[SalCollaziano]

I’m pretty sure this happened after I updated my server to php7 from 5.6… I’m getting the following error:

This page isn’t working

cadillacmagazine.com is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500

…when clicking “Forums” in the admin area – which brings me to the following url:
https://website.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=forum

…and when clicking “Forums” in the top admin bar – which brings me to the following url:
https://website.com/forums/

However, clicking the “Forums” submenu from “Settings” works and brings me here:
https://website.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress

Any idea what could be going wrong here?

Sal C.

[Ryan Hellyer]

This is very old thread, but I just want to clarify something, as this keeps showing up in Google searches for this topic.

Technically WordPress could work out the post-type; it already does this in the case of posts and pages using the same URL structure. It is however faster if it knows the post-type in advance, hence bbPress prefers to use those slugs by default.

There is also a secondary problem, which is probably why there isn’t even a common hack to work around this problem, in that if you allow people to create topics and replies at the root level, there could easily be clashes between slugs. This isn’t such a big problem with posts and pages, as usually it’s only the blog admin/editor creating the posts, but in the case of a forum it would be very easy for a member of the public to inadvertently create a clashing slug. You could also ensure that forum posts didn’t clash with existing content in other post-types, but forum users could use page slugs which the admins may want to use for other posts in future. Basically, things get messy.

Having said all that, this should in theory be possible I think (I haven’t tried to figure out how yet, I’m just searching around to find an existing solution), there would just be a few potential drawbacks. If anyone knows how to do this, please post the solution for the rest of us to see 🙂

[scrawny]

I have installed another forum program. Too many problems with bbPress.

[smithcreate]

I’ve noticed recently that when users login to the website, they are getting an error message.

ERROR: The password you entered for the username xxxxxx is incorrect.

But if you enter your information a second time into the login fields and submit, the login works fine. I can’t seem to figure out why the initial login fails, but the second attempt works. The login area is using the (bbPress) Login Widget. Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this is happening and how I can fix it?

I’m running bbPress Version 2.5.12, WordPress Version 4.7.5.

http://www.ccghpa.com/forums/

[Arize Nnonyelu]

Sorry i didn’t get the mail alert, i thought i would be notified. Related topics are going to be spotted with their tags. A list of topics with the likely tags or high views, voices etc something to make the forum more interesting. Other forum CMS like phpBB and so on has it. But they don’t have fine UI like BBPress. I wonder why BBPress don’t have that feature. Right now viewing this topic someone will just go out of the website, showing other topics at the buttom would make them stick around more. You get me right?

[scrawny]

Upate:

bbPress fails to create Forums, Topics, and Replies in Menu section. It does create Forums, Topics, and Replies in the left sidebar in the Dashboard listings. But as mentioned above, no Forums appear when I click on ‘All Forums’ after creating Forums.

[scrawny]

Latest WP version, latest php version, 2016 Theme, latest bbPress version, site under construction.

I installed bbPress, followed the setup and create a forum following directions. When I click on View page or copy/paste url for the forum I get a blank page.

I deactivate and delete bbPress, clean cache and reinstall bbPress. Do everything according to directons and get a blank page.

When I click on the ‘All Forums’ link I get a blank screen even after creating forums. All forums set to no parent and order is set to 0.

I’ve installed and deactivated and cleared cache and mysql and reinstalled bbpress 7 times and keep getting a blank page no matter which url I try to display the forum. What’s that saying about people repeating the same mistake over and over and over??

I’ve run vBulletin for years, and phpBB, but no matter what I keep getting a blank forum screen with bbPress.

[wci]

Hi support team,

I was trying to use your translatetion instructions but unfortunately it has not worked on my case.

1. I downloaded files mo./po. (Go to https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress)
2. renamed them accordingly “bbpress-de_DE”
3. uploaded to my server folder “wp-content/languages/buddypress”

But still are not working. Any ideas?
Screen shot – https://www.screencast.com/t/Ke8sEFj5

Looking forward to your help.

BR, Alex

[emiliano1991]

Hi,

I’ve many questions.

With BbPress is possible make this ? :

– The administrator can manage new members and assign roles ;
– Depending on the role the user can see, read the discussions, or just one or the other ;
– Do not show the answers to the discussion, but only the topic ;
– Instead in another discussion can do everything.

thanks for attention

[forums1234]

Rats! Almost!

Unfortunately, this solution returns to a third page created by bbPress that displays the entire forum, which is great but not what I need.

I need it to return to the previous “page” that I created with the forum shortcode that got them to that particular topic. This way, members could go from host page to topic, back to host page and to second topic, and back to the host page and to a third topic.

This would open unimaginable opportunities for web designers for creativity. For instance, hosting multiple forums on the same page without any need for navigation.

[sharlene_c]

I am having this problem also. Not getting email notifications as should be according to https://codex.bbpress.org/features/subscriptions/

Is there anything else that needs to be checked? so that subscribers are notified of new posts and new comments.

[Robin W]

try

dashboard>settings>permalinks and just click save

This resets the links and fixes 404 in most (but not all!) cases

bbpress 2.0.7 is very old, suggest you try 2.5.12 on your test site.

[afinkdesign]

Hey there!

