[loftus49]

I need to create a “name registry” in WordPress (either Gutenberg or Elementor Pro) that will allow users to input their own information and create a new “name registry” listing. Trying bbpress.

The

alphabetical

listing of names should be presented and when a name is clicked, the supporting information is displayed.

Albert
Andrew
Agnes
Charles
Charles
David

There will be lots of duplicate names, but usually, the date, country, or some other info is different.

Supporting information example (when “Andrew” is clicked) is Date of entry, email, info:

Andrew Loftus – 1818
Australia

Do you have any knowledge of Andrew Loftus (Coachman) who was transported to Australia in 1818 after a trial in Co Mayo. He lived in Ballina but his wife Elizabeth Murphy, later lived in Crossmalina.

Peter Kenny
Sydney, Australia
pk@somehost.com

I have looked at forum plugins, directories, posts and cannot find a way to do this in WP. Most times the entry field descriptive text cannot be modified. Currently using the bbpress plugin but don’t see how I can modify the field text to ask users specific questions. I initially did it in html using a doku. But I want to covert this to WP and add the self-entered capability.

Any suggestions or pointers? Is bbPress a viable route for this?

[Robin W]

thanks, do keep us updated.

as this is a commercial theme, I do not have access to it, but agree it would be good to have it fully working with bbpress

[cliffrohde]

I’m experiencing similar issues at https://www.brugmansia.us/community/, a Divi site. But even when I use one of the WordPress default themes (2023), I get similarly poorly formatted results at best. I agree with those suggesting this is primarily a bbPress issue, not a theme issue.

[webcreations907]

Yeah it’s odd that it doesn’t have pagination build into it, I don’t use threaded either.

You had put together a plugin for someone awhile back for this when using threaded replies, so not sure if that is still working or what the OP is looking for. Link to that reply of yours below.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/trying-to-get-nested-replies-and-pagination-to-work/#post-214969

[principiante]

Thank you Robin…theoretically, i’m not moving bbpress between 2 sites.
I’m doing redesign of my site, index page, pages, posts…and will leave forum as it is…without changing anything.
Here is “old” site

Croacia

and bbpress is on https://acroacia.com/forums
Here i’m doing re-design:
http://acroacia.com/redi/
and need to move forum to http://acroacia.com/redi/forums.
When finish with site, will migrate all to acroacia.com
Forum wil have the same domain and url structure like it have now.
Will be great if I can somehow left all acroacia.com/forum content as it is right now and just sustitute acroacia.com with new content…but it seems to be impossible.
What if I move new page content to acroacia.com and then import forums, answers and topics?
Maybe will be much easyer becouse domain and instalation file is the same like it was when all was exported…

[Robin W]

so moving bbpress forums between 2 websites is really very hard, and requires preparation on source site and extraction of meta data on target site.

the wordpess export/import tools are not sufficient.

the last time I did it I ended up with a 57 stage process, and I’ve still not found anyway to describe to someone not versed in bbpress how to do this.

sorry beyond free help, but if you’d like me to help on a paid basis, contact me via

Contact me

[principiante]

After sucess import (wordpress tool) of forums, topics and replies and import to other page, topics are missing on forum pages.
Here is a main forum page
https://acroacia.com/redi/forums/
If open any of them, got message “Oh bother! No topics were found here!” (¡Vaya, no hay debates aquí!)
In wp backend all forums, topics and replies are listed.
I found here in bbpress forum similar problem from 2015 where installing some plugin that was developed by user on this forum Robin W. was solving the problem but that plugin not exist anymore.
Anyone can help me?
Thank you

[principiante]

Dear friends,
I’m redesigning my site acroacia.com.
Apart of pages and posts, this site also have a bbpress forum acroacia.com/forums
On same server I was build site redesign that NOT include forum content.
Redesign page: acroacia.com/redi
Is there any way to sustitute old page content with redesign content but preserving /forum/ content?
Or I should first export and import all forum content from old page to redesigned page and after delete old page and uploadc new content with bbpress forum?
Thank you!

[Robin W]

I’m just a guy sat in his kitchen who was helped several years ago when I was setting bbpress up, so I try to help others – I’m not a bbpress author.

Updates from the bbpress authors are few and far between, I think they are on other projects now, and maybe consider bbpress as a mature product. The philosophy was always to keep bbpress small, and let other plugins add stuff that was needed.

I do ask them to update the ‘tested to’ but it rarely happens. I test bbpress with new versions.

That is and will always be the issue with open source software – it relies on people doing stuff for free, and people’s focus changes and people move on. That is annoying, but the reality of life.

If you have things that need core updates, you can raise them on trac

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/report

That way at least stuff that is wrong or could be done better gets logged.

[Rough Pixels]

Thanks, Robin for the plugin suggestion, but it’s more of the core of bbPress which seems quite outdated and a little messy with code. Plus, doing template overrides, there are things which hoped would be there that I can override. Some styles are using!important, some styles are reused in ways they shouldn’t be, so I had to get creative with overrides…I had to use javascript to remove/change/add classes to select elements: ie buttons.

