[Stephen Edgar]

@damon18 what about https://github.com/damon18/dizkus-bbpress ?

[D L]

Believe it or not, I’m still stuck with very old forums using Dizkus/Postnuke/Zikula and still need to move them to WordPress/bbPress.

Is there anyone willing to take this on as a paid project? I could send a database sample to check out.

[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

[anthonyae]

Since updating bbPress to version 2.5.14 on WordPress version 5.2.1, Administrator roles have lost access to be able to edit the Forum post types but can edit global settings on the forums. If navigating to the Forum post edit page, it states “Sorry, you are not allowed to edit posts in this post type.”

Looking with User Role Editor to check Administrator permissions, the group has access to every function with the Forum post type.

Any ideas on why this suddenly changed and what me causing the loss of access?

[Joe Dolson]

I’ll note that a patch for this was committed to version 2.6 of bbPress 5 years ago, but that has never been released: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2714

This is a fix that should really be implemented. I would have noted it sooner if I’d realized that the work I did that many years ago was unused.

[John]

I’ve been trying to turn off mentions using:

add_filter( 'bbp_find_mentions', '__return_false' );

and

add_filter( 'bp_activity_do_mentions', '__return_false' );

but it’s not working. Has this changed in v2.6?

Running bbPress v2.6-rc-7 and buddypress 4.3.0

I want to turn it off as it’s not required by the site, but mainly that it breaks URLs that happen to contain a username as described here.

Any ideas on how I can turn off @mentions?

[fantomx90]

Hello, I have set up bbPRess forums on my website (albeit very simple ones). As they are currently built they are all just listed in 7 straight topics and it looks very bland and boring.

I would like to be able to add some category headings however, or at the very least break them up into different sections. I am not very technical as far as HTML or CSS coding… but I Figured if there is going to be a way that’s how its going to happen.

To clarify, I kind of want them broken up like a PHPBB bulletin, but I do like the functionality and ease of use of the bbpress forums.

Is there any SIMPLE way to do this, or at least a bbpress expert I could pay that could probably knock this out in an hour (or less)?

Thank you in advance.

[dustineli]

looks to me like bbpress-functions.php is not loading the topic.js nor reply.js when using a shortcode to load a topic.

I commented out this if and then the scripts load:

/*if ( bbp_is_single_topic() ) {*/

// Topic favorite/unsubscribe
$scripts[‘bbpress-topic’] = array(
‘file’ => ‘js/topic.js’,
‘dependencies’ => array( ‘jquery’ )
);

// Hierarchical replies
if ( bbp_thread_replies() ) {
$scripts[‘bbpress-reply’] = array(
‘file’ => ‘js/reply.js’,
‘dependencies’ => array( ‘jquery’ )
);
}
/*}*/

so similar to the above post it appears that bbp_is_single_topic() is returning false for some reason. I tested this without any other plugins and also with the latest development version and the scripts still do not load unless I comment out that if. I suppose this means these scripts get loaded all the time but everything seems to still work

[mattbru]

What is the secret to modifying/changing the query on the topic archive page? I want to list all topics on that page rather than have 16, and i do not want pagination. On normal wordpress post types this is easily done with pre_get_posts filter. But how is it done with bbpress?

I have tried this:

function bbp_change_topic_archive_query_args( $query = array() ) {
	$query['order'] = 'asc';
	$query['orderby'] = 'title';
	$query['post_count'] = -1;
	$query['posts_per_page'] = -1;
	return $query;
}
add_filter('bbp_has_topics_query','bbp_change_topic_archive_query_args');

and this: (but this requires a shortcode to work properly)

function bbp_my_register_custom_views() {
	bbp_register_view( 
		'asc', __( 'A-Z' ), 
		array(
			'orderby' => 'title',
			'order' => 'ASC',
			'post_count' => '-1',
			'posts_per_page' => '-1',
			'hide_empty' => false,
		), false );
}
add_action( 'bbp_register_views', 'bbp_my_register_custom_views' );

What else can be done?
This has to be possible.

wp v5.2.2, bbp 2.5.14
site is a pw protected site. I can give access privately if necessary.

Thanks!

[Gomle]

Hi. I am trying to import from Simplepress 5.x to current bbpress.

It goes OK until it hits about 9000 posts. Then it stops.

Forum is about 180.000 posts, with about 13.000 threads and 9.000 users.

Any ideas to what I should do?

[karlwinn1]

Hi, please visit this site. https://www.csshero.org/customize-enhance-bbpress-forum-easily/
I hope it can help you.

[Robin W]

This is because in the bbpress plugin there is a template called content-search.php. Many themes also now have a template file called content-search.php. Since the bbPress templates don’t necessarily need to be in a bbPress folder, the bbPress plugin is choosing the template from your theme before the template that is actually in bbPress.

To fix copy content-search.php from the bbPress plugin templates and place it in a child theme in a folder called bbpress.

Functions files and child themes – explained !

So create a directory on your child 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/content-search.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/content-search.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[mjthehunter]

Just figured out the issue.
When I created the bbpress.css file, i didn’t copy in the original css first.
So it doesn’t build upon the existing css.
I just had to first copy the original file, then append my changes to the new file.

Just in case anyone experience similar issues 🙂

[Robin W]

wordpress themes can do funny things with bbpress.

It’s all to do with load order.

