[Robin W]

probably it is various email filters stopping – email providers constantly fight spam emails, and if yours are seeming to not come from authorised smtp address, then some will stop. that might explain why recipients get and some don’t.

so 1st – I’d make sure that the sending email address is a real one from your site. by default bbpress sends from noreply@yoursite you could use

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Subscription Emails to change

next I’d set up smtp.

get the smtp settings from your hoster, you’ll need

SMTP Host eg smtp.myco.com
Encryption none/tls/ssl
SMTP Port eg 587
Authentication on/off ?

and the email and pw for whatever you are sending from

the use

WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most Popular SMTP and Email Log Plugin

to set up smtp – the free version is fine

finally I’d add the ‘check and log email’ plugin to see what is happening

Check & Log Email

[milfuegos]

Hi
wordpress 6..0.2
bbpress 2.6.9

i want to let users edit their avatar with the Basic User Avatars plugin
i want to be edited in the profile edit page
forums/user/name/edit/
i tried to write this:
<?php echo do_shortcode(“[basic-user-avatars]”); ?>
in TEMPLATES/DEFAULT/EXTRAS/SINGLE-USER-EDIT.PHP
dont work
how can i do then
thanks
regards

[Robin W]

I cannot replicate this on my test site – I presume you have this as the statistics widget?

if so it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

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

[dog8food]

New to this. I just installed bbPress to my site and something’s wrong with the default setting. Notice on these two pages, the login button and ‘keep me signed in’ button and text appear to be in random places. How can I fix this? :

sketchbookers.com/forums1

[Robin W]

ok, so you are correct that topics and replies should be public.

You don’t say how you detected a brute force, and if these were default or easily guessed usernames etc. The whole idea of a brute force attack is to try loads of usernames in the hope one is correct.

bbpress just uses WordPress login, so if you were seeing login attempts this might be just a plain brute force on a wordpress site, unrelated to bbpress.

Identifying users would be unlikely to come from a topic display, given that a private forum does not show public topics either on screen or through rss.

However bbpress does have a profile page which is publicly displayable, and that might be a route. ie if the profile page of a display name does not 404, then username is valid.

you can use :

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Profile

where you can choose who to display profiles to, and therefore prevent profile pages of your users being identifiable.

[thefarmer]

It seems a reasonable question whether RSS etc feeds might be open on Topics defaulting to ‘Public’ visibilty as they do even in Private Forums ?

Naturally concerned.

kr

TheFarmer

[thefarmer]

Setting is available to keymasters in the WP dashboard.

To view it, have a private forum with a topic.

Log in as keymaster.

WP Dashboard > Topics > All Topics > (‘my topic’) > edit

In the ‘Publish’ box just above the update button is an object with text ‘Visibility : Public

edit

‘ This allows settings Public, Password Protected, and Private.

Private seems to mean visible to admin/keymaster only. Password protected invites a per topic password. And Public is the default for new topics created by participant users.

But what does ‘public’ visibilty mean for a topic within a ‘private’ forum…..?

Thx and kr

TheFarmer

[Robin W]

ok, I’ve just tried this on my test site with just twentyten and bbppress and it sends with carriage returns, so possible that the email system you are using or indeed the email recipient software is stripping – may be may not be.

otherwise it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

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

[ewd910]

Wow that code is a lot more involved than I thought it would be. I’ll probably end up just using your plugin. Thanks as always! Do I need to send as text/html if I just want the correct line spacing or is there a way to fix that for plain text emails? Right now by default all the carriage returns get stripped by default, that’s really all I’m trying to fix. If I need to send HTML that’s fine but I have a hard time believing the default bbpress notifications should look like this

[ewd910]

Hi, I’m having an issue where my forum notifications are not being formatted correctly. None of the spacing that exists in the default notification message exists in the resulting email, and I have confirmed that the message is being sent using the ‘text/html’ content type header. I added a <br> tag to the notification email as a test as well, but it was sent in plain text and not rendered as a line break. Anything I should try?

[Robin W]

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

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

ok, I’ve found the problem, and this filter fixes

add_filter ('bbp_after_has_search_results_parse_args', 'rew_search') ;

function rew_search ($args) {
	/*mods and above get permissions to see all from line 50 of \bbpress\includes\search/template.php which sets a list of $default['post_status']
	//participants/spectators get $default['perm'] = 'readable' set instead of $default['post_status'].  
	'perm' is a wordpress wp_query setting, and wordpress does not have 'hidden' status, so allows hidden forums to show
	//so if $default['perm'] is set, we add a 'post_status' as well to restrict to statuses user is allowed
	*/
	if (!empty($args['perm'])) {
		$post_statuses = array(bbp_get_public_status_id()) ;
		// Add support for private status
		if ( current_user_can( 'read_private_topics' ) || current_user_can( 'read_private_forums' ) ) 
			$post_statuses[] = bbp_get_private_status_id();
		}
		// Add support for hidden status
		if ( current_user_can( 'read_hidden_forums' )) {
			$post_statuses[] = bbp_get_hidden_status_id();
		}
		// Join post statuses together
		$args['post_status'] = $post_statuses;
	}
return $args ;
}

if you are using

bbp style pack

then this is included in version 5.0.8 just released

Otherwise 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

I’ll update the bbpress trac ticket shortly

[kwk]

The default bbpress topic index page does not look good on mobile at all. I would like to customize it. I could see that the bbpress.org topic index page looks good. They were able to remove stuff like this Started by: ollietubb1 in: Troubleshooting and also remove the freshness icon and name from the topic index page to get things well organized.

