[John James Jacoby]

Oh… and it’s true that I spend a lot less time in these forums than I used to.

That isn’t for any particular reason relating to bbPress itself.

Huge props and 👏👏👏 to the moderator team here (@robin-w, @netweb, @robkk, @casiepa, @mercime) for being immensely helpful, cleaning up spam, and being amazing.🙏

[John James Jacoby]

Hey everyone! I got a nudge from @jeffr0 that this thread had some replies, and I just wanted to chime in and say thank you, very much, for being patient.

I understand everyone’s feelings. I get where they come from.

bbPress is a 15 year old piece of forum software based on and specifically for WordPress. The last thing it will ever do is die. (That’s a terrible play on words, but keep reading!)

The GPL (and it being open-source in general) guarantee everyone that as different people use it, different people will contribute to it, and it will continue to grow, evolve, and be iterated on in perpetuity.

It being based entirely on WordPress gives it one of the largest and most stable foundations to be built off of.

The projects spiritual commitment to backwards compatibility through the years means that as the software grows, your content will always grow with it.

Other forum projects have made sweeping changes without migration paths from old to new versions. bbPress as a project simply appreciates and respects its users and their communities and content too much to not provide great tools to scale your community along with the software.

bbPress as a project gets developed in bursts. Like it or not, I think that’s the honest truth. If you look at its life as a piece of software as a whole, there is a ton of evidence to support the idea that sometimes a few months will go by with nothing, and then a few months will go by with tons of activity.

The dips might make your stomach drop at first, but it’s a long ride… a fun ride… and one that I hope others see from a distance as a beautiful effort. One that provides a platform that empowers WordPress users to give their visitors a simple, clean, and dedicated place to enjoy communicating with each other.

Lastly… strictly on numbers alone, WordPress.org relies heavily on bbPress as the primary method of communication & support for over 75k plugins in 200 languages, and 11 million registered users. bbPress is actively installed in over 340k websites. It’s a fraction of the total WordPress installs (but if the numbers on builtwith and other tools are accurate) it is currently the most widely installed piece of forum software in the world.

bbPress will never die. It will only get better.

Thank you, everyone, again, for being patient and for your interest in bbPress. It’s a pretty cool piece of software with some of the best contributors and forum moderators around! I’m working on bbPress everyday, sometimes in my head, and sometimes on other projects that bbPress will inherit someday. It’s always on my mind, even if the commit log doesn’t show it. 💕

[dunritetech]

Great! Yoast works well with bbpress

[amritdhr58]

in my bbpress topic index I want to show view counts like how many people see that topic

[Robin W]

bbpress is nofollow by default

[Sujatha]

Hello friends,

I have read in some SEO tips, we need to give nofollow for all other site’s links placed in our website. I want to know how to do that in my BBPress website.

Thanks.

[austex]

Looked further, it’s “99%” complete:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.6

[danielleoverman]

Solved, found this code snipped from a previous post https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/prevent-users-from-creating-topics-2/ which removed the topic form for everyone but admins and moderators.


add_filter( 'bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form' , 'rew_only_mods' , 10 , 1) ;
function rew_only_mods ($retval) {
// Users need to earn access
$retval = false;
//check if admin
if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster() ) {
$retval = true;
}
//check if moderator
$role = bbp_get_user_role( get_current_user_id());
if ($role == 'bbp_moderator') {
$retval = true;
}
// Allow access to be filtered
return (bool) apply_filters( 'rew_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form', (bool) $retval );
}


[Robin W]

add this to the custom css part of your theme settings

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content a {
	color: #12526f !important;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content a {
	color: #12526f !important;
}

Close and re-open your browser

Please come back and confirm that this works

[Sujatha]

Hello Everyone,

I want to know the best plugin for add a paid membership in my BBPress website.

Thanks.

[Sujatha]

I want to add multi language translate option for my website. User can translate the content in my by website by select the language they want. I want to know how to do that.

[robin0212]

Hey together,

i created a forum and set it up. So far so good!
But if I click on a topic, it doesnt show the answers or the options to post a answer.
It only says “nothing to show here” please create a new post.
I tryed to deinstall all plugins. Set the forum new and it is still the same mistake. Also I reinstalled BBpress. But nothing worked out so far.

http://fleisch-und-bier.com/fleisch%20und%20bier/topic/operationen/

Thank you for the reply! Greetings.

