[lswhere]

*** FIXED***(kind of)*** I know it’s been 8 years since this was active but I’ve been banging my head for DAYS trying to figure this out and HERE’S THE FIX!!!

Download the plugin BBP Style Pack https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/ after activation go into style pack settings open the “Freshness Display” tab – check the ‘activate freshness display’ box and then change the freshness format from default to display the date on the last post. Save changes and that’s it. If you leave the setting on default it will not work. You will have the same problems. It needs to be changed to ‘show date of last post.

I HOPE YOU CAN RELAX NOW

[Robin W]

@bodybyloud the old version might work for you if you are not using blocks if you add this

add_filter( 'bbppt_eligible_post_types', 'rew_add_types' ) ;

function rew_add_types () {
	$types = array( 'post', 'page', listings' )  ;
return $types ;
}

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

[Robin W]

This should do it if I have the right yoast meta name

add_action ('bbp_new_reply', 'add_yoast_title' , 10 , 7) ;

function add_yoast_title ( $reply_id, $topic_id, $forum_id, $anonymous_data, $reply_author, $false, $reply_to ) {
	$topic_title = get_the_title ($topic_id) ;
	$title = 'Reply to:'.$topic_title ;
	update_post_meta ($reply_id , '_yoast_wpseo_title' , $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

[Robin W]

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

add_filter (‘bbp_subscription_mail_headers’ , ‘rew_headers’ ) ;

function rew_headers ($headers) {
$headers = str_replace ('hello' ,'\'', $headers) ;
return $headers ;
}

but instead of hello put & # 0 3 9 ; but without the spaces – sorry wordpress keeps interpreting the code so best way I can get it in here

[Robin W]

sorry, there are 300,000 users of bbpress and you have found a couple of instances where users found an issue.

In one advice was to troubleshoot the problem, and the user never came back, in the other one user found that it was a wp mail plugin.

I appreciate that you ae frustrated, but ‘this same exact issue 5 and a half years ago? Is this issue still not fixed?’ is not going to endear you to the free support offered for this free product.

As a first instance, please do the troubleshooting :

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]

sorry, bbpress works on themes that comply with the some old wordpress conventions, and nowadays 90% don’t so most don’t.

No-ones fault, wordpress themes have moved on faster than worpdress 🙂

[Robin W]

you might do best by installing

bbp style pack

and use that to style the forums

[Robin W]

so you would set the default role in

dashboard>settings>forums to be ‘spectator’ and then wordpress login hook to wp-login or init

add_action('wp_login', 'xxx', 10, 2);  which passes '$user_login, $user'
add_action('init', 'xxx');

your function then would check date current user registered, and if over a month, change the role to ‘participant’ using

bbp_set_user_role( $user_id, bbp_get_participant_role() );

[wpturk]

I don’t know it this helps and I did not test it with bbpress.

This plugin finds and deletes unused tags:

Mass Delete Unused Tags

[Robin W]

this plugin lets you do that (if I understand your question)

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Breadcrumbs

if you want to do it programmatically your self look at the plugins functions file

includes/functions.php

around line 607 onwards

[mgg1000]

bbPress 2.6.6
WordPress 5.5.3

When users turn on the option to “notify me of follow-up replies”, if the reply is from a user with forum role = Keymaster, the user does not get the email notification that there has been a reply. However, if the reply is from a user with forum role = participant, the user does get the email notification that there has been a reply. Any thoughts on what I have set incorrectly?

[Robin W]

@erich199 and @bodybyloud – I have now had a look at the code.

I’m presuming both of you are using wordpress with blocks (ie the newer block editor rather than the classic editor) in posts and pages – I can see that this would not allow you to add topics for posts to new (or amend existing).

But it would allow the display in posts for old ones.

Is this what you are seeing ?

If so I think I can help, if not – can you explain further what is not happening

[wpturk]

To fix problems for this plugin in WP 5.5.X try this:

Why WordPress 5.5 broke your site & how to fix it

[Robin W]

it’s showing tags with 2 & 1 on my test site.

If you sure it is an issue, then unlikely but 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

[patrick_here]

On the fresh wordpress site without Elementor, I added Elementor and changed the page to an elementor page. In that case, Elementor didn’t strip out the tag.

On the built-up site I disabled all the plugins except Elementor and the tags still do not appear. So perhaps it is a certain setting in Elementor that is causing the problem …not sure. Obviously I can’t state with 100% certainty that Elementor is causing the problem but I’ve spent so much time with this that I cannot continue testing. I’ve decided to just go ahead with the workaround of manually inserting the tags when I create the Forum Description.

I would definitely avoid Elementor in the future on any site that I’m developing entirely on my own. I feel that for me it adds too much unnecessary complexity – opening the door to bugs that take too long to find.

[Robin W]

ok, so I can only suggest you do some issue finding

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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

[patrick_here]

Did you really mean “theme folder”? The theme is “Hello Elementor” and there’s no bbpress folder in there.

The version of the bbpress plugin is a fresh version that I installed myself this week.

Other plugins installed (by someone else) on the site are:
bbp style pack
WP Forms
Elementor – Header, Footer & Bocks
Essential Content types
Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights
Jetpack
OptinMonster API
WPForms Lite
Yoast SEO

[patrick_here]

UPDATE:
Robin, I just tested this on a fresh wordpress install (ie: without Elementor) and I see that the tag is there !!!

So this leads me to believe that Elementor must be stripping the tag.

I cannot give you a link to this install because it’s on my local workstation (with a LAMP install). The tag I’m seeing at the forum description is: bbp-forum-content

[patrick_here]

This is the interface I’m talking about. That’s what I see when I click “Add New” [Forum] (with minor differences). The Forum Title gets entered into the “Enter title here” box. I’m saying that any text entered in the large post text area below …ends up showing up as forum description in the Forum index …but it shows up without tags of any kind.

[patrick_here]

Here’s what I mean:
Take a look at https://westseattleblog.com/forum

Under the “Freebies, Sales, Trades” forum there is a forum description that says:
“This is also where to list garage/yard sales”

I wasn’t sure how bbpress intends for users to get a forum description like that. The way I did it was that I noticed that when I “Add New Forum”, I’m in a WordPress interface that’s practically identical to the interface to create a post or page …and the post/page Title becomes the title of the forum. So in the normal text area of the “create post” interface I added the text that I intended for my forum description.

Perhaps that’s just a “hack” that works but it’s not the intended way to do it, yes? What is the intended way to add a forum description?

[Robin W]

this (surprisingly) is not easy within bbpress.

You would do better to force worpdress to have display name as username eg

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/138034/default-display-name-as-username

[Robin W]

ah, I see what you ae getting at – not sure how this site does it, but you can create a link to a page in your site and put

[bbp-topic-index] in that page – that will show the latest 15 topics

If you want better than that, then

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>shortcode

and check out the

[bsp-display-topic-index] which has lots of settings you can use to control what is shown

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Custom CSS

[Robin W]

If I understand

add_action ('bbp_theme_after_topic_form_tags' , 'rew_tag_desc' ) ;
add_action ('bbp_theme_after_reply_form_tags' , 'rew_tag_desc' ) ;

function rew_tag_desc () {
	echo '<p>words here</p>' ;
}

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

[Robin W]

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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]

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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