[teresaanderson]

Hi All – I’m a newbie to WordPress. I’m using the twenty twenty three theme to build a forum. I would like to allow users to post anonymously but the template requires them to enter name, email address (with an optional website field). I’d like to remove all three of those fields, but don’t know how. I’ve found some sites that suggest editing the template file. I have no idea how to do that. I’m pretty good at using YouTube and Google to find answers on my own, but this one is stumping me. Any help you can produce is greatly appreciated.

[Robin W]

as a quick test, can you try

install https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/

and add this code

function rew_astra_bbpress_fix ($value) {
		if (bbp_is_single_user()) return false ;
		if (bbp_is_search()) return false ;
		if (bbp_is_topic_tag()) return false ;
		if (bbp_is_single_view()) return false ;
return $value ;
}

add_filter ('astra_single_layout_one_banner_visibility', 'rew_astra_bbpress_fix', 50) ;

[kristenkoster]

I have been unable to set specific moderators on individual Forums and have had to resort to setting their user forum role to moderator. When I edit the individual forum and enter a user name and save I get no error message but it does not get saved, the box remains empty. This used to work, using bbpress in the past — MemberPress is the new bit in the mix.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
———
Wordpress: 6.5.3
bbPress 2.6.9

Unfortunately, our forums are all protected through MemberPress so a link isn’t going to be useful.

Other related plugins installed and activated:
MemberPress Pro 1.11.31
bbp style pack 5.9.8
bbpNNS/MemberPress Bridge 1.3.1
bbPress Notify (No-Spam) 2.18.3
bbPress Notify (No-Spam) Digests 2.4
bbPress Notify (No-Spam) Reply by Email 2.8
GD bbPress Attachments 4.7

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>theme support

[Robin W]

Now available as an option in

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>column display

[Robin W]

Inline Image Upload for BBPress

[Robin W]

I remove 10-20 from this site weekly.

bbpress just uses wordpress registration, so this article (picked at random from a quick google of ‘stop wordpress spam registration’ might be useful

https://www.malcare.com/blog/stop-wordpress-registration-spam/

askismet is also very good.

Homepage

[tim4962]

If asking for help, please include your WordPress version, bbPress version, and a link to your site.

1. WordPress 6.5.3
2. bbPress 2.6.9
3. Used plugin, “bbpress style Pack” for bbPress.

All About The Colors for the following text: Forum Topics Posts Last Post
My site: https://gtl.news/podcast/forum-index/ – The Text Is White, this is what I want.

Problem, I click on the active post topic and the text is Black on a blue banner at the top of page.

Forum Topics Posts Last Post Text is Black, I need white.
My site Problem: https://gtl.news/podcast/forums/forum/admin-messages-timothy-thompson/

How do I change it so the text is also white? I have FTP if I need to change the CSS, I just need to know what file and location.

I would be immensely thankful.

Thank You, Tim T

[gdj13]

Hey friends I am very much a noob when it comes to BBpress so apologies if this question has been asked before, I have searched the support forum and Googled a whole bunch but to no luck.

I am planning the development strategy for my client’s new website and they have requested a product review forum on the website so customers can review their products on the forum. So my question to you is, is there a way to add by default some review fields in the text editor of the Topic that the user has to complete to display at the top of the topic before posting it? There will be other Forums so it would only need to be on this particular Forum. So for example…

The forum is on say laptops they retail, so the review fields would be laid out similarly to below for example
Brand:
Spec:
RAM:
Graphics:
then below would be their description of the laptop.

WordPress version: 6.5.3
BBpress version: 2.6.9
No site as yet, it’s still in the planning stage but this is my site.

[Chris Ostmo]

Thank you for your time and input. It is very much appreciated!

As a very long-time WordPress developer, I can state with confidence that a function that returns trashed posts by default is abnormal and unexpected, and not having a way to override such behavior is practically unheard-of in well-used, public plugins. I can’t think of another example.

I’ve made attempts in the past to gain employment from WordPress/Automattic because of issues like this that I’d really like to dig into, not to mention some pieces of Jetpack that I’d love to tweak. I haven’t had any luck getting a response from them through their very odd job application process.

That trac link you provided is probably the link I needed when I posted here instead. Thanks again.

[Robin W]

Still comes across as very shouty and opinionated eg ‘it’s just mind blowing’ and ‘with this blatantly obvious chronic issue’, but let me try and answer you.

I am just a moderator here, and not a bbpress author. I don’t get paid anything to do this, and I’m just a guy sat in his kitchen trying to help others.

