[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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Erin Wright]

I feel like I’m missing something really obvious here, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out what it is.

I just installed bbPress on my website today: http://naughtyerotica.org/forums/ When I go there and click on the only forum I have created thus far, I get an error message, “PRIVATE – You do not have permission to view this forum.”

Since I created the damn forum, this is more than a little confusing to me, lol.

I’ve never tried to host my own forum before, so I am (almost guaranteed) missing something obvious here.

TIA!

[peter-hamilton]

Easy, just install bbpress and activate plugin.

From dashboard you create a forum and publish

Then go to appearance => menus, and add forums to your navigation.

But the link Pascal gave should give you a good start

[peter-hamilton]

Is this BBPress though, I see xenoforo code only

[hellodollyx]

Hi,

Bumped into an issue that i can’t seem to figure out. Please help.

I have a wp blog(matheson theme) and a bbpress forum.

Trying to remove the sidebar from posts but keep it on side in the forum.

When i go to customize menu there is an option to make the posts 100% width. The sidebar moves to the bottom instead of going away. So i went to single.php and removed <?php get_sidebar(); ?> which removes it all together. Great, or so i thought.

The issue is now the forum is full-width and the sidebar is on the bottom instead of the side.

any suggestions would be much appreciated. the site is http://goo.gl/M4s9RG

[Robin W]

sorry someone has edited that page and made it less helpful.

Try

Now we have some forums, we need to have somewhere to display them.
There are two ways to do this. Most themes support method 1, and this can (can not will) produce tighter theme integration on style [Note this was true for v 2.2 not sure if it still is !]. However Method 2 allows you to have some introductory words. Your choice…!
Method 1
This requires a couple of checks first
a. In Dashboard>settings>forums look for what is set in the forum root under the forum root slug heading. The default is ‘forums’ but you can set this to anything
b. In Dashboard>settings>permalinks check that the common settings check is set to ‘postname’ If it isn’t and you don’t want to change it, then use method 2.
Now just create a wordpress page that has the heading that was found in a. above eg if the root slug is ‘forums’ create a page with the title ‘forums’, and save.
Once the permalink has been created, you can rename the page to whatever you wish eg ‘mysite forums’ (as the permalink will stay the same, and it is this permalink that bbpress looks for)
Save this page, add it to a menu if you are using custom menus, or decide its order if you have automatic menus. Then publish it to your site.
Job done!
Method 2
If either your theme doesn’t work with method 1, you don’t want permalinks with postname, or you want to use some introductory text (eg “welcome to our forums…”, then method 2 is for you.
In dashboard>pages
go to add new page
Call this ‘Forums’ or whatever you want your menu item to be.
Then in the content section, you may want to have some introductory words “welcome to the forum” etc. then add the following bbpress shortcode
[bbp-forum-index]
Save this page, add it to a menu if you are using custom menus, or decide its order if you have automatic menus. Then publish it to your site.
You will now have a forum page, and a forum to display.

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

see

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

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Would any of my answers here help ? https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/setup-login-for-private-forum/

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
I’m not aware of anything that would upload voice messages directly.
For uploading files (like a .wav or .mp3), the 2 products I know of are ‘GD bbpress Attachments’ and ‘bbPress Multi Image Uploader’. Have a look if it would fit your needs.

If you use BuddyPress as well, then there is also ‘BuddyPress Forum Editor’.

Pascal.

[drew345]

I installed bbPress and am following the “creating content” instructions from this webpage:

Creating Content

I created a forum using the instructions under “Creating a Forum”. The forum (called “Purchasing”) shows up under (Forums: All Forums) in my control panel.
The instructions say that my forum will be created at:
http://yourdomain.com/forums/forum/yourforumname

But when I look at my wordpress pages in the control panel, there is no page for “forum” or any subforum created yet.

How do I actually put the forum as a “forum” page in my website? Even though I create forums, there is no forum page created. Do I have to create that top level “forum” page manually using an “add page” from my dashboard?
Thanks,

[Robin W]

Quickest way is to hide it using css

so in your style.css add

.bbp-pagination-count {
   display: none;
}

https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/

[MattConway]

Hello @peterwsterling

Is this plug in still being updated? I have updated bbpress and now voting on a poll has no effect.

[Adri Oosterwijk]

Although this is an old thread I just try my luck.
The solution above does work however I’m trying to get it to work in a multi-lingual site using WPML. I know there are issues with the compatibility between bbPress and WPML. What happening is that when I click on the (altered) breadcrumb it alway returns to the English version.

I’ve been working on a solution to use bbPress in my multi-lingual site for quite a while now and this is the one issue left.

I do not translate the forums because I want the English topics displayed on all different language pages. However I want to achieve that the visitor is returning to /nl/supportforum/ (when the site is in Dutch) instead of /supportforum which is the English version.

Please advice.

Adri

[Dotstore]

@netweb

Thanks for the updates.

For now, we are giving up using BBPress due to import issues between Xenforo and BBPress. So once the corrections in import script are made, we will try again later.

So far we have encountered below issues in Xenforo -> BBPress import, to sum up:

1) Sometimes scripts are automatically stopped and script not start automatically.
2) Currently, lots of data is still pending to import in BBPress but the script is not running and in tools bottom section I can see only “Starting Conversion” and loader.
3) After script stopped it will taking the import the data from beginning so lots of data duplications issue come.

I have tried all the solutions as you suggested but none of them working in 2.6 alpha version. Still I am facing the above issues related to import the data using BBPress tool.

