[Robin W]

Can’t immediately see any issue.

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

[Chad R. Schulz]

There’s contradictory information inside these forums about whether it’s possible to have front-end editing for a forum in bbpress.

Within the code there’s obviously support (or once was). However, every attempt to access front-end editing using a /forum/sample-forum/edit url results in a 404.

Older posts here indicate this used to work. Yet, some more current posts state that front-end editing for forums is not yet(?) possible (only topics and replies).

What information is correct? Is front-end forum editing still possible in core as default or has it (for some reason) been deactivated? And if it is still an option what things could I check for why I’m getting a 404 instead of the form-forum.php template?

Thanks for any help,
Chad

[Robin W]

suggest you go back to basics and try :

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.

[xmatter]

I am using the default BP theme.

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

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.

[pcpro178]

No love for this post? I’m using WordPress version 4.6.1, and I’ve received this feedback from my hosting provider regarding this issue:

I navigated to templates/default/bbpress/bbpress-templates and the file ‘bbpress-templates’ is a symbolic link to bbpress-templates:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 sopearly_admin pg1217016 17 Jul 28 18:02 bbpress-templates -> bbpress-templates

I’m not exactly certain how the symbolic link is referring itself but I’m afraid you may have to inquire with bbpress support as to why the plugin is failing with permission errors due to the file, bbpress-templates.

[Anonymous User 15184782]

Hi @blooble, you can add a new topic from the editor of default post cliking on “New > Topic”.
Let me know.

-Andrea

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

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

[imthinking]

I’m a solid 7.5 out of 10 on WP but 100% new to BBpress.

I plan on having about 15 categories with some 50 forums for each category on my site. The current default display isn’t easy to follow so I’m attempting to find a way to easily change the layout on the forum index display page.

However, I don’t want to show all of the forums as some are private to groups etc.

I’m looking to achieve this look on this page: http://theme-sphere.com/smart-mag/forums/

I understand CSS is involved here but I’m looking for a get me going fix.

How can I list multiple forum titles on one page. When I use the code [bbp-single-forum id=2733] and then use it again to show a different forum it will only show the first one.

Is this not possible with shortcode?

Could I create a graphic bar and separate groups of forum titles like in the page I linked to?

Thank you for whoever guides in the path of rest as I have exhausted these forums in an attempt to answer these questions.

🙂

[wafadul]

by default, Private Forums and topics can be viewed by logged in users. Hidden Forums and topics are only for Admins.

but in my forum, Private Forums and topics can only be seen by admins. when a user enters a private forum, he/she can’t see the topics.

what’s with this behaviour? is this a bug? this is a very basic feature how come it’s not functioning properly?

i have the latest versions of wordpress and bbpress, and have tried it with the default themes.

site –> http://hoops.ph

[christinalim89]

Hi,

I’m trying to re-do a site.
Now the new site is using the latest version of WordPress (4.6.1) and bbPress also the latest version (2.5.10)
The previous site is using WordPress 4.5 version with the latest version of bbPress.

I exported my old forum, topics and replies and imported those data into the new site.
When I click on the forum, I got this messages, below:
This forum contains 6 topics and 55 replies, and was last updated by xxx 1 month, 2 weeks ago.
Oh bother! No topics were found here!

I also tried to disable all the plugin, switched to default themes and used this little plugin – http://www.rewweb.co.uk/bbpress-wp4-fix/. But it doesn’t work at all.

Is this plugin compatible with the latest version of WordPress?
Does anyone have the same issue? Any solution for this issue?
Can share with me how to solve this issue?

Regards,
CL

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

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

[Stephen Edgar]

This sounds like an issue with your theme displaying next and prev links for bbPress’ forum custom post type.

If you temporarily switch to one of the default Twenty themes, say Twenty Fifteen can you still see the next and prev links?

If so you might want to contact the theme author or take a look at creating a custom bbPress template for theme, see: https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

[michent1]

Seems like integrating the “Edit Profile” link in various places on a site is a common issue here folks are running into on the forums.

So I hacked out a quick shortcode for a project i was working on that required us to include a link to the user’s edit profile page in a popup.
(Please note, the specific site i wrote this for was NOT using pretty links).

