[Robin W]

hmmm… css won’t do it then.

you’ll need to amend content-archive-forum.php in your child theme

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

transfer this to your pc and edit

delete line 17

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'search' ); ?>

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

[uksentinel]

Hi Robin, just cleared the cache and found that via GD Power Search for bbPress plugin, the default search works, but when I then select advanced search, the page/script for advance search does not appear. Home › Forums › Search ?

I have left it running an my site incase you get a chance to try for yourself, you do not need to be a forum member for searches etc on my site ?

https://uktechhub.com/forums/

[SirLouen]

@robin-w This is not working as expected and I think there is a bbpress bug. I’m currently testing in my localhost but I think I will publish on trac what I’m finding

[Robin W]

put this in the custom css of your theme

#bbpress-forums #bbp-search-form {
	display: none !important;
}

[uksentinel]

Hi

Currently running bbPress 2.6.4 and would like to understand how to remove / hide the default search bar that appears at the top of the Forums page listings

I have in a side bar widget set-up ‘GD Power Search for bbPress’ – (works very well), just need to remove the Search bar from the top of the Forums page as looks out of character for my forum

Forum is https://uktechhub.com/forums/

Thanks

[SirLouen]

I’ve checked the bbpress code and it seems that something is hindering my site
Theorically it shall show the last replay by default without the need of a plugin because it technically should be saving the last active id in the forum post meta field _bbp_last_active_id

Not sure what can be hindering my forum behaviour :S

[SirLouen]

I’m checking this very old plugin

bbPress Go To First Unread Post

Isn’t this implemented by default in bbpress nowadays?

[webcreations907]

They may have quit working on it.

I did some digging through their code, and came up with something for you to try if you want.

You’ll add the below code to your theme’s functions.php file, once you add the code and save the file. Reload your WordPress admin area by refreshing the page/browser, then remove the code and re-save the file.

Go to your discussions page, and try out that button(Apply settings to existing posts) again and see if it works for you.

if(!function_exists('bbppt_reset_topics_for_posts_meta_fix')){
	function bbppt_reset_topics_for_posts_meta_fix(){
		$args = array(
		    'meta_key' => 'bbpress_discussion_comments_copied',
		    'post_type' => 'post',
		    'post_status' => 'any',
		    'posts_per_page' => -1
		);
		$posts = get_posts($args);
		if($posts){
			foreach ($posts as $post) {
				delete_post_meta( $post->ID, 'bbpress_discussion_topic_id');
			    delete_post_meta( $post->ID, 'bbpress_discussion_comments_copied');

			    $comments = get_comments( array( 'post_id' => $post->ID, 'order' => 'ASC' ) );
			    if($comments){
			    	foreach ($comments as $comment) {
			    		delete_comment_meta( $comment->comment_ID, 'bbppt_imported');
			    	}
			    }
			    
			}
		}
	}
	add_action( 'admin_init', 'bbppt_reset_topics_for_posts_meta_fix' );
}

[adishor22]

This probably comes too late to be of any use to you, and maybe your error had a different cause, but I encountered this problem on my site yesterday and was able to fix it by deleting some replies that did not have associated parent topics in the wp_posts database.

I accessed wp_posts using PHP My Admin, entered “reply” next to “post type”, and manually deleted all posts that had “0” under their “Post parent”.

In my case the error appeared after I clicked on “Replies” – “Add new” – “Preview” in the dashboard. It created an errant entry in the database. It’s probably a bbPress bug.

Please use maximum caution before modifying the database though, and don’t do it if you don’t have a proper backup.

[Robin W]

Put this in your child theme’s function file – or use

Code Snippets

change the ‘-10 days’ to say ‘-90 days’ if you want 3 months

register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'bbpress_topic_scheduler');

add_action('bbpress_daily_event', 'bbpress_close_old_topics');

function bbpress_topic_scheduler() {
 wp_schedule_event(time(), 'daily', 'bbpress_daily_event');
}

function bbpress_close_old_topics() {
	// Auto close old topics
	$topics_query = array(
		'author' => 0,
		'show_stickies' => false,
		'parent_forum' => 'any',
		'post_status' => 'publish',
		'posts_per_page' => -1
	);
	if ( bbp_has_topics( $topics_query ) )
		while( bbp_topics() ) {
			bbp_the_topic();
			$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
			$last_active = strtotime( get_post_meta( $topic_id, '_bbp_last_active_time', true ) );
			if ($last_active < strtotime( '-10 days') )
				bbp_close_topic( $topic_id );
		}
}

[Robin W]

just tried it, it is all good, you must have missed a character off somewhere, just add it to the end

