Correction: problem NOT solved: I have my theme’s breadcrumbs, but not from bbPress.
thanks!
I’ve added BBPress to my site and for the most part it is fine. I’m using a genesis theme and I’ve got the bbPress Genesis Extend plugin too. One problem though – when looking at the forums main page and an individual forum (eg. ‘General Discussion’) some of the text gets squished up too soon when resizing the window. The text ‘Topics’ ‘Posts’ and ‘Freshness’ start overlapping because the content of bbpress gets too small too fast – leaves a big gap on the right too, between bbpress and the right column. If I make the window even smaller, the right column moves below which is fine. And of course if I make the window even larger its fine. But there is a range where it shouldn’t be so squished.
On an individual forum page, the text voices, posts and freshness get squished. On individual posts pages, the responsiveness works as expected.
The site is password protected so I don’t know how to post a url here, I have a screenshot, but don’t see a way to upload it.
I’m using the latest versions of WP and bbpress.
Any idea how to fix this? Do I need to edit something in the bbpress css file? If so, what do I need to edit? If not, how else could it be fixed?
Thanks!
Trisha
I recently imported a phpBB forum to bbpress. All went well.
The only issue is bbpress is now sending out notification emails for all mentions from the beginning of time. My forum is about 7 years old and has around half a million posts.
Thats a lot of notification emails, and a lot of potential spam.
How can I fix this? I still want new notifications for mentions going out – just not those from before the import. I’m happy to run a mysql query that will mark all notifications emails as being already sent out for each member through to now – if there is a way to do that????!!!
@robkk,
I thought the exact same thing when they sent the code. Hopefully we see this as a core feature in the future updates of bbpress.
One can make the button visible to logged in users only by using the
<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?> button code here <?php endif; ?>
@adventureridingnz,
I’m not sure, I’ll have to do some testing on my site to see if it will work with forums.
hello…I had this working when I 1st setup my site, I just noticed it has reverted back…
I was using the following css code in my child theme:
#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
display: block;
}
I just tried switching to the filter in functions but it’s not working either…
any idea why this would stop working? thx!
http://www.badboyzromz.com/forums/
I found the “bbPress WP Tweaks” plugin to work.
thanks!
[topic resolved]
Please how can i customise my buddypress profile to look more good like this my profile on this Bbpress account. 
i need something like this or better style 
So, the entire process completed successfully 94 minutes later, at a blazing speed of 20 entries per second. If you need to import a VB3 forum into bbpress, v2.6 is the way to go people.
I had the same issue and successfully fixed it. The message I kept getting going to my Trash screen was “an error occurred while processing this directive”.
Here was my solution:
-Backup/export all content on the website as .xml files
-Install the plugin ‘WordPress Reset’
-Reset the website’s database through the plugin
-Import .xml files back into the website
-Editing/trashing/spamming/reporting all worked again
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What causes the problem in the first place? Using the ‘Restore’ or ‘Delete Permanently’ links underneath the post’s title in the backend menus of Replies and Topics. To avoid having an inaccessible Trash screen, use the ‘Bulk Actions’ drop down menu to ‘Restore’ or ‘Delete Permanently’ by checking the boxes to the left of each post. For some reason bulk actions work, whereas using BACKEND links to directly change the status of each post can break the functionality of the forum.
It’s safe to click the trash/restore links on the frontend of bbpress, but be careful of how you click around in the backend changing statuses of posts. The plugin ‘Quick Empty Trash’ may also be of assistance for those who can’t reach their list of trashed posts.
Hope this helps whoever’s searching through vague support threads looking for a clear answer. Thanks again to the volunteers who helped make bbpress possible. After all the threads I went through to solve each problem that arose building my forums it was only fair to contribute an explanation I couldn’t find anywhere else.
Cheers!
help please?
My group forums suddenly disappeared, but get this, only the active ones (if that gives any clue) I get this message now when I visit the forum:
This group does not currently have a forum.
I tried fresh installs of bbpress, nothing is changing.
When I go to the backend of groups, I can select the forum name, and save settings: but the forum is still not on the front end.
In the dropdown menu on the frontend of the group, the default shows now as “No Forum”, then there are other group forums in the dropdown menu, but none of the ones listed are that group’s forum name.
site: http://planetgirlworld.com/wordpress
everything is updated to latest version.
we use theme “Kleo”.
Looking at the bbpress source in page-user-register.php (in extras) there is a
the_content
before it shows the actual form. So my feeling is that this has to be some sort of bug. (as for me its not showing any content added in the editor on my register page.)
