[Robin W]

both the top and bottom login links are the default login, they were there to start with

which probably suggests they are theme related.

bbpress just passes details to WordPress login, and if the theme is also using WordPress login, it may well be that on a single page you have 3 things sending info to WordPress authorisation, so any one might send an ‘after login’ redirect, and it might be different dependant on which is completed.

If you also have membership plugins active, then these might also catch a login and do a redirect.

computers are consistent (often annoying so!) so it might be either different logins, or other changes you are making to membership that are affecting.

I’d start by stripping back and working out what is doing what.

so

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see what changes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins, and see what the login at the top and bottom do. Then add bbpress and see what changes.

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 can only suggest you look at possible conflicts

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]

2.5 should upgrade quite easily, so either your upgrade has failed, or you have another issue.

new versions of bbpress are unlikely to help, as tens of thousands of bbpress users are already at 2.6.6 without problem.

I can only suggest that you create a copy of your site that you can test in and then

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.

You can use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting needing to deactivate lots of plugins

Health Check & Troubleshooting

[Robin W]

always learning – I’ve never considered that a plugin would stop caching to mobiles 🙂

Basically it is extra code to not cache mobiles – you have to find out what the http request is coming from and then stop the default cached request. you need to have a list of mobiles to work this out.

Normally you would only do this if your mobile site needed different output, rather than not be cached!

So seems that your plugin is really just a shop door to a paid product.

I’ve always used w3 total cache, but then it was the first one I picked many years ago, and it seems to work fine, so I just keep using it.

it does have the ability to turn off mobile caching, use a different theme, or redirect to a different site.

[pflanzenoma]

Hello Robin,

the unread/read Icon is not displayed, neither the default ones of bbp Style Pack nor the pictures I defined with complete URL.

How can I switch them on?
Site: exoten-forum.de/site

greetings
Pflanzenoma

[pflanzenoma]

No, that didn’t work either. I’m configuring here on my Computer and we tested it with my husband’s phone, that had no contact to the site before.

I can also test it by moving the “Align Default Max Width” adjuster in the General Options Menu of the Theme’s customizer.

[confusedneedhelp]

No, it is not the browser cache. Can you confirm that when you load the Edit Profile page that the inputs and the HIDE and CANCEL buttons are not visible? For me they are visible on page load and I thought the default was that they are hidden and only appear when you click GENERATE PASSWORD.

[Robin W]

ok, just tested and my original code works fine on my test site.

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]

try

dashboard>settings>permalinks and just click save – that resets the permalinks

If that does not work, then 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

[lswhere]

*** FIXED***(kind of)*** I know it’s been 8 years since this was active but I’ve been banging my head for DAYS trying to figure this out and HERE’S THE FIX!!!

Download the plugin BBP Style Pack https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/ after activation go into style pack settings open the “Freshness Display” tab – check the ‘activate freshness display’ box and then change the freshness format from default to display the date on the last post. Save changes and that’s it. If you leave the setting on default it will not work. You will have the same problems. It needs to be changed to ‘show date of last post.

I HOPE YOU CAN RELAX NOW

[mibrenner]

Thank you for your help. That helped me filter through the different parts of the breadcrumb and selectively replace the default forum URL with my static forum URL.

For anyone else reading this that wants the code I used, to replace the URL (or text if you want to) of the “Forum” portion of the breadcrumb:

function gnpwdr_bbp_breadcrumb_url($crumbs) {
  global $bsp_breadcrumb;
  $pattern = '/(?<=href\=")[^]]+?(?=")/';
  $my_forum_url = '/custom-page/';
  $crumbs[0] = preg_replace($pattern, $my_forum_url, $crumbs[0]);
  return $crumbs; 
}
add_filter('bbp_breadcrumbs', 'gnpwdr_bbp_breadcrumb_url');

[Robin W]

sorry, there are 300,000 users of bbpress and you have found a couple of instances where users found an issue.

