[haddly]

HI , thanks for the prompt and detailed reply.
1. The email is noreply@ourdomain.com so this isnt the problem.
2. I am subscribed personally to all forums. (also with a second email account)
3. I receive other emails fine from our website.
4. Most Important:
I have 25 Plugins on my website. I have no problem deactivating one by one, but how do i do it so that i don’t potentially send out 25 test emails (because i will post something and see if i get an email) to all my forum users?

[milliways2650]

I am running phpBB 3.1.9 and bbPress 2.5.10

As I am still a relatively new WordPress user, and have never used bbPress, I installed the latest version, but I normally avoid alpha and beta software.

As this is an offline installation for learning/experimentation I guess there is no risk so will try 2.6

[Stephen Edgar]

Are you using bbPress 2.5.10 or 2.6 alpha from https://bbpress.org/download?

If you’re not using 2.6 alpha that “could” be the issue, it’s updated for the latest phpBB 3.1.x branches, the 2.5.x only supports phpBB 3.0.x branches

(Plus 2.6 alpha has lots of extra improvements)

[xmanca]

Hi Stephen,
I had actually created the custom template previously and tried what you said. But all it does is eliminate the content and this is why I moved on to try to identify what is going on in the function. I would much rather not touch the function code and do everything via custom template for a lot of reasons including staying safe with future updates.

As it is, if I remove the reply_content code in the child theme, it still leaves the replies in there but just with no content in them other than the author area. If I remove the author area as well then I no longer see anything but there are no links to the replies.

I tried figuring out some sort of reply_url but nothing has worked for me – where I’m stuck. The closest I’ve come is to use this:

<?php bbp_reply_url(); ?>

in that same area. The result is that I get plain text urls (not hyperlinks) in a thread tree of sorts. However those links do not link to the actual content of the reply. So what you get is like this:

The topic is at the url http://testsite.com/forum/topic/test1/
The content of the original post is at the top and underneath are urls like:
August 27, 2016 at 9:04 pm http://testsite.com/forum/topic/test1/#post-10
August 27, 2016 at 9:06 pm http://testsite.com/forum/topic/test1/#post-11
August 27, 2016 at 9:03 pm http://testsite.com/forum/topic/test1/#post-8
August 27, 2016 at 9:04 pm http://testsite.com/forum/topic/test1/#post-9

If I go to any of those urls then it just displays the original post and scrolls down to where that URL exists in the tree below the original post content. The actual content of the reply is not displayed – just the content of the original post.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi, email sending issues are almost never an issue of bbPress, so I doubt there is anything to fix on the bbPress side.

First things to note:

• Spam filters tend to put emails into spam if your site is e.g. ‘www.example.com’ but you have defi­ned your admin email (Settings > Gene­ral) as ‘admin@g­mail.com’
• By default, you do NOT receive emails for your own topics/replies, only if some­body else replies on your subscri­bed topics

Make sure you are subscri­bed:

• To receive the email for new topics, make sure you are subscri­bed to the forum
• To receive the email for new replies, make sure your are subscri­bed to the topic
• Use tools like bbP Manage Subs­crip­tions to check and fix indi­vi­duals or run Topic Subs­cribe to fix in one go.

Check that WordP­ress emails are working:

• Make sure to check your spam/junk email
• Do you correctly receive emails when new posts are publi­shed or any other emails from the site ? If not, try any plugin to check emails (https://word­press.org/plugins/check-email/)

bbPress v2.5.x email sending:

In its current version, bbPress is sending out 1 message for every user subscribe to a forum or topic. This could be seen as spam­ming

If all the above is fine, then it might be another plugin or a theme issue:

• Deac­ti­vate all plugins except bbPress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
• If deac­ti­va­ting the plugins did not solve, as a test switch to a default theme such as twen­ty­fif­teen, and see if this fixes.

Pascal.

[Stephen Edgar]

If you’re using any phpBB mods this might cause issues.

You also need to make sure you use bbPress 2.6 alpha, which includes all the changes required , you cannot simply copy the changed phpBB.php file to a different bbPress version.

To use the most up to date phpBB importer use bbPress 2.6-alpha as I pointed out, if you have to use the old phpBB version use bbPress 2.5.10.

But as I’ve said, there are huge improvements to the phpBB importer in 2.6-alpha so updating phpBB to the latest version is my recommendation.

[Robkk]

Its a common issue related to WordPress comments theme styling having issues with bbPress replies since they have a common class attribute .reply.

Since your theme is a free WP theme, I was able to test it out real quick to see the issues.

Use all this custom CSS, add it into a child themes style.css file or in a custom css plugin.

Know that if it does not work, try adding !important at the end, for example like this.