Placed in your child-theme’s functions.php file or in a custom plugin

/*--Generate BBporess Edit Profile Link in a shortcode--*/
function bbp_edit_profile_link($atts) {
	extract(shortcode_atts(array(
		'text' => "",  // default value if none supplied
		'class' => "" //Style class for link
    ), $atts));
    
    if ($text) {
		$current_user = wp_get_current_user (); 
		$user=$current_user->ID;
        return '<a class="'. $class . '" href="/?bbp_user=' . $user . '&edit=1">' . $text. '</a>';
    } 
}
add_shortcode('bbp_edit_profile', 'bbp_edit_profile_link');

Attributes:
text = Your output text (i.e. “Edit My Profile”)
class = Custom anchor class (i.e. “my-link-style”)

Example
[bbp_edit_profile text="Edit My Profile" class"my-link-style"]

It’s a bit sloppy, but it works. Maybe someone else might find it useful…

[Graham]

I have removed the default post from WP.

I replaced the link “the_author_posts_link();” with “the_author();” which in effect removes the link but still display’s the author’s name. This is fine I suppose. The user will look under the author towards the title and just click on the title instead.

Thank you for the help.

I’ll look into the child theme and probably use it the next time I develop a site. I know it’s the way to go but I haven’t fully grasped the idea behind it. Off topic though. Thanks again!

-Graham

[treeflips]

So you’re telling me I can leave it as is? I wasn’t particularly trying to support anything. Just that I ran it through a CSS validator and saw that the default style sheet had that error.

[Robkk]

If you didn’t change any of the default forum slugs like say for a single topic, then don’t worry about it.

Ummm can you just edit the forum FORUM–Youth Sports, Parents, Gear and more!, tell me the permalink below the title input box is, if it doesn’t have spaces or those weird %20 text, then just update the forum real quick to see if this can fix the url of the topic link.

Go to Settings > Permalinks in the WordPress backend and do the same thing, just hit the save changes button.

And try going to Tools > Forums in the WordPress backend and running these two repair jobs, one at a time.

Recalculate the parent topic for each post
Recalculate the parent forum for each post

Last possible thing you can do is maybe trash and delete your existing topic, youth sports and create a new one to see if this issue persists.

[Robkk]

It should default to this. I think anonymous posting is disabled by default in Settings > Forums.

If you have some hidden or private BuddyPress groups where only members of the group who are logged in can see it, then change the groups to public instead to allow non-logged in users to read your group forums.

Make sure your forums are not private or hidden as well.

[Robkk]

The bbPress login/registration forms are buggy or have incomplete functionality.

I say use the default WordPress forms for your users, or use a frontend form plugin.

[Robkk]

Are you using the default bbPress login widget?

This widget options has fields to activate the lost password and register links.

To answer your reply here.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installing-bbpress-and-creating-registering-new-users-for-your-forum/#post-178650

Make sure to enable registration in Settings > General from the WordPress backend.

[lkrupa98]

WordPress 4.6.1

Version 2.5.10

Message board: http://hp190.hostpapa.com/~aecaa159/?page_id=43

My bbpress message board is currently using the “Unite” theme from ColorLib.

It seems to work just fine on a desktop. However, the moment I view it on my Android smartphone (tried both Firefox and Chrome), I cannot click on any links to open the message board or open topics.

However, if I switch to the default Twenty Sixteen theme, the message board works just fine on my smartphone. Argh.

Would anyone please be able to help me make the message board function well on a smartphone using the Unite theme?

[siparker]

@consultjoseph I think this is down to the id not being available.

We are trying various dfifferent ways of doign this now with different url structures. Once we have a solution we will release it as part of the Coffeeblack BBpress extended plugin.

the default code still works for search engine friendly urls but there are a load of other bits i am working on too. like auto setup of urls to match default vbulletin, default kunena, default phpbb and so on. so you can just choose the format from the admin side and it will just work.

Also looking at a sensible way to auto redirect all old urls to the new ones. Which is a harder propsective change but nonetheless it should be done so this solution can work for everyone.

[Steve]

I want non-logged in users to be able to read the forum but not post to it.

I want them to become members to post to the forum. I am using buddypress and paid membership pro.

Does it default to this, or do I have to set this up? How?

Thanks.

[Jason]

I added a new user, but cannot change their role in the list of users. I check the box on the left of their username, then go to the top dropdown “Change forum role to…” and change it, but there is no effect. The only way I can change the role is to edit their profile individually, rather than using the Bulk method. I am going to be importing 160 users and cannot find a way to pre-populate the Forum Role field, so I’d like to save time by being able to change Forum Roles in bulk by putting a checkmark next to each user and performing the change all at once.

