[David]

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.

Forum

[lordrayden]

Hi guys,

I have gone through a tremendous process to migrate my wp site from multisite to a single site.I believed that bbPress was misbehaving because of my multisite. The thing is that keep having the same issue, when i try to register a user in my bbPress I never receive my email notification to register the user, it seems somehow something in the back end is not working. Please, can you let me know how to solve this? at the moment I am not using any specific loging or registration form but I am planning to, however i have not move forward with this yet as i see I cannot register a user in my new bbPress instance. Please, let me know how I can set this up.

Thanks!!

[samtime]

Hi,
After updating WooCommerce to the latest version (4.6.1), the plugin is now hiding the WordPress admin bar for bbPress moderators and keymasters. Making it harder for them to moderate the forums.

The following code in my functions.php file used to resolve the issue, however it no longer works:

add_action('init', function(){
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' );
}
}
});

I posted this question to the WooCommerce forums and am also posting it here in case anyone else is having similar problems?

Any help or ideas greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Sam

WordPress 5.5.1
bbPress 2.6.5
WooCommerce 4.6.1

[Reed Sutton]

Hi,

Can anyone assist with removing the entry title ‘FORUMS’ on this page:https://frugalflyer.ca/forums/

CSS doesn’t seem to work, or seems to be overidden by something in bbpress.

Thanks
Reed

[a298e]

I could solve this by

How to remove default bbPress login?

Thanks!

[barry55]

Hi, I am interested in paying to have my old web forum data imported into my new bbPress site. Do you have a service to do this or can you suggest someone who could help?

[albertoe]

Ok, I see that there is a problem in BBPRESS http://www.rewweb.co.uk/download/bbp-refresh-last-active-time/

I just intalled http://www.rewweb.co.uk/download/bbp-refresh-last-active-time/ and new replys shows correctly on Freshness.

Thanks

[albertoe]

Thanks Robin,

I have good and bad news.

The good news is that it has been fixed. Inside bbpress there is an option that says “repair bbpress” and it gets me right. The bad news is that bbpress has disappeared from the desktop sidebar and I have no way to access the plugin.

If I try to access from the top button of the Forum, it tells me that I do not have permissions

[Robin W]

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

Then come back

[larianae]

I have no way of knowing how to describe this so not sure what I would search.

We had a group that used to be on yahoogroups, which we now wanted to migrate and I thought perhaps bbpress might manage. I followed the (somewhat outdated) instructions re importing via a csv file, making three ones for users, topics and replies. On a local installation the topics managed to be imported, but not the replies, and repair forums managed to dis-associate everything.

Now the site is not local, and I am trying to import. None of the importers decide to work with CSV files and custom posts for free. When one did work (having split my smallest CSV file – topics- into 50 different ones), I just tried the first file. It says it imported around 700 records. However, forum is empty, topics show no results, and repair forums does nothing. Neither does resetting permalinks. Neither does clearing cache.

At the top of topics, however, there is this:

Topics Add New
Your site is currently displaying a “Coming Soon” page. Once you are ready, launch your site.

Filter topics listAll (562) | Mine (21)
Filter by date
All dates

In all forums

Topics list
Select all
Topics
Forum Replies Voices Author Created Last Post
No topics found
Select all
Topics
Forum Replies Voices Author Created Last Post

The logs as the importer went had “admin view” where on the few I clicked it had the reply, the author and associated to the right forum, but I can’t view it. It says they exist, and also says none exist when I click view all, just as above.

If I create a test one it all appears fine.

I would just quite like some help, and have no idea where to go from here. Please please help!

[Robin W]

you need to confirm that it is JUST wplms and bbpress

follow this

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

[etomova]

Hello support,
I am using bbPress v 2.6.5 with WPLMS theme and since few days ago the plugin crashes the theme by giving an error “too many redirections”

Could you please let us know how can we fix this problems.
Thank you
Elly