bbpress is a ‘light’ plugin and you will need an additional plugin to ensure admins get notified
Install
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>moderation
for how to set this up
Hi there đź‘‹
We’re using bbPress on a WordPress site and we’ve noticed that the forum administrator is not receiving email notifications when someone creates a new topic or replies to an existing one.
Here’s what we’re seeing:
• WordPress email is working fine — we’re using SMTP and other emails are being delivered correctly.
• Users who subscribe to forums or topics do receive notifications with no issues.
• The only problem is with the forum administrator / super admin, who does not receive any notification emails at all.
Environment:
• WordPress: 6.9
• bbPress: 2.6.14
Our questions:
1. Does bbPress send notifications to administrators automatically?
2. Is there a specific role, setting, or filter we should enable so administrators receive all notifications?
We need the admin to be notified so they can reply within 24 hours, but without email notifications this becomes difficult.
Any help or guidance would be much appreciated — thank you!
Bonjour,
Je me permets de vous contacter concernant un problème d’accessibilité sur le forum BBPress du site rayons.handivelo.fr. Plus précisément, j’utilise le shortcode [bbp-topic-form] pour permettre aux utilisateurs de créer un nouveau sujet.
Problème rencontré :
– Je parviens Ă lire les champs du formulaire avec mon interface vocale, mais la liste dĂ©roulante des forums/catĂ©gories n’est pas accessible.
– Mon lecteur d’écran indique qu’il y a 19 Ă©lĂ©ments dans la liste, mais je ne peux pas les lire ou les sĂ©lectionner correctement.
– Pour information, je suis non-voyant et j’utilise un logiciel de synthèse vocale pour naviguer.
Questions :
1. Existe-t-il un autre shortcode ou une alternative pour rendre cette liste déroulante accessible ?
2. Serait-il possible de remplacer la liste déroulante par des boutons radio ou des cases à cocher pour faciliter la sélection ?
3. Avez-vous des bonnes pratiques ou des plugins à recommander pour améliorer l’accessibilité des formulaires BBPress ?
Contexte technique :
– Site : rayons.handivelo.fr https://rayons.handivelo.fr
– CMS : WordPress + BBPress
– Interface utilisĂ©e : Lecteur d’écran (ex : JAWS, NVDA)
Je reste à votre disposition pour tester toute solution que vous pourriez proposer. Merci par avance pour votre aide, et je vous souhaite une excellente année 2026 !
Bien cordialement,
Christophe
Yes, @johnjamesjacoby much appreciation here for your work on bbPress!
And Happy New Year!
I have a new problem in my forum (theeagleye.net/forums).
My one forum (Off-Topic Lounge) has a problem I have not had before. Unlike every other forum I have, this one always shows the user as signed out (even if they are not, and the other forums do not show this). When they try to sign in, it still does not allow them to sign in. I already tried clearing the cache and checking all the settings in this forum, but they are all exactly as they are supposed to be and nothing is solving the problem.
Has anyone else had this issue and what can I do to solve it?
I use the Twenty Twenty Five theme, have WordPress 6.9, bbpress Version 2.6.14, and my site is theeagleye.net/.
I am not a bbpress author, I am simply someone trying to help out.
The slugs do whatever the plugin author codes them to do, and this plugin does not do that.
You can add this additional plugin
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>shortcodes
and you can see a shortcode you can use in a page
[bsp-profile]
with options for wording and edit
Hi Robin
Theme is TT5 and “Enable bbpress for Block Themes” is installed and active. I do not want bbp Style Pack, since it messed up my forum last time. So I have styled by css.
I have enabled block editor checkmark provided by the first plugin.
Again, why would these slugs not work?
I have specified root to be “Fora”. So I assume the slugs should be:
– fora/topics
– fora/users
and so on…?
Hi
I cannot get forumuser slugs to work… Can someone assist. Forum resides here. I have tried to add the slugs in URL. Most lead to 404 while topics display topics, but apparently not sorted to my user.
Popular and Recent works fine…
Additional question – Gutenberg
Apparently blocks everywhere is abandoned and only complies with an ancient Gutenberg only. They are expecting bbpress to lift compatibility into core bbpress. Is there any plan to do so?
Thx
Looks like these PHP warnings are coming from bbPress trying to read $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’], which can be undefined in some environments. It might help to define or check that variable first, or test with debugging enabled to narrow down where it’s triggered
but still astonished how something like this effect can happen
I’m just a moderator here – an unpaid volunteer, I’m not a bbpress author.
There will be a reason for it, and it is almost certainly site specific, no problem on my test site, and with 100,000 installations of bbpress not one I have seen or heard of in 14 years of supporting bbpress.
The code above is not a ‘fix’, it is just a way to get bbpress to ignore the setting, which allows your site to work.
Anyway glad you are fixed 🙂
Thanks, and yes I was considering whether a function in your child theme might be affecting this.
so since you can test easily (that is untick the option, save and see if it remains unticked), then my next step would be to see what could be affecting this.
So my next step would be 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.
Then come back
thanks, just tried that with Enable bbPress for Block Themes and twenty twenty five, and no problems.
What theme are you using? and do you have any customized functions?
just some additional information: because I use a FSE theme I installed the plugin Enable bbPress for Block Themes
Hi there
I do not want to include embedded content like Youtube. I deactivate it via Settings- Forums, but after saving it is again activated. This is a mess due to data protections issues in Germany.
But this is not for everthing: e.g. Instagram is shown as simple link, Youtube as embedded
I use
Wordpress 6.9
bbPress 2.6.14
my website: https://fab50s.de/ (most of the content including forum is behind paywall)
I also use:
Borlabs Cookies
Memberpress
Theme: Tove (FSE)
Can anyone help me??
LG Irit
on your latter point, I am just a moderator here, and not a bbpress author.
