[diana74]

I have wordpress site and want to add “accept term and conditions ” to the forum registration form” in bbPress. How to do this?

[mddsharp]

I am using the latest WordPress and BBPress as of 2/29/2020

I don’t know if this is intentional or a bug, but I am throwing it out there.

If you go to the WordPress dashboard, all Topics, and post a new topic with no forum, it will actually post but not show up anywhere. It won’t even show in topics.

If another user knows the URL of the topic post, he/she can reply. But, that reply won’t show up in replies in the dashboard.

If you attempt to delete it by going to the URL and clicking Trash, the browser will start processing it but after 45 seconds it says “This page is not working” but it does delete the post.

[packzap]

Lately, since the first of the year, Akismet has occasionally been flagging valid replies (posts) and topics as Spam. Thus, not publishing the posts until I manually go in and “unspam” them. These false positives are very frustrating. It is doing this to people that have posted in my bbPress forum for years. What gives?

I am running WordPress 5.32, bbPress 2.64 and no changes to the Twenty-Fourteen theme in years.

In Akismet, I only see settings to basically run, or disconnect. I am tempted to do the latter.

[patrikkk]

Greetings!
I’ve tried importing my xenforo to wp bbpress. I successfully got the forums, threads and users imported. Although the users would not be able to log in to their accounts (getting incorrect password error), despite the fact bbpress Convert Users option upon import state
“Passwords remain encrypted, and are converted as individual users log in.”

Anyone had any experience in this? I didn’t get any error when importing users.
Altho I did get stuck at step 11, “Calculating closed topic”

Thanks in advance for your time!

[frogman16]

I have now tried this:
Activated: bbPress Notify (No-Spam)
Deactivated: bbPress auto subscribe for new topics and replies
Deactivated: AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions

And then this setting:
Activated: bbPress Notify (No-Spam)
activated: bbPress auto subscribe for new topics and replies
activated: AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions

E-mails work for another user I created with both configurations, but myself, as the administrator does not receive a single e-mail no matter what. Have tried various settings. So I guess I am 50% there.

[frogman16]

Morning. As the title suggests, “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” is not working. I can tick the box no problem, but no e-mails. I added the plugin “bbPress auto subscribe for new topics and replies” to allow the system to tick the box automatically. I tried the plugin “AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions” but no change. I’ve tried Googling this extensively. I’m also not a programmer. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

[mplusplus]

Hi there,

Is there any tool or script or plugin to migrate a forum from wpForo to bbPress?
Free or paid, either is okay. My forum has 8000 topics and 40000 posts.

Thanks.

[BrokenPixel]

Hi

In the process of moving our old forum from SMF (which had some great features, but requires a second login which our users really dislike) to bbpress. It’s a private forum so I can’t post a link, but using latest WP version, Hestia Pro theme, Ultimate Member (and it’s bbpress plugin), bbpress Style Pack.

bbpress Style Pack makes the new forum look a lot more user friendly (many thanks Robin!), and also using it to offer the option of email notifications of new posts (which on our forum is essential – there may be no posts for days, then several all at once!)

Is there any documentation anywhere as to how the new post email notify system works? Couldn’t find any, but perhaps not found the right place yet!

As I’m trying to get my head around how a user controls their settings.

If a user has hit “subscribe” to a whole “forum” (board as I’d have called it in older forum software) – it seems they then get notifications to all topics. But there could be many topics on that forum, and they may not want to be notified of some posts within that board. So how do they selectively unsubscribe from some in that board, but not others?

Going into the forum it seems that individual topics still have a “subscribe” button when the whole forum (board) is subscribed to, which is a little puzzling, if all topics under that forum (board) should now be subscribed to. So if they want to unsubscribe from that topic – do they have to click subscribe, then unsubscribe?

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how this bit of the plugin is meant to work? Thanks!

[rajeshpawar]

Can i use bbPress to setup a ticketing system?

[Robin W]

probably site issue – bbpress just uses WordPress registration

[alexsteninge]

Hi,

Is there in BBPress a way to setup a “new posts/activities since your last visit”? A sort of ‘mark as read’ functionality or similar?

I have searched the forum and can see that there are some topics relating to this area, but they are quite old and the majority refer to plugins that are 4 – 7 years old.

Br Alex

[cwaite]

Hi Robin

Yes I have even tried deactivating, then deleteing bbpress and then re-installing. I still, get the same issue.

