[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.

[Robin W]

I am not a bbpress author, not a lot I can do.

bbpress is a WordPress project – suggest you write to Matt Mullenweg about why no-one is currently assigned to bbpress to keep it up to date.

matt@mullenweg.com cc: press@automattic.com.

[Robin W]

add this plugin

BP Classic

[Robin W]

the backend seems to only save one moderator.

This code should fix

add_action ('bbp_subscriptions_metabox' , 'rew_set_hidden_subscribers' ) ;
add_action ('bbp_topic_attributes_metabox_save' , 'rew_save_subscriptions', 10 , 2) ;

function rew_set_hidden_subscribers ($post) {
	// Get user IDs
	$user_ids = bbp_get_subscribers( $post->ID );
	$list = implode(",",$user_ids); 

	// Output
	?>
	<input name="rew_topic_subscription" id="rew_topic_subscription" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $list; ?>" />
	<?php
}

function rew_save_subscriptions ( $topic_id, $forum_id ) {
	// Handle Subscriptions
	if ( bbp_is_subscriptions_active() && ! empty( $_POST['rew_topic_subscription'] )) {
		//update_option ($subscriptions)
		$subscriptions = explode(",", $_POST['rew_topic_subscription']);
		foreach ($subscriptions as $subscription_id ) {
			// Check if subscribed and if so do nothing
			if (bbp_is_user_subscribed( $subscription_id, $topic_id )) continue;
			else {
			bbp_add_user_subscription( $subscription_id, $topic_id );
			}
		}
	}
}

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

or if you use

bbp style pack

this fix is automatically added

[stonebkfly]

We have many Forums and we wish to have different Moderators for specific forums. However, I do not see a way to limit the view so that a Moderator only see the Forums that they are responsible for. Is there a way to do this?

Currently we are setting the Moderator Role on the user record. I have been unable to set the Moderator on the Forum record (when I set it and save I get no error but it does not get saved). If I could set it on the Forum record would this limit the Forums that the Moderator would see?

WordPress Version: 6.4.2
bbPress Version: 2.6.9

Thank you!
Joseph

[ibnat]

I forgot to mention. On setting up your forum before creating your app there is one plugin that is essential. (Thankyou Robin!) 🙂

bbp style pack

Here are all the plugins I am using.

bbp profile information Version 2.1.2 by Robin Wilson
bbPress Version 2.6.9 by The bbPress Contributors
bbP Signature Version 1.4 by Arjun S Kumar, Robin W
bbp style pack Version 5.7.8 by Robin Wilson
GD bbPress Attachments Version 4.6 by Milan Petrovic
Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles Version 3.7.0 by Ankit Panchal
Import and export users and customers Version 1.25.1 by codection
LiteSpeed Cache Version 6.0.0.1 by LiteSpeed Technologies
Meow Lightbox Version 5.1.1 by Jordy Meow
reCaptcha by BestWebSoft Version 1.74 by BestWebSoft
Site Kit by Google Version 1.116.0 by Google
Smush Version 3.15.3 by WPMU DEV
Super RSS Reader Version 5.1 by Aakash Chakravarthy
WP Mail From II Version 2.0 by Ben Huson
WPMobile.App — Android and iOS Mobile Application Version 11.41 by WPMobile.App
WP User Avatars Version 1.4.1 by Triple J Software, Inc.
Yoast SEO Version 21.8 by Team Yoast

[ibnat]

Updating this topic as I went ahead and used the WPMobile app with absolutely fantastic results.

I now have a fully functioning BBPress forum available on the G Play Store with push notifications etc etc. Very happy!

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wpappninja/reviews/

Highly recommendable for anyone with a BBPress forum!

[Robin W]

I don’t know of anything that does this within bbpress.

However bbpress just uses then wordpress login, so anything that does that in wp would work.

This looks like a possible option…

WP User Switch

Otherwise you could just allow ‘anonymous posting’ which would let users post under multiple names, but of course could not be limited to paid members.

[Robin W]

what wordpress theme as

dashboard>appearance>themes

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Breadcrumbs

[sotekt]

Hey guys am quite new to these just install a bbpress in my wordpress. Added Some categories and some forums with perent… and while trying to use the forums i cant get the way how to go back to the main forums categories.

