[Janell2]

Thank you Robin. I was afraid to update since the WordPress version was older, but took the plunge. it now works perfectly…again!

Much appreciated!
Janell

[Janell2]

Hi,
We have been using bbPress for a long time, and it has never given us any problems, so something has changed, and I can’t figure out what.  I don’t have a caching plug-in.  If you go to the Forum, click on the Topic, it says “This topic is empty” in the Topic (there has been for years.)  I have not changed the theme, or WordPress version, it just stopped working.

Forum path: domainname/company-bulletin-board/companyforum/company-calendar/
Topic that appears as link in the above Forum: domainname/company-bulletin-board/topic/key-dates/    When you click the link in the Forum, the topic says, “This topic is empty” which it is not.

I tried as an experiment to substitute, “/companyforum/company-calendar/” for “/topic/” but that did not work.  This is happening for ALL the Topics, they all show “This topic is empty.”

When I go to the list of Topics and click on the View in the WordPress Dashboard, again it says for every single topic, “This topic is empty.” Each topic has a lot of content.

How do I fix this please?  I am out of ideas, especially since it just, “stopped working.”

Thanks so much for your help.  Much appreciated. This is a members only Forum, so I worry about publishing the links. I have been through earlier posts from folks that have had a similar problem, but nothing has worked.
Janell

[jennypins]

What Happened to “Views” in bbPress 2.6.14?
In earlier versions of bbPress, Views were visible as a menu item in the WordPress admin under Forums > Views.

In version 2.6.14, the admin menu link to Views was removed by default as part of bbPress cleanup and streamlining.

However, the Views themselves still exist — they’re just hidden from the admin menu unless you’re actively using or registering them.

How to Restore the “Views” Menu
You can manually re-enable the Views admin menu by adding a small code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file or a custom plugin:
add_action( ‘bbp_admin_menu’, function() {
add_submenu_page(
‘edit.php?post_type=forum’,
‘Topic Views’,
‘Views’,
‘manage_options’,
‘edit.php?post_type=topic_view’
);
});

[Robin W]

now corrected in codes, to this

/**
* WordPress function for redirecting users on login based on user role
*/
function my_login_redirect( $url, $request, $user ){
if( $user && is_object( $user ) && is_a( $user, 'WP_User' ) ) {
if( $user->has_cap( 'administrator' ) ) {
$url = admin_url();
} else {
$url = home_url();
}
}
return $url;
}
add_filter('login_redirect', 'my_login_redirect', 10, 3 );

[yt]

Hello everyone

My site is using the latest WordPress 6.8.2 with WordPress 2025 theme and BBPress community

To change the color of closed topics in

13. Preventing closed topics from going grey

At address:

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

The following code:

#bbpress-forums .status-closed,
#bbpress-forums .status-closed a {
color: #aaa !important;
}

is introduced.

I put it in the css snippet of WPCode plugin. but the code doesn’t work.

Can anyone help me fix the problem?

Thanks

[yt]

Hi everyone

My site is using the latest WordPress 6.8.2 with WordPress 2025 theme and BBPress community

In
27. Custom Redirect After Login

At address

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

The following dual-purpose redirect code:

/**
* WordPress function for redirecting users on login based on user role
*/
function my_login_redirect( $url, $request, $user ){
if( $user && is_object( $user ) && is_a( $user, ‘WP_User’ ) ) {
if( $user->has_cap( ‘administrator’ ) ) {
$url = admin_url();
} else {
$url = home_url();
}
}
return $url;
}
add_filter(‘login_redirect’, ‘my_login_redirect’, 10, 3 );

It is introduced that I have it in the php sippet file of the WordPress plugin code but I am getting the error

Your changes are saved but your snippet was deactivated due to an error, please check the syntax and try again. Error message: syntax error, unexpected token ;

It seems that there is a problem with the code.

Can anyone help to fix the problem?

[Robin W]

Yes, this widget is no longer available.

For you if you have the style pack plugin, you can use the bsp-profile shortcode instead

[bsp-profile label="amend profile/password" edit="true"]

You can simply add a shortcode block after the login widget.

bbp style pack

[yt]

Hello everyone

In the WordPress dashboard, Settings, Forums submenu,
in the section:

Community Features
Community Features can be turned on or off

There is an option called:
Topic Tags: “Allow Topics to be tagged”

By unchecking it, the tagging of forum members when writing and submitting a thread is disabled. This is sometimes necessary depending on the case.

