[kopperwoman]

I’m having a similar problem to dustinarmstrong. But its not exactly the same.

I’m trying to fix a broken forum set up for a client. I did not do the forum installation (he did it himself) AND the forum is installed on a live site that gets lots of web traffic so I don’t want to do anything that might impact the website overall.

Here’s my situation:
1) BBPress was installed (I don’t have details about when and how),
2) a page was created with the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode on it
3) the forum didn’t work, so my client contacted me to fix it
4) I went into settings > forums and changed the forum root slug from the default “forum” to “travel-forums” (the name of the page where the shortcode lives. The error message “Possible bbPress conflict: Forum slug” showed up next to the slug field after saving the settings.
5) I also changed the single forum slug from the default “forum” to “travel-forums”. The error message “Possible bbPress conflict: Forums base” showed up next to the slug field after saving.

In my case, the forum page DOES show up at http://foobar.com/travel-forums but it is empty except for the welcome text that I had entered into the forum main window. (So it just says “Welcome to our forum” without any of the discussion topics showing up.

Also, I have the “Recent Topics” widget enabled on my sidebar and my three test discussion topics DO show up there. When I click on any of them they take me to the correct URL but the pages are blank. So, for example, when I click on “test topic” in the widget I land on http://foobar.com/travel-forums/topic/test-topic/ and the page displays the topic header “Test topic” and the topic question “what do you think about travel?” but it doesn’t display any of the posts.

I’m not sure if this behavior is related to the slug conflict error messages or if something else is wrong.

I’m trying to follow the advice that Stephen Edgar gave.

First up, I think this is probably true in my case:

most likely you have something else either titled or using the slug discuss and this includes any items in trash as even though they are in the trash they still reserve that slug and it is not released until the item is removed from the trash.

This is probably a stupid question but How do I empty the trash to make sure that the old slug is removed?

Second, I’d like to try this:

To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

but since my website is live and has been for a long time (and has lots of blog posts using the custom structure already) I’m concerned that this could permanently break the existing links. Any thoughts on this?

[MilliR]

I am using forums.php as my custom template to modify bbpress. I copied content of archive-forum into it and modified it a bit. Thing is, the forum lists shows up as expected. But no topic or list of topics is shown on following the links. This is all I get.

Oh bother! No forums were found here!

Using the default page.php gives no problem.

Here’s the code for forums.php

<?php

/**
 * bbPress - Forum Archive
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

get_header(); ?>
<div id="main-content">
	<div id="millir-header-feat">
		<div class="container">
			<h1 class="entry-title"><?php bbp_forum_archive_title(); ?></h1>
		</div>
	</div>
	<div class="container">
	<div id="content-area" class="clearfix">
		<div id="left-area">
			<?php do_action( 'bbp_before_main_content' ); ?>

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_notices' ); ?>

			<div id="forum-front" class="bbp-forum-front">				
				<div class="entry-content">

					<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'content', 'archive-forum' ); ?>

				</div>
			</div><!-- #forum-front -->

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_after_main_content' ); ?>
		</div>
		<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
	</div>
	</div>	
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

[Robin W]

ok, I’ve just loaded UAM on a twentyten theme with bbpress.

I set up 2 groups

Name Description Read access Write access Role affiliation IP range
partners partners description only group users only group users none none
lock pages lock pages description only group users only group users none none

I then set one page to have lock pages access

I have changed nothing on UAM settings, so these are all default.

With unregistered users, this works fine – all topics and their contents are visible. Until I can re-create what you are getting, it is not worth trying logged in users !

Can you try the plugin without woocommerce just to see if it is UAM & Woocommerce & bbpress that is the issue? and then with twentyten just for a moment.

After that, if no luck, please list what you have for all UAM settings, and I’ll see if that makes a difference.

[Nicolas Korobochkin]

bbPress permalinks by default is:

• /forums/topic/TOPIC_SLUG/
• /forums/forum/FORUM_SLUG/

How to replace topic- and forum- slugs to their ID’s?

