[Mike Costanzo]

This is the first post I’ve found that accurately describes my predicament.

I am setting up a development site and attempting to import my forums via multiple XML files. However, the import process seems to be breaking a key relationship that allows the front-end of BBPress to work.

After importing, the Forums, Topics, and Replies all display correctly in the Dashboard, but on the front end I just get the standard “Oh bother! No topics were found here!” If I then run the Repair Tools “Recalculate the parent topic for each post” and/or “Recalculate the parent forum for each post,” then the relationship between Forums and Topics is lost, and the Replies page fails to load completely (returns an empty page with no error message).

From my digging around in the database, this problem seems centered around the field post_parent in wp_posts. On import, WordPress is setting this to “0” instead of the value in my XML file. If I click “Edit” on a Topic in the Dashboard and then click “Update” without changing anything, WordPress correctly repopulates this post_parent value and the Topic appears on the front end under its parent forum. But like @bigt11 and @welshdemon, I don’t have time to do that with 1,200 Topics and 7,400 Replies.

Does anyone have any ideas? I have spent weeks trying to figure this out. I have tried multiple different XML import plugins, but none of them seem to word well with BBPress (or work with big XML files). Any help you can give here is very much appreciated!

[OscarGuy]

I have Akismet loaded on my website and have installed BBPress. I have a ton of spam topics being posted, but Akismet doen’t seem to be checking them. Is it supposed to? Am I supposed to do something differently to enable it to filter spam out of the forums?

[rippii123]

Im trying to create a FORUM section for my MEMBERS ONLY area of which I’m using Thrive Themes awesome feature ‘Thrive Apprentice to create (Thrive apprentice creates a different section to my main website with a different menu and logo)

I’m using the bbPress plugin for this forum section, however whenever I click on any link it goes back to my main page section with the separate menu logo etc.

Is there a way to make my forum stick in my Thrive Apprentice Area without redirecting to my main website?

This is where I want my forum to be and stay – https://direwolves.gg/members/forums/
This link is where I’m redirected to – https://direwolves.gg/forums/forum/general-discussion/

Wordpress version: 4.8.2
bbPress version: 2.5.14

[mukut]

Observing a strange behavior that might be caused by Ultimate Member & bbPress working together (free integration).

In short, if ppl registered on my website as anything but ADMIN (either through UM form or added manually through wp-admin) they do not see “subscribe” to topic or thread option, whereas admins can see and subscribe.

Thie feature is very important to my business, as we provide financial analysis and need ppl to instantly learn about new updates – specifically the ones coming from threads they signed up.

I’v tried to turn off other plugins but the issues seems to come to user roles being somehow manipulated by either Ultimate Member or another plugin(s) (less likely). We also use “learndash” LMS, but not sure if it’s relevant.

I don’t’ think its related to Theme since the “Subscribe” to topic option is working perfectly fine if you are an admin.

BBPRess version: 2.5.13

WP Version:4.7.6

WP theme: DFD Natie

[mukut]

Hi guys, maybe smth has changed. Observing a strange behavior that might be caused by UM & bbPress. In short, ppl registered on my website as anything but ADMIN (either through UM form or added manually through wp-admin) do not see “subscribe” to topic or thread option, whereas admins can see and subsriber.

Thie feature is very important to my business, as we provide financial analysis and need ppl to instantly learn about new updates – specifically the ones coming from threads they signed up.

I’v tried to turn off other plugins but the issues seems to come to user roles being somehow manipulated by either Ultimate Member or other plugin (less likely). We also use “learndash” LMS, but not sure if it’s relevant.

[titizebra]

Hi (i’m french so sorry for my english)
I have a compatibility problem between EventOnv2.6 and BBpress v2.5.14:
When the EventOn plugin is activated, it is no longer possible to see any topics and answers of my forum. Statistics who indicate how many topics and answers are visible but not the detail. It’s empty with alert message who said : “oups, no topics found”
What is the problem ? How to cure it ? Is it possible ? PS: I use the theme Woffice by Alkaweb (with Buddypress v2.9.1). Thank you for your help.

