[Robin W]

login probably isn’t going to do it either.

Probably a setting in wordpress or your site

or ‘I changed all of the URLs directly in the database’ something mis-set here

Suggest you start by

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.

to eliminate these as issues

[wautersandreas]

Hi, i have the same exact problem.
I don’t really know why everybody isn’t tagging this as an issue. As far as i can see, it’s just nog a logical way to do it.

– on the one hand, a forum index is created by default, but cyou can’t use it on it’s own if you want to start customizing things.
– So you need to make a page and put the index in there.
– On the other hand, you can’t easily specify what your page for the root is, so there is no way to let the breadcrumbs be redirected to the index page.

– Are there other options? because the enormous bit of code to fix it is a bit too complex for me.

[TiiuK]

Hello,

I try to import my phpBB 3.2.0 (latest stable version) to bbPress (latest version 2.5.12) using the default import tool in the WordPress 4.7.2 backend. The phpBB is clean, no mods / plugins or custom styles. I get this error:

Repair any missing information: Continue

WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE MNmAD_bbp_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_520_ci;

No data to clean

Starting Conversion

I don’t know any MySQL so I don’t understand what to do. If relevant here the collations used: utf8_bin (phpBB) and utf8mb4_general_ci (WordPress).

Any suggestions?
Tiiu

[Robin W]

untested as I’m short of time this evening but…

create a directory in 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/loop-single-forum.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/loop-single-forum.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

if you take out line 44 which says

<?php bbp_list_forums(); ?>

Then sub forums will not be listed

[Robin W]

the box doesn’t say ‘Search the Forum’ by default.

If this is the widget in a sidebar, then you can change the title yourself

[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

[adamjedgar]

How may i change the default search box text “Search the Forum” to something else?

My client does not want a forum, however, i need to organisational structure of a forum to catalogue all of clients articles correctly…so forum is needed (but client must not see the obvious)

[horizon70s]

I should note, I do allow registrations via WordPress….so that shouldn’t be the problem

I left the defaults for user permissions as well.

[lijitimit]

This thread may help. I’m having a similar issue, however I’m only using TinyMCE. I tried @robkk ‘s reply.js file but I couldn’t get it working for me. Maybe It will steer you in the right direction?
PS I’m not using buddypress and I switched to a default theme to test without success.

EDIT: After posting this comment I read on through that thread and found the issues may be unrelated. Looks like he’s having the same problem.

[Roed]

Hi.
I have imported a Drupal forum into BBPress which went fine except for all smileys that are broken and only shows the ‘image not found’ default picture. When I look at the path it states: smileys/smile.gif. As in http://www.domain.com/forum/topic/smileys/smile.gif
I guess if this is true each topic should have it’s own folder with emoticons, but I don’t think this is the case.

What can I do to correct this?

Thanks,
Michael

[chunklady]

Hi,

BBPress uses by default, the answer-id for fragment-reference, like this:

bbPress 2.6 Beta 2

However, I would like to use “post count” instead, so in this instance, “sdavis2702” made the second comment, OP being #0, and therefore I would like this fragment to be #2.

Are there any way to (easily) enable this behaviour in BBPress, without coding in a manual counter?

[jakubsuchybio]

Hi,
at wordpress translation page https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/cs/default/wp-plugins/bbpress
There is a LOT of waiting translations.
Could you please look at it and confirm them as ‘current’?

Thanks!

[figoo]

The code you wrote didn’t work, but your plugin does. Almost exzellent 😀

I have a different question, and I know many post becouse of this issue exist.
But none of them got me to a resolution.

How can I use the full width for my forums? At the homepage of my forumsite it works nice, but as soon as I click on a Forum the disgusting sidebar comes from the right. I tried copying the page.php an rename it to bbPress.php and remove all things that have to do with sidebars. That didn’t work.

Here is the code:

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying all pages.
 *
 * This is the template that displays all pages by default.
 * Please note that this is the WordPress construct of pages
 * and that other 'pages' on your WordPress site will use a
 * different template.
 *
 * @package Sydney
 */

get_header(); ?>

			<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

				<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'page' ); ?>

				<?php
					// If comments are open or we have at least one comment, load up the comment template
					if ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) :
						comments_template();
					endif;
				?>

			<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

		</main><!-- #main -->
	</div><!-- #primary -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

[matthew016]

I have done some testing and I believe the issue is caching within browsers and server caching. Once I clear browser and server cache the text area defaults to the text(html) tab and all works correctly. Anyone have an idea of how to not have the TinyMCE not cached?

[John James Jacoby]

That’s a neat plugin, @robin-w.

