You do not need to create a page at all just create a custom link in the menus section to /forums on your site.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_Screen#Custom_Links
What button?? What welcome message, the howdy, user message??
I think you need to run the repair tools to recalculate the topic count. The repair tools are in Tools > Forums in the WordPress backend.
@jrunfitpro
Sorry for the late reply.
Since you said it is not a plugin issue causing it and you have done other troubleshooting to see if a code snippet in a theme could be causing it, create a test user, just a participant/subscriber user, then you can deactivate bbPress so I can see the issue you are getting. Contact me through email so that you do not need to post login details on the forum.
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@bdsand
If you have already done some troubleshooting and have not found an issue, you can let me test to see what could be causing the issue too.
Could be an issue with theme compatibility in bbPress. To get around that make a bbpress.php file in your theme.
Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template
You can see what WordPress conditionals affect what bbPress pages by using the test that is explain in this ticket from the user. Or you can check the theme compat file in bbPress.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2723
Did you place the forum index shortcode into a static WordPress page?? Does clearing cache fix the issue??
Troubleshooting
Hi. I’m working with bbpress in a child theme, and I’m having a couple of strange issues in a remote environment that I think I can’t reproduce locally.
One is related to Profile pages. If I log as a certain user and then visit other user profile (in my case, the administrator profile), the displayed page may not be the correct one. Let me explain:
I worked with admin user a lot, but sometimes I log with a subscriber role in order to develop different contents, meaning the admin can see things than subscribers cannot. Well, being a subscriber suddenly I can see button that I shouldn’t see when visiting the admin page. And more: the “welcome username” message is wrong, showing the admin name instead of the subscriber.
Conclusion: some pages are some-way cached. Editing them via FTP and saving again the files solves the issue.
Second issue: the topic count (bbp_forum_topic_count method) sometimes displays the wrong number of topics if I previously deleted some. In my case, I deleted 5 topics. But the counter was wrong. So I went to Topics->Trash, removed just one permanently an now to count works just fine.
So, for this second issue I’d like to know if there’s a bbpress cache for counting or something.
Notice my remote environment doesn’t have any cache enabled. And I don’t have any wordpress cache plugin installed. And also as I’m developing I have rules in .htaccess to avoid cache as much as I can. But anyway something is going on and I can’t trust my installation until I discover what it is.
Thanks in advance.
@davidschwartzer,
For issues with the specific plugin, can I ask you to open a support request on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-manage-subscriptions ?
Thanks,
Pascal.
@joviyach
If it can help, I have just uploaded the new version of my personal plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-manage-subscriptions/ where you can play with the ‘Oh Bother! message (hide it, set a different text, …)
My plugin is adapted to my own needs, but feel free to use it. And give me more ideas to implement !
Pascal.
@casiepa
Per forum moderation is in 2.6 alpha if I remember correctly. So I assume it should ship with 2.6.
In my reply in that topic I got my information from the bbPress milestone roadmap, and also the feature was not complete til about 3 months ago, 3 months before that reply.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap
Huh didn’t know Robin’s plugin could do that, that’s pretty cool.
@davidschwartzer
I just had another check at your website and I fully agree with robkk that you have very strange slugs.
If it can help, I have just uploaded the new version of my personal plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-manage-subscriptions/ where you can play with the ‘Oh Bother! message (hide it, set a different text, …)
My plugin is adapted to my own needs, but feel free to use it. And give me more ideas to implement !
It might help you with the message, but please review your whole setup.
Pascal.
I digged a bit further because I was almost sure that it could do it… and it seems so. Check out https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/
According to https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/per-forum-permissions-by-group/page/5/ v1.7 had : Moderators can now be set to moderate all forums or just their group ones (plus any open forums)
To be tested of course if it helps with your question.
Pascal.
Clicking the hidden link should show the normal post lists of either replies with the spam posts (either caught by Akismet or a moderator) marked with a red tint.
In the WordPress backend filtering the posts to only see spam posts, then you can see the actual text content by clicking the little icon in this image.
Robb:
I shoulkd have also added that I did not change or add to any of the slugs that are set up in the Forums console within WordPress.
Robkk:
Thanks for your note. Let me respond to some of your questions with what I know (which isn’t much).
I created the forum by trying to follow the steps in the Step by Step guide provided on the bbPress site. I have not done any editing of the template other than adding some css to make the topics flow in a list, rather than horizontally as is the default layout and also to change the comment text to black instead of gray. I am also using a couple of plug-ins. One is called bbPress New UI which changes the basic layout but doesn’t seem to otherwise change the forum plug-in. The other is called Bbpress Login Register Links On Forum Topic Pages, which does what the title says.
I am not using a child theme currently but I have deactivated all of the plug-ins so what you should now see is the default bbPress forum that is created.
I hope this is helpful. Let me know if you need anything else from me to help figure this out.
I am new to WordPress and bbPress and clearly have a lot to learn. I appreciate your assistance with all of this.
Regards,
David
@davidschwartzer
Your forum urls for each section is weird for some reason. Have you added a slug that is something like this forums/forum for the forum root slug in Settings > Forums in the WordPress backend?