[Minnnnn]

Hi there,

Running the latest of everything here (as of 23/10/2017). I’ve noticed an unexpected behaviour on my Buddypress/bbPress site that is basically the behaviour outlined here 3+ years ago: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/showing-buddypress-hidden-group-forums-to-group-members-on-bbpress-forum-index/

When a group is hidden, and thus the forum connected to the group is hidden, on the forum index page:
– Admins and keymasters can see all forums listed, including the hidden group forum (whether they are a member of that group or not).
– Members who ARE members of the group can’t see the hidden forum on the forum index page. They have to go via Groups > select the group > Forum to see it.

We’re running the Recent Topics widget, too, and I’ve noticed a similar thing happening here.
– As an admin/keymaster, you can see all recent topics, including those posted to hidden forums (even when not a member of the group).
– As a member of the group, you CAN’T see the recent topics from your group – UNLESS you are on the group’s forum page, then it shows them as expected.

Is there something wrong in setup here, or is this as designed?
It seems like it’d make sense for members of a group (regardless of roles elsewhere on the site) to see the forum on the forum index, and the updates in the Recent Topics widget.

Thanks heaps!
Min

[sanjayrath]

The steps have been outlined at this link and it works perfectly.

Shortcode to add “Edit Profile” link

[Taim786]

Yoast is a good seo plugin and I’m sure it works fine with bbpress. I had used bbpress in one of my projects and also installed yoast and it was working fine.

[Peetee]

It’s clear now. It’s a BBpress issue.
When I disable the BBpress plugin, logging in is no problem anymore for the imported users.

So BBpress 2.6 RC3 is not compatible with WP 4.8.2.

[Robin W]

The last problem I’m getting is it always show bbPress is not compatible with Pro blog in config file

can you explain what you mean by this – is this an error message you are getting and when and how?

[American2020]

So, I’m having a problem using bbPress.

I have set 2 Forums on my site and whenever a non registered visitor clicks on the link to the Private Forum, instead of landing on a page informing them that they must be registered in order to access that content, they just land on a 404 page.

How do I change this behavior?

People asked on other post, while is it even that a visitor has access to the Private Forum link but, that’s easy, because I need that on the navigation menus, and also so they know it exists.

[Robin W]

try these possible fixes

bbpress wp4 fix

bbpress wp4 fix2

[celtinvest]

Hi Richard,

It seems that you have the same problem as here ? https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/topics-not-showing-on-forum

[Peetee]

In addition to the my question above:

It seems that I can log in with my mailadress instead of my username. I saw that the BBpress plugin has not been tested with WP version 4.8.2. Could this be the issue here?

[celtinvest]

It seems that I have the same problem as you: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/users-can-not-see-topics-anymore

The problem appears after I tryied to move a reply to another forum.

[checmark]

Sorry. I’ve read all kinds of posts about this and just don’t get it. I want to create a separate forum/category/topic for a Landlord and Tenant Bureau and have only the topics related to this show on the Landlord and Tenant page. I’ve tried everything and consulted with Avada tech support who said to contact bbpress.

Appreciate any help.

[richard.miller]

I’ve created eight forums, and am in testing mode.

In just ONE of these forums, my “participant” test user can’t see or create topics.

I can’t see anything different about that forum at all.

I’ve run the “repair forums” tools, no effect.

Is this a known issue?

WP 4.8.4
BBPress 2.5.14
http://www.fluentself.com/forums/

[Siam ลอตเตอรี่]

try this rc5
https://github.com/thebrandonallen/bbpress/archive/master.zip

[camila2542017]

hi can anyone help?
I’m trying to integrate bbPress with this Presashop blog module: https://addons.prestashop.com/en/blog-forum-new/25908-pro-blog-all-in-one-package-blog.html
I bought that module some days ago and trying to do that, I try to contact the developer but he doesn’t support that. I also have also managed to compete the integration. The last problem I’m getting is it always show bbPress is not compatible with Pro blog in config file
Do you guys have experience with this?
Thanks

[celtinvest]

Hello,

I have a private forum.