I haven’t reviewed it, but the premise seems sound. Integrate it with the Customizer, and it might be a neat addition to the default template pack!

[figoo]

bbPress version: 2.5.11
My Site: http://figoocraft.de/forum-3/
Theme: Sydney

Hello everyone,
I am trying to change the size of my font in bbPress.I tried editing the bbpress.css file in: content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css
First I edited the Size of the bar that holds the topics, that worked perfectly.

Then I tried to edit the overall size of all fonts, so I changed:

#bbpress-forums {
font-size: 12px;
}

To:

#bbpress-forums {
font-size: 16px;
}

That didn’t change anything, so I tried to copy the bbpress.css to my themes directory as that’s what’s mentioned in the documentation. That neither changed anything, so now Im wondering what am I doing wrong?

[TheDream18]

Can anyone help with correct code? I want complete user click edit profile will direct 100% go to custom page like normal without any issue

Issue 1:
First load edit page complete, after that 2 second, reload custom page

add_action( ‘bbp_user_edit_before’, ‘pb_custom_bbpress_edit_profile’ );
function pb_custom_bbpress_edit_profile(){
echo ‘<meta http-equiv=”Refresh” content=”0;url=http://example.com” />’;
}

Issue 2:
No work

add_filter( ‘bbp_pre_get_user_profile_url’, function() {
return get_bloginfo(‘example.com’).’/profile’;
});

Issue 3:
Still load edit profile link without load custom like. But given blank page, no error no warning, just empty link page

add_action( ‘bbp_user_edit_before’, ‘pb_custom_bbpress_edit_profile’ );
function pb_custom_bbpress_edit_profile(){
echo ‘‘;
}

==============
Also change the default url for favorites and subscriptions by doing this:
How can i correct it?

// Replace the default link for the favorites
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_favorites_permalink’, function() {
return get_bloginfo(‘example.com’).’/profile/forum-favorites’;
});

// Replace the default link for subscriptions
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_subscriptions_permalink’, function() {
return get_bloginfo(‘example.com’).’/profile/forum-subscriptions’;
});

=============
Thanks

[matthew016]

The visual tab is the TinyMCE content window. When you have TinyMCE added it creates two tabs, Visual and Text(HTML), that users can switch between when adding a comment or reply.

I have had some other interesting developments. When a topic is open and reply is selected on a comment bbpress switches between the text and visual tabs being the default. If the text tab is defaulted the visual tab works when switched to, but if the visual tab is default then I run into the issue of users to being able to enter content. If I clear browser cache and server cache it defaults to the text tab but then after a little bit of use it starts defaulting to the visual tab. 🙁

Thanks for responding Robin!

[Robin W]

4.7/4.7.1 and bbpress 2.5.12 work

If you have these then :

1. what php version are you running?

your host provider can answer this

or you can install

https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-php-version/

If it’s php7 then come back

otherwise

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

[wautersandreas]

Hi, i had a big problem with bbpress in the sense that it crashed (fatal error) every time i tried to administrate it by clicking the “forums” tab.

I found out that the below function was the problem, and in particular that i needed to change to:
$post_stati = bbp_get_public_status_id();
from
$post_stati[] = bbp_get_public_status_id();

for some reason the straight brackets broke everything, i don’t understand why, so i wanted to flag this for future updates. i’m a complete newb so yeah 😀

error code:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in /customers/f/9/9/simzone.net/httpd.www/HQ/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/forums/functions.php:1800 Stack trace: #0 /customers/f/9/9/simzone.net/httpd.www/HQ/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(298): bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility(Object(WP_Query)) #1 /customers/f/9/9/simzone.net/httpd.www/HQ/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(323): WP_Hook->apply_filters('', Array) #2 /customers/f/9/9/simzone.net/httpd.www/HQ/wp-includes/plugin.php(515): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #3 /customers/f/9/9/simzone.net/httpd.www/HQ/wp-includes/class-wp-query.php(1681): do_action_ref_array('pre_get_posts', Array) #4 /customers/f/9/9/simzone.net/httpd.www/HQ/wp-includes/class-wp-query.php(3238): WP_Query->get_posts() #5 /customers/f/9/9/simzone.net/httpd.www/HQ/wp-includes/class-wp.php(617): WP_Query->query(Array) #6 /customers/f/9/9/simzone.net/httpd.www/HQ/wp-includes/class-wp.php(735): WP->query_posts() #7 /customers/f/9/9/simzone.net/httpd.www/HQ/wp-includes/functions in /customers/f/9/9/simzone.net/httpd.www/HQ/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/forums/functions.php on line 1800'

adjusted function: 

function bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility( $posts_query = null ) {

