[Robin W]

This post suggests it has been an issue for a while

Not working with ACF Pro 6.2.8 version.

seems to suggest an issue since version 6.0.5

I’d suggest you raise it again with ACF

Contact

[Chefranov]

I found a plugin that affects this. It’s Advanced Custom Fields Pro. I don’t have any additional fields (ACF), just installed plugin. I created empty site and installed plugins.
Also tried with Free version of ACF and it the same. Could you check this conflict?

STR:
1. Install and activate bbPress
2. Install and activate Advanced Custom Fields (Free or Pro)
3. Open Dashboard → Replies → Add new reply

Expected result: page with creating a new reply
Actual result: 500 error and error about memory leak in php logs

[Robin W]

bbpress 2.6.13 fixes the 6.8 wordpress issue

[Robin W]

There are many reasons why this might occur, that are site specific. This is not a known error with bbpress and more likely to be related to either the set up of your site, or 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

If that does not point to the error, then I’d suggest you contact your host provider for help.

[John James Jacoby]

Read the blog post here: https://bbpress.org/blog/2025/04/bbpress-2-6-13-is-out/

Go get 2.6.13 from: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress 🐝

[John James Jacoby]

A new version of bbPress will be released shortly that includes the above fix.

Sorry, and thanks for understanding!

[mkmcst]

where dose the file go? i also updated wp now my bbpress is showing empty topics

[Andrew Lima]

This fixes it (Thanks JJJ) -> https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/3631/3631-2.6.diff

[Andrew Lima]

@kriskl, there’s a plugin on .org called “Core Rollback” that works pretty well (I’ve used it in the past). I’m going to spend a little bit of time digging around bbPress to see if I can find the cause.

[Esmertec]

Hi there, I have the same problem while I rolled back to WP 6.7.2, I will wait for BBPress update plugin

[kriskl]

Hi
I had updated to WP 6.8 and now all posted topics are blank – only replies are visible..
there is only topic name shown (no topic content)

anyone else has similar problems? is there anyway to fix it..or shall I downgrade?

thanks
Kris

[Robin W]

You would need to raise this for the image upload plugin support

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/image-upload-for-bbpress/

[webspaceunlimited]

help please – I have bb press and running enable bbpress for blocks and also inline image upload for bbpress – the image upload is failing – and w are getting an error which starts: “Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function WP_Filesystem() in /home/sites/…”
this shows in the imahge upload popup

Now we have managed one upload and none since – not large file and.. wondering if anyone has any suggestions?

Second question is thee a simple avatar plugin that doesnt need gravatar that anyone can recommend please?

[Robin W]

On the users, bbpress hooks to user_id’s, so in the database you would have a topic/reply author just held in the database as for instance 27, and then bbpress looks up the nicename for that in the user table, so no user in the table, then no name to display.

On import with no ‘import users’ if the username does not exist it puts it as 0, and then it is displayed as ‘anonymous’

So whist everything is possible if you can write code or know someone who can, there is no easy way to import usernames, as you would need to amend both the import code and the username display code.

I have no experience of phpBB, so cannot comment on the other aspects. The importer was written some time ago by someone who no longer is actively involved in bbpress.

[yosmc]

Hi all,

I’ve been doing a test run today to import my old phpBB board to bbpress, and it worked surprisingly well (as in: the whole process finished without hanging).

In the end, though, I do have a number of problems, and I was wondering if anyone doing a similar import was able to solve them.

– The old board has thousands of registered users (many of them spammers :/ ), and I didn’t want to clutter my WordPress install with all those accounts, especially since it’s a multisite install and I’m mainly migrating the board for archiving purposes. So I didn’t check the “import user accounts” box, but now all user names are just “Anonymous”. Any way to migrate the user names without the accounts?

– It seems like quoted posts are broken, as the “bbcode_quote” tag isn’t applied where it should be.

– Smilies aren’t imported properly. The relative path to the smilies is lost, and when there’s more than one smiley in a row, only the first one has an image tag.

– [img] tags aren’t being properly converted either. Or rather the conversion seems to work ok, but after the actual link, the [img] code, which bbpress can’t read, is retained for some reason.

– Like I said, overall conversion seemed to work well, but cluttered the error log with hundreds of these messages:

PHP Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/parser.php on line 1289

Anything to worry about?

– I understand that no attachments are imported by default, but maybe someone found a workaround?

Thanks!

