[Ziga Sancin]

I’m seeing some weird freshness bugs on a bbpress installation (version 2.5.5). I’m using a different forum structure (a forum index, subforums, etc. – a traditional phpBB layout), so the bug is even more visible to the general public, but it’s certainly not the cause of these bugs, because I can easily reproduce the bug just by clicking on the trash link in the frontend or WordPress Admin and looking at the postmeta database.

I’ve tried using the admin tool to recalculate freshness, but it makes the whole situation worse. So, I have to manually change the freshness postmetas of all forums and subforums. 🙁

I’ve encountered at least three different bugs:
– wrong freshness set for parent forum and subforums after trashing a post
– wrong freshness set for forums and subforums after using freshness recalculation via admin tools
– no updated freshness set for parent forum and subforums after untrashing a post

This seems like a blocker to me. How can I help? Are those bugs covered inside bug #2414 or bug #1925?

[metsoblue]

I have been having this problem since i first installed the plugin, I am using bbPress Version 2.5.4, WordPress Version 4.1, with the theme Twenty Thirteen, and I cannot seem to get the replies to show at all, forums and topic appear fine.
I have already tried changing to Twenty Fourteen, and the problem did not disappear, and the only plugin currently active is bbPress.

[roysmyth]

I recently did a new install of bbPress (v2.5.5) on a site that had happily been running The Events Manager plugin for years. All Events Manager capabilities disappeared from all roles. According to the Events Manager support forum, I’m not the first reporting this. It was easy to fix as I had a backup of the previous capability settings, but something isn’t playing nice. WordPress 4.1.1, Events Manager 5.5.5, theme 2010.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bbpress-and-disappearing-events-manager-capabilities?replies=3#post-6698674

[rbrynest]

An update on this.

I got it to work by editing the .htaccess file.

Add this code block at the start of the file:

<FilesMatch “^(wp-login|wp-log|index)\.php$”>
Header set Set-Cookie wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check
</FilesMatch>

Regards
Rune

[Food Research Collaboration]

Hi Robkk,

Thank you for the reply. I’ve tried all the default WordPress themes from Twenty Twelve from Twenty Fifteen and the problem is still there.
I have not edited the role permisssions, no.
Any ideas on what else I can do?

[nolimit966]

Hi,

I had this issue since i very first installed BBpress along with the plugin – WP User Avatar.

The avatars are not showing in the forum at all. Its a completely bespoke WordPress theme with nothing in the functions.php to be doing any filtering or stripping out extensions of any type.
Ive also disabled every single plugin except bbpress & the avatars plugin & i still get the problem.

Can anyone please help me overcome this problem?

I did notice that in the bbpress / filters.php the line which says : add_filter( ‘bbp_get_reply_author_link’, ‘stripslashes’ ); had to be commented out because it was removing the backslashes from the avatar URL making things even worse.

I dont like the fact ive had to manipulate core code to do this. Surely there has to be a better was to get avatars working.

Thank you 🙂

[Robkk]

last patch says 19months so i wouldnt touch it.

maybe using a custom last edit log using the two template tags below would work

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_modified_date
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_modified_author

[dimplefaceCT]

Got it!!

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-a-forum-in-wordpress-with-bbpress/

[Robkk]

There is a ticket for a future release.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1989

you can hide them all with CSS

#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log, 
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log, 
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-reply-revision-log {
  display: none;
}

if you want to delete the old revisions use a plugin like WP-Sweep

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sweep/

[Robkk]

@arunkumaridi33

use this

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-forum-redirect/

edit forum 1 and scroll to the very bottom and add the url of forum 2.

save the forum

now it should redirect.

[Robkk]

use the bbPress shortcodes

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] – Display a single forums topics. eg. [bbp-single-forum id=32]

this plugin will help you out find any posts ID

https://wordpress.org/plugins/reveal-ids-for-wp-admin-25/

go to forums>all forums and you should see the ids

[Robin W]

bboress just uses wordpress registration and login, so any plugin that works for wordpress will work for bbpress.

