[Jochen Gererstorfer]

Hello,
there is a problem with bbpress, that prevents SEO Plugins to do there job.

The problem exists only for the forum index page. Also if you use a standard page an paste the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode.

* That page is not handled anymore as a page, so it gets a noindex tag by the SEO plugins.
* It’s also not possible to add a custom title, description or other meta tags.

The bbpress forum index is completely ignoring all of that settings.
The result is a noindex forum index without a reasonable title and description.

Example:
Forum index

Screenshot of the ignored settings:

I talked with the codes a the German WPseo plugin.
They told me, that bbpress is using so crude things for that index and doesn’t use wordpress standards.

I also found here in the forum and on Google, that Yoast and All in one SEO Pack have the same problems with bbpress.

Is there a way to get that fixed?

A forum index with nofollow makes no sense at all.

thanks
Jochen

[gbbgadmin]

RESOLVED: before we had time to try the wireshark tools we ran a script on the database looking for broken relationships. Found that a post that had been removed using correct tools somehow had broken a relationship and the replies page would not load. Here is what happened:

1. A member joined our forum and spammed the crud out of it.
2. Akismet caught the spam and blocked it all, marking all topics and posts as “spam”.
3. One of our keymasters marked the user as a “spammer” according to the moderation tools provided by bbPress.
4. One of our admin staff moved the spam topics and posts to the trash, using the tools on the WordPress admin.
5. The same admin staff emptied the trash using the tools on the WordPress admin.

After this, they did not notice the replies page was not working or that people could no longer post. Later when people reported they could no longer post, our admin went to the WordPress admin and got a 503 error on the “replies” page. We fought this 503 error issue for nearly 1 week. After finding one broken relationship between a topic and the replies in that topic, we fixed the relationships and the 503 error went away. Now, all the forum is working perfectly.

So, somehow, using all the tools provided by bbPress, a user was marked as a spammer, their spam was blocked, trashed and emptied. And then the entire forum was broken due to a broken relationship. Fixed now, but really strange it could happen in the first place.

[pcpro178]

Hello. I’m getting this error when attempting to update the bbPress plugin on my site:

As suggested here on Stack Overflow, I made sure my file permissions are set properly:

I even tried renaming the bbpress directory to bbpress.old without success. Does anyone know how to fix this? I’m not necessarily opposed to reinstalling the plugin, but I want to make sure it’s not going to wipe out any related database records.

[JoeCec]

Has anyone been able to inject googles captcha widget into the login prompt? If so, do you mind pointing me to the source code?

[kbaldac]

WP version: 4.6.1, bbPress version: 2.5.11, link: one-name.org

I want to add an action called ‘Response’ only visible to keymasters and moderators and appearing next to the ‘Close’ action when editing a topic. I want them to be able to click on this to add [RESPONSE] to the front of the topic title. How do I do that?

I have something similar when someone presses ‘Close’ that adds [CLOSED] to the topic title but it doesn’t add a new action for keymasters and moderators:

function forum_closed_topics() {
$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
if ( get_post_type( $topic_id ) == bbp_get_topic_post_type() && bbp_is_topic_closed( $topic_id ) )
echo ‘[CLOSED]’;
}
add_action( ‘bbp_theme_before_topic_title’, ‘forum_closed_topics’ );

Thanks.

[buysoundcloudlikes]

I want to join WordPress forum. Recently i joined bbpress.org forum. Tell me another best forum plugins for wordpress? Help me.

[teamking12]

@awaii I have installed bbpress plugin to another new site, but it gives the same outcome. Can you try it and tell me if you get the same result?

