[stern70]

Hi,

I work with avada theme. Users can login and then they have more content. What I need is a forum and a chat for the users to cummunicate with all or private. Is this possible with BBPress ? And is it possible that forum and chat don’t need a seperate login because they are alerady logged in as a member from the site ?
Thanks !

[rinh]

My post disappeared and I’m unable to post it again: I’ll try again

I messed around with the conditions in the theme builder last night and I found working solutions 🙂

Elementor template for single topic and single forum

This template will work for single topics (those pages where you read a topic and can reply) and single forum (where you see a list of topics, sometime called boards or category). Both of these act as single posts. Make a Single post template according to your needs and in the container/section where you want bbPress itself put an Archive Posts widget and set the skin to Full Content. It’s going to look like your blog posts in Elementor editor, but it’s normal.

Save the template with the following conditions:

Include: All Singular
Exclude: Posts (unless you want the same template for your posts)
Exclude: any custom post types you may have
Exclude: Pages (just to be safe)
Exclude: you may need to exclude additional things according to your needs.

Elementor template for forum index

This template will work for the forum index only. Create and Archive template according to your needs. In the container/section where you want bbPress itself put bbPress forum index shortcode which can be found here: https://codex.bbpress.org/features/shortcodes/

Save the template with the following conditions:

Include: Forums Archive

[Robin W]

Custom Capabilities

[DeepBlue]

bbp style pack is a must have plugin with any bbpress forum !

[rinh]

Thanks again Robin. I tried Hello Elementor theme plus your plugin. Unfortunately it doesn’t work, and Hello Elementor seems to also breaks the template on forums which is pretty odd as the template works with Underscores theme.

I’m thinking now if there would be a way to manually put the template into bbPress files. Probably not XD

[Robin W]

if you are using the hello theme, then try

Hello Elementor bbPress fix

[rinh]

This may be more of a request for Elementor, but I thought I try and see if someone figured this out.

From this topic here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-elementor/
I was able to make Elementor work on forum index, forums and the list of topics inside those, but not for single topic (those you can reply on). Technically those must be posts and post comments.

It’s not entirely essential, but would be great if there was a way to do this. I use a barebones theme (_s) and the theme parts themselves are built with Elementor’s theme builder and custom CSS. So without a template for single topics I’m unable to get a header or a sidebar on those.

Thanks in advance!

[Robin W]

looks like you could use this, but check that bbpress is covered.

https://wpengine.com/solution-center/apppresser/

[jada69]

Sorry in advance to what seems like a basic question, I just can’t find anything or the app name for some reason.

Is there an app for bbpress to use on mobile? So my forum users can just login via mobile and reply in the app?

I’ve googled and not been able to find anything, not anything recent.

[Robin W]

so you are happy that in the forum display, the topic content box will be there, but show nothing ?

for 1,3&4

#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form input[type="text"] {
	width: 100% !important;
}
div.bbp-submit-wrapper {
width: 100%;
}

add this to the custom css of your theme

[downybirch]

No, and SiteGround checked their settings before putting me on to you.

TBH not convinced it’s a problem with BBPRess – they may have just wanted me off their back.

Too cynical?

Can I PM you a password so you can check it out?

Thanks

[downybirch]

I have a problem with bbpress forums at https://swift.ayrshirealba.org.

I’ve trying to get forums set up, and they work on my local development machine.

When I then deploy the site, the forums don’t work. Once logged on the user is presented with a ‘Nothing here’ message when they try to access the forum.

Mysteriously, after a couple of days, the forums start to work. No changes on my part, no changes at the host, just the passage of time…

I’ve checked with tech support for my hosting (SiteGround), and they can’t see any errors in the database or the site set-up. I’ve disabled all other plugins.

SiteGround think it’s a problem with BbPress. I’ve searched the forums, and I can’t find anyone else with the same problem.

I’m using SiteGround’s staging system do deploy the site. I’m on to staging 46. Maybe that gives you a clue to how much this is bugging me!

Anyway, thanks in advance for any help!