In one advice was to troubleshoot the problem, and the user never came back, in the other one user found that it was a wp mail plugin.

I appreciate that you ae frustrated, but ‘this same exact issue 5 and a half years ago? Is this issue still not fixed?’ is not going to endear you to the free support offered for this free product.

As a first instance, please do the troubleshooting :

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

[mibrenner]

Hi –

Rather than using the default ‘forum’ page to display my forum, I am embedding the forum on a custom static page using a shortcode.

I’d like to update the breadcrumbs and either hide (preferred) the default forum name/URL, or, edit the forum URL. I doubt I can edit the URL, so I’m okay with hiding the URL and manually injecting the URL in my functions.php file using the arg [‘before’]. Unfortunately, I don’t see a way to hide the specific Forum from the breadcrumbs. See possible arguments here: https://github.com/ntwb/bbPress/blob/master/src/includes/common/template.php#L2277-L2303

Out of the box:
Home (/) » Forums (/forums) » Forum Title (/forums/forum/forum-title/) » Topic

Ideal:
Forum Title (/custom-page/) » Topic

Actual (based on code below):
Forum Title (/custom-page/) » Forum Title (/forums/forum/forum-title/) » Topic

Here is the code I’m using to make that happen. Looking for a way to hide that second Forum Title.

function custom_bbp_breadcrumb() {
    $args['before'] ='<div class="bbp-breadcrumb"><p><a href="/custom-page/" class="bbp-breadcrumb-forum">Forum Title</a><span class="bbp-breadcrumb-sep"> &raquo; </span>';
    $args['include_home'] = false;
    $args['include_root'] = false;
    return $args;
}

add_filter('bbp_before_get_breadcrumb_parse_args', 'custom_bbp_breadcrumb' );

[neon67]

Yes, these are the default theme settings. thanks for the answer

[Robin W]

it’s showing tags with 2 & 1 on my test site.

If you sure it is an issue, then unlikely but 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

[Robin W]

ok, so I can only suggest you do some issue finding

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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]

this (surprisingly) is not easy within bbpress.

You would do better to force worpdress to have display name as username eg

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/138034/default-display-name-as-username

[kylewhenderson]

The bbPress Login Widget, upon submitting username/password simply redirects to /wp-login.php where the user has to again submit the username/password. It simply doesn’t log the user in at all. I have tested this with a fresh WP install with the default theme and only bbPress running. See video demo here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17gdtsNw401_ZYt2PcFKtyrO5rA49HGxg/view

Let me know if you have any questions – happy to provide any info to debug.

OP: Let us know if this is this same issue you are having or if this is a different issue.

[Robin W]

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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]

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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]

just tried it on my website, and that code works fine.

3 possibilities

1. the 90 is wrong
2. the 90 forum does not have sub forums
3. some other code is filtering the bbp_forum_get_subforums function

If you are happy it is not 1 or 2, then it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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]

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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]

you are correctly editing the template, but it needs to be placed in your child-theme

so

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/user-profile.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

and save

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

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

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/user-profile.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[benbluef]

Hi,

Sorry, I’ve found that the problem is because the user edit template has been customised. The default template still works so I think I’ll have to use that instead.

Thanks

[Robin W]

1. You should be aware that many spam filters strip messages that do not come from the correct address. So if your site is mysite.com and your email address
in wordpress settings>general is fred@gmail.com then it is likely that messages will be dumped in transit.
You need to set up email to come from your site eg fred@mysite.com, your hosting provider can help if needed.
2. Just bbpress?
Then you need to see if this is wordpress wide or just bbpress.
Try https://wordpress.org/plugins/check-email/

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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

Next try switching to smtp email – this page from the host Siteground explains it

https://www.siteground.co.uk/tutorials/wordpress/use-smtp/

If you choose other SMTP servers as a mailer, then you email/website hoster shoud be able to give you details of what to enter

and of course

By default, you do NOT receive emails for your own topics/replies, only if somebody else replies on your subscribed topics

so testing would need two email accounts to prove !