[Robkk]

I cannot see the same issue you are getting with the generatepress theme and also twenty fifteen.

Did you close and sticky a topic from the WordPress backend??

Can you link to your site so I can see if this is a possible CSS issue?

When you switch to a default theme to leave it as default, do not transfer custom code snippets that you may have from one theme to it. Same thing if you have custom code snippets in a seperate plugin to try to pinpoint where the issue is present.

[samberns]

Hi so I installed bbpress and havent changed nay settings.

The forums/topics won’t appear on the default page and it’s just an archive:

What do I do?

[Adri Oosterwijk]

Hey Pascal, goeiemorgen,

Thank you for your reply.
Sadly it did not work at all.

The setting

Dashboard / Settings / Forums: Default User Role = Participant; leave other settings at default.

could not be changed because it is unavailable in the settings pane of the dashboard as well.

Permalinks and Port numbers were already set to the suggested ones.

I hope you have another suggestion for me.

[ryan.boder]

My topic tags and topic tag feed pages are only working for admins. I would like for them to be visible to all users, even to the anonymous viewers and search engines. Is that possible? I would think that’s how it would work by default.

For example, this topic tag has 48 pages worth of topics that show up when I’m logged in as an admin. But to the public or even participant users it just says “Nothing Found… Sorry, it appears there is no content in this section.”

http://suretydiy.com/forums/topic-tag/2gig/

Doesn’t this defeat the purpose of having topic tags in the first place? Help?

WP 4.3.1, bbPress 2.5.8.

[lvictor]

Yep, the default theme there’s no topic display issue (tested before I posted here.) Just wondering if there was a standard code snippet that should be included in any template in order to get bbpress (wasn’t thinking it would be terribly different from template to template.) Since it’s a pro template, at least I can give their support forum a shot.

Anyone out there w/a similar theme conflict issue, how did you resolve it?

[erich199]

In loop-fourms.php file add your custom “Add Topic” button:

<a href="/new-topic/?ForumId=<?php echo bbp_get_forum_id()?>">New Topic</a>

Add this code to a custom .php file or directly to your theme function.php file:

//BBpress New Topic Button // 
add_shortcode('wpmu_bbp_topic', 'wpmu_bbp_create_new_topic', 10);
function wpmu_bbp_create_new_topic(){
	
	if ( isset($_GET['ForumId']) ){
		
		return do_shortcode("[bbp-topic-form forum_id=".$_GET['ForumId']."]");
		
	}else{
		
		return do_shortcode("[bbp-topic-form]");
		
	}
}
//End BBpress New Topic Button //

Make sure you’ve created a custom page titled “new topic” with a friendly url of “new-topic”

Place the new shortcode we registered into this page:

[wpmu_bbp_topic]

This will automatically display contact create form of the selected forum if ID exists in the URL otherwise fall back to default shortcode.

You can see it in action on my site:
http://artofwargaming.net/forums/

Hope this helps anyone who was looking to create a “new topic” button.

I can’t take credit for this, this was all thanks to the help of the guys over at WPMUDEV – Sajid, Anang, and Tyler.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Andy,

1. If you just installed bbPress on top of WordPress, then your usermanagement is done by having normal users in WordPress (see the extra fields like setting the forum roles)

2. Are you using any plugins that deal with members or roles ? If you have set the ‘Settings > Forums > Auto role’ it should be sufficient. Try also to run the repair tool “Remap existing users to default forum roles”

For the forums on the frontend, have a look at this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/is-it-possible-to-allow-all-users-create-new-forum/

Hope it helps,
Pascal.

[Mahunkhal]

Hi there, i’m pretty new to this so i may well be doing something wrong but i just installed bbpress, got the bbp style pack to make it easier to pimp out my forum and i made 1 single change to see what was what… I changed the background colour to black from default. I went out of the room for 20 minutes, came back and went to make more changes but now it doesn’t want to change anything at all. I’ve tried changing the background colour back with no effect. I’ve disabled my caching plugin to see if that was having any effect but nay…..

