[Robkk]

Just so you guys know there is a plugin for bbPress that could do what you guys want.

It is fairly new, so consider testing it out and if you come across any issues contact the developer in their support forum.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-anonymous-subscriptions/

[crosstherubicon]

I am on WP 4.5.3 and the latest version of bbPress, just installed it yesterday

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[greggish]

Do any of the mods or developers have an ETA on when v2.6 might reach beta or perhaps latest stable release?

From the July 13th blog post:

Speaking of bbPress 2.6, we’re working on refactoring per-forum moderators now, and we’ll have a beta ready for everyone to try shortly!

bbPress 2.5.10 – Security Release

[mroth911]

I installed bbpress. forum is not coming up on the side. either .

[edited] – to put into a new topic

[crosstherubicon]

I just installed bbPress today so the latest and greatest. WP ver 4.5.3. When I add forums and topics they do not show up on the Forums page when logged out. When logged in they do show up. These have been set up as Forum, Open and Public. Topics have been set up as Normal and Open under the appropriate forum. Why would they not show up when logged out but do show up when logged in?

[Robin W]

put this in your child theme’s functions file, and make the number bigger than the number of forums you have

update_option ('_bbp_forums_per_page', 200) ;

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Costin]

Hi,

First assure that ‘Allow guest users without accounts to create topics and replies’ is checked.

To allow guest just to create topics, in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php one line 28 change with:

<?php if ( bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() && !bbp_is_anonymous() ) : ?>

To allow guest just to create topics, in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-reply.php one line 28 change with:

<?php if ( bbp_current_user_can_access_create_reply_form() && !bbp_is_anonymous() ) : ?>

[pikerstrow]

Hi. Help me please to solve my problem… I’ve created two lenguage site (used polylang plugin), and installed bbpress.
But I dont know how to create two different forums for different languages…. Please tell me how to do it…
Thanks.

[Stephen Edgar]

We would love have full WCAG 2.0 compliance 🙂

Our open tickets for further improvements are here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=General+-+Accessibility&order=priority

We will also follow WordPress’ lead and any initiatives by the accessibility team

https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/

There is also the accessibility team handbook: https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/handbook/

For bbPress much of what is needed right now is testing of our open tickets to make sure we are on the right track, any help would be graciously welcome 🙂

[Robkk]

@maryt66

bbPress needs some more work to be more accessible to visually impaired users. There are some tickets in the bbPress trac for bbPress for adjusting things like the breadcrumbs markup, notices markup, and some heading changes, etc.

A lot has been suggested for improvements from this gist and I think there could be some other improvements regarding admin link markup, topic status labels, and just having a horizontal layout might be better in the end for users.

Robins plugin I think won’t really help in most of these areas and won’t really make your forums moer accessible, I think only a possible contrast issue in one area at best is what his plugin can help with.

[Robkk]

@haddly

I have noticed a potential legal issue. If the forum users all start receiving notifications and they want to unsubscribe, they can’t do this through the email notification that they receive.
I believe legally, they must have the option to unsubscribe within the email.
can this be done with bbpress?

Yes, there is even a plan to introduce it sometime into core.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2707

[Robkk]

@mshane8

I have 2 profiles(roles) that all users will fall under (employer & employee). Then I have 3 membership levels for each role (FREE, Standard & Premium). The idea is to pair up these users by category and control the level of access/features they have based on account type. So direct messaging is available only to premium members, push notifications only available to premium members. The more features and ability to build out your profile is based on your membership type.

I know there are plugins like s2 member and paid memberships pro that you might be able to use that might work with bbPress. User role permissions for features in BuddyPress I am not sure of and you may need to go to the BuddyPress support team, and see if they know anything that can do something like that.

https://buddypress.org/support/

I would obviously add membership plugin to restrict access and capability as well as ecommerce capability for checkout.

There are sure some membership framework plugins that work with popular ecommerce plugins like woocommerce or easy digital downloads.

I know bbPress and BuddyPress are forums and social communities but will they integrate well into membership type communities where clients need to pay for additional access to social community and forum features?

I say look into using s2member or paid memberships pro. I suggest you contact the BuddyPress support forum if they have any suggestions, or just search their forum and see if a question like this has already been answered.

[kellyt]

bbPress Version: 2.5.10
Wordpress Version: 4.5.3

Hello,

The plugin was installed and activated, worked fine until I updated my theme. The plugin is there in the plugins list activated. However, I cannot locate its settings and “forums” to add new forums. All current forums are gone. So, basically when people click on “forums” on my site, it states “there are no forums”. I have even tried deactivating, reinstalling and reactivating but to no avail. How do I fix this issue? I am hoping someone can help me as my site is live and the forums page is not working. I have even contacted the theme developer but before they can help me i am required to pay for support which i am not so sure whether they can help with the problem.

Thank you and much appreciate.

