We had a rash of spam coming into our form today and we were confused because even after adding keywords in to the “Disallowed Comment Keys” in WordPress we were still seeing posts making it through to the forums that contained words we put into that list.
I think I found a bug in bbPress, and man, it must be rather longstanding… I found a post in the forum from about two years ago that talked about the reworking of the blacklist to using the disallow list [or that the name of the list had changed], and maybe this crept in at that time.
Here is the code:
bbpress/includes/common/functions.php:
866 // Strict mode uses WordPress “blacklist” settings
867 if ( true === $strict ) {
868 $hook_name = ‘blacklist’;
869 $option_name = ‘disallow_keys’;
In actuality, the key name in the options table is ‘disallowed_keys’.
I changed the code on our site and it seems to have stopped the flood. Would you take a look and see if I am correct about this? If not, please let me know and I will revert our copy and apologize for the false alarm. 🙂
Thanks!
Steve
sql not my strong suit, but that code looks as though it does all that it needs to.
I’m cleaning up an old abandoned forum…
It has over 60,000 members but few are real users and have written posts.
Is there a way to delete all users who have not written posts?
Chatgpt wrote me this script and it seems to have worked but if anyone has another safer and tested method I prefer it.
Thanks
DELETE u, um
FROM wp_users u
LEFT JOIN wp_usermeta um ON u.ID = um.user_id
LEFT JOIN wp_posts p ON u.ID = p.post_author AND p.post_type IN ('topic', 'reply')
WHERE p.ID IS NULL;
that is because Kadence does it’s own
you can take out kadence breadcrumbs using
.kadence-breadcrumbs {
display: none !important;
}
or the bbpress breadcrumbs using
#bbpress-forums .bbp-breadcrumb {
display: none !important;
}
Choice is yours !!
that should have worked, but never mind, try this
go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Custom CSS
and add this
#comments {
display: none !important;
}
it could be one of a few dozen reasons 🙂
At the moment your site is downloading 2 x bbpress.min.css to the browser together with one bbpress.css, so without soending a lot if time, it is hard to see what changes are in which.
Can you take out/deactivate your additional plugin and the custom css and then install
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Custom CSS
and put the
#bbpress-forums {
width: 85% !important;
margin: 0 auto !important;
}
in there.
It it does not work, LEAVE that change active, and I may be able to see through the browser what is happening in the background
Hello, Robin, thank for your reply
I am sorry to tell you that it doesn’t work
I have done two things:
1)I have put your code in the custom CSS
2)I have done a plugin. I have copied the CSS file of bbPress iinto this plugin and, afterwards, have modified the next rows:
#bbpress-forums {
/*
background: transparent;
clear: both;
*/
background-color: yellow;
width: 85% !important;
margin: 0 auto !important;
/*
margin-bottom: 20px;
margin-bottom: 2px;
overflow: hidden;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 18px;
*/
Please, tell what I am doing wrong
upgrade to the latest version of bbp style pack
dashboard>updates and select bbp style pack and update
then go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Custom CSS
and add this
.bsp-mark-all {
display : none ;
}
Wordpress: 6.8.1
bbPress: 2.6.13.
shortcode on my Forum page:
[bbp-single-forum id=846]
website: https://www.pcrnmra.net/redwood/
Forum page R.E.D. “Crew Lounge”
I would like to remove the “POST COMMENT” section on my Forum page (R.E.D. “Crew Lounge”).
In my Settings/Discussions page, I made sure that ALL of the boxes there are unchecked.
Is there a way to remove the “POST COMMENT”? section?
TIA
Wordpress: 6.8.1
bbPress: 2.6.13.
shortcode on my Forum page:
[bbp-single-forum id=846]
website: https://www.pcrnmra.net/redwood/
Forum page R.E.D. “Crew Lounge”
Is it possible to remove the “MARK ALL TOPICS AS READ” button?
TIA
This is working – the topic index shortcode you are using will show all tooics and then allow new topics with a forum select dropdown.
You are seeing that first.
After that you are seeing another ‘new topic’ box that says
Create New Topic in “R.E.D. Crew Lounge”
then you are also seeing and comment box.
so I would suggest you replace
[bbp-topic-index]
[bbp-topic-form forum_id=846]
with
[bbp-single-forum id=846]
That will then display the topics and only a reply to that forum
I would also turn off comments, you do that by
dashboard>settings>discussion>default post settings> and turn off all 3
That will stop it for new pages, then you need to go into
dashboard>pages>edit pages and the R.E.D. “Crew Lounge” page and find comments and turn it off
Wordpress: 6.8.1
bbPress: 2.6.13.
shortcodes on my Forum page:
[bbp-topic-index]
[bbp-topic-form forum_id=846]
website: https://www.pcrnmra.net/redwood/
Forum page R.E.D. “Crew Lounge”
My site has only one forum (id=846), but when I add the shortcode
[bbp-topic-form forum_id=846], the dropdown for Forum: still defaults to –No forum –.