// Bail if all forums are explicitly allowed
if ( true === apply_filters( ‘bbp_include_all_forums’, false, $posts_query ) ) {
return;
}

// Bail if $posts_query is not an object or of incorrect class
if ( !is_object( $posts_query ) || !is_a( $posts_query, ‘WP_Query’ ) ) {
return;
}

// Get query post types array .
$post_types = (array) $posts_query->get( ‘post_type’ );

// Forums
if ( bbp_get_forum_post_type() === implode( ”, $post_types ) ) {

// Prevent accidental wp-admin post_row override
if ( is_admin() && isset( $_REQUEST[‘post_status’] ) ) {
return;
}

/** Default ***********************************************************/

// Get any existing post status
$post_stati = $posts_query->get( ‘post_status’ );

// Default to public status
if ( empty( $post_stati ) ) {
$post_stati = bbp_get_public_status_id();
# $post_stati[] = bbp_get_public_status_id();

// Split the status string
} elseif ( is_string( $post_stati ) ) {
$post_stati = explode( ‘,’, $post_stati );
}

/** Private ***********************************************************/

// Remove bbp_get_private_status_id() if user is not capable
if ( ! current_user_can( ‘read_private_forums’ ) ) {
$key = array_search( bbp_get_private_status_id(), $post_stati );
if ( !empty( $key ) ) {
unset( $post_stati[$key] );
}

// …or add it if they are
} else {
$post_stati = bbp_get_private_status_id();
#$post_stati[] = bbp_get_private_status_id();
}

/** Hidden ************************************************************/

// Remove bbp_get_hidden_status_id() if user is not capable
if ( ! current_user_can( ‘read_hidden_forums’ ) ) {
$key = array_search( bbp_get_hidden_status_id(), $post_stati );
if ( !empty( $key ) ) {
unset( $post_stati[$key] );
}

// …or add it if they are
} else {
$post_stati = bbp_get_hidden_status_id();
#$post_stati[] = bbp_get_hidden_status_id();
}

// Add the statuses
$posts_query->set( ‘post_status’, array_unique( array_filter( $post_stati ) ) );
}

// Topics Or Replies
if ( array_intersect( array( bbp_get_topic_post_type(), bbp_get_reply_post_type() ), $post_types ) ) {

// Get forums to exclude
$forum_ids = bbp_exclude_forum_ids( ‘meta_query’ );

// Bail if no forums to exclude
if ( ! array_filter( $forum_ids ) ) {
return;
}

// Get any existing meta queries
$meta_query = $posts_query->get( ‘meta_query’ );

// Add our meta query to existing
$meta_query[] = $forum_ids;

// Set the meta_query var
$posts_query->set( ‘meta_query’, $meta_query );
}
}

/**
* Returns the forum’s topic ids
*
* Only topics with published and closed statuses are returned
*
* @since bbPress (r2908)
*
* @param int $forum_id Forum id
* @uses bbp_get_topic_post_type() To get the topic post type
* @uses bbp_get_public_child_ids() To get the topic ids
* @uses apply_filters() Calls ‘bbp_forum_query_topic_ids’ with the topic ids
* and forum id
*/’

[Robin W]

Quick one on your NOTE: Yes that was a previous version of the plugin that no longer exists.

user creation is a wordpress thing – bbpress is not involved. It only allocates the default role on first login.

Would be worth you googling ‘wordpress register email not working’, but it can be a host thing, and is worth talking to your host provider about.

[scottwiggins17]

that code changed all my background color for my blog and pages black when it used to be white. Now I cant see anything and deleting the code did not set it back to normal. What do I do to get my site back to the way it was?

I use X theme and now it’s all messed up. It has black background with black font on ALL my blog posts.

For now I changed my whole sites default background to white, the header white, and the header menu font to black so you can read it. It was the opposite, and I like the black header background better the way I had it. I don’t know what that code did, but it messed a lot of stuff up.

[Robin W]

ok, something has changed, it could be a theme or plugin update

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, so something must have happened to make you lose them. Have you installed other plugins or changed themes?

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, having all results on one page might give you issues.

bbpress will by default show the number of replies per page that is set in

dashboard>settings>forums>Topics and Replies Per Page>Replies

You could up that to say 100, so that you get a decent chuck. But this would change it for forums as well.

However if you wanted that just for search, so not affecting forums, then you could set it as a filter in your functions file – if you know how to add code to your functions file, then come back and I’ll give you some code. Again I would recommend that you set a limit but it can be as high as you like.