[teachworldhistory]

I have a website that uses bbpress forums.

The bbpress forums have worked for 5 1/2 years. When WordPress 6.8 came out, it broke. Now, when members log in, they can only see 2 forums and even those don’t work. When I log in as an admin to word press, all the forums are there. When a member logs in, they only see two broken forums. The updated bbpress plugin did not fix it. Reverting back to a previous Word Press version did not fix it.

Can I get any help with this?

[smithloo]

Hello

I’ve been using bbPress on a couple of my WordPress sites and it’s been working fine so far. But I’m wondering how well bbPress integrates with SEO plugins like Yoast SEO or Rank Math.

Do SEO plugins actually help with indexing forum topics and replies? I checked my Search Console and noticed some of the forum pages aren’t indexed, or maybe they’re indexed without proper meta descriptions.

[Robin W]

possibly because you are using an FSE theme.

so try 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

[Preeti Razdan]

I just installed bbpress plug in. Why does my forum page show this :

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[Sculley]

Hi there,

We’re using bbPress with the Simple Membership plugin, and the site is built with the GeneratePress theme. Here’s the staging site for reference: https://iu9d4mv2wm-staging.onrocket.site/forums/

Login is handled through Simple Membership, but profile behavior is different than the typical bbPress/WordPress setup.

When a member creates a topic or reply, they can click on their avatar or name to access their forum profile — which includes favorites, subscriptions, activity, etc. However, if a user hasn’t posted yet, there’s no way for them to access their profile, because their avatar/name doesn’t appear anywhere.

Is there a shortcode, function, or recommended method to add a “View My Profile” link at the top of the forums (or anywhere else), even if the user hasn’t posted?

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

[Robin W]

I’m not quite sure what point you are making.

bbPress does not support blocks, it may do at some future stage, but it does not do this now.

Wordpress support uses bbPress and has a fix they have decided to do in order to support blocks.

I did some experiments to see if I could get blocks working with bbpress.

I said in the other thread that I could not get blocks working with 19.7, so it is probably not surprising that you couldn’t either – I’m not sure why you thought this would work. I did get it to work with 16.7, but I have not tried it since 6.8 was released (nor do I plan to).

It is up to plugin authors to decide what they wish to support within their plugins, and whilst you think it would be good to be able to use blocks, this is entirely up to the authors of free software.

Whilst personally I would not wish to impose blocks on my forum users, as I find it unintuitive, I would support adding the capability for those that do want it.

For the time being, unless you can get it to work, then you have the editor as per this forum, or the visual editor which can be added using the bbp-style-pack plugin.

[Robin W]

ok, I am just a guy trying to help, I do not work for bbpress, and I simply listed what I did on my test site to get it to work.

so I cannot help for your specific site, but you have installed guttenburg 20.x when the instructions say a different version.

But if the instruction don’t work, then you are on your own to get it going.

[Chefranov]

I tried, I installed bbPress, Block everywhere and Gutenberg 20.6.0 but it doesn’t work. If I don’t install Gutenberg plugin I get critical error on the site. If I install 20.6.0 then I don’t see reply window and see js errors:

Store "core/interface" is already registered.

Uncaught Error: You tried to opt-in to unstable APIs without confirming you know the consequences. This feature is only for JavaScript modules shipped with WordPress core. Please do not use it in plugins and themes as the unstable APIs will removed without a warning. If you ignore this error and depend on unstable features, your product will inevitably break on the next WordPress release.
at t (implementation.ts:101:9)
at 772 (index.min.js?ver=1.0.0:13:2251)
at o (index.min.js?ver=1.0.0:34:44729)
at index.min.js?ver=1.0.0:34:45918
at o.O (index.min.js?ver=1.0.0:34:44999)
at index.min.js?ver=1.0.0:34:45931
at index.min.js?ver=1.0.0:34:45937

[Chefranov]

So do I need to install more plugins? bbpress, blocks everywhere, gutenberg?

[Chefranov]

Hi!

I’m wondering if the support forums on WordPress.org are powered by bbPress or a custom solution. I noticed that replies support Gutenberg blocks, which is not available in the default bbPress plugin.

Is WordPress.org using a customized version of bbPress with Gutenberg integration? If so, is this integration available publicly, or is it a custom internal implementation?

Thanks!

[DragoWeb]

Same notice here, with v2.6.13. So I patched includes/extend/buddypress/loader.php

line 42 : esc_html__( 'Forums', 'bbpress' ),
to : function_exists('esc_html__') && did_action('init') ? esc_html__( 'Forums', 'bbpress' ) : 'Forums',

and line 119 : 'search_string' => esc_html__( 'Search Forums...', 'bbpress' ),
to : 'search_string' => did_action('init') ? esc_html__( 'Search Forums...', 'bbpress' ) : 'Search Forums...',

and it’s gone.

