[ryan.boder]

Nevermind, I traced to problem back to other code that’s using a bbpress filter and causing this issue.

[lvictor]

Yep, the default theme there’s no topic display issue (tested before I posted here.) Just wondering if there was a standard code snippet that should be included in any template in order to get bbpress (wasn’t thinking it would be terribly different from template to template.) Since it’s a pro template, at least I can give their support forum a shot.

Anyone out there w/a similar theme conflict issue, how did you resolve it?

[webguru13]

I am so very frustrated…I am getting very very close to completing my website and getting it out in cyberspace…but one problem I am having is that I cannot get the forum in bbpress to work correctly…I have buddypress set up as well and it is working fine…I created a forum page which is showing as a child page under my “community” tab in the main header menu…when going to the forum page there is nothing at all except what I wrote when creating the page…by tutorials I have seen there should be other things showing such as “topics” and “replies” and there is nothing showing up…please help I am so so frustrated…is it that my theme doesn’t support it or do I have to break into code…Also I am afraid to send my login info or any other private info as not sure who all is seeing it….I will be checking back later tonight…I will probably be stuck on this all night as I am determined to figure this out!! Thanks, Rhonda

[xponera]

Hi, this was a good lead. My host had another recepie for .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/
RewriteRule .* - [CO=wordpress_test_cookie:WP+Cookie+check:%{HTTP_HOST}:1440:/]

It worked at once.

Thx

[nickharambee]

Hello,

I have experienced an issue importing posts from a BuddyPress group forum. Originally I lost the link to all topics when I manually deleted some spam users directly in the tables wp_users and wp_bp_groups_members. In the group forum it simply stated “Sorry, there were no forum topics found.” So I thought I would upgrade to bbpress using the instructions here: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/guides/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/

I followed all instructions up to the import process and then the import just got stuck – i.e. nothing was imported.

Then I noticed no forums are now listed under Forums.

So I created a new forum, which looks different to the previous forum (presumably because I am now using bbpress and not the old Buddypress group forum – how to tell?). I can link this forum to my one Buddypress group, but now none of the old topics show – they are all still in the WordPress database, but I need to know how to get them into the new forum that I have created, or import them some other way.

I would be grateful for any advice.

Thanks,

Nick

[erich199]

In loop-fourms.php file add your custom “Add Topic” button:

<a href="/new-topic/?ForumId=<?php echo bbp_get_forum_id()?>">New Topic</a>

Add this code to a custom .php file or directly to your theme function.php file:

//BBpress New Topic Button // 
add_shortcode('wpmu_bbp_topic', 'wpmu_bbp_create_new_topic', 10);
function wpmu_bbp_create_new_topic(){
	
	if ( isset($_GET['ForumId']) ){
		
		return do_shortcode("[bbp-topic-form forum_id=".$_GET['ForumId']."]");
		
	}else{
		
		return do_shortcode("[bbp-topic-form]");
		
	}
}
//End BBpress New Topic Button //

Make sure you’ve created a custom page titled “new topic” with a friendly url of “new-topic”

Place the new shortcode we registered into this page:

[wpmu_bbp_topic]

This will automatically display contact create form of the selected forum if ID exists in the URL otherwise fall back to default shortcode.

You can see it in action on my site:
http://artofwargaming.net/forums/

Hope this helps anyone who was looking to create a “new topic” button.

I can’t take credit for this, this was all thanks to the help of the guys over at WPMUDEV – Sajid, Anang, and Tyler.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

Most probably a security issue or a redirect to your login page that does not work. If you have any security plugins (like Theme my login) or captcha (like in Jetpack), try to deactivate. Somebody found this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/users-unable-to-register-and-login/

Just be careful : Editing .htaccess can block your complete site. Make sure you have a contact point with your provider and you know what you are doing

Defaults for the .htaccess can be found here: https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess

Let me know if it helped,
Pascal.

[Robkk]

1.

Instead of using the shortcodes, download this loop-forums.php file and place it in your child theme in a folder called bbpress.

https://github.com/robkk/bbPress-Hierarchical-Forum-and-Category-Layout

2.

I think this would show up if you use the file above. It might not have nice color coordinated categories though.

3.

Download this bbpress.php and put it in the root of your theme to have full width forums.

https://gist.github.com/robkk/f51753f1c7a5641796d8

[zapsplated]

Hello. I want to disable the edit profile link on my forum using bbpress, which I have found the following code to add to functions.php. It works, except for next to the username and profile pictures there is a comma, and it looks messy… anyone with php knowledge know why this code is producing a comma next to the username and profile pic?