This is a new site, new problem. It worked OK to start with while testing until we deleted a test post.

I’m thinking, as wer have deleted and reinstalled, something is retained in the settings/post in the DB that causes the issue.

[Robin W]

hmmm…..

old site, new problem?
new site new problem?
always happened?
only happening after update of bbpress?
etc.

you could try deactivating and then deleteing bbpress and then re-installing

you won’t lose any posts you already have

[cwaite]

Hi
I have seen quite a few people have this issue. Everythibg in bbpress works apart from when you click replies and then the page shows a Service Unavailable error message. I have tried all the options mentioned in other posts like turning off all other plug-ins, changing the theme to Twenty Twenty and also talking to our hosting company and still cannot get it to work. The hosting company tried changing the php versions but the still gave the error message. Error 500 for php7 and error 503 for php7.2. They also checked the error logs and said there was no errors showing. It was working OK when it was a fresh installation, all we have done is add a few test topics and posts and deleted 1 reply. The it starts to give the error.

Does nyone have a solution to this that I haven’t tried?

Many Thanks
Regards
Colin

[Chuckie]

I am using WP Sweep and it lists unused tags. It does not test BBPress for using any of the tags.

What steps are involved to detect if a tag is used in the database with forum topics / replies

[wpweaver]

This refers to bbPress 2.6.4.

If a new user topic or reply fails bbPress moderation (either links or bad words), the end user gets no message at all. What they see is simply nothing – just the edit box again, with no indication that their post was marked as pending, and awaits moderation.

So what happens? The user reposts the same message, over and over and over. I have examples of users reposting 10 times. They eventually may ask what is going on, or go away angry.

This seems to be new behavior since 2.6, and depending on the forum admins, this behavior may seem to be mysterious. I’ve run a highly technical forum for years, and did not know about this changed behavior in 2.6 because users typically did not post with more than 2 links.

Even now knowing that, the users are still left mystified. This is very poor user interface design, and the only reasonable solution now is to essentially eliminate any moderation at all.

add_filter( 'bbp_bypass_check_for_moderation', '__return_true' );

Much much better would be to let the user know what happened. I’ve read all the code for moderation, and can’t see any filters to override to add a message for the user.

It would be wonderful to fix this issue, and issue a “Your topic/reply is awaiting moderation.”
The moderators need to get a message as well.

[Robin W]

ok, put this in your child theme’s function file – or use

Code Snippets

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 ;
}

[mindylll]

Sometimes, in our forums, a post shows up twice or even three times. Is there a fix for this?

Version 5.3.2 of WordPress
The most recent version of BBPress

[mindylll]

I tried to subscribe to one of my forum posts yesterday, but it wouldn’t “Take” until clicking “subscribe” about 3-4 times. The same thing happened today. I click “subscribe”, it looks like I’m subscribed, then it disappears after I reply to the thread. I had to click multiple times to get it to “take”. Do you know why this would be happening?

Version 5.3.2
The newest version of BBPress
Rickthomas.net (forums are member protected, though)

[wpa2mik]

This fix works for me! Thanks a lot!

Following info may be useful:
* PHP 7.3
* Word Press 5.3.2
* bbPress 2.6.4
* No additional plugins related to bbPress.

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses WordPress login, so the issue is there.

wordpess doesn’t gave this feature in native mode, so I suspect you have another password/login related plugin that is causing the issue

[wpa2mik]

Hi,

I faced the same problem after update to bbPress 2.6.4.
It’s very important to show ‘last updated’ correctly, because it’s needed to control the forum.

[Chuckie]

Thanks, so something like this:

// Actually build all of this HTML
function build_html() {
    
    $this->sort_users();
    $data = $this->stats_builder();
    $HTMLOutput = "";
    
	if (is_user_logged_in())  {
		if ( is_bbpress() && current_user_can( 'spectate' ) ) {
			foreach( $data as $key => $html ) {
			   $HTMLOutput .= "<div class='bbpas-" . $key . "' id='bbpas-" . $key . "'>" . $html . "</div>";
			}
		}
    }
	
    return $HTMLOutput;
}

Yes?

[Robin W]

add an additional if statement

if ( is_bbpress() && ! current_user_can( 'spectate' ) )

if they can’t spectate then they are blocked

[daphnedelay]

It seems this forum only answers certain questions…

I really want to keep BBpress on my site, but it’s just as easy to take it down if support is non-existent 🙁

Any help to above question would be appreciated.