Yes, bbPress is still a viable solution for creating a forum on a WordPress website. It is designed to integrate smoothly with WordPress and offers features like topic threading and user registration. While there may be other options available, bbPress remains a reliable choice for adding a forum to your WordPress site.
Hey Robin, while the best answer would have been “There’s a new fancy version about to be released” đŸ™‚ I truly appreciate your response.
You make a lot of sense.
I’m setting up a test site right now and I’m going to try bbPress again with your plugin.
thanks bud.
I am just a moderator here, and not a bbpress author.
The authors tend to release updates every few years, rather than more frequently.
My personal view is that you should consider bbpress to be a ‘mature’ product, ie any releases will be to fix issues rather than add functionality.
bbpress is written really well, and has loads of hooks. There are no show stopper bugs in it, it may throw a few deprecation notices (and these are very few at the moment), but WordPress recommends that you should not show error messages in live sites.
I currently have my test site running 8.1 with no issues.
The only major issue with bbpress at the moment is that it does not work well with FSE themes.
However my bbp style pack plugin has fixes for this
bbp style pack
as well as block versions of the widgets and a ton of styling and functionality add-ons.
All plugins are subject to the authors commitment so other options offer the same amount of certainty.
The main WordPress support forums use bbpress, and it would be mega work to move those over to some other product.
But yes, with open software you make your choices….
Hi,
Is it possible to restrict access to bbPress forums on a per-user basis (not roles)?
Thanks for your help,
Philippe
I’m looking at the latest update being over 2 years ago, maybe one of the example sites listed are even running WP at all.
Is bbPress still a viable solution for a WP forum?
I have used your free version of GD bbPress Tools. I added SPOILER and few other tags with BBCode Deluxe. I edited the pugin. I commented all BBCode tags, which belongs to your plugin or which I don’t need.
I have list fir extra code. I tryed to use JQuery to drag codes to the textare. Dragging cause that code disappears, but it just caused that the ekement disappeared from my list but but not went to the textarea.
[CODE]$(“document”).ready(function() {
$(“.tags”).draggable({
revert: true
});
$(“.bbp-the-content”).droppable({
accept: \’.tags\’,
drop: function(event, ui) {
$(this).append($(ui.draggable));
}
});
});
[/CODE]
Hello. On my bbpress forum the new topic box on mobile is too wide for the screen. I’ve seen this query come up with other themes but the fix seems to be theme-specific. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbp-topic-form-wont-show-up-properly-on-mobile/
https://metpsy.com/forums/forum/metpsy-forum/
WP version 6.2.2
bbPress version 2.6.9
I’m using the Astra theme version 4.1.6
Hey,
My GD bbPress Toolbox Pro plugin has 50 major new features, including BBCodes implementation that has 40+ shortcodes/BBCodes for bbPress forums, including SPOILER and HIDE, as well as full syntax highlighting SCODE shortcode.
As for changing the main text editor buttons on the front end, I don’t know of any plugin that does it, and even the plugins that do it on the backend, don’t work on the frontend for some reason.
Milan
Here’s a concise list of plugins you can associate with bbPress for registration and login forms:
1.Ultimate Member
2.Profile Builder
3.WPForms
4.RegistrationMagic
These plugins offer alternative options to the default WordPress form and provide customization features for registration and login forms.
this sounds like an issue with your hoster.
bbpress is a free plugin with no license levels
Hi!
I am wanting to be able to approve posts and comments before they get added to the forum. I’d like to get an email > approve or not > have the user updated on whether or not their post/comment has been approved.
I see all over that the Moderator plugin is no longer available for bbPress.
**Does anyone have any recommendations for alternative options for forum post/comment moderation & approval?**
When I add a new topic to my forum the cache does not clear when forum or topic updated. It looks like bbPress is not sending the API Call for WordPress to clear cache after a Topic has been updated.
Any advice?
I am just a moderator here, and not a bbpress author.
The authors tend to release updates every few years, rather than more frequently.
My personal view is that you should consider bbpress to be a ‘mature’ product, ie any releases will be to fix issues rather than add functionality.
bbpress is written really well, and has loads of hooks. There are no show stopper bugs in it, it may throw a few deprecation notices (and these are very few at the moment), but WordPress recommends that you should not show error messages in live sites.
I currently have my test site running 8.1 with no issues.
The only major issue with bbpress at the moment is that it does not work well with FSE themes.
