[norcom41]

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.

[bobjgarrett]

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?

[Robin W]

just wondering if this is the issue

Search not working

[sirhc]

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

[sirhc]

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

[Robin W]

ok, not watched the video, but seems a relevant thread

Divi Builder Header not loading on search pages

[Robin W]

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

[sirhc]

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??

[Robin W]

I just added yarpp, it looks like it recognizes these as ‘buddypress topics’ – buddypress uses bbpress forum

[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

[elsoar]

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.

[scott43c]

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.

[Robin W]

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;
}

}

[Robin W]

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?

[Robin W]

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

Contact me

[snowfox6]

I need to offload my search functionality and would like to use elastic search.
Will BBpress support it ?

[madorac]

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?

[Robin W]

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.

[Ricsca2]

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

[daviddossantos]

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?

[longtinc]

We changed the domain name of an existing website a couple of weeks ago. Everything in bbPress is still working as expected, expect we use the RSS Feed to send automated emails every day with new posts to a list of users and get the following error:
allowed memory size of 805306368 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 262144 bytes) in /home/customer/www/portal.cnar-rcor.ca/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-object-cache.php

There is nothing here that points to bbPress yet, but we disabled all plugins to try and find the issue and it only remains when bbPress is activated.

We have also set a large memory size in the config file to no avail.

Here is the RSS feed result for forums that also shows the error at the bottom in some browsers.
https://portal.cnar-rcor.ca/feed/?post_type=forum

This started following the domain change. Is there anywhere in some bbPress settings or files that the previous domain URL is still be used?

Any other hints or information would be helpful.
Thanks!

[emmanuelle64]

Wordpress 6.1.1; BBpress Version 2.6.9

Hello,

My website is dedicated to a private community. It uses BBpress to give access to several forums organised hierarchically. The members need to be informed of every message that is posted but they do not want to subscribe to every forum of the the site by hand.

Is there a way to automatically set subscription parameters of every forum to on when a new account is created ? Each member could then unset the subscription parameter to off il he doesn’t want it anymore.

The default setting for subscribe to forum, would actually be “on”.

Thanks for your answer

[eluyawi]

Awesome, it works correctly, Robin. Thank you very much.
Do you know any information about how I can add the bbpress user profile and the Woocommerce account of the same user, so, everything related to the configuration, would be in the same page.

[Robin W]

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

[eluyawi]

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?