[mobilportal]

Hi,
I have instaled wordpress in folder http://www.mydomain.com/wp
I have instaled bbpress plugin in folder http://www.mydomain.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress
After install
BBpress list of my forums is working at URL http://www.mydomain.com/wp/forums
and sigle forum “disqus1” is working at URL http://www.mydomain.com/wp/forums/forum/disqus1
and sigle forum “disqus2” is working at URL http://www.mydomain.com/wp/forums/forum/disqus2

I need change URL adress for “disqus1” to http://www.mydomain.com/forum/disqus1
How can I do it?

Thanks Peter

[moedan9]

Hi folks,

Trouble with SMF 2.0.7 to bbpress 2.6 beta import
Wordpress version 4.5.3

I’ve just imported the SMF forums here on my server –

http://www.holistic-counseling.ca/Forums/index.php

to bbpress here on my server:

http://nutopia.cc/Holistic-Counseling-WP/holistic-counseling-community-forums/

you’ll need to login to see.
user [redacted]
p/w [redacted]

At first glance, everything appears fine, although the number in the Posts column seems to be a product of adding the number of topics to the number of replies in a given forum. I don’t mind this.
Freshness shows zero, but that’s not a big deal either bc A) I can fix the freshness (but it results in losing posts and replies in the forums. B) Once new forum posts happen, it will repopulate.

now here’s the main issue
Upon clicking on a forum, it says:

This forum contains 8 topics and 15 replies.

Viewing 4 topics – 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

So the top area states how many topics there are accurately but then only 4 are actually displayed.
This problem is consistent across the other forums. (sometimes only 3 or 2 are displayed when more are stated above)

Any idea what that is about? It’s the main issue.

note: i did a repair Recalculate last activity in each topic and forum
and then the bottom forum dropped to 0 and 0.
Any of the forum repairs that I use that involve Topics creates problems in the number of topics and replies and doesn’t fix anything.

HELP is much appreciated.

since my forums are quite small and seem to be largely well imported, I would be willing to manually fix the incorrect topics and replies in the database. But I have no idea how to do that. At this point, I am satisfied with any solution to get all the topics and posts from the other SMF forum up and running.

[haddly]

I have noticed a potential legal issue. If the forum users all start receiving notifications and they want to unsubscribe, they can’t do this through the email notification that they receive.
I believe legally, they must have the option to unsubscribe within the email.
can this be done with bbpress?

[haddly]

Hi,
do i add this file to the bbpress plugin directory?
i have lots of directories in my server and not exactly sure where to place the “topic subscribe.php.
thanks

[joshgb93]

Hi,

I’m having some issues between bbpress and Ultimate Member plugin.
Ultimate Member has a feature that lets us add custom permissions on the menu’s links, allowing X user role to see Y links on the menu. It always works well, except when I’m on the forums root (smilang.com/forums), where all logged-in users see the website menu as group X, no matter their current role. If they go on a specific forum or topic, the issue goes away and the menu gets back to normal.

See the images for an example:

On the forums root (Not OK)

Elsewhere on the forums (OK)

I’ve also contacted Ultimate Member’s support team about this, I just did a plugin and theme conflict test, it doesn’t seem like it’s my theme nor any other plugins than UM and bbpress. I’m waiting for their answer now but I was wondering if you could find anything that would cause this.

I’m using bbpress 2.6-alpha, I just updated in hopes it would fix things but it doesn’t change anything. WordPress 4.5.3
Thanks!

[senatorman]

Hello,

Bbpress is a very nice forumscript, but it can’t handle big forums.
We have imported an big phpbb forum in bbpress with this statics (+1000K posts, +70k topics, +50k users)
BBpress need almost 30 second to place a new topic or post.

This problem is NOT a serverproblem.
It is sure that BBPRESS can’t handle a big database.
When i reset my forum (remove all posts and topic) Then creating a post/topic it take 1 second.

I’ve search the internet and BBpress has this problem al several years.
There as topics from 2004 with this problem.

Developers Please think about this problem.

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Robin W]

ok, on font/style that link doesn’t have a reply – can you create one so that I can see the issue.

on the topic/reply order – try this plugin – I haven’t used it but it seems to do what you want !

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-sort-topic-replies/

[associationofnailtechnicians]

Hello we just installed bbPress and have a minor issue. It is probably a setting or something not I have not set up correctly im guessing.

Ok so the forum itself loads up ok fine, example:

Test Forum

However if we goto

https://aont.uk/forums/

The page does not show anything really worthwhile.

I have even created a page called “Forums” and added just the line [bbp-forum-index] onto the page, but still it shows up nothing of any use.

Anyone know what is going on here and how I could fix it?

Many thanks

[earworm]

And I found the solution:

Navigation Links Return 404s Errors

[Robin W]

1. Removing the breadcrumbs

if you are fine with code then :

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

if not then use my style pack plugin to turn them off

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/