[jgasba]

Thanks a bunch for taking the time to detail all that.

About translations I am trying to contribute to the official community translations for the plugin in French. I found the culprit strings and added translations for them. https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbp-style-pack/stable/fr/default/?filters%5Bterm%5D=Moderation+Flag&filters%5Bterm_scope%5D=scope_any&filters%5Bstatus%5D=current_or_waiting_or_fuzzy_or_untranslated&filters%5Buser_login%5D=&filter=Apply+Filters&sort%5Bby%5D=priority&sort%5Bhow%5D=desc
Then of course it will only merge when 90+% is translated (and validated), is that correct?

I struggled to find it in the codebase at first because I thought it was in bbpress, my bad. It was then helpful to use the translation website. For further reference it was at the time of writing at modtools/bbpress.php#L215 (in bbp style pack plugin of course)

The most frustrating thing with plugins like bbpress/Buddypress ecosystem is undocumented features/hooks and config parameters and the difficulty it puts on users wanting to work with it or even contribute to understand everything and how each piece comes together with the rest of wordpress in a 15 year old codebase… but thanks to people like you we can go further is making those better 👍

Thanks again for the quick answers

[jgasba]

This line comes from the the bbp styling pack plugin.
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbp-style-pack/stable/

[Marisa]

I’ve got it to work now.

I used the WordPress function wp_delete_post.

[Robin W]

Presuming that you want to delete the user and any comments made in wordpress as well, then

dashboard>users>select the user and press delete

You will then be given the option to delete all content and the user.

[Robin W]

Install this additional plugin

Private groups

This is a simple plugin in principle, but can take a bit of time to understand.

So FIRST in dashboard>settings>bbp private groups> select the help tab, and take some time to understand how this plugin works !!

Then…

1. go to dashboard>settings>bbp private groups> and select ‘group name settings’ – set group 1 to a name of your choice, say ‘topics only’

2. go to dashboard>settings>bbp private groups> and select ‘topic settings’ – click to activate topic settings and save.

3. go to dashboard>settings>bbp private groups> and select ‘assign groups to roles’ – tick ‘Add group on first or no-group login’ AND set the role ‘subscriber’ to the group 1 name you set in step 1. If you want other roles to only be able to post topics, set these as well. click save.

4. go to dashboard>forums and select the forum you want this to apply to and click ‘edit’ You will see a new box called ‘Forum groups’ Click group 1 and them click update on the right hand side.

5. You will then see topic permissions for this group. select ‘Create/edit topics’

So then the forum uses group 1 permissions which only allow the creation of topics, and subscriber users are in group 1, so that is all they are able to do.

You may need to adjust forum visibility in the plugin settings and non logged-in isers depending on how you forum works.

[fabioplugins]

Hello, I am a veteran WordPress user and old SEO guy, recently turned into a vibe coder. I built a WP plugin that can read BBpress forums, topics and replies, and answer visitors’ questions using AI. It can summarize several informations, and give a summarized answers with a link to the source. The goal is to retain visitors that might feel lost in the large amount of info, and to help finding relevant content right on their arrival in the forum. What do you think, can it be helpfull ?

[Danny89]

I’m actually looking into this as well 👀

I’m planning to convert my existing WordPress site into a full forum using bbPress, and the classic/default theme setup is something I’m trying to understand better.

From what I’ve gathered so far, it seems like the process is:

* install and activate bbPress plugin
* create forums from the dashboard
* then adjust the theme (or use a child theme) to make it look more like a proper forum

I’m still a bit unsure about the best way to properly switch or enforce the “classic” bbPress layout across the site.

Would love to hear how you approached it — especially if you managed to fully convert your site into a forum-style experience rather than just adding forums as a section.

Thanks! 👍

[Robin W]

I suspect you are using a block theme also known as “Full Site Editing” or FSE theme

This is one of the “block themes” – this is the new way that WordPress plans to develop themes. BBpress authors are working on a fix for this, but in the meantime, add this additional plugin

Enable bbPress for Block Themes

Come back if this does not work

[nickydeep]

https://vitaemagazineblog.com/forums/forum/family-tree/

wordpress.com couldn’t resolve my problem and they shorn me over to the bbpress.org website to handle the problem … i want to do a bbPress forum on that website but i can’t get it started and wordpress doesn’t know why we tried a different theme and that didn’t work … i uninstalled all the plugins and that didn’t help … i checked the root directory and made a change to it and broke it and changed it back and got back to square one so i think the root directory is fine … i couldn’t and can’t reset the permalinks because i’m not at that level yet on wordpress … this occurred directly after installation and i created a forum and it went to the white screen when i checked the permalink and then i started a topic and that permalink went to the white screen … i’m just a writer this is already too much code for me to handle

so if anyone knows anything about this let me know …

[Robin W]

Add this additional plugin

Private groups

once activated, go to dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>help tab and read through how to set this up.

