Thank you for the reply.
I accessed the cPanel and renamed the folder. That allowed me to log back into WordPress admin. However, reactivating the plugin and renaming the folder back to the original name interfered with other plugins and caused the site to disappear (blank screen only) and the dashboard to be significantly altered. We were able to revert back to a backup from earlier in the day, which put the site and dashboard back to normal. We will leave as-is until a developer is able to examine the bbpress plugin more closely.
Thank you again.
Thank you. I found Advanced noCaptcha reCaptcha here.
I could try this.
I am not sure if I could use WangGuard – I am really looking for a good antispam plugin which will work with bbpress. Akismet is usually recommended – but it is for personal use. I am not sure if it is free for non-profits? I read high praise for Antispam Bee but it’s unfortunately not working with bbpress it seems. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
@mica123
This is not 100% related to bbpress, but to answer from a personal point, I’m using Theme My Login and Wangguard plugins without issues.
If you really want to code yourself, you could start from https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/display?hl=en or similar pages
Pascal.
@mica123 ,
I suppose you refer to bbpress on wordpress ?
You can subscribe to a forum and then you should get emails when a new topic is created.
You can subscribe to topics and then you should get an email when replies are given to the topic.
Hope this answers ?
Pascal.
As much as I tested it, it worked well, but I contacted plugin’s author and he said that there might still be some issues with it and that he will create a plugin/fix for bbPress in near future.
You are a godsend. Without you I would not have been able to put
bbpress together the way I wanted to.
Many thanks.
Have you edited any core files?
Did you see if bbPress works with a default theme and no other plugins activated??
You can try reinstalling bbPress again to see if there is just something wrong with that installation. Do not reset the forums and delete any data, just deactivate and remove the bbPress plugin and reinstall.
Troubleshooting
You cannot do this at the time. There is a ticket to hopefully add this feature to bulk edit topics into different forums in the future.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1838
This is where it would be in Topics > All Topics in the WordPress backend, just show/change the parent forum with a dropdown like when you edit a single topic right there.
There have been a few tickets in WordPress itself to make it easier without a workaround with javascript lately so hopefully that will help get this type of feature in soon.
This is most repeated message in error log related to bbpress
http://www.mydomain.com/wp-login.php
PHP Warning: require(/hermes/bosoraweb137/b2961/ipg.mydomaincom/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/sub-actions.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hermes/bosoraweb137/b2961/ipg.mydomaincom/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbpress.php on line 286
PHP Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required ‘/hermes/bosoraweb137/b2961/ipg.mydomaincom/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/sub-actions.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php-5.5.22-amd64/lib/php’) in /hermes
Recently I installed bbpress on my website and it worked like a charm . but after few hours my website gave me 500 internal server and after discussing with the hosting company they said it was because of the bbpress . He disabled it and now my website is working properly.
I have the cgi_error_log but its too long for me to point specific detail on it . if required i can go through specific line or can send as a personal mail or attachment to technical team
Any solution or suggestion
I think the plugin bbPress style pack has a shortcode for this type of thing.
See if this custom CSS will help. Add it to your child themes style.css file or in a custom css plugin or wherever you can place custom CSS.
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form textarea {
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
@davidschwartzer,
Happy to see you are getting where you want.
To close this from my side, I have found a hardcoded folder name, so that’s probably why the css is not correctly loaded. I see in your source : <link rel='stylesheet' id='bbpmsclosednogrey-css' href='http://appletechtalk.com/wp-content/plugins/bbp-manage-subscriptions/css/closednogrey.css?ver=4.3.1' type='text/css' media='all' /> but most probably your folder is not called ‘bbp-manage-subscriptions’, right ? For this version, please rename the folder under the plugins folder and reactivate. Will be fixed in next version.
Enjoy bbpress !
Pascal.
Wow thank you very much, that really helpful. i use make bbpress.php file on my theme so it’s work like a charm.
@jrunfitpro
Sorry for the late reply.
Since you said it is not a plugin issue causing it and you have done other troubleshooting to see if a code snippet in a theme could be causing it, create a test user, just a participant/subscriber user, then you can deactivate bbPress so I can see the issue you are getting. Contact me through email so that you do not need to post login details on the forum.
Contact
@bdsand
If you have already done some troubleshooting and have not found an issue, you can let me test to see what could be causing the issue too.
I fixed this by removing the New UI plugin for bbpress. Thanks for the reply.
Oh no problem. 🙂
The slug issue was really created by how you set up your forums at first because your theme wouldn’t display them right.
The other issue with the login register links showing up twice is because of the bbPress new ui plugin and how they try to implement a hierarchy and category layout for users.
I am having the same problem. I deactivated bbpress and now can no longer access the dashboard. There is no error message displayed, the screen simply turns gray and I cannot access anything on the dashboard. I am not even sure how to reactivate the plugin since I cannot access the plugin screen.
