[enorth]

I’m working on my first WordPress site, which will primarily have several forums. Users can create topics and reply to topics others created. Among other things, there will be something like a “Ride Reports” forum where users can talk about rides they’ve been on and others can comment on them. I think (hope?) I’m close to ready to go.

So far, I’ve avoided incorporating blogs because, frankly, I don’t know what they would add. Can anyone tell me what a blog would be used for?

[Robin W]

either

bbPress WP Tweaks

or

How to Add WordPress Conditional Content to Sidebar Widgets

and use the logic

is_bbpress()

[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

[vincenzon617]

Hi there,

Is it possible to use the forum title rather than the forum id when using shortcode to display the forum? In my website I am using a plugin which has virtual pages and I would like the user to search for the title of the forum they want and then it to be displayed – by means of shortcode.

Just in case, I would like to add that duplicate naming of the fourms would not be an issue in my website (it is not possible for the user to create a fourm with the same name).

Also, is there a way in which I am able to query the forum index? If so, am I able to check if a forum with this name (used in the query) already exists? If it doesn’t I would like the user to be able to start it, is this also possible?

WordPress version 5.6.2
bbPress version 2.6.6

Thanks in advance!

[sbask]

When the task is run “Recalculate parent forum for each topic and reply” it times out and the wordpress implementation loses access to the database. Now our anonymous users see no replies in the forum.

Is there any way to run this reindexing without causing this hiccup?

[sharpsagen]

Running 5.6.2 WordPress. Using Divi theme. Version 2.6.6 bbpress. While the Main forum page: https://crown50reunion.org/forum/ is using sidbar 2, the discussion page: https://crown50reunion.org/forums/forum/general-discussion/ adds the general sidebar. How can I change this?

[Robin W]

hmmm…

try using

Code Snippets

The code works fine in my functions file

[purityboy83]

Custom Post Type Permalinks

[purityboy83]

I am using permalink through this plugin.

Custom Post Type Permalinks

[purityboy83]

hi

@robin-w

You seem to inspire me

install plug in Custom Post Type Permalinks instead of bbPress Permalinks with ID

and the problem i had was resolved.

Custom Post Type Permalinks

This plugin is constantly updated and nice

Thanks~!

[Robin W]

‘Oops! That embed can’t be found’ is not a bbpress error, it’s a wordpress one.

but looking at the link below, I’d suggest it is related to your permalinks, and maybe the fact that you are using ID’s and a plugin for that

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-document-revision-plugin-permalink-does-not-work-to-embed/

[purityboy83]

Hi

If add a link to “topic and reply”, the embed function does not work.

ref img
https://ibb.co/qxXG125

site.com is an example for screenshots.
I entered the actual URL

error error embed
Oops! That embed can’t be found

ref img
https://ibb.co/grXr9dV

It was a site that has been without problems for months.
I just discovered it by accident.

The same is happening at the internal test site.

I installed the “Health Check & Troubleshooting” plug-in from the test site
and activated the Troubleshooting mode.

and only 2 plugin activate
– bbPress
– bbPress Permalinks with ID

The problem still occurs.
It’s a well-used feature, site, but suddenly a problem arises and I’m confused.

I must need to help

wordpress 5.5.3
PHP-7.4

Thanks

Best Regards,
Hyunho

[Robin W]

Private groups

[purityboy83]

Hi

I want the thumbnail to appear on the topic
Search results found a plugin similar to the function I’m hoping for

bbpress-topic-thumbnails
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-topic-thumbnails/

I want to add one more feature in this plugin.
With this plugin, thumbnails of all forum topics are displayed

I only want to use this feature for 1 specific forum
reason for write topic is because the plugin has not been updated for a long time.

So I ask for help here

code is

/*Hooks into the loop-topic.php output to print image*/
add_action( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_title', 'bee_insert_thumbnail' );
function bee_insert_thumbnail() {

        if((!bee_catch_image() == '')){
        echo('<a href="'); 
    echo(bbp_topic_permalink() . '"><img class="bbp-topic-thumbnail"  width="100%" style="max-width: ' . get_option('thumbnail_size_w') . 'px; max-height: ' . get_option('thumbnail_size_h'). 'px; vertical-align:middle;" src="' . bee_catch_image() . '"/>' .'</a>');
        }
}

/*Function that retrieves the first image associated with the topic*/
function bee_catch_image() {
  global $post, $posts;
  $first_img = '';
  ob_start();
  ob_end_clean();
  $output = preg_match_all('/<img.+src=[\'"]([^\'"]+)[\'"].*>/i', $post->post_content, $matches);
  $first_img = $matches [1] [0];
  return $first_img;
}

Anyone can help?
Thanks

[st11]

I am trying to create a custom role that can only reply to existing topics.

