[Nik]

@robin-w OK well… I’m pretty sure it’s arising from the file located in bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/notifications.php where there is a function called function bbp_format_buddypress_notifications() which creates a link (which when clicked, automatically marks that particular notification as “read”).

From the quick test I’ve just run, it would appear that the link/string created in more recent versions of bbPress may not be correct but I’ll need to do some more investigation to work out how/why.

As far as I can tell, this is likely to be an issue for all Buddypress/bbPress users so I’m quite surprised it hasn’t been highlighted sooner.

[Nik]

If I can jump in here, I’m fairly sure I’m experiencing the same problem with Buddypress notifications eg. “You have one new reply to topic X”. Clicking on the link used to mark the notification as “Read” but this is no longer happening.

Currently using bbPress 2.6.4 and BuddyPress 5.1.2.

Downgrading to bbPress 2.5.14 (an old version that I happened to have installed elsewhere) certainly fixes the problem but will have to do further investigation to work out exactly which version this issue originally started occurring.

Either way, notifications are certainly not getting marked as read in version 2.6.4 when the link is clicked, although clicking on the “Mark Read” button still does.

[thetoolman123]

Hello there,

I am new to bbpress and have some questions I would like to ask.

A little about the website I will be creating:
I am wanting to build a local forum for my town in which users can discuss anything related to the town, post jobs, events and advertise their businesses.

The community will mainly be free, but wondered if there are any plugins that allow me to charge users to post a thread in specific forums? I’m guessing there might be some sort of membership level plugin? If so, would the membership work on a per month basis, or per post basis?

Another idea I have is to create some sort of points system in which users gain.lose points on new threads, posts etc and then redeem these points or credits for physical goodies?

Also, in terms of themes, are there themes available for bbpress or would I need to design on top of the core installation?

I am very new, so will probably be needing a lot of help, but excited about building my community website 🙂

Thanks!

[hydrogriff]

This topic is an extension of this. When threaded topics are enabled in 2.6.x versions, we are unable to reply threaded like before.

And also, the oldest issue is still unresolved – It has been years and no paginations for threaded replies yet.

Can we expect a patch for the former issue in the next release?

[Robin W]

1. which version of bbpress
2. what do you mean by notifications? – that is not a bbress phrase, do you mean notify on the topic/reply form?
3. so in addition to bbpress what other bbpress related plugins are you using ?

[jovmbbuzz]

Good day!

I have updated the bbpress plugin on the site and the automatic marking of notifications as read, once the link is clicked, seems gone. I have reverted back to the previous version to make this work.

Can you kindly advise for a solution to make it work for the new version of the plugin? I would be a hassle to click on the read link to clear up notifications. By the way, it only happens when logged in to Safari.

Please advise. Thank you!

[natsu12345]

Hi there,

i am quite new to wordpress\bbpress but i already looked at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-extract-a-topicreply-excerpt/

What i want to create is this.

[bigskyry]

We have a fairly sizable install of bbpress at backpackinglight.com/forums.

We upgraded to the newest version of 2.6.x last week, and are noticing two very significant negative impacts:

The time between hitting the “post” button on a new post, and waiting for the post query to finish, has tripled. When the site is busy, it now takes more than 30 seconds.

As such, users are hitting the button twice which results in double posting.

Is there anything we can do to optimize these queries to improve performance?

[pics11]

I am using bbpress and buddypress.

I created a group and created a forum with buddypress.

Creating a topic in a forum looks like this:

https://demo.com/groups/demogroup/forum/topic/〇〇〇

I want this part to be an arbitrary number or “id”.

Example:
https://demo.com/groups/demogroup/forum/topic/12345

How do I fix it?

Thank you in advance.

[hydrogriff]

The current support bbPress has a neat theme. It will be helpful if we can refer it for the best practices and customization. I searched and could not find the source code for the forum’s theme or WordPress’s support theme. Where to find it? Is it open source?

[hydrogriff]

My bbPress installation is customized a little and has subscribe and favourite buttons in a different place. Since 2.6 extra favourite and subscribe links are appearing in the lead topic header. Is there a way to remove the default ones and keep the ones generated by <?php bbp_topic_favorite_link();?> and <?php bbp_topic_subscription_link(); ?>?

[theicebooky]

I use User Role Editor to allow subscriber to add Forums. Then, I put the Forum creating shortcode on a page.

I’m using bbpress not buddypress.

However, I want to restrict the Topic creator to only be able to create a Topic inside of the Forum they created. Is there a way to do that?? Thanks!!

[Chuckie]

You don’t have to manually moderate. You can switch off moderation for bbPress. There is a temporary plugin to do it. I have moderation switched off.

