[Robin W]

bbpress only displays 2 levels, so when you click the 2nd level, you will get to see the lower down forums.

It is possible to code for lower levels, if you are happy with coding you’d be looking at

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php

and some coding around bbp_list_forums()
to get a further loop

As for breadcrumb – yes by default you should have one , but themes can turn these off

[Robin W]

hmm, apart from the standard elimination tests below, I can’t think of anything obvious

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 twentyfifteen, 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 twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[strike3]

Hi,
Here are the ones that are tied to email/Buddypress/BBPress. I’m wondering–do new topic notifications work for approved topics on a clean BBPress install? I don’t think I can disable many plugins on this site since it’s getting a lot of traffic, but I could probably test it out on a different live site. I think it would have to be a live site or at least have an SMTP provider set up for the notification emails to go out.

Plugins
1. Buddypress

2. AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions (added because the default method of BCC’ing all subscribers created too many recipients for our SMTP provider)

3. bbP Toolkit

4. BP Profile Search

5. BBPress Moderation Tools (allows us to put all new topics into moderation, seems to use default BBPress actions for moderation)

6. Fix Forum Emails (fixes issue where HTML tags/entities show up in notification emails: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2865)

7. WordPress Mail Queue (queues/chunks all mail from wp_mail so we don’t go over SMTP provider limits)

8. Wordfence Security

[veppa]

You can try “bbPress WP tweaks” https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/ plugin for adding forum sidebar. There you can select which wrapper to use for bbPress and which sidebar of your theme replace with bbpress sidebar. Try different wrappers to find one with sidebar because some themes do not have sidebar on page.php, which is in most cases default wrapper for bbpress.

[Robin W]

ok, you’ll need to amend wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-user-register.php

so
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

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-user-register.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/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/form-user-register.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

[13designnet]

Hi there,

I tried to create a WPML multilingual which is going great so far with the bbPress Multilingual plugin. It is in English & French, the English works well (default language) but on the French side of the forum a user can not edit its own post.

The English link to edit the post is: http://mysite/forum/reply/2478/edit/
the French: http://mysite/forum/reply/2479/?lang=fr/edit/

The french one forwards to a 404 error page, but what is weird is that replying to a post contains also the “?lang=fr” parameter and it works fine.

Do you have any idea how to make the “Edit | Close | Stick | Merge | Trash | Spam | Reply” toolbar to work with different languages ?

[Robin W]

I’d do two checks

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 twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Robin W]

ok, I’ve just loaded the code below (same as in the post above) to my test site and it enables the tinymce editor on my test site

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

//clean html when copy and paste into forum
function bbp_tinymce_paste_plain_text( $plugins = array() ) {
    $plugins[] = 'paste';
    return $plugins;

}
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_tiny_mce_plugins’, ‘bbp_tinymce_paste_plain_text’ );

So I suggest you start by doing some further testing

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

plugins

If themes don’t pinpoint the problem, 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.

Then come back

[u_Oi]

Hi @louisgeorges

In fact you can do it 😎

1.- Copy the follow code and paste it in functions.php file (If you dont know about functions please read about it before do this):

//Restrict Topic and Replies Content For No-Registered Users
function pj_hla_logged_in_topics($have_posts){
if (!is_user_logged_in()){
$have_posts = null;
}
return $have_posts;
}
add_filter('bbp_has_replies', 'pj_hla_logged_in_topics');

With the above code your visitors (no registered users) will see only the topic title. The code locks topic content and all replies.

2.- After pasted the code, try open a topic so you will see a bbpress notice about “you dont have access to… etc something like that”. You need to find the file where is that notice, to edit it with anything you want, for example a link to the sign up page (Sorry, I dont remember the file name).

To show topics titles in your post or other pages you have 4 options:

1.- Add each URL in your blog post with the same topic title and link it to the topic (hard work but good if you like linkbuilding)

2.- Default bbpress shortcode: [bbp-single-topic id=$topic_id] – Display a single topic. eg. [bbp-single-topic id=4096] ( https://codex.bbpress.org/features/shortcodes/#topics )

3.- @robin-w plugin: http://www.rewweb.co.uk/bbpress-additional-shortcodes/

4.- Hire a developer to create a shortcode to show last topics or whatever about topics.

