[bytris]

Hey @robin-w,
It is indeed a new site, a new problem and has never worked.

Think its worth mentioning that I am pretty experienced, but never used bbpress so I thought i’d reach out here.

[alm1]

WordPress 6.8.1 running Simple Life theme.
bbPress 2.6.13

Home

I’ve downloaded the ‘bb-topic-deleter’ plugin.

When I try to upload it in WordPress plugins, all the files are grayed out, and I’m unable to select any of them for upload.

I would really like to use this plugin. Any suggestions?

TIA

[bytris]

Hi all,

I am having some troubles with the e-mail notifications that bbpress can send to subscribers. I use the WP Mail SMTP pro plugin to send e-mails from the website.

WP Mail SMTP pro perfectly handles wordpress native e-mails, such as the account activation links for new users, password reset links etc.

It does not appear to send the bbpress messages through this SMTP method. Nothing to see in the logs also.

Does anyone has had a similair problem? Is there a setting for this? Or does a custom function fix this issue?

Thank you in advance!

[teacherjoejinan]

I just installed bb press and installed bbPress WP Tweaks. I am trying to add login and register and lost password however the sidebar does not show. I am using the latest version of WordPress. What other option do I have to allow users to register, etc.

[alm1]

Can bbPress run without registration and login? I’m running a super simple website and don’t want to bother my users with registration, logins, etc. I’m not worried about spam. I’ve only got one forum, where I want my users to interact with each other with their posts and replies within that one forum. I’m looking for a simple post and reply forum.

So, Can bbPress run without registration and login? And if so, what do I need to do?

TIA

[delaitec]

Hello.

I have a WordPress site with a configured BBPress Forum and a WPMAIL SMTP plugin.

I recently started receiving 2 mistakes that appear at the same time on the WPMAIL SMTP event log.

On WPMAIL SMTP I tested the sending of emails, and the site is sending email normally.
What may be causing these EVENTS?

See topic on WPMAIL SMTP FORUM:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bbpress-related-log-events/

[Robin W]

bbpress uses custom post types, so uses their status in the posts table (not post meta) to determine whether to display.

So on trashing a topic, I would expect the post_status on the posts table to be changed to trash.

To enable you to ‘untrash’ a topic (say if it was a mistake) in tbe post_meta table, I would then expect to see

_bbp_pre_trashed_replies	a:4:{i:0;i:33965;i:1;i:33963;i:2;i:33959;i:3;i:33956;}
_wp_trash_meta_status	publish
_wp_trash_meta_time	1748443956

The trash status being the status BEFORE it was trashed, so that it can go back to this if you made a mistake.

I am not sure what the other statuses are doing there, if you have been trashing and untrashing, other stuff might happen, and other bbpress plugins might be adding things.

I’d suggest you try creating a test topic and then trashing it, and seeing what happens, so that you can see a ‘clean’ set of entries.

If you still have problems, then it could be a theme or plugin issue, so I’d try creating and trashing a topic with the below happening.

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

[Robin W]

sorry, this is not a plugin written by bbpress. I’m not quite sure which plugin this refers to.

you could try

Inline Image Upload for BBPress

or

GD bbPress Attachments

[tvyanos]

WordPress 6.8.1
PHP 8.2.22

Could you please help fix the following issue? A fatal error has occurred on the site:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function WP_Filesystem() in /wp-content/plugins/image-upload-for-bbpress/bbp-image-upload.php on line 316.

This error causes the site to crash when attempting to delete a post. It appears that the WP_Filesystem() function is being called before it has been properly initialized. I would appreciate it if you could take a look and resolve this issue.

Thank you.

[Avinash Patel]

Thanks, it helps me to fix the issue, Thanks bbpress support.

[Robin W]

This is one of the new FSE themes, so you need a fix to work with bbpress.

install

bbp style pack

once activated, navigate to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack, and you should see the first tab called ‘Theme Support’ – if you don’t see this, come back.

