[GTAtherton]

I have just re-installed bbPress after looking at several alternatives as although it was the first I tried it seemed to be incompatible with the custom template I am having to use.

Link to screenshot

I looks to me that the forum needs a wider page in order to organise its components properly as they are jumbled up. The forum does work in that I can enter text – it is just a bit of a mess. I might even suggest styling is very minimal

I have tried making a full width page (no sidebars) and then substituting page name into ‘Forum root’ and it seemed to work BUT the forum was loaded with sidebars as before so no improvement.

I have read of a somewhat complex solution involving child templates and monifying style sheets but that seems dreadfully long winded and prone to error for a WP non-coder such as myself.

Is there an easier way to prevent sidebars from loading?
Or is there a way I can generate a page eminating from a different template on which I can load bbPress? The latter might give me a nicer forum styling too.
Is there a way to load the forum into an existing page via html/Js code for example – as an iFrame perhaps?

Thanks for any help – if it has to be the most difficult way then please say!

[Boscol99]

Hey,

My site and forums were working fine, but then the specific forum pages started getting a 404. I reset permalinks through backend and then manually, but it is still happening. I shut off all plugins and turned on one by one, but same issue. If I use the shortcode on a post it works. I tried s different slug as well, but no luck. Any ideas what I am missing? My site is http://www.capecodchatter.com
The forum index is http://capecodchatter.com/forums/ which works fine, but all the specific forums are 404. I appreciate the help.

[Robkk]

Hopefully this guide helps you. It lists some help for an import getting stuck and also ways to optimize the import process.

Import Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

You add the php code snippet to your child themes functions.php or in a functionality plugin that can hold custom code snippets to fix this issue if you have a port number in the urls while using xampp server.

ERROR: Are you sure you wanted to do that?

[Robkk]

Yeah its all good.

Oh, if you are just not going to use the breadcrumbs you can just display: none; instead.

[neilgee]

I just got this issue but it only occurred when upgrading a site to PHP 5.6(previously on 5.4).

Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /home2/tabbangy/public_html/tabban/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1446

I did have Yoast SEO installed but on deactivation the error still persists ( i don’t have NEWS SEO).

Reverting back to 5.4 clears the error.

[Robkk]

The emails magically stopping and topics being automatically being unsubscribed is a weird issue. Only thing I could think is that a user may not know that they are unsubscribing their own topics without knowing, or something or someone has run a process to bulk unsubscribe a users topics.

Does it happen to all subscriptions for the user, or just a few?
Any plugins that modify bbPress’ subscriptions?

Have you done some plugin troubleshooting, to see what may be causing the issue??

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

I say since I think you are trying to set up hiarchal forum and category layout, insert this loop-forums.php file into your child theme instead of what you did.

https://github.com/robkk/bbPress-Hierarchical-Forum-and-Category-Layout/blob/master/loop-forums.php

If you want to try to add the hook into the bbp_list_forums() function, you have to filter the output put the hook before every list item.

bbp_list_forums

[Robkk]

Is this the type of error you are getting in the red notice?? It might be translated different if you have a different language for your forum.

Just make sure you have some content in your message to a topic.

Go through some troubleshooting. See if it could be custom php code snippets that could be causing the issue in a child theme functions.php or in a separate plugin.

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

@shawnsauce

Was the forum ever in a BuddyPress private or hidden group??
Did you ever use another private group plugin and make that group with the forum private?
Has the forum ever a private or hidden forum??
Does this only happen in your current theme?
Have you tried disabling all plugins except bbPress to see if the issue persists?
Have you tried running the repair tools one at a time in the WordPress backend in Tools > Forums.

Troubleshooting

Also I am testing with this theme and I am not getting this issue, I think there must be some setting somewhere that is making the forum not be visible in the search results.

[desert-rover]

I’m trying to use wp_query in a plugin. One that allows me to export data to csv and I wanted to use the query to combine all the bbPress custom post types. Which I was able to do, but I also wanted to add a filter on the date and not sure how to do that.

This worked here to get ALL the forum data exported:

‘post_type’ => array) ‘forum’,’topic’,’reply’ )

The plugin just gave me a field to enter that so I didn’t need the rest of the php code.

[Robkk]

You can use a bunch of IDs and classes for that simple search button, I went with this. It seems to work if you add !important for the :hover css.

#bbp-search-form #bbp_search_submit {
    text-indent: 0;
    background: none;
    background-color: #1e73be;
    color: #fff;
    width: auto;
    height: auto;
    border-radius: 0;
    margin-top: 0;
}

#bbp-search-form #bbp_search_submit:hover {
    background-color: #000 !important;
}

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

Did you try something like this ?

#bbp_search_submit.button {
   background-color: #1e73be;
   ...
}

Just guessing, cannot try it myself here.

Pascal.

