[Robkk]

@sidebarissue

The bbPress sidebar that you see having the issue, is from your theme. bbPress does not have code in it for a bbPress specific sidebar.

You haven’t checked and made sure to see if it was in your theme by switching/testing a default theme.

I still haven’t tried switching to the twentytwelve theme because I don’t want to lose all of my settings for my current theme.

You can try your current theme and a WordPress default theme in a local installation on your cpu to see where the sidebar is coming from.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/testing-your-bbpress-installation/creating-a-test-site/#local-installation

[Pascal Casier]

For caching, multiple plugins exists. See my response here for some extra info, but I’m not an expert: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/should-i-set-up-my-forums-on-another-ms-subsite-to-improve-site-speed/

For the subscription:
If a person is subscribed to a forum, he will get all new topics
If you reply to a topic and tick the box at the bottom, you will get the other replies to this topic.
But I’m not aware of a possibility to get ALL replies to the full forum with just a click …

What I have in my bbP Toolkit plugin is the possibility to tick the box by default so that you get notified for new replies.

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

If you have already deactived all plugins except bbPress and switched to a default theme and you still do not see ‘Forums’, ‘Topics’ and/or ‘Replies’, then please try this in Settings > Forums (check after every step if you find the options back on your dashboard):
– ‘Settings > Forums’ : (de)activate ‘Anonymous posting’, save, (de)activate it again to get back to your original setting, save
– ‘Settings > Forums’ : (de)activate ‘Auto role’, save, (de)activate it again to get back to your original setting, save
– Deactivate the bbPress plugin, then reactive the bbPress plugin
– ‘Tools > Forums > Repair Forums’ : Remap existing users to default forum roles, click ‘Repair Items’ (WARNING: Make sure to have multiple admins in case the keymaster role would disappear from one account)

Pascal.

[lim sungbeom]

I want to link a group to a forum which exits,

So I checked it and set a forum name (first one below ‘Customer Center’) in group forum box and save

but then check in the checkbox is disappeared

at last, I found that if I modify the group forum settings in the group page setting in backend,
the setting sustain, even though I click or not group forum setting in the group setting option in in frontend.

I tried with default theme twenty-thirteen and KLEO.

Is it normal or bugs?

– frontend setting page :

https://www.miinfra.co.kr:44373/infra/groups/%EA%B3%A0%EA%B0%9D%EC%A7%80%EC%9B%90/admin/forum/

– Backend setting page :

https://www.miinfra.co.kr:44373/infra/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-groups&gid=588&action=edit

wordpress ver 4.42
buddypress Version 2.5.2
bbpress Version 2.5.8

[Robkk]

@bethannon1

You can put this bbPress default themes CSS from the plugin into a folder called css in your child theme and edit the css file to your liking.

https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/

[Bet Hannon]

Hi Pascal! Thanks for your quick reply!

Unfortunately, no — these forums are locked down to only approved users.

The CSS is in /plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css, line 896:

/* =Stickies
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

.bbp-topics-front ul.super-sticky,
.bbp-topics ul.super-sticky,
.bbp-topics ul.sticky,
.bbp-forum-content ul.sticky {
	background-color: #ffffe0 !important;
	font-size: 1.1em;
}

I need to change that background color. But I’m not a CSS ninja, and I’m not sure how to override that !important from the default plugin CSS. This is when adding a 2nd !important to trump the first would be handy. 🙂

[Bet Hannon]

I need to override the default CSS color for
.bbp-topics-front ul.super-sticky, .bbp-topics ul.super-sticky, .bbp-topics ul.sticky, .bbp-forum-content ul.sticky

But the default color declaration has an !important in it. What’s the best way to fix this so my color will display? I know I could hack the plugin CSS, but that’s not the best option. 🙂

[madflute]

In my 3 days of agony, while I tried everything I could think of, if I disable asynchronous plugin it will be stuck at noreply@mydomain.com (at least it does trigger the mail action according to the log) but this is a known issue, I believe?

Yes, I have tried commenting out custom functions, changing themes to default ones, etc.

I have a question. If I instantiate a plain vanilla WP and BBP on a sandbox somewhere on my server with no other plugins, would a subscriber can receive a notification of new Topic and new Reply if s/he clicked on subscribe link? Is it worth spending time doing adding plugins one by one till it breaks? If the answer is yes, any help on adding order would be appreciated.

