[Stephen Edgar]

Most likely a plugin conflict with another plugin.

To try and resolve the conflict start deactivating each of your other plugins that are activated, when the bbPress menus return you know which plugin was causing the conflict.

[Stephen Edgar]

Is that a bbPress site?

There are some docs on the codex to get you started modifying your bbPress setup

Codex

[Stephen Edgar]

* What are the best plugins to make bbpress mobile responsive?

bbPress included CSS is responsive, a few tweaks maybe needed if your theme is overriding these.

* I need as much facebook integration as possible, what plugins are there for bbpress?

No idea, I don’t have a Facebook account 😛

Have a look in the WP Plugins repo https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=bbpress+facebook

* Is there any @mention/quote functions that can be added to reply to people?

bbPress includes @mentions, i.e. @soprano linking to the user profile, if you want email notifications and the like add BuddyPress and enable the ‘Notifications’ component.

BuddyPress Components and Features

[Soprano]

I’m looking for a few plugins to see if bbpress can do what I want with my community and I thought you guys might have some great suggestions.

• What are the best plugins to make bbpress mobile responsive?
• I need as much facebook integration as possible, what plugins are there for bbpress?
• Is there any @mention/quote functions that can be added to reply to people?

My current community is use to facebook groups type of an environment, so I’m trying to offer an easy and attractive alternative so they can transition into a community that I have more customization control.

Thank you!

[Eric Greenspan]

Had WPMU Forums installed when I installed bbPress. Deactivated it and removed all files. Installed bbPress fresh. Still, no “Forums” in admin menu (left dashboard). Help?

[jslom]

Thanks @Robin W. I understand this is free, just like the millions of other scripts/software online.. What I don’t understand is how such a popular script has no developers support on their forums, or even documentation on how to achieve certain things within their script. I have used plenty of open source scripts, and have always had some type of reply or documentation from a person who knew about it.

I would of course post the solution if I had at least the right documentation to achieve it.

Here is what the wordpress documentation on how to insert a post, and I believe it would be somewhat the same within a bbpress post, but have no idea since it is not documented anywhere that I see.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post

[Sébastien Dumont]

I am building an extension plugin for MailPoet to allow users to subscribe to a newsletter when they register on the forum.

I have my admin settings field shown in bbPress but I when it comes to saving the options I do not get the value I either entered or selected. All values save with a zero.

Can I have some assistants to get my custom settings fully operational.

I have my plugin available on GitHub as it is right now to show what I have done and for you to download and test your self.

I hope someone can help me correct this please.

Any help is most appreciated.

Thank you.

https://github.com/seb86/MailPoet-bbPress-Add-on

[Juicy87]

Hey all,

I’m trying to set up a forum using bbPress. I’ve come a long way, but I just can’t seem to get this strange background color removed.

As shown in the picture, there’s a grey-ish background color behind the avatar of people replying to the topic. The topic starter doesn’t have the background color.

Could anyone tell me how to remove this?

Site: http://armada.sjebbe.nl
Picture: http://i.imgur.com/ULb6Kgd.jpg
BBPress: Latest version
Wordpress: Latest version

Thanks in advance,

Juicy

[freiwerk]

Created a bug report here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2548

[Zonic Mirage]

Now I’m getting a file doesn’t exist error, so it seems to be the file having the problem.

Warning: require(/site/folders/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/functions.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /site/folders/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbpress.php on line 314

Like I said, I’m running latest versions of all the systems, bbPress is the stable release 2.5.3. D:

[Robin W]

Yes that is really quite good looking, I’d like to copy that also !

The inloggen is in the menu, so it is a call from menu item.

The site is using wordpress twentytwelve, but I don’t know whether it’s a plugin or they have coded it for themselves.

I have contacted the site to see if they’d tell us how they did it. If I get a reply I’ll let you know !

Maybe another support person on here knows how to code this – it’s actually a wordpress rather than bbPress solution.