• /forums/topic/TOPIC_ID/
• /forums/forum/FORUM_ID/

I need this because I have cyrillic letters in topic names (and slugs).

Current link:

http://ru.forums.wordpress.org/topic/Пустая-страница-1?replies=3

After copy and send on Twitter, Facebook..:

http://ru.forums.wordpress.org/topic/

I try fix it and write rewrite rule (and flush, yep).

add_rewrite_rule('^/forum/topic/(\d+)/?$','index.php?topic_id=$matches[1]','top');

But after visiting /forum/topic/814 (814 topic id is exists) redirect to home page happening.

[Robin W]

Guess i have done something wrong?

probably not !

Ok, we need to eliminate other plugins and your theme

Plugins

As a test, 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, test by switching to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

#1 is related to your theme I reckon. Try as a test switching to a default theme such as twentytwelve and see if it disappears. If it foes come back and we’ll try to help further.

#2 see https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-styling-crib/

[Robin W]

Yes maybe plugin or theme

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and profile information 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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

come back and let us know the results

[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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

yes, sorry that we have not picked this one up earlier

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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[pfswss]

Hi, I have a forum to convert to BBPress. it does not have any mods that are important. Is is quite old and had a lot of topics, about 8,000 members mostly inactive.

The reason I want to convert is I think it will be better to have it on wordpress and have more flexibility, plugins etc.

I do already have a blog installed on the /blog directory and the phpbb forum is on the root directory. But the blog had all the users imported from the WP united plugin and I think this could cause issues so I plan to revert back to a default install.

This is how I plan to do it:

Backup everyone and research and follow procedures to import

Backup wordpress posts and pages, there is not many

Uninstall and Delete the blog and install again a fresh default blog in the /blog directory

Install BBPress in a /forum directory

Run the importer and import the forum.

Now this is where I’m a little lost…

I eventually want the forum to be back on the root directory, how will I do this?

Is there anything else I should know before hand?

[Robin W]

could be many things

lets start by eliminating plugin and theme

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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

It can be done, you would start with

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-forums.php

see https://codex.bbpress.org/amending-bbpress-templates/

[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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

ok, something is truncating this into excerpt

You need to see if it’s a plugin issue, switch back to a default theme.

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.

[bm_kabin]

The modification does not limit to just the shortcode inclusion of the topic but on the forum as well. I thought it would have isolated but the changes seem to follow even on the default forum view?

[Robin W]

suspect this is theme related.

Try switching as a test to a default theme such as twentytwleve and see if this fixes – if so then theme issue.

Since this is a paid for theme, I’d then suggest you contact the theme support site form help at

http://help.themeva.com/

[etellewyn]

Never mind I just fixed it. In case anybody else experiences this problem, here is what I did:
(back up database first)
1) deactivate BBPress
2) install User Role Editor
3) Click the red Reset button which will reset all roles to WP defaults
4) Re-activate BBPress.

[Robin W]

ok the template you are after is

wp-content/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-topic.php

this will alter it wherever this template is used.

make a copy of this template and put it in a directory called bbpress in the root of your theme, so you end up with

wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-single-topic.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

Then modify this file

to remove breadcrumbs take out line 14 which says

<?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?>

then move line 44 (will probably be line 43 if you’ve taken out then breadcrumb!) which says

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'reply' ); ?>

You may need to play with where to put it 9i haven’t tried it) , but after lines 21 & 22

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'protected' ); ?>

	<?php else : ?>

looks a good start, if not just keep moving it til you get what you want.

If you only want it to look like this for the shortcode, then that is doable but a lot more complicated !

[Halo Diehard]

Hmm… not sure what’s going on here. Have you tested it on a default theme?

My avatars were not doing that the last I checked. I’m pretty sure they were auto-resizing smaller, and fitting in quite nice. But, I stopped using this bbPress theme before the last couple WordPress updates because it’s not responsive, and the default bbPress is. It’s possible something changed in the WordPress code to make it act different.

