[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 I followed the (somewhat outdated) instructions re importing via a csv file, making three ones for users, topics and replies.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

[fresaom]

so i finely got it to import the database for me from vB too bbPress, and it all looks like its whas going to work, but then it stuck in a loop at “8.Converting anonymous topic authors”
so i whas what the hell!, but i got all the threds and topic and users over, but then i whas noticing that all the letters that whas non-english whas off…

Sooo we are from sweden, and we got ÅÄÖ, but when i import the database thats have ÅÄÖ in it. it gets all the wrong letters and symbols.

anyone here that know what i can do?

like “ö” is not the same symbol every time i find it, its diffrens everywhere.

// Fredik
Swedish Subaru club

[Robin W]

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

Then come back
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 !

[makeitbritish]

I should maybe point out that I am using Ultimate Member integrated with BBpress – could that be the reason that the emails are not sending?

[schaakspeler]

I’m currently using Twenty Twenty theme and WordPress 5.5.1 and installed a new version of bbpress, version 2.6.5. When looking at my forums overview this has been converted to text. How can I solve this?

Page with the issue: https://kremersfroon.com/forums/

[albertoe]

Thanks you Robin, but it looks something wrong in css. I was “touching” bbpress’s css and maybe I break something.

How can I do to reset all the plugin? I mean, delete all bbpress and reinstall like new. Maybe it could help me.

Thanks

[walko99]

Hello,
after the installation and the first entry of the categories for the forum, entries could also be created.
If you now want to return from the overview of the individual forums (entries created) to the general overview, the following is displayed:
—————————————
General
Home ‘ Forums ‘ General
Clicked here Forums
Subscribe to
This forum is empty.
————————————-
Archive: Forums
bbPress Forums
then this is displayed
Forums
————————————-
What setting causes this message?

Translated with http://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[Robin W]

bbpress itself does not allow uploads, so it will be an add-on plugin.

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/ is one of the favourites for that.

The actual error is almost impossible to work out without knowing what is on the site.

it could be file type, or file size, so give that some experience and other not, then I’d try uploading different types and different sizes to see if you can work out when this happens.

[ohmo]

I do not own or operate the bbPress forums I’m asking about, but the owner doesn’t want to fix things. No idea what versions they are using because they keep it hidden from the plebes. But, I’d love to offer a fix for a problem some, but not all, members are running in to.

When using the “Upload Attachments” function, all I get is “Upload Errors!” message. This happens with Chrome, Edge, and Firefox – latest versions.

[uksentinel]

I may have missed what I was looking for, does anybody know if there is a way to show a list of the top posting members in BBPRESS, much like we can already do via Showing Latest Posts, Recent Topics and Most Liked Posts etc.

Thanks

[albertoe]

Hi all,

Is it possible to use TinyMCE editor but not showing the html tags?

I would like just like this:https://support.dev4press.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/2020-10-15_231915.jpg

I have also plugin GD bbPress Toolbox Pro

[albertoe]

Thanks Robin, I check that a bbpress.php was created with this code:

<?php
get_header();

?>

	<div class="td-main-content-wrap td-main-page-wrap td-container-wrap">
		<div class="td-container">
			<div class="td-pb-row">
                <div class="td-pb-span8 td-main-content">
                    <div class="td-ss-main-content">
                        <?php
                            if (have_posts()) {
                                while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
                                    ?>
                                    <h1 class="entry-title td-page-title">
                                        <a href="<?php the_permalink()?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute() ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a>
                                    </h1>
                                    <?php
                                    the_content();
                                endwhile; //end loop
                            }
                        ?>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <div class="td-pb-span4 td-main-sidebar">
                    <div class="td-ss-main-sidebar">
                        <?php dynamic_sidebar( 'td-default' ) ?>
                    </div>
                </div>
			</div> <!-- /.td-pb-row -->
		</div> <!-- /.td-container -->
	</div>
<?php
get_footer();
?>

And I change with for this code:

<?php
get_header();

?>

	<div class="td-main-content-wrap td-main-page-wrap td-container-wrap">
		<div class="td-container">
			<div class="td-pb-row">
                <div class="td-pb-span8 td-main-content">
                    <div class="td-ss-main-content">
                        <?php
                            if (have_posts()) {
                                while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
                                    ?>
                                    <h1 class="entry-title td-page-title">
                                        <a href="<?php the_permalink()?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute() ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a>
                                    </h1>
                                    <?php
                                    the_content();
                                endwhile; //end loop
                            }
                        ?>
                    </div>
                </div>
			</div> <!-- /.td-pb-row -->
		</div> <!-- /.td-container -->
	</div>
<?php
get_footer();
?>

I refresh cache but nothing happends. Any idea?

