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.
I’m pretty sure that the buddypress function hooks to the new_forum_handler in bbpress, so this should work
add_action( 'bbp_new_forum_post_extras', 'rew_add_pg', 10 , 1) ;
function rew_add_pg ($forum_id ) {
add_post_meta( $forum_id, '_private_group', 'group1', false );
}
Let me know of not.
Hi,
We use bbpress, buddypress, and bbp-private-groups in a WordPress installation.
Thank you for the great plugins!
In the Buddypress Group Settings, the group administrator can also create a forum.
How can I add a specific group from bbp-private-groups to a group forum when creating the group forum?
I couldn’t find an option for this in the backend settings.
Is there a suitable hook? I don’t know the forum ID yet for “groups_group_after_save”.
I would add the group with add_post_meta( $forum_id, ‘_private_group’, ‘group1’, false );.
Thanks for any tips!
bbbt
Bonjour,
Connaissez-vous un plugin similaire à “Post Comments as bbPress Topics” ?
Merci d’avance.
Bonne journée.
Good evening,
I can’t seem to find the solution, so I’m posting my question here.
In WordPress, I have a bbpress forum. Some old posts (from 2016) are visible to me (Key Master), but no longer to subscribers (private forum). So there seems to be a system that hides these posts after an expiry date (not the first post, but the replies). I can’t find anything in the general settings or in the bbpress plugin. I also have bbP private groups and bbPress Notify (No-Spam). Any idea what the problem might be?
If you are using a block theme, then you will need to add theme support for bbpress.
so either
Install
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>theme support
This plugin has lots of styling and functionality additions to bbpress
and/or use
Enable bbPress for Block Themes
I recently discovered that WordPress.com’s Personal and Premium plans allow plugin installation, so I immediately paid and installed bbPress.
However, a similar forum plugin, WPFORO, works fine, but after installing bbPress, when I go to the actual forum page (myid.wpcomstaging.com/forums/forum/test/), it just displays a blank screen, with neither my blog’s theme nor the forums displayed.
Just in case, I tried disabling my browser’s ad blocker and changing my theme, but the results were the same!
I asked a question on the WordPress.com forums and was directed here. Has anyone else encountered a similar issue? What solutions have you found?
Hi,
Google are saying that it is not listing my forum posts because
“Either ‘text’, ‘image’ or ‘video’ should be specified”
Items with this issue are invalid. Invalid items are not eligible for Google Search’s rich results”
How can I sort this.
Google has the topics listed, so its seeing them. I send a sitemap to Google.
It is important that these topics are listed by Google.
I would appreciate any help.
I am using BBpress Version 2.6.14
Thanks
there are lots of causes that will show this error, many plugins load the bbpress text domain.
If you are running buddypress, then you can stop a bbpress file from causing the error by the fixes above, or by using :
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>bbPress bug fixes and go to
Fix bbPress domain triggered early if Buddypress also active