Any tips? thanks

[rilliencot]

Although I solved the last issue, a similar one immediately came up after that (The topic count at the top of a forum didn’t count new topics). I had a feeling that as long as I proceeded with this hacked version of the actual bbPress functions that I now thankfully know are responsible for topic creation (thank you Robin, again!), these little discrepencies were going to keep popping up.

So I’ve updated the ‘create_bill’ function to now call bbp_insert_topic() (line 24 of \bbpress\includes\topics\functions.php). If I understand things correctly (I’m new to web development and learning as I go), this starts the natural chain of events that should happen anytime a new topic is created (at least it looks to be working). I still need the new endpoint because I’d like to add some custom fields to these topics as well, so now the above php script is the much simpler:

<?php
/**
 * Plugin Name:       bbPress Bill API
 * Description:       Exposing the bbPress post types to WP API and creating a namespace for bills.
 * Author:            Rillien Cot
 * Version:           1.6.0
 */

/**
 * Add REST API support to an already registered post type.
 */
add_action('init', 'register_bbp_post_types', 25);

function register_bbp_post_types() {
    global $wp_post_types;

    $post_type_name =  bbp_get_reply_post_type();
    if (isset($wp_post_types[$post_type_name])) {
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->show_in_rest = true;
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_base = $post_type_name;
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_controller_class = 'WP_REST_Posts_Controller';
    }
    $post_type_name =  bbp_get_topic_post_type();
    if (isset($wp_post_types[$post_type_name])) {
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->show_in_rest = true;
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_base = $post_type_name;
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_controller_class = 'WP_REST_Posts_Controller';
    }
    $post_type_name =  bbp_get_forum_post_type();
    if (isset($wp_post_types[$post_type_name])) {
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->show_in_rest = true;
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_base = $post_type_name;
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_controller_class = 'WP_REST_Posts_Controller';
    }

    // Add custom REST API endpoint for creating bbPress topic
    add_action('rest_api_init', 'create_bill_endpoint');
}

function create_bill_endpoint() {
    register_rest_route('pnyx/v2', '/bill/', array(
        'methods' => 'POST',
        'callback' => 'create_bill',
    ));
}

function create_bill($data) {
    // Extract Data
    $new_topic_data = $data['new_post_data'];
    $new_topic_meta = $data['new_post_meta'];

    // Create new bbPress topic using passed data and meta content
    $topic_id = bbp_insert_topic($new_topic_data, $new_topic_meta);

    // Add ACF custom fields to created topic
    update_field('bill_id', $data['bill_id'], $topic_id);
}
?>

and the python that calls it is:

import requests
import json

# Set your WordPress API authentication details
username = "************"
password = "***********************"
auth = requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth(username, password)

# Create a new post data with post_parent
new_post_payload = {
    "new_post_data": {
        "post_parent": 40, // use a valid forum_id from your site
        "post_title": "API Created Post Title",
        "post_content": "Lorem ipsum content for the new topic",
    },
    "new_post_meta": {
        "forum_id": 40, //use same forum_id here that you used for "post parent" in 'new_post_data'
    },
    "bill_id": "hrs1111",
}

# Make the POST request to create a new post
wordpress_api_url = "http://pnyx.local/wp-json/pnyx/v2/bill/"
response = requests.post(
    wordpress_api_url,
    auth=auth,
    headers={
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    },
    data=json.dumps(new_post_payload),
)

You’ll notice that the ‘data’ portion of the request has changed from a simple dictionary to nested dictionaries so the bbp_insert_topic function has the correct arguments (it takes two arrays).

[rilliencot]

WordPress Version: 6.4.2
bbPress Version: 2.6.9
Link to site: Unavailable (Site created using LocalWP and still hosted locally)

When I create topics through the standard frontend or backend, the new topic shows up in the forum perfectly.

However, if I create a new topic using a plugin extension I’ve cobbled together, the new topic does not show up on the front end of the website (despite it being created and visible on the back end).