<?php
function hello_elementor_child_enqueue_scripts() {
wp_enqueue_style(
'hello-elementor-child',
get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
[
'hello-elementor'
],
'1.0.0'
);
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'hello_elementor_child_enqueue_scripts' );
function ele_disable_page_title( $return ) {
return false;
}
add_filter( 'hello_elementor_page_title', 'ele_disable_page_title' );
add_filter( 'bbp_register_topic_post_type', 'rew') ;

function rew ($rew) {

$rew = array(
				'labels'              => bbp_get_topic_post_type_labels(),
				'rewrite'             => bbp_get_topic_post_type_rewrite(),
				'supports'            => bbp_get_topic_post_type_supports(),
				'description'         => esc_html__( 'bbPress Topics', 'bbpress' ),
				'capabilities'        => bbp_get_topic_caps(),
				'capability_type'     => array( 'topic', 'topics' ),
				'menu_position'       => 555555,
				'has_archive'         => ( 'forums' === bbp_show_on_root() ) ? bbp_get_topic_archive_slug() : false,
				'exclude_from_search' => true,
				'show_in_nav_menus'   => true,
				'public'              => true,
				'show_ui'             => current_user_can( 'bbp_topics_admin' ),
				'can_export'          => true,
				'hierarchical'        => false,
				'query_var'           => true,
				'menu_icon'           => '',
				'source'              => 'bbpress',
			)  ;
			
return $rew ;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_register_reply_post_type', 'rew2') ;

function rew2 ($rew) {

$rew2 = array(
				'labels'              => bbp_get_reply_post_type_labels(),
				'rewrite'             => bbp_get_reply_post_type_rewrite(),
				'supports'            => bbp_get_reply_post_type_supports(),
				'description'         => esc_html__( 'bbPress Replies', 'bbpress' ),
				'capabilities'        => bbp_get_reply_caps(),
				'capability_type'     => array( 'reply', 'replies' ),
				'menu_position'       => 555555,
				'exclude_from_search' => true,
				'has_archive'         => false,
				'show_in_nav_menus'   => true,
				'public'              => true,
				'show_ui'             => current_user_can( 'bbp_replies_admin' ),
				'can_export'          => true,
				'hierarchical'        => false,
				'query_var'           => true,
				'menu_icon'           => '',
				'source'              => 'bbpress',
			)  ;
			
return $rew2 ;
}

[webcreations907]

Hi,

Did you try asking the developer of that plugin?
You can post on their support page here:https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpress-post-topics/, other users of that plugin might be able to help if you post on there.

[webcreations907]

Hello,

How about just adding filter buttons to your current page so that users on your site aren’t directed to another page, instead the tags are displayed based on “Filter” type buttons they click while on that same page. Kinda like a filtered portfolio type set up.

Example
Filter buttons at the top of your tag cloud(i.e A-F, G-L,M-S, etc), when user clicks say “A-F”, then all the tags that are within that range are shown, while the rest are hidden. But you’d still be on the same page. Then have a “All” button so they could get back to the default view of all them being shown.

Just a bbpress user here, just had a idea for you on that so thought I’d mention it.

[webcreations907]

No problem, glad that’s working out for you so far. 🙂

You can remove the code when bbpress releases a fix for it, it’s just a temporary solution until it gets worked out.

[ericsims]

Alright, I pasted it in to functions.php, and it seems to be working so far. Thanks so much for sharing! I’ll keep an eye on it over the coming days and hope it keeps working.

Will I need to remove this code if/when bbPress is updated to incorporate this fix?

[Alexander Agnarson]

Same issue here.

Discussed here too: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/after-upgrade-to-2-6-x-latest-reply-is-not-the-latest-one-index-only/#post-208975

[Stephen Ekpa]

Hi…
I’m trying to combine bbPress and bbPress Topics for Posts addon in a certain way. But I needed to extend the bbPress Topics for Posts, a dev. work which was successful.

But in the process of extending the addon plugin, the “Apply settings to existing posts” section in the addon setting was touched, which created unwanted forums that needed to be deleted. So I reset the forum completely.

But now, I’m hitting on “Apply settings to existing posts”, but it is not working with old post?. Please, what can I do to get old post to sync again?

[webcreations907]

Oh sorry, no it doesn’t do that, it just emails the user you mention.

This one https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-mention/, seems to show the mentions block you’re wanting, but looks like it would need to be changed to work in the bbPress comment editor.

[webcreations907]

The below should update the “Topic” page and the main “Forum” page.

Once you add the code, you’ll have to add a reply to a topic for it to update. Or run the forum repair Robin W mentioned above.

