[delaitec]

Hello.

I have a WordPress site with a configured BBPress Forum and a WPMAIL SMTP plugin.

I recently started receiving 2 mistakes that appear at the same time on the WPMAIL SMTP event log.

On WPMAIL SMTP I tested the sending of emails, and the site is sending email normally.
What may be causing these EVENTS?

See topic on WPMAIL SMTP FORUM:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bbpress-related-log-events/

[Robin W]

add this plugin and use to test if email is working

Check & Log Email – Easy Email Testing & Mail logging

[neon67]

I’d be happy to take part in testing! I have a large live forum with over 10,000 topics. Let me know when the free AI model appears. P.S. – I’m going to test wordpress.org— ai-engine plugin – but more with the MCP purpose for administration

[Robin W]

sorry, this is not a plugin written by bbpress. I’m not quite sure which plugin this refers to.

you could try

Inline Image Upload for BBPress

or

GD bbPress Attachments

[tvyanos]

WordPress 6.8.1
PHP 8.2.22

Could you please help fix the following issue? A fatal error has occurred on the site:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function WP_Filesystem() in /wp-content/plugins/image-upload-for-bbpress/bbp-image-upload.php on line 316.

This error causes the site to crash when attempting to delete a post. It appears that the WP_Filesystem() function is being called before it has been properly initialized. I would appreciate it if you could take a look and resolve this issue.

Thank you.

[Chris Huber]

@neon67 yes it’s actually inspired by the @grok system on X. I should have mentioned that in my original post.

It’s basically that for your forum, except it uses ChatGPT instead of Grok and your forum content instead of twitter content.

You will need your own API key from OpenAI.

It’s fun to play with, you can give it any personality you want.

In the future I would like to add support for multiple bots within this system.

There is also a helper plugin that gets installed on a remote site, so you can get context from another site you manage too. But that is not on WordPress yet.

[Robin W]

This is one of the new FSE themes, so you need a fix to work with bbpress.

install

bbp style pack

once activated, navigate to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack, and you should see the first tab called ‘Theme Support’ – if you don’t see this, come back.

In that tab, select

Enable Theme Support

and save

The forums should then display

[Chris Huber]

Hey everybody, this is my first time posting here. I’m a developer and I started using bbPress about two years ago to build a forum.

I just published my first plugin, which is a context-aware AI bot that responds to @mentions or specific keywords. It reads the post and gathers information from other topics and replies to users as a specified account.

It just went live on the WordPress plugin repository so I thought I’d share it here. Completely free and open source and whatnot.

AI bot for bbPress

I’m using it on my own forum if you wanted to see it in action. This is my bot user: AI forum bot on Extra Chill

Would love to hear what you think! This is my first-ever published plugin so I’m pretty excited about it.

[packzap]

This migration process not for the faint of heart! I was never able to complete successfully. I did learn a few things tho.

• Pare down and disable as many plugins as possible before migrating. (especially optimize and cache ones).
• Be ready to disable the entire plugin directory in order to log into site.
• Realize that the activity of uploading files, importing a database, changing configurations, and adjusting dns, can spike shared server resources, leading to unstable and throttled-down results.
• Revel in the miracle of a nicely integrated bbPress/Wordpress install and always take time to break, inhale a deep breath, and appreciate the majesty of life

[packzap]

From that document:

Moving to a New Server
If you are moving WordPress from one server to another, begin by backing up your WordPress directory, images, plugins, and other files on your site as well as the database. See WordPress Backups and Backing Up Your Database.

Keeping Your Domain Name and URLs
Moving your domain without changing the Home and Site URLs of your WordPress site is very simple, and in most cases can be done by moving the files.

If database and URL remain the same, you can move by just copying your files and database.

If database name or user changes, edit wp-config.php to have the correct values.

If you want to test before you switch, you must temporarily change “siteurl” and “home” in the database table “wp_options” (through phpMyAdmin or similar).

If you had any kind of rewrites (permalinks) setup you must disable .htaccess and reconfigure permalinks when it goes live.

[packzap]

Thanks Robin. I’m still working on it. This WordPress resource is very helpful, Migrating WordPress.

[packzap]

Hi Robin,

The WordPress/bbPress install and all content is all on one subdomain (feedback.pdxradio.com).

It’s interesting the legacy bb_ tables are still there. I don’t want to touch (delete) them, in case they’re still being used.

[Robin W]

ok, I’d suspect that the bb_ tables are from versions 0.x and 1.x.
In version 2.x, bbpress was migrated to a plugin under wordpress.

I presume that your bbpress forums run on the same website and nit on a sub-domain – can you confirm?

[packzap]

I’m running the the latest: {bbPress version 2.6.13) / WordPress version 6.8.1}. I’ve been running bbPress for 10 to 15 years, starting with the 0.x versions. I notice when I look at the database in MyPHPadmin there are many tables with the prefix of bb_ and even more tables starting with wsy****_.

