[Robin W]

ok, so I can only suggest you do some issue finding

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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

[patrick_here]

Did you really mean “theme folder”? The theme is “Hello Elementor” and there’s no bbpress folder in there.

The version of the bbpress plugin is a fresh version that I installed myself this week.

Other plugins installed (by someone else) on the site are:
bbp style pack
WP Forms
Elementor – Header, Footer & Bocks
Essential Content types
Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights
Jetpack
OptinMonster API
WPForms Lite
Yoast SEO

[patrick_here]

UPDATE:
Robin, I just tested this on a fresh wordpress install (ie: without Elementor) and I see that the tag is there !!!

So this leads me to believe that Elementor must be stripping the tag.

I cannot give you a link to this install because it’s on my local workstation (with a LAMP install). The tag I’m seeing at the forum description is: bbp-forum-content

[patrick_here]

This is the interface I’m talking about. That’s what I see when I click “Add New” [Forum] (with minor differences). The Forum Title gets entered into the “Enter title here” box. I’m saying that any text entered in the large post text area below …ends up showing up as forum description in the Forum index …but it shows up without tags of any kind.

[patrick_here]

Here’s what I mean:
Take a look at https://westseattleblog.com/forum

Under the “Freebies, Sales, Trades” forum there is a forum description that says:
“This is also where to list garage/yard sales”

I wasn’t sure how bbpress intends for users to get a forum description like that. The way I did it was that I noticed that when I “Add New Forum”, I’m in a WordPress interface that’s practically identical to the interface to create a post or page …and the post/page Title becomes the title of the forum. So in the normal text area of the “create post” interface I added the text that I intended for my forum description.

Perhaps that’s just a “hack” that works but it’s not the intended way to do it, yes? What is the intended way to add a forum description?

[Robin W]

this (surprisingly) is not easy within bbpress.

You would do better to force worpdress to have display name as username eg

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/138034/default-display-name-as-username

[Robin W]

ah, I see what you ae getting at – not sure how this site does it, but you can create a link to a page in your site and put

[bbp-topic-index] in that page – that will show the latest 15 topics

If you want better than that, then

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>shortcode

and check out the

[bsp-display-topic-index] which has lots of settings you can use to control what is shown

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Custom CSS

[Robin W]

If I understand

add_action ('bbp_theme_after_topic_form_tags' , 'rew_tag_desc' ) ;
add_action ('bbp_theme_after_reply_form_tags' , 'rew_tag_desc' ) ;

function rew_tag_desc () {
	echo '<p>words here</p>' ;
}

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]

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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]

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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]

just tried it on my website, and that code works fine.

3 possibilities

1. the 90 is wrong
2. the 90 forum does not have sub forums
3. some other code is filtering the bbp_forum_get_subforums function

If you are happy it is not 1 or 2, then it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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]

it sends the user to the wordpress login screen,

can you define ‘it’ please – what is sending you where?

[knelsonkris]

Thank you! The problem is I cannot predict when the issue will occur. I do not know exactly how to duplicate the problem – only notice that is seems to occur around WordPress updates.

Do you haves you other way to test?

Thanks

[Robin W]

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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

[knelsonkris]

Wordpress 5.53
bbpress version 2.66
livelikeaviking.com/talk

I am running into a problem – has been going on for a long time – when anything updates on this site, I need to flush the permalinks or the topics will not work. If someone chooses a topic in the forum, they are directed to the home page of the site.

If I manually flush permalinks, everything operates correctly.

Can you advise?

[Robin W]

I have just tried it on my test site with WordPress 5.5.3 with bbPress 2.6.6, and it changed fine with no issues.

so you go into the edit, and click ‘generate password’ and then type in a paswword and click update Profile and that works.

Is this what you are trying?

[benbluef]

I recently upgraded bbPress and now it’s not possible to set a new password when editing a profile at URL like: /forums/users/user-example/edit/

E.g. Type a password into the New Password field.
Click the field below to type password again – the field does not allow anything to be entered and the first field is reduced to a single character. So it’s not possible to confirm the new password!

It seems that bbPress is using /wp-admin/js/user-profile.min.js, so is this an issue with WordPress core?

I’m getting this issue on the following versions:
WordPress 5.5.1 with bbPress 2.6.5
WordPress 5.5.3 with bbPress 2.6.6

Live website is sgrt.org
Also seen on local version and staging version.

Thanks

[Robin W]

1. You should be aware that many spam filters strip messages that do not come from the correct address. So if your site is mysite.com and your email address
in wordpress settings>general is fred@gmail.com then it is likely that messages will be dumped in transit.
You need to set up email to come from your site eg fred@mysite.com, your hosting provider can help if needed.
2. Just bbpress?
Then you need to see if this is wordpress wide or just bbpress.
Try https://wordpress.org/plugins/check-email/

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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

Next try switching to smtp email – this page from the host Siteground explains it

https://www.siteground.co.uk/tutorials/wordpress/use-smtp/

If you choose other SMTP servers as a mailer, then you email/website hoster shoud be able to give you details of what to enter

and of course

By default, you do NOT receive emails for your own topics/replies, only if somebody else replies on your subscribed topics

so testing would need two email accounts to prove !

[Robin W]

add_action ('bbp_template_before_single_forum' , 'rew_add_html' ) ;

function rew_add_html () {
	echo '<b>hello</b>';
}

and amend echo '<b>hello</b>'; to what you want

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

[John James Jacoby]

Probably an issue with a plugin conflict or theme.

Standard troubleshooting rules apply. Deactivate one plugin at a time and switch to a WordPress Twenty Something theme until it starts working, then work backward until you identify what’s causing it.

[John James Jacoby]

bbPress 2.6.6 is out now! 💚

bbPress 2.6.6

Download it from WordPress.org!

bbPress

[John James Jacoby]

This is likely related to some kind of server configuration issue.

Does this happen with a regular WordPress Post or Page?

[Adam]

Hi,

sorry for the noob question, hopefully the answer’s easy, but I can’t figure it out or find an answer online. Slightly overwhelmed by the 25 tabs on the bb style pack settings.

I just installed bbpress and the style pack on my WordPress site and set up my single forum here:

North London Low Carbon Future Group

However the font size is tiny. I’m using theme Twenty Twenty so I figured it should be defaulting to something that blends right in. Isn’t that the way it’s meant to work?

[reneetje]

I tried to copy some text into a BBPress forum and was kind of surprised to see it came up with a lot of html tags in it. Even in the visual editor!

I am running WordPress 5.5.3, Memberpress Basic 1.9.4 and BBPress 2.6.5

What can I do make sure when text is copied into a forum, it shows up as meant to be and not with a load of HTML tags that I don’t want to see….

[calebellis]

I made a forum, but the button to post a topic is missing! For the admin, the buttom area is replaced with the wordpress toolbar for some reason, and using a user account, there is no button. Please help! Thanks!