[fadilla]

Hello everyone, I’m a beginner using the bbPress plugin in WordPress. I have some questions, and I hope I can get some help.

1. If I have 3 forums, Forum A, Forum B, and Forum C, and there’s User1 who wants to create a topic but doesn’t want to enter a specific forum first. They want to create a topic and then choose the forum. How can I create a form for this and add the option to select a forum when User1 wants to create a topic?
2. Can the admin set it as a default so that when User1 creates a topic and someone replies, it automatically goes to their email?
Thank you in advance.

[Ricsca2]

I need to create an area on my site where users can write what they need and interested professionals can respond to them.
I was trying to understand how to do it with wordpress and I thought that I could create categories by type where users can insert a post and all professionals receive an email that that post has been created in the category that they have “selected” as the category of interest.
If you know other ways I could do this besides bbpress that would be even better.

[kingtetra]

I need help fixing this issue with my forum the staging site works fine! The production site does not, I have talked to wordpress support and they couldn’t figure it out either. Everything is the same… How do I fix this issue. Everytime I post to the forum I have to clear cache and cookies to see it. but it works just fine on test site? SOMEBODY HELP! Thank you, here is my sites:
staging: https://staging-018d-simplysoundadvice.wpcomstaging.com/
Production: https://simplysoundadvice.com

[Shelly]

@bethgee It’s been a long time since I did that site but I ended up hiring an expert database person go through it and fix everything. It was a huge move with 1,000s of comments. In the end, it still wasn’t 100% correct as there were some replies still missing that even the database person couldn’t fix. It was a huge fiasco and will never use BBpress again – at least move it from one site to another. Sorry I can’t be more help.

[Robin W]

I am not a bbpress author, just someone who helps out here.

Moving bbpress between sites is surprisingly difficult.

This is because bbpress is so tightly integrated into WordPress.

This gives 2 main issues:

1. Users – bbpress stores topic and reply authors as their WordPress user ID number. So unless the all the bbpress authors users on the source site a) exist on the target site and b) have exactly the same ID numbers on the target site, then imports can have issues.

2. bbpress users WordPress Custom post types and the WordPress Posts table. This means that bbpress forums, topics and replies are not in a separate table, but integrated into posts and pages table. Many plugins use this method. So on the source site a fourm might have a post ID of say 168, but on the target site post 168 might already exist as say a page. So on import WordPress importer will just allocate it the next ID number in the posts table, lets say 265. Now when topic belonging to the forum 168 on the source site is imported it still thinks it belongs to a forum with a post ID of 168, but this is already allocated to a page, so the topic is not listed as belonging to any known forum. The same applies to topics and replies.

I’ll post more on this later, but that outlines why it is not working

[scratchy101]

BTW, I’m using this plugin to sort by descending order.

[scratchy101]

I’m having the same issue.
I have the post sort order set to descending and posts per page set to 25.
On multi-page threads (more than 25 posts) the pagination works correctly for most links except the “Last Post” link. When users click on the link under last post column, they are taken to the last page instead of the first page with the newest reply.
Would this plugin resolve this issue?
Or can I edit a PHP file to fix this?

[gozazomo]

It’s been 3 years but no one from bbpress admin or moderation answer the above inquiry?

I’m wondering how’s their costumer service 🙂

[Robin W]

I appreciate that you are feeling a sense of frustration.
But both WordPress and bbpress are free software, and come with free support offered by volunteers.
In effect you are asking someone to take their free time to help you, and then complaining that it is not at the level you want.
When I asked for a link to your forum page, you were unable to provide this, giving a link to a page that does not exist. As such it is hard to help – a bit like asking for help with your car, but then not allowing me to examine your car.
If you provide a link to the forum, the I may be able to help further, otherwise ethe best I can offer is to read the documentation

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

and/or the advice in

Before Posting

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

has lots of options to style and add features to bbpress

[kudejstari]

Hi, I’ve been seeing that it is generally suggested to use the bbpress importer to get the data from kunena, but in my case it freezes in step 1 and I guess it’s because of the version difference (since bbpress importer has support until kunena3).

I am looking to migrate a kunena forum in joomla to bbpress with wordpress. The kunena version is 6.x. Is there any way to do it?

