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
Hi, I have a problem, I installed the bbpress plugin for the first time and it worked very well, and I got access to the dashboards of the users, after removing the plugin and reinstalling it I can not access the dashboards of the users, it gives me request timeout error. can someone help me to solve the problem, please?
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
Howdy y’all,
Trying to create a bbpress forum with the Winkel theme
I put the index short code on my page, but when I click through the forum link, I get a blank page
It isn’t plugin related, and I’ve already tried downloading Robin Wilson’s bbp style pack plugin to no avail
Does anyone have some insight into this? I’ve seen it posted several times but just can’t get this to work.
Hello Wpturk,
Thanks for your answer.
To be honest, I starting with BBPress.
I will check this loop-forums.php and see what is possible (even if i don’t know php well)
bbpress does not have a template since it’s a plugin. You can style your bbpress via css so that it looks like your wordpress theme.
Alternatively, there are some wordpress themes which have built-in styles for bbpress.
You can check some in Themeforest: https://themeforest.net/search/bbpress
Not quite sure if this is the answer, but if a good looking bbpress is what you are after, then this should help
bbp style pack
@ricsca2
thanks for your comment.
I already have a WordPress blog.
Recently, I installed bbPress.. Now I am looking for a special template for the forum.
bbpress works with wordpress so you have to install wordpress and then if you don’t want to use the bolg just don’t create articles.
I see bbpress hasn’t been updated for over a year.
How come?
Please; How can I install a template for forum only, not blog too.
I mean bbPress template only.
Also, I want a simple, fast, and SEO friendly theme.
TIA
I’m using bbPress on a site with multiple forums. Normally I have no reason whatsoever to be in the forums or aware of what’s happening in them. EXCEPT if someone has posted and it goes a few days without a response then I’m supposed to be aware of it.
Is there any creative means to get a notification of a post that has been made say three days ago and hasn’t yet received a response?
That’s an interesting plugin. But agree gutenberg gets a little convoluted when only used as a text editor.
What I had in mind was being able to add some of the bbPress widgets to the page having the forum root shortcode. These widgets doesn’t seem to appear in gutenberg.
It would be good indeed, FSE looks like the future of WordPress.
I just started so I don’t know much, and I think I’ll be in forever learning 😉 I think a template part that is the forum would work best though, but I could be completely wrong on that. I can type down what I’ve got so far though.
From what I’ve gathered so far (I could be wrong on some things here). There are several kinds of templates, for example Archive and Single. Single displays the layout for single posts and that seem to be what all pages except forum root are.
Simply put the templates work in that way you build a layout using the block editor where you can put in single post parts like post title, post content and so on. In Elementor I made a Single with just post content and magically the post content would display the forum on the front-end.
bbPress forum root appear to be an archive, but since it has a shortcode forum root wouldn’t need anything more I think.
The FSE recognise custom post types and you can make Single templates for those. I’m not sure if bbPress is a custom post type, but if it is and FSE would recognise it that would’ve solved it all.
Hope that makes any sense.
it would be good to get bbpress working with FSE.
I am guessing that we would need either a template part that is the forums, or a forum ‘block’ .
If you are deep enough into FSE to articulate how it might work, I could do some digging.
But yes, I have probably had to grapple with a dozen ‘editors’ that various clients have been using, most of which are far superior to FSE, so whilst I do use it on some simple non bbpress sites, I haven;t really tried to get it to do anything clever, or used an FSE theme.
Unfortunately I don’t think any of them is close or can just be cloned.
[bbp-forum-index] – This one works well and can add the forum root anywhere.
But then there’s Forums or Categories, Sub forums and topics/replies themselves. These pages seem to all be seen as ‘posts’ by WordPress, why making a posts template worked in Elementor for all of them. FSE templates seem to ignore bbPress entirely though.
[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] – This one do make it possible to add single forums anywhere, but not if they’re inside a forum Category. Would also need one page for each forum which would get a little crazy. I don’t know if this one could be tweaked into something more advanced.
What would be needed is shortcodes for displaying forum Category pages in general, as well as their sub forum pages where the topics are listed. And then all the topic/replies pages too.
All that sound too difficult to be honest.
presume you are familiar with all these
Shortcodes
Hi
I’m looking into the possibility to move a community site from using Elementor Pro to WordPress own Full Site Editing and block theme.
I’m curious if anyone has figured out how to apply templates to the forums and topics themselves. The forum root works fine though because it has a shortcode.
In Elementor I worked it out by making a single post template and then exclude posts and custom post types from it, but in FSE it doesn’t seem possible to apply any templates to bbPress at all.
Thank you in advance
I spent a couple of hours yesterday hunting down the issue.
This code fixes it :
add_filter ('astra_single_layout_one_banner_visibility', 'astra_bbpress_fix', 50) ;
function astra_bbpress_fix ($value) {
if( class_exists( 'bbpress' ) ) {
if (bbp_is_single_user()) return false ;
if (bbp_is_search()) return false ;
}
return $value ;
}
Put this in your child theme’s function file –
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php
where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme
or use
Code Snippets
I spent a couple of hours yesterday hunting down the issue.
This code fixes it :
add_filter ('astra_single_layout_one_banner_visibility', 'astra_bbpress_fix', 50) ;
function astra_bbpress_fix ($value) {
if( class_exists( 'bbpress' ) ) {
if (bbp_is_single_user()) return false ;
if (bbp_is_search()) return false ;
}
return $value ;
}
Put this in your child theme’s function file –
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php
where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme
or use
Code Snippets
I spent a couple of hours yesterday hunting down the issue.
This code fixes it :
add_filter ('astra_single_layout_one_banner_visibility', 'astra_bbpress_fix', 50) ;
function astra_bbpress_fix ($value) {
if( class_exists( 'bbpress' ) ) {
if (bbp_is_single_user()) return false ;
if (bbp_is_search()) return false ;
}
return $value ;
}
Put this in your child theme’s function file –
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php
where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme
or use
Code Snippets
Apologies for the delay is responding to this.
Assuming you are ok with FTP, then
find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-anonymous.php
transfer this to your pc and edit to remove
<p>
<label for="bbp_anonymous_email"><?php esc_html_e( 'Mail (will not be published) (required):', 'bbpress' ); ?></label><br />
<input type="text" id="bbp_anonymous_email" value="<?php bbp_author_email(); ?>" size="40" maxlength="100" name="bbp_anonymous_email" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="bbp_anonymous_website"><?php esc_html_e( 'Website:', 'bbpress' ); ?></label><br />
<input type="text" id="bbp_anonymous_website" value="<?php bbp_author_url(); ?>" size="40" maxlength="200" name="bbp_anonymous_website" />
</p>
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/form-anonymous.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
Alternately if this all confuses you, I can do this as a plugin, but it would be a paid bit of work (but not expensive) – contact me via http://www.rewweb.co.uk/contact-me/
It’s tedious to change alert styles in bbpress because there is no filter (apply_filter) for ”bbp-template-notice” class. In function: bbp_template_notices()
Many of us are using css frameworks (like bootstrap etc…) and would be great to use the framework css classes instead.
Any chances to get this in 2.7?