I’d think asynchronous plugin is a must, or noreply@mydomain.com will stop me go further. Do I understand this correctly?

Thank you for your time.

[Pascal Casier]

Okay, next step (based on previous issues), in between every step, try the email sending:
– Disable the asynchronous plugin
– Switch to a default theme like Twenty Fourteen
– Make sure you have NO custom code that you added in your template or function.php that could block

Pascal.

[skilletin]

Hello!

We ar running the latest versions of WordPress and bbPress. From the beginning, since bbPress was installed, it’s working incorrectly. When I go to specific forum page, the topics list is not showing. And Opening a topic directly, the topic content is not displayed.
The problem is in our custom created theme, because, when I switch to one of the default WordPress themes, everything is working fine.
I can’t figure out what is wrong with our theme, or how to make it bbPress redy.

The specific forum: http://mglatvia.id.lv/forums/forum/foruma-noteikumi/
The single topic: http://mglatvia.id.lv/forums/topic/demo-testa-topiks/

[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.

[Robin W]

bbpress and buddypress work fine together.

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 buddypress 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.

[fenixbazaar2]

http://fenixbazaar.com/groups/pc-master-race/forum/topic/gaming-keyboards/

I’m referring specifically to the orange user role badge directly under the avatar. I have installed my own user badge system and as such want to remove the default ones from appearing.

[Pascal Casier]

‘Does not work’ is a bit vague …
And what do you mean with ‘I have installed the forum search’ ? It should be there by default.

Thanks for sending more info.

Pascal.

[semperaye]

I was given something like this:

body.responsive.page-template-default #page-wrapper .full-container {
    max-width: 1080px !important;
}

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

First of all, the /forums is indeed the default that comes out. Handy, no ? 🙂

For the width, this is fully WordPress and the theme you have chosen, so bbPress just adapts to it.
I would propose that you ask on the global WordPress support forum for that.

Pascal.

[talhawp]

I tried the following steps without any success:

1- Upgraded to bbPress 2.6

2- Removed sub-forums

3- Emptied Trash/Spam Topics and Replies through admin panel. This took me 3 days! Around 25% of 0.5 million posts were removed

4- Repaired Forums by going through every single option

5- Optimized WordPress Database through wp-optimize plugin

6- Changed theme to WordPress default Twenty Sixteen theme

7- Deactivated all the plugins except bbPress

The site works for few minutes then crashes. My WordPress itself has around 30K posts and 400K comments, not sure if this is causing the issue.

The whole bbPress 1.x worked perfectly for 7 years, then only issue was that the cookies and single sign between WP and bbPress had become incompatible due to newer WP versions.

Can anyone suggest anything else that I can try?

[tech55541]

Hello,
It was hard, but I and another member on a private dev forum were able to figure it out. What tripped us up was this.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2685
Can’t believe this has not been fixed in core yet.

Anyway, here is my full solution. All you have to do is add this code to functions.php.

/*Customize the BBPress roles to allow Participants to trash topics*/
add_filter( 'bbp_get_caps_for_role', 'ST_add_role_caps_filter', 999, 2 );

function ST_add_role_caps_filter( $caps, $role ){
if( $role == bbp_get_participant_role() || $role == "default" ) {

	$new_caps = array(
                // Primary caps
                'spectate'              => true,
                'participate'           => true,
                'moderate'              => false,
                'throttle'              => false,
                'view_trash'            => false,

                // Forum caps
                'publish_forums'        => false,
                'edit_forums'           => false,
                'edit_others_forums'    => false,
                'delete_forums'         => false,
                'delete_others_forums'  => false,
                'read_private_forums'   => false,
                'read_hidden_forums'    => false,

                // Topic caps
                'publish_topics'        => true,
                'edit_topics'           => true,
                'edit_others_topics'    => false,
                'delete_topics'         => true,
                'delete_others_topics'  => false,
                'read_private_topics'   => false,

                // Reply caps
                'publish_replies'       => true,
                'edit_replies'          => true,
                'edit_others_replies'   => false,
                'delete_replies'        => true,
                'delete_others_replies' => false,
                'read_private_replies'  => false,

                // Topic tag caps
                'manage_topic_tags'     => false,
                'edit_topic_tags'       => false,
                'delete_topic_tags'     => false,
                'assign_topic_tags'     => true,
            );	

