[eddr]

Hi

I know it has been asked, but I think this issue is still on the table for many – are there any insights about the future of bbpress? it has been going quite slowly, while others, like wpforo update more frequently and adding more features

Is there anything the community can do? is the problem funding? donations will help? what should be done?

[Pascal Casier]

@deserthighway, did you try with bbPress 2.6rc3 ? Importers have improved a lot!

[Pascal Casier]

Hi, do you see the topics in the backend ( /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic ) ? Did you run the repairs (one at a time) from Tools>Forums ( /wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-repair ) ?

If you have run the repairs and still have issues, please give us some info on previous and new site like WordPress version, bbPress version, etc.

Pascal.

[TrustedOrb]

Hi Robin W,

Will it work on latest WordPress and bbPress versions?

[FionaS]

Kia ora from New Zealand 🙂
Just thought I’d let you know that I am also having problems with this since upgrading to PHP 7.1. To trouble-shoot I have changed my theme to the default 2017, I have deactivated all other plugins and instead of just a blank page I now get the HTTP ERROR 500; I had also changed line 1851 (a couple of weeks ago) but that didn’t work either so I was just hoping that the bbPress upgrade to v 2.5.13 would fix this but unfortunately not. I got my host to roll back the PHP upgrade and everything started to work again.
I am not a PHP programmer so cannot give you all the details that tweichart has.
Version of WordPress is 4.8 but also had the same problem with the previous version.

[MrShawnTierney]

Good afternoon BBPress community,

I’m moving an existing site to a new install, and have successfully exported and imported most of the site.

But when I get to BBPress I run into a problem importing the Topics. The built-in WordPress importer says it was successful, BUT no topics show up in the forum or in the dashboard.

Any ideas?

Is BBPress not compatible with WordPress’s built-in Import and Export routines? This would be quite strange as several free plugins I use work fine, so I’m guessing there is a workaround?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Shawn

[robotwealth]

My users can’t edit forum posts that they’ve posted. When the ‘edit’ link is clicked, users are taken to the text editor, but the text is colored white (and is therefore invisible unless highlighted) and all editing tools are absent, other than ‘Ad media’, which is greyed out.

I can confirm that the timeout option is set appropriately.

My website is https://robotwealth.com and I running WordPress v4.8 and bbPress v2.5.13

Example of an attempt to edit a post below:

Any known issues related to this? Anyone else experience something similar?

[Howdy_McGee]

Ok, here’s what I did. If anyone has a better solution post it! What I was ultimately trying to do was combine both the WooCommerce accounts sidebar with the BBPress sidebar. I think the most difficult part / part I’m most unsure about is the bbp user ID which we’ll get to later.

Unloading a Template

I used the bbp_get_template_part filter to find and remove the user-details.php template from loading:

/**
 * Prevent BBPress from loading certain templates
 *
 * @param Array $templates
 *
 * @return Array $templates;
 */
function prefix_bbp_template_removal( $templates ) {

	if( bbp_is_single_user() && is_array( $templates ) ) {
		
		
		if( false !== ( $key = array_search( 'user-details.php', $templates ) ) ) {
			unset( $templates[ $key ] );
		}
		
	}
	
	return $templates;
	
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_template_part', 'prefix_bbp_template_removal');

Loading a Template

Then I used the bbp_locate_template() function to reload the template where I wanted it.

bbp_locate_template( array( 'user-details.php' ), true, false );

User Profile Links

This is where it gets hairy. For whatever reason, when outside the “User Home”, BBPress doesn’t know which user is displaying so none of the sidebar links would link plus “Edit” and “Subscriptions” were missing. To show the last 2 links I needed to have bbp_is_user_home return true, in my case it was whenever the user was on WooCommerce Accounts pages:

/**
 * Modify Home Conditional if viewing WooCommerce Account
 *
 * @return Boolean
 */
function prefix_bbp_user_home( $is_user_home ) {
	
	if( function_exists( 'is_account_page' ) && is_account_page() ) {
		$is_user_home = true;
	}
	
	return $is_user_home;
	
