so to answer (or not!) your questions
by default the forum page is /forums you can amend this by changing the slug in dashboard>settings>forums or by using a page with a shortcode – see
Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1
No idea what ‘ Hearthpwn’s deck builder to query Hearthstone’s card API ‘ means so cannot answer, but in terms of customization, then try this additional plugin, which has a ton of customizations in it.
bbp style pack
bbpress just uses the WordPress user account, and there is no way to detach this. But bbpress has a whole set of roles of it’s own, so if you set the user WordPress role to ‘no role for this site’, you pretty much achieve the same thing.
thanks
search should just look at the forums, but other elements such as themes or other plugins can change that.
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
the appearance>widgets that you showed are not widgets but sidebars that contain widgets – there is no bbpress sidebar.
I have WP, bbPress, WPML up to date and in default language all topics show up in the topic archive but in translated languages Topics, that have a parent Forum don’t show up in there. They only appear if there is no forum set.
The tweaked default WordPress toolbar.
I can’t say. I noticed that the default lay-out is used for this page. I used to have a custom made lay-out which is developed by a specialist. He placed the codes for this in a child theme and everything worked just fine. But for a few weeks now, this lay-out is gone. The child theme is still active.
So I guess this is the problem.
While I do want to re-use the custom lay-out it is more important that when looking at the forum page without login people see only the latest activity.
So how can I make this happen?
Hi ! I have the exact same bug.
I did the same tests, disable plugins and change theme and it’s still not working.
The last log error I have is this : [proxy_fcgi:error [pid 14982:tid 140197144532736 [client 207.253.115.34:0 AH01071: Got error ‘SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near ” at lin…………bbp_locate_template, load_template, require(‘/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-topics.php’), bbp_get_template_part, bbp_locate_template, load_template, require(‘/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-topic.php’), bbp…’
It does make sense that it would be related to a recent update…but if the problem persists when everything is disabled and I’m using a default WordPress theme, then how could something else still be affecting it?
There is always a reason, computers don’t start doing things differently for no reason, the problem is tracking that down 🙂 🙂
If this was a bbpress issue then 1. given no update in bbpress there is no change to affect your site so no reason for it to start happening and 2. this support forum would have hundreds of topics on the subject posted in the last few days.
My test forum continues to work fine.
so if not plugin update or theme change then a setting could be affecting.
so I’d suggest you switch debug on and see if that is showing any issues
https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-enable-debugging-in-wordpress/
after that we’re onto software higher up.
so what PHP version are you running?
Thanks so much for your kindness in being willing to volunteer and help support plugin users! That’s awesome.
It does make sense that it would be related to a recent update…but if the problem persists when everything is disabled and I’m using a default WordPress theme, then how could something else still be affecting it?
We’re on Cloudways, with SafeUpdates configured to run on Sunday evening. Here’s what it says it just updated:
Update Date: 2023-09-10 19:18:32 UTC
Update Status: Successful
Updates Selected:
Plugins: (11)
Better-Search-Replace (1.4.2 -> 1.4.3)
Woocommerce-Pdf-Invoices-Packing-Slips (3.6.2 -> 3.6.3)
Pixelyoursite (9.4.4 -> 9.4.5.1)
Really-Simple-Ssl (7.0.8 -> 7.0.9)
Recaptcha-For-Woocommerce (2.41 -> 2.47)
Updraftplus (1.23.9 -> 1.23.10)
Woocommerce-Gateway-Authorize-Net-Cim (3.8.1 -> 3.9.3)
Woocommerce-Google-Analytics-Pro (1.13.0 -> 2.0.11)
Woocommerce-Name-Your-Price (3.5.1 -> 3.5.5)
Woocommerce-Services (2.3.3 -> 2.3.4)
Woocommerce-Smart-Coupons (7.1.0 -> 8.4.0)
Themes: (1)
Divi (4.20.0 -> 4.22.1)
Thank you so much for your quick reply!
I have tried disabling all plugins except bbpress, and switching to a default WordPress theme. Unfortunately, even in this state, the messages are still not appearing.
What is my next move?
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
Hello there!
I want to allow only the HTML tags and attributes that TinyMCE version 6 uses by default throughout my entire forum.
I am not so much a techie but can fiddle slightly in PHP
As an Update, I have found some really old information about this issue @netweb here:https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2198
And here: Editor width addressed in CSS at patch https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1933 down to 240 resolution. In some smartphones, only the text editor shows up by default.
My Redmi 9C uses a 20:9 aspect ratio screen (resolution is 720×1600).
@robin-w let’s hope not, without you we are all lost 😀
The one key thing that BBpress lacks by default is image uploading in posta.
ok, so yes you could change the default template for that page in bbpress, but your theme is not using that template, so that is pointless.