In that tab, select

Enable Theme Support

and save

The forums should then display

[sender10]

Hello, new install of WP 6.8.1, bbPress plugin version 2.6.13. and using the included Twenty Twenty-Five theme.

I do not see a way to create a link to the forums on the site. How do I do this? I hope I’m just missing something simple, thank you.

[Avinash Patel]

Hello Bbpress, let me contact you on above email address.

Thanks

[Avinash Patel]

We are using only this 2 plugins for bbpress.

https://prnt.sc/Q3I6dcWeYcwW

[Earl_D]

I tried using Buddy-bbPress Support Topic to create support topics on my BBP current version install but it created a critcal error and I deactivated. Are there any other alternative to add that functionality? Also running the latest BP version and WP 6.81
Thanks for the help.

[Robin W]

thanks, apologies for the wrong route – after a further check, the title is given by the theme, not bbpress.

but thanks for a solution

[Robin W]

The link only works for logged in users, but if I have understood the problem, then if you have FTP capability :

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/single-topic.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

line 21 contains the h1 tag, so you can amend this to what you want

and save

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/single-topic.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[andiganter]

The h1 topic headings in bbpress have the disadvantage that, instead of wrapping to the next line when they are very long, they are squeezed together on the same line (which often happens on mobile devices in particular). What solutions are there for this? All CSS measures have been tried so far without success.

You can reproduce this issue when you go to to this page >> in mobile view.

Thank you so much 🙂

Andi

[Chris Huber]

Hey everybody, this is my first time posting here. I’m a developer and I started using bbPress about two years ago to build a forum.

I just published my first plugin, which is a context-aware AI bot that responds to @mentions or specific keywords. It reads the post and gathers information from other topics and replies to users as a specified account.

It just went live on the WordPress plugin repository so I thought I’d share it here. Completely free and open source and whatnot.

AI bot for bbPress

I’m using it on my own forum if you wanted to see it in action. This is my bot user: AI forum bot on Extra Chill

Would love to hear what you think! This is my first-ever published plugin so I’m pretty excited about it.

[Robin W]

hmmm…

Just looked on my test site, and the newest appears at the top, and changes when I add a reply.

I can see yours does not match this.

What other (if any) bbpress related plugins are you using?

[Avinash Patel]

Hi,

On our bbPress forum at: https://greatwaraviation.org/forums/forum/general/

We’ve noticed that **normal topics are correctly sorted by most recent activity**, but **sticky topics stay at the top in the order they were made sticky**, regardless of new replies.

Screenshot for reference: https://prnt.sc/zHWdapMx5Tw5

Is there a way to make sticky topics sort by recent activity as well, or is this the default behavior in bbPress?

Thanks for your help!

[packzap]

This migration process not for the faint of heart! I was never able to complete successfully. I did learn a few things tho.

• Pare down and disable as many plugins as possible before migrating. (especially optimize and cache ones).
• Be ready to disable the entire plugin directory in order to log into site.
• Realize that the activity of uploading files, importing a database, changing configurations, and adjusting dns, can spike shared server resources, leading to unstable and throttled-down results.
• Revel in the miracle of a nicely integrated bbPress/Wordpress install and always take time to break, inhale a deep breath, and appreciate the majesty of life

[Robin W]

ok, so I’ve now had a chance to look at your steps.

Steps 1-4 are fine.

Step 5 is causing the issue. It is not needed as you are on bbpress 2.x, and that holds the data in the posts table. The site should work at this point with no further action. By importing the bbpress1 you will be overwriting the current forums.

So do it again without stage 5 and come back at that part and let us know what is happening.

[packzap]

Hi Robin,

The WordPress/bbPress install and all content is all on one subdomain (feedback.pdxradio.com).

It’s interesting the legacy bb_ tables are still there. I don’t want to touch (delete) them, in case they’re still being used.

[Salvatore Noschese]

Ty so much. Finally bbpress can be installed with fse theme 😄
Very good job. I release a 5* review in wp repo.