[MarkOlbert]

Okay, I figured it out: turns out the default forum home page uses whatever you’ve defined for Posts Archive, at least if you’re using Elementor, like I am.

So I updated my links to refer to the forums target, edited the Posts Archive template in Elementor to include the forum index short code, and everything appears to work.

I also changed the Elementor display conditions for the template and restricted it to just Forum Archive (or Forum Posts, I don’t remember offhand), just in case I want to define a different template for other Posts Archives later on.

[Robin W]

Doing anything involves finding out where and why this is happening.

If we find that, then we can look at possible causes and potential solutions.

I am yet to be convinced it is a bbpress issue at all. bbpress uses this element when a user inserts a link – that is true, but it is a generic piece of wordpress code. This is a bit like saying because Fred cuts his lawn, any lawn that is cut must have been cut by Fred.

I am not seeing this form on any pages in my test site.

The code is in some javascript in the footer, and could be loaded by anything, including a wordpress setting, theme or plugin.

so can you

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

[Vivian E]

@robin-w exactly it’s a WordPress element that’s only suppose to load on the backend! I use bbpress plugin and what BBpress does is that it causes this element to load on the front end! so that people who want to post a new topic or reply to an existing one can edict their texts and insert links. For example right now if you are tying something on bbpress and try to make word a link, you tap on the link in the editor menu and you will see “that wordpress element” pop out.

I use Bbpress plugin and that elment shows up visibly when users want to link a text as well!
BBpress causes that backend “wordpress element” to show up on the front end.

The thing is even when the “wordpress element” is not visibly seen i.e when a user is trying to edict a link when typing a new Topic on the Forum. “The wordpress element” can still be seen hidden in “the source code” of the page and other pages even when not visibility seen. This doesn’t disrupt the user experience but here is the reason why I have a problem with this;

SEO

The “wordpress element” has a H1 tag. when it’s loading in the front end. My pages has it’s H1 tittle which I put there. So the H1 tag tittle tag on my page and the H1 tag on that “wordpress element” on the source code makes for redundant (2) H1 tags on my site page.

Apparently search engines like Bing has a big issue with redundant H1 tags and shows it in my Bing webmaster report as a critical SEO error that need to be fixed. while search engines like Google have no problem with this.

Is there a way that when BBpress pulls that “wordpress element” (that by default loads only at the backend) to the front end, it changes the tag on that “wordpress element” to a H3 tag??

[Robin W]

ok, I cannot say why that is happening.

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

[cwgah22]

I have followed the advice in the support documentation and created a “bbpress.php” copy of a working template. I have also verified using “What The File” that the page is correctly referencing the “bbpress.php” template. I have also installed “bbp style pack” and activated the FSE setting. Despite this, the header is only displaying some of the information correctly.

This is how the page should be displayed
But this is how it is actually displaying

I am using a custom-made theme derived from the twentytwentytwo default, with modifications using Greenshift blocks. If anyone has any advice or ideas as to what could be causing the header to only be partially displayed correctly would be appreciated.

WP version 6.1.1
bbPress version 2.6.9

[Robin W]

that’s great – thanks

so on my test site, I hid a forum and logged in as a participant, and the index shows fine.

so we need to work out what the difference between your site and my test site is.

so initially let’s eliminate outside factors such as 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]

on 2. previous advice applies

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

[veganishdotworld]

Interesting, now I can see that apparently Keymaster was automatically populated for my 2 admin people, and participant was automatically populated for a couple of authors (ones who have submitted content). For 2 authors who have not yet submitted content, nothing was automatically populated.

However, I went in to edit user and added them as participants. When I go back to edit user, it retains that I chose that for that user, it’s shown there, but when I look at “all users” it appears as if nothing has been selected for them yet, under the BBpress role. But perhaps that will start to appear once those authors have submitted a post?

I’m going to experiment with logging in as different usernames to test this and see if it works. I have not uninstalled bbpress yet, as so far I’m thinking maybe it won’t be necessary. Perhaps, hopefully, it was only the issue of needing to switch from Default view to CLASSIC VIEW, under users, to see the proper user options for BBPress.

[veganishdotworld]

Robin, thanks once again for all of these tips.
I’ve been logged in as admin / owner of site and when I go to users, all users, it has tabs at the top that say team, followers, email subscribers, invites.

When I look at a user, it has the radio buttons with several options for roles, the wordpress standard ones, followed by the bbpress ones, and no distinction between the two, they are just in a running list, and you cannot pick more than one.

