It looks like the ‘Freshness’ column has been removed from your templates or your theme has custom bbPress templates that have removed the ‘Freshness’ column.
What theme are you using and/or have you modified the default bbPress templates?
You can also make a copy of your themes page.php file (or page-no-sidebar.php) and rename this file to bbpress.php and your forums will now use that same template giving you a full width forum. 🙂
The default ‘freshness’ is calculated by the last reply.
Have you run each of the repair tools after your import?
https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/
Give this plugin a try 🙂
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist/
This plugin is designed to safely allow bbcode shortcodes and other safe shortcodes to be embedded in bbpress topics and replies and also blog comments. You don’t wan’t users entering shortcodes such as [bbp-login] in the middle of their reply.
Help! We may have to leave bbPress if we can’t get this resolved. Is there no one who can help? I’m happy to pay money. Goal is to get this thing working…
Thanks for all the reports and not as I hoped in that it doesn’t look like there is a common denominator between you all except to say you all use WordPress & bbPress 🙁
I still can’t reproduce the error and share your frustration and we’ll keep trying to find this nasty little bug and get it fixed 😉
I removed the user/pass from your post as that adding public Admin logins is not the best thing to do here publicly.
At a quick look though it looks like you have a plugin conflict as bbPress is activated yet there is no trace of it in the dashboard for the ‘Forums’, ‘Topics’ or ‘Replies’ or even Tools -> Forums or Settings -> Forums.
To try and resolve conflicts with other plugins please disable all your plugins except bbPress to see if the error persists. Re-enable each plugin one at a time and if things break again you should be able to now know which other plugin is causing the conflict.
Wooo… Hang on a second… Why are you using the ‘unsupported’ old bbPress v1.x? (This was retired ~2 years ago)
And to quote you “I know this is going to sound defeatist and lazy but I simply cannot believe that in this day and age of automation that BBP makes you have to do all of this technical stuff.”
You should be installing WordPress and using the bbPress v2.x Plugin and that IS supported and instructions I gave were for the bbPress 2.x plugin.
The extra info I had in my original reply was for ‘if’ you wanted to add some extra styling by adding the thumbnail pics of the YouTube videos as custom images to your topic descriptions. It was meant to just be a pointer that ‘if’ you wanted this type of look for your forums ‘it’ could be done with some custom customizations.
The ONLY thing you need to do is make sure embeds are turned on for bbPress, that’s it and it is I believe enabled by default (I thought there was a setting in WordPress for this but the setting was removed and is enabled by default)
Essentially you shouldn’t have had to do anything, just post a YouTube link in a topic or reply in your forum and it should work as you expect it should.
Here’s the permalink to the translation ‘Search’ in GlotPress for English Australian.
If you click ‘Details’ (you might have to be logged in) you will see each place ‘Search’ is listed for translation, one of those is templates/default/bbpress/form-search.php:17 and that is the one you are looking for.
Depending on what is available in the theme you are using, you can change this in the dashboard Appearance> Customize > Appearance tab to full width. However, this setting also applies to posts. Pages can be set full width if you desire a website look. Some themes will give you more variable options.
I had to decide with my site that I really wanted the option to have sidebar material on some parts of the website so I was stuck using sidebars on the forum. I used some of the neat bbPress plugins like “recent topics” “recent replies” and “search forum” in my sidebar to fill the space.
Also,
it would be fine to redirect to a certain page on logout.
I searched through various bbpress files, but since there are lots of them I couldn’t figure out where and how to adjust the code.
I am also using a childtheme.
Thanks!
Hi,
I have installed a private forum, and there is a problem with the logout:
when I am using the bbpress widget in the sidebar or footer and a user logs out exactly (!) on the same page its ok, but on every other page it returns a 404. now this really sucks, because people usually click through the forum and don’t stay on the login page.
I have also created a members page and used the login shortcode, same problem.
Any ideas on how to resolve this?
I searched through the forum, however no answer for the current version of bbpress.
Any help will be appreciated,
Thanks
I have been getting a 500 Server Error when I try to view a certain page of replies in the dashboard.
500 Server Error
A misconfiguration on the server caused a hiccup. Check the server logs, fix the problem, then try again. URL: http://www.secondchanceaihadogs.com/wp-admin/edit.php?s&post_status=all&post_type=reply&action=-1&m=0&bbp_forum_id&paged=10&mode=list&action2=-1
I worked with my hosting support and allowed them into the wp dashboard to help. The issue is that last night they deleted php ver 5.3 from their servers. This was his response:
“From the errors its throwing it does need 5.3, and no, I tried 5.2, and 5.4 both are failing.”