I’ve even deleted ALL options from the bbp style pack options but it’s kept the styles on the page which is even stranger.

Please can someone help with this if they can as i’ve spent a whole week attempting another forum plugin only to realise that it was pony and i should have gone with this one in the first place but now i can’t this one to work either haha. 🙁

my website is 10tu8.com but it’s nowhere near a complete site just yet.

Thanks in advance for any help at all 😉

Neil

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

Most probably a security issue or a redirect to your login page that does not work. If you have any security plugins (like Theme my login) or captcha (like in Jetpack), try to deactivate. Somebody found this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/users-unable-to-register-and-login/

Just be careful : Editing .htaccess can block your complete site. Make sure you have a contact point with your provider and you know what you are doing

Defaults for the .htaccess can be found here: https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess

Let me know if it helped,
Pascal.

[Robkk]

Participants cannot use shortcodes by default in bbPress.

You will have to use a filter to allow the shortcodes.

I will post a code snippet and possibly link to a guide when I am off mobile.

Also weird picture to use for your second example haha

[Robkk]

If you placed a shortcode in a page, you do not have to add the forum index shortcode to a page but instead use the default forum root url /forums. If you did use a custom index page using the shortcode, editing the forum root slug in Settings > Forums to be the same as custom index page’s slug should help with the breadcrumb thing.

You can always create custom menu links if the pages are not in the menus section.

[DAM]

Hi @robkk
Yes I think its a BBpress bug because I have the same problem with only BP+bbpress active on default theme.

[lvictor]

I’ve seen a ton of topics regarding not being able to see the forums at all, but nothing quite like my situation. I can see the top level for my forums, and it is listing topics & replies but I can’t get to them. Although I’ve imported the bbpress templates and css to my template directory, I’m unable to get past the top level for my forums at:

STARFLEET Discussion Forums

When I click on a category, topic, reply, I get a blank like this:

http://sfi.org/topic/heres-a-test-topic/

They do work when I switch to the default template, so is there a step I missed with the template? Is there code that needs to be added to the template header? Something else?

[Pascal Casier]

Well, it works for others, so indeed, it must be something on your side. Could be your theme, child theme or plugin issues. Try to switch to a default theme, then deactivate all plugins and reactivate one by one…

[tlatch89]

Hey everyone,

I started styling up a little support/development forum for my clients to use. It requires a little bit more customization but I have most of the basics down.

Wordpress – Latest
BBPress – Latest
Theme – Salient
Website Forum Page – https://wapp.guru/support/

I’m not using any short codes because this theme actually handles the default BBPress pretty well. I’m just letting the default post types do their thing with Yoast SEO attached. I’ve added a plugin that adds login, log out, and register buttons to the forum itself.

1. How do I set up my site to where people can log in with a WordPress / Gravatar account?

2. The profile page title does not show up and using the Yoast plugin I can’t find any way to target it. Any advice?

View post on imgur.com

3. What’s a good plugin to use for things such as easy navigation for users? I have a few of the widgets in the hamburger menu on the top left. There’s a default login form but nothing regarding registration so I hard coded a link in. There’s a little login form, but no register form. I’ve tried (bbk style pack) but it seems to just place links in the main navigation menu which I don’t really like. It just seems like it’s difficult to navigate around.

Overall I know the forum is open source and requires a good bit of customization. I’m just looking for the simplest way without having to use 50 additional plugins that conflict with one another.

Thanks!

[manueldo]

Hi martineva! I am in the same situation and have the same problem, and tried the same as you without results.
The only way I could “solve” it, was modifying the capabilities for the default particpant role in the core of the plugin.
In the Primary caps I had to set moderate=true and then blocked all things that I don´t want the user do in the other options. Anyway I had to hardcode some other parts of the plugin because it inherits some moderator capabilities, eg. this user will be able to stick a topic.