Oh! I just remembered, there is a little white rectangle in the upper right corner that allows you to choose DEFAULT VIEW (what I’m seeing) or CLASSIC VIEW. I just changed that, and now I’m seeing “Side by Side” columns like what you are describing.

Wow! That’s important.

[Robin W]

I suspect your theme is amending how forums display, as these are not in a grid by default, and the ‘all discussions’ is not what I woudl exoect [bbp-forum-index] to show.

So I’d still need a link to this to see what is being downloaded.

[Robin W]

It’s so odd that bbpress wouldn’t let people….

you do need to accept that your site is unique – there is no other WordPress site that is ‘exactly’ the same, you have a combination of php versions, theme, plugins pages, posts and numerous settings that no-one else has.

Therefore, please do not assume that what you are seeing is what everyone sees –

setting wordpress and bbpress roles to both exist is normal, what you are seeing is not.

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]

there are wordpress roles – administrator, editor, author etc.
and there are bbpress roles – keymaster, moderator, participant etc.

The two exist side by side

Private forums can only be accessed by people with a bbpress role.

The default role given to wordpress users is set up in

dashboard>settings>forums>role

That way you can decide who sees what.

If you have existing users, you can just allocate them the participant role (typically) in dashboard>users>all users> and edit each user.

[Robin W]

thanks – ok I’m not seeing this, so either it is a setting, or a combination of theme/plugins

maybe try
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 events calendar 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

[Chuckie]

I see:

https://stackoverflow.com/q/65297279/2287576

I think easiest is to drop the defaultness of first parameter in function declaration.

[Robin W]

ok, suspect that the membership plugin or another plugin is affecting that.

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

[ianhaneybs]

The issues I am having with it is below

1) On https://beechwoodsolutions.co.uk/sites/tftdirectorysite/forums/forum/forum/ I login and it redirects me to the wordpress default login page at https://beechwoodsolutions.co.uk/sites/tftdirectorysite/wp-login.php but if I click back in the browser, it has logged me in and I can post a new topic but don’t want front end users to see the default wordpress login page, I just want them to login and then create a new topic

Will that plugin bbp style pack solve the issue I am having with it?

[Robin W]

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]

ah, found the function that the ajax call is doing.

this code works on my test site

function remove_sep ($args) {
$args['before'] = '  ' ;
return $args ;
}

add_filter ('bbp_before_get_topic_subscribe_link_parse_args', 'remove_sep') ;

remove_action( 'bbp_ajax_subscription', array( 'BBP_Default', 'ajax_subscription' ) );

add_action ( 'bbp_ajax_subscription', 'new_ajax_subscription');

function new_ajax_subscription() {

		// Bail if subscriptions are not active
		if ( ! bbp_is_subscriptions_active() ) {
			bbp_ajax_response( false, esc_html__( 'Subscriptions are no longer active.', 'bbpress' ), 300 );
		}

		// Bail if user is not logged in
		if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
			bbp_ajax_response( false, esc_html__( 'Please login to subscribe.', 'bbpress' ), 301 );
		}

		// Get user and topic data
		$user_id = bbp_get_current_user_id();
		$id      = ! empty( $_POST['id']   ) ? intval( $_POST['id'] )         : 0;
		$type    = ! empty( $_POST['type'] ) ? sanitize_key( $_POST['type'] ) : 'post';

		// Bail if user cannot add favorites for this user
		if ( ! current_user_can( 'edit_user', $user_id ) ) {
			bbp_ajax_response( false, esc_html__( 'You do not have permission to do this.', 'bbpress' ), 302 );
		}

		// Get the object
		if ( 'post' === $type ) {
			$object = get_post( $id );
		}

		// Bail if topic cannot be found
		if ( empty( $object ) ) {
			bbp_ajax_response( false, esc_html__( 'Subscription failed.', 'bbpress' ), 303 );
		}

		// Bail if user did not take this action
		if ( ! isset( $_POST['nonce'] ) || ! wp_verify_nonce( $_POST['nonce'], 'toggle-subscription_' . $object->ID ) ) {
			bbp_ajax_response( false, esc_html__( 'Are you sure you meant to do that?', 'bbpress' ), 304 );
		}

		// Take action
		$status = bbp_is_user_subscribed( $user_id, $object->ID )
			? bbp_remove_user_subscription( $user_id, $object->ID )
			:    bbp_add_user_subscription( $user_id, $object->ID );

