[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.

[anthonyae]

I’ve tried this, it doesn’t seem to fix it. I reverted the website to twentyfifteen and only the bbPress plugin, but no success.

The main thing I notice as well as the Forums link on the dashboard sidebar has disappeared, but I’d assume it’s due to this permissions issue.

Any ideas from here?

[DL]

So I just setup a whole new test site, installed buddypress and bbpress

added the dizkusZK converter to the converters list

Ran it against a copy of the database that contains a dizkus forum.

got error:

WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE wp_bbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default '0', meta_key varchar(255) null, meta_value varchar(255) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join (meta_key(191), meta_value(191)) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci;

No data to cleanStarting Conversion

[Adunakhor]

I have WP version 5.1.1 and theme version Unite 2.0.2. I do not have BuddyPress installed, but I am using bbPress version 2.5.14. The bbPress support forum suggested that I leave my topic here as well. My blog site is at https://www.identificationsystemsgroup.com/blog/forums/

The issue is when someone new registers for my forum page which is hosted inside my WP blog site.

When someone registers via Safari, IE, Edge or Firefox, it correctly redirects them to the main FORUM page after registration is complete.

However, when using Chrome, it incorrectly redirects them to my main BLOG page instead.

Also, I have noticed that when someone uses a GMAIL account, it does not always send them the password set/confirmation email. Sometimes it sends it to junk/spam, but sometimes it doesn’t send it at all. So far, we have not had any issues with emails sent to other domains.

Has anyone else experienced this, with all things Google having issues with bbPress or BuddyPress registration emails or redirects to forum home pages?

If so, please let me know if you have a solution. I did not find a related post on this

[Robin W]

suspect that modern events calander has had an update.

I agree that ‘adding extra server code without need’ is a good policy, but unless you get modern events calendar to understand the issue and then fix, then the answer is that you need the fix 🙂

I suspect they will simply say it is a bbpress issue, which in a way it is

[asmedej]

Robin, thanks for answer, and thanks for the fix, but adding extra server code without need is not always a good thing to do.

Although, I think I found the problem plugin, and it seems that it is a Modern Events Calendar, so when i disabled it, everything was OK, BUT I don’t understand why all of a sudden there is conflict with bbpress, as I stated before everything was working fine.

Maybe I should contact Mec calendar …

[Robin W]

but if you really want to debug

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

[Robin W]

I’m author of that fix.

It may well be something that coincided with you installing that plugin – maybe a theme or another plugin update, updating wordpress, or even your host updating versions of php.

The error you quote is a function in your THEME affecting a bbpress function. Your theme author has decided to re-write some bbpress functions by the look of it. So looks like that error (which may or may not be the issue – I suspect not) is one to take up with your theme author

You could spend days working out what the issue is, if the fix works, then I’d tend to just use it.

[asmedej]

hello everyone

I have an issue with bbpress forum where topics and replies are not showing.

I’ll start from the beginning, in the beginning all was working fine, all topics and replies were visible and all was OK, but because my forum is in russian language the links were in russian, so I’ve decided to try Cyr-To-Lat plugin which would transform my urls to latin, which was good, and still everything work, BUT I wanted to try another plugin, so I’ve installed Cyr-To-Lat reloaded, there I was asked to trasnlate all urls to latin, I accepted and since it stopped working. Ofcourse my first step was to uninstall that plugin, but it did not resolve.

I’ve searched internet and tried different solutions:
– Deactivating all plugins – not ok
– Changing theme – not ok
– Clicking on permalinks – not ok
– Regenerating .htaaccess file – not ok
– Trying a fix which I found (http://www.rewweb.co.uk/bbpress-wp4-fix/) -> OK

Yes it seems there is a fix which resolves the issue BUT the problem was not with wordpress or something, but a plugin which broke it, now, my question how can I undo it, or how can I resolve without that fix, because it was working fine ….

I suppose that plugin left something, or was maybe not deleted fully, there is some function maybe somewhere which doesn’t show my topics and replies. If I check the solution basically it has something to do with this function: function fb_search_filter which excludes those topics from my forum.

I could use that fix, but as I said it was working before so I think that plugin broke it ….

Any idea how to fix it? Which steps to take?

[DL]

Never got it to work. I think it seemed close but never produced an actual working bbPress forum with all the topics and replies in the right places.

[Stephen Edgar]

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

[DL]

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 🙂