[Robin W]

the comments part of bbpress is not very nice.

you are presuming that what your site shows is the same as everyone else’s – can you explain what you mean?

my test site shows what I would expect

[Ricsca2]

I noticed something else that could be improved.
When users are not logged in, the comments part of bbpress is not very nice.

[st11]

I am trying to create a custom role that can only reply to existing topics.

I followed this to create new role. At first, the role did appear in dropdown list in admin edit user screen, but after saving, it went back to “— No role for these forums —”.

I found this thread, so.. I created custom WordPress role in the same name. This made the bbPress role to be “saved” but it doesn’t seem to add capabilities. The user with this role can’t see forum or topics.

How can I get this custom bbPress user role to have custom capability?

WordPress 5.5, bbPress 2.6.6

[marcopAolo]

Wordpress version 5.6
bbpress Version 2.6.6
website: jackkornfield.com
I recently moved a reply to topic and now from the WPAdmin when I click on Replies I get a 502 error, So I am unable to view/edit replies from WordPress Admin. Please help.

[Robin W]

basic system is fine – the issue is either site specific or words lost in translation between us 🙂

there are over 300,000 installations of bbpress – if breadcrumbs didn’t work, we’d know about it 🙂

But I’m glad you are fixed 🙂

[einar2507]

That saved my day. Now its working properly. There must be something wrong with the bbPress basic system?
Thank you so much for your endless patience with me!!!

[cstoll]

Hi everyone,

we’re currently using bbPress in conjunction with WPML and LearnPress. With that setup, I’m encountering a couple of problems:

1. With WPML, we want to enable users to switch between English and Spanish. I’ve run the string scan via WPML and most strings are already there in Spanish as well as get displayed correctly when the language is set to Spanish. However, there are certain strings that didn’t have translations and that we manually translated – but they don’t show up on the frontend, somehow they remain in English there.

Here’s an example of a such a string. and here’s a corresponding screenshot of the frontend.

2. We’d like to customize the date format so that it displays “Hace 2 Semanas” as “hace 2 semanas” in the last post column, for example. It seems like this would need to be changed in the php files, as with the string translations, that’s just a placeholder? But where exactly would this need to be changed?

Here’s the string I found.

3. Also, no breadcrumb is being displayed at all. Is there some setting I’m missing where this can be turned on?

(WP 5.6.1, bbPress 2.6.6)

Thanks in advance, I’d very much appreciate your help with these issues!

All the best,
Christina

[Robin W]

Is there no way I could add the profile as I did with the forum index? It was super easy just using [bbp-forum-index]

– no, the way profiles work doesn’t easily lend to that 🙂

1. Go to

bbp-add-menu-profile-item

and download the plugin to your computer – make a note of where you saved it !

2. on your website go to dashboard>plugins>add new>upload plugin and browse to the file you downloaded in 1. above
3. Install and Activate
4. If you already have a page called ‘Profile’ then make sure this has the permalink ‘profile’
5. If not then create a page called ‘Profile’ and make sure it has the permalink ‘profile’
6. in the content of the profile page put something like

‘You need to be logged in to see your profile’ – you can add the bbpress login shortcode in here as well if you wish ie [bbp-login]

The above is what will show to people who click the profile menu item who are not logged in

Save the page and exit

7. In Dashboard>appearance>menu’s add the profile page to the menu you want to.

now you will have ‘Profile’ showing as the menu item, and if clicked and logged in you will go to your profile page, if not logged in, you will see the content above.

[Mike Witt]

@robin-w,

> I’m trying to find time to think about this

I wouldn’t put any more effort into it if no one else is seeing it. As I say, I’m not updating WP anyway.

> Enable jQuery Migrate Helper

I could be wrong, but I think the text editing bug is a separate thing and unique to 5.6.1.

> bbpress only has a text editor as standard in front end

This is how I’m enabling what I was calling the “visual” editor:

function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
$args[‘tinymce’] = true;
return $args;
}
add_filter(‘bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args’, ‘bbp_enable_visual_editor’);

—

It’s quite possible that I’m doing something I don’t realize. As I say, I think by now there would be numerous reports if this was a general problem.

[Robin W]

@mike80222 – I’m trying to find time to think about this, but in the meantime 2 thoughts

1. the default for 5.6 issues is to install

Enable jQuery Migrate Helper

2. bbpress only has a text editor as standard in front end , so how are you doing the visual editor you are switching to?

[einar2507]

Hi.
/Forum/ or /Forums/ ???