		// Bail if action failed
		if ( empty( $status ) ) {
			bbp_ajax_response( false, esc_html__( 'The request was unsuccessful. Please try again.', 'bbpress' ), 305 );
		}

		// Put subscription attributes in convenient array
		$attrs = array(
			'object_id'   => $object->ID,
			'object_type' => $type,
			'user_id'     => $user_id
		);

		// Add separator to topic if favorites is active
		if ( ( 'post' === $type ) && ( bbp_get_topic_post_type() === get_post_type( $object ) ) && bbp_is_favorites_active() ) {
			$attrs['before'] = '  ';
		}

		// Action succeeded
		bbp_ajax_response( true, bbp_get_user_subscribe_link( $attrs, $user_id, false ), 200 );
}

[Nowarah]

I need to add a class to the dropdown topic select_class.
the original function is:

function bbp_get_form_topic_status_dropdown( $args = array() ) {

        // Parse arguments against default values
        $r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
            'select_id'    => 'bbp_topic_status',
            'select_class' => 'bbp_dropdown',
            'tab'          => false,
            'topic_id'     => 0,
            'selected'     => false
        ), 'topic_open_close_select' );

        // Filter & return
        return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_form_topic_status_dropdown', ob_get_clean(), $r, $args );
    }

I tired to use this but didnt work

function custom_callback($args = array() ) {
    
        $r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
            
            'select_class' => 'my-class',
            
        ) );
        
        return  $r;

}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_form_topic_status_dropdown', 'custom_callback', 12, 2);

[codejp3]

@robin-w or another mod – can you please delete:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/template-in-block-themes/#post-232249 (#post-232249)
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/template-in-block-themes/#post-232250 (#post-232250)
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/template-in-block-themes/#post-232256 (#post-232256)
They had issues and take up a lot of wasted space.

Seriously done this time! No more changes/revisions! It is what it is!

Posting a much cleaner revision of the code above.

• This one will work with either the BBPress Style Pack plugin template (looks great!) or the default BBPress template (looks horrible!).
• It will optionally include the required ‘template-canvas.php’ only if it’s missing.
• It will also only affect BBPress pages, not the rest of the site.
• It will also only affect FSE Block themes.
• If using default BBPress templates, it includes checks for if on forum root index page and loads extras/archive-forum.php (to prevent double-listing of the forum index), and loads extras/page-front-forums.php for “the rest of bbpress” (to prevent “nothing found” errors)

// function to include the wp-includes/template-canvas.php file if needed
function fse_bbpress_template( $template ) {
	
	if ( is_bbpress() ) {
	
		$template = ABSPATH . WPINC . '/template-canvas.php';
		
	}
	
	return $template;
	
}

// function to include the bbpress forum template file if needed
function fse_bbp_theme_compat( $template ) {

	if ( is_bbpress() ) {

		// BBPress Style Pack Plugin Forums Index Template
		if ( defined( 'BSP_PLUGIN_DIR' ) ) {

			$template = BSP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/templates/bbpress.php';

		} else {

			// Default BBPress
			// if current page is bbpress forum root page, load archive-forum to prevent double-listing of index
			if ( isset( get_queried_object()->name ) ) {
				if ( get_queried_object()->name == 'forum' ) {

					$template = WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/extras/archive-forum.php';

				}

			// else, load page-front-forums or the rest of bbpress is broken with empty pages
			} else {

				$template = WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/extras/page-front-forums.php';

			}
			
		}
		
	}
	
	return $template;

}

// main function for handling which theme file needs to be included
if ( ! function_exists( 'fse_bbpress_support' ) ) {
	function fse_bbpress_support() {
		
		// get current theme dir
		$theme_dir = get_template_directory();

		/* 
		* Detect if FSE theme or traditional.
		* FSE Block themes require a theme.json file.
		* Use that to check instead of theme name or parent theme name.
		* Perhaps a better method is available, but this works for now
		*/ 		
		if ( file_exists( $theme_dir . '/theme.json' ) ) {

			// include wp-includes/template-canvas.php only if needed
			if ( !basename( get_page_template() ) == 'template-canvas.php' ) {

				add_filter( 'template_include', 'fse_bbpress_template' );

			}

			// include either the BSP template, or default BBPress template
			add_filter ( 'bbp_template_include_theme_compat', 'fse_bbp_theme_compat' );

		}
	
	}
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'fse_bbpress_support' );

One issue with EVERY default BBPress template is that the header/footer/sidebar are trying to be pulled from template files that don’t exist in block themes. They’re being included, but don’t look right. I’m not sure of the best solution for that, other than to use the BBPress Style Pack Plugin which takes care of that and looks great.