}
add_filter( 'bbp_is_user_home', 'prefix_bbp_user_home' );

Which now shows the two links at the bottom. The final piece was actually getting the links to work correctly. This is what I’m most unsure about as I’m not sure how BBPress defines which user is displayed. I’m assuming there’s some kind of impersonation feature which makes this more difficult or something I’m not sure so I just return the current user ID:

/** 
 * Give BBPress a User ID on Woocommerce Accounts
 *
 * @param Integer $bbp_user_id
 *
 * @return Integer $bbp_user_id
 */
function prefix_bbp_user_id( $bbp_user_id ) {
	
	$user_id = get_current_user_id();
	
	if( function_exists( 'is_account_page' ) && is_account_page() && empty( $bbp_user_id ) ) {
		$bbp_user_id = $user_id;
	}
	
	return $bbp_user_id;
		
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_user_id', 'prefix_bbp_user_id' );

I’d love to get some clarification on the BBPress user ID, why it doesn’t use the current user outside User Home, and what the best way to go about this is.

[subhendu77]

Hello everyone,

in my site bbpress multilingual is not working properly. in my site, i use wpml for language dropdown. but in english its not showing the other language name into dropdown, but in dutch language dropdown, english is showing into dropdown. i m giving u the two link.

http://webdev.wordpress-developer.us/bbq/forums/

http://webdev.wordpress-developer.us/bbq/nl/forums/

kindly help me about the issue
Regards
Subhendu

[Berrie Pelser]

Thx Robin! – I just found out that GD bbPress Toobox also has this feature, and this works perfectly. So I am happy now it works!

Berrie Pelser – Ber|Art

[deserthighway]

My database prefix is smf_ I got that from the smf database info on the existing forum

I also updated to bbPress 2.6 Release Candidate 3 to try that

still got the warning: WordPress database error: [Unknown character set: ‘utf8mb4’]

[cassihl]

I’ve tried the plugins “Login with Ajax” and “Peters Login Redirect” and neither work when bbpress is activated. I’m also using buddypress. Both plugins work when I deactivate bbpress. Is there something conflicting w/ bbpress and these plugins?

[Webface]

Hello,

WordPress version: 4.8 | bbPress version: 2.5.13

when I try to visit a profile I find myself endig up on the 404 page. It happens with every account but one – mine. Its the oldest account on this installation. But that’s all. I tried it with other Users who got the exact same rights I have and so on but nothing changes.

I tried:
– different themes
– every possible changes in user roles
– deactivating from plugins

But the strange and unique thing in my case is that there is one account that isn’t facing any problems.

I can’t finde a solution. Would be awesome if anybody could help me out with that!

You can test it here: https://netzwerk-schienenlaerm.de/foren/thema/1-phase-der-oeffentlichkeitsbeteiligung-des-eba-im-rahmen-der-eu-umgebungslaermrichtlinie/

Thanks!

Jonas

[bobibrown0]

I’ve been searching for an answer, that I couldn’t find here. It was actually quite easy to find the solution by myself. But just in case someone need do to this too, this is how you do it:

-> Create a new folder named “bbpress” at the root of your wordpress theme:
/wp-content/themes/YOURTHEMENAME/bbpress/

-> Find the file named “content-single-forum.php” located here:
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
and copy into your newly created folder:
/wp-content/themes/YOURTHEMENAME/bbpress/content-single-forum.php

Now bbpress will use this file instead, if your “YOURTHEMENAME” is in use.

-> Open the file under
/wp-content/themes/YOURTHEMENAME/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
Go to line 48, and you should find this:
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic' ); ?>
Comment this line this way:
<?php //bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic' ); ?>

And you’re done! Easy and clean!