But the problem with this deactivation is that in addition to creating the above possibility, it also causes the defined tags of each thread to be disabled and not displayed, while this should not be the case because

An administrator may want to prevent inappropriate tags from being inserted by non-professional users to manage the tags of the forum threads of his site and instead define an appropriate tag for that thread by editing the thread posted by users, so the defined tags of each thread should be displayed and there should be no reason for it to be disabled.

Is there a solution to fix the problem stated?

Thanks

[yt]

Hello everyone

In 3. Adding an ‘amend profile/password’ to the login widget
At

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

The RKK Login Widget plugin is introduced in the gist results with the link

https://gist.github.com/robkk/f558f4abe867ef7b9952

It shows a 404 error.

Either the link is broken or such a plugin does not exist.
I also searched for this plugin in the WordPress repository but there were no results.

[Ricsca2]

Could you recommend a good free theme for bbpress?
Actually, I only found this one:

Responsive Forum

I like it, but it’s very basic…

[rameshb]

Hi @robin-w,

Thank you for taking the time to look into my issue. As per your suggestion, I installed the bbp Style Pack plugin. However, the moderation feature doesn’t seem to be working as expected. Unlike the WordPress contributor role, unapproved users are still able to publish posts directly without moderation.

Could you please check and guide me further on how to ensure posts go into moderation before being published?

Thanks again!

[yt]

Thanks for your reply

I mean the twentytwentyfive WordPress theme block template.

To view live errors, you can:

1- By entering the forum home page address

https://ghazavatonline.ir/forums/

In the forum search form, enter a desired phrase and then press enter. Instead of displaying the search results, you will see in the header the error:

Warning: Undefined array key “archive” in /home/ … /public_html/wp-includes/block-template.php on line 180

Warning: Undefined array key “archive” in /home/ … /public_html/wp-includes/block-template.php on line 180

2-Also, when you click on any of the tags that have topics assigned to them, instead of displaying the tags, the above error code is displayed and no topics are displayed

For this, visit the address

شکایت از قاضی دادگاه به علت عوض کردن جای متهم ها

Click on the tag “تخلفات انتظامی قضات”

Or go directly to the link

https://ghazavatonline.ir/forums/topic-tag/disciplinary-breaches-of-judges/

to see the same errors in the header and that no topic associated with the selected tag is displayed.

Of course, it should be noted that the above errors are only generated when the twentytwentyfive block template is activated

But when the twentytwentyfour and twentytwentythree templates are activated, they are not generated and work without problems.

[Robin W]

bbpress works fine with classic themes (ie non block themes), so you should have no problems.

However bbpress is an integral plugin to your website, so it will use whatever theme your site is using, so you cannot have one theme for wordpress and another for bbpress.

[yt]

Hello forum members

My site is using the latest version of WordPress 6.8.2 and the 2025 Block Theme and BBPress Forum.

I want to use the classic theme for BBPress Forum instead of the Block Theme

Please guide me how can I activate my favorite classic theme instead of the default BBPress theme?

Thanks

[sbask]

I’m not a wordpress developer, I just inherited and run a site. Can I hire you do to this?

[Robin W]

Install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Topic Index Styling

Item 16 – you can set to have no message

[manojmohandev]

Any update on this?

I have digged again further for the issue. The issue has started during this ticket #2838 with the changeset #6923. The last reply and count should only be changed when reply is public regardless whether it is spam or in pending state.

[Robin W]

Install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Moderation (third row down, right hand side)

and follow the instructions/guidance

[Robin W]

ok, so we can hide the ip6, but getting the ip4 is harder i think.

I found this post relating to Cloudfare which tends to indicate that even an ip4 might be just a Cloudflare address, but I only spent 2 minutes reading though !!

