[cwgah22]

I have followed the advice in the support documentation and created a “bbpress.php” copy of a working template. I have also verified using “What The File” that the page is correctly referencing the “bbpress.php” template. I have also installed “bbp style pack” and activated the FSE setting. Despite this, the header is only displaying some of the information correctly.

This is how the page should be displayed
But this is how it is actually displaying

I am using a custom-made theme derived from the twentytwentytwo default, with modifications using Greenshift blocks. If anyone has any advice or ideas as to what could be causing the header to only be partially displayed correctly would be appreciated.

WP version 6.1.1
bbPress version 2.6.9

[Robin W]

I think it is the same as in this thread

Disappearance of the menu

so follow the suggestions in my response there

[marketinganaimo]

The image (png format) of the menu does not appear on any of the pages where bbpress is being used.
Example of the problem: https://anaimo.com/forum-list/
Example of how it is: https://anaimo.com/sdk/
Also, if you insert any image, either png or jpg, it doesn’t display.

[fcaporal]

Is this related to this thread?

[Sean Massey]

Hi

I’ve just installed bbForums on my WP.ORG site, http://www.positivepython.co.uk.

WP Version 6.1.1, using Xolo Theme. Confirm the issue also happens on theme 2022
bbPress version 2.6.9

My site is set up so the Forums are the home page foe the site. I have set up some forums, but when I click on one of the forum titles, the link doesn’t take you to the forum, but it does go to a page of the (two currently) posts I have put on my site.

I am sure its something obvious, but I haven’t seen anything in forums or docs to help me.

Thanks in advance.

[Robin W]

thanks, by comparing settings on my working site with yours, I found the culprit

In

Dashboard>events>settings>general you had ‘Include events in main blog loop’ ticked. No idea what this does, but unticking it seems to fix the issue.

If you need it ticked….

I reckon (but not certain) it is something to do with how event calendar is reacting with a WordPress function called WP_Query.

When listing a topic, bbpress sets the 2 custom post types ‘topic’ and ‘reply’ so that it can list the topic first and then fires WP_Query to get the list for the display. I think events calendar is catching that query and filtering for an event required process, the effect of which is to strip the ‘topic’, so only the replies get listed.

You can fix this by using this code

add_filter ('bbp_show_lead_topic', 'rew_true') ;

function rew_true () {
	return true ;
}

This does alter a bit how the topic page looks. I could build a topic display page to overcome this, but beyond free help I’m afraid.

[Robin W]

that’s great – thanks

so on my test site, I hid a forum and logged in as a participant, and the index shows fine.

so we need to work out what the difference between your site and my test site is.

so initially let’s eliminate outside factors such as 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

[chrisverticalplus]

The error we are getting is the same:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_users_for_object() on null in /var/www/vhosts/redacted-site-name/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/users/engagements.php:125

It seems bbp_user_engagements_interface is returning null if the user marks the forum as hidden. For now, we have told them not to do this, but we are concerned that a user action using the ui can cause such fatal errors. While we were troubleshooting I bypassed the error by adding a ? in the code to avoid the fatal error on null. This brought the site back up while we investigated the cause

`$retval = bbp_user_engagements_interface( $rel_key, $rel_type )?->get_users_for_object( $object_id, $rel_key, $rel_type );

[veganishdotworld]

I can’t find the other forum topic where I asked about how to make the replies VISIBLE.

The problem was that participants, key masters, admins, authors, everyone was only seeing the date / time stamps of replies to topics, no one could see the content of any of the replies, when viewing the bbPress forum in the web page. Robin responded with this and fixed it.

——————————————————-

In short some code clashing was stopping the display being right in your browser, it was all working behind the scenes. Nothing that you had done.

Just for your records I have done the following change

In dashboard>appearance>customise>additional css and added this code

.reply {

position: relative !important;

right: 0px !important;

top: 0px !important;

[Robin W]

There is no donation link for bbpress that I know of.

[veganishdotworld]

I thought I saw a link for making a donation to support bbPress, but I can’t find it now.

Would someone point me in the right direction?

[Robin W]

ok, just tried twenty twentyone php 8.1, wp 6.1.1 with bbpress and the events calendar, and topics show ok on my test site.

(by the way 5 will give blank pages, these are FSE themes and are a pain in the xxxx)

contact me via http://www.rewweb.co.uk/contact-me/ with access details

[fcaporal]

My observations so far by testing on the Stage site.

1 – Deactivating The Calendar fixes the problem with the Forum
2 – Downgrading The Calendar to 5.16.4 fixes the problem
3 – Changing Themes to Twenty-Twenty-One has the same problem
4 – Changing Themes to Roseta (we are using a child of Roseta) or Codex does not help
5 – Changing Themes to Twenty-Twenty-Two or Twenty-Twenty-Three gives me blank pages on the forum (worse) even with all plugins deactivated.
6 – Deactivating all plugins except bbPress and The Calendar gives me the same problem

We are running PHP 8.1 and WP 6.1.1

All this (except observation 5) points to a conflict between The Calendar and bbPress.

If you want, I could give you access to the staging site.

[integratedcourse]

Tech support at my theme company made a fix. Here is CSS to put into the theme options to fix this for the next person!

