[Robkk]

You did try Robins plugin right. I think this plugin was created to solve this exact issue that might occur when using membership plugins. It mainly fixes a bug in bbPress that is triggered using these plugins.

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/bbpress-wp4-fix/

There is also this which basically includes the show lead function in the plugin, that is still here.

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbp_show_lead_topic/

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/bbpress-wp4-fix2/

[Weaper]

Hi Pascal, thanks for the extensive help.

#1 : none of my keymaster can see the forum’s item in the admin panel. I still tried the demote/promote manipulation and it didn’t change anything.

#2 : I didn’t do it earlier so I deactived all the plugins aside from bbpress (I only tried a theme switch) and it reappeared as if by magic! I don’t know what was the initial cause…

#3 : wouldn’t have worked as there was no Forums setting

anyways, thanks a LOT! take care

[Robkk]

There are some woocommerce extensions for membership plugins.

Here is one by Woo that has compatibility for bbPress.

https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-memberships-bbpress-integration/

Do some research on this, and find a plugin that works for you, I know there are plenty of them. I do not have a personal opinion on this so I can’t say what is the best plugin to use.

[Robkk]

This is a common issue while using bbPress and activating TInyMCE. Not all html tags and attributes are unrestricted for every participant.

You can download this plugin and edit the function and add on to it what html tags you want to allow in your forums. There is an example for tables in the plugin, you will need span style.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7797990

[Robkk]

Its not really. But are these emails specifically from the notify plugin or bbPress??

Do you still have your issue.

[Robkk]

Maybe consider giving this a try since you have the Canvas theme.

http://www.pootlepress.com/shop/woothemes-canvas-and-bbpress-fix/

[athletebydesign]

I have installed the bbPress plugin but when I go to my site http://www.athletebydesign.com/board/ I get the following message:

Search for: Home › Board Forum Topics Posts Freshness Admin & New 0 0 No Topics

Any suggestions?

thanks!
Jeremy

[Pascal Casier]

Did you try to switch of the main one ? https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#4-turning-off-or-changing-breadcrumbs

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi, did you try to import in bbPress 2.6 ? It’s already pretty stable and if you start from scratch anyway, it might be a good idea as it has much better import capabilities.
You can find the 2.6 on https://bbpress.org/download/
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Good afternoon,
This is more WordPress related I think, because bbPress is using the WordPress environment for authentication. Just check that on your /wp-admin page, under ‘Settings -> General -> Membership’ you have the ‘Anyone can register’ correctly checked.
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi, email sending issues are almost never an issue of bbPress, so I doubt there is anything to fix on the bbPress side.

First things to note:

• Spam filters tend to put emails into spam if your site is e.g. ‘www.example.com’ but you have defi­ned your admin email (Settings > Gene­ral) as ‘admin@g­mail.com’
• By default, you do NOT receive emails for your own topics/replies, only if some­body else replies on your subscri­bed topics

Make sure you are subscri­bed:

• To receive the email for new topics, make sure you are subscri­bed to the forum
• To receive the email for new replies, make sure your are subscri­bed to the topic
• Use tools like bbP Manage Subs­crip­tions to check and fix indi­vi­duals or run Topic Subs­cribe to fix in one go.

Check that WordP­ress emails are working:

• Make sure to check your spam/junk email
• Do you correctly receive emails when new posts are publi­shed or any other emails from the site ? If not, try any plugin to check emails (https://word­press.org/plugins/check-email/)

bbPress v2.5.x email sending:

In its current version, bbPress is sending out 1 message for every user subscribe to a forum or topic. This could be seen as spam­ming

If all the above is fine, then it might be another plugin or a theme issue:

• Deac­ti­vate all plugins except bbPress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
• If deac­ti­va­ting the plugins did not solve, as a test switch to a default theme such as twen­ty­fif­teen, and see if this fixes.

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
First check is always to see if another keymaster can still see the bbPress parts. If so, ask him/her to demote and promote you again as keymaster. If you are the only keymaster, create a new account, make keymaster and try the operation from there.