Please advise! Thank you.
The site is: http://www.englishhound.com
Could be an issue with theme compatibility in bbPress. To get around that make a bbpress.php file in your theme.
Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template
You can see what WordPress conditionals affect what bbPress pages by using the test that is explain in this ticket from the user. Or you can check the theme compat file in bbPress.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2723
Robkk:
I think with your help I am making real progress. Here is what I have done so far.
1. I put the bbpress.php file you created into the bbpress directory in my child theme.
2. I removed the Apple Tech Talk Forums from the Forums list
3. I removed the Forums menu item created by bbPress and created a menu item as a Custom link.
4. Maybe I said it wrong but I agree that Hardware, Software, etc. should be categories and OS X, iOS be the forums. I think I had a problem setting them up originally. In any case, I deleted those top levels and created new categories and moved the forum topics into the new categories.
Based on all of that, I think this looks much cleaner and the slugs seem to be what was originally described but you may want to take a look and let me know if I need to do more.
The full width forums look nice but it does remove the ability to register and/or log in to the forums and also removes some of the display ads. (I am using a plug-in to change the look a little bit as the css I originally used to make the forums show vertically isn’t working anymore. Would yu be able to tell me what line(s) in the file I would change if I want to go back to a right side bar like the rest of the pages?
That said, with the forums being full width, what is your suggestion to provide a way to log in or register for the forums while on those pages?
I do have a plug-in called “Bbpress Login Register Links On Forum Topic Page”, which does as it says but it now causes everything to be duplicated across the top as you will see if you look at the page. (this is new behavior). Do you have a suggestion for how to deal with this?
Last question (I think), you said the bbpress.php you wrote corrects a problem with this theme. If I ever want to change themes will I still be able to use this file? I suppose I can see if a new theme has issues. If not, I guess I am OK. If I do, can I use this file as is or does it need to be modified for each theme?
Thank you again for all of your help. You have made the forums look 100 times better and the Oh Bother box is no longer, well, a bother. I appreciate your help.
Did you place the forum index shortcode into a static WordPress page?? Does clearing cache fix the issue??
Troubleshooting
@davidschwartzer
It is blank on the forum root because of the theme. Use this bbpress.php file I just created and plop it in your theme preferably a child theme to fix that issue. I also fixed an issue where the user profiles also lead to a blank page.
It also makes your forums full-width, I didn’t really know if you wanted full-width forums but I just created you full-width forums haha. (I could change it to a sidebar layout if want.)
https://gist.github.com/robkk/b97ff7d7655080cbcaab
For the top level I created a Forum called Apple Tech Talk Forums.Under that, I have forums for General Discussion, Hardware and Software. Those forums point to the Apple Tech talk Forums as the Parent.
You do not need to do that anymore since I just fixed the forum root page for you.
Within those forums I have set up categories like Desktop, Portable, etc. It’s within those categories that topics would be created.
I think it is better for you to have Software as a category and say IOS as a forum for example.
I tried to remove the Apple Tech Talk Forums from the Forums list but then I get a 404 error if I go to the Forums tab on the site.
Just change the menu link url to a custom link that leads to /forums on your site.
Hi. I’m working with bbpress in a child theme, and I’m having a couple of strange issues in a remote environment that I think I can’t reproduce locally.
One is related to Profile pages. If I log as a certain user and then visit other user profile (in my case, the administrator profile), the displayed page may not be the correct one. Let me explain:
I worked with admin user a lot, but sometimes I log with a subscriber role in order to develop different contents, meaning the admin can see things than subscribers cannot. Well, being a subscriber suddenly I can see button that I shouldn’t see when visiting the admin page. And more: the “welcome username” message is wrong, showing the admin name instead of the subscriber.
Conclusion: some pages are some-way cached. Editing them via FTP and saving again the files solves the issue.
Second issue: the topic count (bbp_forum_topic_count method) sometimes displays the wrong number of topics if I previously deleted some. In my case, I deleted 5 topics. But the counter was wrong. So I went to Topics->Trash, removed just one permanently an now to count works just fine.
So, for this second issue I’d like to know if there’s a bbpress cache for counting or something.
Notice my remote environment doesn’t have any cache enabled. And I don’t have any wordpress cache plugin installed. And also as I’m developing I have rules in .htaccess to avoid cache as much as I can. But anyway something is going on and I can’t trust my installation until I discover what it is.
Thanks in advance.
@davidschwartzer
I will try to test out your theme (Simplecatch) to see if it is causing any issues, then come back to you with any solutions.
You can reactivate bbPress New UI plugin and use the CSS you had again as of course those plugins were not causing an issue.
Perhaps I added a page or category in a way I wasn’t supposed to. I tried to follow the step by step guide on the bbPress site but clearly I did something wrong.
This may be why your forum root page /forums is blank for some reason, but I will check it out.