[Robin W]

https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ item 8

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses wordpress signup, so whatever your WordPress site is using.

There are several plugins that will let you change this email eg

https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-send-a-custom-welcome-email-to-new-users-in-wordpress/

or if you’re into coding, just google around to find some code

[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

[wjh]

• WordPress 5.4.2
• bbpress 2.6.5
• Buddypress 6.3.0 w/ Activities module activated
• bbp Style pack w/ both form editors (TinyMCE + text) activated
• bbp Mentions suggest

The bbp Mentions suggest plugin by the venerable @robin-w still works and enables autocomplete mentions in TinyMCE as well as in the Text (HTML) tab of the editor … but only on initial page load, since bbpress 2.6.2.

Since bbpress 2.6.2, when clicking on Reply to a specific comment on a subject thread, the dynamic reply form now appears under the comment in question, and the window scrolls to it. Which is a very nice improvement! However, this breaks Robin’s plugin for the TinyMCE editor (mentions do still autocomplete in the Text editor, at least).

I’m not a developer but I’m guessing it has to do with the new version of /bbpress/templates/default/js/reply.js, specifically the addEditor function at the end of the file.

@robin-w any ideas how to get your plugin to play nice with the dynamic reply form in bbpress ≥2.6.2?

Or anyone else out there?

Cheers in advance!

[patriciaraelinn]

Wordpress Version 5.5.1
bbPress Version 2.6.5
site: itravelft.com
does not work in other themes

[krobichaux]

I apologize if this is something obvious to others. I have a WP site in Arabic and want to use bbPress in English for private forums. Is this possible?

I have downloaded the files for Translation of Stable (latest release): English (UK), renamed them to bbpress-en_GB.po and bbpress-en_GB.mo, and copied them into /wp-content/languages/bbpress/ (per docs).

But the forums publish in Arabic.

Is it possible to have forums in EN on a WP-site that is AR?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

[Milan Petrovic]

Hey,

My plugin GD Topic Prefix Pro allows you to define various prefixes for topics (it can be used for support purposes) – each prefix in a different color, allowing you to mark topics differently based on the type of question. And my GD bbPress Toolbox Pro has additional icons displayed for topics, including an icon showing that the topic is closed.

bbPress topic form allows you to change the topic status to closed. My GD bbPress Toolbox Pro allows you to mark the topic closed via reply: you reply to the topic and that reply signals that the topic is now closed (using the checkbox). If you need to do bulk edit of topics in the front end, I have free plugin GD Forum Manager to do just that.

All these plugins can be used to improve the bbPress role of the support forum. Check out my bbPress plugins here: https://bbpress.dev4press.com/.

Regards,
Milan

[Clayton Chase]

Hey guys,

I’m not new to the WordPress world but I am new to the bbPress one. I’ve done some digging and can’t seem to find what I’m looking for. I plan on using bbPress as an organized way to communicate with my clients and I’d like to use the forum topic status feature to define when a topic is closed.

I’ve done some research on support topics and found a few plugins but most are abandoned or allow no customization of the topic status’. Does anyone out there have some input on a plugin that might help me achieve what I’m after?

[saigner]

Hi @robin-w, just jumping on this thread as it is the same topic.

I installed your bbpress style back a few days ago and it is up on my website. However, I can’t seem to figure out where to put the shortcodes to make them work. Do I need to put them in the files themselves or can I put them on in the page content? When I have tried to use the shortcode to force login on the forum index page for non-members (by putting it in the page content section), I get an error message that the “response received is not a valid JSON file.”

Many thanks for all your hard work on this!

[Robin W]

In the right sidebar of the Forum Edit page, under Forum Attributes, I select a parent forum from the list. After pressing Update, the field switches back to -No parent-.

I cannot replicate this – forum parents are saved and can be switched back and forth.

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