Also know that some of the CSS is for your replies links color, so change that if you end up changing your links color so that it would match.

.example {
  position: relative !important;
  right: auto !important;
}

Here is all the custom CSS you would need to use to fix your theme related issue.

#bbpress-forums .reply a {
  position: relative;
  right: auto;
  bottom: auto;
  display: initial;
  padding: 0;
  border: none;
  font-size: inherit;
  text-transform: none;
  -webkit-transition: none;
  transition: none;
}

#bbpress-forums .reply a {
  border-color: inherit;
  color: #BF4D28;
}

#bbpress-forums .reply a:hover {
  color: #E6AC27;
  background-color: inherit;
}

[bhsdiceclimber]

Hi All – I maintain a very simple site for an astronomy group (sdbhas.org) on a volunteer basis, and we recently migrated to wordpress so I’m still a newbie. I recently installed bbpress and everything seemed to be working very well. However, while testing I noticed that replies to a topic are rendering the area where the username and avatar would go on the extreme right edge of the screen. The forum’s not publicly visible as of yet, but a screenshot of what’s happening is below:

Reply render failure

bbpress version: 2.5.10-6063
wordpress: 4.6.1
theme: parabola

This does appear to be theme-related since when I tested with 2016 it rendered properly. Searching the forum I couldn’t find anything similar, so would anyone have an idea as to what’s happening or a suggestion for a fix? Although I’m a software engineer, java and c++ are my areas, not php/css – so go easy 😉

Thanks in advance for the help!

–Thanks,
Chris

[pauldamas]

@Robkk
I tried this :
– de-activation of bbPress
– des-installation of bbPress
– re-installation of bbPress
– re-activation of bbPress
with the same result : no Welcome page, no additional options in the sidebar.

I don’t have BuddyPress installed.

But I noticed on the WP detail pop-up about bbPress : “Not tested with your WP version”.

Thank you very much for your feedback.

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Robin W]

It works fine on my test and live sites !

[harambeman]

whenever i test the registration process, the user can’t make their own password? The registration email sent gives the new user a randomly generated password. Also, all the registration emails go to the spam folder.

[themichaelglenn]

Alright, I probably didn’t do this in the best way, but I figured out how to “fork” your github code and create a separate branch but it’s under my username (I didn’t know if it’s okay to just go creating branches in someone else’s repository, so I just set up in my own):

https://github.com/themichaelglenn/bbpress-vbulletin-permalink/tree/no-f-s-or-id-s-in-forums

Again I need to make clear that I do not know what I’m doing – but whatever I did is working on my localhost and on my test site (which site will only be up long enough to test everything on an actual server, so no link to that site, sorry)

I don’t know if I would still get the topic URLs forum/forum-name/ID-topic-name if I kept removing more code, to get it down to where we were only rewriting the topic URLs? I’d like to try that but I don’t know how much more I can remove before the plugin just stops working altogether.

[priom]

Hey guys,

I’ve been slowly configuring css on bbpress (amazing btw) but having some issues with odd and even replies. I added code to add a border for each reply and spaced out the bottom by about 10px.

All works fine for the first reply (initial topic).
But for next consecutive ones – the “right” border is missing.

you can find my site forums at weareoblivion.com/forums

-> Navigate to General Discussions > Test Topic
and you’ll see what I mean.

I added in these to create the borders:

#bbpress-forums div.odd, #bbpress-forums div.even {
  border: 1px solid rgba(44,130,201,.22) !important;
  border-bottom: none !important;
  margin-bottom: 10px;
}

div.bbp-forum-header, div.bbp-topic-header, div.bbp-reply-header {
  border-top: 1px solid rgba(44,130,201,.22) !important;
  border-left: 1px solid rgba(44,130,201,.22) !important;
  border-right: 1px solid rgba(44,130,201,.22) !important;
}

I have tried different browsers and same issue occurred.
Tried changing it to add individual borders (like i did for the header)
– Still the same issue
Even removed alot css
– still same issue

Any help is appreciated please ! 🙂

[cgyt3ch]

Hi everyone,
I’m still very new to wordpress but i’m quite liking it so far beside a few bugs i’m having.
I’m building a discussion forum right now and i’ve noticed that if I create more than 6 child forum the parent forum link stops working, and then add one more and the first child forum link will stop working, then if I add one more, the first 2 stop working etc.
Anyone has an idea how to fix this?
my site is landlordexchange.ca if you want to test it out

[themichaelglenn]

@siparker @natesirrah Thank you both for your work on this plugin! Any news on where the current project stands? I’ve just used siparker’s github plugin and it seems to be work, but if there’s a better, improved version, I’d love to know about it and/or help test it.