[Robin W]

no, I need to see what is being downloaded to your browser.

alternately :

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

[codejp3]

Using the clues in this topic, this is what I have working for ANY FSE Block theme with the wonderful style-pack plugin:

function fse_bbpress_template( $template ) {
	$template = ABSPATH . WPINC . '/template-canvas.php';
	return $template;
}

function fse_bbp_theme_compat( $template ) {
	$template= BSP_PLUGIN_DIR.'/templates/bbpress.php';
	return $template;
}

if ( ! function_exists( 'fse_bbpress_support' ) ) {
	function fse_bbpress_support() {
		// gt current theme dir
		$theme_dir = get_template_directory();

		// Detect if FSE theme or traditional.
		// FSE Block themes require a theme.json file.
		// Use that to check instead of theme name or parent theme name.
		// Perhaps a better method is available, but this works for now.
		$fse_theme = false;
		if ( file_exists( $theme_dir.'/theme.json' ) ) { $fse_theme = true; }
		
		if ( !$fse_theme ) { return; }
		
		// disabled because it doesn't seem to be needed, regardless of style pack 
		// $bsp_style_settings_theme_support['twentytwentytwo_activate'] setting
		// template-canvas.php seems to be included by default
		
		//add_filter( 'template_include', 'fse_bbpress_template' );
		
		add_filter ( 'bbp_template_include_theme_compat' , 'fse_bbp_theme_compat' );
	
	}
	
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'fse_bbpress_support' );

and this little helper function helped me figure out what template was getting loaded in the first place:

function fse_bbpress_print_template() {
	if ( is_bbpress() ) {
		//echo at the bottom of the page visibly
		echo get_page_template();
		
		// or echo the template silently as an HTML comment
		// echo '<!-- ' . get_page_template() . ' -->';
	}
}
// DISABLE THIS ACTION HOOK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! DO NOT LEAVE IT ACTIVE WHEN DEBUGGING IS DONE!
add_action( 'bbp_template_after_forums_loop', 'fse_bbpress_print_template' );

I’ve tried this on a few different FSE Block themes, and BBPress is displaying properly, and the style tweaks from the wonderful Style-Pack plugin are being applied.

Like I said, it’s working regardless of the $bsp_style_settings_theme_support[‘twentytwentytwo_activate’] setting within the BSP plugin, but it uses the template from the plugin so it would still need to be installed an active, even without any styling tweaks applied.

It’s not a permanent solution, but perhaps aspects of this could be applied to the BSP plugin, or your own custom solution.

[noggin888]

Hello,

Thank you for such great plugin, very promising so far.

I have a few questions regarding login/ register. Yes, I have searched through the documentations and support but could not find any answer regarding these.

Installed theme/ plugins: free Astra theme, wp 6.0.2, bbpress 2.6.9, bbp style pack 5.0.8.

1. I have set up login box in the sidebar, and I would like to remove the default login box below topics/ posts. How is this done?

2. What is the best way to reduce the size of the login background box? I have attempted using SiteOrigin but when I it I’m shown the hover attribute so I can’t identify it to make the adjustment.

3. I would like to also try placing login link in below the main menu (like its done here in bbpress forum). How is this done? I do have “bbp style pack” plugin installed, but it places the login in the main menu bar, which I do not want.

Thank you in advance.

[wujackwu]

Based on my recent trouble-shooting, your issue could be caused by two potential reasons:

1. Your CDN service provider altered the link to your video file. You might want try turning it off, so that the address of your video would change back to something like https://yourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cute_dog.mp4?time=1664812918, which is the actual location of your file. You may also check the source code of our pole line hardware website, on which we encountered a similar issue a few months ago. (We bought Godaddy’s WP plan, and its default CDN setting was turned on. We now use Cloudflare. A much better CDN. )
2. Or, it may be caused by conflicting plugins installed on your website. Which means the embed function cannot work properly. You could try disable them all and flush your server cache to find the culprit.

Personally, if you are code-savvy, I would recommend employing a method called lite youtube embed for videos. Simply put, it reduces page loading time by serving your video only after the viewer hit PLAY, which drastically reduces the amount of data transferred on page load.

That’s all I can come up with based on your information. Best of luck!!

[Robin W]

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