[RedTravelMaster]

Newbie here looking for some guidance. I’m setting up a bbPress forums (my first one) as part of a demo for a Learning Management System (LMS) integrated with LearnPress. As this will be a demonstration I’d prefer my guests can access the forum and post comments without the need to login.

I recognize the dangers in this, and I’m taking precautions including blocking this site from search engines.

Is there a way to allow guests to post comments without requiring them to first login to bbPress?

My site: http://edit611.charestconsulting.com/

Thanks,
Ron

[Robin W]

nothing has changed in bbpress

[Stephen]

Hi there All,
I have enabled new registrations, by creating a registration page. and use the shortcode [bbp-register].

however, when I test this in incognito, I do received the email to complete my registration but it only contains

Username: john###
Email: john###@gmail.com

is there ment to be a password, or a link to create a password?

WordPress 5.5.1
bbPress 2.6.5

[OSCOWP]

since a few days my bppress is not integrating the post of instagram as it did before

is anything wrong with bbpress?

[Simon Kravec]

Any update on this? I’m experiencing same issue on WP 5.5.2 and bbPress 2.6.5. Also in HTML editor formatting buttons not working. Can someone help me fix that?

[ipetsch]

Hello!
I am considering bbpress to incorporate a community forum into my company’s website. We have our own public access blog that only we post to, and we want to add a forum for users to ask questions or start discussions. I am curious if bbpress will allow our users to “like” or save our blog posts to their account so they can come back to our blog posts later. Will I need a separate plugin for this feature? If so is there a plugin that will link to their bbpress account?

Thanks in advance!

[Robin W]

How can I solve this without adding custom code somewhere or adding more plugins for minor issues like this?

you can’t without doing one of the two. Given that every page rendition of a site without caching involves the parsing of many thousands of functions, and execution of several thousand, adding a plugin or some code to so this will add no perceivable delay to your site.

plugin wise

bbp style pack

code wise

https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#4-turning-off-or-changing-breadcrumbs item 4 to turn off homepage

[dasr94]

The answer is here:

Threaded Replies Not Working

for be more specific: download and active bbpress style pack and then go to dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>bug fixes and enable threaded replies fix

[AndyHenderson]

Thanks for spotting that. I’d assumed it was something I had done to disrupt BBPress but I hadn’t spotted the page was being refreshed and that it cleared the Javascript error from the console.

Until the issue is fixed, a better work-around is to add a filter to functions.php rather than modify the BBPress code directly. That way the fix should survive a BBPress update. I used…

// Prevent reply button in forums from executing a refresh of the page
add_filter('bbp_get_reply_to_link', 'ctcFixReplyToLink', 10, 3);
  function ctcFixReplyToLink( $link, $r, $args ) {
    return str_ireplace( '"return addReply', '"event.preventDefault(); return addReply', $link );
  }

[dasr94]

i have a website with elementor, astra, learndasg and bbpress, when i do a new replie from a topic i dont have problem that show the replie like a thread but in a other page that have inserted the topic with shortcode i dont add a new replies like a thread, appears like a new replie, i can show images if you want

[authgabor]

Maybe the ‘phpbb 3.2.9 fix bbpress import’ is broken? I get 404…

I have some issue about phpBB 3.3.1 import, everything is okay, except the users, the users and password not imported… :/

[David Somerfleck]

When you say create a membership form, what do you mean specifically? For example do I create a basic contact form for those who want to join, and then offer to send them their username and password? I’m fine with doing that but my question is that if I do that, and membership is still unchecked in the WP back-end would the user with the new username and password for BBPress still be able to login and use the forums? Wouldn’t they be blocked since memberships would be unchecked as an option?

[mkbond]

Hello, there!

We work with BuddyBoss but with a primary focus on forums/topics with bbPress.

So I’m having issues with the hierarchy of forums and discussions and… I’m trying to have a page for each forum — with all of the discussions listed as a post grid (not BuddyBoss’ Forum Grids, need this to vary from page to page). So with regards to taxonomy and filters, I want to have the parent category defined as a particular forum, and the children categories to be the discussion within that same forum. Example: Need different pages for Recipes, and need a page for Desserts (forum) that shows all the different desserts (discussions/topics), not showing all the other forums (Desserts, Main Dishes, etc.) and their discussions (turkey, asparagus, etc).

I’ve been playing with Beaver Builder and Gutenberg blocks, but it seems that some plugins have issues reading Custom Post Types, which is what forums and discussions/topics are. And the ones that can, like Beaver Builder, will only let you show the Post Type as Forums, and then you can filter to what forums you want to show, but if you only pick one, then it’s just one lone block. And if I set the Post Type to Discussions, then I have to list each discussion, one by one to display on the page (so each time someone creates a new topic/discussion, it would have to be added to this list).

