[Milan Petrovic]

Hey, @robin-w, and I can confirm that the problem is the format for subscriptions that changed in bbPress 2.6 (from usermeta to postmeta), so the old version of my plugin the @sbask uses was released almost 2 years ago, and bbPress 2.6 was not yet released, so it doesn’t support the change in the subscriptions format.

[Milan Petrovic]

Hey @sbask, I see that you use my GD bbPress Toolbox Pro, and the view it creates. I have not noticed that it has the issue you describe, but I will check it out. It would be beneficial if you can open the topic in the official support forum, and share more details about the problem so we can debug it.

Also, you are using a fairly outdated version (5.6) that might be having issues with bbPress 2.6, while the latest one is 6.3. bbPress 2.6 has made changes to the way it handles subscriptions, and old GD bbPress Toolbox Pro most likely was still using the old subscriptions method.

[maskis]

Thank you for your answer!

You were right, most of my problems were due to not having sidebar on the homepage. This is now fixed!

I encountered now more frustrating problem. When I use the shortcode above on my homepage, the forum is displayed in default template. In the actual Forum-pages the template is alternate forum template 1 (I´m using bbPress Style Pack plugin). I would like the homepage view to be alternative forum template 1 too.

In Style Pack plugin “Not Working?” section reads as follows:

“It’s not working !!
It may be as simple as closing and restarting your browser, so try this first !!

If that doesn’t work…

Background
Style pack works with many/most sites, but it can fail due to a myriad of reasons, including (but no means limited to) site permissions, php versions, other plugins and most often site themes where the theme author has altered bbpress files.

This is no-ones fault – whilst I can control how bbpress performs, there are many thousands of plugins and themes, all of which may be trying to amend the same stuff as I am, and many host poviders who will have differing but equally valid permission and code versions.

Problem finding
1. “caching” software that speeds up the download of your site, but may not recognise and immediately make changes from my plugin

Do you know if you are using caching software? If so then try refreshing, purging or deactivating to see if this fixes.

If you still have the issue, we need to work out which parts are working and which not

We need to look at 2 areas – files and css

2. Files
If your theme author has changed bbpress files in his theme, this will be for valid reason, which may relate to either style or functionality

No bbpress files have been changed in the theme

3. CSS
If css had loaded then the text below will have a green background, if it has not loaded this will be a red background

This sentance should have a green background

If the background is red, then try amending the “css location” tab above

check the activate box and set the location to
wp-content/uploads/
and save these changes
and then come back and re-check this area.”

I´m not using any cache plugin at least to my knowledge. I´ve also tried to unactivate all of the other plugins than bbPress, Style Pack and BuddyPress. This makes no difference.

Can´t find any settings that would force the homepage view on the theme to be any different than on any other sections of my site.

Any clues, what could I do to fix the problem?

[Robin W]

if I had to guess, I’d probably guess that you are using [bbp-forum-index] on a gutenberg block page, and that you have either not used the shortocde block, or have code blocks in the page.

The bits in your pasteboard are before bbpress fires

[Robin W]

ok, it is not a problem I have seen and bbpress has 300,000 installations, so I cannot say why you are seeing it and without site access I cannot say how to hide it, as that would take me working it out from your screeshots which is beyond free help

[rjrjrjrj]

Same thing with 2020. I only have bbpress and woocommerce. As you probably realize, I will not be deactivating woocommerce.

[hayleyenchanted]

I’m using bbpress with memberpress for my membership site. It automatically added a “Forum Profile” tab on the account page. Is there a way to edit and/or remove this tab?

[Robin W]

bbpress doesn’t have visual editor as default

but this link to a visual link plugin might catcah attention if more request it to the plugin authirs by adding to the post

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-to-help-use-it-available-in-bbpress/

[Robin W]

ok, no idea what is causing that

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

[rjrjrjrj]

I did not try other themes, but in 20 16 I see some artifacts above and below the forum. Are they necessary? How can I get rid of them? We are on WP 5.6 and bbpress 2.6.6

https://pasteboard.co/JHkB7EM.png
https://pasteboard.co/JHkBqJ0.png

[quix8]

Thanks for this post, But I think for

6. Load the style sheet after bbpress

The correct way is this:

/**
 * load custom bbpress css after bbp default css
 */
wp_enqueue_style( 'custom-bbpress', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/css/custom-bbpress.css',array('bbp-default'),'1.1','all');

[muranomidwest]

Hmmm – for anyone thinking that rtMedia was actually doing anything for bbPress – they are not. They’re still “considering it” and the plugin offers no functionality for bbPress users that isn’t mediated by BuddyPress – free, paid or bundled with a theme. Zip, zero, nada, nothing. Do not be deceived by bbPress references in their plugin descriptions. After some conversation with them about it, I would be surprised if they ever add bbPress support.