So a bit of background

bbpress was written by the founder of WordPress Matt Mullenweg as a standalone product way before mobiles/cell phones did anything more than phone and text.

It was added as a plugin to WordPress by John James Jacoby, who has done updates to it every so often as paid work by the WordPress foundation.

It is up to the owners of plugins as to how much work they do on their products.

The authors tend to release updates every few years, rather than more frequently.

My personal view is that you should consider bbpress to be a ‘mature’ product, ie any releases will be to fix issues rather than add functionality.

bbPress is used by WordPress on their support forums, and if you look at these, you will see that they show these columns in mobile, so that is clearly how WordPress wants it to work.

That you might decide that this is not how they should show is your opinion, and with over 100,000 installations of bbpress I have not noticed over the 10 years I have been doing support here ‘a lot’ of requests. I’m sure there have been some.

The bbpress concept is ‘We’re keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system.’ This does have an implicit expectation that others will either have the code and css capabilities to change bbpress to suit themselves, or hope that others have done so through plugins.

You seem to have found some answers, and say you have found one that does this with css, and I suspect I might have answered some doing exactly this.

I do not plan to start from scratch, so maybe if you can give me a link to ‘there’s some people that use CSS but I haven’t seen where it actually works’, then I’ll see if I can help further.

[Robin W]

add_filter('bbp_before_has_forums_parse_args', 'rew_hide_forums');

function rew_hide_forums($args='') {
 $args['post__not_in'] = array('31867');
return $args ;
}

where 31867 is the ID of the forum you want to hide, you can do multiple using array('31867', '45655') etc.

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]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Profile

and set it up for your choice

[tceg]

Hi,

I just want to know if it’s possible to stop the wordpress author page from being redirected to mydomain.com/bb-members/user?

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

[Robert]

Hi
We’re getting strange PHP Error messages relating to forum posts that don’t exist like this one. Should we be concerned?
Many thanks
Robert

WordPress database error Duplicate entry ‘8702-67865’ for key ‘PRIMARY’ for query INSERT INTO ggx_gdbbx_tracker (user_id, topic_id, forum_id, reply_id, latest) VALUES (8702, ‘67865’, ‘11504’, ‘72638’, ‘2024-05-15 06:40:25’) made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-includes/template-loader.php’), apply_filters(‘template_include’), WP_Hook->apply_filters, bbp_template_include, apply_filters(‘bbp_template_include’), WP_Hook->apply_filters, bbp_template_include_theme_compat, BBP_Shortcodes->display_topic, bbp_get_template_part, bbp_locate_template, load_template, require(‘/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-topic.php’), do_action(‘bbp_template_after_single_topic’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, Dev4Press\Plugin\GDBBX\Features\ActivityTracking->latest_users_topic, Dev4Press\Plugin\GDBBX\Database\Main->track_topic_visit, Dev4Press\v47\Core\Plugins\DBLite->__call, call_user_func_array

[Robin W]

ok, so I’ve added this ability into my style pack plugin

bbp style pack

it is automatically there once you have activated the plugin, so just see SO TO BULK MOVE… below

OTHERWISE IF YOU PREFER TO USE CODE then

add_action( 'bulk_edit_custom_box',  'rew_quick_edit_fields', 10, 2 );

function rew_quick_edit_fields( $column_name, $post_type ) {
	switch( $column_name ) {
		case 'bsp_topic_forum': {
			echo rew_bulk_edit_forums () ;
			break;
		}
		case 'bbp_topic_forum': {
			echo rew_bulk_edit_forums () ;
			break;
		}
	}
}

function rew_bulk_edit_forums () {
	// Start an output buffer
		ob_start();
		
	?>
				<fieldset class="inline-edit-col-left">
					<div class="inline-edit-col">
						<p>
							<label for="bbp_forum_id"><?php esc_html_e( 'Forum:', 'bbpress' ); ?></label><br />
							<?php
                                                                $no_forum_str = 
                                                                        /* translators: &mdash; is encoded long dash (-) */
                                                                        esc_html__( '&mdash; No forum &mdash;', 'bbpress' );
								bbp_dropdown( array(
									'show_none' => $no_forum_str,
									'selected'  => bbp_get_form_topic_forum()
								) );
							?>
						</p>
					</div>
				<?php
			// Output the current buffer
		$output =  ob_get_clean();
	return $output ;
}

add_action( 'save_post', 'rew_bulk_edit_save' );

function rew_bulk_edit_save( $post_id ){

	// check bulk edit nonce
	if ( ! wp_verify_nonce( $_REQUEST[ '_wpnonce' ], 'bulk-posts' ) ) {
		return;
	}