The authors tend to release updates every few years, rather than more frequently.
My personal view is that you should consider bbpress to be a ‘mature’ product, ie any releases will be to fix issues rather than add functionality.
bbpress is written really well, and has loads of hooks. In essence it is a WordPress product, written by the founder of WordPress, and taken into a plugin by sponsorship from WordPress.
There are no show stopper bugs in it, it may throw a few notices (and these are very few at the moment), but WordPress recommends that you should not show error messages in live sites.
I currently have my test site running WordPress 6.9 and php 8.2 with no issues.
The only major issue with bbpress at the moment is that it does not work well with FSE themes.
However my bbp style pack plugin has fixes for this
bbp style pack
as well as block versions of the widgets and a ton of styling and functionality add-ons.
All plugins are subject to the authors commitment, and bbpress is no different.
@mike80222 thanks for sharing… In ur case its a clean install and we see every error is in the bbpress folder specifically:
…/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1581
@robin-w I’ll try a bit of what you said for our environment and see if it curtails the issue.
also Robin; can you share a reply on this please? “I ran bbpress through Plugin Checker (WordPress official) and there are a lot of things that might be pinging this, not sure if the team are addressing performance, repo, general and the security issues raised in it”.
Just my two cents worth. I don’t actually understand this issue, but this crops up on all my sites on AWS Lightsail. I’ve had some success defining those PHP variables in wp-config.php, but it doesn’t always work. Searching on things like “http_host undefined” yields some interesting information which might help. I’m pretty sure that this is not actually specific to bbpress.
ok, thanks.
the line of code referred to is looking for a host url on logout from bbpress.
‘$redirect_to = bbp_get_url_scheme() . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’];’
$_SERVER is a php thing and the manual says ‘$_SERVER an array containing information such as headers, paths, and script locations. The entries in this array are created by the web server, therefore there is no guarantee that every web server will provide any of these; servers may omit some, or provide others not listed here. However, most of these variables are accounted for in the » CGI/1.1 specification, and are likely to be defined.’
Are you maybe running on a local host?
Thank you for responding.
It’s happening constantly in our server domlogs. It’s a new site install. No active forum yet site isn’t launched yet. Seems to be happening simply from the site existing with bbpress on it.
I ran bbpress through Plugin Checker (WordPress official) and there are a lot of things that might be pinging this, not sure if the team are addressing performance, repo, general and the security issues raised in it?
Our environment
WP Core: 6.9
PHP: 8.4
Hosting: VPS
Theme: Reign (wbcomdesigns)
max_exec_time: 600
Please can something be done about this error on a brand new site install:
[04-Dec-2025 07:20:05 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key "HTTP_HOST" in /home/ourdomainapp/r877.ourdomain.app/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1581
[04-Dec-2025 07:20:05 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key "HTTP_HOST" in /home/ourdomainapp/r877.ourdomain.app/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1581
[04-Dec-2025 07:21:04 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key "HTTP_HOST" in /home/ourdomainapp/r877.ourdomain.app/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1581
[04-Dec-2025 07:21:04 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key "HTTP_HOST" in /home/ourdomainapp/r877.ourdomain.app/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1581
[04-Dec-2025 07:21:04 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key "HTTP_HOST" in /home/ourdomainapp/r877.ourdomain.app/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1581
[04-Dec-2025 07:21:04 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key "HTTP_HOST" in /home/ourdomainapp/r877.ourdomain.app/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1581
[04-Dec-2025 07:22:04 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key "HTTP_HOST" in /home/ourdomainapp/r877.ourdomain.app/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1581
[04-Dec-2025 07:22:04 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key "HTTP_HOST" in /home/ourdomainapp/r877.ourdomain.app/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1581
[04-Dec-2025 07:22:04 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key "HTTP_HOST" in /home/ourdomainapp/r877.ourdomain.app/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1581
[04-Dec-2025 07:22:04 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key "HTTP_HOST" in /home/ourdomainapp/r877.ourdomain.app/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1581
[04-Dec-2025 07:23:04 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key "HTTP_HOST" in /home/ourdomainapp/r877.ourdomain.app/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1581
[04-Dec-2025 07:23:04 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key "HTTP_HOST" in /home/ourdomainapp/r877.ourdomain.app/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1581
[04-Dec-2025 07:23:04 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key "HTTP_HOST" in /home/ourdomainapp/r877.ourdomain.app/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1581
[04-Dec-2025 07:23:04 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key "HTTP_HOST" in /home/ourdomainapp/r877.ourdomain.app/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1581
Would appreciate some feedback please
on the translations, these are part of buddypress not bbpress, so you would need to ask the question on their support forum
https://buddypress.org/support/
on the grey box, what exactly do you want to change?
suspect this is an AI generated spam, but in case not,
bbpress latest version is 2.6.14 and was updated 4 months ago.
bbPress
Hi all — today my Wordfence scan threw up a message saying the bbPress plugin “appears to be abandoned” (last updated Nov 29, 2021, tested to WP 6.3.2) and labelled it under a “Vulnerability Scan” result. I’m surprised because I’ve been running bbPress on a few sites and didn’t expect that kind of warning.
Has anyone else seen this exact Wordfence message recently? I’m trying to understand whether this is a false positive from the scanner or if there really is an issue with maintainer activity/compatibility. A few quick notes about my setup that might matter:
WP version: 6.3.2
bbPress version: (latest I have installed)
Hosting: shared (no custom hardening beyond basic security plugin)
I’m mainly looking for other users’ experiences — did Wordfence give you the same warning? Did you find official confirmation about bbPress maintenance status, or any advisories/CVEs? Also curious if anyone can point to a reliable source that tracks plugin maintenance/activity (GitHub, WP plugin repo changelog, etc.) so I can verify on my own.