[gene-stevo]

WP: 4.3.1 bbPress: 2.5.8 Theme: Jolene
Hi Folks,
I’m trying to tweak the colours of a site I’m building as a “learn WP” excercise and I cant find out how to change the colour of the Search button on my forums page.
I have Custom CSS installed and I’ve entered this to control the Up and Over states of the SUBMIT button:

#bbpress-forums .submit {
    background-color: #1e73be;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    float: center;
    vertical-align: middle;
    border-radius: 4px;
    height: 35px;
    width: 120px;
    font-size: 14px !important;
}
#bbpress-forums .submit:hover{
    background-color: #82D646;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    float: center;
    vertical-align: middle;
    border-radius: 4px;
    height: 35px;
    width: 120px;
    font-size: 14px !important;
}

I’ve also got this to control the colour of the SEARCH button but adding the :hover at the end of a copy of the original CSS, at the end of the id name doesn’t work.

#bbpress-forums #bbp-search-form input[type=submit], 
#bbpress-forums #bbp-search-form input[type=submit] {
    text-indent: 0;
    background: none;
    background-color: #1e73be;
    color: #fff;
    width: auto;
    height: auto;
    border-radius: 0;
    margin-top: 0;
}

Any Ideas greatly received. The Forums page is here if MEMBERS PAGES password requested it is… ccc

[Pascal Casier]

Hi desert-rover,

Are you looking for a database query to run directly towards the database ? Or are you looking for a piece of PHP code using bbPress and wordpress functions ?

Pascal.

[desert-rover]

I understand the concept of WP_Query but am not anywhere near enough of a coder to write one. I need help writing a query that will call up all the replies in a certain month and year, and include the topic and forum the reply is attached to. Can anyone help me with that?

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Rourke,
Not sure I understand your question, but if you want to list all forums, this is a loop I have in one of my plugins:

	if ( bbp_has_forums() ) {
		while ( bbp_forums() ) {
			bbp_the_forum();
			$forum_id = bbp_get_forum_id();
			$forums_title = bbp_get_forum_title($forum_id);
			array_push($all_forums_ids, $forum_id);
			<...>
			// Check for subforums (first level only)
			if ($sublist = bbp_forum_get_subforums($forum_id)) {
				$all_subforums = array();
				foreach ( $sublist as $sub_forum ) {
					<...>
				}
			}					
			$i++;
		} // while
	} // if

Hope it gets you in the right direction,
Pascal.

[parmaker]

I just transferred the whole site, which is housed under a non-bbpress-like CMS package, into bbpress by the built-in tool.

Every thing looks fine.

But I have yet to put them in production because of one reason:

Let’s think about the following:

1. a visitor landed my home.
2. he/she went to a forum.
3. the forum shows topic index and a paginator on top or bottom of topic index box, based
4. on the max of lines configured.
5. the visitor travelled back and forth in site the forum by clicking the paginator. for ex, if the forum has 100 topics and max line is configured as 15, then paginator links would be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.
6. supposed that the visitor clicked 3-pgnator before clicked 5th topic.
7. that is, the visitor is reading the 35th topic and replies if any.
8. at this time the vistor changes mind to go to 2nd page.
   so the visitor go back to the previous topic index before clicking 2-pgnator link.

Now the visitor grumbles. the topic view page(the one described at 6.) shoud have got the topic index and paginator below the topic view. So we dont need to do extra clicks.

This scenario is totally from the customers’ view point. Unfortunately, there are some tools in the world prviding such features, and they asked the site builder to implement that feature.

Because old system has it and the bbpress out of box does not, i do not think the request is wrong.

I have tried to find a solution, but not. for ex, i put
echo do_shortcode(‘[bbp-single-forum id=$f_id]‘);
at the bottom of conent-single-topic.php

Then looked great, but problem is:

In case that said above 6., the 3th topic index should be shown but shows 1st page, which is not getting sync’ed with the current topic’s position.

so i have to look into source code.

As far as I learned from it, bbp-single-forum short code is the very candidate, I guessed. But no clue to me.

display_forum function is out of control by myself, I guess.

Hopefully, some help or idea is in need. Or, let me know what I missed or overthought.

Thanks.

[parmaker]

Maybe similar with me.

bbpress.org support forum’s landing page shows elegantly topic titles and paginator at the bottom. That’s good. Now we are clicking the paginator a couple of time, i.e we are in page #4, where clicked a topic.

Then we can see a lead topic and replies if any. So if we want to next pages, we should get out of the topic and back to the previous, then we click again paginator to go further.

From the view point of bbpress, it is so natural. But little bit redundant transactions were. If the topic view can duplicate the single forum topic index into bottom part, it might be to cut down one transaction from visitor. (customers complain redundant click, they dont care how, but developer cares)

up to this point, only one statement – echo do_shortcode(‘[bbp-single-forum id=$forumid]‘) is enough to put at the bottom of conent-single-topic.php

But problem is that it always shows from the very first page. If i am reading a topic of 5th page, the above shortcode should get synced, but still shows from very first.

display_forum of BBP short code class does not show any clue to this issue.

my straight guess is bbp developers consider kind of a heavy burden to mysql because entire topic-typed posts should be read for every single topic view.