I followed this to create new role. At first, the role did appear in dropdown list in admin edit user screen, but after saving, it went back to “— No role for these forums —”.

I found this thread, so.. I created custom WordPress role in the same name. This made the bbPress role to be “saved” but it doesn’t seem to add capabilities. The user with this role can’t see forum or topics.

How can I get this custom bbPress user role to have custom capability?

WordPress 5.5, bbPress 2.6.6

[marcopAolo]

Wordpress version 5.6
bbpress Version 2.6.6
website: jackkornfield.com
I recently moved a reply to topic and now from the WPAdmin when I click on Replies I get a 502 error, So I am unable to view/edit replies from WordPress Admin. Please help.

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Subscription Emails and there is a box to tick item 2 auto login and the appropriate login

[Robin W]

ok, I can only suggest you install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Breadcrumbs

where you can reset where the root takes you to back to your forum page

[flamuren]

Robin you son of a wordpress god! That works!! haha amazing – please let me know how to send you some money 🙌

[Robin W]

@mike80222 – I’m trying to find time to think about this, but in the meantime 2 thoughts

1. the default for 5.6 issues is to install

Enable jQuery Migrate Helper

2. bbpress only has a text editor as standard in front end , so how are you doing the visual editor you are switching to?

[bamadale]

Three weeks ago after completely updating WordPress to 5.6, php to 7.4 and updating all of our plugins, we are experiencing some intermittent yet serious (to those paying for their memberships) login / redirect issues.

website: 1standtenflorida.com
WordPress 5.6.1
PHP version: 7.4.15
bbPress Version 2.6.6
BuddyPress Version 7.1.0
OceanWP theme V

Normally, the user comes to our website at 1standtenflorida.com and they are able to login just fine and view the News pages, Big Board, etc., but when they go to the Forum and try to click on a single topic, it redirects them back to the Login page. However, the Log In page shows them as “You are Logged in as “username” (Logout) (click Remember Me checkbox to stay logged in) and there is not a username and password box.

The problem troubleshooting it is, the errors are cross devices (iPhone, Samsung, laptops, desktops, iPads), cross browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge) and cross platform (iOS, MacOS, Windows, etc.). I would note that it seems to be more prevalent on mobile devices but then again, that may be because the majority of our visitors are on mobile devices. 🙂

It doesn’t always happen on every topic either and it can happen on different topics with different users.

I’ve had some success working with individual users to log them out from the Dashboard or reset them a new password. We’ve had them to clear their browser cache and cookies, but only in one or two instances has that helped.

We’ve deleted any plugins that we were using to prolong logins as well, just in case they were outdated.

I have not deleted the .htaccess file yet and let it rebuild and was hoping that might not be required. Any suggestions on how to proceed with troubleshooting this will be greatly appreciated!

[Mike Witt]

Hi @robin-w,

Just bbPress. It’s my MemberPress, bbPress, BuddyPress “test site.” We generally don’t upgrade anything until testing it here first. I’m not upgrading WordPress on our real sites because of the editing bug. I do everything in text mode!

If seems like (with WP 5.6.1) when you start editing a post in text mode, there’s no echo. If you switch to visual, the text is there. Some other weird thing seem to happen, but those are hard to pin down.

AFAICT I don’t have any other plugins that should be involved.

NOTE: FOR ME THIS ONLY HAPPENS ON MOBILE DEVICES, but I don’t really know if it’s mobile vs desktop or one browser vs another. I’ve read that the basic WP bug is browser dependent.

From my perspective, it’s just one of the reasons that I’m not updating WP, so it’s not big deal in itself, but I am curious that (if I’m really seeing what I think I am) that it’s not been reported more!

[Mike Witt]

If they are using WP 5.6.1 and posting in text mode, I wonder if it could be the same thing I’m seeing here:

WordPress 5.6.1 bug affects forum text editing mode?

[John James Jacoby]

This is the default behavior of bbPress. Unless a plugin already provides a simple modification of this behavior, the easiest way to customize this would be by overriding the /bbpress/form-reply.php template part in your WordPress child theme.

[xprojectsx]

I’ve been going over this for days trying to import forum using the Example importer. Everything works but after importing about 300,000 records, all of the authors are incorrect after the import. I did a fresh install of WP and tried again but got the same results. I ran the bbpress tools and this made no difference.
A lot of the users show as “Anonymous” but the rest are just pointing to the wrong user id. So the Topics/Replies just show as from the wrong user. I tried working around this by going into the source data and giving all of the user ids there a very high numerical value but even after doing this it made no difference. WordPress still assigns seemingly random userids to all of the imported users.