Open this URL on your mobile to see: https://bbpress.org/forums/

Please, could you guide me to do the same thing to improve the mobile view of the topic index page? I am using bbpress Version 2.6.9

Thanks in advance.

[chenryahts]

BBpress keeps loading the empty index.php in the TwentyTwentyTwo Child theme I’m working on, which loads a WSOD.

I can’t get any of the template filters to use one of the html files, so temporarily have it working with the index.php file as:

wp_head();
block_header_area();
block_template_part( 'page-inner' );
wp_footer();
block_footer_area();

And… its almost all working? But, this can’t be the right way to get it to use the new default page template in the block theme.

Thoughts? Ideas? How can I get it to use the new theme templates?

Thanks!

[Robin W]

ok, given that I cannot access site (in effect you are sending me a photo of your car engine, rather than letting me see the car itself) I can only suggest it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

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

yes just tried ‘forum’ and it does not show

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

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

ok, now that we have checked the permalinks and the slugs, then it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

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

[rinh]

Hi,
I’m trying to customise the toolbar in TinyMCE.

Initially I just enabled the advanced one:

function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    $args['teeny'] = false;
    $args['quicktags'] = false;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

I thought of adding a button for underline and it led to trying to get only what I needed in one toolbar:

function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
  
    $args['tinymce'] = array('toolbar1' => 'formatselect, bold, italic, underline, bullist, numlist, blockquote, alignleft, aligncenter, alignright, link, strikethrough, forecolor, outdent, indent, undo, redo');
    $args['quicktags'] = false;
    $args['teeny'] = true;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

This is causing it to repeat some things in toolbar 2 (as well as the ability to toggle toolbar 2 on and off). I tried adding toolbar 2 to the code above, but then it goes back to default. I could stop there though and just add underline and the tools that’s in toolbar 1 by default, but I’m curious if I can customise things further.

To my question:
Is there a way to add everything in one toolbar and then disable toolbar 2?
Or is there a way to get the toogle for toolbar 2 back when I’ve customised toolbar 1?

I also tried enabling teeny which would’ve worked best, but then I lose the forecolor toolbar box so I’d need a way to add it back.

Thanks in advance

[Robin W]

I fully understand – you have an issue where one forum is not showing. Given that showing these forums are settings within your theme or LMS, not within bbpress, then it most likely that it is a setting somewhere within this.

so you can try one last thing

dashboard>settings>permalinks and just click save – this resets the permalinks and may help

then if you srea still convinced that it is not theme or plugin, you can prove this using

Themes

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

[wdseocompany]

Hi Robin,
Thanks for the info on this one; I’ve managed to get this resolved. In essence I was overcomplicating the problem.

I disabled the templates I had setup so the page could just return all the default content and the edit functionality was working. Instead of using the custom code snippet I just used the ‘Post Content’ module in Divi which worked beautifully.

Coming back to it with a fresh set of eyes and taking it back to basics helped a lot haha!

Thanks again Robin for your help, all the best!

Kind regards,
Matt P

[Robin W]

ok, I’ve found time to take an initial look at this.

The function called looks at a database item which holds the sub forum count – but it looks like this is just count of public forums, so the count is zero, so none displayed.

so removing looking at this takes away the issue.

It would take a deal of work to see why and how to make a permanent fix to this, and I think this filter will do what you want

add_filter('bbp_forum_get_subforums', 'rew_forum_get_subforums', 10, 3);

function rew_forum_get_subforums( $sub_forums, $r, $args ) {

	// Default return value
	$retval = array();
	
	// Use passed integer as post_parent
	if ( is_numeric( $args ) && ! empty( $args ) ) {
		$args = array( 'post_parent' => bbp_get_forum_id( $args ) );
	}

	// Parse arguments against default values
	$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
		'post_parent'         => 0,
		'post_type'           => bbp_get_forum_post_type(),
		'posts_per_page'      => get_option( '_bbp_forums_per_page', 50 ),
		'orderby'             => 'menu_order title',
		'order'               => 'ASC',
		'ignore_sticky_posts' => true,
		'no_found_rows'       => true
	), 'forum_get_subforums' );

	// Ensure post_parent is properly set
	$r['post_parent'] = bbp_get_forum_id( $r['post_parent'] );
	
	
	// Query if post_parent has subforums
	if ( ! empty( $r['post_parent'] )  ) {
		$get_posts = new WP_Query();
		$retval    = $get_posts->query( $r );
	}
	// Filter & return
	return (array) apply_filters( 'rew_forum_get_subforums', $retval, $r, $args );
	
}

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 twentytwenty, 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

[rinh]

Greetings

I set up a test forum and created a private category with two sub-forums inside. On forum index the category is shown with its two sub-forums listed below it, as intended.

Once I post a topic in one of the sub-forums the list disappears below the category on forum index. I can still see them if I click on the category however.

It’s similar to this bug here, but it doesn’t seem to matter if there’s a description or not
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2085

The bug only happen when the category is private or hidden. Should I do a bug report about it? Is there any known solutions?

WordPress: 6.0
Plugins: bbPress 2.6.9
Theme: Tried various WordPress default themes.

Thank you in advance