[jeepcreed]

Hello, just installed and activated bbpress with several extensions to improve functionality; however, my forum page does not look like a forum at all. I even set up the bbpress sidebar, and it isn’t showing either. I’m using WordPress version 5.2.2 and bbPress version 2.5.14. The link to my staging site where I am testing this is http://www.jeepcreed.com/stagingnew/forums

[John James Jacoby]

Hey everyone! I got a nudge from @jeffr0 that this thread had some replies, and I just wanted to chime in and say thank you, very much, for being patient.

I understand everyone’s feelings. I get where they come from.

bbPress is a 15 year old piece of forum software based on and specifically for WordPress. The last thing it will ever do is die. (That’s a terrible play on words, but keep reading!)

The GPL (and it being open-source in general) guarantee everyone that as different people use it, different people will contribute to it, and it will continue to grow, evolve, and be iterated on in perpetuity.

It being based entirely on WordPress gives it one of the largest and most stable foundations to be built off of.

The projects spiritual commitment to backwards compatibility through the years means that as the software grows, your content will always grow with it.

Other forum projects have made sweeping changes without migration paths from old to new versions. bbPress as a project simply appreciates and respects its users and their communities and content too much to not provide great tools to scale your community along with the software.

bbPress as a project gets developed in bursts. Like it or not, I think that’s the honest truth. If you look at its life as a piece of software as a whole, there is a ton of evidence to support the idea that sometimes a few months will go by with nothing, and then a few months will go by with tons of activity.

The dips might make your stomach drop at first, but it’s a long ride… a fun ride… and one that I hope others see from a distance as a beautiful effort. One that provides a platform that empowers WordPress users to give their visitors a simple, clean, and dedicated place to enjoy communicating with each other.

Lastly… strictly on numbers alone, WordPress.org relies heavily on bbPress as the primary method of communication & support for over 75k plugins in 200 languages, and 11 million registered users. bbPress is actively installed in over 340k websites. It’s a fraction of the total WordPress installs (but if the numbers on builtwith and other tools are accurate) it is currently the most widely installed piece of forum software in the world.

bbPress will never die. It will only get better.

Thank you, everyone, again, for being patient and for your interest in bbPress. It’s a pretty cool piece of software with some of the best contributors and forum moderators around! I’m working on bbPress everyday, sometimes in my head, and sometimes on other projects that bbPress will inherit someday. It’s always on my mind, even if the commit log doesn’t show it. 💕

[austex]

Looked further, it’s “99%” complete:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.6

[austex]

Okay, just check the dev tracker. JJJ put some work in last month on 2.6.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/report/1?sort=modified&asc=0&page=1

[fantomx90]

Hello Everyone. I am a novice still at using wordpress, but I am using bbPress forums for my website. I currently have a bunch of Forums, with many topics underneath them.

I was just wondering if there was a way to have a small icon or picture beside each Forum.

For example – Rules (With a small picture of a book beside it or below it)

I tried messing with Add Media or Featured Image, but they dont seem to apply the image anywhere I can see it.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

[theatereleven]

I’m chiming in here too – Trying to decide whether to use Discourse or WordPress. BBPress seems to be the only reliable and clean option for WP, but I need to know there’s a future before investing the time. Thanks anyone for an update!

[sashabcro]

Hi all, I have created my first bbpress forum on page http://irska.ie/forum/ but when you choose one Forum for example Forum http://irska.ie/forums/forum/forum/ or Malig Oglasi http://irska.ie/forums/forum/mali-oglasi/ it goes to different style page :S which add header image and it’s not anymore Full width.

I have edited page for main page under WordPress Page for http://irska.ie/forum/ but how can I make sure that every other topic and etc on mine forum use same style? Thank you.

[austex]

That they now are mainly doing other things is sad for us, but they have a perfect right to do as they wish, and should feel under no obligation to spend time supporting the code.

Agree that they have the right to do as they wish, but they should at least publicly announce whether they are going to end bbPress development, or if it’s going to continue to languish for years at a time.

I understand @johnjamesjacoby is a very busy guy, but we are constantly told to be wary of plugins that are old.

More importantly, a lot of us have moved on to other software, rather than continue to beta-test bbPress 2.6 (which has been in some form of RC for over 3 years, and the latest RC came out in December of last year).