Of course you might want to add a button to create a new topic.
You can do it, following these steps:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-add-new-topic-button/

[lulukala]

@Robin: I had heard bbpress tends to heavily bog down when the forum structure gets so dense with so many forums and subforums? Is it possible a multisite sharing users with independent forums might be a better solution to the OP’s request?

Of course, I’m assuming that it’s possible for a multisite network to have a single set of user profile data as well [rather than simply sharing user names and logins and such.] If that’s not possible please let me know.

[rouviere]

My apologies if this has been asked before, but this is my first post to this forum.

Because of a tsunami of spam on our site I’ve installed bbPress Moderation. This has not been updated for a couple of years but still enables moderating comments to our bbPress forum (currently running 2.5.12).

I have two questions:

1. Is bbPress Moderation the best moderation solution for bbPress at this time? If not, is there something else?

2. Currently only Administrators can moderate comments. We would like to assign this task to users that are not Administrators. Is it possible to delegate this role? If so, how?

Thanks in advance for the help.

[Robin W]

hard to judge as you only showed a postbox size image, but doesn’t look like bbpress

[margley]

Yes. I’m currently using buddypress for my site. Since this is a bbpress section, I thought it would be tied to that plugin.

[Shmoo]

Just curious, years ago there was lot’s of talk about performance of bbPress for support-forums with high volume content. I believe it had something to do with the last query of the freshness time inside the loop.

Is this still an issue today? Else, what is the best setup to achieve content on a yearly or two yearly base. Maybe something like a permalink setup like this if it’s possible:

example.com/forums/2017/post-title/

If so you could easily export and archive all 2017-2018 posts and upload them as static HTML pages to your server. After that, you’ll delete all those 2017-2018 posts from the database to keep it light and steady.

[tweichart]

i don’t know, just clicked update in my wordpress installation… https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/ shows 2.5.13 too btw, last updated 13 hours ago

[VinceS2]

If there is a “closing topic” task, this one was relisted per below and solved. Changed back from php 7.1.7 to 7.0.21 and issue totally fixed it.

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported – any clues?

[Robin W]

Suspect you are using php 7.1
so 3 fixes
1. downgrade to a lesser version of php
2. upgrade to bbpress 2.6rc3
3. in bbpress 2.5.12 change line 1851 from
$meta_query = $posts_query->get( ‘meta_query’ );
to
$meta_query = $posts_query->get( ‘meta_query’, array() );
Since the next upgrade will fix that anyway, no issue in changing the bbpress file
best I can offer I’m afraid

[VinceS2]

Hi,
I am using the bbPress forum at the moment for one way communication – later I expect it to become more interactive but for now it is more a record of the underlying story and issues. So I don’t check it often, last time was a month ago. Now it went to 404’s and page missing for everything. So I got the bright idea to run the Tool to repair it and selected everything. Now I only get errors for forums but the topics are working again.

See https://www.vrdriversim.com.au/forums/forum/technical/ for an example of the problem. Here is an excerpt, with myaddress inserted where my actual address was. Its a security thing for the long term.

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in /home/myaddress/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/forums/functions.php:1800 Stack trace: #0 /home/myaddress/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(298): bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility(Object(WP_Query)) #1 /home/myaddress/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(323): WP_Hook->apply_filters(”, Array) #2

Yet in the WP admin panel I can see all the forums and they look fine. Here is an example of a working topic link: https://www.vrdriversim.com.au/forums/topic/green-screening/ which is a topic in the earlier given error example forum link.

I am also struggling to find exactly where the real files should be, so I can look there and see if they exist, or deal with restoring from back-ups, which I have, if necessary – once I understand what has gone wrong here in the first place! Could it be WP 4.8? I am on php 7.0.21, Apache server

I tried disable all other plugins, no apparent difference. I turned them all back on, still the same. Tried installing 2012 theme, no change (to forum link fails).