Add the below code to your functions.php file of your theme (preferably child theme), or use the code snippet plugin.

if(!function_exists('ticket3297_bbpress_update_latest_activity')){
	function ticket3297_bbpress_update_latest_activity( $reply_id, $topic_id, $forum_id ){
		
		$new_time = get_post_field( 'post_date', $reply_id );
		
		if ( ! empty( $new_time ) ) {
			update_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bbp_last_active_time', $new_time );
		}
		update_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bbp_last_active_id', $reply_id);
		update_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bbp_last_reply_id', $reply_id );

		$forum_obj = get_post( $forum_id );
		if( $forum_obj && $forum_obj->post_parent !== 0 && bbp_is_forum_category( $forum_obj->post_parent ) ){
		
			update_post_meta( $forum_obj->post_parent, '_bbp_last_active_id', $reply_id );
			update_post_meta( $forum_obj->post_parent, '_bbp_last_reply_id', $reply_id );
			if ( ! empty( $new_time ) ) {
				update_post_meta( $forum_obj->post_parent, '_bbp_last_active_time', $new_time );
			}
		}

	}
	add_action( 'bbp_new_reply', 'ticket3297_bbpress_update_latest_activity',10,3 );
}

if(!function_exists('ticket3297_bbpress_delete_update_latest_activity')){
	function ticket3297_bbpress_delete_update_latest_activity(){
			$reply_id = bbp_forum_query_last_reply_id();
			
			ticket3297_bbpress_update_latest_activity( $reply_id, bbp_get_reply_topic_id( $reply_id ), bbp_get_reply_forum_id( $reply_id ) );

	}
	add_action('bbp_deleted_reply','ticket3297_bbpress_delete_update_latest_activity');
	add_action('bbp_trashed_reply','ticket3297_bbpress_delete_update_latest_activity');
}

That should run when replying, deleting, and trashing replies.

[Mike Witt]

Sorry, I guess this is still an open ticket, right?
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3297

[Mike Witt]

Still not working for me either, bbPress 2.6.4.

[tjldesigns]

Hi there,

We seem to be getting some discrepancies around the panels which include the following for example:

—

‘This forum has 3 topics, and was last updated 3 weeks, 5 days ago by Name Surname.’
Viewing 4 topics – 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

—

Sadly on our set-up, these stats don’t seem to be matching up to the actual real edits, ie it states 3 topics, when there are 4, which you can see by the second line the system displays, it says ‘Viewing 4 topics’ yet above it says there are only 3 topics?

Is this standard, and maybe we are just misunderstanding what it’s counting? If anyone has any advise that would be so much appreciated :).

We are using:

– WordPress v: WordPress 5.3.2
– bbPress v: Version 2.6.4
– Sadly can’t include a link as it’s behind a login restricted area but we can liaise if anyone can help and facilitate this access

Thanks ever so much,
Tonya

[Clivesmith]

I have a page that just shows tags https://wateratairports.com/airports-by-iata-code/, it is working great and getting bigger over 300 it could grow to 1000 which is OK on a big screen but on a mobile, not good, I would like to add a line at the top of the tags offering a shortcut ie if you want A-F click this then it will take the user to a page that shows tags stating A and ending with F.

I am sure I can create the line with links to another page, where I am having a problem is how to only return the tags between A and F.

The template I am using is

/**
* Template Name: bbPress – Topic Tags
*
* @package bbPress
* @subpackage Theme
*/

get_header(); ?>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_before_main_content’ ); ?>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_template_notices’ ); ?>

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<div id=”bbp-topic-tags” class=”bbp-topic-tags”>
<h1 class=”entry-title”><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<div class=”entry-content”>

<?php get_the_content() ? the_content() : _e( ‘<p>This is a collection of tags that are currently popular on our forums.</p>’, ‘bbpress’ ); ?>

<div id=”bbpress-forums”>

<?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?>

<div id=”bbp-topic-hot-tags”>

<?php wp_tag_cloud( array( ‘smallest’ => 15, ‘largest’ => 15, ‘number’ => 400, ‘taxonomy’ => bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id() ) ); ?>

</div>
</div>
</div>
</div><!– #bbp-topic-tags –>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_after_main_content’ ); ?>

Is there a way to select what tags are shown ?, I am happy to create more templates.
hope this makes snese

[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

[kurtgarrison]

Hi John, our company did decide to shut down our Lithium forum and again exploring the idea of importing into bbPress. The bbPress import tool allows importing by connecting to a database. We wouldn’t be able to do that with Lithium. They will provide an XML file on shutdown. Is there a way to import from a file. I reviewed the bbPress provided PHP import files for mapping including the example that can be edited for Forums not included in the dropdown list. So we could edit our data fields to match.

Any help or insights would be great appreciated!

thanks,
Kurt