If that didn’t help then try these actions:

If you have already deac­ti­ved all plugins except bbPress and swit­ched to a default theme and you still do not see ‘Forums’, ‘Topics’ and/or ‘Replies’, then please try this in Settings > Forums (check after every step if you find the options back on your dash­board):
– ‘Set­tings > Forums’ : (de)acti­vate ‘Ano­ny­mous post­ing’, save, (de)acti­vate it again to get back to your origi­nal setting, save
– ‘Set­tings > Forums’ : (de)acti­vate ‘Auto role’, save, (de)acti­vate it again to get back to your origi­nal setting, save
– Deac­ti­vate the bbPress plugin, then reac­tive the bbPress plugin
– ‘Tools > Forums > Repair Forums’ : Remap exis­ting users to default forum roles, click ‘Repair Items’ (WARNING: Make sure to have multiple admins in case the keymas­ter role would disap­pear from one account)

Pascal.

[haddly]

users signed up to our forum topics are not receiving email notifications when a new post is made. This does not seem to matter if it is a post to start a new topic or a post within an old topic. As this was working previously, can you tell me if BBpress is fixing this please?

[mboelen]

Hello,

i just instal bbpress but people can not registrer to the forum. when they do that, they see
a wordpress page with: registrer is not allowed.

you can see what i mean on: http://thelittleone.nl/forum/registreren-forum/

can someone help me?

[pslarsen_wp]

Hi all

I’m using bbpress together with paidmembershipspro and I have the same problem. My first post in each forum can only be seen by the admin.

I tried to find the $show_lead function, but it seems that the bbpress team have removed it.

I have also tried enabling and disabling various plugins along with updating all “Relationships to Repair”. Nothing works.

Anyone who have an idea of what might be going on?

Kind Regards,
Peter

[Weaper]

Hi,
I’ve installed bbpress and created forums and topics but now I just saw that all trace of bbpress disapeared from WP-Admin.
The forum is still live and works flawlessly but I no longer have any means of creating new forums or other admin tools.

I saw some hints of solutions that tells to repear through the forum in Tools but even there it’s unavailable.

Any idea ?

[milliways2650]

I have setup WordPress on a computer (Raspberry Pi3 running Ubuntu MATE 16.04) and it is working.

I installed bbPress and am trying to import my phpBB Forum http://binnie.id.au/BulletinBoard/index.php

It is unclear exactly what I need to enter in the “Import Forums” dialog.
I have tried many different options. I am assuming that this is asking for MySQL details.

My CPanel reports
Server: Localhost via UNIX socket
Server type: MySQL
Server version: 5.5.48-cll – MySQL Community Server (GPL)
Protocol version: 10
User: iabi1038@localhost
Server charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)

MySQL® Databases shows
Database Size Privileged Users
iabi1038_phpb1 2.32 MB iabi1038_phpb1

I have tried

Database Server binnie.id.au
Database Name iabi1038_phpb1
Database User iabi1038_phpb1
Table Prefix phpbb_

This chugs along, with no obvious errors, except it seems to find nothing.

No reply_to parents to convert

No replies to convert

No tags to convert

No super stickies to stick

No stickies to stick

No topics to convert

No forum parents to convert

No forums to convert

No passwords to clear

No users to convert

Starting Conversion

[Stephen Edgar]

See the menus used here on both bbPress.org/forums and BuddyPress.org/support:

These are both menus, both use said “parent” menu items to arrange the items, both these menus are open source and pretty good examples and slightly different of how you can add bbPress and BuddyPress functionality to menus

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-org/toolbar.php

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-org/toolbar.php

Take a look around and look out for “parent” and see what you find…

[istrix]

Please help me create a new bbp role w/c is VIP.

add_filter( 'bbp_get_dynamic_roles', 'ntwb_bbpress_custom_role_names' );
  
function ntwb_bbpress_custom_role_names() {
    return array(
  
        // Keymaster
        bbp_get_keymaster_role() => array(
            'name'         => 'Administrator',
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_keymaster_role() )
        ),
  
