[Robin W]

It is probably a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Doulacare]

I just came across something. I have tried changing my permalinks back to default, saving and then back to post name again, but I have never tried it while it was on default. I just did, and they seem to work now…. The only issue is that I have so many links that are set for payments etc on the site member end that it would be very time consuming to go through them all and change them….

All the other threads I have read have said that to get around the issue with WP4 breaking the forums was to switch to post name.

[Doulacare]

Sorry, I didn’t see the email that said I had a response to this!

I tried both the 404 fix plugins. I have also gone through the set up.

My permalinks are set up as “Post Name”

I am using “forum” for the root and all the others are the default

this is the only way I can get anything to show at all:
http://ontariodoulas.org/?post_type=forum

Also S2member is designed to work with bbPress, that is the only reason I haven’t tried another forum yet. lol

[lemond404]

done. We had a few users default roles, but nothing else changed.

We had to do a site restore and lost 2 months of data but issue(s) still persists. It’s even more buggy now as moderators have lost the ability to read topics…

[Robin W]

sorry Christmas time where I am, so support is thin !

This will probably be a theme or plugin issue, so we need to work out which

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

then come back with the results

[Robin W]

Depends what the issue is.

I suggest this approach as it helps define whether on a ‘clean’ default theme with no other plugins bbpress is experiencing issues.

If it is ok in a clean site, then I’d suggest talking to your host provider – most are good with wordpress, and may identify any issues.

If you can identify a conflict, then we can look at a solution, sometimes it is easy, often it might be harder 🙂

I presume your test site is on a local server?

If you’re ok/good with web stuff, then you might consider putting a test site on-line so that it is an exact match for the live environment, most host providers allow sub-domains and if you switch on discourage search then it doesn’t interfere see

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

then you can be happier that live will work.

Anyway just a thought !!

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

try the following to se if you can pinpoint a conflict in live

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[HighRollerUSA]

I just installed bbpress 2.5.4 on WordPress 4.1, on two different websites.

On my test site, everything is working as expected, but on my live site (which has SSL) every time I try to access the default https://mysite.com/forums/ I get the following error:

Fatal error: ob_end_flush(): Cannot use output buffering in output buffering display handlers in /homepages/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3269

I can create a new page with a different name than “forums” and use the shortcode successfully, but the breadcrumbs have a direct link to the “/forums” and it gives the same error.

Any idea what may be going on?

Thanks!

[nitz12345]

Hello.
I seem to have a problem with creating new topic. When i click the “submit” button, it tries to redirect to the topic for editing (I guess?), but then it get stuck in redirection loop and I get an error.
The problem occurs when I put permalinks on “Pretty Links”. When I change back to default it stops happening.

The page that I use for the forum is the following: http://forum-dati.co.il/%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9D/%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9D/

Everything is in Hebrew, so if you need any translation just say 🙂

I use wordpress v4.1 and bbpress v2.5.4
I also use multisite

Thank you very much

[pinkhare]

Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init().

I have been getting this message from 2 years ago and I have been reading all the related posts and Q&As from time to time, but it seems that this problem is not resolved yet. I sure that this is a bbPress issue or the issue of Customize template/function for wordpress. Because I have tested with no plugin, so it’s not the case of conflicting plugin and I used WordPress default themes(Twenty Fourteen & Twenty Fifteen).
My wordpress version is 4.1 & my bbpress version is 2.5.4.

The most important thing is that message is only shown on the admin’s ‘Customize‘ page.
I’m developing my own theme, so I want to fix it without disabling WP_DEBUG config.

[Jake Hall]

Can I just say, whilst bbPress is a great SSO solution for those wanting to hook up their WordPress with a forum, it is very difficult to get it going how you like it. There is virtually no decent documentation going over anything except the basics.

I am trying to achieve something relatively simple, however have had to resort to editing the actual plugin itself in an attempt to get it working how I’d like it to be.

What I am trying to do, is edit the freshness part of bbPress. What do I mean by that? Well, I am trying to edit the following:

So what I wanted it to do, was display the actual Topic Title. It makes sense, because as default – what has updated? What thread was last updated without having to drill into the forum?

I also found it bizarre that the title was added within the title tag of the freshness, really? Can we just have some sort of option to allow us to change how things are layed out, or at least create some documentation on how to actually change this without editing the bbPress plugin files (which is what I have had to resort to…)

My question is, how can I change what is displayed there? Surely there’s a better way around it that doesn’t involve hacking my way through the plugin files.