[Kevin Brooks]

Hello, buddies. I hope everyone is doing well. I’m posting this because there’s a need for it. On my Windows 10 PC, the “bbpress 2.6.6” installation always fails with a “problem opening file for writing” notice. I have no idea why this is taking place or how to resolve the problem. I tried my hardest to solve the problem using the advice in this article (such as performing a new install after restarting the computer, disabling the antivirus software, etc.), but I was unable to do so. Does anyone have any advice on how to handle this situation? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Robin W]

thanks, just tested with just bbpress and agree it does disappear.

I had bbp private groups enabled, although no settings affecting, but with this it shows.

I’ll try and take a look tomorrow (10pm in UK at the moment) to see what private groups does that is fixing that !

[rinh]

Thanks for checking into it.

I only had bbPress installed and activated. I’ve switched to various themes including Twenty Twenty. I ran the Health and Troubleshooting, but everything seems fine. I also set up a local installation with the same result. There are no error logs either.

Not sure what could cause it if it’s only happening to me. The issue does not happen if the category and sub-forums are public.

[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

[Robin W]

not directly a bbpress plugin issue – might be better to post this into that plugins support forum

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/recaptcha-for-bbpress/

[rinh]

Greetings

I set up a test forum and created a private category with two sub-forums inside. On forum index the category is shown with its two sub-forums listed below it, as intended.

Once I post a topic in one of the sub-forums the list disappears below the category on forum index. I can still see them if I click on the category however.

It’s similar to this bug here, but it doesn’t seem to matter if there’s a description or not
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2085

The bug only happen when the category is private or hidden. Should I do a bug report about it? Is there any known solutions?

WordPress: 6.0
Plugins: bbPress 2.6.9
Theme: Tried various WordPress default themes.

Thank you in advance

[tomdfn]

Hi guys,
i am using bbpress with the recaptcha for bbpress plugin then setup the site key and the secret key in google, then put the key in bbpress but however there is no recaptcha box if i want to register or login into the forum.

Do i need to do more to get the recaptcha box or what could be the problem.
Btw maybe you could recommend some more plugins or actions for secure the forum even more

thanks a lot for your kind help

[Robin W]

ok, so presuming this is in any topic, then if you fancy sharing the shortcode you are using and the php code, I might take a look at that

Outside of your php code, I’d suggest 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

[Robin W]

never heard this in 7 years of supporting bbpress.

so within bbpress it would be a deliberate action

dashboard>tools>forums>reset forums

But no idea if Learndash has something that hooks to this, say if you wanted to remove forums from learndash – might be worth asking them

[cstoll]

Hi,

I’m creating this topic on the off chance that somebody else might have experienced a similar thing and can point me in the right direction as to what has caused this.

So for unknown reasons, all forums and posts suddenly disappeared completely from our WordPress instance. They are not in the trash and I also couldn’t locate them in the database anymore. No plugin updates or any other suspicious actions have been performed that I know of which could’ve been behind this.

Also, this didn’t happen to our DEV instance which is essentially in the same state in terms of active plugins etc.

Anyone ever heard of something like this happening? I’m not so much concerned about restoring the lost forums because it was only test forums and test posts so far. But I don’t want to have this happen in the future with actual forums and posts on there. I know that backups can be made, but then there’d still be the content you’d lose in-between performing them manually.

We are using bbPress in conjunction with LearnPress and it was forums tied to a LearnPress course that were lost (we didn’t have any ‘free-standing’ ones), if that provides any hints.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[coopersita]

In bbPress, the URL for a user’s public profile page is something like https://example.com/forums/users/{username}.

The problem is that because of how users register (another plugin), their username is sometimes their name or email. We’d like for people to be able to post somewhat anonymously, so we’d like the URL to be https://example.com/forums/users/{display_name} or similar, so if they change their display name, they can remain somewhat anonymous.

Is that possible?

Alternatively, is there a way to post completely anonymously, but in a way that is available only for logged-in users?

[vision1291]

Does anybody know how to style the page so the profile pictures are like these ones on an angle?

[Robin W]

great – have a look at this as an additional plugin it adds many features – it also lists other bbpress plugins

bbp style pack