Thanks

<?php
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_author_link’, ‘remove_author_links’, 10, 2);
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_reply_author_link’, ‘remove_author_links’, 10, 2);
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_topic_author_link’, ‘remove_author_links’, 10, 2);
function remove_author_links($author_link, $args) {
$author_link = preg_replace(array(‘{<a[^>]*>}’,'{}’), array(“,”), $author_link);
return $author_link;
}
?>

[mvaneijgen]

I use the following code on a webshop to display all tags being used on the website in the custom post type product

<?php
  $terms = get_terms( 'product_tag' );

  if ( ! empty( $terms ) && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ){
    foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
      print '<option data-filter="tag-'.$term->slug.'"value="tag-'.$term->slug.'">'.$term->name.'</option>';
    }
  } ?>

How do I find the equivalent for bbPress to `product_tag

[Robkk]

Link to your site as @casiepa suggested, so we can check on it and make sure.

You can try some troubleshooting to see if this only occurs in your current theme. You can try the other additional solutions to troubleshoot too.

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

There is an issue with the .hentry class that bbPress is inheriting for its posts. This is a common theme conflict.

#bbpress-forums .bbp-body .hentry {
    margin: 0;
}

[Pascal Casier]

Some themes are not handling well the replies. Could you try to add this somewhere as extra css:

#bbpress-forums .reply {
    font-size: inherit;
    padding: inherit;
    position: relative;
    right: inherit;
    top: inherit;
}

Pascal.

[Robkk]

It is a common theme issue related to styling wordpress comments.

Your theme has this CSS to style the wordpress comments. Thing is bbPress has an entire class for each reply which is .reply and it affected any link in a bbPress reply.

.reply a {
    font-weight: bold;
    float: left;
    padding: 0;
    font-size: 12px;
}

[Robkk]

Add this custom css anywhere you can add custom css like in your child themes style.css stylesheet or in a separate plugin.

#bbpress-forums .reply a {
    float: none;
}

[Robkk]

I don’t think there is a free version of this plugin.

There isn’t even a free extension for users to use to make it work with bbPress from what I can see.

I would like to know how to remove the link to main Forum page that appear in the course unit when I embed the topic ( [bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id]) . for instance, Which file and where is it located, and what I have to change?

bbPress uses custom post types which are similar to the WordPress posts, it just outputs different templates for the display of the forum posts.

Deleting these posts, would make the shortcode not owrk.

What you would need to do is conditionally allow only users of a certain course to be able to see a certain forums or topics from bbPress’s pages not just use a shortcode to place a forum on a course page.

I have found that some user recommend some additional membership/restrict content plugins to make it work for bbPress forums this way.

It might be best to contact the wpcourseware plugins support to know what is best to hook up bbPress with that plugin.

[Andreas Andersen]

But my link is not ending with a “/”. And it is not only when using the shortcode [url] but also when using wordpress toolbar for inserting the link.

[Robkk]

@balmfoc48

As the user above states some hosts have a limit of emails that are able to be sent out.

Install this plugin to fix possibly part of the issue. The code used in the plugin will probably be used in a future version of bbPress.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/asyncronous-bbpress-subscriptions/

You may need to also look into asking your server support to increase the email limit if your emails sent grow significantly or use a service like sendgrid or mandrill.

[Robkk]

I forgot about this plugin which will essentially allow certain shortcodes like the caption shortcode.

Just add caption to the input box for the allowed shortcodes in the plugins settings page.

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist

[Robkk]

@numan_shaikh

Place your custom role code in a gist file at gist.github.com and post the link to it here.

[Robkk]

@arcillaguzman

Try some troubleshooting to see if this happens only in a certain theme or if any active plugins are conflicting with bbPress posts.

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

This might related to the issue in this trac ticket since you said bbcode.

The plugin author of the plugin you are probably using created the ticket.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2889

[Andreas Andersen]

When I insert a link in bbpress it does not show correct on my page. All links will be stacked on the left site of the message. Here is a picture of the HTML code that is generated and how it is showed.

The problem is only in bbpress, not when inserting links in WordPress in general. It is the same no matter i I insert the link using bbcode or using the WordPress toolbar.

What can be the problem here? Is there some CSS that controls this in bbpress?

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Rhonda,
Is it a public site ? If so, could you post the link ?
Did you create a dedicated WordPress page with a [shortcode] or you just want the use the built-in page by adding /forums after your domain ?
Pascal.

[TKServer]

I’ve been working for weeks (on my off time) on a threaded view of bbpress posts and replies. Here’s the beta:

Ute Fan Board

A different look more similar to an old school list forum style. Lots of work to do but here’s what it does so far:

1. Different format, more list/threaded. Recent topics show with the topic replies below
2. Works on a page outside of bbpress, but hooks some bbpress functions.
3. Posts new messages and replies, with metadata.
4. Allows user to expand/shrink content area of each post/reply
5. Posts/replies show as modal popup window instead of at the bottom of the forum.
6. WordPress visual editor enabled (some bugs)
7. Pagination

Current bugs and pending additions:

• Edit post/reply
• Posts made from forum-threads do not show up in buddyPress “recent activities”
• Visual editor add link does not work.
• Twitter share button not setup yet
• Facebook share button not setup yet

It’s pretty hacky and I’m sure the code is not all that great, but it “seems” to work. I’ll be working on my bugs and new features soon.