However my bbp style pack plugin has fixes for this
bbp style pack
as well as block versions of the widgets and a ton of styling and functionality add-ons.
All plugins are subject to the authors commitment, and I would not count on ANY plugin having a 10 year support timescale, so other options offer the same amount of certainty.
As @terresquall says the main WordPress support forums use bbpress, and it would be mega work to move those over to some other product.
But yes, with open software you make your choices….
download this
Hello Elementor bbPress fix
and then use this to style and add features
bbp style pack
Hello. I will soon create 80k subforums on my bbpress so you can understand having them all llisted on the bbpress homepage will be an issue.
How do I remove subforum from being listed on bbpress homepage?
Another thing. I will probably need to organize 80k forum in some way, any idea how to do it. For example, Is it possible to sort them by letter or something like that? What file handle the subforum?
Same here. I’m building a forum on bbPress myself too, so I’m looking forward to seeing future dev work. The official WordPress site is still using bbPress though, and they are still updating the supported WordPress version on the bbPress plugin, so I think the plugin should still be fine.
I’am still having problem with slow post for new topics and it’s even worse now.
About 20 sec to post a new topic. Reply around 1 sec which is fine.
But, the actual post takes around 1 sec but something is happening in the background that takes another 20 sec before the page load is done. I can verify this by opening another browser window to see the new topic.
All plugins disabled except bbpress.
Wordpress 6.1.1
Theme 2021
Hi everyone,
I’m sorry if the questions was already post, but since yesterday i couldn’t find any answer..
The problem :
Theme : Hello-elementor
I have 100+ Hours design on my theme website.
I wanted to use bbpress, (forums page broken, and the design is from 1980 with my theme)
I want to change the theme of bbpress forums from another theme (ex : astra, Kadence…) to make it look better, but without changing my main theme because i’ve worked a lot on it.
Any advice, solution ?
Thank you so much… love
Hello, I am planning to create a new forum with bbPress but because there haven’t been updates for 2 years and I am planning to maintain that website for 10 years or so I ask myself if it even still makes sense to use bbPress with a new website?
It works for me but, what about php 8.2?
What about security updates?
What about WordPress compatibility.
Is bbPress going to die or practically already dead?
Does anyone know something about it.
I know it works now but what about in a year, when I have to update my php or stuff like that?
No updates for 1 year+ normally is a really red flag for a plugin…
When a user attempts to “Register” on https://loftusweb.com they get errors saying “The username you entered is incorrect” and “The email you entered is incorrect”.
This happens for a new user. If you want to try it, go to the above link then click the “Registration and Discussion” link upper left. Then try to register “Join Us”.
I don’t know where the error is coming from nor how to fix it.
WordPress Version 6.2.2
bbPress Version 2.6.9
bbstyle pack Version 5.6.0
I was able to fix this with the following settings in Avada.
Using a layout for Forums (bbPress has sort of inbuild support)
Added a title and a content container with my layout settings
Set the “Forum” layout configuration to include All Forums, Forum, and important selecting all Children of Specific Forums.
For the forum index I use a custom page with manual added links to all forums.
which latest releases?
I’ve tried both from here https://bbpress.org/download/
In the meantime I have switched from Elementor to Avada (largest WP template), same issue. The index is fine but viewing a forum or topic the root dir setup is gone, i.e. forum stretches the entire content area and no sidebar or containers.
Since the bbPress install was 9 years ago also used the tools to reset everything.
The problem appears to be that bbPress (or the latest WordPress 6.2.2) is not considering the root dir setup.
May be related https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58366
more a Blocksy theme question than a bbpress one.
Lots of sidebar plugins eg
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/custom+sidebars/
Hi, I am using the free Blocksy theme, they only allow a main sidebar. How can I incorporate a sidebar for bbpress? I want the login, reset password and register on it.
Wordpress. com 6.2.2
bbpress 2.6.9
http://www.meandmyavatar.com
Hi Robin, I may have mentioned but my hosting provider advised me to deactivate and then delete bbpress then reinstall it thinking it would remove all or any database issues obviously expecting me to then have a clean install and everything would work out ok. But it hasn’t so now he is saying that I could hire him as a developer for $100.00 an hour payable if its a developer issue and says if it turns out to be a hosting issue he would not charge at all. This seems to me to be a conflict of interest and I would like to have someone independent have a look and I would be happy to pay someone to advise me on whether it is a hosting issue or a coding issue, if you know of anyone please refer them to me.
