[HillofBeans]

@Asynaptic

I guess I was being slightly facetious with my previous comment.

However, I too have scoured the forums like you, and I was fed up of seeing flippant replies to a multiple enquiries about the same topic.

I love the WP community, but, for these types of reasons I employ a developer more or less full time these days, because I can’t rely on an open-source community to come up with answers in a set time frame.

A voting system/ survey is a great idea, but I have a busy life, and a family to support, so I can’t wait around forever until someone pushes this to the top of their to-do list. I’m for GTD and agile development, I’m not interested in trying to steer an oil tanker.

This permalink situation is a great example. I need this to work. I cannot go forward with the standard bbPress implementation. It goes right against the grain, ignores logic, intuition, as well as SEO and the user experience.

I am not prepared to wait 7 years to sort this out, so I will probably pay my guy to fix this. If he comes up with a good solution, then I’ll share it right back.

But…. I still do not appreciate the paternalistic attitude of some of the ‘elders’ here. It’s unnecessary and patronising.

[Asynaptic]

@hillofbeans with respect, I don’t think that is what’s happening exactly. The bbpress team is not jumping up and down with joy to tackle this issue but as jjj said:

bbPress and WordPress are designed to allow those with specific needs and wants to customize the codebase, and contribute the changes they needed up-stream to the parent project. If this is something multiple people would like, I suggest you group up and build it. If it works, and more people want it, we absorb it into bbPress core.

This is why I searched and found previous discussions in the forum and a solution which was arrived at several years ago via a plugin (See above). It doesn’t seem like the creator of the plugin took it anywhere though, other than sharing it on the bbpress forums. They didn’t create a plugin officially at the plugin.wordpress.org or update it, etc.

If I could make a constructive suggestion to the bbpress team, it would be that while they are very busy and it can seem like we are just throwing constant suggestions, critiques, etc. at them, it would be wise to set up a method to gauge the community’s interest or desire for specific issues.

This can be done very simply with something like uservoice or similar ‘suggestion box’ apps where suggestions are shown and community members here can vote on them to show their interest towards them and move them up the priority list.

I made a similar suggestion to the buddypress team and I read from jjj or boone that this inspired the recent survey (hopefully we’ll see the results of said survey soon!)

That was great, btw! at the same time, a survey is a very short lived ‘snapshot’ whereas a uservoice type idea collector and sifter would be continuous

of course, I’m not at all suggesting that we convert the bbpress or buddypress projects to ‘mob rule’! nope. just that when we have such a communication channel, things like this specific issue would be addressed (rather than linger for 7+ years) because there would be transparency and a collaboration between the wider community and the dev team

🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

If you are using custom templates then adding <?php bbp_forum_subscription_link(); ?> should be all you need 🙂

Here is the original source depending on what templates you are using: /templates/default/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php#L26
and/or
/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.php#L16

[glyndavidson]

…no matter, I found one on the bbPress forums:

<li class="forum-subscribe">
   <span id="subscription-toggle">
      <span id="subscribe-652">
          <a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/requests-and-feedback/?action=bbp_subscribe&forum_id=652&_wpnonce=xxxxxxx" class="subscription-toggle" data-forum="652" rel="nofollow">Subscribe</a>
      </span>
   </span>
</li>

I’ll have a play with this and see what I can come up with.

[glyndavidson]

Thanks for taking the time to create a screenshot Stephen. Using the latest version of bbPress and TwentyEleven, I don’t have the Subscribe link.

Is it possible to provide an example of the <a href=""> tag so that I might hardcode it into a template?

Thanks again,

Glyn

[Asynaptic]

I would also like to add that this issue has been a concern and raised as long back as 7 years ago:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/permalinks-slugs-modification-removing-forum/

nicer slug url rewrite plugin (done!)

Name based permalinks without page/ and forums/

Nicer permalinks plugin messes up the forum sitemap

looks like someone came up with a solution to this, just needs to be checked and integrated into bbpress core (name of plugin: bbpress “nicer permalinks plugin”)

[Stephen Edgar]

This is fixed in the next release of bbPress 2.5.4 and/or 2.6

See https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2518 for more details and a patch/fix if you want to implement it.

[HillofBeans]

I’m with all the non-coders here. This url situation is nuts from a UX and SEO point of view.

Having built over 200 WordPress sites in the last few years, I’m really surprised to find that bbPress has these fundamental structural flaws when it comes to url organization.

This topic was raised 1 year and 9 months ago.

Have we got any further with this?

[Stephen Edgar]

There isn’t such a feature yet, most likely we will add it in a future release as part of #459/#1721.

[Stephen Edgar]

This is a known issue, please see bbPress#2412 and we need to wait for the issue to be fixed upstream WordPress Core per WP#24169

[Robin W]

possible conflict with other plugins or your theme

Try deactivating all plugins except bbPress and then add buddypress back and restest. if ok, the add other plugins back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

If no joy, then switch to default theme (eg twentytwelve) and see if it still is still there

Come back and let us know how you got on

[Robin W]

I’m sure there are plenty of highly active bbPress sites, with 20% of the world’s websites being wordpress they’re bound to be. That these people don’t come to the attention of a support site – and that this site only gets 20 queries a day – is surely testimony to how good the software is !!!

