[Robin W]

Still comes across as very shouty and opinionated eg ‘it’s just mind blowing’ and ‘with this blatantly obvious chronic issue’, but let me try and answer you.

I am just a moderator here, and not a bbpress author. I don’t get paid anything to do this, and I’m just a guy sat in his kitchen trying to help others.

So a bit of background

bbpress was written by the founder of WordPress Matt Mullenweg as a standalone product way before mobiles/cell phones did anything more than phone and text.

It was added as a plugin to WordPress by John James Jacoby, who has done updates to it every so often as paid work by the WordPress foundation.

It is up to the owners of plugins as to how much work they do on their products.

The authors tend to release updates every few years, rather than more frequently.

My personal view is that you should consider bbpress to be a ‘mature’ product, ie any releases will be to fix issues rather than add functionality.

bbPress is used by WordPress on their support forums, and if you look at these, you will see that they show these columns in mobile, so that is clearly how WordPress wants it to work.

That you might decide that this is not how they should show is your opinion, and with over 100,000 installations of bbpress I have not noticed over the 10 years I have been doing support here ‘a lot’ of requests. I’m sure there have been some.

The bbpress concept is ‘We’re keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system.’ This does have an implicit expectation that others will either have the code and css capabilities to change bbpress to suit themselves, or hope that others have done so through plugins.

You seem to have found some answers, and say you have found one that does this with css, and I suspect I might have answered some doing exactly this.

I do not plan to start from scratch, so maybe if you can give me a link to ‘there’s some people that use CSS but I haven’t seen where it actually works’, then I’ll see if I can help further.

[neofilm]

A lot of people over the years have had the same problem with bb press not being responsive in that the topics, posts and last post columns are squished in mobile. Considering that the majority of people these days are using mobile devices it’s just mind blowing that this one thing has to be this chronic issue for so many people, probably most. There’s one person who has a solution that’s super complicated with like creating a directory folder… and then there’s some people that use CSS but I haven’t seen where it actually works, and so on. Is bb press ever gonna be responsive one obvious way?

Does somebody have some css I can plop in and just make these columns go away so the forum Description can spread out nice and somebody could actually read it properly instead of having so much wasted real estate? Or maybe some function.php I can put in my Code Snippets plugin? Surely somebody has a way to do this with snippets. Bbpress is so great overall, why ruin a good thing by making it so difficult to deal with this blatantly obvious chronic issue?

And it could just be that these are completely removed or just for mobile. But, really, completely removed would be fine and probably best.

[Milan Petrovic]

Hello,

This is related to my GD bbPress Toolbox Pro. You can open the new topic in the official support forum: https://support.dev4press.com/forums/forum/plugins/gd-bbpress-toolbox/.

Regards,
Milan

[Robin W]

that error may be from GD bbPress Toolbox Pro by the look of it, suggest you raise with them

[tceg]

Hi,

I just want to know if it’s possible to stop the wordpress author page from being redirected to mydomain.com/bb-members/user?

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

[Robert]

Hi
We’re getting strange PHP Error messages relating to forum posts that don’t exist like this one. Should we be concerned?
Many thanks
Robert

WordPress database error Duplicate entry ‘8702-67865’ for key ‘PRIMARY’ for query INSERT INTO ggx_gdbbx_tracker (user_id, topic_id, forum_id, reply_id, latest) VALUES (8702, ‘67865’, ‘11504’, ‘72638’, ‘2024-05-15 06:40:25’) made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-includes/template-loader.php’), apply_filters(‘template_include’), WP_Hook->apply_filters, bbp_template_include, apply_filters(‘bbp_template_include’), WP_Hook->apply_filters, bbp_template_include_theme_compat, BBP_Shortcodes->display_topic, bbp_get_template_part, bbp_locate_template, load_template, require(‘/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-topic.php’), do_action(‘bbp_template_after_single_topic’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, Dev4Press\Plugin\GDBBX\Features\ActivityTracking->latest_users_topic, Dev4Press\Plugin\GDBBX\Database\Main->track_topic_visit, Dev4Press\v47\Core\Plugins\DBLite->__call, call_user_func_array

[sunshineday77]

You *ROCK*, Robin!! Thank you so much. You continue to make using bbPress and bbStylePack easier and in such helpful ways!!

