Let me first state I am doing this for security in light of all the wordpress sites being hacked. I want to change the #bbpress css ID’s to something like #forum.
I am not much of a coder so could I ask how I go about this ? or is there an easier way to go about this ?
Some of my plugins really heavily on different caching methods to make sure that things are optimized and fast. And, many things in bbPress are not very optimized due to the nature of data storage used by WordPress, so whenever I can use the cache, I do it.
As for the statistics function, I am not sure exactly what it returns, I use my function which is quite different, but from what I remember, it returns an array with pairs including labels and values.
Milan
Yeah, ‘members’ sounds much better, I never liked the ‘users’ that is the norm in WordPress. I have created a plugin GD Members Directory that adds a new page listing all forum members with options to filter and order the list of members, and it would be good to have the change from users to members done in bbPress core too.
The only limitation is that of WordPress itself. You can’t have more than the fixed number of sub-menus. But atleast you can configure many things in a nice way. 🙂 Now my menu in the backend has some kind of order! 🙂
If you are interested, I ended up using EnlighterJS. It has a fantastic WordPress module that is compatible with bbPress and is fantastic. User support has been great via GitHub:
Enlighter – Customizable Syntax Highlighter
If you need to show code snippets in your forum then this should be the one to use – hands down.
Just to mention that Advanced Menu Editor is a very nice plugin for managing menu positions.
Admin Menu Editor
But is simply does not make sense. WordPress / bbPress should return public count if not logged on and complete count if logged on – surely. It is false and misleading.
If they are only listing just the public content then the rest of the figures should match that.
Not to worry.
Can we change the terms at all so that they are more consistent with the advanced stats?
Side point: I put a query in your GD Power Search forum 🙂
Thanks!
Yeah, that is correct, the widget uses WordPress function that counts only published forums (in this case, that is only public visibility), the rest is not counted for this widget statistics.
WordPress creates a unique sequential number for every post, page, custom post type (which bbpress has as forums, topics and replies), every revision of the above, and many other plugins also use this mechanism.
so if a topic is created as 15623 it means there are 15622 pre-existing entries of the above in the database.
replies to topics are associated by another entry in the database giving the post’s ‘parent’
so numbers are entirely irrelevant in the scheme of bbpress.
Hello,
I have updated bbPress plugin to the latest version and i noticed that my forum is not working correctly now, when i go in the main page of the forum it loads just one topic and the page is without CSS, just a blank page with the title of the topic and some infos like the date and the creator.
Then i tried to download some old versions of bbPress to install but i dont remember which version was installed before.
So i tried bbPress 2.5.4 (its the one that i think it was installed before) and with this one i cant reach any page of the forum, infact when i go in the forum section of wordpress dashboard it load just a blank page.
I tried already some versions of bbPress from 2.5.1 to 2.5.9 then 2.6.0 and the latest but nothing changes.
The only difference is that with 2.6.0 or next loads correctly the forum section in the dashboard and with 2.5.9 or prev doesnt.
What went wrong just updating and reverting the update?
Hello I have the latest wordpress and bbpress version.
Some of my users told me that they cant subscribe to a forum anymore. By deactivating all my plugins and activating them again I found out it is due to BP Plugin.
Do you know anything about that?
Thanks a lot!
I’m redesigning my site, and for some reason, the child (sub) forums are not showing on the Forum Index under their parents. This happened on my first development site and after trying different things, I uninstalled bbPress and reinstalled it. They appeared. Now, when I moved my redesigned theme (which does have some template overrides) to a new dev site setup, once again my child forums are missing. However, uninstalling and reinstalling bbPress didn’t fix it this time.
I looked at the source code of the forum index and there is absolutely nothing there (no child forums).
Any ideas why they are not showing up again?
NOTE: I’m on WordPress 5.4.2, PHP 7.2. I switched to the twenty twenty theme, and the same thing happens…no child forums show under the parents. I also cannot give a link because my redesign is done locally on XAMPP.
If you need a forum to look a certain way, that can be done with WordPress and bbPress. bbPress look and feel can be fully customized.
that’s a WordPress core function, looks like you site is having issues.
Suggest you contact your host provider and see what advice they offer. You might need to roll back to a previous backup if the site is corrupted.
I have released a new free plugin for bbPress (it will remain as a free plugin, there will not be a Pro version in the future) for easier management of the topics and forums through the use of quick and bulk editing. Check it out here:
GD Forum Manager for bbPress
In the plugin page you can see the video showing how the plugin works. If you have any suggestions for more edit actions to be implemented, let me know.
Regards,
Milan
Thanks Robin for a great help. I am coding my own theme, and code from this plugin helped me to find out the filter ‘bbp_subscription_mail_message’. Though function ‘bbp_pre_notify_subscribers’ and ‘bbp_post_notify_subscribers’ are not working. But its working great with the ‘wp_mail_content_type’. It is now returning all mails from wordpress to Html emails. Anyway atleast it solved my issue. Thanks!!
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Breadcrumbs
so is this
[bbp-forum-index]
within a WordPress page ?
This will get the description where you want it – I can’t remember how it will handle images, but give it a try
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Forum Display
and actovate item 6
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Hi Robin,
I’m using the free version of Astra and Elementor.
However, I’ve spent far too long trying to figure this out so I purchased CSS HERO like Chook suggested and I must admit I’m so happy I did!
I imagine somehow it finds the root of all css on the site then somehow by putting in new css it overrides the current css (which is odd as when putting custom css into the wordpress customizer – additional css literally nothing will change on the site).
Anyway.. it works!
Thank you both,
Tim
install
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>bug fixes
and tick
Fix ‘A variable Mismatch has been detected’
For some unknown reason, the Merge topics function starting return the error:
“There has been a critical error on your website”
“Learn more about debugging in WordPress”
So I setup a staging site and disabled all of the plugins and started re-activating them one-by-one. With everything deactivated the Merge topics button worked just fine. You could see the dropdown box with all of the available topics to choose from.
I got down to the last major plugins, “Paid Memberships Pro” and “Business Directory Plugin” and when I activate either one of these, the Merge topic button returns the “There has been a critical error on your website” message.
We are running WordPress version 5.4.2, PHP version 7.0.33 and bbPress version 2.6.5
Any suggestions on possible fixes or quick ways to troubleshoot further will be greatly appreciated!
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I’m using a paid wordpress theme. I can modify code if that is needed. I haven’t changed any bbPress theme thus far. Thanks for your help.