You need to amend the template your theme is using, so need to contact the theme support.
I am using [bbp-topic-tags] on various pages. I understand the concept of more a tag is chosen the larger it is. But all the tags overall display very large on my pages Where can I control the default size of all tags?
One thing I noticed as I was using CSS to re-style BBPress is that the CSS classes don’t carry over to individual discussions. That is, if I create a bunch of class overrides for the main page, in my test case /alpha-site, they go away under /forums/topic/. In Inspector it looks like the page defaults back to bbpress.min.css, overriding those class overrides.
Any way around this?
I’m confused. Does BBPress get its CSS and template support from the active WordPress theme or are there optional plug-in themes one can install that only apply to styling your BBPress implementation?
I’ve been asked to add forums to an existing Elementor-built site running the Astra Pro theme which apparently has no support for BBPress. Because the web site is already built, approved by the bosses and currently live I can’t change the WordPress theme. But the default styling in BBPress doesn’t work for them either (we have an approved font family, size, color, etc too).
I’m fairly adept with CSS and WordPress but I’d rather use a design by someone who actually knows the software. That, and I’m a bit graphically challenged.
I noticed that there’s a dropdown for “Forum Theme Packages” in Forum settings and was hoping that such BBPress-specific child theme plug-ins exist which allow WordPress to use another parent theme. Do such plug-ins exist and is there a repository of them somewhere on the net?
untested, but this should work
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topics_per_page', 'rew_amend_topics', 10 , 2) ;
function rew_amend_topics ($retval, $default ) {
$forum = bbp_get_forum_id() ;
if ($forum == 123) $retval = 10 ;
if ($forum == 456) $retval = 5 ;
return $retval ;
}
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
I want to remove the moderation links that appear within a topic post.
I believe this is controlled by the following in bbpress/includes/topics/template.php. What edit would I do if this is the correct area to edit:
function bbp_get_topic_admin_links( $args = array() ) {
// Parse arguments against default values
$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
'id' => bbp_get_topic_id(),
'before' => '<span class="bbp-admin-links">',
'after' => '</span>',
'sep' => ' | ',
'links' => array()
), 'get_topic_admin_links' );
if ( empty( $r['links'] ) ) {
$r['links'] = apply_filters( 'bbp_topic_admin_links', array(
'edit' => bbp_get_topic_edit_link ( $r ),
'merge' => bbp_get_topic_merge_link ( $r ),
'close' => bbp_get_topic_close_link ( $r ),
'stick' => bbp_get_topic_stick_link ( $r ),
'trash' => bbp_get_topic_trash_link ( $r ),
'spam' => bbp_get_topic_spam_link ( $r ),
'approve' => bbp_get_topic_approve_link( $r ),
'reply' => bbp_get_topic_reply_link ( $r )
), $r['id'] );
}
It may be 8 years later, but this is extremely valuable to me @devyncjohnson. Thank you!
//Subscribe by default
function subscribed_by_default(){
echo ‘<script type=”text/javascript”>jQuery(“#bbp_topic_subscription”).prop(“checked”,”checked”);</script>’;
}
add_filter(‘bbp_theme_after_topic_form_subscriptions’,’subscribed_by_default’);
add_filter(‘bbp_theme_after_reply_form_subscription’,’subscribed_by_default’);
ok, let’s try the standard fault finding :
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, starting with wpforms, and then style pack.
Then come back
In the backend when creating a new topic, on the right side under Topic Attributes, you choose what forum the topic is going to be under. How do I make it so that my only forum is the default forum, or the only forum. Right now the default is ‘no forum’ with the option of choosing Fishing Report Forum.
I would like it that Fishing Report Forum is the default forum, or better yet, no other choice.
We have a placeholder live, but I’ll deactivate it for now.
This is the link to follow; https://pedantic-lamport.85-17-55-175.plesk.page/forum/
I just set the page template back to default, so the sidebar isn’t visible.
Uh Yes I did the steps you mentioned, so I’m not stuck haha.
But I also don’t have a sidebar on my page…
I created a regular page, because I need some info above the forum. I didn’t set a page template or anything. If I do chose the page template left-sidebar, then I do have a sidebar. But that looks the same then when I just add the bbpress widgets to the default left sidebar and don’t do the specific sidebar steps.
I thought if I use the specific sidebar it would look more like the rest of the forum. Thats why I tried that. Was I wrong?
So when should someone use the specific sidebar?
Thanks for your help again!
By the way, it did set the bbPress role to “Participant”, which is what I wanted for that person. However, for the main wp user role, which is essential for other parts of the web site, it left it blank.
I can set the wordpress user role to the “Subscriber” role, manually in the dashboard. Unfortunately, after the user logs in, they will not be able to see other content that requires the “Subscriber” role to be set in the wordpress default role assignment system.
