[Robin W]

if (!is_admin() ) {
add_filter( 'bbp_get_forum_content', 'rewst', 10 , 2 ) ;
}
function rewst ($content, $forum_id ){
	if (!empty ($content)) $content= '<a class="bbp-forum-rew" href="'.bbp_get_forum_permalink($forum_id).'">'.$content.'</a>' ;
return $content ;
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[Ricsca2]

Thanks a lot, I fixed the code with chatgpt, but it didn’t work well with yoast…

/**
 * 🔧 Custom SEO meta tags for bbPress forum index page
 * 
 * This snippet replaces the default "Forum Archive" title and adds custom
 * meta description + Open Graph tags (for Facebook, WhatsApp, etc.)
 * 
 * ✅ Add this code to your theme’s functions.php or a custom plugin.
 */

function custom_bbpress_forum_index_meta() {
    // Check if bbPress is active and we are on the main forum archive page
    if ( function_exists('is_bbpress') && is_post_type_archive('forum') ) {

        // 🔹 Custom SEO Title
        add_filter('pre_get_document_title', function() {
            return 'Your Custom Forum Title – Your Site Name';
        });

        // 🔹 Custom Meta Description and Open Graph Tags
        add_action('wp_head', function() {
            ?>
            <!-- 🧩 Custom bbPress Forum SEO Meta Tags -->
            <meta name="description" content="Join our forum community! Discuss topics, share experiences, and get expert advice about your favorite subjects." />
            <meta property="og:title" content="Your Custom Forum Title – Your Site Name" />
            <meta property="og:description" content="Join our forum community! Discuss topics, share experiences, and get expert advice about your favorite subjects." />
            <meta property="og:image" content="https://example.com/path-to-your-forum-image.jpg" />
            <meta property="og:type" content="website" />
            <?php
        });
    }
}
// Hook into 'wp' to ensure bbPress functions are available
add_action('wp', 'custom_bbpress_forum_index_meta');

[Vinay PN]

Here are some ways to add or customize the title and meta description for the bbPress forum index:

1. Use an SEO Plugin That Supports Custom Post Types and Archives
bbPress forums often rely on custom post types and archive templates.

Ensure Yoast SEO is configured to handle bbPress custom post types and their archives.

In Yoast SEO > Search Appearance > Content Types and Archives, check if bbPress forums and topics are enabled and configured properly.

For the main forum index (bbPress’ main forum page), this is often considered an archive page. Yoast allows customization of archive titles and meta descriptions via the Archives tab.

2. Add Custom Code via Functions.php or a Custom Plugin
You can programmatically set the title and meta description on the bbPress forum index with code snippets. For example:

php
function custom_bbpress_forum_index_seo() {
if ( function_exists( ‘is_bbpress’ ) && is_bbpress() && !is_singular() ) {
// Set custom title
add_filter( ‘pre_get_document_title’, function() {
return ‘Your Custom Forum Title – Your Site Name’;
});

// Set custom meta description
add_action( ‘wp_head’, function() {
echo ‘<meta name=”description” content=”Your custom meta description for the forums index page goes here.” />’ . “\n”;
});
}
}
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘custom_bbpress_forum_index_seo’ );
This snippet checks if it’s a bbPress page but not a single topic or forum (index page), then overrides the title and adds a meta description.

3. Use a Dedicated SEO or Meta Tag Plugin
Alternatively, plugins like All in One SEO, Rank Math, or WP Meta SEO may provide greater flexibility to add meta tags for archive/custom pages.

4. Use a Page as a Forum Landing Page Instead of bbPress Default
Instead of using the default bbPress forum index, you can:

Create a regular WordPress page.

Use that page as your main forum landing page.

Insert bbPress shortcodes or specific forum content there.

This way, you can edit the page’s SEO title and meta description directly with Yoast.

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[thomasjarvisdesign]

Please see error code below.

