[Skulldog]

With the recent WordPress and BBpress update I’ve run into an issue where all new posts are now being created as new posts, rather than threaded in replies, and I can’t figure out what’s wrong.

All my previous posts are still threaded correctly, just anything new is broken now. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin, dropping all plugins and shifting to default themes.

Ideas for things to try? Or am I better off wiping and starting over..

[Robin W]

Thanks everyone, I have now reported this as a error in 2.6.2

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3297#ticket

I’ll update when the bbpress authors take a look

[huetherb]

Hi, I am trying to use the wordpress restAPI to get topic data. I am trying to do so via

add_filter( ‘bbp_register_topic_post_type’, ‘enable_restAPI_bbpress_topics’, 10,1);
function enable_restAPI_bbpress_topics ($args) {
$args[‘show_in_rest’] = true;
return $args;
}

That is to enable some functionality in another plugin.

But for some reason, doing so causes the bbpress topic editor to alter behavior. It shows a different editor type.

Instead of normal editor which shows a title field and then a content area below, it shows a Gutenberg block for title and content.

But more importantly, when I submit a topic it gets saved with userid set to 0. The revision is saved with correct user id, but the post itself is saved with post_author 0.

Any idea what is going on?

Brian

[mvaneijgen]

I’m updating a forum at the moment and while starting working at it I’d opted out of using the 2.6 beta version, because when testing it the feature that I need most didn’t seem to work, pagination and nested replies.

I know this also was not supported on the older versions, but while searching for a solution I came across an article bbPress threaded (nested) replies & paging which fixed the issue for me and this didn’t seem to work on the newer 2.6 version.

I’ve found some threads on this, but they haven’t been updated in some time.

• https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/feature-request-pagination-for-threaded-comments/
• https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3201

Is there any news on this? My site isn’t going live for some time, but if I know it isn’t on the road map I’ll have to take some measures to fix the issue for this particular site.

[Barry]

Hi @wout77!

So running in a clean environment with no other plugins, etc, I don’t actually see the same thing.

The login widget provided by bbPress is really just a simple (but customizable) wrapper around WordPress’s regular login process. Though you may not realize it, the username and password fields are simply passed to wp-login.php (and the reason you may not notice this is that a redirect is performed to take the successfully logged in user back to whatever page they started on).

With that in mind…my hunch is that this is not a problem with bbPress, but rather with another plugin (or perhaps even your theme).

If you are unsure what’s causing this and there are no obvious sources of the problem (such as a Captcha plugin), it could be worth doing a round of selective deactivation of other plugins and/or your theme to try and find out what’s causing this. Make sense?

[wout77]

I have a sidebar active on all forum pages with the BBpress login widget in it. However, when you enter your username and password, you first get redirected to an extra captcha screen where you have to check you are not a robot. While that is fine for security reasons, after you check that box, you get redirected to the standard WordPress login screen where you have to enter your username and password a second time! And that feels very confusing for the users.

So the question is: how can I eliminate that second step… is this a known issue maybe? Or am I missing a setting somewhere?

If anybody in the hivemind has a suggestion, I’m all ears 🙂 thanks!

The site is running all the latest versions, by the way.

[janiszewski99]

I can’t create a new forum.

When I want to start a new forum, I get information:
“Sorry, you do not have permission to edit this entry”:
https://snipboard.io/9ThQ4W.jpg

I am logged in as an administrator with full rights, wordpress is updated to the latest version, I installed the plugin several times and the same error every time.

What is wrong? Why can’t I add anything?

[Clivesmith]

Hi Andreas,

I use bbress voting plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-voting/

You can see it in action at wateratairports.com

I have it so it will order according to the vote as well.

Clive

[Robin W]

@cassel – I’m continuing to dig into your sub forums – do you know what php version you are on ?

EDIT : If you are running style pack, you can see this in

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>plugin information

Otherwise (for others ) if you don’t know how to find out, can you install this

Display PHP Version

and you can see from the dashboard – you can disable and delete the plugin once you have done so

[newwper3]

Hi,

I know how to FTP a file and I using a child theme in my wordpress.
Could you teach me how to remove it?

[Chuckie]

The ALT + SHIFT + M hotkey does not work inside the editor of bbPress (even though I have the media plugin enabled and the functional button on the toolbar.

I raised this both on TinyMCE GitHUB:

https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/issues/5223

And WordPress:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-media-hotkey/#post-12174886

TinyMCE support said:

TinyMCE doesn’t provide any shortcuts for the image, nor media plugin by default so this is likely an issue with wordpress or wordpress plugin you’re using. Since there is nothing we can do to fix the issue, I’m going to close this and suggest you log an issue with wordpress or wordpress plugin directly.

WordPress support said:

AFAIK that hot key is unique to the post edit screen only when using the classic editor. It’s not the editor itself that it’s tied to, but the edit screen for posts. If the block editor had a media button it would probably still work there. However, the bbPress forum post screen is not the same as a WP post edit screen. You would need some JavaScript code that listens for the specific keyboard event and when it occurs, launch the media modal.

Therefore, it sounds to me that bbPress needs some tweak to cater for the advertised hotkey for inserting images. Can this be considered please? All other hot keys are functional.

Thank you.

[tapiohuuhaa]

Would it be possible to create share functionality for each replies like

https://www.sanaristikkofoorumi.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019-11-24-21.59.59-keskustelu.suomi24.fi-23ec2cec98bd.png

(Jaa = share).

I would try it myself and give some code to add, if I would get some advice how to do it.

[Chuckie]

I created a new topic today:

https://www.publictalksoftware.co.uk/support-forums/topic/is-it-possibly-to-modify-1st-2nd-3rd-translations-on-the-new-s-89-template/

It is a private forum post. I used TinyMCE editor and it has:

– Paragraphs
– Table
– Background colour
– Code snippets
– Heading 3

I hit “Submit” and the topic looks good.

