[Robkk]

use FTP and copy page.php and rename it to bbpress.php , then remove all the unwanted code like the read more buttn .

This usually fixes most theme problems.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

need anymore help with this reply back , and i will give you a more detailed explaination.

[Robkk]

this plugin looks like it should do it for you.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-unread-posts/

[Ziga Sancin]

I’m seeing some weird freshness bugs on a bbpress installation (version 2.5.5). I’m using a different forum structure (a forum index, subforums, etc. – a traditional phpBB layout), so the bug is even more visible to the general public, but it’s certainly not the cause of these bugs, because I can easily reproduce the bug just by clicking on the trash link in the frontend or WordPress Admin and looking at the postmeta database.

I’ve tried using the admin tool to recalculate freshness, but it makes the whole situation worse. So, I have to manually change the freshness postmetas of all forums and subforums. 🙁

I’ve encountered at least three different bugs:
– wrong freshness set for parent forum and subforums after trashing a post
– wrong freshness set for forums and subforums after using freshness recalculation via admin tools
– no updated freshness set for parent forum and subforums after untrashing a post

This seems like a blocker to me. How can I help? Are those bugs covered inside bug #2414 or bug #1925?

[teamoo]

Hello – I’ve installed ‘bbPress’ on my website as well as the ‘bbPress WP Tweak’ to add a nice sidebar. Both the search area located at the top of the standard ‘bbPress’ install as well as the search area found in the ‘bbPress WP Tweak’ sidebar do not reap any search results.

I have 1 topic submitted for testing. The keyword is ‘Wellsville’. The search does not find this topic.

Any ideas? I’m completely stumped and a search function is an extremely important feature.

I should also add that outside of the bbPress plugin, my sites search feature works normal.

[metsoblue]

I have been having this problem since i first installed the plugin, I am using bbPress Version 2.5.4, WordPress Version 4.1, with the theme Twenty Thirteen, and I cannot seem to get the replies to show at all, forums and topic appear fine.
I have already tried changing to Twenty Fourteen, and the problem did not disappear, and the only plugin currently active is bbPress.

[teamoo]

Hey Robin – I appreciate your response but my theme designer gave me some code to make it work.

http://www.ohio-offroad.com

For reference, this is the custom CSS we entered:

/* bbPress WP Tweak plugin left justified text fix 3-13-2015 */
#sidebar.sidebar-left{ text-align: initial !important; }

[roysmyth]

I recently did a new install of bbPress (v2.5.5) on a site that had happily been running The Events Manager plugin for years. All Events Manager capabilities disappeared from all roles. According to the Events Manager support forum, I’m not the first reporting this. It was easy to fix as I had a backup of the previous capability settings, but something isn’t playing nice. WordPress 4.1.1, Events Manager 5.5.5, theme 2010.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bbpress-and-disappearing-events-manager-capabilities?replies=3#post-6698674

[Pierre Ledoux]

Hello,

i want to use a widget (bbpress login) and a shortcode ([bbp-lost-pass]).

But the appearance seems to be broken. The buttons are left. The descriptions are splitted. You can check the issues here:

forex.die-analysten.com/login/
forex.die-analysten.com/login/lost-pass/

how can i fix that?

Kind Regards
Pierre

[graadmin]

I’m a complete novice. I have installed buddypress and bbpress as I’m creating a website with a forum but also that gives users the ability to create their own groups and hope to develop it into a vibrant social networking site. However, I have noticed that users IP addresses are showing below the avatar and posters status eg keymaster, participant, subscriber etc….

Please can you tell me how to stop users IP addresses being visible to other users?

Thank you in anticipation of your advice

[Robin W]

probably either a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Dmclean]

I am having difficulty with my theme Simplify Options by D5 Creations. I have written to the theme developer, but they are not “getting it”.

So the theme gives me the option to change my main blog page to excerpts with a “read more” button. This cleans up my main blog page so that people don’t have to see the entire blog post for every single post.

However, when I enable this option in the theme, I can no longer access the forums from my forums page. I get an excerpt from the introduction to the forums which I wrote, and a “read more” button. The forum topics disappear from the page. When I click on the “read more” button, it doesn’t take me anywhere. Hence, I cannot access my forums when I enable the “read more” option.

I don’t understand coding and all of that. But if there is a plugin that you recommend which will give me the ability to clean up my main blog page with a “read more” button, that will not conflict with BBPress forums, that would be awesome.

Can you do that please??

