[Chuckie]

See:

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6608

I notice in the standard WordPress forums (like for BSP) that they now have improved user experience.

Is this something we could add to bbPress?

[timholland]

Thank you, Robin.

Based on the two plugins you recommended, and my reading of their documentation, what we need is something similar to bbpress digest. I installed both and bbpress notify does what it says, but users have no control over their notifications. For bbpress digest it did not do anything other than modify the admin menus. I tried changing switches but nothing seemed to change. Not surprising as it hasn’t been updated in years.

Regards,
Tim

[Robin W]

This is available as a premium add on for

bbPress Notify (No-Spam)

see digest tab in the plugin details.

Also this is old, but might still work

bbPress Digest

[timholland]

My users want the ability to manage the frequency of emails they receive from the forums and topics. Currently the default is one email for every topic post and many get inundated with emails. They want to be able to get a daily or weekly summary of activity, with links to specific topics they wish to read.

Is there a plug in or setting I’m missing?

Wordpress 6.1.1
bbPress 2.6.9
bbPress toolkit 1.0.12
bbPress style pack 5.2.2
BuddyPress 11.0.0

TIA

[davidleuba]

I am new at this, please forgive me. I have installed bbPress into a WordPress site https://mississippihunter.com/forums/ . I am using the Astra theme.

How do I get rid of the word “Archives?”

I sincerely appreciate any help. Thanks, in advance.

d

[DeepBlue]

Thanks a lot Robin

i had the same problem

i think you should give your fix to the bbpress dev team as this is an annoying bug

Thanks 🙂

[Moench87]

Hello, I have the following questions. Does bbpress use the user roles of wordpress?
I would like to include a separate forum for individual events on my website, that relates only to the topic of the event. Is this possible?
David

[stelifant]

Hello Everybody,

First English is not my native language and I’m not really advanced in webdesign, sorry :).

I have a weird issue with my header in my bbPress forums.

All my main forums show the correct header e.g.

Argumentation

But all my sub-forums show a wrong header e.g.

Umweltschutz

I have created a “single-post” template in elementor for this pages. Both, the main as well as the sub forums, relate to the same template.

Further i have created different headers and deleted some in the process. In the end I had like 5 different headers for different pages. The display conditions of the main header “header_main” should be on all pages, Singular and Archives except some exclusions (which all belongs to single sides or parent sides).

By inspecting and comparing the body class of both, I can’t find a class difference.
They are both single, single-forum pages. So I can exclude different display properties.
But the inspection shows a compleatly different header.

Actually the header-id “site-header” which is displayed in the inspection don’t even existe in my Templates anymore. Maybe it’s an old one…

– I think i can exclude issues with the display conditions from the “main_header”.
– Also i should be able to exclude cash issues. I use “Wp Fastes Cache” regulary to delete the cache.

I have no idea where the issue comes from and are grateful for every idea.

[Robin W]

that is not part of bbpress.

[scottmotion]

I discovered the problem was created by this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/forum-permissions-bbpress/

[scottmotion]

First you could try Robin’s bbPress plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-profile-information/
Same with BuddyPress integration: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-buddypress-profile-information/

If you’re not using BuddyPress though I would highly recommend looking into it. You can enable “Extended Profile Fields” and there’s also a plugin for custom field types: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-xprofile-custom-field-types/

As far as the outbound links themselves go you might need to code/style them yourself unless your theme automatically converts links.

[Robin W]

ok, based on that I have no idea what you mean by embedding.

bbpress does not have a ‘login page’ it has shortcodes and widgets.

the template used by bbpress for login is

bbpress\templates\default\bbpress\form-user-login.php

to customise :

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

transfer this to your pc and edit as desired

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-user-login.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[pcwd]

Theme my login does not allow embedding.
As I wrote at the beginning of the post, I would like to customize the bbpress login page.
Can you help me run that PHP code with Code Snippets?
Thank you very much!

[travis@digiprimedesigns.net]

I have searched these forums and for the life of me can not find exactly what I am aiming for.

Basically I run a gaming community. For the most part, everyone uses discord, and the new forum system discord currently has. However our website has been a beacon that has kept us getting back in touch with each other for over 25 year and im trying to not only keep it alive, but adding content.

Basically I have the WP Discord plugin. I want to have BBPress allow the user to add their specific game names (battle net, steam, EA, Activision IDs) to their website / forum profile. I downloaded and installed the Advanced custom field plugin via wordpress, but it doesm’t seem to work with BBpress. If I make a new page or post I can add the fields, but I am looking more in terms of the wordpress user adding them upon registering on the site, then showing in the BBpress profile.

I used to modify SMF years ago and played around a lot with different content management forum software, but am fairly new to wordpress itself, and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE how bbpress feels familiar to me. I feel like this is something super simple and easy to accomplish and im just looking in the wrong place.

On our old SMF forum, I literally had it setup in a URL format to where you would put your Steam username, but then on your profile it would be a clickable link to your steam page. It was super easy and literally required modifying the code 2 or 3 lines to fix once installing a basic plugin for SMF. I feel like this should be easier.

Can someone please point me in the right direction? Also, thank you all for what you do!