[Robin W]

thanks for that – I think I understand 🙂

so the function that is used to display replies is is held in

\bbpress\includes\replies\template.php line 576`

function bbp_get_reply_content( $reply_id = 0 ) {
		$reply_id = bbp_get_reply_id( $reply_id );

		// Check if password is required
		if ( post_password_required( $reply_id ) ) {
			return get_the_password_form();
		}

		$content = get_post_field( 'post_content', $reply_id );

		// Filter & return
		return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_reply_content', $content, $reply_id );
	}

so

add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_content', 'my_function', 10 , 2) ;

function my_function ($content, $reply_id ){
	//your code here 

}

[annually2523]

So totally new to WordPress Plugin development so bare with me, please

On a website that use BBPress we are hoping to be able to do some edits on the text on posts as they are loaded just before they are shown and I figure I need to use either a filter or an action to get the ‘event’ when posts are loaded from DB.

But which exactly is it? ChatGPT suggested a filter which does not actually exist

May there is an example of how to do something like this somewhere?

Using Version 2.6.12 of BBPress

[krishanatwp]

I cannot subscribe to group forums.
When clicking “subscribe”, nothing happens.
I created a private test forum. In this test forum, subscribe works just fine, i.e. the link changes to “unsubscribe”.

https://metaphorum.org
WP 6.7.2
Astra, Astra Pro. I did not try with a standard theme because it works on my test forum.
bbpress: 2.6.12
BuddyPress: 14.3.4

[wolfnicole]

Hallo, ich habe gesucht, aber keinen Hinweis gefunden, deshalb frage ich hier nach in der Hoffnung, Hilfe zu bekommen.

Ich habe bbPress 2.6.12 und WordPress 6.6.2. Ich benutze das Theme Astra, habe aber auch schon Twentytwentyfive ausprobiert. Ich habe auch schon verschiedene Browser benutzt und die Caches gelöscht.
Aber egal was ich tue, immer wenn ich auf die von mir erstellten Foren klicke, lande ich wieder auf der Startseite. Ich habe jetzt schon 3 Stunden mit einer KI hin und her geschrieben – leider ohne Erfolg. Jetzt wende ich mich an euch, vielleicht hat ja jemand eine Lösung für mich.

Meine Seite: https://omasgegenrechts-darmstadt.de/
und die Forenseite: https://omasgegenrechts-darmstadt.de/austausch/

Ich habe die Forenseite wieder aus dem Menu genommen, weil sie ja nicht funktioniert.

Viele liebe Grüße und schonmal dankeschön
Nicole

[Robin W]

ok there are thousands of themes, and tens of thousands of plugin, so whilst I have had a quick look at my test site with Astra, I cannot spend time on the theme to work out what you need to do.

So to test 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

[izzi8181]

Hi, I’ve recently installed bbpress for a new site and am currently setting it up. I’ve encountered a problem which is that none of my forum pages are showing the title.

I’m using the Astra theme and title show on my other webpages, so I don’t believe I have it disabled anywhere, which means I can’t figure out why it’s hidden!

I have bbstylepack and can’t find anything there for showing/hiding titles (I’ve hidden the breadcrumbs, but that’s not what I’m meaning).

This is my forum page (you can click into the test forums and test topics and see there are no titles on any of the pages)
https://www.triptathlon.com/forums/

But you can see on my holding pages there are titles; for example:
https://www.triptathlon.com/shop-2/
https://www.triptathlon.com/groups/

Any idea why the page titles are displaying on my pages but not my forum pages? It makes things hard to follow without the title there, particularly for topic pages. All I can think is there’s something somewhere hiding in the settings for my theme, but the only places I’ve found have the page titles set to show….

[amarynth]

This has worked for many years and just now it screwed up.

I attach an image. The box where you point to the image appears. I go and get the image and in the box appears there has been a critical error on this website.

bbPpress Version 2.6.12
Latest WP
bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab Version 1.0.1

Thanks if anyone knows about this. Searching this, there are hundreds of support requests all over the place for a ‘critical error on this website’, but it only here that it appears. The rest of the site functions normally.

[Robin W]

just confirm this is the bbpress profile, not the wordpress one.

ie you get to this by clicking the username in a topic/reply in the forums

[Robin W]

are you a bbpress keymaster as well as an admin?

[Robin W]

if you go into a users bbpress profile, then there is a subscriptions tab, and yes you can unsubscibe them