[austex]

Okay, just check the dev tracker. JJJ put some work in last month on 2.6.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/report/1?sort=modified&asc=0&page=1

[stuartataltitude]

I have tracked through to bbp_replies(). bbpress()->reply_query->have_posts() seems to give different results when logged in and logged out (iff WP-Members is active).
When logged in, if a topic has 1 original post and 1 reply, this returns 1 first time, then 1 second time (for the reply) then “” (for no more). When logged out it only returns 1 (for the reply to the original post) then “”. So at first sight it seems to be something to do with querying the database (as opposed to posts being filtered out later for example).

I know it is perhaps more something for the WP-Members plugin to look at (as they have broken your plugin and not vice versa) but if you have any ideas what might be going on – so I can point them in a direction for what to look for, that would be great. Must be lots of sites that are using both WP-Members and bbpress together – but maybe most don’t want visitors seeing forums and so haven’t hit this issue.

[fantomx90]

Hello Everyone. I am a novice still at using wordpress, but I am using bbPress forums for my website. I currently have a bunch of Forums, with many topics underneath them.

I was just wondering if there was a way to have a small icon or picture beside each Forum.

For example – Rules (With a small picture of a book beside it or below it)

I tried messing with Add Media or Featured Image, but they dont seem to apply the image anywhere I can see it.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

[amitkool21]

Hello,

I wanted to know if its possible to embed Google input tools in bbPress forums comment sections.

Thank You.

[austex]

Ironically, this thread is the last time that @johnjamesjacoby the (bbPress project lead) posted on bbPress.org.

Maybe somebody can ask him on twitter https://twitter.com/JJJ

[stuartataltitude]

I am using wp-members and bbpress together (I guess there are many sites that do this). The normal bbpress behaviour is for non-logged-in site visitors to be able to view forum topics but not reply to them. If I deactivate the wp-Members plugin then this is what happens. However, with wp-members activated, site visitors cannot see topic content (though they can see replies to a topic).

Maybe there is a setting somewhere that I am missing but I’d like the default bbpress behaviour to continue to work with wp-Members activated. I’m hoping that there are other sites that have experienced the same issue – maybe someone has found a solution?

[theatereleven]

I’m chiming in here too – Trying to decide whether to use Discourse or WordPress. BBPress seems to be the only reliable and clean option for WP, but I need to know there’s a future before investing the time. Thanks anyone for an update!

[asz-creations]

Hi Guys,

Ive been trying to find the solution here but i couldnt find it yet. Where can i give the users a option to log out on bbpress on the website (for example an option in the sidebar). Also when you are logged in once, there is no menu for logged in users (or an option to see an extra menu like activities, profile and what so ever). Is it possible to fix this?

Info
webvoorbeeld.websitezien.nl
bbpres; Versie: 2.1.13.2 (free version)
wp. 5.2.2

[sashabcro]

Hi all, I have created my first bbpress forum on page http://irska.ie/forum/ but when you choose one Forum for example Forum http://irska.ie/forums/forum/forum/ or Malig Oglasi http://irska.ie/forums/forum/mali-oglasi/ it goes to different style page :S which add header image and it’s not anymore Full width.

I have edited page for main page under WordPress Page for http://irska.ie/forum/ but how can I make sure that every other topic and etc on mine forum use same style? Thank you.

[Gomle]

I also would like to know if there is any future updates planned on good old bbpress.
Compared to Discourse and a few others, bbpress is a little outdated now. I understand there is less (if not none) money involved for the people that works on bbpress – but still, it would be nice with an update.

What’s going on? 🙂

[bttmrc]

Well, I wouldn’t even use bbpress on this LMS website. But my client wants it for something really specific and it needs to prevent normal users to create new topics. We will have a fixed topic where they can suggest themes/areas they want to discuss.

I get its weird but It makes sense for this kinda of project and for what they do.

[fnixeman]

I used the 2.5.14 bbpress inside importer!

[austex]

That they now are mainly doing other things is sad for us, but they have a perfect right to do as they wish, and should feel under no obligation to spend time supporting the code.

Agree that they have the right to do as they wish, but they should at least publicly announce whether they are going to end bbPress development, or if it’s going to continue to languish for years at a time.

I understand @johnjamesjacoby is a very busy guy, but we are constantly told to be wary of plugins that are old.

More importantly, a lot of us have moved on to other software, rather than continue to beta-test bbPress 2.6 (which has been in some form of RC for over 3 years, and the latest RC came out in December of last year).

I have a big project that I’m putting together for somebody (they want WordPress), and some kind of lightweight/small forums are planned for, and it’s frustrating that I’m having to look elsewhere for forum software, or rigging some kind of fancy comment system (trying to avoid Disqus and Facebook for obvious reasons).

It’s odd, because bbPress could be a selling point for WordPress in their competition with other platforms. It’s also odd, because they have some very competent people working for them, but then they allow bbPress to kind of just drift along.