[Robin W]

ok, so I’ve added this ability into my style pack plugin

bbp style pack

it is automatically there once you have activated the plugin, so just see SO TO BULK MOVE… below

OTHERWISE IF YOU PREFER TO USE CODE then

add_action( 'bulk_edit_custom_box',  'rew_quick_edit_fields', 10, 2 );

function rew_quick_edit_fields( $column_name, $post_type ) {
	switch( $column_name ) {
		case 'bsp_topic_forum': {
			echo rew_bulk_edit_forums () ;
			break;
		}
		case 'bbp_topic_forum': {
			echo rew_bulk_edit_forums () ;
			break;
		}
	}
}

function rew_bulk_edit_forums () {
	// Start an output buffer
		ob_start();
		
	?>
				<fieldset class="inline-edit-col-left">
					<div class="inline-edit-col">
						<p>
							<label for="bbp_forum_id"><?php esc_html_e( 'Forum:', 'bbpress' ); ?></label><br />
							<?php
                                                                $no_forum_str = 
                                                                        /* translators: &mdash; is encoded long dash (-) */
                                                                        esc_html__( '&mdash; No forum &mdash;', 'bbpress' );
								bbp_dropdown( array(
									'show_none' => $no_forum_str,
									'selected'  => bbp_get_form_topic_forum()
								) );
							?>
						</p>
					</div>
				<?php
			// Output the current buffer
		$output =  ob_get_clean();
	return $output ;
}

add_action( 'save_post', 'rew_bulk_edit_save' );

function rew_bulk_edit_save( $post_id ){

	// check bulk edit nonce
	if ( ! wp_verify_nonce( $_REQUEST[ '_wpnonce' ], 'bulk-posts' ) ) {
		return;
	}

	// update the forum
	$forum_id = ! empty( $_REQUEST[ 'bbp_forum_id' ] ) ? absint( $_REQUEST[ 'bbp_forum_id' ] ) : 0;
	remove_action( 'save_post', 'rew_bulk_edit_save' );

        // update the post, which calls save_post again.
        wp_update_post( array( 'ID' => $post_id, 'post_parent' => $forum_id ) );

        // re-hook this function.
        add_action( 'save_post', 'rew_bulk_edit_save' );
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

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

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

or use

Code Snippets

SO TO BULK MOVE…

go to dashboard>topics and use the tick boxes to the left of each topic to select the ones you want
then above the topics use the ‘bulk actions’ to select ‘edit’
and click ‘apply’ to the right of that

You will the see a dropdown box labelled ‘forum’ which lets you set which forum to change those topics to,
and click ‘update’

[Robin W]

this is the bbpress forum, you want support from either buddypress or buddyboss

https://buddypress.org/support/

https://support.buddyboss.com/support/home

[Robin W]

this is the bbpress forum, you want support from either buddypress or buddyboss

https://buddypress.org/support/

https://support.buddyboss.com/support/home

[Robin W]

bbpress users can create posts with tags as per this site.

I’m not sure I understand your question?

[Robin W]

I’m just a guy sat in his kitchen trying to help others, I am not paid to do this.

It is entirely relevant in that they may well be a reason why trashed posts are added, without knowing when and why the function is called and how it is used, it is impossible to say that the code is wrong.

I agree that a filter before that or variable passed would be helpful, but bbpress is not being actively worked on at the moment so it is unlikely that this would get updated.

If you want to flag this, raise a ticket on https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

You might want to use bbp_get_public_child_ids or use the filter at the end of the function to as you say ‘override’ the setting, or if you are using this function directly, then simply create your own version of it.

[Chris Ostmo]

The bbp_get_all_child_ids() function in bbpress/includes/common/functions.php is returning Trashed posts, which should objectively not be the case. There’s no world in which trashed posts should appear unless someone is intentionally digging in the trash.

Line 1997 is currently this:
$not_in = array( 'draft', 'future' );
It should be this instead:
$not_in = array( 'draft', 'future', 'trash' );

I have tested that as a manual change, but obviously, this needs to be bbpress’ default behavior, not my locally-hacked override.

Alternatively, you could add a third argument for overrides, but I think this is just an oversight.

Thank you.

[Julianna]

Can this be used with the “bbPress Members Only” plugin?

[Julianna]

Thanks–I already had bbp style pack installed.

Did some more testing and ended up also installing “bbPress Notify (No Spam)”.

When I had the bbPress Notify plugin override the subscription to forums & replies settings, the emails are now sending as expected.

