so set a global sidebar and make this the default
https://wpastra.com/docs/sidebar-free/
and bbpress should use this.
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
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
just a final thought. Your theme should have a default template – you might be able to change this in dashboard>appearance>customize to one that doe not have a sidebar.
Thank you so much for the reply. This really helps me show the forum. The only problem is the styles for the blocks are not included along with the forum page. I think the default hooks for block themes are not included in the plugin.
Hope to receive your confirmation. Thank you very much.
You could try the below
.bbpress.topic-template-default .cs-entry__header{
display: none;
}
Hi,
My theme is creating a featured image on the Topics which I can’t seem to change so I just have a large grey blob square at the top of every topic.
Introduce Yourself
I tried multiple default image wordpress themes and none of them worked.
I can’t add code to display: none because then it takes away the featured posts from the blog section.
Help?
I’ve read that WordPress’s new FSE themes such a Twenty Twenty Four can be an issue with bbPress because bbPress is so out of date (hasn’t been updated in over 2 years, which is very concerning).
However, I am VERY reluctant to change themes. We JUST went through a lot of time and work to rebuild the site after migrating from the old host to WordPress.com because the old custom theme was not compatible with Jetpack. I chose Twenty Twenty-Four because I assumed, as the newest WordPress default theme, that it was the most future-proof and would avoid compatibility issues.
Is there just no way around this issue while keeping the Twenty Twenty Four theme?
ok, so you definitely have bbpress enabled 🙂
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. don’t use twenty twenty four, as it is an FSE theme
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
You can build your forum to look however you like, many would complain if this was the only way you could show your forum.
The basic look of the forum is generally determined by your theme, and dependent in theme how you use sidebars.
The widgets on the left are available either in the default bbpress plugin or in
bbp style pack
which will let you style bbpress and add lots of features.
feel like this forum is a bit of false advertising 🙂 because the default setup looks nothing like bbpress.org
does anyone know how to get their bbpress layout too look more like bbpress.org and buddpress.org
I mean the Forum home page shows recent topics/discussion on the right hand side and Category on the left hand side more like Vanilla forum
default bbpress setup is a forum style home page show category first
it needs a template change – if you know how to FTP
find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-topics.php
transfer this to your pc and edit
change:
<li class="bbp-topic-voice-count"><?php esc_html_e( 'Voices', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>
<li class="bbp-topic-reply-count"><?php bbp_show_lead_topic()
? esc_html_e( 'Replies', 'bbpress' )
: esc_html_e( 'Posts', 'bbpress' );
?></li>
to
<li class="bbp-topic-voice-count"></li>
<li class="bbp-topic-reply-count"></li>
and save
create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress
where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme
Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-topics.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
Repeat this for the file loop-forums.php
I can only suggest the basic fault finding
viz :
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
ok it is probably a combination of plugins/theme, you’ll need to work out which.
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
I just tested on a different site with only the Yoast SEO plugin installed and running Twenty Twelve theme, and the same issue – the page title (in the <title> tag) is “Forums Archive” and the breadcrumb is “Forums”. SO, maybe that’s just default behavior? Is there any way to change “Forums” to “Community”? Thanks
Here’s the link if that helps: https://camperfaqs.com/community. I disabled the RankMath plugin and the <title> is still “Forums”. It’s like the default bbPress terminology is still being used for the page title and breadcrumbs, even though I have renamed the forum root slug to “community”.
Yes. The sidebar is set to default, same as my other pages but brings up that strange message. Also my website logo is removed which is also my home button. Any ideas?
so did you try
‘You should add your widgets into Default sidebar area on Appearance => Widgets of your dashboard.’
Hi there
My logo and widget disappear when I go to my forum page. This makes it impossible for my users to head back to my home page from the forum page. In the sidebar where the widget is supposed to be I get this message:
There is no widget. You should add your widgets into Default sidebar area on Appearance => Widgets of your dashboard.
Page link: https://www.temp.soulistic.co.za/forum-list/
Wordpress version: 6.4.2
bbpress version: 2.6.9
Many thanks
Hi,
My name is AndrĂ© and I’m running into some issues I hope some of you can solve. Good to know is that links to mentioned pages are at the bottom of this post.
The Issues
When I create a bbpress forum, the forum index won’t display on the default page I created ( /forums/ ) but displays a blank page.
The forum index will display on any other different page like this one /forums-2/
When I visit a test forum I get a blank page again.
So I thought I would create a new forum slug in bbpress and page accordingly, named guitar-forums as I was sure no other plugin will have claimed that url. But here the same issues. Nothing works on /guitar-forums/ but the index does show on /guitar-forums-2/
What I’ve done first
I have had previously installed asgaros forum but have removed the plugin and removed the asgaros data tables from the database. I also deleted the old forums page and emptied the trash.
I then did:
switching to default twenty x theme
purged all cache incl server side caching
disabling all other plugins
reset bbpress
Links
Default website forum index link: https://vpbex8y4m8.onrocket.site/forums/
Forum index on a different page: https://vpbex8y4m8.onrocket.site/forums-2/
Forum link: https://vpbex8y4m8.onrocket.site/forums/forum/test-forum/
Other Info
Theme: spectra one
wordpress version 6.4.2
bbpress version 2.6.9
Wordpress 6.4.2
Theme Bam 1.3.0 (https://wordpress.org/themes/bam/)
bbPress 2.6.9
I copied the default bbpress.css file from wp-content/plugins/bbpress/template/default/css/
and installed it in wp-content/themes/bam/css/bbpress.css
I had to make the css folder as it didn’t exist in the theme. No matter what I do it seems bbPress doesn’t look at that css file.
The only way I could make it work was to add all the css from the bbpress.css file to the theme css file found at wp-content/themes/bam/style.css – which isn’t what I want because it will break on the next theme update. I did notice the theme uses sass so that could be a conflict?
Unsure why this won’t work otherwise.
OK so I found the shortcode [bbp-display-topic-index show=’5′ forum =’10,11,12′] which should have done what we want if we’d specified all forums except the one we want excluded.
However, this doesn’t seem to work properly, only two of the six forums specified have topics displayed despite all six being represented in the default view (15 topics, using [bbp-topic-index]).
As said in the title, I want the options to choose Topic Type and Topic Status gone for normal users. When posting a topic, it would post them with Topic Type as Open by default, and Topic Status as Normal by default.
It’s just to simplify the process of posting topics. I know not enough PHP to make my own form, so I’ll be grateful for any help customizing the Topic Form (that you get from the shortcode [bbp-topic-form forum_id=$forum_id]
I setup a clone site and installed bbpress first and did not install AWPCP at all. Now I was getting a 404 error when I clicked edit or move. I tried clicking save on the permalink deal again but no change. For no reason other than to do it, I changed the permalink structure to Post name instead of Custom Structure which was default on my setup. The edit button is now working correctly. No idea if I messed anything else up in the process but everything seems to be working correctly now.
When I try to access the page using “http/websiteurl/chats”, it displays the default forum page (without heading) after adding the forum root ‘chats’.
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when we access the page with the URL “http/websiteurl/forums/” , it displays the page with heading after adding the forum root ‘forums’.
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