[mikeraine11]

Hi,

We recently moved our site from a previous host to WordPress.com, and in doing so updated the site to the Twenty Twenty-Four theme. We use bbPress for discussion forums because it integrates with Memberpress courses.

All was good on the old site, but now bbPress and any mentions of Forums has disappeared from the WP Admin dashboard. I’m double checked that I am a bbPress keymaster, and also installed the bbPress Style Pack plugin, but don’t see anything there that solves my problem. I have also seen some people with a similar issue say that the All in One SEO plugin was the culprit, but that is not installed on the site.

We are running version 6.4.3 of WordPress.

Can anyone please help me get forums working!

Thank you!

[Robin W]

You can build your forum to look however you like, many would complain if this was the only way you could show your forum.

The basic look of the forum is generally determined by your theme, and dependent in theme how you use sidebars.

The widgets on the left are available either in the default bbpress plugin or in

bbp style pack

which will let you style bbpress and add lots of features.

[jemar707]

I am trying to replace the titles for Voice and Replies with dashicons like the WordPress forums are styled. I am using the code below, and it works in that it adds the dashicon, but it doesn’t remove the words.

/*topic titles*/
.bbpress .forum-titles {
	overflow: hidden;
}
.bbpress .forum-titles .bbp-topic-voice-count::before,
.bbpress .forum-titles .bbp-topic-reply-count::before {
	font: 400 16px/1 dashicons;
	margin-right: 100px;
	-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
	-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

	.bbpress .forum-titles .bbp-topic-voice-count::before,
	.bbpress .forum-titles .bbp-topic-reply-count::before {
		font: 400 21px/1 dashicons;
		margin-left: 20px;
	}

.bbpress .forum-titles .bbp-topic-voice-count::before {
	content: "\f307";
}
.bbpress .forum-titles .bbp-topic-reply-count::before {
	content: "\f125";
}

.bbpress li.bbp-header li.bbp-forum-info,
.bbpress li.bbp-header li.bbp-topic-title {
	text-align: left !important;
}

/*forum titles*/

.bbpress .forum-titles {
	overflow: hidden;
}
.bbpress .forum-titles .bbp-forum-topic-count::before,
.bbpress .forum-titles .bbp-forum-reply-count::before {
	font: 400 16px/1 dashicons;
	margin-right: 100px;
	-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
	-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

	.bbpress .forum-titles .bbp-forum-topic-count::before,
	.bbpress .forum-titles .bbp-forum-reply-count::before {
		font: 400 21px/1 dashicons;
		margin-left: 20px;
	}

.bbpress .forum-titles .bbp-forum-topic-count::before {
	content: "\f307";
}
.bbpress .forum-titles .bbp-forum-reply-count::before {
	content: "\f125";
}

.bbpress li.bbp-header li.bbp-forum-info,
.bbpress li.bbp-header li.bbp-topic-title {
	text-align: left !important;
}

[Robin W]

probably (untested)

add_action ('plugins_loaded' , 'rew_move_reply_button' ) ;

function rew_move_reply_button () {
	remove_action ( 'bbp_template_before_single_topic', 'bsp_display_reply_button' );
	add_action ( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_content', 'bsp_display_reply_button' );
}

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]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>widgets to see how to use them

[kyle_conrad]

Never got this working and didn’t have time to fully troubleshoot – since our needs were pretty simple, we moved back to use a custom post type and built-in WordPress comments for our “forum”

[maldiv097]

on the front-end, they just fail quietly, but Add New on the Replies page in admin causes WordPress to fail. Trying to track down what could possibly cause this, because it feels really strange!

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Breadcrumbs

[Robin W]

I can only suggest the basic fault finding

viz :

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

[kyle_conrad]

Pulling my hair out on this one – Forums and Topics work just fine in the admin and in the front-end. However, Replies totally crash the site – on the front-end, they just fail quietly, but Add New on the Replies page in admin causes WordPress to fail. Trying to track down what could possibly cause this, because it feels really strange!

Copying over the first 100 lines or so of the stack trace to see if ANYONE has any idea what could be causing this.

Error:
Xdebug has detected a possible infinite loop, and aborted your script with a stack depth of '1024' frames