1. so for instance if you wanted ‘editors‘ to have their own private forum, then in

2. dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>group name settings and set up group 1 with a name ‘say editors-private-forum’. but could be whatever you want.

3. then in

dashboard>forums – create a forum, or edit an existing forum, and then under the description you will see a section headed ‘Forum Groups’ – assign this forum to the group you set above

so this forum is now only accessible to users who have that private group assigned.

4. then in

dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>assign groups to roles

set the editors role (or whatever role you want to access the forum that you set up in step 1) to the group.

and that should set editors to be able to see and access that forum only

All other forums remain as they were.

[Robin W]

some great fault finding carried out there, many thanks for that.

To start at the end, twenty twenty five is a FSE theme and pending the next release of bbpress you need to add

wordpress.org/plugins/enable-bbp-block-theme/

It looks like you have an issue between Highend Theme 1.0.2 and buddypress, which might be difficult to get resolved.

As highend is a paid theme, I cannot check it out, but I would start by asking them, as you can show it working with a wordpress default theme, but not with highend#

[didier59450]

Hi,

WP-optimize suggets BBPress could be concerned.
So I change page with BBPress shortcode into a comment and I’ve desactivated BBPress. Today at same time I can read this in php-errors.log:

[28-Feb-2026 13:08:58 UTC] PHP Deprecated: La fonction seems_utf8 est obsolète depuis la version 6.9.0 ! Utilisez wp_is_valid_utf8() à la place. in /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[28-Feb-2026 13:09:50 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key “edit-page” in /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/ionos-essentials/ionos-essentials/inc/dashboard/blocks/next-best-actions/class-nba.php on line 110
[28-Feb-2026 15:46:51 UTC] PHP Notice: Function is_search was called incorrectly. Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.1.0.) in /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[28-Feb-2026 15:46:51 UTC] PHP Notice: Function is_404 was called incorrectly. Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.1.0.) in /homepages/22/d4298730425/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[28-Feb-2026 15:46:51 UTC] PHP Notice: Function is_feed was called incorrectly. Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.1.0.) in /homepages/22/d4298730425/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[28-Feb-2026 15:46:51 UTC] Erreur d’événement de déplanification de tâche pour le crochet extendify_fetch_partner_data. Code d’erreur : could_not_set. Message d’erreur : La liste des évènements planifiés n’a pas pu être sauvegardée.. Données : {“schedule”:false,”args”:[]}

No fatal error with BBPress desactivated.
A surprise with cron task extendify not listed in cron task.
The only paused one is userfeedback_usage_tracking_cron, but no userfeedback plugin install, maybe linked jetpack (desinstalled) or MonsterInsights.
Or linked with Ionos Hosting as he is mentionned in first warning with Ionos-essentials.

[didier59450]

Hi,

Every day at same time, I can read PHP fatal error, concerned with 2 plugins:

BBPress for a forum with very few articles and comments,

WP-Optimize, for page cache and image compression.

No idea where it comes from. No cron at that time….

Every thing is up to date: WP6.9.1 PHP 8.3.30, all plugins with automatic update.

Thank in advance for helping

Didier

[26-Feb-2026 15:46:52 UTC] PHP Notice: Function is_search was called incorrectly. Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.1.0.) in /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[26-Feb-2026 15:46:52 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get() on null in /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/query.php:29
Stack trace:

0 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template.php(2204): get_query_var()

1 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template.php(2193): bbp_get_query_name()

2 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template.php(891): bbp_is_query_name()

3 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-optimize/cache/file-based-page-cache-functions.php(376): bbp_is_search()

4 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-optimize/cache/file-based-page-cache-functions.php(1003): wpo_restricted_cache_page_type()

5 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-optimize/cache/class-wpo-page-cache.php(206): wpo_can_serve_from_cache()

6 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-optimize/includes/class-wpo-page-optimizer.php(54): WPO_Page_Cache->should_cache_page()

7 /xxx/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-optimize/includes/class-wpo-page-optimizer.php(39): WPO_Page_Optimizer->maybe_cache_page()

8 [internal function]: WPO_Page_Optimizer->optimize()

9 /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php(5481): ob_end_flush()

10 /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(341): wp_ob_end_flush_all()

11 /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(365): WP_Hook->apply_filters()

12 /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/plugin.php(522): WP_Hook->do_action()

13 /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/load.php(1308): do_action()

14 [internal function]: shutdown_action_hook()

15 {main}

thrown in /xxx/wordpress/wp-includes/query.php on line 29

[davidqutta]

If you’ve already unchecked “Allow topics to have tags” and the tags field is still appearing, it’s usually caused by one of the following:

First, clear all caching (plugin cache, server cache, and browser cache) and then refresh the page. Sometimes the old form layout is being cached.

If that doesn’t fix it, temporarily switch to a default WordPress theme. Some themes override bbPress templates and manually include the tag field, which makes it appear even when disabled in settings.

Also try disabling other plugins briefly—especially SEO, forum add-ons, or customization plugins—to check for a conflict.