I researched this and found that the shortcode
[bbp-topic-form forum_id=846] is supposed to fix this, but it is not working for me.
TIA
Put this in the custom css/additional css part of your theme
#bbpress-forums {
width: 85% !important;
margin: 0 auto !important;
}
you can amend the 85% to get the width you want
Hello everyone,
I’m currently setting up a forum on my WordPress site using the bbPress plugin. While the basic setup was straightforward, I’m now looking to customize the forum’s layout and enhance its functionality to better suit the needs of my community. Specifically, I’m interested in adjusting the forum layout to match my site’s theme, implementing user-friendly navigation menus, and adding features like user badges or ranks. I’ve come across various tutorials, but I’m seeking comprehensive resources or guides that delve into these customization aspects in more detail. Additionally, if any engineering-focused projects or examples demonstrate advanced bbPress customizations, I’d love to explore them. Any recommendations or insights would be greatly appreciated!
Reference Links:
Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1
https://www.wpexplorer.com/beginners-guide-buddypress-bbpress/
https://www.greengeeks.com/tutorials/create-forum-wordpress-bbpress/
https://www.theengineeringprojects.com/2022/11/simple-home-diy-projects-for-embedded-hobbyists.html
bbpress uses custom post types, so uses their status in the posts table (not post meta) to determine whether to display.
So on trashing a topic, I would expect the post_status on the posts table to be changed to trash.
To enable you to ‘untrash’ a topic (say if it was a mistake) in tbe post_meta table, I would then expect to see
_bbp_pre_trashed_replies a:4:{i:0;i:33965;i:1;i:33963;i:2;i:33959;i:3;i:33956;}
_wp_trash_meta_status publish
_wp_trash_meta_time 1748443956
The trash status being the status BEFORE it was trashed, so that it can go back to this if you made a mistake.
I am not sure what the other statuses are doing there, if you have been trashing and untrashing, other stuff might happen, and other bbpress plugins might be adding things.
I’d suggest you try creating a test topic and then trashing it, and seeing what happens, so that you can see a ‘clean’ set of entries.
If you still have problems, then it could be a theme or plugin issue, so I’d try creating and trashing a topic with the below happening.
Themes
As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.
Plugins
If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
When I add the recent replies widget to my theme, I see the following code where the links should be:
<span class="dashicons dashicons-visibility wvrbbp-fav-sub" style="font-size:80%;vertical-align:middle;"></span>
After extensive testing and numerous attempts, I finally found the solution (thanks to ChatGPT). I would like to post it here because other users may encounter the same problem and appreciate a quick solution, and so that the effort is at least worthwhile for others. Here is the CSS code, which simply needs to be inserted at the bottom of the Customizer under “Custom CSS”:
.entry-title {
white-space: normal !important;
word-break: break-word !important;
overflow-wrap: break-word !important;
hyphens: auto !important;
line-height: 1.2 !important;
max-width: 100% !important;
text-align: center !important;
}
it’s not really anyone’s ‘fault’ but bbpress would need to make the change to their code, so yes bbpress is ‘causing it’.
I have the same problem.
Buddyboss is slow to update and has old code, so I want to switch back to BBPRESS.
Buddyboss doesn’t want to export, so they don’t provide a migration tool. For that reason, I don’t recommend it.
I’d need to make a login for you, since only logged in users can see the private forums…
Can you make up a dummy email (or pm me a working email) and I’ll set that up?
For the record, this is the page giving the problem:
https://scottishpolicy.org/forums/forum/constitution/
It’s all in the process of development just now, so there’s not content as yet…
I’d send a screenshot, but I don’t actually think that’d be a great deal of help.
I’d need to make a login for you, since only logged in users can see the private forums…
Can you make up a dummy email (or pm me a working email) and I’ll set that up?
For the record, this is the page giving the problem:
https://scottishpolicy.org/forums/forum/constitution/
It’s all in the process of development just now, so there’s not content as yet…
I’m running WP 6.8.1 wih bbp 2.6.13 and bbp style pack 6.3.0 on the Twenty Twenty-Four theme.
When I view my forum as a logged in user, I see this under the Last Activity section:
Last Activity: <a href="https://scottishpolicy.org/forums/topic/right-to-privacy/" title="Right to privacy">1 day, 9 hours ago</a>
I’ve used Inspector to look at the code in the browser (Firefox and Brave – both are affected) and I can’t spot anything obvious.
Is this a known issue?
Is there a fix?
Changing this is not within the current plugins capability.
I suspect that with the right code it could be done, but I have no idea how to do it.
I’d suggest you hire a programmer
Thank you for your help, sir.
Unfortunately, people don’t look, but search engines do.
Link structuring is extremely important.
I removed the word “Forums” from the link
Prefix all forum content with the Forum Root slug (Recommended)
, but I don’t know how to add the forum name instead of the word “Topic.”
