[ozwest]

I used the troubleshooting and I only enabled bbPress which again did not show the links in the dashboard.

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses wordpress.

I’d suggest 2 things

1. test using an email tester eg

WP Test Email

2. get details of your SMTP email configuration form your host and use

WP Mail SMTP by WPForms

[Robin W]

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

Then come back

[pluckvermont]

Hi,

I installed 2.6.6 on a site running WP 5.7.2. The site is https://www.vsjf.org/.

After activation, I see nothing in the Dashboard, I also see nothing under Settings nor Tools. It’s as if I never installed it.

I’ve never really seen anything like this with a plugin.

I did check the front-end, and the stylesheet for bbpress is loading in my header.

Has anyone experience this before?

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses wordpress login, so anything that works for wordpress will also work for bbpress

[sk80au]

Hi,

I’m testing my new website and found a problem with user registration. When a new user registers (in this case myself using a different email address), the verification email isn’t being send to the user.

I, as an admin receive the email that the user x is registered.

Wondering what could cause this issue? and is there any known fix for this?

[sk80au]

Hi,

I have restricted access to wp-login.php using IP address filtering from htaccess file. Is there a way to have two separate login URLs (php login files) one for admins and a custom URLs for non-admins? If not, I have to remove the IP filtering from my htaccess file.
I noticed that the custom login URL I created for bbPress still uses the wp-login.php.

[jason4locations]

The reason I asked Robin W. that question is because if the bbPress Login Widget has more than the following three options

1. Title: Here you can set the title of the widget as it will be displayed in the sidebar.
2. Register URI: Link to your custom signup page eg. A WordPress page using the [bbp-register] shortcode.
3. Lost Password URI: Link to your lost-password page eg. A WordPress page using the [bbp-lost-pass] shortcode.

then I might be missing out on too much to use a different Login Widget instead, and therefore I should try harder to figure out how to use the bbPress Login Widget, even though I’ve been struggling to figure out how to use it for a very long time.

[Robin W]

I’m not a bbpress author, but many find the widget useful

[jason4locations]

Thank you, Robin W.

I’m curious why (if anything that works for WordPress registration will work for bbPress forum registration) the bbPress Login Widget was made.

[jason4locations]

The topic at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installing-bbpress-and-creating-registering-new-users-for-your-forum/ is relevant.

[carosch]

Hello,

sorry for my english, i’m french.

I have bbpress 5.1.2.
I need to disable the possibility to post a topic outside of a child forum.
How can I do that ?

thanks
Caroline

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses wordpress registration and login, so anything that works for wordpress registration will be fine.

[jason4locations]

Do we have to select the bbPress template page for User Register? A page said that this can be done by clicking on the drop-down Template menu on the right hand section of the screen and selecting bbPress – User Register. But, I couldn’t find that either.

[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?