If the setting still doesn’t apply, go back to Settings → Forums, enable the option, save, then disable it again and save once more. Occasionally the option doesn’t update properly until it’s re-saved.

If none of that works, it’s most likely a theme template override forcing the tag field to display.

[Robin W]

I suspect you are using a block theme,

Install

Enable bbPress for Block Themes

[24serag]

Hello bbPress Support Team,

https://oudmajlis.net/forum/

I am having an issue with my bbPress forum on my WordPress site. When I try to open the forum, it displays a blank white page.

I also received a warning about a potential slug conflict:
“Potential bbPress conflict: Forum slug”

Here is what I have tried so far without success:

Changing the forum slug

Deactivating and reactivating bbPress

Checking for conflicting pages or posts

Flushing permalinks

Clearing browser and server cache

The forum contains important data (topics, replies, users) that I cannot afford to lose.

Could you please advise how to resolve the blank page issue and the slug conflict safely while keeping all forum data intact?

Thank you very much for your help.

https://oudmajlis.net/forum/

[manojmohandev]

I’ve noticed some strange behavior and I’m not sure if it’s intended. When a topic is approved after being sent to moderation, and the user subsequently edits that topic, the revision log displays two revisions instead of one. Ideally, the log should only display the specific edit the user marked for logging, rather than all revisions.

I found this line of code which appears to accept any revision, including those not typically found in the bbPress log. Ideally, it should skip any IDs that are not explicitly present in the bbPress log.

[Robin W]

ok so I now have 2 different things

1. clicking profile goes to the users own profile
2. clicking profile says sorry you are not logged in

Without a consistent problem definition it is hard to help, but as stated above, clicking someone’s name should take the user the that person’s profile.

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

[Robin W]

Ok, I am just a volunteer who helps out here, I am not a bbpress author, but I have written a number of bbpress related plugins.

I also took over a defunct plugin called

Post Comments as bbPress Topics

I did not write this, I just did enough coding to get it working again.

if you are code savvy, then function build_topic on line 485 of index.php should give you some code that you could maybe use in a plugin or use the code snippets plugin.

otherwise if you only have a few posts from which you want 2, you could enable it convert, disable it and then delete the topics (posts) you don’t want.

[Robin W]

yes you are right, it does do that if the topic id is set to 0.

I’m pretty sure that this has not always been the case, so I suspect a newer version of software (say WordPress or php) is doing this.

I will take a look when I get a moment, but if you create a reply in the backend, then it must know what topic it is attached to, so you need to fill in the topic id.

If you complete a topic ID then it all works.

I suspect that very few people ever create a reply in the backend – users should not have access to this, so it is only moderators and keymasters that can see this – as without a topic ID it is pointless, and you would almost always be in the front end when you spotted that you needed to post a reply.

so thankyou for reporting this, and if you have a compelling reason to need to use the backend, do come back.

[John N]

I’m encountering a strange behavior in my new bbPress installation. Here’s what happens:

Setup:
• Forum: “General”
• Sticky post in this forum containing the rules (closed for replies)
• A test topic: “Now I’m drinking coffee”
• A reply added to the test topic

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create the topic “Now I’m drinking coffee” in the “General” forum.
2. Add a reply to this topic. Everything works as expected.
3. Go to wp-admin → Topics → All Topics.
4. Move the “coffee” topic to the trash.

Observed Behavior:
• The reply added to the trashed topic also goes to the replies trash.
• Its post_parent changes from the “coffee” topic to the sticky rules post (still published).
• If I restore the topic from the trash, the reply is no longer associated with the topic.

Expected Behavior:
• The reply’s post_parent should remain linked to the original topic.
• When emptying the topics trash, the reply should be deleted along with the topic, similar to how comments are handled with regular posts.

Environment:
• bbPress latest version
• WordPress latest version
• No child theme active
• Plugin: “Enable bbPress for Block Themes”

Has anyone else experienced this, or is there a fix/workaround?

[hebhansen]

Let me try again… How can I get these links to work for my site? This a cap from wordpress.org forum.

Inside settings I have these

[Robin W]

ok, so every website is a unique combination of themes, plugins, settings and content.

Whilst WordPress has a string set of protocols that authors use, different themes and plugins may clash.

I have just tried Kadence and get an error of ‘No matching template found’.

Sorry but the instructions work for a default WordPress theme.

If you have got the site working, then great. If you still have problems, then can you ask Kadence if they can help.

Do come back if you get further info.

[vixel]

Thanks for the suggestion 🙏

However, I checked the bbp style pack plugin on WordPress.org and it doesn’t add email notification functionality to admins — it mainly adds styling options and display features for bbPress, not admin notifications. 

Do you know if we should use something like:

👉 bbPress Notify (No-Spam), a dedicated plugin that actually sends emails to site admins when new topics or replies are posted? 

Thanks again!

[Robin W]

bbpress is a ‘light’ plugin and you will need an additional plugin to ensure admins get notified

Install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>moderation

for how to set this up