[Rough Pixels]

Forgot to mention I’m using bbPress 2.6.5

[Rough Pixels]

I’m redesigning my site, and for some reason, the child (sub) forums are not showing on the Forum Index under their parents. This happened on my first development site and after trying different things, I uninstalled bbPress and reinstalled it. They appeared. Now, when I moved my redesigned theme (which does have some template overrides) to a new dev site setup, once again my child forums are missing. However, uninstalling and reinstalling bbPress didn’t fix it this time.

I looked at the source code of the forum index and there is absolutely nothing there (no child forums).

Any ideas why they are not showing up again?

NOTE: I’m on WordPress 5.4.2, PHP 7.2. I switched to the twenty twenty theme, and the same thing happens…no child forums show under the parents. I also cannot give a link because my redesign is done locally on XAMPP.

[frankWpKE]

Hello,
Am I correct that I can set bbPress to send emails to users whenever there are new topics posted to a forum by, ‘dashboard>settings>forums>Allow users to subscribe to forums and topics’

I ask this as an end use. I want to convey this information to the webmaster who controls another forum to which I am a member.

Thank you.

[Chuckie]

Sorted it!

/* Profile Info */
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body div.bbp-reply-author,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body div.bbp-topic-author {
	margin-left: 5px;
	margin-top: 5px;
	background: #c1c1c1;
	color: #262626;
	border: 1px solid black;
}

/* Header Row */
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header .bbp-topic-author,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header .bbp-reply-author,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header .bbp-topic-content,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header .bbp-reply-content
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author {
	color: #262626;
	font-size: 16px;
}

Still, a bit clumsy using the same class name for two different things. 🙁

[Chuckie]

I have this style:

/* Profile Info */
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author {
	margin-left: 5px;
	margin-top: 5px;
	background: #c1c1c1;
	color: #262626;
	border: 1px solid black;
}

/* Header Row */
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header .bbp-topic-author,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header .bbp-reply-author,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header .bbp-topic-content,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header .bbp-reply-content
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author {
	color: #262626;
}

The problem is that the header row uses the same class name and I can’t get to one without affecting the other.

[Chuckie]

My theme has settings to change layout for certain page types.

For the “Blog / Archives” type I set it to show just the left side bar:

https://www.publictalksoftware.co.uk/support-forums/

But when you drill down to a forum, eg:

Frequently Asked Questions

It has two side bars again (2 bars is the site default).

It does has a setting for “single page posts” but I was reluctant to tick that since we have the profile page, various login pages, search page etc.

So how can we identify that this is a “forum view” or a “topic view” page and only show the one bar?

[Milan Petrovic]

If you need a forum to look a certain way, that can be done with WordPress and bbPress. bbPress look and feel can be fully customized.

[Milan Petrovic]

By default, bbPress doesn’t make any AJAX calls with the exception of subscribe/favorite actions. You should determine what is making the calls (there should be ‘action’ argument sent with each AJAX request).

[Robin W]

not sure why you are asking on a bbpress forum – a bit like asking the Ford Garage about the best place to buy chrysler cars !

[navrajvirsingh]

I am confused about selecting a forum for my website. I recently came across this java based forum, which looks very pretty to me, I think it is built on some other framework like java or PHP than on bbpress.

How can I find which forum framework it is? And where can I find a good developer to install it?

[Milan Petrovic]

Hi,

My GD bbPress Toolbox Pro, has Rewriter feature to enable forum based permalinks for topics and replies (including proper edit pages links).

Regards,
Milan

[kayo404]

Hi,
I’m new to bbpress and have created my first forum. It’s on a testing domain for now.

Question:
When I create a testforum it will show up as:
/forums/forum/testforum/

If I create a topic in this forum it will show up as:
/forums/topic/test-topic/

Is it possible to have the topic in the same url as the forum, like this:
/forums/forum/testforum/test-topic/

Thank you.

[randrcomputers]

I do use shortcode for bbpress index display is there another way but man is index super slow to load! latest post shortcode is fine its just the index. rest of site is fine jumping from topic to topic but something must be going on. I have researched this and seems related to shortcode or amount of posts/topics/replies? site has only 80,000 posts with 6,044 topics so not big at all

[jaydeegraphics]

Hi, I am attempting to set up a bbpress forum on my music site but when I did that I got this error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_installing() in /var/sites/c/croydonfolkclub.org.uk/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/options.php on line 272

Can any of you help me, please?

Thanks!

Best wishes,

Jo

[Milan Petrovic]

I have released a new free plugin for bbPress (it will remain as a free plugin, there will not be a Pro version in the future) for easier management of the topics and forums through the use of quick and bulk editing. Check it out here:

GD Forum Manager for bbPress

In the plugin page you can see the video showing how the plugin works. If you have any suggestions for more edit actions to be implemented, let me know.

Regards,
Milan

[Robin W]

ok, you’ll need to edit a bbpress template using FTP

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

you’ll need to remove the line that says

<?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?>

and save

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

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

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[Robin W]

bbpress creates a hidden field in a form to ensure that when the result is processed it comes from a valid form – you get this error when the answer does not match.

so is this just one user? and just one reply/topic or everything they do ?

[Babak Fakhamzadeh]

Shoutout for plugin bbPress2 shortcode whitelist.

[Robin W]

actually probably more theme/elementor combination related.

since free Elementor is basic, and aims to encourage you to ‘go pro’ and buy additional elements and has a paid bbpress pack add-on, I kinda suspect it needs that to work properly – you wouldn’t write a paid add-on that is not required 🙂

[Robin W]

theme related read

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

item 8

[marcufli]

Good morning, I’ve just installed bbPress and I can’t get the forums page to work, it doesn’t display what it should. This is the link to the page: https://www.joveneditor.com/foros/

How can I get it to display all the forums I have?

Thank you,
Marc

[Robin W]

given this is a paid theme, I’d raise the issue with Astra.

I also think astra using elementor, so this might also be relevant

bbPress

[timmy321]

Hi Robin,

That unfortunately has not had any effect.

Is my only option now to delete the astra theme and choose another one?

If so, would you know any theme that this bbpress will work on?

Many thanks,

Tim

[jaxisme]

Hello
I have a conflict with “Turning on UsersWP bbPress and bbpress breaks WPML and Elementor”
when I want to edit my homepage in elementor, i get a white page.
We updated the memory allocation, it does not help.
when i deactivate bbpress, then all is fine…
Help 🙂

[bamadale]

For some unknown reason, the Merge topics function starting return the error:

“There has been a critical error on your website”

“Learn more about debugging in WordPress”

So I setup a staging site and disabled all of the plugins and started re-activating them one-by-one. With everything deactivated the Merge topics button worked just fine. You could see the dropdown box with all of the available topics to choose from.

I got down to the last major plugins, “Paid Memberships Pro” and “Business Directory Plugin” and when I activate either one of these, the Merge topic button returns the “There has been a critical error on your website” message.

We are running WordPress version 5.4.2, PHP version 7.0.33 and bbPress version 2.6.5

Any suggestions on possible fixes or quick ways to troubleshoot further will be greatly appreciated!