        // Moderator
        bbp_get_moderator_role() => array(
            'name'         => 'Moderator',
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_moderator_role() )
        ),
  
        // Participant
        bbp_get_participant_role() => array(
            'name'         => 'Member',
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() )
        ),
  
        // VIP
        bbp_get_participant_role() => array(
            'name'         => 'VIP',
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() )
        ),
  
        // Spectator
        bbp_get_spectator_role() => array(
            'name'         => 'Guest',
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_spectator_role() )
        ),
  
        // Blocked
        bbp_get_blocked_role() => array(
            'name'         => 'Banned',
            'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_blocked_role() )
        )
    );
}

[Stephen Edgar]

If you’re using any phpBB mods this might cause issues.

You also need to make sure you use bbPress 2.6 alpha, which includes all the changes required , you cannot simply copy the changed phpBB.php file to a different bbPress version.

To use the most up to date phpBB importer use bbPress 2.6-alpha as I pointed out, if you have to use the old phpBB version use bbPress 2.5.10.

But as I’ve said, there are huge improvements to the phpBB importer in 2.6-alpha so updating phpBB to the latest version is my recommendation.

[Robin W]

Bbpress uses the wordpress login, so they will have single signon.

[Robkk]

This issue is caused because the widget links have the same classes as other links throughout bbPress. In your theme mesocolumn, there is CSS in a bb-css stylesheet that bolds the forum titles.

In this custom CSS I just set a default font-weight for any widget area.

You may need to show your theme author this so that maybe they can add it or something similar to their theme.

And I need to note this down as a possible issue that users might occur when customizing their forums/developing themes.

This is custom CSS add it in the custom css area your theme provides.

.widget-area li a {
  font-weight: normal;
}

[wautom]

Hi All,

I already spent two hours working on this, but failed miserably.

I want to change the font of the topics listed in Recent Topics widget as normal, instead of bold style.
Which code should I change?

I tried in bbpress.css, line 166, it seems it has no effect at all.

Please see this image: the font is too bold, I want it be normal

Thanks very much.

[Robkk]

Its a common issue related to WordPress comments theme styling having issues with bbPress replies since they have a common class attribute .reply.

Since your theme is a free WP theme, I was able to test it out real quick to see the issues.

Use all this custom CSS, add it into a child themes style.css file or in a custom css plugin.

Know that if it does not work, try adding !important at the end, for example like this.

Also know that some of the CSS is for your replies links color, so change that if you end up changing your links color so that it would match.

.example {
  position: relative !important;
  right: auto !important;
}

Here is all the custom CSS you would need to use to fix your theme related issue.

#bbpress-forums .reply a {
  position: relative;
  right: auto;
  bottom: auto;
  display: initial;
  padding: 0;
  border: none;
  font-size: inherit;
  text-transform: none;
  -webkit-transition: none;
  transition: none;
}

#bbpress-forums .reply a {
  border-color: inherit;
  color: #BF4D28;
}

#bbpress-forums .reply a:hover {
  color: #E6AC27;
  background-color: inherit;
}

[bhsdiceclimber]

Hi All – I maintain a very simple site for an astronomy group (sdbhas.org) on a volunteer basis, and we recently migrated to wordpress so I’m still a newbie. I recently installed bbpress and everything seemed to be working very well. However, while testing I noticed that replies to a topic are rendering the area where the username and avatar would go on the extreme right edge of the screen. The forum’s not publicly visible as of yet, but a screenshot of what’s happening is below:

Reply render failure

bbpress version: 2.5.10-6063
wordpress: 4.6.1
theme: parabola

This does appear to be theme-related since when I tested with 2016 it rendered properly. Searching the forum I couldn’t find anything similar, so would anyone have an idea as to what’s happening or a suggestion for a fix? Although I’m a software engineer, java and c++ are my areas, not php/css – so go easy 😉

Thanks in advance for the help!

–Thanks,
Chris