[crankymillenial]

Wordpress version 6.5.4
bbpress version 2.6.9
hipsbc.ca

I took over managing this website from another agency that created their own theme and had BBPress already installed. After installing BBPress there should be a “forum” button on the left sidebar of the wordpress dashboard but it is not showing up. I cannot figure out why its not showing up. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin and turned off other plugins to see if one is interfering with another. Neither troubleshooting method solved my problem.

I appreciate any help! I’ve searched through the forums to see if anyone else ran into a similar problem but don’t see a solution.

[Robin W]

ok, so you need to get emails working, as this is essential for your site to work long term.

so the email adress taht emails are sent to is in

dashboard>settings>general>administration email address

you should make sure that this is a valid address and is working.

You can use

Check & Log Email

to test emails, and see what are being sent.

If you enable logging, youshould see the error email in the log

[Robin W]

this is a known bug.

either

if( !function_exists( 'bbpress_browser_supports_js' ) ){
	function bbpress_browser_supports_js() {
		echo '<script>document.body.classList.remove("no-js");</script>';
	}
	add_action( 'wp_footer', 'bbpress_browser_supports_js' );
} 

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

or

[koderius]

Hi all,
I`m using BBpress on a wordpress website with Elementor Pro – When a YouTube share link is embedded inside a forum topic it does not seem to be responsive when viewed from a mobile device.

The rest of the forum page looks fine on mobile it`s only the Youtube video that is not resizing according to the mobile dimensions.

Is there a solution to this?

[Robin W]

Looking at your site, I think you are using one of the new block or 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, you will find instructions on how to set up

[pjcondit]

Hello,
Wordpress version 6.5.4
bbpress version 2.6.9
buildingbetterleaders.blog

I’m using Bluehost as provider and blog theme called Version 3 (labeled as version 1.0.0 and called a child theme of YITH Wonder).

I’m very new to WordPress, brand new to bbpress, and brand new to bluehost. I followed the directions to install bbpress, create a forum, and create a topic. I see those in my dashboard. My root slug is set to ‘forums’ and the permalink is setting is ‘postname.’

Nothing appears at https://buildingbetterleaders.blog/forums/

I appreciate any help! I’ve searched through the forums. Most people are getting their forum to appear. I couldn’t find a topic like this one.

[sunshineday77]

I’m experiencing this issue as well in June 2024.

I don’t seem to have the Repair Forums option in bbpress > Tools

Reply is slow for posting and for replying to first level posts.

WordPress 6.5.4

Any help would be greatly appreciated. People are posting multiple times because they think it’s not processing when they hit submit.

[Robin W]

this is free software with free support offered by volunteers who do not get paid anything.

You come across as slightly rude and entitled, but I’m sure you do not mean to do so.

However it looks like I was wrong when I said the style pack has a fix – I may have removed it following buddypress 12 being released,.

This plugin bridges bbpress and the newer versions of buddypress – if that does not fix, do come back.

BP Classic

[Robin W]

you’ll want to set logging but not display

see

https://www.hostinger.co.uk/tutorials/debug-wordpress item 2

and my style pack includes fixes for the above loader.phop errors

bbp style pack

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Freshness Display

[Robin W]

ok, so if you can’t the fields, that means they aren’t being saved.

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

[zachf]

Hi Folks,

I’m setting up a training website for a small company. The site consists of posted training materials and a BBPress user forum. I’ve noticed that when I update the production site from our development site the posts in the forum on the production site are overwritten. After each upgrade the forum in production only contains the test posts made in the development environment.

As far as I can tell this is because both the training pages and the BBPress forum are stored in the ‘wp_posts’ database. I’ve tested migrating all database tables except ‘wp_posts’ and confirmed that the forum is not overwritten, unfortunately, neither is the training content on other pages. Is there anyway to migrate page content from the development environment to the production environment without overriding user posts in the forum?

(BBPress version 2.6.9)
(WordPress site supported via WPEngine)

Thank you for you help!
Zach

[Robin W]

if it is, you can test by deactivating style pack

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]

I’ve added that capability to my style lack plugin, so add this to your site

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Topic/Reply Form

and you will see options for this in items 19,20 & 21

[Robin W]

So if you are already using my style pack plugin, the new version 6.0.3 contains a new tab for ‘Topic Form Additional Fields’

If you haven’t then install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Topic Form Additional Fields

and you’ll see how to set up and style additional fields.