2025-10-03 11:35:01 Error 77.44.13.228 500 GET /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=reply HTTP/1.0 https://www.domainname.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 5.70 K Apache SSL/TLS access

2025-10-03 11:35:06 Error 77.44.13.228 AH01071: Got error ‘PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Maximum call stack size of 8339456 bytes (zend.max_allowed_stack_size – zend.reserved_stack_size) reached. Infinite recursion? in /var/www/vhosts/domainname.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbpress.php:169\nStack trace:\n#0 /var/www/vhosts/domainname.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php(35): bbPress->__get()\n#1 /var/www/vhosts/domainname.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template.php(461): bbp_get_reply_post_type()\n#2 /var/www/vhosts/domainname.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php(544): bbp_is_reply()\n#3 /var/www/vhosts/domainname.org/httpdocs/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(324): bbp_get_reply_title_fallback()\n#4 /var/www/vhosts/domainname.org/httpdocs/wp-includes/plugin.php(205): WP_Hook->apply_filters()\n#5 /var/www/vhosts/domainname.org/httpdocs/wp-includes/post-template.php(174): apply_filters()\n#6 /var/www/vhosts/domainname.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php(603)…’, referer: https://www.domainname.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply

Anyone from BBPress help me with this?

[Robin W]

without further digging, the function

echo get_the_post_thumbnail

seems to support

thumbnail
medium
large
full

so you can have for instance

echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID,'medium',array('class' => 'alignleft forum-icon'));
echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID,'large',array('class' => 'alignleft forum-icon'));

you can also play with these settings – see

https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/how-to-change-thumbnail-size-in-wordpress-and-why-you-want-to

[andrew55]

Sure, this is the code I’m using:

add_post_type_support('topic', array('thumbnail'));
add_post_type_support('forum', array('thumbnail'));
/*
Plugin Name: bbPress - Forum Icons
Plugin URI: https://gist.github.com/ntwb/8277457
Description: bbPress - bbPress - Forum Icons
Version: 0.1
Author: Stephen Edgar - Netweb
Author URI: http://netweb.com.au
*/
// Original Source: http://www.kristarella.com/2013/04/bbpress-forum-icons/
add_post_type_support('forum', array('thumbnail'));
function ks_forum_icons() {
	if ( 'topic' == get_post_type() ) {
		global $post;
	    if ( has_post_thumbnail($post->ID) )
	    	echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID,'thumbnail',array('class' => 'alignleft forum-icon'));
	 }
}
add_action('bbp_theme_before_topic_title','ks_forum_icons');

[Robin W]

which particular code did you use, please post the snippet here

[andrew55]

Hi, I’m using this code from @stagger-lee to enable ability to create featured images in topics:

Add Featured Image to New Topics in Frontend WYSWYG

When ever I create featured image, they all come out to 400px by 400px. Is there a way to set the featured images to a different size, such as 600px by 400px?

Thank you for any suggestions.

[drjohndimi]

Hello.
I imported a series of topics in a CSV into a new forum that had 4 forums 2 topics.
The 50 topics showed up on the page section that had [bbp-topic-index] shortcode but not on the one with [bbp-forum-index]. I have uninstalled every plugin, no luck. Only the existing 4 forums and 2 topics display.
Quite frustrating – I hope someone reading this helps me. Alternatively, I will sadly remove the shortcode. I get error message [This forum is empty.] whenever I click forum that has the topics.
I use TownPress theme, Advanced Post Block, and bbp style pack if that helps.
Thank you for helping out.
JD

[Robin W]

you need top take out the “!important” in the rule in your Customizr Child Home style.css line 2858

to make it

#bbpress-forums ul.odd, #bbpress-forums ul.even {
  background-color: #EFEFEF;
}

and then add this rule

#bbpress-forums .super-sticky {
	background-color: blue !important;
}

[Robin W]

function my_bbp_no_reply_email(){
    $email = 'no-reply@sitename.com'; // any email you want
    return $email;
}
add_filter('bbp_get_do_not_reply_address','my_bbp_no_reply_email');

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[andrew55]

I’m usually ok with using css in my child theme, but struggling with this.

I need to change the background color only of the sticky topics area here:

https://www.lifeleap.org/community/forums/forum/lifeleap-cafe/lifeleap-institute-related/

I have the background color set with this css (even and odd):

#bbpress-forums ul.odd

But I just can’t figure out how to change background color only on the sticky topics.