Hope this can help you!

[PrancingHorse]

Hello!

I have two questions

#1. How do you get attachments to show up even if the person is not logged in? For example, on this page: https://www.yorkregiontutoring.com/forums/topic/molarity/ It says “Attachments:
You must be logged in to view attached files.”

#2. I rewrote the copy on the register page by going here: /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/register.php but the old copy is still showing up here: https://www.yorkregiontutoring.com/register/ Any ideas?

Thank you very much!

[thinkinginxyz]

Hello,

Does anyone know how i can do to create automatically subforums when a group (budypress) is created? By default bbpress creates one forum for the group, but i would like to be able to create automatically also some given subforums, so in this way, all the groups have the same structure.

I tired to ask for help in so many places, even here too, but no luck at all. Nobody replies. I tired to check hooks but I am lost.

Please I need help, could anyone give me some hint or help?

I will be very grateful.

Kind Regards
Ting

[Themezly]

Let me start by saying that I did extensive searching for past 2 hours and are surprised to see all questions about the same issue getting brushed off. Some even instruct to remove the home link from breadcrumb just to hide an actual bug.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/breadcrumb-and-forum-index-issues/

bbPress breadcrumb forum root link issue

there are many more but I am allowed only 3 links. Google breadcrumb [bbp-forum-index]

Please take the issue as it is which is a bug confirmed by many.

1. Breadcrumbs forum home page link and the page that user has created are not in sync
2. When user creates the page with shortcode as instructed in Step 2 https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ or even Step 1

the default Forum Root archive is overriding that page instead other way around. The process should be same as selecting page for posts in WP but in BB is just complicated and not effective.

Use default theme, follow instructions in step 2 , when you done , go to your custom created forum page and change template. No changes. Now change the root in forum settings, redo permalinks go back to custom page and you will see the change.

Note that I have no custom overrides so it is not theme related.

[mbfit]

Hello, I’ve noticed when creating a Group and selecting to allow to create a Forum for that Group it seems to load ALL the Group Forums on the Main Forum page. Meaning the more Forums users create for their Groups the more it just extends the size of the main forum page. Does that make sense?
I’ve created 8 demo Groups and selected include a Forum for each one, and now all 8 appear on the main forum page, ever increasing…
Is there a way to default it to only show 4 on the main page while also allowing it to change via user updates?

[Robin W]

looks like something is erroring

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 twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[upatil]

Thank you Robin for the response.

1. My emails are setup to come from correct address like eg fred@mysite.com
2. Emails are going out from the wordpress for other activities except for “Subscribe” action.
3. Tried the “Asyncronous-bbpress-subscriptions” plugin to fix the email issue on the plugin – it dint work for me.

Is the email on subscription a default behavior of bbPress. Ideas to fix it is appreciated.

Thanks.

[upatil]

I am having issues with my bbPress forum to perform the following things :
1. Send emails to the Forum Admin when a new user “Subscribes” to the forum
2. Send email to the user who just “Subscribed” to a forum
3. Send email to the all the admins/moderators when a new forum is created.

Versions:
WordPress 4.8.3, bbPress 2.5.14
Link : http://www.gettheslice.com

Please advice if is this is an out of the box functionality of bbPress or if I am missing something in settings?

If this is not a default behavior, can you let me know what other plugin I can use to get this working on my forum. I appreciate all the help and suggestion.

Thanks,
Usha Patil

[Robin W]

I don’t know what “clean theme” means, however.

sorry lazy writing – just means a wordpress default theme with no changes – eg twentyseventeen. The ones released by wordpress are tested against bbpress.

I’ll contact you again via email.

