[geekielady]

I’m in Dashboard> bbPress Members Only> Optional Settings.

I checked the top box and then realized I couldn’t get to my forums via my main menu anymore, due to the hashtag.

I removed the check mark and saved the changes, but now it won’t fix itself. I can’t get the link to work anymore. It just sticks a hashtag in front of it.

HELP.

[Robin W]

@xprojectsx good contribution – and I don’t think there is a perfect solution. I am Never quite sure what people expect from ‘community’ software. As an author of 6 plugins, the thought that when releasing these as free code for others to use and adapt, I am expected to respond to every query on the code for evermore, would make me never do it. I enjoy the challenge of support, but there will come a time when I tire of doing this for no money, and expectation that I fix issues I had not considered and that I had never planned only strengthens this. Bbpress was written as lite forum software, allowing others to extend it. It started over 15 years ago as a geek who like writing code (as I do). Then is response to requests it was added as a plugin to WordPress. The authors have I suspect many other priorities now in their lives, they are 15 years older. Their choices are 1. To close the plugin, and make many forums redundant. 2. To devote vast chunks of their free time to continue supporting 3. To do key code as their time permits 4. Just to hope that other people do this for free.
Against this there are paid products, but yes they cost or are used (I think quite justifiably) as a sales tool to produce income to pay the developers. Someone has to pay the bills.

[xprojectsx]

Hi, I’m curious what plugin you are considering to switch to? I’ve purchased and tested several including trying to get “support” from commercial options, and have not found a very good/comprehensive forum solution with good support. The best forum for wp that I found was simple press but they were bought out a few years ago and since then the support is terrible. Any question will be answered with a pitch to get you to hire them to customize. Before that I tried wpforo but it is lacking a lot of features especially on the admin side and I had problems communicating with their support.

There just does not seem to exist such a plugin for wordpress that has both good support (either commercial or community) and comprehensive features needed to run an active forum. (I’ve used a bunch of non wp forums such as vb, phpbb, smf etc)

I’ve come to the conclusion that if you have to use WP and need a forum with comprehensive features and administration tools, then bbpress is the best option and you may need to hire a developer to get it to do what you need. The next option would be a non-wp forum that you could bridge. But again, if you have a legitimate WP forum plugin option to consider, I’d love to hear it.

[sblwp]

Hello Robin,

Thank you for the help you offer.

I tried the code in the child theme’s function file and it works fine to re-order the replies… BUT I have 3 issues :
– The link given in the recent activity widget leads to the last page of the topic… now being the beginning, so not the last reply
– Same problem for the link in the email notification
– and when we post a reply, the page refresh leads to the beginning of the topic too so you don’t see you answer published unless you click on the right page number or scroll back to the top.
These 3 situations imply too much confusion for the users so I choose to not use the code but don’t find another solution.

I’m surprised no plugin exists for this ( part from “bbPress – Sort topic replies ” which is not maintained so I didn’t try it worried to get security problems).

Do you think of a way to fit the issues generated with the descending order or do you consider it is too much of “torsion” of the system ?

Thanks again.
Sophie

[Mrt Rclb]

Hello to everyone. I made a timeline for Bbpress. My homepage became like twitter. What do you think about my site? mimarlik forumu

[laetee]

BUMP!

I’ve tried a few other linked resolutions within this support forum as well as other tickets and still no solution.

Would love some help with anyone else who has had it fixed for bbpress version 2.6.5

[Jason]

I’m having trouble getting shortcodes for a picture gallery to work in topics. Did some looking around here and it seems I may need a shortcode plug in and also possibly a shortcode whitelist plugin to go with it. I looked at this one bbPress2 shortcode whitelist, but it is a bit old and hasn’t been tested with 5.5.1. I’m running 7.4.10 PHP, LiteSpeed webserver, 2.6.5 bbpress.

The shortcode for a photo gallery shows up in the post as text but that is all. https://transmissiontuner.com/blog/forums/topic/allison-bellhousing-types/

I asked for support on this from the photogallery plugin and they said it was a bbpress problem.
thanks!

[Robin W]

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

item 8

[ginaginagina]

Hi Robin, sorry for the delay. I only had my phone available, but will try to find a PC as soon as I can. On my phone (which I hadn’t accessed to this site before) appears to also show that it’s not spanning the full width, though it’s harder to see since it’s a minimized viewport to begin with. 🙂

Hopefully, you can see what I mean here, though?

[LeadGuitarMx]

Hi, I solved this problem by adding this to my bbpress-functions.php
add_filter( 'bbp_bypass_check_for_moderation', '__return_true' );

The problem is that bbpress is sending the posts to moderation but it doesn’t show any advice to the user or admins. I don’t know why 🤷‍♂️

Hope it helps

[Robin W]

I suspect that 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

[ginaginagina]

Yes! Holy smokes, thank you, Robin! That worked like a charm 🙂 I do have access to FTP and my child theme, but I’m happy with these results (unless it’s better that it’s in the files instead?).

Is there any way to redistribute the content now along the full length of the row to take up the space of the missing column? I guess the column is still there, just has hidden content, so maybe this isn’t possible. Here’s what I mean:

[Angelo Rocha]

Yes, I’m inserting the shortcode, but when editing the topic, bbpress converts the shortcode to HTML, see the images, I don’t know why that happens.