The plugin has lots more useful features as well

[teresaanderson]

Hi All – I’m a newbie to WordPress. I’m using the twenty twenty three theme to build a forum. I would like to allow users to post anonymously but the template requires them to enter name, email address (with an optional website field). I’d like to remove all three of those fields, but don’t know how. I’ve found some sites that suggest editing the template file. I have no idea how to do that. I’m pretty good at using YouTube and Google to find answers on my own, but this one is stumping me. Any help you can produce is greatly appreciated.

[Robin W]

as a quick test, can you try

install https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/

and add this code

function rew_astra_bbpress_fix ($value) {
		if (bbp_is_single_user()) return false ;
		if (bbp_is_search()) return false ;
		if (bbp_is_topic_tag()) return false ;
		if (bbp_is_single_view()) return false ;
return $value ;
}

add_filter ('astra_single_layout_one_banner_visibility', 'rew_astra_bbpress_fix', 50) ;

[kristenkoster]

I have been unable to set specific moderators on individual Forums and have had to resort to setting their user forum role to moderator. When I edit the individual forum and enter a user name and save I get no error message but it does not get saved, the box remains empty. This used to work, using bbpress in the past — MemberPress is the new bit in the mix.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
———
Wordpress: 6.5.3
bbPress 2.6.9

Unfortunately, our forums are all protected through MemberPress so a link isn’t going to be useful.

Other related plugins installed and activated:
MemberPress Pro 1.11.31
bbp style pack 5.9.8
bbpNNS/MemberPress Bridge 1.3.1
bbPress Notify (No-Spam) 2.18.3
bbPress Notify (No-Spam) Digests 2.4
bbPress Notify (No-Spam) Reply by Email 2.8
GD bbPress Attachments 4.7

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>theme support

[Robin W]

Now available as an option in

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>column display

[Robin W]

Inline Image Upload for BBPress

[Robin W]

I remove 10-20 from this site weekly.

bbpress just uses wordpress registration, so this article (picked at random from a quick google of ‘stop wordpress spam registration’ might be useful

https://www.malcare.com/blog/stop-wordpress-registration-spam/

askismet is also very good.

Homepage

[tim4962]

If asking for help, please include your WordPress version, bbPress version, and a link to your site.

1. WordPress 6.5.3
2. bbPress 2.6.9
3. Used plugin, “bbpress style Pack” for bbPress.

All About The Colors for the following text: Forum Topics Posts Last Post
My site: https://gtl.news/podcast/forum-index/ – The Text Is White, this is what I want.

Problem, I click on the active post topic and the text is Black on a blue banner at the top of page.

Forum Topics Posts Last Post Text is Black, I need white.
My site Problem: https://gtl.news/podcast/forums/forum/admin-messages-timothy-thompson/

How do I change it so the text is also white? I have FTP if I need to change the CSS, I just need to know what file and location.

I would be immensely thankful.

Thank You, Tim T

[gdj13]

Hey friends I am very much a noob when it comes to BBpress so apologies if this question has been asked before, I have searched the support forum and Googled a whole bunch but to no luck.

I am planning the development strategy for my client’s new website and they have requested a product review forum on the website so customers can review their products on the forum. So my question to you is, is there a way to add by default some review fields in the text editor of the Topic that the user has to complete to display at the top of the topic before posting it? There will be other Forums so it would only need to be on this particular Forum. So for example…

The forum is on say laptops they retail, so the review fields would be laid out similarly to below for example
Brand:
Spec:
RAM:
Graphics:
then below would be their description of the laptop.

WordPress version: 6.5.3
BBpress version: 2.6.9
No site as yet, it’s still in the planning stage but this is my site.

[Chris Ostmo]

Thank you for your time and input. It is very much appreciated!

As a very long-time WordPress developer, I can state with confidence that a function that returns trashed posts by default is abnormal and unexpected, and not having a way to override such behavior is practically unheard-of in well-used, public plugins. I can’t think of another example.

I’ve made attempts in the past to gain employment from WordPress/Automattic because of issues like this that I’d really like to dig into, not to mention some pieces of Jetpack that I’d love to tweak. I haven’t had any luck getting a response from them through their very odd job application process.

That trac link you provided is probably the link I needed when I posted here instead. Thanks again.