I have a big project that I’m putting together for somebody (they want WordPress), and some kind of lightweight/small forums are planned for, and it’s frustrating that I’m having to look elsewhere for forum software, or rigging some kind of fancy comment system (trying to avoid Disqus and Facebook for obvious reasons).

It’s odd, because bbPress could be a selling point for WordPress in their competition with other platforms. It’s also odd, because they have some very competent people working for them, but then they allow bbPress to kind of just drift along.

[Robin W]

untested, and probably from a purist view not the most elegant solution, but this should work

add_filter( 'bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form' , 'rew_only_mods' , 10 , 1) ;

function rew_only_mods ($retval) {
	// Users need to earn access
	$retval = false;
	//check if admin
	if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster() ) {
		$retval = true;
	}
		//check if moderator
	$role = bbp_get_user_role( get_current_user_id());
	if ($role == 'bbp_moderator') {
		$retval = true;
	}
// Allow access to be filtered
	return (bool) apply_filters( 'rew_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form', (bool) $retval );
}

Also allows keymasters, but I presume you want that.

Put this in your child theme’s function file – or use

Code Snippets

[DL]

So I just setup a whole new test site, installed buddypress and bbpress

added the dizkusZK converter to the converters list

Ran it against a copy of the database that contains a dizkus forum.

got error:

WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE wp_bbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default '0', meta_key varchar(255) null, meta_value varchar(255) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join (meta_key(191), meta_value(191)) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci;

No data to cleanStarting Conversion

[Robin W]

great – glad you are fixed, I learnt some stuff as well about how wordpress does pagination, so win-win !!

[Robin W]

I’m author of that fix.

It may well be something that coincided with you installing that plugin – maybe a theme or another plugin update, updating wordpress, or even your host updating versions of php.

The error you quote is a function in your THEME affecting a bbpress function. Your theme author has decided to re-write some bbpress functions by the look of it. So looks like that error (which may or may not be the issue – I suspect not) is one to take up with your theme author

You could spend days working out what the issue is, if the fix works, then I’d tend to just use it.

[asmedej]

hello everyone

I have an issue with bbpress forum where topics and replies are not showing.

I’ll start from the beginning, in the beginning all was working fine, all topics and replies were visible and all was OK, but because my forum is in russian language the links were in russian, so I’ve decided to try Cyr-To-Lat plugin which would transform my urls to latin, which was good, and still everything work, BUT I wanted to try another plugin, so I’ve installed Cyr-To-Lat reloaded, there I was asked to trasnlate all urls to latin, I accepted and since it stopped working. Ofcourse my first step was to uninstall that plugin, but it did not resolve.

I’ve searched internet and tried different solutions:
– Deactivating all plugins – not ok
– Changing theme – not ok
– Clicking on permalinks – not ok
– Regenerating .htaaccess file – not ok
– Trying a fix which I found (http://www.rewweb.co.uk/bbpress-wp4-fix/) -> OK

Yes it seems there is a fix which resolves the issue BUT the problem was not with wordpress or something, but a plugin which broke it, now, my question how can I undo it, or how can I resolve without that fix, because it was working fine ….

I suppose that plugin left something, or was maybe not deleted fully, there is some function maybe somewhere which doesn’t show my topics and replies. If I check the solution basically it has something to do with this function: function fb_search_filter which excludes those topics from my forum.

I could use that fix, but as I said it was working before so I think that plugin broke it ….

Any idea how to fix it? Which steps to take?

[DL]

Believe it or not, I’m still stuck with very old forums using Dizkus/Postnuke/Zikula and still need to move them to WordPress/bbPress.

Is there anyone willing to take this on as a paid project? I could send a database sample to check out.

[anthonyae]

Since updating bbPress to version 2.5.14 on WordPress version 5.2.1, Administrator roles have lost access to be able to edit the Forum post types but can edit global settings on the forums. If navigating to the Forum post edit page, it states “Sorry, you are not allowed to edit posts in this post type.”

Looking with User Role Editor to check Administrator permissions, the group has access to every function with the Forum post type.

Any ideas on why this suddenly changed and what me causing the loss of access?