[VojtaSvoboda]

When I debuged WP_Query in bbpress/includes/topics/template.php on line 203, it prints:

SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp_2_posts.ID FROM wp_2_posts  INNER JOIN wp_2_postmeta ON ( wp_2_posts.ID = wp_2_postmeta.post_id ) WHERE 1=1  AND wp_2_posts.post_parent = 5080  AND wp_2_posts.post_type = 'post' AND (wp_2_posts.post_status = 'publish' OR wp_2_posts.post_status = 'closed' OR wp_2_posts.post_status = 'private' OR wp_2_posts.post_status = 'hidden') AND ( 
  wp_2_postmeta.meta_key = '_bbp_last_active_time'
) GROUP BY wp_2_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_2_postmeta.meta_value DESC LIMIT 0, 15

with post_type=post, but it should be post_type=topic. Damn.

[VojtaSvoboda]

When I put

<div id=”bbpress-forums” data-forum-id=”<?=bbp_get_forum_id()?>”>

to the template, it prints me: data-topic-id=”5080″, so it looks that ID for fetching topics is right.

[VojtaSvoboda]

When I put

<div id="bbpress-forums" data-topic-id="<?=bbp_get_topic_id()?>">

to the template, it prints me: data-topic-id=”0″.

[VojtaSvoboda]

I just installed last version of bbPress 2.5.5 on WP 4.1. with premium Basix theme. Then created new page Forum with slug “forums” and to content put placeholder [bbp-forum-index]. Then created new Forums and topics, but I can see only Stick topics.

My forum detail looks like that:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s8gy1o4axjt69v6/Sn%C3%ADmek%20obrazovky%202015-03-16%20v%C2%A015.30.39.png?dl=0

I use multisite WP. When I disable all CSS, in HTML there also no topics.

Does any know how to debug this behavior? When it shows 2 topics, but I can’t see it?

[nolimit966]

Hi,

I had this issue since i very first installed BBpress along with the plugin – WP User Avatar.

The avatars are not showing in the forum at all. Its a completely bespoke WordPress theme with nothing in the functions.php to be doing any filtering or stripping out extensions of any type.
Ive also disabled every single plugin except bbpress & the avatars plugin & i still get the problem.

Can anyone please help me overcome this problem?

I did notice that in the bbpress / filters.php the line which says : add_filter( ‘bbp_get_reply_author_link’, ‘stripslashes’ ); had to be commented out because it was removing the backslashes from the avatar URL making things even worse.

I dont like the fact ive had to manipulate core code to do this. Surely there has to be a better was to get avatars working.

Thank you 🙂

[booknerds]

Well, I changed the login and register URL and it works good with bbPress. Also, i use Antispam Bee (because akismet isn’t really according to the privacy laws in Germany) which helps, too. Third is WangGuard which stopps spam registrations and sploggers. Works. 🙂

[Robkk]

@dimplefacect

glad you found the information you needed , the links i should have gave you either of these two

this one is cut to the chase

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

and this one is more explanatory and has more steps to help improve your forum.

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

if you need anymore guides for bbPress the codex is a great place to look.

[dimplefaceCT]

Got it!!

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-a-forum-in-wordpress-with-bbpress/

[dimplefaceCT]

Thanks @robkk. I think I need more hand-holding. I did go to https://codex.bbpress.org/ and still couldn’t figure the steps to taking the forum I built under the forum tab and moving it onto a page. Any idea on a tutorial for that step?

[booknerds]

Hey there. Question see above. I’d like to make bbpress show the parent and their according subforums/categories in forum root like this:

Forum1
-Subforum1a
-Subforum1b
-Subforum1c

Forum2
-Subforum2a
-Subforum2b

etc.

but the root shows me only

Forum1

Forum2

and the subcats are only shown when entering the parent forums.

Is there any way to display it as I wish?

Thanks in advance.

[Robin W]

go into

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php

and edit line 141 to change ’40’ to whatever size you want.

[Robin W]

The avatar size is hard coded into the login widget.

see

bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php

around line 141

You can change it directly in here, but keep a note of it, as it will be overwritten by upgrades. or if you have the skill, you could copy and create a new widget within your child theme

[Robin W]

@cotoonline try

bbpress wp4 fix2

[Robin W]

if that doesn’t work, then out it in your theme’s style.css, but tag it as !important

#bbpress-forums, #buddypress {
 clear: both !important;
 margin-bottom: 20px !important;
 overflow: hidden !important;
 font-size: 12px !important;
 padding:20px !important;
 background:rgb(10, 9, 9) !important;
}