Brand new user, and have set up bbpress but have one feature I need to add still and can’t find it in my search of previous posts here.
I want to replace the Topic Tags box with a select box or checkboxes showing a pre-definted list of Topic Tags. At osme point we may allow users to create new ones, but not now.
What is the best approach here? I can edit the template for the post form and manually add the tags, but I’d prefer it pull them from the existing topic tags list so we can update that and have the latest list of tags displayed.
Many thanks.
bbpress Version: 2.6.9
WP version: (latest)
Theme: twentythirteen (child)
Forum: https://wjsociety.org/forums/forum/william-james-papers-for-discussion/
it could be a theme or plugin issue
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.
If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users
Health Check & Troubleshooting
Then come back
Hello everyone,
we use bbpress 2.6.9 with wordpress 6.1.1, both acutal version. On the edit my profile page the update profile button does not appear, so nobody can save changes to their profiles.
Can somebody help me please? Do you need any more information to solve the problem?
Many thanks,
Antonio
I am using WordPress version 6.1.1 and bbPress version 2.6.9. I need to add a next and previous button to navigate to next and previous topics in the forums. Currently we are reading a topic and there is only back button to navigate to other topic. Is there any option to add next and previous buttons in forum discussion page.
find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-topic-lead.php
transfer this to your pc and edit
that will let you remove the header and footer, and change the date function
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/content-single-topic-lead.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
In Oct/2022 I found http://www.buddydev.com/restrict-user-from-creating-topic-on-certain-bbpress-forums. I printed out some code to look at it and some comments about it. I put the info in the learn how to use short-code in my notebook to study when I had time. It seemed complicated and only for advanced developers and I haven’t used short-codes as yet. But most of the developer reviews in that place seemed positive. The few negatives had to do with the code being beyond their expertise. I checked the reference in your reply and it seemed to fall into the category of an advanced approach. But I was just wondering if someone by now had figured out an easier way to solve my question because it seems to be a logical requirement to have a solution for. However, in my searching one person said “who would want to do something like that when that’s not what it’s meant for” I’ll have to study it all so I can be more comfortable trying it.
I am looking at whether to add an extra bbPress forum to my site but in this I need to force those taking part to add some data in custom fields within each post. Is this possible in bbPress, and how?
just wondering if this is the issue
Search not working
There’s a few threads about this
This one at the moment has something I need to try
Formatting of User Profile and Search Results pages
I saw that thread before and few others but could not find any solution, literally spent ages trying to sort this out. At the end installed WPforo, but really wanted to go with bbpress since it’s made by the WordPress developers and has a lot of users. Although it has very infrequent updates.
So I understand bbpress creates their own pages in php. This is not a divi problem because it doesn’t even load with those php search pages but does for other forums index, topics and stuff. It’s a shame
ok, not watched the video, but seems a relevant thread
Divi Builder Header not loading on search pages
maybe look through these, bbpress simply uses custom post types of ‘forum’, ‘topic’ and ‘reply’, so any that will let you add custom posts types should be fine
https://blog.hubspot.com/website/best-wordpress-related-post-plugins
I have spent all morning and early afternoon trying to sort something out from bbpress! I am almost giving up.
When I search something in the forum index, it messes completely the appearance of the site. The custom footer and header from DIVI which is applied to all pages is not used. The menu is a mess, with my logo having its original size, menu appearing vertically including subitems….
I tried just having the shortcode for the search in a separate page, but again the same.
Search
[bbp-search] – Display the search input form.
[bbp-search-form] – Display the search form template.
Anyone can help??
I just added yarpp, it looks like it recognizes these as ‘buddypress topics’ – buddypress uses bbpress forum
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
Excuse me, sir. What do you mean?
I mean related topics at the end of the topic or widgets.
There are plugins that do this, but they do not work with bbpress. like: YARPP.
I installed bbpress 2.6.9 and bbp style pack 5.4.2 and I set up two forums and one test message so far. I was able to change most of the look with the bbp style pack but what I can’t figure out is how I change the root page of the forum. All I see is above the two forums is the word “Forums” in big red letters. I tried using elementor pro and the regular editor but it doesn’t work.
I’m using WordPress 6.1.1 and site is behind a maintenance plugin under development.
try adding this to your theme’s custom css
@media only screen and (max-width: 480px) {
#bbpress-forums .bbp-body div.bbp-reply-author, #bbpress-forums .bbp-body div.bbp-topic-author {
float: none;
margin: 0px;
min-height: 2px;
}
}
sorry, I’m sure it can be done, but not something I’ve tried.
So do you want to bbpress profile to show some woocommerce things or visa versa?
You would need to amend
bbpress\templates\default\bbpress\loop-topics.php
bbpress\templates\default\bbpress\loop-single-topic.php
so for loop topics find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-topics.php
transfer this to your pc and edit as required
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/loop-topics.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
repeat for loop-single-topic.php
you would then need to change the style css to amend width.
Sorry beyond free help to actually do the answer, if you’d like me to do this as a paid job, then contact me via
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I need to offload my search functionality and would like to use elastic search.
Will BBpress support it ?
In the forum I created for my website, when you click on a user, their username/email is visible under their “Display Name Publicly As”. How can I hide usernames/emails for all users from public viewing?
I sort of did this ten years ago (it was how I got into bbpress)
Documented import from snitz access database
if you read from the start, but I went via excel, so from there should be relevant.
I would like to import a custom forum into bbpress.
I can create a csv file with all the custom forum data.
Is there any way to import it into bbpress?
What data must the csv file have?
Thanks
Hello
I run a large Forum using BBPRESS. Recently, users started being directed to an error page after posting a topic. The error page states:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 528384 bytes) in /home/customer/www/###mysite###.com/public_html/wp-includes/class-wpdb.php on line 2885
There has been a critical error on this website.
I have defined my memory to the max possible: define( ‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘768M’ );
But this had no impact.
Also, what is strange is that despite receiving the error the topic is posted (sent to me for moderation). Once I approve the topic is posted correctly.
Any ideas?