[Zonic Mirage]

Hello. Sorry for the slow response, but I tried again. Now it’s giving me

Fatal error: fatal flex scanner internal error--end of buffer missed in /site/folders/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/functions.php on line 1766

[sylcollin]

Just to be clear, both files are wrong (see below). They have the same behaviour.

I updated bbpress to version 2.5.3, and I still have the same issue.
I solved the other issues reported by whynopadlock.com. Only bbpress issues are remaining, here is what whynopadlock.com says:

Total number of items: 45
Number of insecure items: 2

Insecure URL: http://test.paulkampfstudios.com/training/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css?ver=2.5.3-5249
Found in: https://test.paulkampfstudios.com/training/video-training/purchase/

Insecure URL: http://test.paulkampfstudios.com/training/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/js/editor.js?ver=2.5.3-5249
Found in: https://test.paulkampfstudios.com/training/video-training/purchase/

I found about the chrome javascript console after, but it confirms what whynopadlock.com said.

[Soprano]

That’s what motivated my choice with bbpress, its ease of installation. I’m not really interested in money, I’m just asking the question because I would really like to have an active forum community but apart from a few exceptions (like the studiopress, wordpress etc communities) many forum communities, well established and with large amounts of members seem to have gone inactive.

So it’s all a bit discouraging, and I was hoping to see a few examples of successful ones 🙂

[Lynqoid]

The great thing about bbPress compared to other forum software is that you can get it up and running pretty quick, do some testing to see if it is worth while and if it isn’t just deactivate the plugin.

[Robin W]

We could do with a bit more information than just the error!

Have you just installed, or is this an existing bbpress site that has gone wrong?
What were you doing at the time?
Have you added any plugins or done any upgrades recently?
Does it work at all?
Does you site work but bbpress not?
What versions of bbpress and WordPress are you on?
what theme?
what plugins are you using?

[Soprano]

Hello,

Recently I’ve been contemplating installing buddypress along with bbpress onto my wordpress. I want to make it a community that focuses on the same desire of self-improvement and spirituality.

I was fortunate to have a few traffic spikes and started getting 20,000 unique hits a day for a few months so I thought it would be a good time to try and capture this visiting audience somehow by motivating them to register and return to be active in a forum community to discus the topics of the articles that brought them there.

However, after visiting showcases of forum sites like http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100 and http://bbpress.org/about/examples/ I notice the majority of them, even ones with millions of members, seem quite inactive. The latest posts being a few weeks or even months old. Even these bbpress.org forums seem to only get about 20 new threads a day. I know facebook has taken away a large chunk of forum users who now prefer groups and pages.

I always wanted to create a forum community, but when I tried I failed due to lack of traffic to my site, and now that I do have traffic, it seems forums aren’t as stimulating for internet users anymore unless the niche of the forum is very specific. So is it worth going through all the trouble of setting everything up?

Thank you

[Stephen Edgar]

We also have a page with a few of the ideas we like that extent bbPress in different ways:

Feature Plugins Tracking

[Lynqoid]

Hey guys,

I’m hoping to get a little more insight into what people would like done on bbPress. I know the general layout of the forums is a big one which is why I created the starter theme.

I would like to know what else you or people you know want from bbPress?

For example here is a list I currently have.

– Forum Layout
– Featured Images for Forums
– View forum based on user roles/groups

Thanks in advance for your responses, my aim is to come up with ways to help people out with all these requests/issues.

Also i’m looking for features not fixes or bugs.

[danieldude]

hi
i just added bbpress to my wordpress site and i am interested in making the sign-in button on the top right pop up a sign-in form rather than redirecting the user to a sign-in page

as well would like to add a register button and maybe some more links

could anyone please help me with this

i saw exactly what i want it to act like on this site:
24baby shop (click on sign-in button on top right to see what im talking about. its actually “inloggen” now sure what language it is)

my website is this one – tikanti

[John James Jacoby]

Both editor.js and bbpress.css are loaded similarly, as well as other scripts and styles in certain situations (single forums/topics, and when editing your password). Are any other SSL errors present, or is it just bbPress? What version of bbPress are you using?

Without deeper investigation, I’m unsure how this is possible when using core functions and templates. bbp_enqueue_style() calls content_url() which uses set_url_scheme() which is the WordPress core function for correctly determining the http/https/relative scheme for every link on the site. This means it’s difficult for one to be wrong, and another to be right.

[Frumph]

Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 3049

[koendb]

You can add all sorts of changes to your theme or bbpress from the general wordpress functions.php file. You can find this file here:
/wp-content/themes/%theme name%/functions.php

But if you update your theme your changes to this file will be overwritten, that’s why you should make a child theme with your own functions.php file. It’s not that hard and after you’ve made your child theme it’s easy to tweak other things as well.

[aravindbachu]

hi Robin,

I tried both ways already. It mashes up in both the ways.

Can you suggest me how to get the black admin bar for the users above my site, just like bbpress has it now for its user at the top of the page?

Is it possible that I make it visible and available only to logged in forums – users??