[Robin W]

um…that’s what shortcodes are for ???

if you just want the shortcode displayed without bbpress interpreting it, then use the ‘code’

eg

[model_viewer ID'...']

[Angelo Rocha]

Hi Robin W.
This solution allow Model Viewer Tag, but bbpress editor keeps converting my shortcode to html, how to solve this?

Thanks.

[joergfischer]

Hi there,

I hope anybody can help me (I already searched but didn´t find what I´m looking for). I set up a small forum with bbpress and would like a separately log-in page at the beginning. No register, just login (the forum should not be visible before logging in). I tried to put the [bbp-login] Form on the first page. But when you logged-in you should direct to the forum-page, which I don´t know how to do.
Can anybody can give me a hint or a link to an already existing topic (which I didn´t found)?

Thanks a lot and best

Jörg

[ginaginagina]

I tried to find something about removing “Last Post” which displays on the home page of my forum, but could only find posts related to “Freshness” — Freshness only shows up on my topics under each category, and I’ve already found a way to successfully remove these. The problem is, when people show up to the forum’s home page, they see “Last Post” which shows something that’s months old instead of the last time someone posted which might just be a few hours. I may be reading the “Last Post” thing incorrectly, but either way, it discourages people from interacting because they think no new activity is happening due to the date on the “Last Post” column.

How do I either get it to display the “Freshness” (e.g. the last time someone posted a reply or topic in that category) OR — preferably, if possible — remove “Last Post” from the forum home page altogether?

My forum is unfortunately private (members-only), so a URL won’t help, but attaching a screenshot of our forum’s home page to show the “Last Post” column we’d ideally like to get rid of.

[Robin W]

I appreciate that you are trying to use levers to get a resolution, but you are assuming that someone who has developed a free piece of software has some need to not have any negative feedback.

I am not a bbppress author, I just help out here, but having written several plugins including the style pack, there are what they are – you hope that others find them useful, but it makes no financial difference to you if no-one uses them.

Berating the authors for not offering a one to one response service on a product that has 300,000 users is perhaps asking too much.

I sincerely hope that you get to a resolution, but nested replies has never been a great feature within bbpress, and if that makes you choose another free product, then I will be sorry, but understand.

[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

[graugart]

First open this URL to bypass the “coming soon”: https://www.defensivebjj.com/?bypass=turtlez

Then here is a page that should display the topics index: https://www.defensivebjj.com/members-forum-test/

These are the shortcodes I am trying (both bbstyle pack and bbpress)

[bsp-display-topic-index show=”20″ forum =”611″ search=”no” breadcrumb=”no”]

[bbp-single-forum id="611"]

[uksentinel]

The shortcode I use for BBPress is [bbp-forum-index] and it shows freshness for myself.

Try this on a test page to see if this works ?

(I am not an expert, so bare-with)

[Robin W]

html is not allowed for security purposes, but if you want to enable all or some then

add_filter( 'bbp_kses_allowed_tags', 'ntwb_bbpress_custom_kses_allowed_tags' );

function ntwb_bbpress_custom_kses_allowed_tags() {
	return array(

		// Links
		'a'          => array(
			'class'    => true,
			'href'     => true,
			'title'    => true,
			'rel'      => true,
			'class'    => true,
			'target'    => true,
		),

		// Quotes
		'blockquote' => array(
			'cite'     => true,
		),
		
		// Div
		'div' => array(
			'class'     => true,
		),
		
		// Span
		'span'             => array(
			'class'     => true,
		),
		
		// Code
		'code'       => array(),
		'pre'        => array(
			'class'  => true,
		),

		// Formatting
		'em'         => array(),
		'strong'     => array(),
		'del'        => array(
			'datetime' => true,
		),

		// Lists
		'ul'         => array(),
		'ol'         => array(
			'start'    => true,
		),
		'li'         => array(),

		// Images
		'img'        => array(
			'class'    => true,
			'src'      => true,
			'border'   => true,
			'alt'      => true,
			'height'   => true,
			'width'    => true,
		),

		// Tables
		'table'      => array(
			'align'    => true,
			'bgcolor'  => true,
			'border'   => true,
		),
		'tbody'      => array(
			'align'    => true,
			'valign'   => true,
		),
		'td'         => array(
			'align'    => true,
			'valign'   => true,
		),
		'tfoot'      => array(
			'align'    => true,
			'valign'   => true,
		),
		'th'         => array(
			'align'    => true,
			'valign'   => true,
		),
		'thead'      => array(
			'align'    => true,
			'valign'   => true,
		),
		'tr'         => array(
			'align'    => true,
			'valign'   => true,
		)
	);
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[Angelo Rocha]

When i insert a shortcode in bbpress topic editor, when editing the topic it converts the shortcode to HTML, how to solve this?

[acb93]

Hi again! It “resolved” somehow…

I dindn’t want to use this:

https://wpfavs.com/plugins/bbpress-permalinks-with-id

Because is a 4 years out of date plugin but i tried and… IT works!

If somebody have the same problem commented before, I could help with no problem.

Regards.

[thinkercorner11]

Hello there!

At the moment I am using bbpress for my philosophy forum and also a plugin for highlight search terms, which is called “Highlight Search Terms”. If I search something the results are showing the topic excerpt without any relation to the search term. Is there any possibility to show the specific excerpt of the topic, where the search term is used?

Greetings,
Lukas