Then, on the bbpress plugin page at .org, this shows up as a notice:

This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.

Time to revamp this plugin and bring the coding and features up-to-date–plus capabilities. Even here in this forum, the font size is just 12 px. Time to move it up a bit, especially for accessibility 🙂

[Milan Petrovic]

bbPress 2.6.9 is compatible with WordPress 6.2. As for PHP, it works fine with all the new versions, but it does generate various warnings with PHP 8.1 and newer (nothing critical, mostly about deprecated PHP functionalities).

[chakotenwebmaster]

HI

Wordpress has issued a warning on the plugins page at wordpress.org saying that this plugin hasen’t been tested with the current version of wordpress

So Just out of curiosity is bbPress 2.6.9 campatible with the latest version of wordpress 6.2 ??
And has it also been tested with the newest version of PHP 7.4/8.0/8.1/8.2 ??

The information tab on the plugins page in wordpress.org says:
Version: 2.6.9
Author The bbPress Contributors
Last update: 1 year ago
Demands WordPress version: 5.0 or newer
compatible up to: 5.9.5
Demands PHP version: 5.6.20 or newer

Please check and inform me and the rest of the plugins users about the status.
Oh yeah and remember to update the plugins inforation tab at wordpress.org

/Lars

[carel75]

Hi

I would like to remove date from my forum column “Last Post” : https://www.lebonconstructeur.fr/forums/
I have some very specific topics and people dont click if they find that last post is too old
I would like to keep only user name in the column

[Robin W]

it would, but I am just a man in his kitchen, I’m not a bbpress author.

Style pack is much more than just styling (it may have been mostly that when you tried it), and you don’t need to use the styling bits to take advantage of the functionality.

Anyway it’s free and what I write, so that’s where the blocks will be.

If you just want to use blocks in the custom post types, then just add this filter

add_filter ('bbp_register_forum_post_type', 'rew_gutenberg_editor') ;
add_filter ('bbp_register_topic_post_type', 'rew_gutenberg_editor') ;
add_filter ('bbp_register_reply_post_type', 'rew_gutenberg_editor') ;

function rew_gutenberg_editor ($settings) {
	$settings['show_in_rest'] = true ;
	return $settings ;
}

If you want to impose blocks on your users in topics and replies, then use the ‘blocks everywhere’ plugin.

If you want block widgets, that is what will be in style pack when I have finished writing it.

If you want bbpress in FSE themes, that will also be in style pack in due course

[RakieM]

Is there any chance that BBPress will be updated to support Gutenberg blocks. The classic editor is really outdated and the designing of pages with blocks is the more logical step moving forward.

Thanks

[Robin W]

instructions for them

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

go to line 248 and change

? esc_html_e( 'You cannot create new topics.', 'bbpress' )

to

? esc_html_e( '', 'bbpress' )

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-topic.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[yellowduck1903]

Just tried to check with Health Check & Troubleshooting.
After activation of Troubleshooting and bbPress, I checked again all themes and found that pages still not available, despite of Settings with 15 posts per page.
Any other option?

[Philippe Roussel]

Solved. I simply had to re-create the forum in which all my posts go with Post Comments as bbPress Topics. Thank you.

[wpturk]

You can create a new page and put [bbp-forum-index] in it. This way, it will be your forum root page and you can edit this page.

Here is the related documentation: 3. Creating a forum page -> Method 2

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[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

[Philippe Roussel]

The author’s topic area has turned pink since I removed a few forums, and below the “Reply to” there is a message saying “This topic is in the trash” (which is not).

Here is an example: https://onehomeplanet.com/democracys-prospects-looking-backwards/ (it is a post; I use the plugin Post Comments as bbPress Topics)

Thanks for your help.

[Robin W]

can you say how this relates to bbpress?

[Rough Pixels]

I’m curious…it seems as though bbPress is being left far behind without any serious redevelopment. Are there plans for bbPress to get a complete overhaul to bring it up to date?

I’m debating whether to dump it off my site because it seems outdated and no info about giving it a fresh update–it’s been 2 years since the last update.

[enkoes]

Recently I found that all freshness display all showing “sometime ago”.

I came across a topic related to same issue Notifications – Date Received = “Sometime Ago”. It seems that the problem is related to time zone that makes this freshness display totally unworkable. If I don’t want to change to the actual display of date/time, any solution for this?

Regards.

[wpturk]

You can change the $before and $after variables to whatever you like. For example an external link before all topics:

function add_custom_content($content) {

    $topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
    $user_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id );

    if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster($user_id) ) {

            $before ='<p>This is my <a href="https://bbpress.org/">EXTERNAL LINK</a>.</p>';
            $after ='<p>TEXT AFTER</p>';
            $content = $before . $content . $after;
    }
    return $content;
}
add_filter ('bbp_get_topic_content', 'add_custom_content');

For the excerpt issue you can give a try with another priority:

function filter_the_excerpt( ) {
    return ' ';
}
add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'filter_the_excerpt', 999, 2 );