[john21up]

Is this forum made from bbPress as it looks identical to buddypress forum?

[quilp]

yes. it happened again about 40 minutes ago and resetting permalinks alone cleared the problem.

So deactivating bbpress clears the problem

and resetting permalinks clears the problem

Any idea what the root cause may be?

Thanks.

[Robin W]

bbPress Integration

[quilp]

Okay… this issue just recurred. Deactivating bbpress resolved the issue, but upon reactivating the issue immediately returned. Resetting permalinks resolved the issue independent of deactivating/reactivating bbpress.

Any idea of the root cause of the permalinks not working?

[Robin W]

I appreciate your frustration, but not sure ‘fault’ is the correct word.

bbpress has changed something – but the ‘fix’ when it comes may not ‘fix’ you, as your site is adding a no-js class (from either the ‘Publisher’ theme or a plugin) which then isn’t overwritten as is normal practice by a test within your theme or the plugin.

you could try adding this to the custom css of your theme

.no-js {
display : inline !important
}

to override the bbpress setting

[OSCOWP]

Nop, its a dam fault of bbpress, I have rolled back to 2.6.6 and it works again.

[Robin W]

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

transfer this to your pc and edit

change line 31

from

<?php if ( bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() ) : ?>

to

<?php if ( bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() && (bbp_get_forum_id() != '2927') ) : ?>

and save

where 2927 is the forum you don’t want to show the form for

then 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

If you want multiple forums, you could create and array and test against that

[Robin W]

@oscowordpress1 – it does on my test site

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

[Robin W]

it’s great that you have taken the time to understand the standard tests required, they do solve 80% of issues which is why we ask for them, we don’t do it to annoy you.

the issue may well be a 3 plugin combination thing – so bbpress in combination with another plugin and jetpack, which is why ideally you would carry out the tests.

Given that you cannot, then there are two elements to user access – the wordpress level and the bbpress level

eg ‘administrator’ for wordpress and ‘keymaster’ for bbpress.

I think you best bet would be to set up a user and work through the combinations to see what works and what doesn’t – eg does admin and participant work, but not subscriber and keymaster, does admin work with moderator etc etc. That would help decide what the override that is allowing ‘admins’ to see stuff is.

Then come back and report

[Chuckie]

The blog (https://bbpress.org/blog/) now states:

bbPress 2.6.9 is a minor release that improves the Akismet clean-up routines introduced in the 2.6.7 release. If you are using Akismet with bbPress and saw some debug notices in your logs, this release is for you!

[Editor Mike]

My dashboard takes me here when I click for latest updates.

Releases

But that is not up to date, how do we know what is in an update before we install it?

[pschlenker]

Our website uses the bbPress plugin to create forums. When I connect the Jetpack plugin to WordPress.org, non-admin users get a “Well, this is embarrassing” 404 not found error when they try to access any of the forums, whether the forums are public or private. Users with the Administrator role are able to access the forums without difficulty. When I disconnect the Jetpack plugin, forum access for non-admin users is restored.

Before you suggest that I disable all plugins and themes, and reactivate them one by one until I find the offending plugin/theme, be advised that I can’t do that on our live site because it would cause all sorts of issues for our users. I can’t troubleshoot this issue in my local development environment because I can’t connect the Jetpack plugin to WordPress.org when the website is running in my local development environment.

And yes, I already tried switching to a different permalink format/structure temporarily, and then switching back. It did not solve the problem.

I’m running WordPress 5.8.2, and bbPress plugin version 2.6.9. Our website is located at https://evangelizationschool.com

[pelmoggian]

Just to add some information – running the latest version of BBPress.

[pelmoggian]

Hi!

I have a straightforward question – how do I move the existing bbpress data (Forums, Topics, Replies) from one WordPress installation to another?

I see there is an ‘Export’ and ‘Import’ function in WordPress, where Forums, Topics and Replies can each be exported separately.

But – would importing them into a functioning website overwrite existing pages and posts?

Or is there something I am just missing in this whole process, and it is really just super easy, barely an inconvenience?

[packzap]

I got the html text editor to appear in bbPress 2.6.9 after installing the bbp style pack plugin, going to the “topic reply form” tab, verifying that #9 Show editors is set for “text editor only” and then clicking “save changes” at bottom.

Very cool plugin, by the way! Thanks for creating.

[bradm413]

bbPress Version 2.6.9
WP version 5.8.2
site: https://branchtheworld.com

I have searched and haven’t found an exact case like what I’m looking for. I would like to hide the “New Topic” form that displays when using this shortcode:

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] – Display a single forums topics. eg. [bbp-single-forum id=32]

See screenshot here:

Is this something I’ll need to do with custom coding, or is there a plugin or another simple way to achieve this?

[John James Jacoby]

bbPress 2.6.9 was just released, but it does not make changes to this yet.

I needed to rush out an Akismet fix first, and I’ll look more into this next.

Thank you for being patient. Sorry for the wait. 🙏

[OSCOWP]

And the bbpress developer has disappeared all together

[eterasai]

Morning,
I would like to know how i can report any post that contains spam or advertise link. I have encountered some topics created unrelated to the forum & they created topic only for adding a link. If there a way i can report them? Oh, and i’m talking about bbpress.org forum (the one i’m using now).

[kevb8lly]

Hi

I have just installed bbPress. Things seem to be ok, except that someone posted something earlier and not all of his post is showing. When you edit the post you see it all, but when you save the post has the last couple of sentences missing.

I’m assuming there is a setting somewhere, but I can’t find it.

[dusemedia]

That plugin works fine for the WP Classic Editor but not for the BBPress Teeny editor.

The paste as plain text code in the documentation above works fine for the regular BBPress TinyMCE editor but not for the BBPress Teeny editor.

[Robin W]

it’s a wordpress rather than bbpress issue.

The documentation could be clearer, but that section refers to the tinymce not the text editor

I’ve not tried it, but this might help

Paste As Plain Text By Default

[tumptyteapot]

Hi
I have a forum running through bbPress and a membership site running through Paid Memberships Pro. The site also has BuddyPress installed.

We would like members to be able to add social media links and more info to their public bios. I’m not sure the best way to do this – would it be through bbPress or BuddyPress or PMPro? It doesn’t seem to be an out of the box thing on any of these plugins.

I’m not clear what is doing what.

Any advice would be very gratefully received.

[Rkarel]

Hello! So, mistake url in BBpress’s forum pages will 404 https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/if-i-add-to-url-number-or-a-letter-the-page-is-still-available123/

in Buddypress’s another sub-pages will be 404 too http://hunfis.ru/groups/gornitsa/members123/

and only in Buddypress’s group forums will not 404. It is normally?

[Robin W]

@oscowordpress1

There is a temporary fix, either

1. use code

if( !function_exists( 'bbpress_browser_supports_js' ) ){
	function bbpress_browser_supports_js() {
		echo '<script>document.body.classList.remove("no-js");</script>';
	}
	add_action( 'wp_footer', 'bbpress_browser_supports_js' );
}

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

or

2. install and activate

bbp style pack