[Justin]

I tried 2.6Rc3 and it did more, but still getting the same error along with a lot of others:

Import Finished
17: No threaded replies to import
16: No anonymous reply authors to import
WordPress database error: [Table 'db507177147.Comment' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(Comment.CommentID USING "utf8mb4") AS CommentID,convert(Comment.DiscussionID USING "utf8mb4") AS DiscussionID,convert(Comment.InsertIPAddress USING "utf8mb4") AS InsertIPAddress,convert(Comment.InsertUserID USING "utf8mb4") AS InsertUserID,convert(Comment.Body USING "utf8mb4") AS Body,convert(Comment.DateInserted USING "utf8mb4") AS DateInserted,convert(Comment.DateUpdated USING "utf8mb4") AS DateUpdated FROM Comment AS Comment WHERE Format != "Deleted" LIMIT 0, 100
15: No replies to import
14: No favorites to import
13: No topic subscriptions to import
WordPress database error: [Table 'db507177147.TagDiscussion' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(TagDiscussion.DiscussionID USING "utf8mb4") AS DiscussionID,convert(TagDiscussion.TagID USING "utf8mb4") AS TagID,convert(Tag.Name USING "utf8mb4") AS Name FROM TagDiscussion AS TagDiscussion INNER JOIN Tag AS Tag USING (tagid) LIMIT 0, 100
12: No topic tags to import
11: No closed topics to close
Continuing Import
Import Stopped (by User)
10: No super stickies to stick
9: No stickies to stick
8: No anonymous topic authors to import
WordPress database error: [Table 'db507177147.Discussion' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(Discussion.DiscussionID USING "utf8mb4") AS DiscussionID,convert(Discussion.CountComments USING "utf8mb4") AS CountComments,convert(Discussion.CategoryID USING "utf8mb4") AS CategoryID,convert(Discussion.InsertUserID USING "utf8mb4") AS InsertUserID,convert(Discussion.Name USING "utf8mb4") AS Name,convert(Discussion.Body USING "utf8mb4") AS Body,convert(Discussion.closed USING "utf8mb4") AS closed,convert(Discussion.InsertIPAddress USING "utf8mb4") AS InsertIPAddress,convert(Discussion.Announce USING "utf8mb4") AS Announce,convert(Discussion.DateInserted USING "utf8mb4") AS DateInserted,convert(Discussion.DateUpdated USING "utf8mb4") AS DateUpdated,convert(Discussion.DateLastComment USING "utf8mb4") AS DateLastComment FROM Discussion AS Discussion WHERE Format != "Deleted" LIMIT 0, 100
7: No topics to import
6: No forum subscriptions to import
5: No forum parents to import
WordPress database error: [Table 'db507177147.Category' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(Category.CategoryID USING "utf8mb4") AS CategoryID,convert(Category.ParentCategoryID USING "utf8mb4") AS ParentCategoryID,convert(Category.CountDiscussions USING "utf8mb4") AS CountDiscussions,convert(Category.CountComments USING "utf8mb4") AS CountComments,convert(Category.Name USING "utf8mb4") AS Name,convert(Category.Description USING "utf8mb4") AS Description,convert(Category.Sort USING "utf8mb4") AS Sort,convert(Category.DateInserted USING "utf8mb4") AS DateInserted,convert(Category.DateUpdated USING "utf8mb4") AS DateUpdated FROM Category AS Category WHERE Category.CategoryID > 0 LIMIT 0, 100
4: No forums to import
3: No passwords to clear
WordPress database error: [Table 'db507177147.User' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(User.UserID USING "utf8mb4") AS UserID,convert(User.Password USING "utf8mb4") AS Password,convert(User.Name USING "utf8mb4") AS Name,convert(User.Email USING "utf8mb4") AS Email,convert(User.DateInserted USING "utf8mb4") AS DateInserted FROM User AS User WHERE Deleted !=1 LIMIT 0, 100
2: No users to import
1: Skipping sync-table clean-up
WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE GcuHRqrGbbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default '0', meta_key varchar(191) null, meta_value varchar(191) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join (meta_key(191), meta_value(191)) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci
Starting Import
Ready to go.

