[pnccontact]

I have google capcha “not a robot”
unregistered user can’t post
looks like a bug in bbpress since no plugin are active for user…

[bluesweet]

OK,
I don’t want bbpress forum replies to show up on Buddypress activity stream. I have researched this problem for days and cannot find a solution. I have tried 3 different plugins and they do not work anymore. I have come across this question multiple times but no one seems to give a clear answer. This question has gone back a least 9 years. I find it hard that Buddypress or bbpress has not found a solution to this problem. Please help!!!

[Robin W]

well you have some sort of pop up doing this – not part of bbpress,it may be part of your theme or another plugin you are running?

[jazibsaeed]

Hello,

I am using yoast SEO and bbpress forums on my website i.e. Tooth Republic. Unfortunaltely, i am unable to figure out how to change meta description of main page of forums i.e. https://toothrepublic.com/forums/

Unlike other pages, edit button does not appear from yoast SEO plugin on this page. When i go to search appearance setting in SEO, it has a section to change default meta description for forums. Should i makes changes there?

[Robin W]

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[scoleriptideio]

Thank you for the reply. I followed along with this article to set the forum up but I did get lost on step 8, ss I am not familiar with themes and templates in WordPress. Where do I go in WordPress to access and edit the “root theme” and “page templates in the root of the directory”

“So once you know which page template file you need, copy this and rename the copy to bbpress.php
Place this file in the root of your theme ie wp-content/themes/%mytheme%/bbpress.php where %mytheme% is your theme’s name.”

I need a more dumbed down step by step walk though of this ^, ie where to go exactly in WordPress.

Thanks!

[Robin W]

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

step 8

[scoleriptideio]

Wordpress version: Version 5.4.1
bbPress version: Version 2.6.4
website:riptideio.com

Recently installed bbPress to create forum page. Want to have a sidebar on the forum page for registration/login. Do not have any other sidebars on our website – want the sidebar just on forum page. Installed bbPress WP Tweaks Version 1.4.4 and bbPress sidebar appears on Widgets edit page and I can drag widgets to display there, but it does not show up on the forum page. I’ve been searching forums far and wide for a solution to this and it seems it might be a theme issue but not too sure how to fix that…

Our parent theme is Salient and we have a custom child theme (we originally had a marketing firm create our WordPress site so I’m not too familiar with the themes or how to edit them…)

Any help would be much appreciated!!

[Robin W]

make forums private to make them visible to users only

use shortcode

[bbp-register]

or anything in WordPress that does registration – bbpress just uses WordPress registration

[Robin W]

I believe this is it

https://bbpress.org/feed/?post_type=topic/

but come back and confirm

[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.

Then come back

[Robin W]

I used to take part in the European Tall Ships races in the 1980’s – so recognise the logo! many happy memories.

start by reading

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

Section 8 is the bit to read

[nhardisty]

Apologies if all the right info isn’t here- new to wordpress. Just installed bbpress on my site. When I view the forum directory at https://www.tallshipsamerica.org/tsaforums/ the theme is consistent with the rest of my site. When I open any of the individual forums (like https://www.tallshipsamerica.org/forums/forum/licensing/) the banner image doesn’t appear and the upper left logo overlaps the forum title. I’m looking to either have the full theme with the image, or at least move the forum title down so it fully shows.

[swww1tamahagane]

I had the same problem but I was able to solve it.

BBpress controls the number of allowed URLs with WordPress settings.

Open WordPress settings, go to “Discussion”-> “comment moderation” item, and set the upper limit of pending URL.
If you enter a very large value, this problem will never happen again.

This idea was discovered by following in the “bbp_new_topic_handler” function.
The function called the “bbp_check_for_moderation” function, and finally used the “comment_max_links_url” filter to obtain the number of pending URLs.

[Robin W]

ps bbpress just uses WordPress login, so they are one and the same, so login for WordPress (and your membership plugin) is login for bbpress.

and for your test user, see what bbpress role has been set in dashboard>users and edit the user, should be participant

[alexgoal]

I installed bbpress but I don’t see the “forums” item on the settings and no other category on the dash and as if it wasn’t installed.