The plugin written in php is as follows (thanks to work from here and here):

<?php
/**
 * Plugin Name:       bbPress API
 * Description:       Exposing the bbPress post types to WP API.
 * Author:            Rillien Cot
 * Version:           1.3.0
 */

/**
 * Add REST API support to an already registered post type.
 */
add_action('init', 'register_bbp_post_types', 25);

function register_bbp_post_types() {
    global $wp_post_types;

    $post_type_name =  bbp_get_reply_post_type();
    if (isset($wp_post_types[$post_type_name])) {
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->show_in_rest = true;
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_base = $post_type_name;
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_controller_class = 'WP_REST_Posts_Controller';
    }
    $post_type_name =  bbp_get_topic_post_type();
    if (isset($wp_post_types[$post_type_name])) {
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->show_in_rest = true;
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_base = $post_type_name;
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_controller_class = 'WP_REST_Posts_Controller';
    }
    $post_type_name =  bbp_get_forum_post_type();
    if (isset($wp_post_types[$post_type_name])) {
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->show_in_rest = true;
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_base = $post_type_name;
        $wp_post_types[$post_type_name]->rest_controller_class = 'WP_REST_Posts_Controller';
    }

    // Add custom REST API endpoint for creating bbPress topic
    add_action('rest_api_init', 'create_bill_endpoint');
}

function create_bill_endpoint() {
    register_rest_route('pnyx/v2', '/bill/', array(
        'methods' => 'POST',
        'callback' => 'create_bill',
    ));
}

function create_bill($data) {
    // Extract necessary data from the request
    $forum_id = $data['forum_id'];
    $topic_title = $data['topic_title'];
    $topic_content = $data['topic_content'];
    $bill_id = $data['bill_id'];

    // Create a new bbPress topic
    $topic_args = array(
        'post_title' => $topic_title,
        'post_content' => $topic_content,
        'post_type' => bbp_get_topic_post_type(),
        'post_status' => 'publish',
        'post_parent' => $forum_id, // Set the post_parent to the forum ID
    );

    $topic_id = wp_insert_post($topic_args);
?>

Basically, it exposes the Forum, Topic, and Reply post types from bbPress to standard wp-json/v2 namespace and then adds an additional endpoint (‘create_bill’) which allows me to add a new topic and associate it with a forum via ‘post_parent’. (I wonder if this is where the problem is?)

I create a new topic using the following python script:

import requests
import json

# Set WordPress API authentication details
username = "*******"
password = "**********************"
auth = requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth(username, password)

# Values for new post data
new_post_data = {
    "forum_id": 40, # <- This is a valid post id of a forum.
    "topic_title": "New API Topic Title",
    "topic_content": "Lorem ipsum content for the new topic"
}

# Make the POST request to create a new post
wordpress_api_url = "http://pnyx.local/wp-json/pnyx/v2/bill/"
response = requests.post(
    wordpress_api_url,
    auth=auth,
    headers={
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    },
    data=json.dumps(new_post_data)
)

The topic is created, and I can see it in Dashboard>>Topics>>All Topics. And I can view it by going directly to the link associated with it, but I can’t see it on the actual frontend of the forum.

I’ve deactived all other plugins and I’m still getting this issue. The only differences between the two (as far as I can tell) are the Author IP (API created topics leave this field blank, standard fills it with 127.0.0.1) and the number of voices (API created topics have 0, standard created topics have 1). All the other settings seem identical (visibilty = public, type = normal, status = open).

Any insights as to what I’m missing and how to rectify the situation are greatly appreciated, thanks!

[Robin W]

Thanks, I’ve just tested your scenario above, and yes that is a bug.

I am not a bbpress author, just someone who helps out here.

Strangely that metabox doesn’t actually let you change the subscribers, it simply lists them, not sure why 🙂

if you are using

bbp style pack

then I’ve included a fix for this in version 5.7.8.

You can also add comprehensive subscription management functionality for the backend from the ‘subscriptions management’ tab.

Otherwise you could add this code:

add_action ('bbp_subscriptions_metabox' , 'rew_set_hidden_subscribers' ) ;
add_action ('bbp_topic_attributes_metabox_save' , 'rew_save_subscriptions', 10 , 2) ;

function rew_set_hidden_subscribers ($post) {
	// Get user IDs
	$user_ids = bbp_get_subscribers( $post->ID );
	$list = implode(",",$user_ids); 

	// Output
	?>
	<input name="rew_topic_subscription" id="rew_topic_subscription" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $list; ?>" />
	<?php
}

function rew_save_subscriptions ( $topic_id, $forum_id ) {
	// Handle Subscriptions
	if ( bbp_is_subscriptions_active() && ! empty( $_POST['rew_topic_subscription'] )) {
		//update_option ($subscriptions)
		$subscriptions = explode(",", $_POST['rew_topic_subscription']);
		foreach ($subscriptions as $subscription_id ) {
			// Check if subscribed and if so do nothing
			if (bbp_is_user_subscribed( $subscription_id, $topic_id )) continue;
			else {
			bbp_add_user_subscription( $subscription_id, $topic_id );
			}
		}
	}
}

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]

To understand that you need to understand that bbpress is a sister project to WordPress.