[Robin W]

https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/

or

https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-upload-for-bbpress/

[russ8523]

OK, so I have now purchased the Pro version and it still doesn’t work! EVERYTHING ON MY SITE WORKS GREAT EXCEPT THIS MESSAGES? So I don’t see why it should be a problem with Wamp;

Have produced new WP site on Wamp 2.5 on my PC. I have installed bbp-messages 0.2.3.1 and already have bbpress 2.5.8 forum. WordPress 4.6.1 Sport Theme by Theme Canon Win10

THE WHOLE SITE and forum IS WORKING FINE, but When I try to use bbp-messages Lite, it returns the following:

FORBIDDEN: you don’t have permission to access wordpress/members1/http:/localhost/wordpress/members1/ on this server. Apache/2.4.9 (Win64) PHP/5.5.12 Server at localhost Port 80.

Would be very grateful for any advice as I am ready to publish this web – this my first WP site!

[gbbgadmin]

Update. Today we did the following:

1. Deactivated all BuddyPress and bbPress plugins. Uninstalled all BuddyPress and bbPress plugins. Removed all BuddyPress and bbPress data from the database, but kept a backup copy of the data and tables.
2. Installed fresh WordPress on fresh server. Installed new, fresh plugins.
3. Site worked.
4. Replaced data from backup.
5. Entire site works, EXCEPT there is a 503 error when people try to post a reply on a forum, and a 503 error when we try to go to the “replies” page from the wp-admin.

So, maybe something in the data? Could someone have posted a reply that has some content that is breaking the php code when trying to see the Admin panel “replies” page or when people try to post a reply?

We have learned another thing. When people post a reply, the reply DOES go into the db and it is visible to other members on the forum. HOWEVER, the person posting the reply gets a 503 error during the process and has to come back to the site fresh to see the forum, including their post.

Something is causing a 503 error ONLY when replying OR when we try to access the Admin “Replies” page as admin. It is very very strange.

[JoeCec]

Have you tried deactivating and reactivating the bbpress plugin? Also, try to clear your caches and or DB (Don’t delete or “drop” tables) to see if that cleans it up..

[JoeCec]

I wanted to introduce myself to the forum. I just registered and I have been using bbpress for about a week now! I am running WordPress 4.6.1 and bbpress 2.5.11…. I created a website and forum page @ http://www.theintrovertspeaksblog.com I would like some honest input as to the integration of bbpress into the website. I also have a question, On the lost password page it displays a blank screen with simple text box only as well as the reset password button. I temp fixed it by adding text above the box to direct the user to insert username or password. Is there a better way to do this?

[teamking12]

Very sad to learn from yours too. Do you know of any other forum plug in that is similar to bbpress? Now I am stuck and lost.

[u_Oi]

bbPress Messages works fine… maybe there is something wrong with WAMP.

Try to buy the pro version to get faster support and better features! bbPress Messages Pro

Regards,

[Susan]

I would like an update to this. I’m experiencing the same problem with bbpress and akismet. Are you no longer filtering forum topics through Akismet?

[Daethian]

I’ve only ran plug in updates. I have a lot and I run Buddypress. I know I can go one by one and deactivate them and try to narrow it down but until last night I had no means to do so. If I re-install the bbpress plugin will I lose my content in the forums?

[rfk55tn]

I have the exact same issue. Using WP 4.6.1 with twenty sixteen theme + bbpress and no other plug-ins on a local install for testing.

I can create forums and topics. However, I cannot post any comments and keep getting the following error message: ERROR: Are you sure you wanted to do that?

Have tried repeated uninstall/install of both WP and BBP. Same result.

[russ8523]

Have produced new WP site on Wamp 2.5 on my PC. I have installed bbp-messages 0.2.3.1 and already have bbpress 2.5.8 forum. WordPress 4.6.1 Sport Theme by Theme Canon Win10

THE WHOLE SITE and forum IS WORKING FINE, but When I try to use bbp-messages Lite, it returns the following:

FORBIDDEN: you don’t have permission to access wordpress/members1/http:/localhost/wordpress/members1/ on this server. Apache/2.4.9 (Win64) PHP/5.5.12 Server at localhost Port 80.