Wordpress version: 6.3.1
Bbpress version: 2.6.9

[enkoes]

Try to enable tinymce full editor and you will see the button. Check out this documentation.

[1wb5rdd]

Folks, this is reference bbPress 2.6.9, WP 6.2.2 and the link to our site forums page is https://www.wb5rdd.org/forums/. My issue is this – Forum users cannot change the font color on their posts. Even with the highest level of access I cannot change the font on the sentence “Please call, text or email me if you can help.” on this page https://www.wb5rdd.org/forums/topic/autumn-in-bonham-bike-rally-radio-operator-assistance-requested/ red. Where are the color choice buttons? Why won’t using HTML code (<FONT COLOR=”#ff0000″> </FONT>) doesn’t even do it. THANKS! – Phillip Beall

[maciejatmyshca]

Hello,

I also would like to hide Forums from Member Profile Page.

I have set up Groups Forums only as per instructions here so the Forums on Profle Page is obsolette as I want the forums to be accessible only from Group Page.

Could anyone kindly advice how to do it please?

[sethbburgess]

New to BBPress. WordPress version 6.3.1. Avada theme 7.11.2, BBPress 2.6.9. The default installation of BBpress is picking up colors from my theme which I don’t want. I have followed the instructions in the article https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/ like this “The “css” directory contains style sheets that work with the default markup. Copy any you want to modify into a directory named “css” in your theme’s root. eg. /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/css/” I have created the css directory in the theme root directory and copied the bbpress-rtl.css file to that css directory. I have not yet modified the file. There is no change to the look of BBPress. I even rebooted the server. What am I missing?

[Denis]

Hello, I just installed bbpress plugin, can anyone explain how to install the main forum page (forum lists) on subfolder, so I can achieve these URLS:

main forum page – site.com/forums/

forum category – site.com/forums/categoryname/

forum post – site.com/forums/topic/topicname

Are these possible?

[Robin W]

in this link

Formatting of User Profile and Search Results pages

I suggested this as a solution

dashboard>Divi >Theme options>Builder >Advanced > Static CSS File Generation > Clear.
then
dashboard>divi>Theme Options>Performance> Dynamic CSS option and disable

THEN critically you need to clear and server side caching, AND clear your browser cache.

Server side will depend on your host, and/or any caching plugins you have installed.
Browser – see this helpful article

How To Clear Cache for All Major Browsers

then it all worked fine

[Robin W]

posts, postmeta and options

bbpress just uses the custom post type features of bbpress, so the entries are mixed in with all the page, post and any other custom post types you have.

options holds the settings

[Chuckie]

As subject line.

[Robin W]

you can hook to various actions in bbpress eg

add_action( 'show_user_profile', 'xxx', 50,2 )  ;
//does the display/edit if viewing another's profile
add_action( 'edit_user_profile', 'xxx', 50,2 )  ;
//does the save if viewing own profile
add_action( 'personal_options_update',         'xxx' );
//does the save if viewing another's profile
add_action( 'edit_user_profile_update',        'xxx' );

but would need user registration to tell you what functions to put in the xxx

[getfree]

Hi guys, and thanks to Robin for a great piece of software!

I have a website with a bbp forum and with User Registration plugin I will also gather marketing consent and get users to accept the T&C (with checkboxes).

The question is how can I get this info, which can be found in the WP user profile, to the bbp profile page? Would be even more awesome if the user could check or uncheck their marketing consent, for example, in their profile.

best,
getfree

[Robin W]

Auto close topic after some time / days

[ibnat]

Hi, I use GD bbPress Attachments

GD bbPress Attachments is an easy-to-use plugin for WordPress and bbPress for implementing files upload for bbPress Forums topics and replies. You can control file sizes from the main plugin settings panel, or you can change some attachments settings for each forum individually.

Works fine for my forum

[Robin W]

This is one of the new FSE themes, so you need a fix to work with bbpress.
As well as bbpress install

bbp style pack

once activated, navigate to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack, and you should see the first tab called ‘Theme Support’ – if you don’t see this, come back.

In that tab, select

Enable Theme Support

and save

The forums should then display

[Thomas]

Hi all

twenty twenty two and bbpres ….
I have try the guide from here … nothing works.
I can only make visible with shortcode, but than only this site, not the topics or other.

its possible bbpress use with twenty twenty two?

Thomas