suspect that as bbpress has custom post types, your sidebar manager is responsible
so standard testing advice is
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
untested, but this should take out newlines and change the excerpt length to 150 – just change the 150 in the code to whatever length you want.
so firstly you need to alter the default in wordpress which is 55 so
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'rew_change_default_length' ) ;
function rew_change_default_length () {
return 150;
}
then alter it in the bbpress function, and change to take out line breaks
add_filter ('bbp_get_topic_excerpt' , 'rew_remove_line_breaks', 10 , 3) ;
function rew_remove_line_breaks ($excerpt, $topic_id, $length){
$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_id );
//change length here
$length = 150 ;
$excerpt = get_post_field( 'post_excerpt', $topic_id );
if ( empty( $excerpt ) ) {
$excerpt = bbp_get_topic_content( $topic_id );
}
$excerpt = trim( strip_tags( $excerpt ) );
//take out line breaks
$excerpt = preg_replace("/\r|\n/", "", $excerpt);
// Multibyte support
if ( function_exists( 'mb_strlen' ) ) {
$excerpt_length = mb_strlen( $excerpt );
} else {
$excerpt_length = strlen( $excerpt );
}
if ( ! empty( $length ) && ( $excerpt_length > $length ) ) {
$excerpt = mb_substr( $excerpt, 0, $length - 1 );
$excerpt .= '…';
}
// Filter & return
return apply_filters( 'rew_get_topic_excerpt', $excerpt, $topic_id, $length );
}
Put this in your child theme’s function file –
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php
where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme
or use
Code Snippets
there is the ‘unread posts’ part of my style pack plugin, that will advise users on the website of new unread topics, and new unread replies to topics.
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Unread Posts
bbpress just uses wordpress registration and login, so you can use any wordpress plugin that would do that.
I googled and got this list
8 Best Age Verification Plugins for WordPress
May I assume that if you do not know, there is no such plugin 🙂 ?
If there is not, please alternatives.
E.g. simplified upload of a photo of an ID card.
Ideally, the photo is deleted automatically afterwards.
Or secured in an encrypted database with its own password.
But I would prefer not to receive this data as a photo.
Or if necessary an age verification for wordpress.
you can switch to a text editor, which looks way better
bbp style pack
once activated go to
Styling
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Topic/Reply Form
item 9
this is the ‘tiny mce’ editor that comes bundled with WordPress which bbpress just uses.
from a quick google it doesn’t look that easy to change what is there.
I’d be tempted to use the conditional widgets plugin to achieve this, but bear in mind that wordpress’s move to block widgets may limit the lifespan.
It would also be worth asking the theme author since this is a paid theme.
Beyond that, it would be custom development work I suspect
pretty much – if you want to not show user profiles, then use
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Profile
where you can set profiles not to display
untested, but this should work
add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_author_display_name' , 'rew_reply_change_to_first_name', 10 , 2 ) ;
function rew_reply_change_to_first_name ($author_name, $reply_id) {
// Get the author ID
$author_id = bbp_get_reply_author_id( $reply_id );
$user = get_userdata($author_id);
$first_name = $user->user_firstname;
return $first_name ;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_author_display_name' , 'rew_topic_change_to_first_name', 10 , 2 ) ;
function rew_topic_change_to_first_name ($author_name, $topic_id) {
// Get the author ID
$author_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id );
$user = get_userdata($author_id);
$first_name = $user->user_firstname;
return $first_name ;
}
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
bbpress just uses wordpress registration.
I suspect that emails from your site may be being seen as spam.
try the ideas in here
BBpress: Registration mails fail
If you have allowed the serach, then it should appear in your main forum list.
If it is not, 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
you need to be a keymaster to see forums in the dashboard – check your settings
dashboard>users
If you are not, then you need to get a keymaster to set you up.
If you are a keymaster 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
I can see the forums on my page, but not able to see on the wordpress Dashboard
I am in editor mode, I have installed bbpress. I was expecting to see the forum on the sidebar. It was showing but has disappeared.
THe plugin is activated..
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
Hello, so I’m new to bbpress and WordPress as a whole and as I’ve been trying to set up our site’s forum, I’ve come across the following caveats:
– the profile page that we’re linked to upon clicking a user’s name links us to a profile page that doesn’t let us upload avatars nor keeps proper track of engagements, subscriptions and favorited topics. Is there a known fix for this? Is this a known bug at all? And if I happen to find a better user profile plugin, is there any way I can link the forum’s usernames to that instead of bbpress’ own profile page?
thanks in advance.
\includes\replies\template.php
line 127
function bbp_has_replies
but be aware -lots of plugins filter this.
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
Hi, I’m having a strange problem where the order of replies is mostly right, but in a majority of the threads there is a recent reply or two that appear in the middle of the thread. Particularly affected are question / answer type threads where there are only two posts, but the order is flipped. I ran the “recalculate position of each reply in each topic” tool, but it didn’t seem to help. I have about 50,000 posts in my forum, does this need to be run multiple times? I worry about doing so because of the overhead.
For additional background, this was a drupal 7 forum that was imported over to bbpress 2 weeks ago, but the affected replies are from both before and after the import.
Using the latest versions of both wordpress and bbpress.
best I can suggest is :
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
I’m finding that Naturopath is showing as forum role on the user’s wordpress profile, but only for a short while. WordPress changes it back to Participant after it appears to have saved.
Participant is showing in the bbpress profile and under the username for their topics and comments in bbpress.
ok, given that i think this is your second attack, and that the user was able to change his settings, I would suspect the user has gained access details.
I would :
1. install https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wps-hide-login/ and change login
2. install https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/ and consider 2fa for mods and admins, and ensure that you get emails if any admins log in
3. change or get admins to change passwords for admins, moderators etc.
4. change all FTP passwords
5. change your database password