#bbpress-forums > div:nth-child(4) {
    display: none;
}
ul#bbp-forum-0.bbp-topics1.bs-item-list.bs-forums-items.list-view {
    display: none
}      

Thank you so much for your help, Robin!

[Robin W]

ok, start with

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

item 8

[Robin W]

I’m not a bbpress developer, just a guy sat in his kitchen who tries to help others.

what theme are you using?

[veganishdotworld]

Hmm, so are you implying that you use wordpress.org and self-host, versus using wordpress.com?

I had my site on bluehost, which is considered self-hosted, but just a few days ago, I moved it from being at bluehost with their premium plan that was about $300 per year (I paid about $900 for a 3-year subscription, back in November 2019). Unfortunately, I didn’t get the web site going until March/April 2022, and when I did, I couldn’t get the web site to display excerpts for the archives. I write lengthy blog articles, and it was so frustrating having to scroll all the way through one article just to get to the next! I’m totally new, as so it’s not like I tried everything, not by any means, I simply had no idea of how to find anyone to help me.

So in April 2022, I stopped posting on my new blog as there was no use posting more, as it would just cause my finger to fall off, trying to scroll through the entirety of each post, LOL, so I kept asking for help, how can I get it to show just the titles of the blog posts, not the whole frickin’ article that you have to scroll through, all through this year, asking people I knew, asking people on facebook, etc. Sometimes people said they could help, but they ghosted (got busy with life), and no one ever helped me. Plus, I’m busy with my life, too! 🙂

Finally, in October 2022, someone told me I’d have more options if I hosted directly on wordpress instead of hosting through Bluehost. Plus, at bluehost, I got notices saying the site was down on a weekly basis, and they said that wouldn’t happen if I hosted directly at wordpress. So a few days ago, I switched over to wordpres hosting. I’m paying about $250 per year for their premium business account. I believe that most of the negatives that are listed in your article there, in terms of lack of customization or flexibility, shouldn’t be an issue with a WordPress.com business account, which is what I have.

I’m very excited that the forums option exists because of bbpress. If I can get this going, I’ll make a $500 donation to y’all and will continue to donate for the years in the future. I’m a big believer in supporting developers like yourself who create things like bbpress for the common good. 🙂 It looks like a great option; it’s just not working for me quite yet.

I don’t have ANY PLUG-INS AT ALL installed, other than bbPress, and PG (private groups, which is deactivated). The web site is live … do you think it’s OK if I experiment with switching the theme? Is that going to screw up all my customization? Or could I just switch the theme and if it doesn’t fix the display of the forums, switch it right back?

[Robin W]

on 2. previous advice applies

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

[veganishdotworld]

Hi Robin,

Regarding my question, if bbpress only works with wordpress, how is that you don’t use wordpress, but you do use bbpress? That was my question there.

Now for another question. I set up a private forum with private topics as a test. The weird thing is, I can’t see the comments after I’ve posted them. It shows me that comments are there, just that the time and date, and if I hit reply, I can write something, although I can’t read what I’m replying to. Then afterward, there is another nested link with the date and time of what I just submitted, and I can’t read that either.

[Robin W]

wordpress.com is a specific site to host wordpress sites

but you can have wordpress sites on lots of other hosting platforms as well.

but yes bbpress only works with wordpress.

[veganishdotworld]

Thanks Robin. Oh, I thought this bbpress was specifically for wordpress users to create a forum on their wordpress site? I’m new to wordpress and bbpress. How is that you use bbpress without wordpress?

[Robin W]

ps uninstalling bbpress won’t help 🙂

[veganishdotworld]

Interesting, now I can see that apparently Keymaster was automatically populated for my 2 admin people, and participant was automatically populated for a couple of authors (ones who have submitted content). For 2 authors who have not yet submitted content, nothing was automatically populated.

However, I went in to edit user and added them as participants. When I go back to edit user, it retains that I chose that for that user, it’s shown there, but when I look at “all users” it appears as if nothing has been selected for them yet, under the BBpress role. But perhaps that will start to appear once those authors have submitted a post?

I’m going to experiment with logging in as different usernames to test this and see if it works. I have not uninstalled bbpress yet, as so far I’m thinking maybe it won’t be necessary. Perhaps, hopefully, it was only the issue of needing to switch from Default view to CLASSIC VIEW, under users, to see the proper user options for BBPress.

[veganishdotworld]

Robin, thanks once again for all of these tips.
I’ve been logged in as admin / owner of site and when I go to users, all users, it has tabs at the top that say team, followers, email subscribers, invites.

When I look at a user, it has the radio buttons with several options for roles, the wordpress standard ones, followed by the bbpress ones, and no distinction between the two, they are just in a running list, and you cannot pick more than one.

Oh! I just remembered, there is a little white rectangle in the upper right corner that allows you to choose DEFAULT VIEW (what I’m seeing) or CLASSIC VIEW. I just changed that, and now I’m seeing “Side by Side” columns like what you are describing.

Wow! That’s important.

[veganishdotworld]

I only just started, and I’ve only installed 2 plugins that I know about, bbpress yeserday, and private groups today (deactivated pg per your instruction). The theme I’m using is Baskerville 2.

Yes, it would be really great if I could choose both roles for one person, like web page admin AND forum participant. Maybe I can completely uninstall bbpress and pg and then reinstall bbpress and see if that puts it back to what you’d consider to be a normal view? Is that what you are suggesting?