We are currently using Beaver Builder but I’m definitely open to other ideas for this. Here’s the Beaver Builder post I made if any of you are familiar with it: Standard Posts Module to Display Category’s Sub-Categories (Child)

Any ideas or methodologies? I have a web app dev background and am not afraid to modify the functions.php or other files on the backend. See below for what I attempted based on Beaver Builder’s documentation. The second argument for ‘post_parent’ didn’t take, but the post_type did, if I’m not mistaken… leadershipx being the id for the Posts module, but I’ve been looking into wp_query as well (never coded anything yet with wp_query, but happy to learn).

function fl_builder_loop_query_args_filter( $query_args ) {
  if ( 'leadershipx' == $query_args['settings']->id ) {
    $query_args['post_type'] = array( 'topic' );
    $query_args['post_parent'] = array( '4773' );
  }
  return $query_args;
}
add_filter( 'fl_builder_loop_query_args', 'fl_builder_loop_query_args_filter' );

WordPress v5.5.1, BuddyBoss v1.5.3 (I don’t know where to find bbPress version inside BuddyBoss, but we have the most up-to-date version of BuddyBoss, so I would assume it’s the most recent version of bbPress)

Site: https://www.mycionetwork.com/

[Robin W]

lots of add-on plugins that will achieve these features

groups can be achieved with buddypress or bbp-private-groups
bbp-style-pack will do various styling and features
online chat – buddypress or bbPress Messages
moderation – bbPress – Moderation Tools
attachments – GD bbPress Attachments
images – Inline Image Upload for BBPress
voting – bbp-valoration

[Robin W]

can only suggest 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

[Robin W]

see

How to insert short codes under topic pages?

[talbotp]

Hi,

Is anyone aware if it is possible to constrain a search to one forum.

For example, we currently use [bbp-search], but we want to use something like [bbp-search forum_id=123] etc.

I’ve seen this https://sevenspark.com/tutorials/how-to-search-a-single-forum-with-bbpress, but it seems outdated, and i’ve seen other forums say that it no longer works.

Thanks for the help!

[Robin W]

If it is sidebars, then sidebars are controlled by

wordpress – dashbaord>apperaance>widgets
Your theme/elementor
plugins that affect your theme

bbpress does nothing except provide widgets for the elements above

[Robin W]

this still works as far as I know

How to Add WordPress Conditional Content to Sidebar Widgets

so you would use

!is_bbpress()

against the my posts – so that will only show on non bbpress pages

[wenlu]

I’m new to WordPress and I wonder how can I customize bbPress without using elementor tool? There are 6 content are in my sidebar which is Home, Listings, My Posts, Forum, Settings and Profile. But now I want to remove the my post content from the sidebar. Can you guys help me to solve it.

Sorry for asking this stupid question.

[Robin W]

ok, can only suggest you try this, and then discuss with your theme author

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

[dealfiles]

I would like to create a website that would act as a Forum ‘platform’ for several groups to interact. I would like each group to have it’s own separate forum that only members of that particular group could view and post in, but I would like every member to be able to “see” the names of all the other group forums on the site, and perhaps even the topics being posted about. That way, if a member of one group saw another group forum that he was interested in, he could then request to join the other group, and receive a password for access, or have access added to his permissions. I would also like the ability to charge a monthly fee for access to the forums, in other words the entire site would be subscriber access only. Is bbPress able to handle all of this?

[Robin W]

ok, a couple of thoughts just looking at that code

The first would be to break it into a function, nested stuff can sometimes fail so

add_action('init', 'rew_check_bbpress_moderator') ;

function rew_check_bbpress_moderator(){
	if(class_exists('WooCommerce') && function_exists('bbp_get_user_role') && is_user_logged_in()){
		$current_user = wp_get_current_user();	
		$user_id = $current_user->ID;	
		$bbp_get_user_role = bbp_get_user_role($user_id);

		if($bbp_get_user_role == 'bbp_keymaster' || $bbp_get_user_role == 'bbp_moderator'){	
			add_filter( 'woocommerce_prevent_admin_access', '__return_false' );
			add_filter( 'woocommerce_disable_admin_bar', '__return_false' );
		}
	}
}

Secondly I think woocommerce is all lower case so

if(class_exists('WooCommerce')

might need to read

if(class_exists('woocommerce')

Let us know if either of these help

[Robin W]

bbpress registration just uses wordpress registration, so likely a site/wordpress issue

copy/paste of my standard advice on email – hopefully it will help

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 !

[uscjohn]

Wordpress version 5.5.1
BBpress Version 2.7.0
BBStyle pack Version 4.6.1

I have allowed my students to be moderators so they can create forums for class discussions.

Why can I only display 50 at a time?
Can’t there be a next page link to see more forums? I know there are more than 50.

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