Looking in the browser developer tools, I think I can see what is happening. The problem is:
#bbpress-forums {
background: 0 0;
clear: both;
margin-bottom: 20px;
overflow: hidden;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 18px;
and then there’s also .bbp-breadcrumb and .bbp-template-notice and so on.
And then there’s this CSS class defining the width inside the standard WP entry-content:
.entry-content > *:not(.alignwide):not(.alignfull):not(.alignleft):not(.alignright):not(.is-style-wide) {
max-width: 57rem;
width: calc(100% - 4rem);
}
What do you recommend as the best way forward, bearing in mind I will probably forget all about this after a couple of months! 😆
A child theme from Twenty Twenty?
Or just the appropriate CSS in the WP theme Additional CSS dialog?
Hi Robin,
I could do a child theme and CSS if that’s necessary but I am trying to figure out whether it is actually necessary.
If you look at the page I’ve linked to – the topics index for the single forum on my website I believe – then I assume you’ll see the same as me, which is that there is the massive page title, which is default Twenty Twenty theme like the rest of the website, and there is the tiny bbPress text, inc. forum information, pagination text, topic title etc.
I tried changing the forum information font size in the Topics Index Styling tab but it had no effect. Am I using the wrong bbPress Style Pack tab?
When I input terms to the search form, it redirect to index.php.
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'search' ); ?>
I went through troubleshooting here and changed search slag to ‘find’ but it couldn’t resolve.
Search Redirects to Front Page
I also tried common troubleshooting here: https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/troubleshooting/
Nothing changed.
It seems my customized theme causing an issue because it worked when I switched to the default ‘Twenty Nineteen’ theme it worked.
But I have no idea which part is causing the issue. Can somebody help?
Hi,
I’m struggling to set up bbPress so that the forum style adheres to the website style.
I wasn’t able to find the right place to change the font size on this page linked to above despite your guidance 🙁
I’m trying to read my way through the bbPresss documentation in codex.bbpress.org but it starts off getting right into the nitty-gritty by recommending I create a child theme and start writing CSS.
I’m using Twenty Twenty theme for the main site. I read that I might need to create a bbPress theme – but I think I need to read a lot more about that.
Any help gratefully received!
The reason is hard for me to debug this issue is that I am using this code to output a bbpress topic under each post that has the same name as the current post title:
add_shortcode( 'bbpresscomments', function() {
$output = '';
$current_id = function_exists( 'vcex_get_the_ID' ) ? vcex_get_the_ID() : get_the_ID();
$topics = new WP_Query( array(
'post_type' => 'topic',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'fields' => 'ids',
) );
if ( $topics->have_posts() ) {
foreach( $topics->posts as $topic ) {
if ( get_the_title( $topic ) == get_the_title( $current_id ) ) {
$output .= do_shortcode( '[bbp-single-topic id="' . intval( $topic ) . '"]' );
}
}
}
return $output;
} );
This code is theme specific, so testing with an other theme doesn’t make sense in this case.
I will open now a ticket to my theme developer, but if you can see anything in this code that would make AJAX not work, please let me know.
Thanks.
Yes, just like this very bbpress forum and post option, if that is what you mean. It works fine swith other links, for example Ebay and various websites, but the strange behaviour starts as soon as a Youtube link or blogspot link is copied into the text field. It won’t post the message, just prompts a download of literally ‘a file’.
Attaching images, copying in all sorts of other links works just fine. Except from Youtube or websites related to blogs/vlogs.
Is the bbPress favorite and subscribe button AJAX?
On some forums they confirmed that even posting is not AJAX anymore.
How do I enable AJAX for my bbPress?
For me both the favorite and the subscribe button reloads the page.
I can see that on this site the favorite button works with AJAX, so why isn’t AJAX then in the bbPress plugin?
Hi !
Thanks for latest version.
Do I need to run any of these tools?
View post on imgur.com
It is not clear to me.
bbPress 2.6.6 is out now! 💚
bbPress 2.6.6
Download it from WordPress.org!
bbPress
dashboard>settings>bbp stylepack> forums index styling and just change all tne font sizes to what you want
or
bbPress Styling Crib
Hi,
sorry for the noob question, hopefully the answer’s easy, but I can’t figure it out or find an answer online. Slightly overwhelmed by the 25 tabs on the bb style pack settings.
I just installed bbpress and the style pack on my WordPress site and set up my single forum here:
North London Low Carbon Future Group
However the font size is tiny. I’m using theme Twenty Twenty so I figured it should be defaulting to something that blends right in. Isn’t that the way it’s meant to work?
I tried to copy some text into a BBPress forum and was kind of surprised to see it came up with a lot of html tags in it. Even in the visual editor!
I am running WordPress 5.5.3, Memberpress Basic 1.9.4 and BBPress 2.6.5
What can I do make sure when text is copied into a forum, it shows up as meant to be and not with a load of HTML tags that I don’t want to see….
hmm.. that’s a choice you make.
this plugin hooks to parts of bbpress that are very stable.
your choices are
1. try and find another bbpress moderation plugin – none I know of
2. Pay someone to write a plugin, and them pay annual maintenance to ensure it keeps up to date, and that will need to be a company as if you pay a person they might die/retire. And of course a company that will not go bankrupt.