[Joe Dolson]

I’ll note that a patch for this was committed to version 2.6 of bbPress 5 years ago, but that has never been released: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2714

This is a fix that should really be implemented. I would have noted it sooner if I’d realized that the work I did that many years ago was unused.

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>forum templates

[Robin W]

I can’t remember it ever being asked 🙂

However after a bit of digging, this will change it

add_filter( 'bbp_topic_pagination', 'rew_change_shown' ) ;

function rew_change_shown ($args) {
	$args['mid_size'] = 8 ;
return $args ;
}

8 shows ‘8 +previous and next’ – so 10 – amend the number to whatever you want

Put this in your child theme’s function file – or use

Code Snippets

[mattbru]

What is the secret to modifying/changing the query on the topic archive page? I want to list all topics on that page rather than have 16, and i do not want pagination. On normal wordpress post types this is easily done with pre_get_posts filter. But how is it done with bbpress?

I have tried this:

function bbp_change_topic_archive_query_args( $query = array() ) {
	$query['order'] = 'asc';
	$query['orderby'] = 'title';
	$query['post_count'] = -1;
	$query['posts_per_page'] = -1;
	return $query;
}
add_filter('bbp_has_topics_query','bbp_change_topic_archive_query_args');

and this: (but this requires a shortcode to work properly)

function bbp_my_register_custom_views() {
	bbp_register_view( 
		'asc', __( 'A-Z' ), 
		array(
			'orderby' => 'title',
			'order' => 'ASC',
			'post_count' => '-1',
			'posts_per_page' => '-1',
			'hide_empty' => false,
		), false );
}
add_action( 'bbp_register_views', 'bbp_my_register_custom_views' );

What else can be done?
This has to be possible.

wp v5.2.2, bbp 2.5.14
site is a pw protected site. I can give access privately if necessary.

Thanks!

[Robin W]

wordpress themes can do funny things with bbpress.

It’s all to do with load order.

If it is working in the custom css, I’d leave it there

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>login

[Adunakhor]

We have an HTML5 website using SimpleCMS, and a linked WordPress blog. I have installed the WordPress bbPress forum plugin on that blog site. When it seemed like it was lacking what appeared to be some pretty basic controls, I also installed the bbPress Toolkit plugin.

Since that also seemed to lack what to me should have been basic components of a working forum, I also installed the bbPress WP Tweaks plugin. It amazes me that a tool that is this popular seems to lack simple ordinary functions like clear login and registration tools that link directly to the forum.

Using the shortcodes, I created separate pages for login, registration and lost passwords, but once logged in, it still does not take the user to the main forum page. In fact, it goes nowhere. I would think that there should be a simple field for adding the path to the forum to which the user would be registering or logging in, but there isn’t. Instead, it just states “You are already logged in.” on the login screen with no link to anywhere else.

Can someone please explain to me how I can get the login to take the user to the actual forum page after they login? To me this should be automatic, but for some reason it is unnecessarily complicated.

Also, is there not a way to manage the subscription without requiring the user to have a WP or bbPress account? All I want is a private forum with users who can create their own usernames and passwords to login and share information, without that user data being shared with anyone else. For some reason, this simple task seems to be too much to expect.

So unless I’m doing something completely wrong (which is entirely possible), I need a way to resolve this with the tools available in bbPress. Any practical solutions are welcome. Thanks.

[mjthehunter]

Hi,

Over the past few weeks I’ve been customizing bbress to my liking using the live css editor in wordpress.
I tried moving it all to a stylesheet within my child theme in a folder called css.
I’ve named the file bbpress.css.

Everything was working fine in the wordpress editor, but after moving it to bbpress.css a lot of things no longer work.
Even when I try !important, a lot of things still don’t to work.

I should note that some of the code does work which is why this confuses me.
Any suggestions?

WordPress 5.2.2
BBPress 2.5.14
https://flippednormals.com/forums

[Danishsard]

Easy, I translate plugins for various scripts also for free, and nobody tells me anything. Satarm is also best done as I can.

For me it is strange that the forum of wordpress is dead in the project. It could, after all, bring considerable income to people who would develop it as if they thought about a premium suport and such solutions.

[Robin W]

I think this plugin has that

bbPress Toolkit

It works with current versions of wordpress and bbpress