[Robin W]

Thanks.

I’d suggest as as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty or twentytwentyone (don’t use 2022 or 2023), and see if this fixes.

If so, then you’ll need to raise it with the theme breakdance as it is a paid product

[Robin W]

ok, 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]

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]

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]

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]

ok, presume you have bbpress enabled ?

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]

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

[apizio]

Hello Robin,

you are right, it is a theme issue. When I switch to a default theme like twentytwenty, the submit button appears.
Now I edit my style.css file and tryed to get the style for the submit button in it. But I surely make mistakes here.

.button .bbp_user_edit_submit .button .submit .user-submit .bbp_user_edit_submit {
  background-color: #4CAF50; /* Green */
  border: none;
  color: white;
  padding: 15px 32px;
  text-align: center;
  text-decoration: none;
  display: inline-block;
  font-size: 16px;
}

This does not let the submit button appears 😉
What else can I do?

Thank you in advance,
Antonio

[enkoes]

Hi, I recently saw this topic and it helps me solve one problem.

I can finally use this CSS to disable the grey-out effect when the topic is closed:

#bbpress-forums .status-closed,
#bbpress-forums .status-closed a {
color: #000 !important;
}

From this previous topic also, CSS can do equally well to add [Closed] label beside the closed topic title in topic list page:

#bbpress-forums .status-closed > li.bbp-topic-title > a.bbp-topic-permalink:after {
	content: "[Closed]";
	text-shadow: 1px 1px 0 #ffffff;
	color: #ff0000;
	margin-right: 5px;
}

I wonder if we can use CSS (instead of PHP codes) to add another [Closed] label beside the topic title in single topic page. Any solution?
See https://paste.pics/N5WS0

Also, I’m still searching for ways to disable the defaulted pink font highlight when the topic is closed. Hope somebody can help.
See https://paste.pics/N8U5T

Regards.

[Robin W]

I just tried adding a user with a space in the name ie ‘test user’

then in dashboard>forums>edit forum>moderators I typed in ‘test user’

it did not pick up the name as I typed it so I had to type the full name, but it did accept it, and added it correctly to the forum database.

per forum moderators are relatively new, and the 15 yr old and 8 year old threads would have been for bbpress version 1.

so on my test site bbpress does allow moderators with spaces in the names.

my next suggestion would be 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

[dozza]

I have a memberpress/bbPress/Wordpress site with about 100 members. I was trying to make a user a moderator of a particular forum. I was able to change her role to a moderator by editing her user profile OK. But when I add her username to the moderator field within the edit forum screen it spins on update but never registers the username as moderator.

I then notice the username in question is of the format ‘firstname dot space secondname’

I didn’t think WP allowed usernames with spaces or dots (periods) but apparently, it does and the username is created when they register via a Memberpress form. By default, they are made forum participants upon registering. I want to upgrade this user to be a moderator of a specific forum.

The user HAS managed to post a topic in a forum already as a participant.

So i’m assuming that the problem lies in bbPress NOT allowing spaces in usernames when you try to assign them to be a moderator of a specific forum?

I was reading a 15 year old thread here where @howtogeek provides some plugin code. I tried saving this to a zipped .php file and adding it as a plugin but Wordfence said that wasn’t a good idea, so I’m not confident using 15-year old code is such a good workaround.

There was another old thread from 8yrs here ago where @joop.stringer suggests tweaking permalinks but I can’t seem to figure that out either.

I’ve come across this which will maybe help me prevent this from happening again.

But can anyone confirm that the space in the username IS the reason I can’t assign a moderator
role user to be the moderator of a specific forum, and if there is any more recent knowledge on this issue? i.e. does bbPress actually allow spaces in usernames now?

[cliffrohde]

I’m experiencing similar issues at https://www.brugmansia.us/community/, a Divi site. But even when I use one of the WordPress default themes (2023), I get similarly poorly formatted results at best. I agree with those suggesting this is primarily a bbPress issue, not a theme issue.

[enkoes]

Yes. It’s done beautifully. Thanks!

One last closed topic customization job: to DISABLE the default font highlight & grey-out effect if the topic is closed. Hope this is not as tricky as it may appear.

See screenshot:
https://paste.pics/N8U5T

Regards

[Robin W]

instructions for them

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

go to line 248 and change

? esc_html_e( 'You cannot create new topics.', 'bbpress' )

to

? esc_html_e( '', 'bbpress' )

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/form-topic.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[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

[magabokb]

MAIL SERVER SETTINGS FOR ESS MODULE (EMPLOYEE SELF SERVICE MODULE)

SMTP MAIL SERVER PARAMETERS

ERROR : Socket Error pops up while doing;
TEST SMTP DEFAULT SMTP SERVER SETTINGS

Some other mail server setting types go through but some do not. Is there something we are missing in this setup?

Regards

K. Magabo

[enkoes]

Thank you so much, Robin!

Two more things to make it perfect:
1) to disable the default font highlight & grey-out effect;
2) to change font colour [Closed] to red to make it stands out the rest.

Regards.

[enkoes]

Hi, can we add a label something like “[Closed]” BESIDE the topic title in the topic list if the topic is closed for discussion?

Currently those closed topics will be highlighted pink by default by bbp Style Pack plugin (Topic/Reply Display > item 4). I wonder how can we disable this highlight effect using CSS. “[Closed]” label just looks nice & neat for me.

Regards.

[Philippe Roussel]

Hi,

I use the Post Comments as bbPress Topics plugin, which gives by default an excerpt of the concerned post. None of the other options seem to work but none of them suit me either. Expanding on the php code you gave earlier in this thread, would it be possible to simply delete all content in the topic other than “[See the full post at: …]” and, of course, my own [TEXT]?

Thank you

[Mrskt]

One possible solution is to use a plugin called BBP Improvements for Yoast which is a helpful tool to make Yoast wordpress seo support bbpress better. You can install and activate this plugin from your WordPress dashboard and see if that helps.

Another possible solution is to use the excerpt variable in the Admin > SEO > Search Appearance > Content Types (tab) section. There you will have a ‘Topics (topic)’ section where you can add a default meta description using the excerpt variable. This will automatically output the first part of every topic as the meta description.

[Robin W]

ok, I cannot replicate that issue.

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

[emmanuelle64]

There it is:

for the user:
dashboard>users>all users, and then select ‘les abonnements’ (the subscriptions) for the chosen user then select option ‘subscribe selected forums’ and apply

and for the subject:
dashboard>subjects>all subjects, and then select ‘les abonnements’ (the subscriptions) for the chosen subject then select option ‘subscribe selected users’ and apply

and for the setting by default I followed your instructions. I selected the folder “gestion de l’abonnement’ (subscription management), then I selected ‘activate’ and chose the forums to be subscribed by default. Then I ‘registered’ the modifications

Sadly none of the 3 actions worked. It only worked with the setting of forum subscription for several users

[emmanuelle64]

Yes, they are enabled.

I found the way to enable the subscription to a chosen forum for all users by going to forums>all forums, and then select ‘les abonnements’ (the subscriptions) in the chosen forum then using ‘subscribe selected users’ and apply for each page listing the users (by the way, there are 29 pages in my site, it would be nice to be able to select them all at once…).
It is great! I am glad I could do it.

I tried to do the same by choosing several forums for one user. But it didn’t work. The subscription is not applied.
It also doesn’t work with a subject for one user.
And as far as I have seen, the setting I chose by default for the new users is not effectiv. The users do not have any subscription preselected.

Can you help me with this ?
Thanks

[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]

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-topic-lead.php

transfer this to your pc and edit
that will let you remove the header and footer, and change the date function

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/content-single-topic-lead.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original