I know this is not the way to solve it but it is the only way I found. And like you, this is my first forum, and I am not a developer.

I hope we could find other way soon!
ps.) Sorry for my english, isn´t the best.

[Robkk]

I just want to know what “bbPress ready” “works with bbPress” means
What are some characteristics that make a “theme bbPress ready/compatible”?

Most common theme related issues are not visible with the theme.

If a WordPress theme is reviewed in an article and is said to work for bbPress

There are quite a few, like a handful of paid themes that actual go out and style everything and add something custom in their forum layout. Some others just say it just works but do not really customize the layout much.

Same thing with free themes, only a few I have seen actually customize the layout. There are some good free ones.

What do the results imply when I search for themes for bbPress, what can I expect in general?

The theme has no possible theme issues with bbPress and possibly some minor or major customization in the default bbPress forums look.

I have been struggling with themes, like all bbPress newbies. I don’t understand the structure of bbPress – the layout, navigation, hierarchy and the pages it generates. It’s a new surprise with each theme I try. (Yes, I have used Theme 2015 to check things.)

It is close to a traditional forum layout (except the categories/forum layout). Can you please explain exactly why some things might not understandable so I can help you better?? I do not want to try to assume things from what you meant by structure or the pages generated.

In /forums page is the forum post type archive, same goes for the topic post type and /topics. In some themes they configure a custom page title for Archive pages. Since you can use the regular WordPress conditional is_archive() and affect bbPress, well it affects bbPress.

Here is the code in the free version of that theme that outputs the Archives title for any archive using if_archive() and some extra conditionals to check if it is a category archive or an author archive and so on. Since the bbPress archive page does not follow one of the other conditionals, the title ends up just Archives.

function ample_header_title() {
   if( is_archive() ) {
      if ( is_category() ) :
         $ample_header_title = single_cat_title( '', FALSE );

      elseif ( is_tag() ) :
         $ample_header_title = single_tag_title( '', FALSE );

      elseif ( is_author() ) :
         /* Queue the first post, that way we know
          * what author we're dealing with (if that is the case).
         */
         the_post();
         $ample_header_title =  sprintf( __( 'Author: %s', 'ample' ), '<span class="vcard">' . get_the_author() . '</span>' );
         /* Since we called the_post() above, we need to
          * rewind the loop back to the beginning that way
          * we can run the loop properly, in full.
          */
         rewind_posts();

      elseif ( is_day() ) :
         $ample_header_title = sprintf( __( 'Day: %s', 'ample' ), '<span>' . get_the_date() . '</span>' );

      elseif ( is_month() ) :
         $ample_header_title = sprintf( __( 'Month: %s', 'ample' ), '<span>' . get_the_date( 'F Y' ) . '</span>' );

      elseif ( is_year() ) :
         $ample_header_title = sprintf( __( 'Year: %s', 'ample' ), '<span>' . get_the_date( 'Y' ) . '</span>' );

      else :
         $ample_header_title = __( 'Archives', 'ample' );

      endif;
   }

[Robkk]

Try this php code snippet. Add it to your child themes functions.php file or in a functionality plugin that can hold custom php code snipppets.

add_filter ('bbp_get_title_max_length','rkk_change_title') ;

Function rkk_change_title ($default) {
$default=90 ;
return $default ;
}

[gene-stevo]

WP= 4.3.1 bbPress= 2.5.8 Postman SMTP= 1.6.24

I’m learning WP by building a dummy site as a prelude to rebuilding camera club site. Work in progress at: http://www.snapsphotoservices.biz/
An important feature will be forums. I installed bbPress and all was good until I sent out test messages to selected subscribers. Despite the recipients getting the notifications correctly I was never the less presented with MDS errors: Mail Delivery System <MAILER-DAEMON@smtprelay08.hostedemail.com>Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
Thinking I had server issues I moaned at my host who said “It’s not us…” As SMTP is said to be more reliable I added plugin Easy WP SMTP to the mix. It made no difference. I then tried Postman SMTP and created a new email address so that forums related to this and WP just dealt with original mail.
Strangely it’s this original mail that sent messages are referring to. Attached is a shot of the header a recipient sees. The Mochdre boot address is the address Postman is given and the snaps address is the default WP email address.