Yesterday, I wanted to move a reply to a new forum I created. But I guess I did something wrong.

Now, the participants of the forum could not see anymore the Topics and Replys. They only can see the Forums but when they click on Forum to get acces to all the Topics inside of the forum, there is a message saying: “What a pity, there is no topics find here”.

What’s strange, as a webmaster, I can see all the topics perfectly…

Do you have any idea of what’s wrong for all the users ?

Thanks.

Paul

My webiste is: https://celtinvest.com
My WordPress is: 4.8.2
My bbPress is: Version 2.5.14

[jerichox]

Can anyone help me Style this Recent topic widget to match what I currently have on my page for Recent Posts.. I would like it to use the Avatar of the user that posted like it does now, just bigger and have it look the same..

http://piw.ewarena.com/ is the webpage

Ive messed with the output code a little and always mess it up cant get it to how I want since im a newbie to the CSS stuff.. Any help would be appreciated!

using the BBpress Recent Topic Widget..

[super powered]

The reason the function doesn’t work is because BBPress throws a fatal error when it tries to handle the array of items when it expects it as a string. We probably just need to get a filter in the core that allows us to manipulate that value before it tries to use the split() function.

Until then, kind of a hacky workaround is to use JS to append the values to a hidden field:

function display_tag_elements($selectedTags, $userRole, $task)
{
    $html = array();
    $tags = get_categories(array('hide_empty' => 0, 'taxonomy' => 'topic-tag'));
    $selectedTagsArray = explode(', ', $selectedTags);
    if ($userRole != 'bbp_participant' || $task != 'edit')
    {
        $html[] = "";
        foreach ($tags as $tag)
        {
            $selected = '';
            if (in_array($tag->name, $selectedTagsArray))
            {
                $selected = 'checked';
            }
            $html[] = "<input type='checkbox' class='bbp_topic_tags_checkbox' name='bbp_topic_tags_checkbox[]'" . $selected . " value='" . $tag->name . "'>" . $tag->name . "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;";
        }

        $html[] = "<input type='hidden' class='bbp_topic_tags_hidden' name='bbp_topic_tags' value='".$selectedTags."'>";

        $html[] = "
            <script>
                var checkboxes = document.getElementsByClassName('bbp_topic_tags_checkbox');
                var hidden = document.getElementsByClassName('bbp_topic_tags_hidden');
                var hiddenVal = hidden[0].value.split(', ');
                
                for(var x = 0; x < checkboxes.length; x++)
                {
                    checkboxes[x].addEventListener( 'change', function() 
                    {
                        var index =  hiddenVal.indexOf(this.value);
                        var checked = this.checked;
                        if(checked && !index > -1) 
                             hiddenVal.push(this.value);
                        else if (!checked && index > -1)
                             hiddenVal.splice(index, 1);
                        
                         hidden[0].value = hiddenVal.join();
                    });
                }
            </script>
        ";
    } else
    {
        $html[] = $selectedTags;
    }

    return implode('', $html);
}

However this has a pretty notable downside in that someone could just inspect the code and add whatever they want to the hidden field. So you’ll want to make sure your also using one of the spam filters like bbp_new_reply_pre_set_terms to make sure the new values are terms you’ve predefined.

Side note: there also seems to be a pretty annoying bug in that participants can edit the topics tags on reply, so I would just disable it on reply for non-moderators.

EDIT: kind of like I just did. I don’t think I should be allowed to add tags to existing topics. this feels like a bug.

[diego923]

Hey guys, I am new to wordpress, and bbpress. I am starting a forum, and I want to add a profile page for the users. I also want to add the ability to make a signature at the end of their posts. I do not know how to work with the scripts so much, I get lost in which editor I should be using, or where to place the information. The scripts I have put in following other threads have had no effect.

[trane251260]

Hi i am having the same need and experience with the bbPress post via email plugin.
No luck in getting replies posted to the forum.

I am interested in sharing any progress / input on this.

By the way – I have seen that ‘Buddyboss Reply by Email’ plugin advertise this capability (among others). It is a paid plugin though.

Cheers