6 Useful WordPress CAPTCHA Plugins

bbpress also rides on askimet to help prevent spam entries, just check that you have enable it within the forum settings.

Unless your site has many new users, you could easily use manual registration, it takes less than a minute to set a user up in wordpress manually. That way you stop spammers dead in the water.

[RitaNow]

I was working on optimizing the site using a tutorial from http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-ultimate-quickstart-guide-to-speeding-up-your-wordpress-site–wp-23846

When I got to the part on using the plugin “WP-DBmanager”, I backed up the database. I then repaired it. When I did the optimize part, that’s when I got the 500 error. I called the hosting company and not sure what they did. Eventually, they did a database restore from a weekly file. The error logs from that restore showed lots of errors. When I finally got the site back, the final result was the topics were there with no forums.

[tongkat ali]

HI, you can try this here, hope it will help

http://seoroi.com/specialty-services/new-seo-plugin-for-wordpress-internal-link-building/

[Theresece]

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/
maybe it is helpful.

[Lachie.A]

Hey everyone,

I’m wondering if there is any way I can change the background color of this box when I log in on my wordpress site. Please let me know of any ways that do or may work.

I have Provided a picture of what I mean below

http://gyazo.com/6aec2d82583a09e7f40eabe208a1d03e

Thanks in advance!

[Robin W]

just to jump in here

bbporess 2.5.5
wordpress 4.1.1
Twentyten theme

and no other plugins does not have this issue.

Therefoere it is likely to be a plugin or theme issue

as suggested by Robkk, suggest you

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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Robkk]

to create a forum go to forums>new forum in the wordpress backend

I don’t see how I customize it or set up topics or set up so only certain people can subscribe to it

for certain people to subscribe to it might be custom development post a job at http://jobs.wordpress.net/

Is there a video I can watch on how to start?

there is guides in the bbPress codex , but no videos

Codex

you can search youtube for a tutorial, make sure its at least in the past 2 years, anything older than that might be for the old versions of standalone bbPress.

[Robkk]

ahhh so they have admin capabilities then since they have the WordPress role of Admin.

well , when i registered through i think the BuddyPress registration form, and i cant see anywhere to get into the backend right now.

see if another plugin is causing the issue.

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.

[mvaneijgen]

‘Normal’ users get the message “You cannot create new topics.” when you add echo do_shortcode ('[bbp-topic-form]');

This is a similar topic to this message created almost three years ago, has anyone a solution for the current (latest) version of bbpress and wordpress.

[madvibes]

Wordpress defines User roles as: Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor, Administrator. Admin being the highest level of control, obviously.

BBpress seems to have roles defined as: Keymaster, Moderator, Participant, Spectator, Blocked.

I have WP set to give new users Subscriber role
I have BBpress set to give new users Participant role

HOWEVER, when somebody creates an account in BBpress, they are given the Forum role of Participant BUT the WordPress role of Administrator.

The site is http://bkparties.com/bkbp-resourcecenter/

[Garrett Hyder]

Thanks @robkk,

I appreciate that, I’ll go through some CPTs next week and play with the settings to see what the cause is and if it’s a setting will notify bbpress, etc. Otherwise if it’s a general CPT issue will raise with WordPress.

Enjoy your weekend
Cheers

[madvibes]

I think it’s bbpress, actually. I have wordpress set to give new users only Subscriber level access, which is fine. when somebody registers for the forum through bbpress, they are given administrator level access. If i register a new user outside of bbpress, they get Subscriber.

[Robkk]

@madvibes

its not bbPress its a WordPress thing.

you can deactivate your bbPress then switch to a user that is a subscriber then see if you can reach the WordPress Backend.

usually if the role is not admin it wont show plugin settings , theme/plugin editor , or anything they shouldn’t touch. they should only edit their profile.

but like i said if the subscriber user has admin capabilities , thats a real issue.

[madvibes]

Thanks, i’ll look into that. BUT *why* would BBpress give a newly registered forum user admin-level access to wordpress. it makes NO sense at all.