[Robin W]

Which version of bbPress are you one, whilst I have your lines of code, my line 1766 of this file is in a different place than yours, and your line 1723 is my line 1700, suggesting you have extra stuff.

Might be worth you downloading a fresh version of the plugin to your pc, and cracking open this file to see if it’s the same.

[Zonic Mirage]

Lines 1766 to 1784. It’s a comment block, but it looks like it was closed properly.

/**
 * Handles the front end tag management (renaming, merging, destroying)
 *
 * @since bbPress (r2768)
 *
 * @param string $action The requested action to compare this function to
 * @uses bbp_verify_nonce_request() To verify the nonce and check the request
 * @uses current_user_can() To check if the current user can edit/delete tags
 * @uses bbp_add_error() To add an error message
 * @uses wp_update_term() To update the topic tag
 * @uses get_term_link() To get the topic tag url
 * @uses term_exists() To check if the topic tag already exists
 * @uses wp_insert_term() To insert a topic tag
 * @uses wp_delete_term() To delete the topic tag
 * @uses home_url() To get the blog's home page url
 * @uses do_action() Calls actions based on the actions with associated args
 * @uses is_wp_error() To check if the value retrieved is a {@link WP_Error}
 * @uses wp_safe_redirect() To redirect to the url
 */

Here are lines 1723 to 1764

/**
 * Fix counts on topic split
 *
 * When a topic is split, update the counts of source and destination topic
 * and their forums.
 *
 * @since bbPress (r2756)
 *
 * @param int $from_reply_id From reply id
 * @param int $source_topic_id Source topic id
 * @param int $destination_topic_id Destination topic id
 * @uses bbp_update_forum_topic_count() To update the forum topic counts
 * @uses bbp_update_forum_reply_count() To update the forum reply counts
 * @uses bbp_update_topic_reply_count() To update the topic reply counts
 * @uses bbp_update_topic_voice_count() To update the topic voice counts
 * @uses bbp_update_topic_reply_count_hidden() To update the topic hidden reply
 *                                              count
 * @uses do_action() Calls 'bbp_split_topic_count' with the from reply id,
 *                    source topic id & destination topic id
 */
function bbp_split_topic_count( $from_reply_id, $source_topic_id, $destination_topic_id ) {

	// Forum Topic Counts
	bbp_update_forum_topic_count( bbp_get_topic_forum_id( $destination_topic_id ) );

	// Forum Reply Counts
	bbp_update_forum_reply_count( bbp_get_topic_forum_id( $destination_topic_id ) );

	// Topic Reply Counts
	bbp_update_topic_reply_count( $source_topic_id      );
	bbp_update_topic_reply_count( $destination_topic_id );

	// Topic Hidden Reply Counts
	bbp_update_topic_reply_count_hidden( $source_topic_id      );
	bbp_update_topic_reply_count_hidden( $destination_topic_id );

	// Topic Voice Counts
	bbp_update_topic_voice_count( $source_topic_id      );
	bbp_update_topic_voice_count( $destination_topic_id );

	do_action( 'bbp_split_topic_count', $from_reply_id, $source_topic_id, $destination_topic_id );
}

[Zonic Mirage]

Deactivated three plugins and tried installing bbPress and it’s still returning the error. I don’t know what to do and it’s annoying. Any further suggestions would be appreciated.

[Kyborg2011]

I have created a site using WordPress 3.8.1 and bbPress 2.5.3. Search page don’t work. This is an example: http://dev.nesiditsa.ru/forum/forums/general
I use standard bbPress search form, but on a page of results I see content of main page of site. How solve this problem? Any idea?

[iejigna]

Hi,
In our site,
Topics with the status – pending are counted in topic summary text but not listed in topic list(as its pending,)
Topic count is stored in table name wp_postmeta with meta-key – _bbp_topic_count.
_bbp_topic_count is count of all topics including ‘pending’ topic.

How can I get count of topics with status ‘open’ in my summary?

We are using bbpress version 2.5.3 and wordpress 3.8.1

[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.