I have installed bbPRess on my test system and then installed it the same way on my live system.
Now I have an issue with the page titles of bbpress pages.

When I log in as a non-admin user in live system the page titles are broken and all tites of bbprss pages are 404 errors. The content is showing just fine.
This issue orrurs only on live system. The ther things are working correctly.

Maybe thats relevant:
I set in bbpress settings the root to /forum
Then I have created a WP-Page called “forum”
Now the root seems to be this WP-Page

Thank you very much for your help!
Regards,
Alex

WP-Version: 4.7.5
bbP-Version: 2.0.7

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[bullarni]

Hi @casiepa

Are you able to provide any update on this issue? Is it possible to review and incorporate the fixes @nesiditsa has discussed into the bbPress core or are there any plans to do so?

Thanks

[nesiditsa]

Hi @bullarni
This patches should be applied after any bbpress core update to renew changes.
I’m not bbpress developer and i don’t know reasons for which it not fixed yet in current stable version of core.

[bullarni]

Hi @nesiditsa

Excuse my ignorance but if those patches are applied do they continue to “just work” if the version of bbPress a site is running is updated? Or could potential changes to the core prevent the patches from working properly? Do the patches currently need to be reapplied whenever the core is updated?

Do you know of any good reason the fixes in the patches have not been incorporated into the core already?

Thanks

[cfncurtis]

WP Version 4.7.5 I think I am using phpBB

I am using the bbpress forum tool. Everytime I try to delete a forum that has been overrun with spam – I get this error back. And it won’t even let me close it or make it private. HELP!!!

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 32 bytes) in /home/content/p3pnexwpnas02_data01/61/2063961/html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1841

[forums1234]

Wordpress 4.7.5
bbpress 2.5.12

Out of respect to your time, I took a week to write this as carefully and succinctly as possible.

Is there a way to replace the breadcrumbs menu with a “Previous Viewed Page” option (it could be called anything, like “Back”)? That way, instead of members navigating around inside the forum, they would return from a topic to the web page that hosts the forum, e.g, far more advertising revenue possibilities.

As it works now:
Step one: https://sterlingforums.com/white-glove-service-forum/

Step two: Select a topic

Step three: navigate to /forums/forum/white-glove-forum/

Step four: select another topic from inside /forums/forum/white-glove-forum/

As it would work:
Step one: Select topic from inside .com/white-glove-service-forum/

Step two: Select the “Previous Page” from inside /forums/forum/white-glove-forum/all-about-our-cover-art/

Step three: Return to .com/white-glove-service-forum/

I didn’t want to leave 6 links! Finger’s Crossed! And, thank you.

[nesiditsa]

@casiepa, could you merge topic with this one? They are about same issue. Thank you!

[nesiditsa]

@dayan89, sorry, i forgot to tell you about a second patch – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5392. It’s repair calculating of position for new reply.

[Robin W]

put this into your custom css

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content img, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content img {
  max-width: 70%;
}

[bjorngus]

Ok, i have something that seems to work, try it out if you want to, feel free to give me feedback on it.

function fix_default_search_string_is_bool($args)
{
    //bbpress gives FALSE as search string causing no replys to show, this fixes it.
    if ($args['s'] === false) {
        unset($args['s']);
    }
    return $args;
}

add_filter('bbp_after_has_replies_parse_args', 'fix_default_search_string_is_bool');

[Chad R. Schulz]

I understand why you might want only certain users creating topics.
But, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t want those who can create topics from also being able to create replies.

This would seem more functional long term:
membership1 = create topics + create replies
membership2 = create replies only

And like Robin W indicated a simple membership/role plugin could easily set this up. However, limiting those who can create topics to be able to only reply to their own topics would require some custom coding.

I’ve done similar customization, it just takes lots of work as a number of bbPress functions/templates would be affected in both the creating and editing of topics/replies.

And keep in mind all customized functions would need to be periodically updated as security issues arise and other often connected bbPress functionality is updated, as well. This wouldn’t be a set-up once and forget it modification.

Good luck,
Chad

[lrtrln]

Hi,
After making an import of data from phpBB 3.2 to bbPress 2.6beta2,
impossible to connect one of the users formerly present in phpBB.
The following errors are immediately displayed when attempting to connect:

Notice: Undefined index: _bbp_converter_rows in …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 753
Notice: Undefined index: _bbp_converter_db_user in …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 754
Notice: Undefined index: _bbp_converter_db_pass in …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 754
Notice: Undefined index: _bbp_converter_db_name in …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 754
Notice: Undefined index: _bbp_converter_db_server in …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 754

Can someone help me figure out what’s going on? Thanks.

WP: 4.7.5
bbPress: 2.6beta2
phpBB: 3.2

[mattatadvancify]

Hi there,

I’m running into an interesting issue and I’m hoping somebody can help. My client’s site is running bbPress and we have unchecked “Allow guest users without accounts to create topics and replies” in the settings but somebody still posted to the forum anonymously. After noticing the post I logged and noticed that the topic was started by user number that is no longer active in WordPress.

Is there another setting somewhere in bbPress that would allow users to post anonymously that I’m missing?

Thanks for your help.