I click “EDIT” and alot of all the underlaying HTML is stripped.

So I hit BACK in my browser. I set the default editor as TEXT and then I clicked EDIT and this time the whole text showed in the TEXT editor.

Why did the TinyMCE editor strip the content?

I am using:

– WordPress 5.3 (it uses TinyMCE 4.9.6 internally)
– bbp Style Pack
– TinyMCE ADvanced
– Advanced TinyMCE Configuration

I seem to recall I used to have the same problem in general in Wordress when editing posts that had code in them would show funny. I really don’t know enough about the mechanics of the whole system to know where to look or who to direct the issue towards.

If anyone can replicate this problem or can direct me to a resolution I would be grateful. Thank you.

[Pascal Casier]

@maksanse
As indicated, the best option would indeed be to restart a correct import into a database with the proper characterset. If this is not an option then indeed there are plugins that replace in the DB. Some examples: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/search+replace/
One main remark: do this in a test environment first and always make a backup of everything before launching it

[Chuckie]

I still have a bug with the inserting of videos. If I am creating the topic / reply as an ADMIn then the code is correct:

<video controls="controls" width="300" height="150">
<source src="https://www.publictalksoftware.co.uk/videos/forum/pts-test-video.mp4" type="video/mp4" /></video>

When you hit SUBMIT the video can be played etc.

But when you are NON-ADMIN and hit SUBMIT the outer chevrons of the inner SOURCE tag get escaped. I don’t know where this issue lies:

– WordPress 5.3?
– TinyMCE Insert Media Plugin 4.9.6 ?
– bbPress 2.6.2?

[John James Jacoby]

The number of posts or users isn’t a problem. We have 11million users and millions of posts across multiple WordPress installations sharing the same user base. Like any web based application, the software will scale up to whatever hardware it’s running on, or choke on whatever it’s missing.

Posting links to images and videos is very easy, but if you want users to be able to upload them, you’ll need some way to elegantly allow for that. WordPress can handle it, but you’ll likely want to customize this experience.

Concurrent users and other metrics will all come down to server hardware, configuration, and ongoing maintenance. bbPress doesn’t really care how many users there are or how many page views happen.

bbPress does not come with any internal reporting. It adds some statistics to the WordPress Dashboard, and that’s it. Intentionally simple.

(There is a lot of data available in the database, and I’ve no doubt that really awesome reporting and charts and conclusions could be drawn from them, but there is nothing built-in to expose it.)

bbPress does include a very robust importer and forum-conversion tool, that we’ve successfully used for years to help hundreds of thousands of sites migrate millions of posts. Some folks have contributed their converters back up into bbPress, but most of them were made by community members who did the work to match all the data points together.

We’ve used the built-in converter here ourselves to go from bbPress1 to bbPress2; the same one that’s included with bbPress itself.

Switching forum platforms is risky. It’s a lot of work. It’s likely that some community members won’t like the new software. It never goes 100% without some kind of hitch. But… we’ve done an immense amount of work over 15 years to try and make bbPress the kind of software that makes that transition as easy and painless as it can possibly be.

I hope you’ll give it a try. We’ll be here if you have more questions. 🤝

[lflier]

That’s a thought…

I gave up on this plugin a few years ago — it didn’t seem to do anything for me. Still doesn’t, unfortunately. There’s no difference with or without Genesis Extend.

Deactivating all of my other plugins doesn’t seem to help, either.

I’ve also tried copying css/bbpress.css to other themes, including the Genesis Sample and WordPress 2020. Both of these themes require bbpress.min.css, at least on my development server.

I’m using WordPress 5.3, bbPress 2.6.2.

[Robin W]

presume you are running

bbPress Genesis Extend

[hiugregg]

Hi there!

I’m trying to get a bbpress forum set up on my site, and while we’ve got the majority of it set up the way we’d like, there’s an issue when someone tries to access the forum via mobile/smartphone.

The reply box seems to overflow over the edge of the screen, such as in this picture:

I tried to adjust the width of the bbpress-topic-form using the Custom CSS on my theme, but while this seems to work for narrow browser windows on desktop, the mobile view remains the same as it does in the picture above.

For reference, this was the code I was trying:

@media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
  #new-topic-0.bbp-topic-form{
    width: 50%;
  }
}

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what might be going on here? I’m running the Gridmag theme (not pro) at the minute, could that be causing a conflict?

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
If you go on https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/bbpress+captcha/ it seems lots of them offer bbPress compatibility.

[Pascal Casier]

@cantoostinato8989 the theme used here can be found on:
https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/bbpress-org

[John James Jacoby]

Hey there, sorry that you’re having this trouble.

Can you include a link to your forums so we can check them out?

Topic pagination can sometimes be thrown off by non-public replies, especially for moderators that have the ability to see them.

Pagination is also somewhat weird with hierarchical/threaded replies. That’s been a known issue since the beginning. It’s based on how WordPress does it with Comments, but has some extra behaviors due to the front-end nature of topic moderation.

Sorry again. We will figure it out!

[Robin W]

ok, both topics and replies are custom post types, so the date of both is in the posts table, so no meta query needed.

so

‘post_type’ => array( ‘topic’, ‘reply ) if you want both

and look at

WP_Query

scroll down to date parameters to work out how to do the date

[Chuckie]

I can comment on this one. I do have the “attach media” GD plugin but not tested it. We don’t use WordPress add media here. We use the tinymce insert image and put a link it.

As previously mentioned yesterday, I can’t insert videos anymore if not admin because of the escaping of the HTML in the source tag which is crippling.

[Chuckie]

check you wordpress discussion settings and how many links it will trigger a reply to go pending.

Check your pending posts / replies.