[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

[rinh]

Thank you 🙂 I’ll look into and give bbPress a proper try.

[Robin W]

I am not a bbpress author, but had been a moderator here for 7 or more years.

bbpress continues to be maintained, but releases are generally not frequent.

bbpress works with wordpress 6.x.

bbpress is stable, indeed it is used by WordPress as the main support tool for plugins, themes and WordPress itself, and is written by some of the main WordPress contributors so complies with WordPress standards.

There are many additional plugins for it which add functionality and design features – indeed several are written by me 🙂

[Robin W]

This is a WordPress error, usually associated with a failed nonce (short for ‘number once’).

These nonce keys are generated for your website to verify that, for example, a script is run by you, and not an external source. This prevents intruders from altering or abusing your forms, URLs, AJAX calls, etc.

amongst many times, a nonce will be generated when you land on a bbpress page with a form on it – eg a new topic or new reply form.

This article explains possible causes

fixing error

In your case I’d suspect that this is not caused by a plugin or theme, but rather through expiration of the nonce through either other actions eg possibly you moving away from the page creating the nonce and then going back to it, or possibly a memory limit.

I look at 2, 3 & 5 first

[thomasgran]

I have a problem with an errror message appearing when I’ve had a thread open for some time and then post an answer to that thread, an error message appears saying something like “Error: are you sure that is what you want to do?”. When I go back to the page in the browser and klick Send again, it works. The site has WP version 6.0 installed with bbPress version 2.6.9. Unfortunately I cannot post link to the site since it is on an intranet.

[rinh]

Greetings

I’m administrating a small forum currently on open source Vanilla, but they seem to discontinue their open source version and I’m looking for other solutions. Since we’re also already on WordPress bbPress seems like a choice to look into, but I’m worried we’ll get into the same situation again with the software being discontinued or outdated.

When I installed bbPress I noticed it said untested with the current version of WordPress, but also it does seem to be updated the past year so there may be no problem.

I need to ask though if bbPress is alive and planning to be alive for the future?
Are there any security concerns with it being updated so rarely or that’s perfectly fine?

Thank you in advance!

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses wordpress registration.

I’d sugggest you check that your site is sending emails, there are lots of plugins that do this, but maybe using

Check & Log Email

[Tasneem Bin Ahsan]

i just create a forum on my website. I think i did all configuration correctly. I follow a few tutorial from Youtube. Everything looks great. But when user tried to register my forum it’s did’nt work. The confirmation email never reached in the destinated email.

And if the user tried to register again with that email, it shows
“That email address has already been used. Please check your inbox for an activation email. It will become available in a couple of days if you do nothing.”

I checked up inbox and Spam, there is no email.

See this screnshoot https://prnt.sc/bTmtBROqOnFB