Appreciate the help!

[domeboys]

Upon reading further, I see mention of the “Recent Replies” widget. It apparently does not affect the functionality of bbPress and it is not that important to me, so I will disable it now. Thank you!

[Robin W]

we are trying to start using Elementor Single Post template, but found out that “Hello theme Elementor bbpress template fix”

is this from the style pack plugin, or form somewhere else?

[Julianna]

Hi

I’m having the same issue with notifications of replies and new topics not being sent by email.

Plugins installed:
Simple WordPress Membership
bbPress
bbp style pack (notifications enabled)
bbPress Members Only (forum set to members only with all other pages visible)
bbPress Notify (No Spam)
Check & log email (nothing logged in tests)
Code Snippets (original code above added)
Easy WP SMTP (confirmed that other emails are sending successfully, eg notification of new member registrations via Simple Membership)
WP Notification Bell (new replies ARE showing up here)

I’ve run tests with replies and new topics for a test user subscribed to everything (and directly to the topic used to test replies), and am still not getting any emails. Have, of course, checked the spam folder.

I’d appreciate any suggestions for troubleshooting.

Thank you!

[domeboys]

Site: thecardinalnation.com
WordPress 6.4.3
bbPress 2.6.9
MySQL 7.4

Roughly weekly over the last six months, my entire WordPress site slows down to a stop with 504 errors experienced by users for 10-20 minutes at a time. CPU utilization on my dedicated server goes from 20% to close to 100%.

My hosting provider WPEngine suspects bbPress is spiking MySQL with long-running queries.

Here is what WPEngine Support told me in one of my exchanges with them.

“Most past mysql queries were generated by this file:
/nas/content/live/thecardinalnat/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php:1096

“Something about the query on line 1096 of that file is causing spikes in mysql usage.

“Bbpress support may be able to explain what the query is trying to do and how to optimize it or change some settings to make those requests less heavy for mysql.”

That is what has brought me here.

Does anyone know what this query does, if it could be involved with my problem and what corrective action should be taken? I would greatly appreciate any advice you can provide.

(I am the site owner and am not highly technical, but I have access to additional assistance as needed.)

[getfree]

Hi Robin et al.,
we are trying to start using Elementor Single Post template, but found out that “Hello theme Elementor bbpress template fix” somehow stops the template from activating (disabled all plugins, found out that now the template works and then enabled all our plugins one by one).

Question 1: What does the plugin actually do? 🙂 I remember activating the plugin for some real need, but now it looks like the forums works just fine.

Question 2: What could we do to get the template working (apart from deactivating a probably vital plugin mentioned earlier..). I saw one guy solving the same issue by adding a short code to a page, but at least just inserting a short code for the forum index did nothing for us.

Our (staging) site and a Post which is affected by this https://staging11.pokerifoorumi.org/derk-van-luijk-nousi-ept-monte-carlon-paaturnauksen-voittoon/

All our plugins are up-to date, and so is our Hello theme.

Many thanks for the great product, as well as your help. Much appreciated.

[bigcheesez]

i was not right in blaming bbpress for my issue… the sql injection was found…. was not bbpress. iam sorry for this mistake.

[阿卡林刘]

It works! Thanks!
Hopely bbPress Offcial Can be Native Support Block Theme.

[astrologiamb]

Hi
I run different forums in my website. Each forum is related to a specific course I provide.

As the one who answers all questions sent by each forum, I have the issue that when I receive an inquiry, many times I do not know to which forum the question belongs. Today, to find out, I have to go to my wordpress backend, go to bbpress, and look in the topic section to which forum it belongs.

So ideally, it would be great if in the subject notification email, I can see to which forum is related.

So if today I receive a subject notification email like the following:

Clarification about XXXX

I would like to receive

[Forum XXXX] Clarification about XXXX

Thanks

[Robin W]

that seems to be an issue with ultimate member permissions, bbpress does not have that granularity in it. suggest you raise with ultimate member

[realityhousedev]

Ok, so because we’ve not been able to replicate the issue with test accounts et al. We think that if we delete the end user’s account and then remake the account this will rectify the issue. As we’re aware that the user may already have content that they’ve created under their account we want to migrate that to a dummy account while we’re putting in place the deletion so we can then migrate it back to their “new” account and thus cause little to no disruption for them. We just wanted to check that if bbpress content is in this equation, that this content type does also get re-allocated like any other WP content types.