If you can make a child theme, you could try this to change the avatars’ size on the page where they’re squished with css:

bbp-topic-meta .avatar {
     width: 30px;
     height: 30px;
}

[Robin W]

offhand I can’t say.

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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

.

[Stephen Edgar]

You’ll need to download the translations manually per the details here:

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.5.x

Save them into /wp-content/languages/plugins

With some luck these two direct links will get you the .mo and .po. Make sure you rename both files so they are named bbpress-fr_FR.mo and bbpress-fr_FR.po respectively.

The reason I asked for the language you are using is because if the language translation is 100% translated then bbPress translations are delived to you automatically by the same WordPress Core ‘Automatic Updates’ mechanism, sadly bbPress French translations are not at 100%. (Technically they are at 100% translated but there are 228 strings waiting to be approved.)

[Robin W]

That doesn’t seem to be possible in 2012, which forces a sidebar if you want a search facility, and which consumes a lot of vertical space with the identity of the contributor, including a large avatar.

Good job we’re in 2014 then 🙂

If you switch on the search facility
dashboard>settings>forums and look for search allow forum wide search, you’ll get a search bar at the top of the forums page

for the avatar size use the following code in your functions file

function my_bbp_change_avatar_size($author_avatar, $topic_id, $size) {
    $author_avatar = '';
    if ($size == 14) {
        $size = 24;
    }
    if ($size == 80) {
        $size = 110;
    }
    $topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_id );
    if ( !empty( $topic_id ) ) {
        if ( !bbp_is_topic_anonymous( $topic_id ) ) {
            $author_avatar = get_avatar( bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id ), $size );
        } else {
            $author_avatar = get_avatar( get_post_meta( $topic_id, '_bbp_anonymous_email', true ), $size );
        }
    }
    return $author_avatar;
}

/* Add priority (default=10) and number of arguments */
add_filter('bbp_get_topic_author_avatar', 'my_bbp_change_avatar_size', 20, 3);
add_filter('bbp_get_reply_author_avatar', 'my_bbp_change_avatar_size', 20, 3);
add_filter('bbp_get_current_user_avatar', 'my_bbp_change_avatar_size', 20, 3);

The example increase the size, just change to to what you want

see https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/ for how to do that

you can also remove things like keymaster – just come back with what you want – and we’ll try to help you

[Robin W]

These issues will occur with different combinations of plugins, and it is nobody’s fault.
and it will never be eliminated.

Wordpress is free open source software. It allows others to hook into it using Filters and actions, as well as using templates and functions. Additionally theme developers can affect the way wordpress functions. This lets lots of other people change how wordpress works and add both functionality and looks.

So if two developers both hook into the same bit of code, the actions of one can alter or even cancel out the other’s code.

With many thousands of plugins it is simply impossible for developers to test to see if their plugin works with every other plugin out there.

bbPress is thoroughly tested with the latest version of WordPress, in combination with all of the wordpress default themes (twentyten, twentyeleven etc.) to ensure it functions. Most bbpress plugin developers will also test against this combination to give a good degree of conformance.

This is the best that you can get.

It is no more the fault of bbpress that it doesn’t work with plugin A, than it is the fault of plugin A that it doesn’t work with bbpress!

Sorry but that is life 🙂

Open source means you get lots of great FREE software but you don’t get an integration guarantee – it’s pretty damn good, but sorry not perfect.

And It’s nobody’s fault !

[Robin W]

ok, nit sure exactly what was happening , as these lines are already in the default loop-single-forum.php, but glad you’re fixed

[allieslabs]

Hey Guys,

We would like the topics on the Forum index page to display in order of Freshness. I understand this to be the default behavior, but for some reason our forum is not using that ordering.

http://cornerstonecollective.com/forum/

I have looked in settings and dug into the source code looking for a way to set the order to use the appropriate meta data, which I believe to be _bbp_last_active_time, but cannot seem to find the answer. Any suggestions would be most appreciated!

Thanks!

WordPress Version: 3.9.1
bbPress Version: 2.5.4
Website: http://cornerstonecollective.com/forum/