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses WordPress – so any WordPress registration will be fine – maybe theme my login

[monopohl]

Uhm well regarding your hint I found this

Register on Multisite

Seems somewhat odd to me. bbpress claims to be from the developers of WordPress and to be multisite compatible but so far it seems not to be possible to use the registration properly without creating a custom wp-signup.php or using a third party plugin?

Did I get that right?

[Robin W]

if you want anyone to be able to post, then you need to allow anonymous posting

dashboard>settings>forums and look for anonymous, but unless you really want general public posting I’d suggest not. If you do, look also at ‘bbpress notify no spam’ as another plugin.

I can’t say why the 2nd is happening – I’d suggest you set up a test user and see if they get the same issue.

then come back

[Robin W]

The recommendation is that the file goes in a directory called ‘bbpress’ in the root of your child theme.

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

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

child theme root works as well, but in ‘bbpress’ just makes it more obvious which plugin’s template you have amended

[momomoko]

Perfect dear Robin

Thank you very much

btw : did i process in the good way to modify my bbpress template ?

[riggie11]

Hi guys,

I’ve just done a new WP install & also a new bbPress install. No other plugins installed.

I then added a Forum you can see on this page.

Test55

The problem I have is:
This login form seems to prevent me from adding a topic.
The login on this form fails when I use my admin login.

How can I remove the login form from appearing & allow a topic to be created?

thanks,
Riggie

[g28f99]

Hello, I am creating a specialized forum combining wordpress(5.4.1), bbpress(2.6.4) and buddypress(5.2.0). The website is exptoge.com. I have already created child thyme in the wp-content/themes/mytheme folder and used functions.php and style.css to make some customization. Now I need some help to personalize the forum new topic area and new reply area.

1) New topic area, as shown in Fig 1,
(please go to here to check all the figures ).
For every new topic in this forum, I wish the following text appear in the “Topic content edit area” by default: “please clearly describe the place and time duration”. Once the user click in this area to input something, those text will disappear automatically.
The google search box seems exactly demonstrate this effect as shown in Fig.2. Source of Fig 2, captured at chrome://newtab.

2) New reply area, as show in Fig.3.

For every new topic in this forum, I wish some text (e.g. “please select or input your selection” ) appear in the “Reply content edit area” and followed by a drop down selection list (similar to Fig. 4 or Fig.1 below part) by default.

The selection list is composed of two parts. The first is designed to choose a color, red, blue or others. The second is designed to choose a shape, triangle, circle or others.
If the users choose others, a new input box will appear so that they can input their other choice. Text “please input your choice” will appear in the input box with function similar to Fig. 2 (requirements of new topic area above).

After the users make a choice or enter their choice, the choice result will exactly be the reply content. But, the above “please select or input your selection” text will be updated to be “I prefer” texts.

I am not sure whether it is possible to achieve above functions through making modifications in my themes. Anyway, thanks a lot for your time and efforts. You can log in with username “Daniel” and password as “Daniel8” to test “new topic” and “new reply ” function in this website.

[brandi22]

We have bbPress used on a website that has different groups. We need instructors to be able to post the same message in more than one forum, for each group. Right now, they’re prevented from doing that. Is there any way we can reduce the restrictions on duplicate content? This is all on a password protected site, so we don’t worry about spam.

[alekspayne]

How can I fix the dubbing of responses and topics in the activity filter in some templates in bbpress 2.6.4?

                <select id="activity-filter-by">
                    <option value="-1">— Everything —</option>

                    <option value="new_member">New Members</option>
<option value="updated_profile">Profile Updates</option>
<option value="activity_update">Updates</option>
<option value="bbp_topic_create">Topics</option>
<option value="bbp_reply_create">Replies</option>

        <option value="bbp_topic_create">Topics</option>
        <option value="bbp_reply_create">Replies</option>

                </select>