3. use this plugin, accepting that at some stage in the future it may stop working, in which case you are where you are now
4. do nothing.
as far as I can see that is the choice.
sorry, I would love to say that all plugins will work forever, but that is not the way that free software works.
Thank you for your help. It had something to do with Setting > Forum > “ReCaptcha for logged in users.” I had this checked and when unchecked the missing sidebar reappeared. This also relates to a missing submit button issue I had.
Thank you! I didn’t use the plugin you suggested, but you got me investigating with the browser’s Web Developers tools. I saw an error or something about “recaptcha.” So I started looking at the recaptcha settings: Settings > forums.
There’s a check box that says “recaptcha for logged in users.” I had this checked. I tried unchecking this setting, and my “submit” button (and hidden right sidebar from a different issue) reappeared.
Thank you again.
this plugin still works fine
bbPress – Moderation Tools
I have a query about a problem in a bbPress forum. I’m not the webmaster, just a user, and therefore I don’t have information on the WP version nor the bbPress version. I’m trying to guide the webmaster, and hopefully that info will become available.
Here’s the forum, split into postings by Date and Section:
The Forum
As a user, I posted on the forum a few days ago, in the General Section (UK Boats in the EU – VAT) but I can’t find my post – it appears to have disappeared. I asked the webmaster in case there was a bug, but he replied, with the following url, and said he could see it, and there wasn’t a problem:
https://www.nauticatassociation.co.uk/forums/search/VAT/
Going by the dates in this url:
The Forum
There hasn’t been any activity on the forum for 6 days (according to the view I’m seeing), despite my post.
Any information on the problem and why can’t I see my post in the relevant section (or at all) would be really helpful. I’ve tried different browsers, and can’t raise my original post via the main forum index page.
With more information, I can go back to the webmaster and perhaps we can solve the issue. I’m using Safari and Chrome on a Mac.
Many thanks in advance.
Hi.
It’s possibile to let the posts created by users be in a “pending” status?
I would like that the posts aren’t accepted immediately but a moderator need to approve them in order to let them appear in forum.
I know that is not a core feature but I found a lot of discussions about this on google and on this forum but I didn’t found any usefull answer, only old old ones and name of plugins that are not supported anymore.
So I’m still confused without an answer.
My BBPress version is 2.6.4
Thank you
Dear all,
Since a couple of months I am using a BBpress forum (and BBpress Attachments) on my WordPress (5.5.3) page (TopMag 2.0.2 theme) related to http://www.amrwr.nl
I’ve got a very strange thing going on: everytime I (or a different user) start(s) a new thread and insert a Youtube or blogspot link, a download is prompted (a pop-up with ‘open’ or ‘save as’ appears) and the message itself is not posted.
When I then open the downloaded file, the following code is displayed:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN”>
<html><head>
<title>503 Service Unavailable</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Service Unavailable</h1>
<p>The server is temporarily unable to service your
request due to maintenance downtime or capacity
problems. Please try again later.</p>
</body></html>
This currently happens in the following browsers: Mozilla Firefox, IE, Edge, Chrome, DuckDuckGo. Untill very recently, IE and Firefox did not have this problem…
I have done all the troubleshooting I could (given the knowledge I have) and are now quite lost as to how to solve this problem.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Regards,
Jascha
ok, yes bbpress just uses wordpress registration
it could be an email issue – email is notoriously difficult to get consistent – many email companies see wordpress emails as spam.
so I’d try the following which is my standard email advice:
1. You should be aware that many spam filters strip messages that do not come from the correct address. So if your site is mysite.com and your email address
in wordpress settings>general is fred@gmail.com then it is likely that messages will be dumped in transit.
You need to set up email to come from your site eg fred@mysite.com, your hosting provider can help if needed.
2. Just bbpress?
Then you need to see if this is wordpress wide or just bbpress.
Try https://wordpress.org/plugins/check-email/
it could be a theme or plugin issue
Themes
As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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
Next try switching to smtp email – this page from the host Siteground explains it
https://www.siteground.co.uk/tutorials/wordpress/use-smtp/
and of course
By default, you do NOT receive emails for your own topics/replies, only if somebody else replies on your subscribed topics
so testing would need two email accounts to prove !
Thanks Robin for the feed back
checked my spam folder and nothing there, I spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to get it working, still no luck.
I’m not really sure its a bbPress problem, but either way, I’m at a loss.
I even updated wordpress,
I’m only using bbPress as a plugin, should there be another plugin I need to use, from my research the answer is no.
I’m using Divi Plugin, and an another theme
looks like a css issue.
if this is a new installation (that is submit has never shown) then it could be a theme or plugin issue
Themes
As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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
Hi, i am from Ukraine, sorry for my English. I set russian language, in my wordpress settings. Bbpress translated correct. But only in the google search results, near topic i see “4 days ago” – are not translated in russian language ( and all the rest well translated). Help me please
hmm.. not really a bbpress issue, and nothing has changed in bbpress recently.
it could be a theme or plugin issue
Themes
As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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