Hooray! It worked a treat, everybody gets the messages and I get no errors. Untill tonight when my inbox was filled with the old error messages.
Tried deactivating all plugins etc to no avail. How do I stop WP using its own snaps address when I’ve told SMTP plugin to use mochdreboot address? Or, if I create a mail account of noreply@snaps etc, what the heck happens to all the mail the server gets dumped with (assuming it would help)?
This is doing my head in. Please advise.

[o.m.j]

sorry to bump such a old topic, but can someone show the specifc code to add to child theme functions.php? still learning here…

I tried adding this to functions, but produced an error…

function bbp_title_max_length( $default = 90 ) {
	echo bbp_get_title_max_length( $default );
}
	/**
	 * Return the maximum length of a title
	 *
	 * @since bbPress (r3246)
	 * @param $default bool Optional. Default value 90
	 * @uses get_option() To get the maximum title length
	 * @return int Is anonymous posting allowed?
	 */
	function bbp_get_title_max_length( $default = 90 ) {
		return (int) apply_filters( 'bbp_get_title_max_length', (int) get_option( '_bbp_title_max_length', $default ) );
	}

thx!

[Brandon Allen]

I can’t reproduce this behavior on bbPress 2.5.8 or trunk using the default WordPress themes. Topics and replies in private forums are listed. Are you using a custom theme? Are you running any plugins that effect user profiles? Are you running BuddyPress?

[Robkk]

I bet you just closed the topic as well and the color of the text is a gray color that is hard to see.

Use this CSS to fix that.

#bbpress-forums .status-closed,
#bbpress-forums .status-closed a {
	color: #aaa;
}

You do not have to use the bbPress shortcode for registration, you can use alternative plugins for frontend forms if you want.

Do users need to register with the forum first to see the content of a post?

bbPress by default has nothing that would hide the content of a topic post. It will make a whole topic hidden if the forum is private and the user is not logged in, and the topic and forum could also be hidden if it is a hidden forum.

If you want a menu item for registration you can create a custom link to the default WordPress registration form, or if you have another plugin that adds frontend forms you can link to that page if you want.

Question really is: how does a user of the educational material get to see the forum questions/posts?

It really depends on the LMS plugin you might be using with your bbPress forums really. By default though a sticky/closed post should be kind of visible, the gray is hard to see sometimes.

[reminisce32]

@netweb thank you, I was starting to think that was the case. I re-imported again and didn’t have this particular issue. The only issue I am having now is my topics don’t show up, as you can see here: http://www.maddengurus.com/forum/new-member-introductions/

Can anyone help with this as to why they are not showing up? I did all the forum repairs it let me know besides the Recalculate the position of each reply and Remap existing users to default forum roles because they give me errors when I try to run them.

[reminisce32]

Topics imported but not showing up after importing vB.

You can see topics show up here (http://www.maddengurus.com/topic/madden-2015/) but not here http://www.maddengurus.com/forum/madden-general-discussion/

Also get error in repair screen only when trying to “Recalculate the position of each reply.” Error states: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in wp-includes/functions.php on line 3207

Browser window also goes blank when I try the following repair alone: Remap existing users to default forum roles

Thanks for any help.

WordPress version 4.3.1
bbPress version 2.5.8
link to site http://www.maddengurus.com/forum/

[Robkk]

Sorry for the late reply, I just approved your topic.

What I think is happening is somewhat bbPress default styles related and possibly the main font color in your theme. From what I can see you know have a plugin that adds custom styles for the bbPress theme (bbPress New UI), and it does help a little with the issue.

If you want contact me, and I can help you with most of the styling issues you are facing.

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