Wordpress development (and therefore bbpress development) is funded by

1. the commercial arm of wordpress – Automattic
2. Donations and sponsorship from paid plugins and theme organizations who have a commercial interest in ensuring that WordPress continues

At the moment no-one is sponsoring bbpress development, so no developer is currently being paid to maintain it.

Hence no-one is updating even the tested to value.

You could write to the board of wordpress.org, but beyond that not much we can do – I have tried !

[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

[milimo1]

I added codes on a page for my forum and included topics and a forum that displays just fine. The problem or headache starts when I click on any of the links to the shortcodes. Just a blank page is all that shows. I’ve tried searching for help but to no avail. I’ve seen in tutorials that the links shown work and lead you to more info when you click on topics or the forums. Kindly help me.

WordPress version 6.4.2, bbPress Version 2.6.9

Links to Problem Pages
Link to blank page after clicking forum
Link to forum and topics page

[Robin W]

bbpress stores entries as WordPress posts within the database.

My test site has over 8,000 posts and the whole database takes up 155MB.

It is not something you probably need to worry about – most hosters offer storage in the multiple GB realms.

Plugins, media and themes take file space (rather than database).

If you want to keep an eye on it go to

dashboard>tools>site Health>info>directories and size and you can see what is being used

[nickymit]

Hi there

My logo and widget disappear when I go to my forum page. This makes it impossible for my users to head back to my home page from the forum page. In the sidebar where the widget is supposed to be I get this message:
There is no widget. You should add your widgets into Default sidebar area on Appearance => Widgets of your dashboard.

Page link: https://www.temp.soulistic.co.za/forum-list/
Wordpress version: 6.4.2
bbpress version: 2.6.9

Many thanks

[Robin W]

Private groups

This plugin does take a while to understand as everyone wants something slightly different.

Bit in essence create a group for your members using dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>group names
then in dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>assign groups to roles set memberpress users to automatically become members of that group
Then in dashboard>settings>topic permissions turn these one
Then for each forum in dashboard>forums>edit forum set the forum to be restricted to the memberpress group and use topic permissions to decide if they can post topics, replies or both and also set what public users can see

[allyhouston]

Hello,

WordPress 6.4.2, bbPress version 2.6.9, metpsy.com

I’d like to allow only paid users through MemberPress to post (and maybe to reply, though I might allow free users to reply). I would like free users to be able to view all topics though.

What is the easiest way to do this?

Very best,

Ally.

[Robin W]

1. If you only want replies to be posted by moderators then use topic permissions in

Private groups

2. to achieve moderation use

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Moderation

[Robin W]

spectra one is a block 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

[andrevanberlo2015]

Hi,

My name is André and I’m running into some issues I hope some of you can solve. Good to know is that links to mentioned pages are at the bottom of this post.

The Issues
When I create a bbpress forum, the forum index won’t display on the default page I created ( /forums/ ) but displays a blank page.

The forum index will display on any other different page like this one /forums-2/

When I visit a test forum I get a blank page again.

So I thought I would create a new forum slug in bbpress and page accordingly, named guitar-forums as I was sure no other plugin will have claimed that url. But here the same issues. Nothing works on /guitar-forums/ but the index does show on /guitar-forums-2/

What I’ve done first
I have had previously installed asgaros forum but have removed the plugin and removed the asgaros data tables from the database. I also deleted the old forums page and emptied the trash.

I then did:
switching to default twenty x theme
purged all cache incl server side caching
disabling all other plugins
reset bbpress

Links
Default website forum index link: https://vpbex8y4m8.onrocket.site/forums/
Forum index on a different page: https://vpbex8y4m8.onrocket.site/forums-2/
Forum link: https://vpbex8y4m8.onrocket.site/forums/forum/test-forum/

Other Info
Theme: spectra one
wordpress version 6.4.2
bbpress version 2.6.9