[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

[Robin W]

ok, this is not a bbpress plugin.

I presume you mean

bbPress Integration

in which case contact learndash

[frankssj]

Hi
I have created a forum, I have a course, but I just cannot get the forum to show on the course.

Ideally, I’d like the forum to be in a group, but can only find instructions on having a forum with a course. I have the course, I have the forum, but I just can’t get the forum to show on the course.

I’ve looked everywhere and spent all day trying to figure it out.

I use the bbpress plugin for Learndash, on WordPress.com

[jkessler]

I set up bbpress without any issues. My forum looks fine on the computer view, but it does not look right on mobile or notepad. I cannot find how to edit it. I tried a ccs that did not work and I tried changing the editing format to elementor, but that did not work either. Does anyone know how to edit the forum for mobile and notepad?
Thanks.

[janecarole]

Can’t find anything in bbPress Notify. Giving up. 🙂

[Robin W]

I suspect you have a setting in bbpress notify to send advice to admins

[Tom]

Hello

There is an issue where I can not delete any BBPress/Wordpress user as when I do the server gives internal error 500.

Either from the Buddypress frontend or from the WordPress users admin panel.

I looked at the error logs and can see
“mod_fcgid: read data timeout in 31 seconds”

I tried updating this in apache to 60, but it seems to not have done anything.

[janecarole]

Wordpress 6.0, Most recent bbPress version, https://lemonstograpes.com
Using Twenty-Seventeen

When a reply is posted, 2 email notifications are sent out to users: see #1 AND #2 below.

#1. email format (template): I want only this one to be sent! I created it in bbPress Notify (No spam).

Hello! A new reply has been posted by Jane Carole.
Topic title
Link
Excerpt

Source: Created by me in bbPress Notify
This one is sent out and has the correct format and contents.
It is the only one I want to send.

#2. email format (template): I do not want this one to be sent.

Jane Carole posted new reply:
Full content
Link

Source: I don’t know where this one is coming from.
It is automatically sent right after #1 is sent.

In summary:

I need to stop #2, but don’t know how. I think maybe it is the bbpress default email text. (I used bbPress Style pack, Subscription emails tab, and checked the box that allows me to enter different email body text, but the changes I make (in instructions 4-9 of that tab) aren’t applied and used even though I save them. The default text keeps appearing.

I thought that The bbPress Notify plugin would stop any other email notifications (I marked override subscriptions), but for some reason that isn’t happening.

Help please! (I am posting this again because for some reason when I posted it earlier today it was wrongly marked as spam!)

[Robin W]

bbpress changed the way it did subscriptions in 6.x, and not sure if Pascal’s plugin allows for this. That might explain the issues.

bbpress allows users to subscribe/unsubscribe to individual forums, so that is not part of that plugin.