After installing bbpress I created a page “Forum” with the shortcode [bbp-forum-index]. I made a menu with a link to that “Forum” page. All fine and the forum index listed.

But when I go in to a forum and the click on the breadcrumbs “Forums” to get back, I land on a blank page with the text “Forums” ???
I have also tried to make a page Forums with shortcode [bbp-forum-index] but that does not change anything.
I dont understand this and what I do wrong?
Here is my two pages where first is ok, but breadcrumbs lead to second with error.

Forum

https://fakta360.no/forums/

[bamadale]

Three weeks ago after completely updating WordPress to 5.6, php to 7.4 and updating all of our plugins, we are experiencing some intermittent yet serious (to those paying for their memberships) login / redirect issues.

website: 1standtenflorida.com
WordPress 5.6.1
PHP version: 7.4.15
bbPress Version 2.6.6
BuddyPress Version 7.1.0
OceanWP theme V

Normally, the user comes to our website at 1standtenflorida.com and they are able to login just fine and view the News pages, Big Board, etc., but when they go to the Forum and try to click on a single topic, it redirects them back to the Login page. However, the Log In page shows them as “You are Logged in as “username” (Logout) (click Remember Me checkbox to stay logged in) and there is not a username and password box.

The problem troubleshooting it is, the errors are cross devices (iPhone, Samsung, laptops, desktops, iPads), cross browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge) and cross platform (iOS, MacOS, Windows, etc.). I would note that it seems to be more prevalent on mobile devices but then again, that may be because the majority of our visitors are on mobile devices. 🙂

It doesn’t always happen on every topic either and it can happen on different topics with different users.

I’ve had some success working with individual users to log them out from the Dashboard or reset them a new password. We’ve had them to clear their browser cache and cookies, but only in one or two instances has that helped.

We’ve deleted any plugins that we were using to prolong logins as well, just in case they were outdated.

I have not deleted the .htaccess file yet and let it rebuild and was hoping that might not be required. Any suggestions on how to proceed with troubleshooting this will be greatly appreciated!

[Mike Witt]

Hi @robin-w,

Just bbPress. It’s my MemberPress, bbPress, BuddyPress “test site.” We generally don’t upgrade anything until testing it here first. I’m not upgrading WordPress on our real sites because of the editing bug. I do everything in text mode!

If seems like (with WP 5.6.1) when you start editing a post in text mode, there’s no echo. If you switch to visual, the text is there. Some other weird thing seem to happen, but those are hard to pin down.

AFAICT I don’t have any other plugins that should be involved.

NOTE: FOR ME THIS ONLY HAPPENS ON MOBILE DEVICES, but I don’t really know if it’s mobile vs desktop or one browser vs another. I’ve read that the basic WP bug is browser dependent.

From my perspective, it’s just one of the reasons that I’m not updating WP, so it’s not big deal in itself, but I am curious that (if I’m really seeing what I think I am) that it’s not been reported more!

[Mike Witt]

If they are using WP 5.6.1 and posting in text mode, I wonder if it could be the same thing I’m seeing here:

WordPress 5.6.1 bug affects forum text editing mode?

[uksentinel]

Thank you, I think I will take a look at my /bbpress/form-reply.php and see if the change can be achieved easily.

Thanks

[John James Jacoby]

This is the default behavior of bbPress. Unless a plugin already provides a simple modification of this behavior, the easiest way to customize this would be by overriding the /bbpress/form-reply.php template part in your WordPress child theme.

[xprojectsx]

I’ve been going over this for days trying to import forum using the Example importer. Everything works but after importing about 300,000 records, all of the authors are incorrect after the import. I did a fresh install of WP and tried again but got the same results. I ran the bbpress tools and this made no difference.
A lot of the users show as “Anonymous” but the rest are just pointing to the wrong user id. So the Topics/Replies just show as from the wrong user. I tried working around this by going into the source data and giving all of the user ids there a very high numerical value but even after doing this it made no difference. WordPress still assigns seemingly random userids to all of the imported users.

[uksentinel]

This Forum bbpress.org does exactly the same, as a point or reference ?

[uksentinel]

The BBPRESS Topic/Reply Form appears at the bottom of every Page within a given Topic, so if I have a Topic which has several pages, at the bottom of every page is the Reply To form.

I have looked through the BBP Style Pack to no avail, I am looking to have the Reply To form only at the end of the whole Topic, not at the bottom of every page in between?