[timsilva_]

Hi Pascal, thanks a lot for the response, I appreciate your time. 🙂

I should have mentioned that I am all up to date with WP 4.4.2.

Here are some screenshots of the issue:

As you can see in the first image, the /page/#/ part is missing when it should be /page/103/.

Shortly after making these screenshots, I clicked on the “10 hours ago” link, and it returned me to the first post on the first page of the “Gaming” topic even though the URL loaded still has “/gaming/#post-683963” in it. In a few instanced where the /page/#/ part is missing, I have been able to click on the link and land on the correct page anyways. Still haven’t found a logical pattern, I will keep digging to try to identify it.

I will soon look to see if I can replicate the issue from a fresh install. I tried turning off all plugins (except bbPress + BuddyPress) with no luck.

[The_Desperate]

Hey guys,

First of all, thank you so much for making this very cool forum plugin for everyone to use!
I do one question, and I’ve just spent a few hours studying the archives and looking for answers, but the thing is… I haven’t really understood any of them. I don’t know anything about child themes, I have no idea how to look for specific codes, although of course I am able to implement changes to a code once I’ve found it. I’ve tried looking for a plug-in for changing the font size, but failed.
Now, my question would be: Is it possible for somebody who knows close to nothing about the matter to actually do it? I’m running version 2.5.8. My WordPress version is 4.4.2.

My forum URL is http://lutrinians.com/forums/

All I can see under Plugins > Editor is:

Plugin Files

bbpress/bbpress.php
bbpress/license.txt
bbpress/languages/index.php
bbpress/index.php
bbpress/includes/index.php
bbpress/humans.txt
bbpress/templates/index.php
bbpress/readme.txt

Also, I am not using any programmes to edit the codes, just doing it in the browser.

Many thanks in advance!

[sotb0rlando]

WP version 4.4.2 bbpress Version 2.5.8 http://www.enablesoft.com the forum is part of the main site. http://www.enablesoft.com/foxtrot-user-network/ you can see the login page there.

We need if someone tries to access the forum or the members page and they are not logged in to be redirected to the register page. Right now they end up back on the home page and that does not help them get logged in.

Please let me know how I can change the non logged in redirect.

[joym]

Hey @robkk! I am trying to do this – install bbpress on my subdomain of my multisite setup, but it’s not going well.

I have buddypress network enabled and bbpress enabled only on the subdomain. When I’m logged into my buddypress account and I try to access my subdomain where my forums are hosted I am redirected to the buddypress registration page. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. Can you please help with some suggestions? I’ve read a bunch of things but I can’t understand enough to apply and see what my errors could be in my settings. Thank you.

[joym]

With WP you have the option of using multisite to create other sites off of the same WP installation. I run buddypress on my main site and I would like to run my forum(bbpress) on my subsite. From what I thought I understood they should be site-wide so the need for registering for both buddypress and bbpress should not be occurring. But then again, I don’t know what I’m doing. Do you have a multisite setup?

[KubiK888]

Hi I am a newbie in wordpress. My site has installed the bbpress for a forum, but in this login page http://epilens.com/login/, I don’t know how to move the “log in” button from the right to the left. Please help.

[Effex]

My WordPressVersion: 4.4.2. bbPress version: not using yet. http://www.perfektdeutsch.de

Hi guys,

I was working on my webpage for learning german. I’m now thinking of turning it into a forum. Is there any plugin, that allows the users to easily record their voice and upload it, so instead of texting the conversations would be acturally voice messages? Seems to make more sense to me for learning a language.

Regards,
Effex

[timsilva_]

Hi all, hope you’re doing well.

I noticed what I suspect is a bug a few weeks ago. After digging through the forums, disabling plugins, turning off custom functions and more, I cannot seem to identify the source of my following issue.

Basically, when the bbp_topic_freshness_link() function is called in loop-single-topic.php, for example, the URL should show something like:

domain[dot]com/forum/topic/topic-title/page/2/#post-12345

Note that the /page/2/ part is only meant for threads that have more than one page of replies. So if that same example topic only had 2 replies, for example, the URL would have been:

domain[dot]com/forum/topic/topic-title/#post-12345

So the issue I am having is that for some topics, when there are multiple pages, the /page/2/ part of the URL isn’t included. So when the link it clicked on, it goes to the first reply on the first page of the topic. What’s more baffling is that sometimes, the link without the /page/2/ bits included does go to the correct URL. I’ve tried this from multiple accounts and I cannot seem to uncover any meaningful patterns.

I did try to run the repair job titled “Recalculate last activity in each topic and forum” with no luck. All of the URLs are still randomly missing the page parts.

A few potentially relevant notes:
– I migrated my forum from SMF
– All of my forums are private
– I am using the “Go To First Unread Post” plugin but the issue still occurs when disabled

Does it sound like this issue related to this fix?: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2876

Many thanks,
Tim

[Pascal Casier]

Did you create any page (also look in drafts and trash) that has a /forums slug ?
If you nowhere have a page with that slug, that bbPress should default to /forums to show the existing forums (don’t forget to create at least 1 public forum to see the list)

Pascal.

[joym]

I’m trying to setup my buddypress and bbpress, I would like bbpress to run on my subdomain but I just can’t forgot out what I’m doing wrong. When a logged in user tries to access the forums they are required to register again. My buddypress users aren’t syncing. Please help I have no clue what to go and everything I’ve read online seems too vague for me to understand and apply. Thank you.