[redhotcyber]

Hi and sorry if I’m not very experienced.
I put bbpress inside a new wordpress site and I used the “Astra” theme.
I defined a page called “Home Page” and inserted an AdRotate banner inside it and put the prefix “[bbp-forum-index]“.
The result is this

https://forum.redhotcyber.com/error/1.png

I just can’t figure out why clicking on any forum, topic or other, the banner is no longer seen, as if it were working on a theme page that I don’t have control over…

https://forum.redhotcyber.com/error/2.png

I don’t know how to get out of it, can you help me?
Thank you very much

[pau-bbp]

Hello everybody.
I am using WordPress 6.1.1 with Twenty Twelve 3.8 theme to set up bbPress 2.6.9. The question is – how to disable theme Sidebar on bbPress pages only (forums, forum, topic etc.), but leave it visible on the rest pages of the site?
Thank you very much in advance for answering.

[Cheryl]

Hello,
I’m not sure what to call them — on the forum here there are content tags with a green background that show on the forum page such as “installation,” “troubleshooting,” etc. to designat the type of post it is.

I have “topic tags” enabled in bbpress — but the content tags I’m mentioning above seem to be a different thing and I cannot see where to set them up. Is this a default bbpress feature or is this coming from a separate plugin? How can I set that up?
Thanks

[Robin W]

yes

$replies = bbp_has_replies( $args );

in \bbpress\includes\replies\template.php

it has these default args (some set by code above this section)

$default = array(
		'post_type'              => $default_post_type,         // Only replies
		'post_parent'            => $default_post_parent,       // Of this topic
		'posts_per_page'         => bbp_get_replies_per_page(), // This many
		'paged'                  => bbp_get_paged(),            // On this page
		'orderby'                => 'date',                     // Sorted by date
		'order'                  => 'ASC',                      // Oldest to newest
		'hierarchical'           => $default_thread_replies,    // Hierarchical replies
		'ignore_sticky_posts'    => true,                       // Stickies not supported
		'update_post_term_cache' => false,                      // No terms to cache

but whatever you pass in $args will overwrite these

[charleshd75000]

Hello Everyone,

I really need your help because I created my own fields on ACF but they do not appear on the front end. According to ACF, it is completely compatible with BBpress (reason why I chose this plugin) but it only appear on the back office…

I already saw here all the topic discussing about ACF but no solution about the front end problem.

What have I to do ?

Many thanks for your help !

[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

The forums should then display

[pcwd]

Hi

I would like to customize the labels on the login page at
bbpress login, password fields and the button text.

I see some related PHP code at https://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Login_Form#Make_a_Custom_Login_Page

Could you please suggest how to add that code to my website? Thank you so much!

[Robin W]

ok, so delete the previous code and put this code instead

function bbpress_close_old_topics() {
	// Auto close old topics
	$topics_query = array(
		'author' => 0,
		'show_stickies' => false,
		'parent_forum' => 'any',
		'post_status' => 'publish',
		'posts_per_page' => -1
	);
	if ( bbp_has_topics( $topics_query ) )
		while( bbp_topics() ) {
			bbp_the_topic();
			$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
			$topic_date = strtotime( get_post( $topic_id, 'post_date', true ) );
                $forum_id = bbp_get_topic_forum_id($topic_id);
                if ($topic_date < strtotime( '-2 hours') ) // && $forum_id == 1276 )
                    bbp_close_topic( $topic_id );
		}
}

In other words we take out the cron scheduling functions from the code

then

Event type: PHP cron event
Hook name: bbpress_close_old_topics
arguments: none
next run: now
repeat: hourly

That should do it, you should see it as an event.

If you have a topic already set to expire, it should do so immediately as you have schgeduled to run ‘now and then every hour’ in the above.

[leon1912]

Thank you @robin-w!

But what should I enter specifically?

Event type: PHP cron event
Hook name: bbpress_topic_scheduler, bbpress_daily_event, or bbpress_close_old_topics?
arguments: ?
next run: now, tomorrow, a specific time
repeat: once, hourly, twicedaily, daily or weekly?

I just want to make sure I do everything right

[Robin W]

a cron event only runs at the interval specified, so the check event runs once a day ie

wp_schedule_event(time(), 'daily', 'bbpress_daily_event');

so would only close topics older than 2 hours once a day.

suggest changing that line to

wp_schedule_event(time(), 'hourly', 'bbpress_daily_event');

so it would run every hour, so topics would be closed between 2 and 3 hours depending on when cron runs in relation to their creation.

[leon1912]

Hello!
I used the code from @robin-w and pasted it into a code snippet but it does not seem to work. That is my code:

register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'bbpress_topic_scheduler');

add_action('bbpress_daily_event', 'bbpress_close_old_topics');

function bbpress_topic_scheduler() {
 wp_schedule_event(time(), 'daily', 'bbpress_daily_event');
}

function bbpress_close_old_topics() {
	// Auto close old topics
	$topics_query = array(
		'author' => 0,
		'show_stickies' => false,
		'parent_forum' => 'any',
		'post_status' => 'publish',
		'posts_per_page' => -1
	);
	if ( bbp_has_topics( $topics_query ) )
		while( bbp_topics() ) {
			bbp_the_topic();
			$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
			$topic_date = strtotime( get_post( $topic_id, 'post_date', true ) );
                $forum_id = bbp_get_topic_forum_id($topic_id);
                if ($topic_date < strtotime( '-2 hours') ) // && $forum_id == 1276 )
                    bbp_close_topic( $topic_id );
		}
}

The auto close time is set to 2 hours to test it and I created a comment after 2 hours because it should happen in every forum.

Have I done anything wrong? Thanks in advance! 🙂