Hi, I installed bbPress on my WordPress site, but when I add forums, and try to open one of them, I get blank page?
How I can fix that?
Thx for getting back on this. To clarify, the results DO NOT show up in the standard WordPress search, only if I add the bbPress results to is by using a bbPress search plugin.
These use the provided results from bbpress, and I understand now that this is an database with all data in it, not specified by private and open. So for me now it is a question of making each comment for group read access or giving no option to search in forum until you have embedded an official search in bbPress?
Sydney,
what happens if you try to change the privacy setting of a legacy group forum? Save it as private (or opposite of what it was), and then change it back. Save permalinks just for good measure, then reload.
This is a long-shot idea…
Hi Gang,
well…. this one through me for a loop today as well, when moving our WooThemes Canvas for bbPress & BuddyPress site for a test drive on bbPress 2.2 ( http://labsecrets.com/demo/canvas-commerce )
The individual forums would work fine, but the main forum index was rendering what looked like a post excerpt, with everything jumbled into a single paragraph.
Solution was actually rather simple. If you are using a child-theme in Canvas (you ARE using a child-theme I hope?? 😉 ) simply make a copy of the content-page.php file from parent, and put it into your child-theme folder.
Next, change the entry div as shown, to modify the current conditional check to ALSO see if you are on a bbPress page. Without this extra bit, it assumes that you want the page to show the_excerpt() on every page other than single.php …. not true. We want full content on bbPress pages as well 😉
<div class="entry">
<?php
/* If this is a bbPress page show full content not exerpt */
if ( ! is_singular() && (! is_bbPress()) ) {
the_excerpt();
} else {
the_content(__('Continue Reading →', 'woothemes') );
}
wp_link_pages( $page_link_args );
?>
</div><!-- /.entry -->
With this simple mod, all is well and now the native forums index works, and so does building a custom page with shortcode. Ta da!
See: http://labsecrets.com/demo/canvas-commerce/forums/
Ok going to bed… The plugin works fine… What was throwing me off was that when you scrolled the new button on the top navigation bar the option to add new topic was not there. You actually had to click on the forum and then post new topic. Sorry for the confusion….
@livninctry I see you are using some kind of custom registration form to register users on both sites, is this causing any roles or modifying user permissions?
For your ‘dev’ environment I would install WordPress and then bbPress and NOT installing the suffusion theme or the suffusion bbPress pack and see if everything works before adding anything else.
Kind of the same for your main site, disable ALL plugins except bbPress and check to make sure everything works, then try with the suffusion theme, check everything again, then the suffusion bbPress pack, check everything again, then each of your other plugins one by one checking everything each and everytime.
I also see that the Suffusion bbPress pack v1.01 has not been updated in a while “Last Updated: 2012-7-25” or has it been updated since reported problems 2 months ago https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-suffusion-bbpress-pack-compatibility-issues-with-latest-bbpress-212
I’m having an issue I can’t seem to figure out. I’ve had bbpress forums on another one of my sites for awhile so when I decided to create a new site that was the first thing I installed – unfortunately I’m still stuck at this point. It’s a fresh wordpress 3.4.3 install with bbpress 2.2.2. For some reason the forums just don’t want to show up on my page (http://indiegamehut.com/forums). The theme was designed for Buddypress and BBpress.
I also commented out lines 657 and 658 in the theme-compat.php file with no luck. Any suggestions?
As a follow up to my post above… I tried a completely fresh install of wordpress, switched to the suffusion theme, added bbpress and added the suffusion bbpress pack.
The admin has complete control. Added a forum and a topic to test settings.
Added new user with a role of contributor for the system and participant for forum role.
Logged into the website as the new user and noticed that the only action allowed would be to create a new post. Should this user not be allowed to post new topics?
I am completely at a loss as to what I am overlooking.
original site:
http://dev.hoaconnections.com/venturahoa/
fresh install:
http://dev.hoaconnections.com/ventura/
I have read through everything I can find about user roles and have the latest updates installed and am still having so many problems even after trying several different role plugins. The only way it seems I can let users post new topics is to give them moderator status…. I have tried adding user roles using members and URE and nothing changes. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hope these help:
‘Widgets’ go in ‘Sidebars’ https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/
‘Shortcodes’ go on ‘Pages’ https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
I think we are actually talking about WP-Admin side of things not showing forums/topics/replies in the WordPress admin dashboard… Correct?
If so it sounds like a plugin conflict and some help in narrowing this down would help all involved…
To try and resolve conflicts with other plugins please disable all your plugins except bbPress to see if the error persists. Re-enable each plugin one at a time and if things break again you should be able to now know which other plugin is causing the conflict.
I did not do anything with the users or roles. I tried adding a new administrator user and that didn’t help. I still don’t see the menus.
This is a 3-year old dormant install of wordpress that I just started using again. Did all of the upgrades, etc. I did not have bbpress, that is new. But I’m thinking I should just reinstall wordpress from scratch, maybe along the way something happened related to that.
OK… I see this now… None of your previous posts had mentioned that this was happening when the setting for the category/forum was ‘Private’.
I’ll create a ticketbug report on trac later after some more research on the issue.
Hopefully you will get a reply soon on your post here.
You can also contact the Arabic translation team directly https://ar.wordpress.org/contact/
I also have a user experiencing this issue (where they can’t see the first post in a thread) on our BuddyPress + bbPress site. We are using the default bbP-theme within DynamiX WP/BP theme. I will attempt to change our theme and report back if that fixes it.
Any other ideas what might be causing this? Anyone else experiencing this issue?
Right now there isn’t a straight forward API for this like their should be.
If you are going to be doing a lot of user profile customizations, it might be worth considering installing BuddyPress and then just disabling everything except the user profiles.
From my understanding this is the best route to go if you want to go beyond what bbPress profiles do out of the box.
Hi I still have this problem even after upgrading to bbPress 2.2. My posts still have and tags all through them!
I used bbConverter to convert the standalone bbPress forum to the new plugin version 2.1.
Here is an example of what my posts look like:
Great article in the Southland Times today about Earthlore:
The replies are formatted fine. The fix mentioned above didn’t work for me, and I don’t want to edit the bb core files because they will just get wiped in the next update. Is there anything I can do??
Thanks
Yes there is a less brutal method…Instead of targeting all WP titles, you can target only bbPress titles.
Filter on ‘bbp_get_forum_title’ and ‘bbp_get_forum_archive_title’
bbPress is stripping all paragraph formatting when using the fancy editor.
I am working with the plugin TinyMCE Advanced, I need this setting checked for posts:
“Stop removing the and tags when savings and show them in the HTML editor.”
This works just fine for posts, but when it is checked it stops paragraph formatting in the forums. When it is not selected, the forum formatting works just fine.
I really want the fancy editor on my forum, but not being able to use paragraph formatting is a huge pain… Any suggestions as to why this is happening, or how I could go about fixing it?
Latest WP and bbPress.
I have the same issue of Annie S Spratt.
My “Private” forum is gone, the forum index (www.my-domain.it/forums/forum/name-of-the-forum/) tells me “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.”
But topics are reachable via a direct link (making the forum public, taking the url of a topic and then making again the forum private)
WP3.4.2, Buddypress 1.6.1, bbPress2.2
I’ve set up the new bbPress 2.2 forums for BuddyPress groups as per http://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/ . But I may have encountered a bug. Has anyone else had the following problems?
The BuddyPress group admin>forum page check box (followed by save) seems to have no effect on turning the bbPress forum on or off for that group. If the forum was on, it stays on – even if the check box is off. If the forum was off it stays off, even if the check box is on.
Also, the bbPress “forum” tab shows on the group page subnav, even if there is no forum for that group.
By the way, the check box does toggle the “enable_forum” field in the wp_bp_groups database table. But neither BP nor bbPress seems to respond to the change.
Any help on understanding/fixing this would be much appreciated please.
Well, I’ve worked out why my page.php was not showing my template, the loop I was using was a really simple one, just
the_title();
the_content();
When I replaced it with the loop from the twentyeleven them it worked! Phew.
Still not worked out why my site was being bombarded by multiple IPs just from positing the link to an open forum on here… I think I stopped it by deleting the forum and the .htaccess file to stop the permalink from existing as even if it’s a 404 it can still be constantly requested. I think…
I’m having the same issues as Annie, 404s on forums unless they’re private. Was working fine with whichever version I updated from, 2.1.something
Cheers,
David
Hmm, I haven’t tested this so I can’t say, but it definitely sounds like an issue. Maybe someone else can chime in and try to duplicate it.
This is probably happening because the default WordPress search isn’t looking at information bbPress stores when it makes things as private. WordPress just grabs results from all post types that are supported, makes sure they are published, and runs with it.
This doesn’t help your current situation, but I just wanted to say the search is something we are trying to address in 2.3.
Having bbPress search results come up in the regular WordPress search is weird, and leads to problem such as this, which is why bbPress topics/replies are not searchable by default. To skirt around this problem, we are likely going to make a bbPress specific search with its own search results page. This will give us more control over how the results are returned and make sure stuff that should be hidden doesn’t show up.