  at /www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/class-wp-object-cache.php:141
  at WP_Object_Cache->is_valid_key()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/class-wp-object-cache.php:364)
  at WP_Object_Cache->get()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/cache.php:154)
  at wp_cache_get()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/class-wp-post.php:240)
  at WP_Post::get_instance()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/post.php:1036)
  at get_post()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/post.php:1495)
  at get_post_type()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template.php:454)
  at bbp_is_reply()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php:544)
  at bbp_get_reply_title_fallback()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:324)
  at WP_Hook->apply_filters()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/plugin.php:205)
  at apply_filters()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/post-template.php:174)
  at get_the_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php:603)
  at bbp_get_topic_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php:1405)
  at bbp_get_reply_topic_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php:549)
  at bbp_get_reply_title_fallback()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:324)
  at WP_Hook->apply_filters()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/plugin.php:205)
  at apply_filters()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/post-template.php:174)
  at get_the_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php:603)
  at bbp_get_topic_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php:1405)
  at bbp_get_reply_topic_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php:549)
  at bbp_get_reply_title_fallback()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:324)
  at WP_Hook->apply_filters()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/plugin.php:205)
  at apply_filters()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/post-template.php:174)
  at get_the_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php:603)
  at bbp_get_topic_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php:1405)
  at bbp_get_reply_topic_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php:549)
  at bbp_get_reply_title_fallback()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:324)
  at WP_Hook->apply_filters()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/plugin.php:205)
  at apply_filters()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/post-template.php:174)
  at get_the_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php:603)
  at bbp_get_topic_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php:1405)
  at bbp_get_reply_topic_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php:549)
  at bbp_get_reply_title_fallback()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:324)
  at WP_Hook->apply_filters()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/plugin.php:205)
  at apply_filters()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/post-template.php:174)
  at get_the_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php:603)
  at bbp_get_topic_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php:1405)
  at bbp_get_reply_topic_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php:549)
  at bbp_get_reply_title_fallback()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:324)
  at WP_Hook->apply_filters()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/plugin.php:205)
  at apply_filters()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/post-template.php:174)
  at get_the_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php:603)
  at bbp_get_topic_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php:1405)
  at bbp_get_reply_topic_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php:549)
  at bbp_get_reply_title_fallback()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:324)
  at WP_Hook->apply_filters()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/plugin.php:205)
  at apply_filters()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-includes/post-template.php:174)
  at get_the_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php:603)
  at bbp_get_topic_title()
     (/www/kinsta/public/internationalmidwivesorg/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php:1405)

[Robin W]

ok it is probably a combination of plugins/theme, you’ll need to work out which.

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

[wagganation]

while bbpress is active, when i log in to admin the side bar is missing, luckily i have the top bar. i deactivated bbpress and the problem goes away. so obviously this plugin causing it!.have the latest version of wordpress.

[Robin W]

This lets you style and add features

bbp style pack

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Subscription Emails

[Robin W]

can you try adding

BP Classic

which has a compatibility link between buddypress 12 and bbpress.

Then come back and report

[ahillmortons]

Hi @robin-w,

I’m using an FSE theme with compatibility turned on in bbp style pack, It’s called Lawson by ThemeZee.

I’m using:
WordPress 6.4.2
bbPress 2.6.9
BuddyPress 12.1.1
BuddyPress Multi Network 1.0.3
bbp style pack 5.8.0
Profile Builder 3.10.7
Profile Builder Elite 3.9.9

I’ve replied here with the steps I’ve taken: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3355#comment:23

Many Thanks,

Andy

[ahillmortons]

OK, so it appears there’s a thread about the issue here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3355#comment:4

I can’t get the fix to work but I’ll pick up on what to do next on there.

Thanks

[Robin W]

If you are using one of new FSE themes, you need a fix to work with bbpress.
install

bbp style pack

once activated, navigate to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack, and you should see the first tab called ‘Theme Support’ – if you don’t see this, come back.

In that tab, select

Enable Theme Support

and save

The forums should then display

[Robin W]

so if you create a wordpress post (ie not in the forum) what date does it show?

[Robin W]

you are using the flexiverse theme.

This is one of the new FSE themes, so you need a fix to work with bbpress.
install

bbp style pack

once activated, navigate to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack, and you should see the first tab called ‘Theme Support’ – if you don’t see this, come back.

In that tab, select

Enable Theme Support

and save

The forums should then display

[opeoluwa1999]

Wordpress version – Version 6.4.2
bb press version – Version 2.6.9

Home

After creating the forums and assigned topics to them, the topics do not display, just the forums, so i cant engage on the topics

[Robin W]

they are correct that it has not been updated for a couple of years.

I am just a moderator here, and not a bbpress author.

The authors tend to release updates every few years, rather than more frequently.

My personal view is that you should consider bbpress to be a ‘mature’ product, ie any releases will be to fix issues rather than add functionality.

bbpress is written really well, and has loads of hooks. There are no show stopper bugs in it, it may throw a few deprecation notices (and these are very few at the moment), but WordPress recommends that you should not show error messages in live sites.

I currently have my test site running WordPress 6.4.x and php 8.2 with no issues.

The only major issue with bbpress at the moment is that it does not work well with FSE themes.

However my bbp style pack plugin has fixes for this

bbp style pack

as well as block versions of the widgets and a ton of styling and functionality add-ons.

All plugins are subject to the authors commitment, and bbpress is no different.

The main WordPress support forums use bbpress, and it would be mega work to move those over to some other product.

[Robin W]

I think adding this additional plugin fixes

BP Classic

[Robin W]

This is one of the new FSE themes, so you need a fix to work with bbpress.
install

bbp style pack

once activated, navigate to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack, and you should see the first tab called ‘Theme Support’ – if you don’t see this, come back.

In that tab, select

Enable Theme Support

and save

The forums should then display

[kagunda]

Hi Robin, I also noticed that on my staging site.

The Forum, which is available to members only shows the entry page. When you try to get into the forum, the elements do not show. My site is: https://tayfamilyhistg.wpenginepowered.com/forum/

I am using the Oxygen Builder WordPress plugin. When I switch back to a different theme it shows but I don’t understand why the forum is not showing with Oxygen Builder. I am using all the latest versions.