	}

    return $new_caps;
}
/*Fixes an issue that only allows mods to trash topics.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5852
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2685*/

add_filter( 'bbp_map_reply_meta_caps', 'ST_tweak_trash_meta_caps', 11, 4 );
add_filter( 'bbp_map_topic_meta_caps', 'ST_tweak_trash_meta_caps', 11, 4 );

// tweak for replies
function ST_tweak_trash_meta_caps( $caps, $cap, $user_id, $args ){

	// apply only to delete_reply and delete_topic
	if ( $cap == "delete_reply" || $cap == "delete_topic" ){
		// Get the post
		$_post = get_post( $args[0] );
		if ( !empty( $_post ) ) {

			// Get caps for post type object
			$post_type = get_post_type_object( $_post->post_type );
			$caps      = array();

			// Add 'do_not_allow' cap if user is spam or deleted
			if ( bbp_is_user_inactive( $user_id ) ) {
				$caps[] = 'do_not_allow';

			// Moderators can always edit forum content
			} elseif ( user_can( $user_id, 'moderate' ) ) {
				$caps[] = 'moderate';

			// User is author so allow edit if not in admin
            } elseif ( ! is_admin() && ( (int) $user_id === (int) $_post->post_author ) ) {
                $caps[] = $post_type->cap->delete_posts;

			// Unknown so map to delete_others_posts
			} else {
				$caps[] = $post_type->cap->delete_others_posts;
			}
		}

	}
	// return the capabilities
	return $caps;
}

I suppose this was the correct way to do it @casiepa?

Thanks.

[uschesch]

Hi Pascal,

Thanks for the quick reply. There is no Subscribe next to the breadcrumbs.

I did customize the breadcrumbs though so that it displays my wordpress forum home page instead of the default forum home page. This is what I added to the template.php file in this folder: wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common

// Add the breadcrumb
// $crumbs[] = ‘‘ . $r[‘root_text’] . ‘‘;
$crumbs[] = ‘Dynaman Community Forum‘;

instead of the standard code, which is:

// Add the breadcrumb
// $crumbs[] = ‘‘ . $r[‘root_text’] . ‘‘;

[uschesch]

Hi Pascal,

Thanks for the quick reply. There is no Subscribe next to the breadcrumbs.

I did customize the breadcrumbs though so that it displays my wordpress forum home page instead of the default forum home page. This is what I added to the template.php file in this folder: wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common

// Add the breadcrumb
			// $crumbs[] = '<a href="' . esc_url( $root_url ) . '">' . $r['root_text'] . '</a>';
			$crumbs[] = '<a href="/wordpress/dynaman-community-forum/">Dynaman Community Forum</a>';

instead of the standard code, which is:

// Add the breadcrumb
// $crumbs[] = '<a href="' . esc_url( $root_url ) . '">' . $r['root_text'] . '</a>';

[aaachiaki]

I only had about 10 plugins running. I closed down everything but BBPress, your toolkit, and a simple “under construction” page. No white/blacklisting that I know of…

Re-ran, gave the same issue:

WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE wp_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, meta_value) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci

[aaachiaki]

Pascal, thank you for responding! Downloaded 2.6 and uploaded it without problem.

Went to import, and got a new error–>

WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE wp_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, meta_value) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci

[Sziban]

Thanks!
In the original Exmple.php the ‘default’ => ‘Example’, but the phpbb sample the ‘default’ => ‘phpBB’ and the SMF sample the ‘default’ => ‘SMF’ was. This is why I thought I can change to any text.
Anyway I am going to change the value and see what happens.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Copy this code into your functions.php:

function casiepa_bbp_has_topics() {
  $args['order'] = 'ASC'; // 'ASC' (Ascending), 'DESC' (Descending, Default)
  return $args;
}
add_filter('bbp_before_has_topics_parse_args', 'casiepa_bbp_has_topics' );

Pascal.

[Stephen Edgar]

I changed the default value to “special” in this part below.

I don’t think this would cause that error, the fact that I’ve no idea what is causing that error “could” be in fact the cause of the error.

The “Reset Forums” tool includes the ability to delete all bbPress forum content and imported users, run this and that should get rid of your ~30k imported users.

After that, try changing that “special” back to “Snitz” (I think thats what it was) and se what happens.