[Philippe Roussel]

Hi,

I use the Post Comments as bbPress Topics plugin, which gives by default an excerpt of the concerned post. None of the other options seem to work but none of them suit me either. Expanding on the php code you gave earlier in this thread, would it be possible to simply delete all content in the topic other than “[See the full post at: …]” and, of course, my own [TEXT]?

Thank you

[tinnakvist]

Hi, I’m a webmaster at a website that has bbPress.
And they often paste text in from another website that results in leaving a lot of formatted text. Is there a way to prevent that? It would be nice with a feature that could remove the formatted text.

Best regards,
Tinna

[Mrskt]

One possible solution is to use a plugin called BBP Improvements for Yoast which is a helpful tool to make Yoast wordpress seo support bbpress better. You can install and activate this plugin from your WordPress dashboard and see if that helps.

Another possible solution is to use the excerpt variable in the Admin > SEO > Search Appearance > Content Types (tab) section. There you will have a ‘Topics (topic)’ section where you can add a default meta description using the excerpt variable. This will automatically output the first part of every topic as the meta description.

[emmanuelle64]

I activated health check plugin and selected twentytwenty as theme
I activated bbpress
Then I went to Dashboard>subjets>all subjects and selected ‘les abonnements’ in the first subject.
Then I selected the first user to ‘subscribe selected users’ and apply : it worked ok, the subscription button turned on.

Then I went to Dashboard>users>all users and selected ‘les abonnements’ in the first user.
Then I selected the first forum to ‘subscribe selected forums’ and apply : it didn’t work.

Any other clue ?
And thank you for your time!

[Robin W]

ok, I cannot replicate that issue.

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

[imFiles]

This one works for bbpress: https://wordpress.org/plugins/contextual-related-posts/ if you want only related topics just go into Contextual Related Posts Settings and on the List tuning tab and on Post types to include select topic only. One thing it doesn’t have an automatic option to add the related items, so you need to added them either manually or the best way is with a fucntion.
I use this one to add it after each topic:

//add adsense after topic
add_action( 'bbp_template_after_replies_loop', 'rew_other_topics' );
function rew_other_topics () {
	 $topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id() ;
	 $forum_id = bbp_get_topic_forum_id($topic_id) ;
	if ( function_exists( 'echo_crp' ) ) { echo_crp(); }
}

[enkoes]

Hi, I would like to display nickname (and not username) in the whole bbpress forum.

For topics list, I modified the code from a previous topic Show username instead of full name / display name and it works well so far.

See https://paste.pics/MVA62

The modified codes that I use is as follows:

add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_author_display_name' , 'rew_reply_change_to_nickname', 10 , 2 ) ;

function rew_reply_change_to_nickname ($author_name, $reply_id) {
	// Get the author ID
	$author_id = bbp_get_reply_author_id( $reply_id );
	$nickname = um_get_display_name( $author_id );
return $nickname ;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_author_display_name' , 'rew_topic_change_to_nickname', 10 , 2 ) ;

function rew_topic_change_to_nickname ($author_name, $topic_id) {
	// Get the author ID
	$author_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id );
	$nickname = um_get_display_name( $author_id );
return $nickname ;
}

Note: I use Ultimate Member (UM) plugin to display user details.

However, when comes to user profile, I’m struggling on how to force display nickname right above the avatar. Hope you can help me with that.

See https://paste.pics/MVA6A

Note: It’s very tedious to modify “display name publicly as” from the WordPress dashboard for every registered user. Thus hopefully codes may well do the job for me.

[rtgrdh]

Running Atra 4.1.2. I had the issue with Bbpress forum search gets stuck using Astra theme.

I came across your code in another thread and implemented it into functions.php and the issue stopped, although I wanted to use the plugin instead.

I was actually running the non-latest version of Astra, and it seems like the issue resolved itself after updating the theme to 4.1.2.

[bertroode]

We encountered a severe problem. A couple of weeks ago we converted our PHPBB forum to bbPress.
The converted forum was doing all functions as expected. Since three days ago users who where already member on the PHPBB forum cannot login after renewing their password when they donot spell the nice-name correctly.
Then they get the message: Warning: register_shutdown_function(): Invalid shutdown callback ‘BBP_Converter_DB::__destruct’ passed in E:\wamp64_bert\www\forum\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\admin\classes\class-bbp-converter-db.php on line 35
So far we have traced that it must have something to do with the information stored in the table usermeta with meta_key ‘_bbp_class’. When we remove that record the user can login as expected.

The only change to the systems has been the update of WordPress. May be that has something to do with it. Our knowledge of debuging is rather limited so we need urgent advice on how to fix this problem.
We have seen that similar problems have been reported in the past but no solution other then removing and reentering the user was mentioned. That is not a reel solution because the orignal name of the author is lost.

Wo can provide us a solution or hint to solve our problem.

Best regards,
Bert

[ohliza]

…and you can mark this resolved because I just saw this – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/topic-tag-moderation/ – which did exactly what I wanted.

Thanks!

[ohliza]

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/

[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

[apizio]

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

[alandev123]

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.

[Robin W]

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

[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