Thanks for any suggestions.

[Sirmadsen]

I got the editor and this plugin to work by adding a code to my themes functions.php (child theme if you use that)

function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    $args['teeny'] = false;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

It activates the TinyMCE editor in BBPress.

[a7xfanben]

When a user quotes another post using the quote button, their post shows the bbcode as plain text. I tried to recreate the issue on my end with a test account (non-admin) in incognito mode, and was not able to recreate the issue. Any idea what could be causing it? (example linked below)

Wordpress version: 6.8.2
bbPress version: 2.6.14
Link: example post with issue

[Robin W]

since it is you asking 🙂

add_filter( 'bbp_make_clickable', 'rewst', 10 , 2 ) ;
function rewst ($ret, $text ){
	$ret = str_replace ('http://' , 'https://' , $ret);
	return $ret ;
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[Ricsca2]

But seriously, are you telling me that it is normal that if a user writes www.google.com on bbpress it becomes http://www.google.com and not https:?

[Ricsca2]

I couldn’t explain…
If I type www.google.com when I post the topic, it becomes http://www.google.com instead of https://www.google.com

Try writing a URL with only www and submitting the topic.

[Robin W]

This should do it

.bbp-topics .sticky a.bbp-author-link span.bbp-author-avatar {
    display: none !important;
}

[Robin W]

I’m just a volunteer here – I don’t think this will get added to the core.

so it will need code, and a plugin is just code with a wrapper.

If you are concerned about performance, you should be using a caching plugin

[andrew55]

I have this css in my child theme css file:

.bbp-topics ul.sticky .bbp-author-avatar {
    display: none !important;
}

But it doesn’t hide the avatar. Any suggestions on how to get this to work properly?

[Amin]

Sorry to bring this ancient topic up! But this issue is stil present after 11 years! It’s not a theme issue, I changed theme to the wordpress default.

Topics are sorted by freshness in each individual forum, but not in the forum index page at example.com/forum

I also added this in my custom plugin, bt no success:

function freshness_topic_order( $args ) {
		$args['meta_key']='_bbp_last_active_time';
                $args['orderby']='meta_value';
                $args['order']='DESC';  //change to ASC to put oldest at top
                return $args;
}
add_filter('bbp_before_has_topics_parse_args','freshness_topic_order');

[Ricsca2]

I get this warning in Search Console…

More than 2,000 of your forum pages are missing structured data for discussion forums.
Once implemented, Google can identify and display related online discussions on your site in relevant search results features.

And it redirects me to this guide:

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/discussion-forum?hl=en&authuser=1

Is there anything I can do?

[thinlizzie]

Hi Robin, yes that’s correct. The previous system worked fine but was not really encouraging forum participation so it will be replaced.

The daily-limit is handled by a simple flag in the usermeta table, all good.

I’m really just asking if there exists a combo version of bbp_new_topic and bbp_new_reply for me to hook onto, or if I should simply hook onto both of those, separately.

eg.

add_action( 'bbp_new_topic' , 'my_reward_function' );
add_action( 'bbp_new_reply' , 'my_reward_function' );

function my_reward_function() {

	// check daily-limit flag, bail if set to today's date
	// update the user's reward info
	// set daily-limit flag to today's date
}

[Robin W]

.bbp-topics-front ul.super-sticky, .bbp-topics ul.super-sticky, .bbp-topics ul.sticky, .bbp-forum-content ul.sticky {
	background-color: transparent !important;
}

and for closed and sticky

 .bbp-topics-front ul.super-sticky.status-closed, .bbp-topics ul.super-sticky.status-closed, .bbp-topics ul.sticky.status-closed, .bbp-forum-content ul.sticky.status-closed {
	background-color: red !important;
} 

[kal123]

I have disabled all plugins other than buddypress and bbpress.
Issue requires both to enabled. buddypress by itself does not cause this.

I am seeing this VERY HIGH log spam on every page load:

Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the bbpress domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in …/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121