[madflute]

Hmmm, something might be wrong with my bbPress. I need to investigate.

[Robin W]

do you have bbpress activated ?

[Chuckie]

Yeah, that is understandable.

In bbp style pack it lists a few other plugins. I wonder if we could indicate any that won’t work with the latest bbp build.

Also, if it is not maintained I guess there is no where to ask for help.

I understand people getting overwhelmed.

But I tend not to install plugins that say they are not supported.

Was thinking of:

bbPress Advanced Statistics

Andrew

[Robin W]

I’d suggest you talk to your host provider, but also

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

[molokini]

Hello,

We can’t access the replies section in bbPress in the WP Admin. We get a HTTP 500 error.

I can see these errors in the debug.log:

[25-Oct-2019 15:41:03 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) in /home/amps/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 201
[25-Oct-2019 15:41:03 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 671744 bytes) in /home/amps/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4344

The site memory is set to 512MB.

A few other posts said this was due to bbPress Private Groups but we have disabled that and still cant’ view Replies in WP Admin.

We can see the replies perfectly on the front end.

Any ideas?

There are no other messages in debug.log

Thanks,
Vicky

[zenken2017]

Hello, anybody here who is a newbie? How you optimize the use of bbpress?

[jbrandsma]

For anyone who stumbles upon this, I found the solution and placed it here

[Chuckie]

Yeah, but in forums like phpBB, if you close a topic you are locking the topic. This is indicated to the user by a icon. I added some styling which I had gleaned from the internet:

#bbpress-forums .status-closed > li.bbp-topic-title > a.bbp-topic-permalink:before {
	content: "[Locked]";
	text-shadow: 1px 1px 0 #ffffff;
	color: #ff0000;
	margin-right: 5px;
	font-size: 16pt !important;
}

This gives me a lock symbol but the look and feel of this symbol is not as nice as the paper clip which is visible for topics with attachments (using the GD Attachments plugin).

[Chuckie]

I don’t know if this is a bug. I was just playing around with bbPress and created a new topic. In the option list is “Pending” so I selected it. I hit submit. The topic has vanished. No where to be seen.

What happened?

[stoffer_dev]

I found a way to put it in a plugin 🙂

I Thought I would have to hook into ‘plugins_loaded’ like so:

 add_action( 'plugins_loaded', 'bbpress_overwrite' );

 function bbpress_overwrite() {
     add_filter ('bbp_before_has_search_results_parse_args', 'rew_amend_search') ;
 }

function rew_amend_search ($args) {
	$args['post_type'] =  bbp_get_topic_post_type() ;
return $args ;
}

But for some reason this was enough: ?

add_filter ('bbp_before_has_search_results_parse_args', 'rew_amend_search') ;

function rew_amend_search ($args) {
	$args['post_type'] =  bbp_get_topic_post_type() ;
return $args ;
}

[stoffer_dev]

Can I also override files in the “includes” folder (bbpress/includes/search/template.ph) in a child theme?

[Robin W]

no, you just put the templates in your child theme

You can copy all the templates across, but you only need to copy those that you want to change, and it is better just to do this, as then you know which you have altered.

so if you wanted to amend loop-single-forum you would do the following

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

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

[stoffer_dev]

The problem is, using the template solution will get overwritten when I update the the bbPress plugin…:(

[stoffer_dev]

I put this:

add_filter ('bbp_before_get_search_terms_parse_args', 'pluus_amend_search') ;

function pluus_amend_search ($args) {
	$args['post_type'] =  bbp_get_topic_post_type() ;
return $args ;
}

in my wp-content/themes/<ThemeName>/functions.php

But Forum names (“bbp_get_forum_post_type()”) are still included in the search results on the frontend.

Only editing “plugins/bbpress/includes/search/template.php” works 🙂

[nothere]

That worked! Thanks Robin, do you happen to know if there is any tutorials out there on setting up your website similar to the bbpress support forum?

[madflute]

Hi, thank you for your response. I do have bbPress Toolkit but I don’t think it can do what bbP Manage Subscriptions did. What it does is to force a user to subscribe/unsubscribe to a specific forum(s). For example, you can pick up active contributors and force them to subscribe to the contributors’ forum. This is all done in a convenient table.

[nothere]

Is it possible to download or install the same or similar code as this bbpress support form layout has? I like the layout, and would like to incorporate it on my site. Not sure if this is a possibility? Thanks.

[Chuckie]

Sorted it. I added this second style:

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header div {
	background: #7A7A78 !important;
	border:  none;
}

[Chuckie]

I have this styling:

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content {
	border-left: solid 1px black;
	background: whitesmoke !important;
	padding-left: 5px;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author {
	background: whitesmoke !important;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content li {
	color: #000 !important;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content a {
	color: blue !important;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
}

The problem is that it applies it to the very first row with the headings and I don’t want it to. Ideally I want to set the background of just the replies themselves to whitesmoke.

[brunov99]

Thanks Robin,

I tried the method you mentioned first (as a hack) but the files located in plugins/bbpress were not taken into account at all. So I decided to change the main po/mo files.

Nervermind as I know now how it works I will keep my “precious” translated files in a safe place.
bV

[jbrandsma]

I am using bbpress in conjunction with buddypress and I noticed that the forums have different avatars for users than their profile avatar. Is there a way to use the avatars from buddypress and not from bbpress?

I found this topic and its exactly what I’m referring too, but it was never marked as resolved and the answer was only for replies. The code snippet in this post works for me, but I need it to go further and apply to all avatars. I tried adding a filter to ‘bbp_get_current_user_avatar’ but I can’t get it to work.

Wordpress, buddypress, and bbpress are all up-to-date – I also have the Youzer plugin installed

Thanks in advance!

[Robin W]

hmmm… quite a puzzle

so you could try putting your customised file here

wp-content/languages/plugins/bbpress-fr_FR.mo

plugins load code from only two places, but no idea which loads first, but looks like that location loads last, so it might work. but again might be overwritten by WordPress updates

[brunov99]

Hi everyone,

I change some translated strings in my bbprress-XX-po/mo files located in the wp/language dir. to suit my non-geek audience.
How can these files not be overwritten during bbPress next updates?

Thank you.
bV

[brunov99]

wp 2.5.4 / bpp 2.5.14

Hi everyone,
does someone have an idea how to fix this ?
the search bar is displayed correctly but the search button is not displayed at all.

The more strange thing is that for testing purpose, I installed the 2.6RC7 version on the exact same config (exept bbpress of course) and here the button appears.

Thank you for your advices.
bV

[Pierre Lemarchand]

P.S.: now WP 5.2.4 and bbPress 2.5.14