[Robin W]

@izzyeast bbpress 2.6.6 works with WordPress 5.7 -I have it running on several sites, and with 300,000 installation, it would be well know if it didn’t.

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

[izzyeast]

Similar issue here, WordPress update installed v5.7 which is NOT Compatible with BBPress v2.6.6. Meaning that I’m going to have to backup to the earlier version, BBPress is compatible up to: WPress v5.6.2

Entire WordPress crashed, where I had to go into hosting cpanel to disable all plugins, see:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-deactivate-all-plugins-when-not-able-to-access-wp-admin/

[Robin W]

On the sites where I have forums, I’ve never used single forums, just a main forum with forums listed in it, so not really had to deal with this issue -I should add that I am just a bbpress user who helps out here, not a bbpress author.

[Robin W]

ok, so create a new topic form template

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

transfer this to your pc and edit

change around line 199

<?php if ( ! bbp_is_single_forum() ) : ?>

to

<?php if (isset($_REQUEST['bbp_forum_id'])) : ?>
<input type="hidden" name="bbp_forum_id" value="<?php echo $_REQUEST['bbp_forum_id']; ?>" />
<?php elseif ( ! bbp_is_single_forum() ) : ?>

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/form-topic.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

then put this in your child theme functions file

add_action ( 'bbp_template_before_single_forum', 'reww_new_topic_button' ) ;

function reww_new_topic_button () {
	$url = $url = get_home_url(); 
	$forum_id = bbp_get_forum_id() ;
	$url.='/topic-form/?bbp_forum_id='.$forum_id ;
	$text = 'create new topicc' ;
	echo '<a class="hello" href ="'.$url.'">'.$text.'</a>' ;
}

where ‘/topic-form/’ is the page you have the topic form on

that sends a query string to the topic form page, which is then picked up by the amended template above

[Robin W]

Probably not with that plugin, but probably another plugin and/or your theme

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

[Palagrin]

This seems to be a good starting point.

Ok, so whilst there doesn’t seem to be a function I can filter that based on the post count, I could potentially run a function that changes someone’s role based on their post count every time they login? That would keep database queries to a minimum and still ensure the update happens fairly regularly.

Any idea what filter or action I can use when a user logs in? Can I just use the wp_login action?

[gillian0606]

In my Dashboard at Settings there is nothing saying Forums to select.

I do have BBPress Notify plugin activated – could there be a conflict with that?

[gillian0606]

According to my WP Mail Log, every post in the BBPress Forum sends out around 30 emails to seemingly random and assorted users, many of whom have not visited the Forum for quite some time.

I would like only those who have checked the box at the bottom of that post to receive email notifications. I don’t even know where are the settings for BBPress; don’t see anything in my dashboard ‘settings’ and not on the plugins page.

WP: 5.7 Theme: Astra BBPress: 2.6.6 Site: https://gillianriley.com

Thanks.

[Robin W]

anything can be done if you can find someone with the technical skills and time and are willing to pay the money for them to do the work !!

The plugin does not generate WordPress ‘pages’ as such, it uses a theme’s template and renders data within that.

I’m just a bbpress user who helps out on this forum, but if we ignore login, register and password reset which users may or may not want as pages (many use sidebar widgets and a multitude of membership plugins and methods to handle registration etc.) then I’m not clear what you want to happen with topic and reply forms – what is missing that you want that needs multiple forms?

[heather74]

Hi, Robin,

I’ve seen a number of posts about this but can’t find a specific solution. I’d like my login to call out to the page I created with the bbpress shortcode: https://museum-hub.org/forum-login/ vs. the generic WP login page. Within your style pack, I’ve gone to the Login tab and added that page where it says “Login Page: You should create a wordpress page with a login shortcode such as [bbp-login] and put the full url in here e.g. http://www.mysite.com/loginpage. If left blank the default wordpress login page will be used.” I’ve saved it, of course. I’ve done the same thing with the “Register” field, sending people here: https://museum-hub.org/register/. Any thoughts on to bypass the WP default login? I’m trying to keep folks from seeing any WP dashboards, etc.

THANK YOU!