In real world out of bbpress, their forum package provide such features.

One reason that i wrote this, to ask around you what I missed or now mislead, and better idea.

If you think this repl is not related to this topic, i am sorry.

[sk90]

How can I change the freshness parameter of Recent Topics in the Forum Index, which appears by pasting the shortcode [bbp-forum-index]?

Right now it says No Topics for all the forums I have (please see link: http://mavipamumb.ns36.interactivedns.com/forum/ ). I want it to show the date of the last topic or post in that forum.

Please let me know if it can be done.

Thank you.

[Robkk]

This could be your host adding an extra security layer to your website. You may need to contact their support team.

Following this guide could help too.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Login_Trouble

[kellyalan]

Hi

For the sidebar login widget, is there an option in bbPress settings to have “Log In” change to “Welcome” after the user signs in?

I can’t seem to find an option but I’m a newbie…

If not, can you suggest a way to have this done ( another plug in, code, etc )

[iJamesPine]

So as of approximately 10:30pm Sunday night the last reply was posted to my website jamiepine.com/forums. Users of my site were unable from that point on to post replies to any topic in any forum on my site.

It allows them to write their reply, then upon clicking submit, the page reloads and the reply isn’t there. I’ve spent over 13 hours trying to find something that could be causing a conflict or error that would prevent replies being created. Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

– I’ve disabled ALL plugins aside from bbPress
– I’ve disabled the my theme (switched to TwentyTwelve, TwentyThirteen and TwentyFourteen)
– I’ve done both of the above at the same time & on their own
– I’ve disabled Cloudflare (my CDN / cache service) [it’s still disabled]
– I’ve updated all plugins and themes
– I’ve typed every possible phrase relating to this problem into Google in effort to find answers
– I’ve inspected the database to the best of my knowledge**

**I’ve noticed bbPress is creating many revisions of old replies from last year even when the site was in maintenance mode and no users were able to access. I was also receiving an email telling me I’d received a new reply to my topics (from 2014) when I wasn’t even touching the site. It’s essentially gone senile.

I’d list all my plugins, but my problem is I’ve changed nothing before 10:30PM that Sunday other than adjusting plugin settings in WP Super Cache, which is now disabled. In fact I know the pages aren’t cached because I can update anything else on these pages and create new topics; I just can’t reply.

My theme clearly isn’t the problem as it’s still broken at a core level; but it is my own child theme of Canvas.

The only thing I can think of is that I installed a plugin called bbPress AJAX replies a few hours prior to the problem, but that plugin did nothing of use anyway so I removed it straight away. I also inspected the code and didn’t find anything that would cause a lasting effect on the site, no database communications of any nature.

…But it looks to be a database issue?

This has caused me no end of headache and I’d greatly appreciate some help, I’ll provide you with any details you need / admin login to the site. I have hundreds of users waiting to use the site.

Thanks in advance,
Jamie

[Loc Pham]

I registered a new rest endpoint and wrote functions to retrieve all the replies with the code below. Although the code works, I’m not really happy with it because I’m not able utilize built in filtering (i.e. paged, order, posts_per_page… etc). This code is not optimize because it has no pagination and will retrieve all replies at once (can be bad if there are thousands of records).

function ldp_get_topic_replies( $data ) {
	$topicID = $data['id'];
	
	// Get an array of all replies belonging to a specific topic
	$repliesID = bbp_get_all_child_ids($topicID, bbp_get_reply_post_type());
	
	$response = array();
	
	foreach ($repliesID as $replyID) {
		$response[] = ldp_get_topic_reply($replyID);
	}
	
	return $response;
}

function ldp_get_topic_reply( $replyID ) {
	$reply = array(
		'author_name'	=> bbp_get_reply_author_display_name($replyID),
		'author_email'	=> bbp_get_reply_author_email($replyID),
		'author_url'	=> bbp_get_reply_author_url($replyID),
		'author_avatar'	=> get_avatar_url(bbp_get_reply_author_id($replyID)),
		'link'			=> bbp_get_reply_url($replyID),
		'reply_to'		=> bbp_get_reply_to( $replyID ) == 0 ? NULL : bbp_get_reply_to( $replyID ),
		'topic_title'	=> bbp_get_reply_topic_title($replyID),				
		'meta'			=> bbp_get_reply($replyID),
	);
	
	return $reply;
}

[Loc Pham]

Hi Pascal, thanks the these links. However those addressed the problem seen in WP REST Api version 1 and version 2 is the refactor code for WP REST API which will eventually go into WordPress Core. Version 2 is what I’m using and it doesn’t work as explain in those blog.