Which bbPress file actually changes this? Like I say, absolutely no documentation on what each file does – it is just guesswork………………

If I am missing something I apologise, but after looking for countless hours I just decided to edit the plugin source to achieve half of what I wanted – still doesn’t help as I would like to change the location of the author picture and time edited and I am not editing the plugin for those.

Am I being stupid?

If anyone would like the most recent topic name within the forum to display on the index, you can edit the Plugin source code directly like so:

if ( !empty( $time_since ) && !empty( $link_url ) )
			$anchor = '<a href="' . esc_url( $link_url ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( $title ) . '">' . esc_html( $time_since ) . '</a>';
		else
			$anchor = esc_html__( 'No Topics', 'bbpress' );

		return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_forum_freshness_link', $anchor, $forum_id, $time_since, $link_url, $title, $active_id );

Find that chunk of code within bbpress/includes/forums/template.php and change to the following:

if ( !empty( $time_since ) && !empty( $link_url ) )
			$anchor = '<a href="' . esc_url( $link_url ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( $title ) . '">' . esc_html( $title ) . '</a>';
		else
			$anchor = esc_html__( 'No Topics', 'bbpress' );

		return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_forum_freshness_link', $anchor, $forum_id, $time_since, $link_url, $title, $active_id );

All we have done here is changed the $time_since to $title. Now you need to re-add the $time_since variable in there somewhere, which is a pain because you may not want it right after the thread title (like myself…)

[Robkk]

you didnt add an additional plugin to add this type of behavior??

i dont think bbPress does this by default , i think it would need a plugin like this to achive this type of thing.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-notify-nospam/

[Robkk]

@freeshark123

i work on bbPress on WAMP all the time and it works fine for me.

could it be a theme issue?? try switching to a default theme like say twenty twelve.

[Robkk]

try to find a plugin issue first

deactivate your plugins one at a time with bbPress still active and see if any of them are causing the issue with bbPress.

switch to a default theme temporarily to see if its functions in your theme causing the issue.

come back with results

[Bob1nz]

I see the permalinks has been activated on your site now so what I put would not work now.
There are several ways to find the link to your forums for your menu.
One is when you are creating or editing the forums it will show the link under the title to the forum you are creating.

The other way is to look under Settings -> Forums then find the text that is in the field next to “Forum Root”
The text in that field should be what is used after your domain name. The default is “forums” so in your case your menu link would need to be http://cycleshanty.com/forums/

I have tried navigating to this on your website and it redirects back to the front page for some reason.
I have sent you a message on your website.

[Stephen Edgar]

For example, here, there is NO documentation at all for import options:

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

This has been added for the next release.

a) It would be useful if there was an explanation as to what difference ‘Rows Limit’ and ‘Delay Time’ actually make to the importer. For example, after a search on this forum, I read that one user upped the Rows limit to 10000 and this helped him with a successful import that had previously hung. Why should this be? @netweb suggests 0.1 as a good Delay Time – why? Also, is there a minimum or range of values that are acceptable? For example, would 0.01 an acceptable value and would it make any difference?

The default values are what we think will work for “most users” without causing any issues, if your MySQL instance can handle more frequent and larger queries than the defaults then these values can be changed to reflect that. Many of the of shared hosting packages have limits on how many and how large these database queries can take place per hour, this is why it is relatively low by default.

If you have an incredibly fast MySQL instance you could set the time between queries (delay) to 0.01ms, I’d suggest not though, this allows MySQL to have some “time up it’s sleeve” for any other tasks it may also be needing, you’d hardly notice the difference between 0.1 and .0.01, you do (or at least I do) notice this on large imports when it is set to 1.0.

b) If ‘Start Over’ is not selected, will the importer always try and re-start where it left off if it was previously stopped? How does it know? Does it trawl through all matches and not replicate them until it gets to data that it hasn’t imported?

Yes, the importer will continue from where it left off, we store this is the wp_options database table.

i) Once what is finished? If it hung again then it didn’t finish? Bit confused by this.

I’ll try to get to update these troubleshooting steps to make this a bit clearer.

ii) If one stops and starts the import, why should it continue where it left off? Why should it not hang immediately? Does it continue with the next batch of rows or does it continue with the table row in which it was stopped?

As per above, at each step during import we update this data in the options table so if the import stops when started again it can resume from where it left off.

And yes, it continues with the next batch of rows from where it left off.

iii) If one stops import, logs out, refreshes the page, etc. will import start where it left off?