Any suggestions? Is my database not allowing writes? I am using 1and1 as my web and database host.

[ahau]

Hi,

I am moving an old site to WP and bbPress and need to convert my old forums. I understand I need to use the example.php in the converter folder and write a converter for each old forum – there are 3 I am gong to convert.

And wouldn’t you know it, the 3 different forums use 3 different date formats!

Here they are
1415922411
2004-09-13 19:25:59
20080407181855

From looking around in all of the converter files I see that forum dates are done 2 ways

In example converter – I am guessing that I would use this format to convert the date like 20080407181855 ?

// Forum dates.
$this->field_map[] = array(
'to_type' => 'forum',
'to_fieldname' => 'post_date',
'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
);


In vanilla converter – I am guessing I would use this format to convert the date like 2004-09-13 19:25:59 ?

// Forum dates.
$this->field_map[] = array(
'from_tablename' => 'Category',
'from_fieldname' => 'DateInserted',
'to_type' => 'forum',
'to_fieldname' => 'post_date',
);


Anyone know how I can convert a date such as 1415922411 to the correct date format – which I am guessing is Y-m-d H:i:s?

Thank you for your time.

[Jason]

Hi, Robin. I only have 3 pages of topics. If I change “Blog pages show at most” to read 1, then I can view all 3 pages. If I change it to 2, I can only view pages 1 and 2. If I change it to 3 or higher, I can only view the first page. All other pages return a 404 error. Interestingly enough, if I simply remove the “/” in the URL manually in the address bar, the correct page pulls up with additional topics listed. For instance, http://cathollowcondos.com/forums/page3/ works, but http://cathollowcondos.com/forums/page/3/ does not work.

I would like to show more than one blog post at a time on the Blog page (for instance, the default value of 10). But, right now I am limited to showing only 1 so that the Forums pages navigation will work. This is certainly odd behavior that does not appear to be tied to a theme problem or plugin conflict. That is why I am posting here. I do not have the knowledge to troubleshoot further, but will help in any way that I can.

Thank you!

[DragoWeb]

Hi, I have this error message

“There was a problem cropping your profile photo.”

when I try to upload an avatar image with a width of 450px and above. Starting to 451px it works (even with an height of 150px). I get a warning message only if I try to upload an image under 150x150px :

“You have selected an image that is smaller than recommended. For best results, upload a picture larger than 150 x 150 pixels.”

So, I suppose this problem doesn’t come from a setting option somewhere.

The problem is the same when I switch to the default theme Twenty Fifteen and I have no other plugin activated (except HideMySite). Cover image works without problem.

Config:
Wordpress (new install) v4.9
Buddypress 2.9.2
php 5.6
GD enabled

Thanks.

[Justin]

I keep running into the following error when trying to import my Vanilla 2.x forum database. I’m using WordPress 4.9 and bbpress 2.5.14.

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE GcuHRqrGbbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default '0', meta_key varchar(255) null, meta_value varchar(255) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join (meta_key(191), meta_value(191)) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
No data to cleanStarting Conversion

Any ideas on what I need to do to get this error resolved?

[webbud65]

WP 4.9 – bbpress 2.5.14 – no link because private site

Hello,

By default, bbpress does not send any message to the user when he creates a topic or a reply, which is a malfunction, because if the message must wait moderation it does not appear right away and the user sometimes repost it many time.
I am not talking about email notification to the user but a message directly on the site announcing that the message has been taken into account and that it is pending moderation.
I have tried the various existing plugins (bbpress moderation, bbpress notify, etc) but none do that.
I also modified the form-topic and form-reply files of bbpress for a redirection to an information page, but unfortunately only the modification of the form-topic works.

Is not a flaw on bbpress that should be fixed in future versions (but I’m surprised that this minimum has not been expected since!) Or someone has a solution?

Thank you for your comeback !

[Robin W]

most likely your theme or another plugin is expecting bbpress to be there.

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 twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.