Over the last few days I have regularly deactivated and reactivated bbPress as part of working with the author of another plugin to find out why their admin panel is behaving weirdly (basically scripts not running without a page refresh or at all). So does deactivating bbPress break it at some level? Seems, from other posts here, it does for others, sometimes. Me too? How, or how fix is the more important q – stopping the behaviour comes later…

I posted this topic here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/vanished-forum-but-topics-remain-is-it-a-wp-4-8-issue/ but it isn’t listed in Troubleshooting and my profile says I haven’t started any topics. More weirdness. So 24hrs later I am trying again, few more details this time.

[pandraka]

WordPress 4.8
PHP 7
bbpress 2.5.12
buddypress 2.8.2

I’m using group types on my bbpress/buddypress site. I’ve had to get creative when it comes to breadcrumbs. There was one minor changes to the bbp_get_breadcrumb function that I had to make to make the breadcrumbs work. I copied the function into my functions.php and added a filter. I’m getting an error/notice:
Notice: Use of undefined constant mod_bbp_get_breadcrumb – assumed ‘mod_bbp_get_breadcrumb’

The function is doing exactly what I want it to do. but this error is showing up. The functions is originally located in bbpress/includes/common/template.php file

here’s the code:

<?php
function mod_bbp_get_breadcrumb( $args = array() ) {

// Turn off breadcrumbs
if ( apply_filters( ‘bbp_no_breadcrumb’, is_front_page() ) )
return;

// Define variables
$front_id = $root_id = 0;
$ancestors = $crumbs = $tag_data = array();
$pre_root_text = $pre_front_text = $pre_current_text = ”;
$pre_include_root = $pre_include_home = $pre_include_current = true;

/** Home Text *********************************************************/

// No custom home text
if ( empty( $args[‘home_text’] ) ) {

$front_id = get_option( ‘page_on_front’ );

// Set home text to page title
if ( !empty( $front_id ) ) {
$pre_front_text = get_the_title( $front_id );

// Default to ‘Home’
} else {
$pre_front_text = __( ‘Home’, ‘bbpress’ );
}
}

/** Root Text *********************************************************/

// No custom root text
if ( empty( $args[‘root_text’] ) ) {
$page = bbp_get_page_by_path( bbp_get_root_slug() );
if ( !empty( $page ) ) {
$root_id = $page->ID;
}
$pre_root_text = bbp_get_forum_archive_title();
}

/** Includes **********************************************************/

// Root slug is also the front page
if ( !empty( $front_id ) && ( $front_id === $root_id ) ) {
$pre_include_root = false;
}

// Don’t show root if viewing forum archive
if ( bbp_is_forum_archive() ) {
$pre_include_root = false;
}

// Don’t show root if viewing page in place of forum archive
if ( !empty( $root_id ) && ( ( is_single() || is_page() ) && ( $root_id === get_the_ID() ) ) ) {
$pre_include_root = false;
}

/** Current Text ******************************************************/

// Search page
if ( bbp_is_search() ) {
$pre_current_text = bbp_get_search_title();

// Forum archive
} elseif ( bbp_is_forum_archive() ) {
$pre_current_text = bbp_get_forum_archive_title();

// Topic archive
} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_archive() ) {
$pre_current_text = bbp_get_topic_archive_title();

// View
} elseif ( bbp_is_single_view() ) {
$pre_current_text = bbp_get_view_title();

// Single Forum
} elseif ( bbp_is_single_forum() ) {
$pre_current_text = bbp_get_forum_title();

// Single Topic
} elseif ( bbp_is_single_topic() ) {
$pre_current_text = bbp_get_topic_title();

// Single Topic
} elseif ( bbp_is_single_reply() ) {
$pre_current_text = bbp_get_reply_title();

// Topic Tag (or theme compat topic tag)
} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_tag() || ( get_query_var( ‘bbp_topic_tag’ ) && !bbp_is_topic_tag_edit() ) ) {

// Always include the tag name
$tag_data[] = bbp_get_topic_tag_name();