Would be very grateful for any advice as I am ready to publish this web – this my first WP site!

[gbbgadmin]

If it were our host, it should happen to more than just one page out of hundreds of thousands of pages. We are only getting a 502 error on this page:

https://bitbillions.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply

All other functions of BBPress work perfectly and all other pages of our site work perfectly. It is like something is breaking the php when that page is trying to load.

[teamking12]

Hello everyone

I am in need for help. I have downloaded bbpress plugin version 2.5.11 and bbpress WPTweak version 1.3.1 to create a forum my webpage. Everything went smoothly until I decided to reply to the post I created in my forum. I tried to submit the reply, but an error pops up ” ARE YOU SURE YOU WANTED TO DO THAT”. I really don’t know how to solve the problem.

[u_Oi]

Hi Buddies!

I checked out the “Layout and functionality” page, and I found that I can add Social Media Fields to bbPress through this function:

function add_extra_contactmethod( $contactmethods ) {
// Add new ones
$contactmethods['twitter'] = 'Twitter';
$contactmethods['facebook'] = 'Facebook';
$contactmethods['googleplus'] = 'Google Plus';
$contactmethods['youtube'] = 'Youtube';
  
// remove unwanted
unset($contactmethods['aim']);
unset($contactmethods['jabber']);
unset($contactmethods['yim']);
  
return $contactmethods;
}
add_filter('user_contactmethods', 'add_extra_contactmethod');

I wonder if there is a way to make them visible. I mean if I add my Facebook account could bbPress show it on the public profile with a Facebook Icon?

And also show them in users topics and replies posted?

Any advice, thanks!

[Ismail]

@treeflips

Hi contemplate,

Can you make a skimmed down version of your solution for people who have ONLY bbpress?

/**
 * Hooked into the new reply function, this notification action is responsible
 * for notifying topic and hierarchical reply authors of topic replies.
 * Fixed: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-reply-notification-link-to-the-reply/
 */
function bbp_buddypress_add_notification_custom( $reply_id = 0, $topic_id = 0, $forum_id = 0, $anonymous_data = false, $author_id = 0, $is_edit = false, $reply_to = 0 ) {

	// Bail if somehow this is hooked to an edit action
	if ( !empty( $is_edit ) ) {
		return;
	}

	// Get autohr information
	$topic_author_id   = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id );
	$secondary_item_id = $author_id;

	// Hierarchical replies
	if ( !empty( $reply_to ) ) {
		$reply_to_item_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $reply_to );
	}

	// Get some reply information
	$args = array(
		'user_id'          => $topic_author_id,
		'item_id'          => $reply_id,
		'component_name'   => bbp_get_component_name(),
		'component_action' => 'bbp_new_reply',
		'date_notified'    => get_post( $reply_id )->post_date,
	);

 	// Notify the topic author if not the current reply author
 	if ( $author_id !== $topic_author_id ) {
		$args['secondary_item_id'] = $secondary_item_id ;

		bp_notifications_add_notification( $args );
 	}
 
 	// Notify the immediate reply author if not the current reply author
 	if ( !empty( $reply_to ) && ( $author_id !== $reply_to_item_id ) ) {
		$args['secondary_item_id'] = $reply_to_item_id ;

		bp_notifications_add_notification( $args );
 	}
}
remove_action( 'bbp_new_reply', 'bbp_buddypress_add_notification', 10 );
add_action( 'bbp_new_reply', 'bbp_buddypress_add_notification_custom', 10, 7 );

[jaakko87]

This plugin is even better for image uploads, imho 🙂

https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-upload-for-bbpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

At the top, and at the bottom of the users page is the ability to change a users role, there is a bug that is fixed for bbPress 2.6 but in 2.5.x if you use the top dropdown to change users roles it won’t work, it should work using the bottom dropdown 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

You’d need to write or have written on your behalf a custom plugin for this functionality, bbPress doesn’t support this “out of the box”