[Robin W]

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 5

[selket69]

I use Divi (4.9.2), WordPress (5.7) and Wishlist (3.9) in the latest version and all my plugins are up to date. As my members do not use bbpress I wanted to deinstall it. When I deactivated the plugin my website showed me a crticial error.
What can I do except roll back a couple of months ago?

Kind regards,
Ivana

[SciFiKriss]

I think I am going to just take it down and put up bbpress and start again as there really is not much on there… and hoping I can really get it started properly… and hopefully using this will keep everything connected and put in Buddypress as well… 🙂

Thanks for looking at it for me…

Kriss 🙂

[pinballnate]

that didn’t seem good?

[pinballnate]

The neighborhood works. the image does not:

[pinballnate]

My problem was I put the file back in the bbpress directory instead of the theme directory. Here are the results:
You can see the page here: http://www.staging8.commercecitynorth.com/forums/topic/a-discussion-board-is-such-a-good-idea/

[Robin W]

@scifikriss I see you have asked this many months ago.

The problem is that developing a script is a long tedious process requiring running the process many times, and having to reset databases in between. When I first started with bbpress in 2013 I imported a snitz database and it took 24 attempts over 2 weeks to succeed. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/documented-import-from-snitz-access-database/

If you’d like me to look at what might be involved as a paid piece of work, contact me via

Contact me

[Robin W]

bbpress will render pages using a .php file – this can be one of many in your theme.

It is this file that you will need to edit and put in a child theme to get what you want.

so how familiar with files, FTP and code are you ?

[Robin W]

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

transfer this to your pc and edit

before line 56 which says

<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details' ); ?>

add the following

<?php echo 'hello' ; ?>

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

You should now see ‘hello’ where you want the neighborhood field

If you get this far, then come back

[b0nkers2021]

Hi, my first time posting here.

I’ve installed bbpress on a website with member protected pages and was only able to hide the forums by setting them to private.

Using Divi, I have created 2 different top navigation menus that display for different page groups – members or public.

The bbpress forum index and pages are not WP pages that can be edited like regular pages, so I am wondering how to edit them. Mainly, the edits I’d like to make are removing the right sidebar and setting the menu to the member’s only menu.

What if I wanted to add/remove other content from the forum pages where do I do this?

Thanks

[vincenzon617]

Hi,

is there a way to change the text of the subscription button? Currently it says ‘Subscribe’ and ‘Unsubscribe’ and I would like to change to ‘Watch’ and ‘Unwatch’ respectively. I believe the code that can change this is within the file \bbpress\includes\topics\template.php lines 1781 and 1782. I could change them in here but I would rather change them via my child theme if this is possible?

Thanks!

[pinballnate]

Hi, I used the JetEngine Profile Builder to create some custom fields that I want to use in my discussion boards. They are both stored in the User Settings post type. one is a text field (neighborhood) and the other is a media field (profile-picture).
I would like for the neighborhood meta field to appear after the user name when they post and would like the profile-picture to show up where their avatar is.
Is there a way or a plug-in that would achieve this? I tried BBP Profile Information, but there does not seem to be a way to map or link my custom fields.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Ricsca2]

Defoult bbpress has imposatto to show the root of the forum but from setting you can decide whether to use the prefix or not and there is a warning that indicates that it is recommended.
Have forums / forums / topics etc. it’s a bit ugly. Forums can also be renamed.
What should I do?
Thank you

[Robin W]

if you are no longer using bbpress, then yes you can delete these manually from the database.

bbpress may additionally have some settings stored in wp_options table, again these will all have bbp in their name.

[wrip]

We used to have an old version of bbPress on our website, which was uninstalled years ago. I’ve recently noticed some meta keys starting with “_bbp_” in the wp_postmeta table like these:
_bbp_last_active_time
_bbp_forum_subforum_count
_bbp_reply_count
_bbp_total_reply_count
_bbp_akismet_error
_bbp_akismet_history
_bbp_akismet_as_submitted
_bbp_akismet_user_result
_bbp_akismet_user

I believe these are all bbPress-related data. Is it okay to manually remove these from the database? Does bbPress store data in other core WP tables?