I had several similar notices from different plugins, and I suspect WPML to cause this issue. I can’t deavtivate it because last time I did it was a complete mess 😅

I don’t have much time to go further this now, but I saw this topic so I guess Bbpress is not causing it.

[Robin W]

This post suggests it has been an issue for a while

Not working with ACF Pro 6.2.8 version.

seems to suggest an issue since version 6.0.5

I’d suggest you raise it again with ACF

Contact

[Chefranov]

I found a plugin that affects this. It’s Advanced Custom Fields Pro. I don’t have any additional fields (ACF), just installed plugin. I created empty site and installed plugins.
Also tried with Free version of ACF and it the same. Could you check this conflict?

STR:
1. Install and activate bbPress
2. Install and activate Advanced Custom Fields (Free or Pro)
3. Open Dashboard → Replies → Add new reply

Expected result: page with creating a new reply
Actual result: 500 error and error about memory leak in php logs

[Robin W]

bbpress 2.6.13 fixes the 6.8 wordpress issue

[Robin W]

There are many reasons why this might occur, that are site specific. This is not a known error with bbpress and more likely to be related to either the set up of your site, or 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

If that does not point to the error, then I’d suggest you contact your host provider for help.

[John James Jacoby]

Read the blog post here: https://bbpress.org/blog/2025/04/bbpress-2-6-13-is-out/

Go get 2.6.13 from: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress 🐝

[John James Jacoby]

A new version of bbPress will be released shortly that includes the above fix.

Sorry, and thanks for understanding!

[mkmcst]

where dose the file go? i also updated wp now my bbpress is showing empty topics

[Andrew Lima]

This fixes it (Thanks JJJ) -> https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/3631/3631-2.6.diff

[Andrew Lima]

@kriskl, there’s a plugin on .org called “Core Rollback” that works pretty well (I’ve used it in the past). I’m going to spend a little bit of time digging around bbPress to see if I can find the cause.

[Esmertec]

Hi there, I have the same problem while I rolled back to WP 6.7.2, I will wait for BBPress update plugin

[Robin W]

You would need to raise this for the image upload plugin support

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/image-upload-for-bbpress/

[webspaceunlimited]

help please – I have bb press and running enable bbpress for blocks and also inline image upload for bbpress – the image upload is failing – and w are getting an error which starts: “Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function WP_Filesystem() in /home/sites/…”
this shows in the imahge upload popup

Now we have managed one upload and none since – not large file and.. wondering if anyone has any suggestions?

Second question is thee a simple avatar plugin that doesnt need gravatar that anyone can recommend please?

[Robin W]

On the users, bbpress hooks to user_id’s, so in the database you would have a topic/reply author just held in the database as for instance 27, and then bbpress looks up the nicename for that in the user table, so no user in the table, then no name to display.

On import with no ‘import users’ if the username does not exist it puts it as 0, and then it is displayed as ‘anonymous’

So whist everything is possible if you can write code or know someone who can, there is no easy way to import usernames, as you would need to amend both the import code and the username display code.

I have no experience of phpBB, so cannot comment on the other aspects. The importer was written some time ago by someone who no longer is actively involved in bbpress.

[yosmc]

Hi all,

I’ve been doing a test run today to import my old phpBB board to bbpress, and it worked surprisingly well (as in: the whole process finished without hanging).

In the end, though, I do have a number of problems, and I was wondering if anyone doing a similar import was able to solve them.

– The old board has thousands of registered users (many of them spammers :/ ), and I didn’t want to clutter my WordPress install with all those accounts, especially since it’s a multisite install and I’m mainly migrating the board for archiving purposes. So I didn’t check the “import user accounts” box, but now all user names are just “Anonymous”. Any way to migrate the user names without the accounts?

– It seems like quoted posts are broken, as the “bbcode_quote” tag isn’t applied where it should be.

– Smilies aren’t imported properly. The relative path to the smilies is lost, and when there’s more than one smiley in a row, only the first one has an image tag.

– [img] tags aren’t being properly converted either. Or rather the conversion seems to work ok, but after the actual link, the [img] code, which bbpress can’t read, is retained for some reason.

– Like I said, overall conversion seemed to work well, but cluttered the error log with hundreds of these messages:

PHP Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/parser.php on line 1289

Anything to worry about?

– I understand that no attachments are imported by default, but maybe someone found a workaround?

Thanks!