Up to you.

[Robin W]

ok, try this instead

#bbpress-forums ul.forum-titles li.bbp-forum-info
			{
				font-size:  10px !important ;
			}
		 
			#bbpress-forums ul.forum-titles li.bbp-forum-topic-count{
				font-size: 10px !important ;
			}

			#bbpress-forums ul.forum-titles li.bbp-forum-reply-count{
				font-size:  10px !important ;

			}

			#bbpress-forums ul.forum-titles li.bbp-forum-freshness{
				font-size:  10px !important ;
			}

[Chuckie]

bbPress Notify (No Spam) plugin supports that out of the box.

[John]

I have inherited a bbPress installation that has an issue, which I am not sure is to do with how bbPress works out of the box, is a configuration setting, or is as a result of customisation.

When an email is sent notifying of a reply to a topic, the reply link in the email takes the user through to a page that only shows the reply with no link through to the topic that has been replied to.

The URL is of the form: https://mywebsite.com/forums/reply/46572/

and the template looks like this:

Is it possible to either:

1. Include a link in the template to go back to the topic, or,
2. Have the link that is sent out in the email go to the topic, but with an ID ref to the reply, in this example:
   https://mywebsite.com/forums/discussion/my-topic-slug/#post-46572

Are either of those possible, and if so how might I go about configuring bbPress appropriately?

TIA!

[mvaneijgen]

Sadly I had to publish my site with the old 2.5.x I’ve managed this by changing the version number of the plugin in bbpress.php and readme.txt to some insane version number which will never be hit in the near future.

I would still love some pointers on how to implement the pagination of treaded replies, which works with the hack for 2.5.x version of bbpress.

[Robin W]

no, that probably wasn’t the problem, if you had been on version 5.x then that might be the issue.

If php version doesn’t fix then 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

[agushardiman]

Hi @gingerngo, I don’t have Press Permit plugin but still have this isue. So it must be the bbpress itself.

Wonder if anybody here have found a solution?

[Chuckie]

According to the trac it states:

Add bbp-has-subforums if forum has subforums

Why am I not seeing this class present in the latest version of bbPress 2.6.4?

[Chuckie]

I saw this discussion:

a way to check for subforums

It implied it was fixed in bbpress 2.1:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1803

But I don’t get it.

This is a sub forum with child forums:

<a class="bbp-forum-title" href="https://www.publictalksoftware.co.uk/support-forums/forum/meeting-schedule-assistant/midweek-editor/">Midweek Editor</a>

This is a forum with no child forums:

<a class="bbp-forum-title" href="https://www.publictalksoftware.co.uk/support-forums/forum/meeting-schedule-assistant/assignments-editor/">Assignments Editor</a>

As you can see, the code is exactly the same. I understood from the associated discussion that the forum with child forums would have a additional class specified so that we could use pseudo before / after to add a symbol to indicate it is a forum with sub forums.

Or do I have to go about this differently?

I am using bbp style pack.

Thanks for shedding any light on this.

[domeboys]

I have the same problem (variable mismatch message when trying to merge forum topics) and would appreciate resolution advice. Thanks.

This problem is relatively new for me, as the function had worked fine for several years until the last few months.

WP 5.3.2
PHP 7.3.14
bbPress 2.6.4

[Oxibug]

Hey Guys,
Since bbPress v2.6.4 undefined variable message appears in both admin and frontend pages

Notice: Undefined variable: topic_id in [PATH]\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\replies\template.php on line 456

Notice: Undefined variable: topic_id in [PATH]\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\replies\template.php on line 461

Notice: Undefined variable: topic_id in [PATH]\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\replies\template.php on line 467

I found variable [topic_id] inside two if statements in function [bbp_get_reply_url] so I think that you should move the variable definition in the function scope not inside the if.

If you google that [undefined variable: topic_id replies\template.php] you will find that a lot of online forums using bbPress generate that error in the front-end pages.

P.S. some people taking about BuddyPress but I think it should be fixed in the bbPress functions.

Thanks

[Robin W]

The best I can suggest is

GD bbPress Attachments

If you want better than this, then contact the developer https://www.dev4press.com/ Milan does bespoke development as well

[heroyouwi]

its all about your phpBB version, i have like your issue before edited the script converter 🙂

mine is phpbb 3.2.9, i mapped the corrent column in the script convert : phpBB.php
i have a heavy phpbb forum : 16 forums, 3000 topics, 95000 posts, 3000 users, all successfully imported in bbpress 2.5
here my fix :

phpbb 3.2.9 fix bbpress import

enjoy it