[Robin W]

WordPress creates a unique sequential number for every post, page, custom post type (which bbpress has as forums, topics and replies), every revision of the above, and many other plugins also use this mechanism.

so if a topic is created as 15623 it means there are 15622 pre-existing entries of the above in the database.

replies to topics are associated by another entry in the database giving the post’s ‘parent’

so numbers are entirely irrelevant in the scheme of bbpress.

[haddlyapis]

Hi there,
is there any logic to how the 5-digit id is assigned to a bbpress topic? Furthermore, is there any logic as to how the id of any sub-topics created within that topic are associated with the forum topic?
thx
Daniel

[franpeppe]

Hello Robin,
Thank you for your reply, i tried as you said with bbpress 2.5.4 but nothing changes, i tried also to reinstall the latest version of bbpress and update the permalinks but nothing changes too.

[Robin W]

the ‘term’ code deletes orphaned and unused stuff in the database. By definition these belong to nothing, so there is no bbpress relationship (or indeed other relationship) that you can select against

[Rough Pixels]

Hi Robin…actually, I tried it with all plugins disabled (with the exception of bbPress of course). The same thing happens. I even deleted all my overrides from the theme level… the same issue. I then changed over to the twenty Twenty theme, the same issue.

I may have to wait until I upload the new site version on Monday to see if the subforums show up on the forum index page.

[Robin W]

bbpress is not particularly Xampp friendly, and without being able to see your site of ocurse it’s hard to start to problem find.

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.

Then come back

[franpeppe]

Hello,
I have updated bbPress plugin to the latest version and i noticed that my forum is not working correctly now, when i go in the main page of the forum it loads just one topic and the page is without CSS, just a blank page with the title of the topic and some infos like the date and the creator.
Then i tried to download some old versions of bbPress to install but i dont remember which version was installed before.
So i tried bbPress 2.5.4 (its the one that i think it was installed before) and with this one i cant reach any page of the forum, infact when i go in the forum section of wordpress dashboard it load just a blank page.
I tried already some versions of bbPress from 2.5.1 to 2.5.9 then 2.6.0 and the latest but nothing changes.
The only difference is that with 2.6.0 or next loads correctly the forum section in the dashboard and with 2.5.9 or prev doesnt.

What went wrong just updating and reverting the update?

[BEdesign]

Hi folks,

I am fairly new to BBpress and I think in previous dev builds using BBpress would just use a users username.

If not how can I get this to work? I didn’t see anything in the settings unless I am not looking in the right place.

Cheers,

Ben.

[Chuckie]

I was running a Query Monitor on my site and noted the following:

Undefined index: latest-user

wp-content/plugins/bbpress-improved-statistics-users-online/includes/public/class.online.php:229
bbPress_Advanced_Statistics_Online->allowed_tags()

So I had a look at the core file at that line and found:

        private function allowed_tags() {
            // Store all of the strings currently replace
            $this->_tags = array(   
                        "%MINS%"                => $this->parent->option['user_inactivity_time'],
                        "%COUNT_ACTIVE_USERS%"  => $this->stats["count"]["active"],
                        "%HOURS%"               => $this->parent->option['user_activity_time'],
                        "%COUNT_ALL_USERS%"     => $this->stats["count"]["inactive"] - $this->stats["count"]["guests"],
                        "%COUNT_ALL_GUSERS%"    => $this->stats["count"]["guests"],
                        "%COUNT_ACTIVE_GUSERS%" => $this->stats["count"]["guestsa"],
                        "%USER_USERS%"          => _n("user", "users", $this->stats["count"]["active"], 'bbpress-improved-statistics-users-online'),
                        "%GUEST_GUESTS%"        => _n("guest", "guests", $this->stats["count"]["guestsa"], 'bbpress-improved-statistics-users-online'),
                        "%ALL_USER_USERS%"      => _n("user", "users", $this->stats["count"]["inactive"] - $this->stats["count"]["guests"], 'bbpress-improved-statistics-users-online'),
                        "%ALL_GUEST_GUESTS%"    => _n("guest", "guests", $this->stats["count"]["guests"], 'bbpress-improved-statistics-users-online'),
                        "%USER_RECORD%"         => $this->most_users( "record" ),
                        "%USER_RECORD_DATE%"    => $this->most_users( "date" ),
                        "%USER_RECORD_TIME%"    => $this->most_users( "time" ),
                        "%LATEST_USER%"         => $this->stats["latest-user"]
                    );

The offender is:

"%LATEST_USER%" => $this->stats["latest-user"]

So I tried to find where latest-user is also used and only found one place in all the files, here:

        private function stats_extra( $activity ) {
            
            if( $this->parent->option["bbpress_statistics"] == "on" ) {
                // Add the bbPress Statistics
                $activity["bbpress"] = $this->get_formatted_statistics();
            }
            
            if( $this->parent->option["last_user"] == "on" ) {
                // Get the HTML latest usser
                $activity["latest-user"] = $this->get_latestuser( true );
            }
            
            if( $this->parent->option["most_users_online"] == "on" ) {
                // Get/set the most users ever online, users the active online users
                $activity["most-users"] = $this->get_mostusers( $activity["count"]["active"] );
            }
            
            return $activity;
        }

This led me to:

            // Create the statistics variable
            $this->stats = $this->stats_extra( $activity );

So this warning looks like a false positive to me. Thoughts?

[Robert Hewitt]

For the part of my website containing bbPress, I don’t want the main navigation menu to show. To achieve this, I enter CSS code on the main web page where [bbp-forum-index] is displayed.

The CSS code does its job as far as the first page is concerned – that is the page where the forums are listed.

However, if you select a specific forum to look at, this takes you to a new page. Unfortunately, on the new page, the main navigation menu is showing. So the CSS code has not done its job here.

Any advice on how to solve this problem would be much appreciated!

[thevisas]

Hi,
Nothing is displayed in a page when using bbp-forum-index shortcode.
Tried saving permanent links, but the issue is still present.
The same happens when creating new page with bbp-forum-index shortcode.
Not sure when the issue started, but probably since 2.6 update.
Current bbpress version is 2.6.5.
The URL is https://www.thevisasofoz.com/australia-migration-forum/

[schossie]

Hello I have the latest wordpress and bbpress version.
Some of my users told me that they cant subscribe to a forum anymore. By deactivating all my plugins and activating them again I found out it is due to BP Plugin.

Do you know anything about that?
Thanks a lot!

[Tessa Watkins]

I keep coming back to this in my search to find a shortcode to display the same content (like the avatar, profile link, etc.) as the widget titled (bbPress) Login Widget.

Unfortunately, none of these account-related shortcodes from https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[bbp-login] – Display the login screen.
[bbp-register] – Display the register screen.
[bbp-lost-pass] – Display the lost password screen.

show the same content as the widget, especially for a logged in user. There doesn’t seem to be a shortcode, so instead, I’m using this successfully.

if (class_exists('BBP_Login_Widget')) {
    the_widget('BBP_Login_Widget');
}

[Vad]

Hello. The site works but the forum does not open, error 500. How to fix it?

xampp-windows-x64-7.4.7-0-VC15

Apache/2.4.43 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.1.1g PHP/7.4.7 Server at my-site.localhost Port 80

[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