So just to review, when we move the bbPress/Wordpress installation from one server to another we do so in these steps?

1. Copy all web files over to new server
2. Copy the database.sql over to new server
3. Edit the first few lines of wp-config.php with the pertinent new database settings
4. Go into the Admin panel of the site and make sure the bbPress plugin is active
5. Then go to Tools, Forums, click the Import forums tab, select Platform, bbPress1 and enter the pertinent database details
6. In the table prefix section be sure to add the prefixes from your database (in my case bb_ and wsy****_, i guess entered as bb_wsy****_?)
7. Click Start, and then fold your hands together and pray the import works 😉

[packzap]

bbpress just uses wordpress posts and post meta tables and the wordpress use table.

So if you copy the wp-content files, mysql database, bbpress should just work ok

So, does that mean I only need to copy the wp_ files and folders from the old server, not the bb_ ones? And of course, the database.sql.

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses wordpress posts and post meta tables and the wordpress use table.

So if you copy the wp-content files, mysql database, bbpress should just work ok

[packzap]

I thought I would easily move my bbpress (version 2.6.13) / WordPress (version 6.8.1) installation from one server to another by copying all the files and exporting/importing the sql database file and adjusting wp-config.php.

However after moving everything over I can access the new WP installation, see all the plugins from before (all deactivated), but cannot see or import the bbPress forum.

I activated the bbPress plugin but don’t see any of my previous forum names listed.

In the WordPress Admin dashboard, I went to Tools, Import forums, put in the database settings (platform bbpress1) and clicked import, but it immediately stops on step 1.

Since most of the articles in this forum about moving servers is 10 to 15 years old. Maybe a refresh of an overview on how to do it today would be helpful. If anyone can throw in some ideas, I would appreciate it.

[Robin W]

could be hundreds of reasons, and may be coincidental of 6.8 or may not.

so it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

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

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users

Health Check & Troubleshooting

Then come back

[teachworldhistory]

I have a website that uses bbpress forums.

The bbpress forums have worked for 5 1/2 years. When WordPress 6.8 came out, it broke. Now, when members log in, they can only see 2 forums and even those don’t work. When I log in as an admin to word press, all the forums are there. When a member logs in, they only see two broken forums. The updated bbpress plugin did not fix it. Reverting back to a previous Word Press version did not fix it.

Can I get any help with this?

[Robin W]

BBpress Addon For Yoast SEO

[smithloo]

Hello

I’ve been using bbPress on a couple of my WordPress sites and it’s been working fine so far. But I’m wondering how well bbPress integrates with SEO plugins like Yoast SEO or Rank Math.

Do SEO plugins actually help with indexing forum topics and replies? I checked my Search Console and noticed some of the forum pages aren’t indexed, or maybe they’re indexed without proper meta descriptions.

[Robin W]

You can add it to the menu

Install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>login

or you can use the
[bbp-login]
shortcode which will display a clickable link

[Robin W]

possibly because you are using an FSE theme.

so try a fix to work with bbpress.

install

bbp style pack

once activated, navigate to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack, and you should see the first tab called ‘Theme Support’ – if you don’t see this, come back.

In that tab, select

Enable Theme Support

and save

The forums should then display

[Sculley]

Hi there,

We’re using bbPress with the Simple Membership plugin, and the site is built with the GeneratePress theme. Here’s the staging site for reference: https://iu9d4mv2wm-staging.onrocket.site/forums/

Login is handled through Simple Membership, but profile behavior is different than the typical bbPress/WordPress setup.

When a member creates a topic or reply, they can click on their avatar or name to access their forum profile — which includes favorites, subscriptions, activity, etc. However, if a user hasn’t posted yet, there’s no way for them to access their profile, because their avatar/name doesn’t appear anywhere.

Is there a shortcode, function, or recommended method to add a “View My Profile” link at the top of the forums (or anywhere else), even if the user hasn’t posted?

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

[Robin W]

I’m not quite sure what point you are making.

bbPress does not support blocks, it may do at some future stage, but it does not do this now.

Wordpress support uses bbPress and has a fix they have decided to do in order to support blocks.

I did some experiments to see if I could get blocks working with bbpress.

I said in the other thread that I could not get blocks working with 19.7, so it is probably not surprising that you couldn’t either – I’m not sure why you thought this would work. I did get it to work with 16.7, but I have not tried it since 6.8 was released (nor do I plan to).

It is up to plugin authors to decide what they wish to support within their plugins, and whilst you think it would be good to be able to use blocks, this is entirely up to the authors of free software.

Whilst personally I would not wish to impose blocks on my forum users, as I find it unintuitive, I would support adding the capability for those that do want it.

For the time being, unless you can get it to work, then you have the editor as per this forum, or the visual editor which can be added using the bbp-style-pack plugin.