	// update the forum
	$forum_id = ! empty( $_REQUEST[ 'bbp_forum_id' ] ) ? absint( $_REQUEST[ 'bbp_forum_id' ] ) : 0;
	remove_action( 'save_post', 'rew_bulk_edit_save' );

        // update the post, which calls save_post again.
        wp_update_post( array( 'ID' => $post_id, 'post_parent' => $forum_id ) );

        // re-hook this function.
        add_action( 'save_post', 'rew_bulk_edit_save' );
}

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

SO TO BULK MOVE…

go to dashboard>topics and use the tick boxes to the left of each topic to select the ones you want
then above the topics use the ‘bulk actions’ to select ‘edit’
and click ‘apply’ to the right of that

You will the see a dropdown box labelled ‘forum’ which lets you set which forum to change those topics to,
and click ‘update’

[Robin W]

I’m just a guy sat in his kitchen trying to help others, I am not paid to do this.

It is entirely relevant in that they may well be a reason why trashed posts are added, without knowing when and why the function is called and how it is used, it is impossible to say that the code is wrong.

I agree that a filter before that or variable passed would be helpful, but bbpress is not being actively worked on at the moment so it is unlikely that this would get updated.

If you want to flag this, raise a ticket on https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

You might want to use bbp_get_public_child_ids or use the filter at the end of the function to as you say ‘override’ the setting, or if you are using this function directly, then simply create your own version of it.

[Robin W]

ok the code above will not help, and should be removed.

I’d guess that because the subscription messages are being sent from ‘noreply@’ you website, your email system is rejecting this as an invalid address.

Try installing

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Subscription Emails

and change the address in item 1 to the email address that you are getting valid site emails from, and see if that solves.

[Robin W]

ok, if you know how, I’d take out that old solution and use

bbp style pack

which has a solution for it

[Julianna]

Hi

I’m having the same issue with notifications of replies and new topics not being sent by email.

Plugins installed:
Simple WordPress Membership
bbPress
bbp style pack (notifications enabled)
bbPress Members Only (forum set to members only with all other pages visible)
bbPress Notify (No Spam)
Check & log email (nothing logged in tests)
Code Snippets (original code above added)
Easy WP SMTP (confirmed that other emails are sending successfully, eg notification of new member registrations via Simple Membership)
WP Notification Bell (new replies ARE showing up here)

I’ve run tests with replies and new topics for a test user subscribed to everything (and directly to the topic used to test replies), and am still not getting any emails. Have, of course, checked the spam folder.

I’d appreciate any suggestions for troubleshooting.

Thank you!

[domeboys]

Site: thecardinalnation.com
WordPress 6.4.3
bbPress 2.6.9
MySQL 7.4

Roughly weekly over the last six months, my entire WordPress site slows down to a stop with 504 errors experienced by users for 10-20 minutes at a time. CPU utilization on my dedicated server goes from 20% to close to 100%.

My hosting provider WPEngine suspects bbPress is spiking MySQL with long-running queries.

Here is what WPEngine Support told me in one of my exchanges with them.

“Most past mysql queries were generated by this file:
/nas/content/live/thecardinalnat/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php:1096

“Something about the query on line 1096 of that file is causing spikes in mysql usage.

“Bbpress support may be able to explain what the query is trying to do and how to optimize it or change some settings to make those requests less heavy for mysql.”

That is what has brought me here.

Does anyone know what this query does, if it could be involved with my problem and what corrective action should be taken? I would greatly appreciate any advice you can provide.

(I am the site owner and am not highly technical, but I have access to additional assistance as needed.)

[Robin W]

add this additional plugin

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Subscription emails

Tick item 4 to enable, and change the topic/reply emails as required.

[astrologiamb]

Hi
I run different forums in my website. Each forum is related to a specific course I provide.

As the one who answers all questions sent by each forum, I have the issue that when I receive an inquiry, many times I do not know to which forum the question belongs. Today, to find out, I have to go to my wordpress backend, go to bbpress, and look in the topic section to which forum it belongs.

So ideally, it would be great if in the subject notification email, I can see to which forum is related.

So if today I receive a subject notification email like the following:

Clarification about XXXX

I would like to receive

[Forum XXXX] Clarification about XXXX

Thanks

[Robin W]

Private groups

and enable topic permissions

[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