[Stephen Edgar]

Run the repair tools and your 4 topics should come back

https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

[shearamariz]

That’s not a problem Bob. Just add a topic on your forum and those warning will be gone. It’s just notifying you that there are no content in your forum. 🙂

[fresheyesconsul]

I have a client experiencing the same issue, using bbPress 2.4.1 with WordPress 3.7.1 – replies showing up not in sequential time order, so it’s hard for users to keep track of the discussion.

In a post I just checked reply #9059 shows below #9056 but above #9057. Threaded replies are enabled to 6 levels.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

[Pikkard]

I’m having similar issues…

Any new topics created all pull the blog sidebar even though every setting is pointing at the bbpress sidebar.

I tried creating a sidebar manually and the same happened. Have also tried the steps above (removal and readding of plugin) but still get same issues.

The other small issue is on the breadcrumb menu there is a parent page that I’ve never set, that takes you to root of forum but that page also pulls the blog sidebar?

I’m using the Avada theme.

Thanks

[Robin W]

Create a page, and put the following shortcode in it

[bbp-forum-index]

or if you want to get more specific then look at all the shortcodes

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[Robin W]

Vkymunir, you should really start your own topic, but as you’ve posted here, go to the following link

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[BobHatcher]

Newbie question…

bbpress reports lots of topics within a forum but doesn’t list any. Any idea what’s going on?

http://www.salessummits.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/bbpress.pdf

This is a very simple site with a discussion forum. The image is a screenshot as the site is protected.

bbpress 2.4.1
Wordpress 3.7.1

[Bigdogdaddy]

I am running WordPress 3.7.1 and bbPress 2.4.1. When logged in as an admin, when I try to edit a large Page, I get a completely blank screen, not even showing the WordPress sidebars. When I deactivate bbPress, I can edit the page with no issues.

[Robin W]

Unfortunately it’s css and php files that you will need to amend

Quickest change would be to add the following to your style.css

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
display: list-item !important;
font-size: 11px;
}

or to amend the display line in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css line 121

That’ll get your list vertical.

Add descriptions to your forums (dashboard>forums>edit and put something in content) and you’ll have the next part.

Then if you want to alter the display, you’ll need to look at loop-single-forum.php

or the main forum display loop-forums.php

[isopaha]

Hey,

I just finished creating the 2.0 version of my guild’s website. The earlier version was running really old wp+bp+bbp, so I wanted to create everything from the ground up.

I had a lot of issues importing the forums and users from the old site, since I didn’t want to import thousands of spambots.

Anyway, you can check out the forum at:

http://www.loreschool.com/forums/ and the whole site at the same place.

I’m running BuddyPress + BBPress. What do you think? Site is fully responsive but I still have some graphic elements and css to fix on some resolutions. Any feedback is welcome 🙂

EDIT: One of my biggest issues is that the Search widget is not searching anything from the forums, so I have to use some BBPress search widget, which in other hand doesnt search anything from posts. Any ideas for a fix?

[Stephen Edgar]

WordPress sends emails for user registration not bbPress. I suggest you check to see if emails are being sent for blog post notifications and/or new comments etc and post to https://wordpress.org/support/ if you need more help troubleshooting your WP install. You should also check with your web host that there are no issues on that side of things.

Additionally I have it set up for new users to be assigned the role of “participant” for the forums, and when they register no role is selected for them until I change it manually. I am running bbpress

The forum role is not actually set until the user logs in for the first time at which time they will then be assigned the role defined in the settings.

[jjwallestad]

When new users register on my website, they are not being sent an email with their password. Additionally I have it set up for new users to be assigned the role of “participant” for the forums, and when they register no role is selected for them until I change it manually. I am running bbpress plugin 2.4.1 on WordPress 3.7.1. My site is http://birdingacrossamerica.com. I am using the shortcode [bbp-login]. Previously I had no problems with users registering, getting their passwords, and being assigned the particpant role. I’m not sure when it changed, but it is no longer working.

Thanks for your help.

[Stephen Edgar]

It sounds more like a job for the P2 theme rather than bbPress 😉

P2

See also http://p2theme.com/ & https://p2demo.wordpress.com/

[Stephen Edgar]

Does this fix it?

Recalculate the sticky relationship of each topic

https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

[webonator]

Thanks for your reply, Stephen

That only applies to COMMENTS generated and not ton new/reply posts.I need to prevent all forum postings as it is unnecessary duplication of content.

[Stephen Edgar]

I am not seeing this myself, can you run each of the ‘Repair Tools’ one by one and let me know if this fixes this for you.

https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

[Suzanne]

Hi guys – I want to create a Facebook newsfeed style interface on a site using only bbPress. I’ve run BuddyPress installations before and that’s way more functionality than I need, or want to manage. All I need is the ability for registered users to post something and to have other users comment -> simple forum. The trick is to mash-up everything into one template, topics with their replies, that paginates just like the Facebook newsfeed.

I’m wondering if someone has done this, if it’s even possible or if there are limitations within the code that make that impossible without BuddyPress. My guess is it requires a custom template with a set of custom queries. Any leads or insights into this would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Stephen Edgar]

You should be able to logout log back in again (just to forcibly confirm that with WordPress), enter the same details on the bbPress import settings you used 5,000/0.2 etc and just click ‘Start’ and it will resume from where it left off.

[Stephen Edgar]

DO NOT USE ANY QUOTES, just use wp_

[wolverineguy7575]

Hi Stephen,
I tried it with both single and double quotes.

I opened the wp-config.php and copied the information directly from there. Still getting a similar issue. I’m going to contact bluehost and see what they have to say.

Thank you for all your assistance. Once I hear from bluehost I will update this thread with that information.

Scott

[j w]

I see. This at least provides me with a solution: we need to make many of these forums sub-forums. I did a test; if I set one of these forums to be the sub-forum of another on this list, a forum not previously appearing on this page appears at the bottom.

This is resolved now, since this is built into bbPress. I am curious though why this limitation was built it. It seems like something the admin should decide, not bbPress, but perhaps it was to keep database load down, or to just protect the bbPress brand (to keep bbPress powered-sites from looking ugly)? Anyways, much appreciated.

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, got it, your issue is because you have more than 50 forums.

Purposely limited to 50 forums. If your site has that many main forums or subforums, it’s time to reconsider your categorization strategy.

See https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1997

[willandmae]

The Forum Recent Replies widget is showing the wrong time and date:

For Example:

guardianwill on Welcome
8 years, 5 months ago

The site has been in design for less than 2 months. When I look at this entry the right time and date is displayed

November 4, 2013 at 9:30 AM and then the reply message.

Thanks for any help.

using wp 3.7.1
buddypress – 1.8.1
bbpress – 2.4.1
buddypress-default theme

the forum recent topics is working correctly and showing the proper time.

Thanks in advance for any help concerning this issue.

you can view at http://tvbari.org and scroll to the bottom footers to the right.

William

[Stephen Edgar]

Go to your BuddyPress settings /wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-settings

And toggle the setting ‘Blog & Forum Comments – Allow activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts’

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you created any bbPress forums?
https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum