[Robin W]

purplep’s instructions are for version 1 of bbpress which was 7 years ago

[timwilly3]

Hey all,

Using bbPress version: 2.6.5

I have an odd issue where the audio drops out within the block after I upload.

It works initially, then often about 5-10 minutes after upload the audio shows up as 0.00 seconds on site.

To fix it, I have to keep the WordPress page open and update the story.

From there it locks in and doesn’t drop out.

It’s very frustrating as it happens every single time.

Help much appreciated! Thanks

[jason4locations]

Maybe I should have also mentioned that, when I use the bbPress register form, no new users are created.

[jason4locations]

Maybe I should have mentioned that the register form is from a bbPress widget.

[Robin W]

you would I think do better amending the files that display the forum

the hierarchy for these is

SINGLE FORUM

bbpress 2.6.6\templates\default\bbpress\content-single-forum.php
lists sub forums (if needed) using loop-forums.php
calls
loop-topics.php
calls
form topic.php

bbpress 2.6.6\templates\default\bbpress\loop-topics.php
does topic list headers

calls loop-single-topic.php

bbpress 2.6.6\templates\default\bbpress\loop-single-topic.php
lists each topic in the forum, last post and freshness

lists topic content.php

My standard text for how to amend bbpress template files is below with loop-single-reply.php as an example

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

and save

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/loop-single-reply.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[bobdobbs]

After installing bbpress I have a set of forums.

Every forum is presented using a php template in my child theme.
The php template has the filename bbpress.php.

I’d like to create a php template that applies *just* to the individual forum pages. Not the forum topics or singles. Or anything else.

I’ve been looking at this:

Template hierarchy in detail

The heirarchy seems to suggest that you can use ‘single-[forum].php’, which suggests that ‘[forum]’ needs to be substituted with the name of the forum.

… which is great. But I want one template to be applied to all forum singles and nothing else.

Just to test, I copied my existing bbress.php to a file called ‘single-forum.php’.
bbpress did pick this up and use it for my forum singles.
But the page didn’t present the actual forum. Where the forum should have been, there was just empty space.

So… how do I create a template that gets applied to all forums and nothing else?

[Mike Witt]

@gillian0606,

There’s a similar conversation going on here that you might be interested in:

Expired member still getting subscription notifications

[serrurier94]

I can not enter into the forum without log in. But i open topic to public view mode. I get error messages 401 in Google search console. Can anyone help me?. I am using bbPress 2.6.6.

[djintelbe]

Hello,

Some mathematical objects written in mathjax/latex use backslash (\). For example, one use \sqrt{} for the square root function, \mathbb{} for the set of numbers. In bbpress forums, these objects work perfectly but when the forums are displayed in buddypress activities streams, the backslash disappears and therefore the mathematical symbols are not rendered and make the texts difficult to read. If the texts are typed directly in buddypress side, things are also alright. So, the problem seems to be in the transition from forum to the buddypress activities.

I tried some solutions but nothing work. For example, I tried this solution: remove_filter( ‘bp_get_the_topic_post_content’, ‘stripslashes_deep’ ); but it did not work.
So I am asking for help; how can I do to solve the problem?

Thank you in advance

Wordpress 5.7.2
bbpress 2.6.6

Regards

Nestor

[Mike Witt]

For what it’s worth, I’m using MemberPress and I have to unsubscribe people from bbPress (and BuddyPress) notifications by hand when they leave. I would love to come up with a better scheme!

[bobdobbs]

I’ve installed bbpress and created a set of forums.

On the forums page of my website, a linked list of forums shows… which is great.

However, I now want to alter the order in which the forums are listed.

Usually for post types, the admin screen allows a re-ordering of posts via the ‘quick edit’ link.
However, in the bbpress forums admin screens, forums don’t have the ‘quick edit’ listing.

I’ve installed and configured a couple of plugins that allow admins to re-order post types. These don’t seem to touch bbpress forums.

At a last resort I’m sure I could find a code snippet online. But I’d like to work within the CMS admin as much as I can.

Is there a way to alter the order of the bbpress forums list display without falling back to code?

[sleestak]

I have a paid membership WordPress (5.7.2) site using bbPress. I have it set for users to be able to subscribe to forums/topics. However, when their membership expires, they are still getting email notifications of their subscriptions. How can I prevent this?

Thanks!

[salar2]

Hi,
My website WordPress version is 5.5.5. bbpress version 2.6.6 BuddyPress 7.3.0.
Child theme is Twenty Twenty.
BBpress language is farsi. My problem is the time of topics and repies is 4:30 off incomparision to Tehran time (It actually shows UCT instead of Tehran’s time). 3 examples:

برادرم جنسیت بچه اش رو نمیگه

دکتر معینی پزشک زنان

واکسن کرونا

[jason4locations]

When I use the bbPress forum search form, it adds it to the search form that was already there, so now there are two. I’d prefer to only have one, the bbPress one. I thought removing the one that was already there would be a WordPress problem (not a bbPress problem) because, to remove it, I could use the Disable Search plugin or the code at

https://www.wpbeginner.com/awp-tutorials/how-to-disable-the-search-feature-in-wordpress/

with Code Snippets. But, neither of those two methods worked. I couldn’t find the form that was already there at the widgets page. I also couldn’t remove it by customizing a header. I know that this might seem like more of a WordPress or theme problem, but because bbPress has the option of adding its forum search form, I thought a lot of people who use bbPress might wind up with too many forms (and bring it up at this forum). But, I couldn’t find anyone who has the same problem as me, at this forum. My site is at dancing4locations.org. There, you can see the bbPress form that I want to keep below the login form, and the form that I want to remove (which is to the left of the login form).

Thank you.