// If capable, include a link to edit the tag
if ( current_user_can( ‘manage_topic_tags’ ) ) {
$tag_data[] = ‘‘ . esc_html__( ‘(Edit)’, ‘bbpress’ ) . ‘‘;
}

// Implode the results of the tag data
$pre_current_text = sprintf( __( ‘Topic Tag: %s’, ‘bbpress’ ), implode( ‘ ‘, $tag_data ) );

// Edit Topic Tag
} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_tag_edit() ) {
$pre_current_text = __( ‘Edit’, ‘bbpress’ );

// Single
} else {
$pre_current_text = get_the_title();
}

/** Parse Args ********************************************************/

// Parse args
$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(

// HTML
‘before’ => ‘<div class=”bbp-breadcrumb”><p>’,
‘after’ => ‘</p></div>’,

// Separator
‘sep’ => is_rtl() ? __( ‘‹’, ‘bbpress’ ) : __( ‘›’, ‘bbpress’ ),
‘pad_sep’ => 1,
‘sep_before’ => ‘<span class=”bbp-breadcrumb-sep”>’,
‘sep_after’ => ‘</span>’,

// Crumbs
‘crumb_before’ => ”,
‘crumb_after’ => ”,

// Home
‘include_home’ => $pre_include_home,
‘home_text’ => $pre_front_text,

// Forum root
‘include_root’ => $pre_include_root,
‘root_text’ => $pre_root_text,

// Current
‘include_current’ => $pre_include_current,
‘current_text’ => $pre_current_text,
‘current_before’ => ‘<span class=”bbp-breadcrumb-current”>’,
‘current_after’ => ‘</span>’,
), ‘get_breadcrumb’ );

/** Ancestors *********************************************************/

// Get post ancestors
if ( is_singular() || bbp_is_forum_edit() || bbp_is_topic_edit() || bbp_is_reply_edit() ) {
$ancestors = array_reverse( (array) get_post_ancestors( get_the_ID() ) );
}

// Do we want to include a link to home?
if ( !empty( $r[‘include_home’] ) || empty( $r[‘home_text’] ) ) {
$crumbs[] = ‘‘ . $r[‘home_text’] . ‘‘;
}

// Do we want to include a link to the forum root?
if ( !empty( $r[‘include_root’] ) || empty( $r[‘root_text’] ) ) {

// Page exists at root slug path, so use its permalink
$page = bbp_get_page_by_path( bbp_get_root_slug() );
if ( !empty( $page ) ) {
$root_url = get_permalink( $page->ID );

// Use the root slug
} else {
$root_url = get_post_type_archive_link( bbp_get_forum_post_type() );
}

// Add the breadcrumb
$crumbs[] = ‘‘ . $r[‘root_text’] . ‘‘;
}

// Ancestors exist
if ( !empty( $ancestors ) ) {

// Loop through parents
foreach ( (array) $ancestors as $parent_id ) {

// Parents
$parent = get_post( $parent_id );

// Skip parent if empty or error
if ( empty( $parent ) || is_wp_error( $parent ) )
continue;

// Switch through post_type to ensure correct filters are applied
switch ( $parent->post_type ) {

// Forum
case bbp_get_forum_post_type() :
// PAA – modified
//echo ‘forum title’. bbp_get_forum_title( $parent->ID) ;
$test_title = bbp_get_forum_title( $parent->ID) ;
if ($test_title == ‘Group Forums’){
$base_url = bp_get_root_domain();
$crumbs[] = ‘Groups‘;}
else
{$crumbs[] = ‘ID ) ) . ‘” class=”bbp-breadcrumb-forum”>’ . bbp_get_forum_title( $parent->ID ) . ‘‘; };

break;

// Topic
case bbp_get_topic_post_type() :
$crumbs[] = ‘ID ) ) . ‘” class=”bbp-breadcrumb-topic”>’ . bbp_get_topic_title( $parent->ID ) . ‘‘;
break;