I am using the default Twenty Sixteen WordPress theme in use while testing this plugin.

Does anyone know about this limitation or bug?

[contemplate]

Hi All. Needed this exact behavior as well. It really should be the default behavior. But if you don’t want to hack the core here is the code to place in your functions.php or custom plugin:

/**
 * Format the BuddyBar/Toolbar notifications
 * Fixed: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-reply-notification-link-to-the-reply/
 */
function bbp_format_buddypress_notifications_custom( $action, $item_id, $secondary_item_id, $total_items, $format = 'string' ) {

	// New reply notifications
	if ( 'bbp_new_reply' === $action ) {
		$topic_id    = bbp_get_reply_topic_id( $item_id );
		$topic_title = bbp_get_topic_title( $topic_id );
		$topic_link  = wp_nonce_url( add_query_arg( array( 'action' => 'bbp_mark_read', 'topic_id' => $item_id ), bbp_get_reply_url( $item_id ) ), 'bbp_mark_topic_' . $item_id );
		$title_attr  = __( 'Topic Replies', 'bbpress' );

		if ( (int) $total_items > 1 ) {
			$text   = sprintf( __( 'You have %d new replies', 'bbpress' ), (int) $total_items );
			$filter = 'bbp_multiple_new_subscription_notification';
		} else {
			if ( !empty( $secondary_item_id ) ) {
				$text = sprintf( __( 'You have %d new reply to %2$s from %3$s', 'bbpress' ), (int) $total_items, $topic_title, bp_core_get_user_displayname( $secondary_item_id ) );
			} else {
				$text = sprintf( __( 'You have %d new reply to %s',             'bbpress' ), (int) $total_items, $topic_title );
			}
			$filter = 'bbp_single_new_subscription_notification';
		}

		// WordPress Toolbar
		if ( 'string' === $format ) {
			$return = apply_filters( $filter, '<a href="' . esc_url( $topic_link ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( $title_attr ) . '">' . esc_html( $text ) . '</a>', (int) $total_items, $text, $topic_link );

		// Deprecated BuddyBar
		} else {
			$return = apply_filters( $filter, array(
				'text' => $text,
				'link' => $topic_link
			), $topic_link, (int) $total_items, $text, $topic_title );
		}

		do_action( 'bbp_format_buddypress_notifications', $action, $item_id, $secondary_item_id, $total_items );

		return $return;
	}
}
remove_filter( 'bp_notifications_get_notifications_for_user', 'bbp_format_buddypress_notifications', 10 );
add_filter( 'bp_notifications_get_notifications_for_user', 'bbp_format_buddypress_notifications_custom', 10, 5 );

/**
 * Hooked into the new reply function, this notification action is responsible
 * for notifying topic and hierarchical reply authors of topic replies.
 * Fixed: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-reply-notification-link-to-the-reply/
 */
function bbp_buddypress_add_notification_custom( $reply_id = 0, $topic_id = 0, $forum_id = 0, $anonymous_data = false, $author_id = 0, $is_edit = false, $reply_to = 0 ) {

	// Bail if somehow this is hooked to an edit action
	if ( !empty( $is_edit ) ) {
		return;
	}

	// Get autohr information
	$topic_author_id   = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id );
	$secondary_item_id = $author_id;

	// Hierarchical replies
	if ( !empty( $reply_to ) ) {
		$reply_to_item_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $reply_to );
	}

	// Get some reply information
	$args = array(
		'user_id'          => $topic_author_id,
		'item_id'          => $reply_id,
		'component_name'   => bbp_get_component_name(),
		'component_action' => 'bbp_new_reply',
		'date_notified'    => get_post( $reply_id )->post_date,
	);

 	// Notify the topic author if not the current reply author
 	if ( $author_id !== $topic_author_id ) {
		$args['secondary_item_id'] = $secondary_item_id ;

		bp_notifications_add_notification( $args );
 	}
 
 	// Notify the immediate reply author if not the current reply author
 	if ( !empty( $reply_to ) && ( $author_id !== $reply_to_item_id ) ) {
		$args['secondary_item_id'] = $reply_to_item_id ;

		bp_notifications_add_notification( $args );
 	}
}
remove_action( 'bbp_new_reply', 'bbp_buddypress_add_notification', 10 );
add_action( 'bbp_new_reply', 'bbp_buddypress_add_notification_custom', 10, 7 );