Yes

iv) Please define ‘hangs’. If the wheel is spinning during, for example, ‘Converting Replies (480000 – 480999) does this mean it is still working albeit slowly?

The ‘wheel’ is always spinning as each step of the importer progresses, if for example it took ~3 seconds to convert the “Converting Replies (470000 – 470999)” replies, you’d find each batch would typically be taking a similar 3 seconds, once you see per your example “Converting Replies (480000 – 480999)” if that has been stuck on that batch for 30 seconds, a minute, 20 minutes that is pretty much a case of the import has stalled.

[j0n4h]

Hey again,

Running into some trouble customizing my bbpress forums via the bbpress.css file in the my child theme. I’m unsure if the pathway is incorrect, or maybe the intro to the file itself is incorrectly formatted. I do, however, know I was able to enqueue the custom loop-forums.php correctly with the functions.php properly pathwayed.

So, the pathway to the bbpress.css file is default>css>bbpress.css
In my childtheme, I have the bbpress.css file located avada-childtheme>css>bbpress.css

However, whenever I add code into the bbpress.css file after the

`/*
Theme Name: Avada-childtheme
Theme URI: Your website if you don’t intend to publish a separate site just for your theme
Description: A brief description of your child theme
Author: Jonah Hollis
Author URI: http://www.animusesports.com/
Template: Avada
Version: 1.0.0
Tags: whatever tags you might want to use for your child theme
*/

/* =Theme customization starts here
————————————————————– */
it corrupts the bbpress forums and breaks them. When I delete the file, the bbpress forums resume normal functionality. For the purposes of example, I’ll leave them broken.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

http://www.animusesports.com/forums/

WordPress 4.0.1
bbPress 2.5.4-5380

[Robin W]

bbpress uses the default wordpress user setup, but adds a bbpres role to the wp-capabilities in user_meta.

So as long as there is a wp_user then on first login by that user bbpress will allocate the default bbpress role as set in Dashboard>settings>forums.

In think this plugin might be your solution, as it seems to create and update wordpress via AD

https://wordpress.org/plugins/active-directory-integration/

and then bbpress will use that wordpress database to add the role.

[Bob1nz]

Thanks for your reply @robin-w
I tried that but it assigns the user the default role in bbpress.

I gave a dummy user the admin role in wordpress and what I want is for the user to be automatically given the admin role in bbpress as well.
Using the code you supplied it leaves the user with the default role.

How can I assign non-standard bbpress roles with custom capabilities to non standard wordpress roles also with custom capabilities using the map so this is performed dynamically?

[Robin W]

@tajender

You’d need to modify

wp-content/bbpress/templats/default/bbpress/form-reply.php

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/%your-theme-name%/bbpress
find
wp-content/bbpress/templats/default/bbpress/form-reply.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

you should really do this inside a child theme

Functions files and child themes – explained !

but if you do it in your main theme, keep a copy of what youb have done as updates are likely to overwrite

The you would need to modify line 20

<?php if ( bbp_current_user_can_access_create_reply_form() ) : ?>

to put in a check to see if it’s current user

It’s too near xmas, and I have too much else on to write and test the code but it will involve bbp_get_currect_user and the topic author $user_id

[Bob1nz]

sorry make a copy of your default template (possibly page.php?) and rename it to bbpress.php

There should be a <div class=”title-wrapper”> in it already just add add in the style.

[Hephaestus_Xii]

Hi, I would like to know how to change the “forum” link in the breadcrumbs to link to another page I built the forums using the shortcodes and the “forum” link in the breadcrumbs takes me to the default forum page.

I would like it to go to the page I created.

[Bob1nz]

I found this

/**
 * Return a map of WordPress roles to bbPress roles. Used to automatically grant
 * appropriate bbPress roles to WordPress users that wouldn't already have a
 * role in the forums. Also guarantees WordPress admins get the Keymaster role.
 *
 * @since bbPress (r4334)
 *
 * @return array Filtered array of WordPress roles to bbPress roles
 */
function bbp_get_user_role_map() {

	// Get the default role once here
	$default_role = bbp_get_default_role();

	// Return filtered results, forcing admins to keymasters.
	return (array) apply_filters( 'bbp_get_user_role_map', array (
		'administrator' => bbp_get_keymaster_role(),
		'editor'        => $default_role,
		'author'        => $default_role,
		'contributor'   => $default_role,
		'subscriber'    => $default_role
	) );
}

Is there any way to add extra roles in that without editing the plugin files directly?