Hi John,
I am realising now my post it’s not really useful considering the way I wrote it and I should have thought twice before publishing it. In fact I may have given the wrong impression. Let me elaborate….
Basically my users are facing some issue in terms of sudden disconnections/logouts and phantom posts (e.g. they create posts and forums and then they “lose” them or they cannot find them anymore).
I have never faced these issues myself, but it’s also true I don’t access my forum often.
Also, considering that I am using other plugins, I cannot be sure bbPress is actually the main reason behind the issues.
What I can tell you for sure as a general feedback is that since I’ve moved to bbPRess from phpBB the forum has suddenly died and users are pushing me to roll back to phpBB as they don’t find bbPress as user friendly.
2.6a has been there for a while and I am wondering when a stable version will be available and what new functionalities will be available.
Meanwhile, what do you suggest to make my users happy?
I am tempted to rollback to phpBB but I am also aware the resulting user experience would be quite disconnected.
Any idea on how could I make bbPress more PHPBB-Like?
Thanks,
Gio
I am also anxious to learn how to do this. I’d settle for learning how to customize the default bbpress pages, if it’s not possible to redirect. This seems extremely fundamental, but I can’t find any answers.
Downgrading is possible, but how it could be a lot of work.
- What version of bbPress are you actually running? You say alpha, but there have been betas released.
- Are you running any plugins that make use of new features and functions of 2.6?
- Have you made any customizations to your theme that make use of new features and functions of 2.6? I’ve seen at least one theme that requires 2.6 for bbPress support. Is this th
- I’ve seen at least one theme that requires 2.6 for bbPress support. Is this the case with your theme?
Hi,
BuddyPress has this built in. If you use plain bbPress, there should be plugins around for bbPress 2.5 . I have added basic mentionning in my bbP Toolkit plugin if it can help you.
Pascal.
always happened? Just started happening? new site ? old site ? Just when in bbpress ? when in everything ?
Yes, I have https in the site name. I created a new staging site with fresh WP and bbPress installs and installed the SSL on it…bbPress is still working perfectly. I also had a developer who imported users from our old Magento install into WooCommerce. I’m waiting on him to see if he has any insight into whether his work might be causing this issue.
Perhaps this plugin will help
bbPress Moderation
Devs are busy with version 2.6 at the mo, so suspect any new requests are not being looked at.
Has anyone from bbPress seen this yet? Some kind of response would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Hello! I really like the way this forum (bbPress support) allows users to manage their profile. Is it using a particular plugin? My website still displays the standard WordPress black bar across the top of the page for registered users who are logged in.
Thank you!
Hi
My theme author tells me I need to identify the <body> tag class for each of the bbPress pages I want to customize, so that I can target specific pages with custom CSS. I’ve tried inspecting the Forum page through the browser but couldn’t identify anything that looked like the example he provided (postid-####). Could some kind soul please help by listing the <body> tag classes for the bbPress pages, or at least the forum index page?
Hello! Is being able to use @ to mention a user a feature that is available in bbPress? Do I need to do anything specific to get it functioning properly? Right now, it doesn’t happen for me in my forum.
I tried searching for answers but came up with empty handed. Thank you so much for your help.
Thank you so much.
Hi @josnierop,
I know the basics and that has always been useful. Happy to see you’re fixed.
PS. Kom gerust op de Nederlandse chat voor verdere of algemene vragen, we zijn niet allemaal WordPress/bbPress nerds daar 🙂
I added some custom CSS to my theme which did the trick.
.bbpress #sidebar {
display:none;
}
body.bbpress div#content{
width:100%;
}
Might help you.
Thank you, Robin W, for saving me from banging my head against a brick wall!
So, another possibility: is there a way of adding CSS to Forums, Topics and Replies (eg opening in Visual Composer)? I have the CSS to hide the one-page theme menu on a page, but don’t know how to add this to the bbPress entries.
Cheers!
Is there a (simple :)) way I can move the Forums, Topics and Replies to sections within the one-page design
There’s probably not a complicated way either !
Sorry but bbpress works on creating links, so it’s on different pages at the core.
Tho still trying to figure out how to replace default classes.
Code in BBpress:
// Link class
$link_class = ' class="bbp-author-' . esc_attr( $r['type'] ) . '"';
// Add links if not anonymous and existing user
if ( empty( $anonymous ) && bbp_user_has_profile( bbp_get_reply_author_id( $reply_id ) ) ) {
// Assemble the links
foreach ( $author_links as $link => $link_text ) {
$link_class = ' class="bbp-author-' . $link . '"';
$author_link[] = sprintf( '<a href="%1$s"%2$s%3$s>%4$s</a>', esc_url( $author_url ), $link_title, $link_class, $link_text );
}
Hook:
function hw_get_reply_author_link($link_class) {
$link_class = preg_replace('/ class="bbp-author-"/','/ class="myclass" /',$link_class);
return $link_class;
}
add_filter('bbp_get_reply_author_link','hw_get_reply_author_link');
Cant make this work. Well output itself works as should, but it doesn’t replace bbp-author- to myclass. Can you tell me what’s wrong with it?
I tried this again on a different staging site with a fresh bbpress install and it’s the same result…when anyone replies to a topic it automatically redirects back to /wp-admin.
I’m trying this Peter’s Login Redirect plugin…but logging in and out is not the issue.
Could this be an issue with my SSL? With my host? Research on those issues is not turning up anything for me. Is there anything else that I can try?
before you finally remove bbpress then
dashboard>tools>forums>reset forums
Hi,
I recently saw that all of my forums and reply pages won’t open. The only thing that opens now is the first page of the forum. The others open only in blank page.
Moreover, when I discovered the issue, I deactivated and re-activated all of my plugins, I have reinstalled the bbPress plugin, I have deactivated all of the plugins except bbPress and I have reindexed the permalink but nothing fixed the issue.
I mention that I have created forums and that there are hundreds of replies in there. Also, I’m using the latest version of bbPress on the latest version of WordPress.
My forum is here: https://itutorial.ro/forum/ .
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
I have decided to use another software option for my forums.
I was wondering how I go about removing the bbpress data from wordpress once I export my forums out.
In BBPress if no role is found, it defaults to Member. I found that much in the code.
I solved it though. It wasn’t working as long as my code was in my theme’s functions.php. I had to actually add it to a custom plugin for it to work. Not sure why this was.
‘member’ isn’t a bbpress role, so where is this coming from?