If it is working in the custom css, I’d leave it there

[Robin W]

This is because your theme or a plugin is adding the bootstrap library, and also adding the ‘.card’ css class to the forum display, and this has a bad effect.

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

[aiisgreat]

I am close to setting up my forum but I want to have all my categories in one forum.

Is this possible with bbpress?

[Adunakhor]

We have an HTML5 website using SimpleCMS, and a linked WordPress blog. I have installed the WordPress bbPress forum plugin on that blog site. When it seemed like it was lacking what appeared to be some pretty basic controls, I also installed the bbPress Toolkit plugin.

Since that also seemed to lack what to me should have been basic components of a working forum, I also installed the bbPress WP Tweaks plugin. It amazes me that a tool that is this popular seems to lack simple ordinary functions like clear login and registration tools that link directly to the forum.

Using the shortcodes, I created separate pages for login, registration and lost passwords, but once logged in, it still does not take the user to the main forum page. In fact, it goes nowhere. I would think that there should be a simple field for adding the path to the forum to which the user would be registering or logging in, but there isn’t. Instead, it just states “You are already logged in.” on the login screen with no link to anywhere else.

Can someone please explain to me how I can get the login to take the user to the actual forum page after they login? To me this should be automatic, but for some reason it is unnecessarily complicated.

Also, is there not a way to manage the subscription without requiring the user to have a WP or bbPress account? All I want is a private forum with users who can create their own usernames and passwords to login and share information, without that user data being shared with anyone else. For some reason, this simple task seems to be too much to expect.

So unless I’m doing something completely wrong (which is entirely possible), I need a way to resolve this with the tools available in bbPress. Any practical solutions are welcome. Thanks.

[OVATVC]

I’m about to embark on a BuddyPress/BBPress installation on my site. I would like to allow our users to upload pictures in forum posts and also in BuddyPress but am worried that this will eventually fill up my available storage. My host also does not want sites to be used to “warehouse” data. So, is it possible to automatically delete old posts and their media attachments and have the media files completely removed from the site? The intention would be to remove stale content that is say more than 3 months or 6 months or perhaps a year old and to have this limit selectable. If something is made sticky then it’s left alone.

Thanks for any info.

[mjthehunter]

Hi,

Over the past few weeks I’ve been customizing bbress to my liking using the live css editor in wordpress.
I tried moving it all to a stylesheet within my child theme in a folder called css.
I’ve named the file bbpress.css.

Everything was working fine in the wordpress editor, but after moving it to bbpress.css a lot of things no longer work.
Even when I try !important, a lot of things still don’t to work.

I should note that some of the code does work which is why this confuses me.
Any suggestions?

WordPress 5.2.2
BBPress 2.5.14
https://flippednormals.com/forums

[ojmorales0002]

Sorry for the confusion

the social links menu at the bottom of the home page http://www.preparesurvivelive.com you will see gray round icons for the social sites at the bottom of http://www.preparesurvivelive.com/forums/ you see the text label of the site and different icons.

I can’t recall making any changes to bbpress for this difference.

[iamarogue]

Okay so I started by adding a Super Sticky topic that included an embedded youtube video. When I saved it and tried to visit it, the topic wouldn’t load. I can’t remember the error message that I got but something like “the host is not responding.” The rest of my forums were fine. I could edit the particular topic that was giving me trouble, but there was no broken HTML or anything like that. I poked around a bit, then got busy, and I left it.

A few days later, I came back to my site, and noticed that the “Right Now In Forums” widget on the dashboard was displaying incorrectly. It told me that I had X Forums, Y, and Z Replies. So the word “Topics” was not displaying.

Then I tried to go to my admin Topics page and I couldn’t get there. When I clicked on the link in the sidebar, the page wouldn’t load. But I could get to Forums and Replies fine.

So then I tried the repair tools. I had no idea what was causing trouble, so I tried running them all. Eventually, I could load the Topic that was causing me trouble, but it just shows the header, not the content.

Then I noticed that the Forums, Topics, and Replies menu options in the admin sidebar are gone. They don’t exist. Which is odd, I thought. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin, but they’re still not displaying. The “Right Now in Forums” dashboard widget is displaying, but when I click the link to, for example “Topics” (or “Replies”) I get the error “Sorry, you are not allowed to edit posts in this post type.” Then I checked and I now have the Participant role, but I’m the only admin, so I don’t know how to fix that.

The front-end seems to be displaying just fine, except for the one Topic that was causing me trouble before.

Help plz! Thx!

[Robin W]

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/form-anonymous.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/form-anonymous.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

in that template you will see

<p>
			<label for="bbp_anonymous_email"><?php _e( 'Mail (will not be published) (required):', 'bbpress' ); ?></label><br />
			<input type="text" id="bbp_anonymous_email"   value="<?php bbp_author_email(); ?>" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" size="40" name="bbp_anonymous_email" />
		</p>

just remove that – I think that should work

[Danishsard]

Half solution

use the value = “Guest” in the file form-anonymous.php – from the template bbpress add to the field name and some to the field enalil type value = “guest@guest.com”

Well, how would you exclude obligatory these fields and at least exclude the obligatory email field. But I do not know how yet.

[StudentFilmmakers]

I don’t know why bbpress has micro small avatars??? Is it from a time when the internet was dial up? How can I make the Avatar images larger on all the forums posts and all places it shows up.

[Robin W]

I think this plugin has that

bbPress Toolkit

It works with current versions of wordpress and bbpress