I asked him why they removed 5.3 and this was his reply:
“It lost support by the php developers back in march of 2013: http://php.net/releases/5_3_20.php
We’ll be removing 5.2 at some point in the near future as well as it lost support years ago. We’re going to keep 5.4 around, and introduce 5.5 as an option soon as well.”
I can still see the replies on the forum, I just can’t open that page in the dashboard to edit them. I can seem to open other pages of replies but can’t be sure of the extent of this yet.
What impact is running on php 5.4 going to have on working with bbPress?
Thank you, Matoca
Hello,
I think this may be a new issue, but, on line 134 of the default template bbpress-functions.php, and on line 141 for RTL, the script is loading with a relative path and therefore not adding https when necessary.
Of course, when accessing site via https, this is giving a “insecure content” warning.
I made a quick edit which is replacing line 134 with:
'file' => get_home_url() . '/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css',
Keep in mind that may not work with every single install, but likely 99%. (those who have a custom wp-content or plugins dir)
Thanks.
Hi,
Thanks Stephen.
I searched in the translation files in /wp-content/languages/bbpress/ but I couldn’t find the string that controls this text 🙁
This is not the search widget, it’s the embed search in the forum index.
Any lights?
Hello. I just updated to bbPress 2.5.2 on WP 3.8, and am having a little trouble with the text box label bbp_topic_title (ie, Topic Title (Maximum length:80)) interfering with the forum title on the main page. On a post page, the text box label bbp_topic_tags (ie, Tags) also interferes with the forum title. For some reason it is not applying the labels to the text box and is putting it at the top of the page. Any thoughts on how to fix the issue? Here is a link to the site – http://smartchurch.staging.wpengine.com/?forum=confirmation-forum Let me know if you need any further information. Thank you!
walkingmiller
Thank you for your answer.
Well, I must insist:
If ‘ar’ is used, only BBpress is in arabic and if ‘ar_AR’ is used, only WordPress is in arabic.
What you point out may be so in writing but pointing it out will not change the fact that it’s not working in real life.
It’s quick and easy to verify and the marge of error of doing it wrong is very small.
So, I’m quite positive.
So, what are my options then?
Thank you for your help.
WordPress: 3.8 bbPress: 2.5.2 website: http://nacbrewclub.com
When I (or any of the members of this site) hit “edit profile” we see a page like this..
with just a list of all the user info and no way to actually edit any of it.
tried adding “User Role Editor” but it had no affect.
I would really like to turn off the WordPress user option but I’m using Woo Commerce to sell memberships to participate on the forum (and a few other things) so i don’t think that is an option.
I can supply some log-in info if anyone needs it to help.
Thanks,
Jimmy
Hi – thanks for your reply. I know this is going to sound defeatist and lazy but I simply cannot believe that in this day and age of automation that BBP makes you have to do all of this technical stuff.
I run a blog for my client that you can see here on non-hosted WP. They’re very happy with it:
http://hissign.wordpress.com/
You’ll see in the blog that it’s so easy for me to just plug a YTV video in there. So now my client wants a forum where they can allow others to post a wide variety of YouTube videos presented in ASL (like the example in the first post). But what’s mind blowing to me is when I set up BBPress, I’m amazed that this feature of embed is not right there and ready to go; but instead, I have to tweak and do all kinds of complex stuff like adding codes and stuff. Wow.
I chose WP because the blog (not the forum) does all of this for you conveniently so I can do my job of publishing and not have to worry or figure out all of these codes and stuff. Why in the world would bbPress be completely different.
Anyway, thanks for your help and I’m not really sure what to do at this point about my client’s forum needs.
Hey,
I use some other plugins providing shortcodes. The work fine on every page, but not in topics or response of the bbpress forum.
For example this progress bar plugin
http://wordpress.org/plugins/progress-bar/
How can I add the function that the shortcodes will work in bbpress forums?
Thanks for your help!
Here’s my setup:
Wordpress version: 3.8
bbPress version: 2.5.2
Operating system: Linux (Debian 6 32bits)
Web server: Nginx
Notable plugins: buddypress, jetpack, GD bbPress Tools, Platinum SEO Pack, WPBase-Cache
The bbPress templates should be in /wp-content/themes/yourchildtheme/bbpress/
Make a copy of your themes page.php (Or page-no-sidebar.php) and rename the file to bbpress.php in your themes directory.