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/real-ip-for-the-customers-cloudflare/

so to hide an IP6, try this (untested!)

add_filter ('bbp_get_author_ip', 'rew_hide_v6') ;

function rew_hide_v6 ($author_ip='') {
if ($strlen($author_ip)>20) $author_ip='' ;
return $author_ip ;
}

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

Let me know if it works

[Robin W]

Every website is a unique combination of hoster, operating and hosting systems (eg apache, PHp) WordPress theme, plugins, settings and content, so I cannot just give you an answer.

So between ‘some time ago’ (days? weeks? years?) and now – what has changed on your site?

If you cannot answer that, then I can only suggest the core 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

[Robin W]

ok, some late night thinking….

bbpress just uses the WordPress function that finds and shows posts (bbpress forums, topics and replies are just posts with a custom post type!).

So I’m thinking that the ‘find matches’ wordpress part is finding x number of replies, but then the ‘display part’ is finding one less/more to display, then at that point the page count gets to be wrong.

This is just a guess at the moment, but as you are seeing issues with other topics that are not all ‘page 8’ I don’t think it is a pure maths issue.

So my current hypothesis is that there is an item that is in the database as a match, but there is not a corresponding item to display – this could be for lots of reasons.

If you go to your link but page 7, from the post numbered 120998 with text ‘AnTiHrIsTiS — Kingpin: Life of Crime (PC)’ this entry on page 7 has a link of

/steam-records/page/8#120998

If my thinking is correct (and it is probably wrong!) I’d guess it is at this point that the permalinks start to go wrong.

So if you change the replies per page from 14 to 13, does it still start to go wrong from that same post number, or does it start to go wrong from another post number.

This will help us narrow down what the issue might be.

[Robin W]

ok, I am not a bbpress author, just someone who tries to help out.

So it’s Sunday morning here in the UK, and I have guests coming for lunch, so I will try and pick this up later.

But let’s just eliminate some stuff.

1.

dashboard>settings>permalinks and just click save – this resets the permalinks and may help

2.

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

[qiwichupa]

Hi. I have encountered this problem: after installing bbpress and converting Mingle forum (this operation was not without problems), in some topics some permalinks are generated with wrong pages.

For example, following this link…:
mydomain/bbforums/topic/stream-records/page/8#post-121032
(I deleted the real domain since my thread was marked as spam, but I can provide it below if needed.)

… we get to page 8 and go down to post 121032 – the second one on that page. But if we go up to the first post on this page, we can see that the link to it is formed as “…/page/7#post-120964″ – as if the post was located on the previous page. Also, if you go down to the bottom of this page, you will see that the last posts are formed as “…/page/9#post-121104″. – that is leading to the next page.

Of course, I experimented with the settings of the paginator, changed the number of displayed posts on the page. In fact, it didn’t change anything, only the posts with the same error were changed. At the same time, if you do not change the settings of the paginator, a few posts with an incorrect link managed to “cure” by splitting the topic starting from this post, and then connecting the new topic with the previous one. But the above post didn’t work, so we can’t say that this is the solution.

I suspect that the cause of the problem may be an incorrectly performed forum import operation, but this operation was not easy (all posts were initially converted as replays and I had to manually correct their status in the database, also some posts were duplicated and were in the wrong id-order) and I would like to understand what exactly can cause this problem and how to fix it.

Of course I’ve already tried bbpress’ built-in error correction options, but they didn’t have any effect.

It’s strange that the paginator seems to be working correctly – it gives the right number of posts per page, and links to these pages also work correctly, but the permalinks with anchors are not working correctly.

Maybe someone has encountered a similar problem and can advise in what direction to look for its solution?

Tech info:
WordPress Version: 6.8.1
Current WordPress Theme: Twenty Fourteen/twentyfourteen-garage version 1.2
PHP Version: 7.4.33
MySQL Version: 10.6.22-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
bbPress (2.6.14)
bbP private groups (3.9.7)
bbp style pack (6.3.9)

the last two plugins do not affect the problem, when you turn them off it remains

[tonernews]

Since bbPress is owned by WordPress and since our site was built with WordPress, we are trying to figure out what happened to the tens of thousands of VIEWS that use to show up inside your bbPress app, now they have disappeared.

any help would be appreciated.
thanks
HM

[Robin W]

great – glad you are fixed, and no problem re your lack of knowledge, I suspect your knowledge of WordPress is much greater than my knowledge of railway signaling 🙂