Is there something I have missed to achieve this easily ?

Thanks

[neon67]

On some of my sites I use wp.org/plugins/user-registration/ but it slows things down it seems to me.
This not critical For other sites, but bbpress is lively and loads not fast. So I wanted to try something new.

On an empty bbpress I have a letter about registration of a new user. It remains only to freeze this registration for approval by the moderator, put a flag and send a confirmation email.
Maybe someone Who was doing this via functions.php? :)))

[flamuren]

Just the profile 🙂

(If possible also a “change password” and “log out” button within the bbpress profile – this is being fixed by a guy I am paying atm)

[purityboy83]

hi @robin-w

i found problem root cause

“bbPress Simple View Counts” was the problem.

“Health Check & Troubleshooting” This plugin is very useful
Troubleshooting Mode is very good And a log was also left.

### Nginx Log
2021/02/18 00:35:57 [error] 13752#13752: *888 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error:  
Uncaught TypeError: Unsupported operand types: string + int in /source/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-simple-view-counts/bbpress-simple-view-counts.php:95
Stack trace:
#0 /source/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(289): bbpress_simple_view_counts->show_views_topic_page()
#1 /source/wp-includes/plugin.php(212): WP_Hook->apply_filters()
#2 /source/wp-content/plugins/bbpress.new/includes/topics/template.php(3348): apply_filters()
#3 /source/wp-content/plugins/bbpress.new/includes/topics/template.php(3278): bbp_get_single_topic_description()
#4 /source/wp-content/plugins/bbpress.new/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-topic.php(33): bbp_single_topic_description()
#5 /source/wp-includes/template.php(732): require('/source...')
#6 /source/wp-content/plugins/bbpress.new/includes/core/template-functions.php(103): load_template()
#7 /source/wp-conten" while reading response header from upstream, client: 192.168.0.1, 
   server: fedora.h2code.cf, request: "GET /forums/topic/23118 HTTP/2.0", 
   upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/run/php/php-fpm.sock:", host: "site.name"

### PHP-FPM Log
[pool www] child 13731 said into stderr: "NOTICE: sapi_cgi_log_message(), line 611: PHP message: PHP Fatal error:  
Uncaught TypeError: Unsupported operand types: string + int in /source/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-simple-view-counts/bbpress-simple-view-counts.php:95"

[pool www] child 13731 said into stderr: "Stack trace:"
[pool www] child 13731 said into stderr: "#0 /source/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(289): bbpress_simple_view_counts->show_views_topic_page()"
[pool www] child 13731 said into stderr: "#1 /source/wp-includes/plugin.php(212): WP_Hook->apply_filters()"
[pool www] child 13731 said into stderr: "#2 /source/wp-content/plugins/bbpress.new/includes/topics/template.php(3348): apply_filters()"
[pool www] child 13731 said into stderr: "#3 /source/wp-content/plugins/bbpress.new/includes/topics/template.php(3278): bbp_get_single_topic_description()"
[pool www] child 13731 said into stderr: "#4 /source/wp-content/plugins/bbpress.new/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-topic.php(33): bbp_single_topic_description()"
[pool www] child 13731 said into stderr: "#5 /source/wp-includes/template.php(732): require('/source...')"
[pool www] child 13731 said into stderr: "#6 /source/wp-content/plugins/bbpress.new/includes/core/template-functions.php(103): load_template()"
[pool www] child 13731 said into stderr: "#7 /source/wp-conten..."

“bbPress Simple View Counts” This plugin is out of date.
I’ll try to disable it and think more about what to do.

Thank you again

Best Regards,
Hyunho

[purityboy83]

Hello again?

@robin-w

I thought of this problem as “bbp style pack”
Because when a problem occurs, the error is “bbp style pack” error.
this support link

I just updated the bbp style pack, but bbpress still problems
I don’t think it’s a “bbp style pack” problem
(Because no error occurs after update)

I’m worried because no error occurred
First, I’ll try to disable the plugin one by one according to your guide and test it.

I will also install the “Health Check & Troubleshooting” plugin.

Thanks

Best Regards,
Hyunho

[Robin W]

works fine on my test site – I can only suggest 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

[Robin W]

if you’re happy using bbpress templates, then grab the version from my style pack plugin

bbp style pack

it is in

plugins\bbp-style-pack\trunk\templates\templates1\loop-forums.php

it should work if you just copy it to your child theme’s bbpress folder.

Alternately you can just use the plugin and once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>forum templates