Given the bad decision from BP upfront to use their own database, coupled with the fact that there are virtually no BuddyPress plugins left that really work in the modern WP world, it was silly for rtMedia to hitch their wagon to this the black star that is BuddyPress.

bbPress has plenty of limitations and should have kept up better, but it generally plays nice with the rest of the WP world. Its universe is infinitely larger at this point.

[maskis]

Hi!

And thank´s for great plugin!

I have tried to change my forum page to be my site´s homepage using shortcode [bbp-topic-index]. I can make my forum index come up in a box in my homepage, but it is missing all the extra´s in the forum pages (ie. latest posts, latest topics, etc.). Is there a way to really set a forum page to be homepage of my site?

I have the newest versions of WP and bbPress, and I´m running on newest version of Customizr theme.

My homepage is http://www.maltaasta.fi (a Finnish homebrewing site) and I would like the visitors to get straight to my forum in http://www.maltaasta.fi/keskustelupalsta

[Milan Petrovic]

I have released a new free plugin for bbPress (it started as a Pro plugin, now it is free and will remain a free plugin, there will not be a Pro version in the future) for adding new page type in bbPress, for listing all forum members/users with options to filter and sort members. Check it out here:

GD Members Directory for bbPress

On the plugin page, you can see the video showing how the plugin works.

Regards,
Milan

[Robin W]

ok, doing that using url’s is well beyond free help or indeed my knowledge of wordpress/bbpress.

The code can be amended to pass a $_REQUEST of say ‘loginname’

you can then create a page in wordpress, and use a shortcode to hook to php code that would look up the login name and display data related to that user, but then you have to have an area to create that data and store it in the database, or let the user create – so you would need creation/edit/delete pages and code.

It is all quite doable but well beyond free help

[Halil Beycan]

What I want is I want to add a link there as in the picture below, and I want what I want to appear on the page that opens when I click it. I did it for BuddyPress but couldn’t find a solution for bbPress.

https://prnt.sc/wcemvm

[Robin W]

if you mean amend the ‘topics started, relies created’ etc, menu, then this is in the template

\templates\default\bbpress\user-details.php which you can amend and put in a bbpress directory in your child theme

eg…

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/user-details.php

transfer this to your pc and edit to what you want

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/user-details.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[Halil Beycan]

Hi there is no hook that allows me to do this like in buddyPress? For example, buddyPress also has this “bp_core_new_nav_item”.

How can I do this? I really haven’t found a solution. A solution to this.

[bs981]

Hi,

Looks like, I have been able to pin-point error which was related to the “Fastest Cache” Plugin. It was interfering with the login.

Is there any safe cache plugin which can be used along with BBPRESS. If there are any settings specifically to prevent login/logout issues, then please let me know.

Please guide on Cached Plugins interfering with the bbpress login and how to avoid it.

regards
BS

[bs981]

Hi,

I have registered an account on bbpress. I received email with password set option. I have set the password correctly.

However, when I try to log from this section, it doesnt show anything when I click login after entering my username/password created.

When I try to login, I am specifically login from the form created by BBPRESS (not default wordpress login)

https://ibb.co/SNntGYL

This is the link where login form for bbpress can be accessed: https://www.helios7.com/vlog/forums/

After I click login it does not take me anywhere or show I am logged in. Despite entering login details it keeps showing me login window.

HOpe I am able to explain my problem

[multi65]

Hi Robin,

Thank you very much for your prompt reply.

I have used your plugin; it is extremely helpful and convenient.

But I was forced to remove it, because I am using the ‘Youzer’ plugin for buddypress and bbpress, and it seems to not work very well with that. (i.e the appearance of the forums end up looking weird.)

Is there some other way this can be done?

Thank you

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses wordpress login, so

1. how are you creating the bbpress account ?
2. what does ‘I am not able to login’ mean? are you not able to access any of the site, or just the forums?

[bs981]

Hi,

My main website link is https://www.helios7.com/vlog/ and I have installed bbpress at https://www.helios7.com/vlog/forums/

However, when I create account for BBPRESS, I am not able to login. I am completely lost and does not know how to sort this issue.

Please suggest your solution.

Thanks and regards
BS981

[multi65]

Hello,

Using the [bbp-topic-form] shortcode, users will have to choose from a dropdown list in order to post a topic. Of course, this can cause some issues as users can often post in the wrong forums without knowing it.

How can bbpresss forum functionality be configured so that users can press a ‘create a new topic’ button, press enter, and that topic is automatically posted in the forum where the ‘create a new topic’ button was situated?

Thank you

[Robin W]

You are right to be wary of ‘old’ plugins, and not just install without thinking about it, but this one just hooks to stable bbpress code elements.