I cannot seem to add a Forum link to my main navigation menu. When I attempt to do this the link is not added to the menu structure and the site defaults to no menu being selected under menu locations. Please advise.
There seems to be several symptoms, some see topics not showing just replies, some has 404 errors wherever they are (topics, replies even forums), and some have issues with child forums.
At the moment the scenario is that since bbpress on a default theme doesn’t have these issues, then it is likely that it is a combination of wp4.0, bbpress AND one or more others.
Plugins that use code relying on searches are definitely one area, I suspect themes that look or rely on post types are another. You issue may be a third.
You seem to have disabled plugins, but have you used a default theme such as twentytwelve?
I have bbpress 2.5.4 running with twentyten and a top forum of category, a sub forum with that forum as parent, and a sub forum of that subforum all displaying fine.
If I can replicate a scenario, I can start to see if the issue is the one I’m looking at.
From what other plugin authors have delved into, one of the issues (and maybe the only issue) seems to be related to the fact that bbpress sets the array $default[‘s’] in all cases on bbp_has_replies – if a search to the search, but if not a search to ‘FALSE’. Under wp4.0 it seems that if this variable is set at all, it is taken as true, so the query is assumed as true, which then returns no results and maybe hense why a 404 or nothing displayed.
I have done a quick change to bbp_has_replies to test this.
If anyone else out there still has problems with 404’s or topics/replies not showing and is on wp4, can they try the very optimistically (!) named bbpress wp4 fix plugin, and let me know if it makes a difference !+
I already switched to a default theme and it didn’t fix it. And I just did the plugins thing you suggested and it didn’t fix it either – I activated bbpress alone and the problem was still there. I’m going to re-install WordPress now, it’s quite possibly from their newest update, this new version caused me other problems as well
@robin-w I beg to differ a little, the behaviour seems to suggest it is something else going on.
It is only child forums that seem to be having this issue.
If a forum is is set up as a child of a forum (set as type category) the result is a 404 Error.
if that link is broken (the forum has been set to have no parent) then the forum loads.
The permalink doesn’t change ?forum=general query string is the same for both. This is with all plugins disabled and on different themes.
There must be something that works differently code wise between the two.
Seems very odd.
It has also worked quite happily for the last year on default permalinks with the current plugin setup quite happily.
Something has changed the method in the way that it works, either through a bbpress release or WordPress 4.0 release
I’m a newbie to bbpress, and while I think I’m getting there, here’s what I’m trying to create:
-All registered users can create topics and replies
-The home page shows top trending topics by freshness (regardless of forum) using [bbp-topic-index]
-Users are required to select a forum (e.g ‘cars’ or ‘trucks’) when posting topics so that users who want to sort by car or truck may do so
The look I’m going for is the user seeing top 25 topics on home page regardless of forum (cars or trucks) but those users who want to look for car or truck-specific topics can still do so.
Questions:
1) Is this possible? Is there a better way to do this within bbpress?
2) How to set user default to ‘contributor’?
3) How to require forum selection?
Hi, took a while (been checking a lot of backups to pinpoint the moment of the bug appearing). But I could recreate te same by setting up a new site, add a second admin to the site and then installing and activating BackWpup, checking the settings (a nice new column in Users named ‘BackWPup role’, and still all standard roles available on a new user), then installing and activating bbPress and bingo. Only the first admin (or probably the admin who installed bbPress, thats the fitting scenario for the live site) is now Keymaster, for new accounts there are only 4 standard roles available (no admin, only subscriber, writer, author and editor).
Opening All users shows both users are actually Site Role = admin, BackWPup Role = BackWPup Admin and Forum Role only the user installing bbPress is Keymaster.
Then when I open the other user and scroll down to Site Role (named just Role here) IT shows — No role for this site –. Scrolling down shows both the role setting for BackWPup and Forums, with BackWPup defaults to BackWPup Admin (probably because I didn’t configure it yet) and Forum Role = — No role for these forums –.
In our live site I see the following: With bbpress installed, activated, used with some forums and 3 different users, in the user edit view there’s a Role field (limited to the 4 lesser roles), a BackWPup Role and a Forum role.
When we deactivate bbpress the Forum Role is gone, but now the Forum Roles are visible in the Site Role list, next to the aforementioned roles, still lacking the Admin role.
The same happens when deactivating bbpress on my test site.
My site uses bbPress 2.5.4 for forums and topics. New topics can select a forum to be placed in. But when selecting a forum to read the error is Page Not Found.
The issue seems to be when permalinks are set to default (whether plugins are contributing or not I don’t know), but on this other thread we have another two who ‘fixed’ the issue by going away from default permalinks.
I was installing bbPress on my website, using the Tools > Forums > Import forums. It was going okay until it reach converting replies. My forum have 52 600 messages in 18 000 subjects from 1200 users.
– I visited the url mysite.com/forums and I see it well, but at first sights it seems there is no replies at all in every message.
– Here is what I see in the yellow box.
Can you tell me what to do from here ? (as nothing keep going, but the little wheels keeps tuning)
1. Is this the same permalink setting you have always used?
We have used the default permalink structure since the outset about 18 months ago, this has never been changed. Forums have been working for this period with current set up.
2. Have you run any of the repair tools? Can you try running each of them and see if there is a change? (Tools -> Forums)
No, not yet, I will go through and run them now and reply on this forum
I like the site, but you need to make the forum look more like it, color scheme changes instead of the default light blue.
Also the text needs to be a bit more readable, perhaps larger font-size or color.
But I like the site so should be easy to make forum super cool.
Thank you @tobyhawkins! Yes I have gone through that link, and it almost works…
There is a slight caveat: the searches made on private Buddypress group forums do not return results if the user is below the “bbp_moderator” level. All such users see is the dreaded “Oh bother! No topics were found here” message.
My guess is that default bbpress search (which sevenspark’s method also employs) behaviour is currently set to not return results from private Buddypress forums for (say) a “bbp_participant” level user.
The method does however seem to work fine if one is only using sitewide forums and not Buddypress group forums.
Another newbie here. The 404 error happened to me too, immediately after upgrading to WP 4.0.
I took your advice about refreshing the permalink settings and it almost didn’t work. That is, it didn’t work since I hadn’t made any changes.
But then I made a simple (for me) change: I changed the Common Settings from ‘Default’ to ‘Day and name’. That seems to have done the trick, the forum is now working. Note that when I changed it back to ‘Default’ the problem occurred again, so I’ll stick with “Day and name” for now.
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