‘wp_die’ with a wp_redirect to another page.

/**
* If a user is not a forum member, and requests the forum index page then redirect them
*/

add_action('init', 'as_protect_forums');

function  as_protect_forums() {

    // get the path of the requested URI
    $current_url = home_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

    $path = parse_url($current_url, PHP_URL_PATH) ;

    $parts = explode('/', $path) ;

    $first_part = $parts[1] ;

    if (  $first_part === 'forums' ) {
        if ( 0 === get_current_user_id() ) {
            wp_die('nope');
        }
    }

}

[Ludovic S. Clain]

Hi @robin-w,
thanks for your reply!

I managed to reproduce my problem:
I created a WordPress instance on wptaste.com, reinstalled the essential bbpress plugins as well as Elementor Pro and Astra Pro, trying to redo my settings by hand, the error did not reproduce , I then exported my settings from the original site to re-import them into the test site and there I got the error.

So I set out to reset my settings in Astra Pro and then redo them by hand, and now everything is back to normal.
I didn’t understand what it was, but I was able to isolate it and find a solution that didn’t take your time.
Thanks for putting me on the trail!
Best regards,
Ludovic from Reunion island 🇷🇪

[grell67]

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could suggest how I might change the sidebar when a topic is opened. Unlike the forum post which has a ‘forum’ sidebar, when topics are opened the sidebar reverts to the default.

Thank you

Damian

Wordpress: 5.8.1
BBpress: 2.6.6
Our site: https://languagecaster.com/football-language-forums/

[Robin W]

This whilst old still works well

bbPress – Moderation Tools

[Robin W]

I took a look at this, but cannot see what is causing the 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

[Sascha]

Its still the same link: https://www.wordpress-star.de/?cmp_bypass=f9972b4d5956df4904f1958718031e36

[Robin W]

also have

bbResolutions

still works as far as I know

[Sascha]

Hello,

that is nice, thanks for your answer.

The Link is: https://www.wordpress-star.de/?cmp_bypass=f9972b4d5956df4904f1958718031e36 and then “forum” in the menu.

Currently only Bypass-Link is possible, due to the fact that the site is not online.

[bhkh]

I just realized that being able to set all the posts in a topic to be moderated would also be an acceptable solution. But the two moderation plugins I have found don’t give this functionality.

These are the two I checked:

bbPress – Moderation Tools

bbPress Moderation

Does anyone know of a plugin that might help from this angle?

[Robin W]

the easiest way to do this is to allow participant to ‘throttle’ – this then lets them bypass this check

so the code (untested) should be :

add_filter( 'bbp_get_caps_for_role', 'rew_throttle_bypass', 10, 2);

function rew_throttle_bypass ($caps, $role) {
	if ($role == bbp_get_participant_role() ) {
		$caps['throttle'] = true ;
	}
return $caps ;
}

ut 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

[kwk]

I am using WordPress 5.8 and BBPress 2.6.6. It appears by default BBPress creates an topic index page such as https://salvationcall.com/topics/. I found that Page 2 of this index page is broken; that is https://salvationcall.com/topics/page/2/. I am also of the view that I might experience the same problem with pagination as my forums keep growing. I have searched the bbPress site for solutions to no avail. I stumbled on a few pieces of information that suggested that setting “Forum root should show” to “Topics by Freshness” instead of “Forum Index” kind of works. However, it did not work in my case. I have diactivated many other plugins but still cannot find the cause. Any help?

[Robin W]

Make Forum Topics a Conversation with the bbPress Quotes Plugin

or

GD bbPress Tools

[Robin W]

on 2. ok, I see this as just a question, with no response

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attachment-with-empty-text-message-fails/

do you see it differently?

[bhkh]

Hello!

I’m trying to filter links that appear in responses. More specifically, they are links that appear in attachments that have been added through GD bbPress Attachments if that matters. I’m fairly sure the code works because it can filter in the content of a page just fine. Here is the code:

add_filter( 'the_content', 'myprefix_use_audio_short_tag' );

function myprefix_use_audio_short_tag( $content ) {
    $reg = "#<a .+ href=\"(.+?\.mp3)\".+?</a>#";
    $content = preg_replace($reg, "[audio mp3='$1' class='asset-audio' title='']", $content);

    return $content;
}

I’m guessing that it shouldn’t be the_content, but I am really working beyond my actual understanding of WordPress. I don’t know if I should be putting a theme file name there or if there is some equivalent to the_content that targets responses in bbP.

Feel free to criticize my regex as well. I’ve actually never used regex in WP/php before.

BTW, my code has been adapted from here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55814952/how-to-generate-audio-shortcode-when-theres-an-mp3-in-a-link-tag-in-wordpress

WP 5.8
bbP 2.6.6

[Robin W]

there should be an error message at the top saying

Your reply cannot be empty.

but the other plugin may be affecting this.

the quickest way to correct this is to create some content if it is blank.

This filter (untested) will deal with empty content and add a space character.

add_filter ('bbp_new_reply_pre_content' , 'rew_allow_blank_content') ;

function rew_allow_blank_content ($reply_content) {
	if ( empty( $reply_content ) ) {
		$reply_content = ' ' ;
	}
return $reply_content ;
}

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

I have initially set it to change empty content to a single space character ie

$reply_content = ' ' ;

however later checking by WordPress may delete this, so it may need some actual text – maybe like

$reply_content = 'this reply is has no text' ;