[justcasper]

Hello,
i found a lot of old (5+ years old) posts about that topic but none of them worked from me.
We have a private bbpress-forum and we want to be able to share links for the forum.
The flow shloud be like this:

1. Visitor clicks the link.
2. If the visitor isn’t logged in he gets redirected to the loginpage (already done).
3. After loggin in he should go back to the last page (the one from the link)

What is the best way to do this?

[alloxrinfo]

I am so amazed that nobody answered you. What you were asking was very clear and i’m looking for the same thing. When you fall on the bbPress front page, if someone is not registered on your website they should be able to click on a “register” button just next to the “login” button like you can find on most websites ? How comes it’s not already there from scratch ? Still nobody for helping the others that will fall on this topic ?

Thanks !

[uksentinel]

Well WP Smush does not work with my BBPRESS Layout, removes a lot of of Forum headers visually ;-(

[jason4locations]

Should I give updates here about how debugging is going, or does the error have nothing to do with bbPress?

[Back to Front]

Hi again 🙂

I’m using the Twenty Twenty theme with bbpress.

On any single topic, the ‘next’ link of the pagination jumps to the latest topic. The ‘previous’ link is missing. On the latest topic, the ‘next’ link links to itself.

On any forum, it does the same.

On posts, it works as expected.

This is a child theme, but I get the same results with the parent theme active, and with all plugins other than bbpress deactivated.

I’ve also asked this question over at twenty twenty theme but no replies. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagination-not-working-with-bbpress-topics-replies/#post-14510051
I guess this question may have more to do with the theme than with bbpress, but perhaps I’m wrong? Do other themes pagination work as expected with bbpress forums and topics? Perhaps I could swap out twenty twenty’s pagination for that of another theme?

Do you have any clues what’s gone wrong? I think pagination is really important for the site, and the twenty twenty themes style of pagination is very visually appealing, so I’d prefer to get it working rather than delete it!~

[jason4locations]

I got back in, but then I got messages that said “There has been a critical error on your website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions” whenever I clicked on Dashboard and a lot of the other things, even while using ?snippets-safe-mode=true (which I can tell you about if you’re interested). So, maybe I’m not in. I don’t know if the problem was only because of how I used the Code Snippets plugin, or if it was because of how I used it with bbPress.

[Back to Front]

Hi sorry its been a while! Been busy with other projects.

@robin-w @webmasterfreya this is what I’ve done to reverse the reply order on certain topics. And now I’ve come back to it after a month, I can’t reproduce the issue of it breaking the pagination. It seems to work as expected, without adding another function to mess with the pagination.

Install

bbPress – Sort topic replies

Remove the parts that sort the forum’s topic order, as they are causing errors, and they aren’t desired for this purpose (sorting the reply order)

// Adds meta box to the side bar of the Forums edit pages
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'bbPress_meta_box_add' );
function bbPress_meta_box_add(){
	add_meta_box( 'bbPress_meta_box_sort_desc', 'Sort Replies', 'bbPress_forum_meta_box', 'forum', 'side', 'high' );
}

and

	// Save sort settings for forum
		if( $_POST['str-bbpress-sort-replies'] == "desc" ){
			update_post_meta($post_id, '_bbp_sort_desc', 'desc');
		}elseif( $_POST['str-bbpress-sort-replies'] == "asc" ){
			update_post_meta($post_id, '_bbp_sort_desc', 'asc');
		}else{
			update_post_meta($post_id, '_bbp_sort_desc', 'dft');
		}

and

	// Save show lead settings for the forum
		if( $_POST['str-bbpress-sort-replies-show-lead-topic-forum'] == "yes" ){
			update_post_meta($post_id, '_bbp_topic_sort_show_lead_topic_forum', 'yes');
		}elseif( $_POST['str-bbpress-sort-replies-show-lead-topic-forum'] == "no" ){
			update_post_meta($post_id, '_bbp_topic_sort_show_lead_topic_forum', 'no');
		}else{
			update_post_meta($post_id, '_bbp_topic_sort_show_lead_topic_forum', 'dft');
		}

I can send the whole file if thats more useful.

Sorry I hope i’m not missing something that we noticed before? Actually my site is using threaded replies. So unfortunately it’s not using pagination, its unfortunate it can’t have both. But I turned it off to test this and it it worked.

Regarding the buddypress activity stream…
Here is an example of a member page with buddypress activity stream.
https://houseonfire.backtofrontdesign.co/members/forum_2tbmmm/
I think it also works as expected showing forum replies in the reverse chronological order.

[jason4locations]

There was a critical error on my website, and now I can’t get to the log in screen. My site is at dancing4locations.org. I’m using version 5.5.5 of WordPress, and version 2.6.6 of bbPress.

[Back to Front]

Good question. it would be nice to know if any themes – especially core themes, would be well updated to look good and be responsive with all aspects of bbpress and buddypress?

I’m using twenty twenty and there is a lot of work to make bbpress presentable to be honest.

[Back to Front]

Heres a get started guide!

Customizing

or tldr; copy the files from
plugins/bbpress
to
your-child-theme/bbpress
and edit them there!

[jason4locations]

Can things that are done with PHP usually also be done with CSS? I’m assuming the instructions given above involved PHP. The reason why I’m asking is because it seems easy to use Dashboard: Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS, but I don’t know if that would work. While PHP might be just as easy as CSS for some, CSS seems a lot easier to me.

If that isn’t possible, is there a page that describes how to do it the PHP way for beginners? That would be helpful, because I don’t know things like where to find wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php, how to create a directory, how to transfer files, whether %your-theme-name% is Twenty Twenty or if I have to give it my own name, or if doing any of the above will interfere with the bbp Style Pack plugin.

Thanks!