Your forums archive page is blank and only showing a sidebar login widget.
appletechtalk.com/forums/
Yet strangely here is how your forum archive should look like and yet it is in a single forum page. Since this is a single forum page there is a reason there is this notice, as single forums should have topics and not a forum archive. I think you could have possibly echoed a forum index shortcode in the single forum bbPress template?? I am not sure though, I am just guessing.
Oh bother! No topics were found here!
appletechtalk.com/forums/forum/forums/
A single forum page should have this by default.
yoursite.com/forums/forum/forum-name/
Or if you have categories
yoursite.com/forums/forum/category-name/forum-name
Your topics are fine though.
appletechtalk.com/forums/topic/notes-not-syncing/
I am not sure how much template editing you may have done, but can you rename your bbpress folder in your child theme to like bbpress-1 so I could see without any template edits what were your original issues then I can try to help you on that.
Sorry you had to start over, but glad you got bbPress working fine on your site.
Make sure to take regular backups, so that you do not have to just redo everything and just restore to a previously saved backup.
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
Backing up your Database and Files
In a single forum or a topic, you would usually see a description like this describing what a topic or forum contains.
This topic contains 12 replies (+ 1 hidden), has 1 voice, and was last updated by robkk 6 days, 7 hours ago.
To see any all the posts especially those marked as spam per forum/topic just click the (+ 1 hidden) , “1” is how many topics/replies are marked as spam or pending moderation.
To just see all of the topics/replies sitewide marked as spam/pending, login into your WordPress backend and to see all the topics go to Topics > All TOpics and you should see an action link labeled spam and pending to filter the posts. Similar with replies except it is Replies > All Replies.
Here is an example of the action links in Topics > All Topics.
I do not think there is any plugins for this but this functionality should be in the 2.6 version of bbPress.
Here is the trac ticket.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/459
This might be related to your theme and bbPress theme compatibility. I think what you are experiencing is similar to what other theme frameworks could experience with bbPress.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2545
There might be a workaround for this though by using the template you are already using and creating a bbpress.php template from that so that all your bbPress pages you that template.
Use what the file to find out what template is being used from your theme for the other bbPress pages, then copy that template and rename it bbpress.php.
Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template
I have a fairly large vbulletin 4.0.3 forum (sql dump installed locally), and am currently testing importing it into bbPress on a local xampplite install. I have a clean install of WordPress 4.3.1 and latest bbPress. Running the importer, it has run through 1600 users, 1300 topics and so far 4200 replies (100 at a time), at which it has paused, with the wheel turning happily. My question is, what’s causing the pause? Are there limits (such as sql queries per hour) that I can change to speed up the process? And if so, where do I change them? Given it’s a local install, I’m not worried about performance impact if I allocate max resources to this task. Any info welcome!
And how long should I let it spin before deciding it’s stuck and terminating it?
TIA
Hi,
I’d like to know if it would be possible to get a preview of posts that are in the spam folder. I have the function in WordPress.
Akismet is quite sure but I’d like to check out for guests are allowed to post and my own posts as a guest had been sent in the spam folder.
I thank you in advance
Regards
Mei Ling
Hi, I tried again to post this bug on track, but I got a “you have not ticket privileges”, so I’ll try to report it here since it can be a very general issue.
My blog is set with a permalink structure like %category%/%postname% WITHOUT a trailing slash. But on bbpress file ajax.php on function bbp_get_ajax_url() the url is generated with a trailingslashit( $wp->request ).
WordPress sends back a redirect whene there is a trailing slash and the subscription fails with an alert “undefined”. Removing the trailingslashit(…) everything works fine.
There is a specific reason for that use of trailingslashit()?
Thank you, Kasi.
My site is appletechtalk.com running WordPress 4.3.1 and the current version of bbPres.
When a user enters text into a topic box, the font color is a light gray and very hard to see. Can anyone tell me how I can change the text color for text in that box?
Thanks,
David
I have gone through the prior threads on this issue and I still can’t change the text in the Oh Bother box.
My site is appletechtalk.com. If you click on the Forums taband look at the bottom of the page, you will see the Oh Bother! text.
I have modified the feedback-no-forums.php file so that the text line reads “Please select a topic”. I thought that would be easier than trying to remove the box completely (which is what I would rather do).
I placed the file into my child theme. First I put it in the root of the bbpress directory and that did not help. I also recreated the directory structure in my child theme:
bbpress/templates/default
and that didn’t help either.
I am new to WordPress and bbPress as well as css and php files so I have a bit of a learning curve but I’m wondering if you have any thoughts on why this isn’t working.
Thanks,
David
Stephen:
I have gone through this topic thread and I still can’t change the text in the Oh Bother box.
My site is appletechtalk.com. If you click on the Forums taband look at the bottom of the page, you will see the Oh Bother! text.
I have modified the feedback-no-forums.php file so that the text line reads “Please select a topic”. I thought that would be easier than trying to remove the box completely (which is what I would rather do).
I placed the file into my child theme. First I put it in the root of the bbpress directory and that did not help. I also recreated the directory structure in my child theme:
bbpress/templates/default
and that didn’t help either.
I am new to WordPress and bbPress as well as css and php files so I have a bit of a learning curve but I’m wondering if you have any thoughts on why this isn’t working.
Thanks,
David