Can anyone else replicate my issue and confirm its not working the way it should.
Sorry I have made an mistake with this assumption.
SOLVED! There is actually no need to install any plugin.
The reason the other admin is not able to view the hidden forum is because bbpress has its own user roles and you need to assign the Keymaster Role to the admin in question.
To do that, simply click on Users on your WP admin menu, tick to select the user in question, in the tab that contains bulk actions, you’ll see “Change Forum Role to….” click it and select keymaster.
Then click on the change button to change it.
That should work the magic.
The above was spam 😉
It theoretically continue to run at the same speed at reply 1-100 or 90,000 – 90,100.
A recent case of similar behaviour was due to another plugin being active and hooking into pre_get_posts(), this caused every single post being imported to be run through this and was the cause of the slowness.
Check what other plugins are running to see if this is the cause.
And no, *all* bbPress data is stored in the standard WordPress db tables, bbPress does not create any tables of it’s own.
I tried to put this code to my theme’s bbpress.css file but it didn’t work. Also I tried buddypress plugin’s bbpress.css but it didn’t work either.
@robkk
Any ideas why this happens? Still can not get the
align left
align center
align right
font family
font size
underline
text color
background color (for text)
to work for front end users.
I tried Tiny MCE Advanced and it caused alot of issues – half of an individual post showed up in my black background – half in the “white” text area – still did not allow proper showing of the above formatting (showed code when published) – really a mess so I went back to WP Edit.
Also – all buttons are working fine in my other areas (like Sabai directory) for front end users – just BBPress?
If reduced speed is the only topic of concern during an import, then I would say there are no concerns at all 🙂
Improving speed is something that is already ongoing for years (see e.g. https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1925) and will probably never end, but that’s positive in this case.
Let’s just hope the import ends correctly, whatever time it might take.
Pascal.
Hi, I’m trying to make some filters in my single-forum and other pages queries, but my changes with pre_get_posts results in “Content not found”.
Here’s a example of my code:
function bbpress_site_queries( $query ) {
if ( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_single( 'forum' ) ) {
$query->set( 'order', 'DESC' );
}
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'bbpress_site_queries' );
What is wrong? There’s other way, better to modify bbPress queries? I want to change queries to make in front-end some order and other filters.
Sorry this isn’t the best of experiences 🙁
Can you try the 2.6 alpha version, available from this page as “development version”
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/developers/
• aka https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip
Also if you “right click” any of the items as they import and select “Inspect element” to view the source code you will see the direct MySQL queries as they happen, you can then use these to help debug directly in phpMyAdmin 🙂
When users copy-paste text from other sites they got text like this:
How can I fix that?
I’ve got TinyMCE for bbpress installed.
The problem seems to be with the ‘hide login area’ feature of iThemes Security. http://prntscr.com/990h9v
When I turned off this feature, the bbPress worked good. I have recorded the problem in the video. http://screencast.com/t/fbJkY8tAqIo
Hi,
This is in most cases a plugin that is giving the issue. E.g. you have google analytics or Yoast SEO running ?
Try deactivating all plugins except bbPress and try then, if it works switch them back on one by one to see which one is causing the issue. (for some people it worked just by stopping and starting plugins)
Pascal.
I already had itheme security ver 5.1.1 installed before I installed bbpress plugin. For some reason, the itheme security gives this message http://prntscr.com/98z8am. When I deactivate the plugin, the bbpress works fine but as soon as i activate itheme security, it stops working. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
Kabita
Wordpress – 4.4; bbpress 2.5.8; http://www.putznutzcabinfever.com
I am wracking my brain! I have looked all over. My website is http://www.putznutzcabinfever.com and all I need is the functionality of bbpress. I have around 40 family members signed up but so far, those who have tried have not been able to start a topic or reply to anything. I am getting the following message “ERROR: You do not have permission to reply.” I do have Ultimate Member installed if that makes any difference. I have installed Buddypress thinking that it might have something to do with it but have determined it is overkill for my site and that it still does not take care of my problem. I keep thinking there is some place I need to go to change user permissions. Please advise. I am willing to give temporary back door access if necessary.
Hello.
Is it normal bbpress does not take into consideration my theme based on “roots.io/sage” ?
Sage use bootstrap.
And form, button, etc of bbpress do not have the bootstrap/Sage theme.
The css of my theme is only in “/dist/styles/main.css” (the style.css have not any style).
Is this the normal behavior ? please
SOLVED! “Private Groups” Plugin does all of this and more!!! AWESOME plugin- this should be built into the core of BBpress- it’s that good!