// Reply (Note: not in most themes)
case bbp_get_reply_post_type() :
$crumbs[] = ‘ID ) ) . ‘” class=”bbp-breadcrumb-reply”>’ . bbp_get_reply_title( $parent->ID ) . ‘‘;
break;

// WordPress Post/Page/Other
default :
$crumbs[] = ‘ID ) ) . ‘” class=”bbp-breadcrumb-item”>’ . get_the_title( $parent->ID ) . ‘‘;
break;
}
}

// Edit topic tag
} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_tag_edit() ) {
$crumbs[] = ‘‘ . sprintf( __( ‘Topic Tag: %s’, ‘bbpress’ ), bbp_get_topic_tag_name() ) . ‘‘;

// Search
} elseif ( bbp_is_search() && bbp_get_search_terms() ) {
$crumbs[] = ‘‘ . esc_html__( ‘Search’, ‘bbpress’ ) . ‘‘;
}

/** Current ***********************************************************/

// Add current page to breadcrumb
if ( !empty( $r[‘include_current’] ) || empty( $r[‘current_text’] ) ) {
$crumbs[] = $r[‘current_before’] . $r[‘current_text’] . $r[‘current_after’];
}

/** Separator *********************************************************/

// Wrap the separator in before/after before padding and filter
if ( ! empty( $r[‘sep’] ) ) {
$sep = $r[‘sep_before’] . $r[‘sep’] . $r[‘sep_after’];
}

// Pad the separator
if ( !empty( $r[‘pad_sep’] ) ) {
if ( function_exists( ‘mb_strlen’ ) ) {
$sep = str_pad( $sep, mb_strlen( $sep ) + ( (int) $r[‘pad_sep’] * 2 ), ‘ ‘, STR_PAD_BOTH );
} else {
$sep = str_pad( $sep, strlen( $sep ) + ( (int) $r[‘pad_sep’] * 2 ), ‘ ‘, STR_PAD_BOTH );
}
}

/** Finish Up *********************************************************/

// Filter the separator and breadcrumb
$sep = apply_filters( ‘bbp_breadcrumb_separator’, $sep );
$crumbs = apply_filters( ‘bbp_breadcrumbs’, $crumbs );

// Build the trail
$trail = !empty( $crumbs ) ? ( $r[‘before’] . $r[‘crumb_before’] . implode( $sep . $r[‘crumb_after’] . $r[‘crumb_before’] , $crumbs ) . $r[‘crumb_after’] . $r[‘after’] ) : ”;

return apply_filters( ‘mod_bbp_get_breadcrumb’, $trail, $crumbs, $r );
}

add_filter( ‘bbp_get_breadcrumb’,mod_bbp_get_breadcrumb, 98, 2);
?>

At this point I’m not sure what else to do or if it’s ok to ignore the warning

[deserthighway]

I get the following error when trying to import an existing smf forum using the import tool in the forums.

WordPress database error: [Unknown character set: ‘utf8mb4’]
SELECT convert(topics.id_topic USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_topic,convert(topics.num_replies USING “utf8mb4”) AS num_replies,convert(topics.id_board USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_board,convert(topics.id_member_started USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_member_started,convert(messages.poster_ip USING “utf8mb4”) AS poster_ip,convert(messages.body USING “utf8mb4”) AS body,convert(messages.subject USING “utf8mb4”) AS subject,convert(topics.locked USING “utf8mb4”) AS locked,convert(topics.is_sticky USING “utf8mb4”) AS is_sticky,convert(messages.poster_time USING “utf8mb4”) AS poster_time FROM smf_topics AS topics LEFT JOIN smf_messages AS messages ON topics.id_first_msg = messages.id_msg LIMIT 0, 100

How do I get past this?

WP Version 4.8
bbpress version 2.5.12
http://hbmm-national.org/HBMM-National-2017-Forum/
(Site is just being started to build forum before going live as a subdomain)

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

R. Duane Gryder
HonorBound Motorcycle Ministry