I’m working on migrating a site that I’ve had up for just over a year, from Joomla 3.4 to the current version of WordPress. I use Kunena forums, and by making some slight modifications to siparker’s plugin on github, I was able to set my bbPress URLs to match the structure Kunena uses, namely:

forum/forumName/topicID-topicName

(I don’t think they actually use forumName, topicName, etc., that was just the easiest way for me to write it out)

so that when my forums are set up like this:

Forum = Final Fantasy VII
Topic = Cloud’s Limit Break

I have, for example:

forum/final-fantasy-vii/143-cloud-s-limit-break

I should tell you that the only experience I have with php is a couple of 4-hour courses on udemy (in other words, not that much…) Still, by very carefully changing or removing one line at a time, I was able to produce the desired result.

One thing that didn’t quite work out, though, was forums within a top-level category. For example:

Top Forum = Square Enix
Child Forum = Final Fantasy VII
etc.

The URL for the child forum is now

forum/square-enix/final-fantasy-vii

and I want it to be

forum/final-fantasy-vii

The interesting thing is that the topic “Cloud’s Limit Break” still shows as

forum/final-fantasy-vii/143-cloud-s-limit-break

which is the URL structure that I want, when someone clicks on a topic, so I’m happy with that.

But I can’t seem to figure out how to remove the parent or top level forum from the forum URL.

Everything I’m doing is on localhost, as I don’t want to change my site over to WordPress until I’ve got all the details worked out, and I’m brand new to web development so I’m not sure exactly how to share my code with you guys, or if I need to share it all or perhaps just a part of it? So if you can help me with that, I’ll be happy to share.

Meanwhile to any bbPress devs following the thread, I want to say thank you for all that you do, and please consider making this permalink option part of the bbPress core!

I have been wanting to move from Joomla to WordPress for months, as I tend to believe that WordPress is overall easier and better for me and my users, and one of the few things that’s prevented me from making the move was the lack of options in bbPress permalinks. I strongly agree that the URL for a topic should include the name of the forum that topic resides in. (Or at least, admins should be able to choose that option, if they want it.)

[evanevans333]

Out of curiosity, is that a network site you tested on? Mine is not, and there is some talk in other threads about how the Participant role is designed for Network sites.

[evanevans333]

I can confirm though, your fix did not resolve the issue, using the minimal Theme “Twenty Fourteen” with all plugins except “bbPress” disabled. So, I’m not sure how it is fixed for you on your end. Are you running the latest bbPress? Do you have a minimal test configuration?

Thank you anyway though Robin, for your help.

If anyone else can help, I appreciate it. Thanks in advance! I will be monitoring this thread. I need a solution to this ASAP. It’s been almost 3 weeks and it’s holding up our website launch.

[evanevans333]

I got the white screen of death with that code. The following error message:

Warning: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, function ‘add_role_caps_filter’ not found or invalid function name in /home3/filmsco/public_html/testwebsite/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 235

Had to add this to the top from your prior code:

function add_role_caps_filter( $caps, $role )
{
/* Only filter for roles we are interested in! */
if( $role == ‘bbp_participant’ )
$caps = custom_capabilities( $role );
return $caps;
}

P.S. Is this new code any different than the last code?

[titis14]

My theme blocks the condition of your plugin 🙁 I tested a lot of things but can not. You can look at the test2 account that I gave you.
I’m on it for several weeks.
I can not find this class:

.bbp-forum-title {
color: # ed6136;
}

Although I disables I still do not have the color bbp pack style.
Thank you for your help.

[HorrorUK]

Thanks. I’ll have to create my own account and do some testing on that to see how it works.

[Robin W]

ok, I just did the following test.

Forum private, topic public
participant can read

Forum private, topic private
participant cannot read

The following code then added :

add_filter( 'bbp_get_caps_for_role', 'add_role_caps_filter', 10, 2 );
 
function custom_capabilities( $role )  {
    switch ( $role )
    { 
        /* Capabilities for 'participant' role */
        case bbp_get_participant_role() :
            return array(
                // Primary caps
				// Primary caps
				'spectate'              => true,
                'participate'           => true,
                'moderate'              => false,
                'throttle'              => false,
                'view_trash'            => false,
 
                // Forum caps
                'publish_forums'        => false,
                'edit_forums'           => false,
                'edit_others_forums'    => false,
                'delete_forums'         => false,
                'delete_others_forums'  => false,
                'read_private_forums'   => true,
                'read_hidden_forums'    => false,
 
                // Topic caps
                'publish_topics'        => true,
                'edit_topics'           => true,
                'edit_others_topics'    => false,
                'delete_topics'         => false,
                'delete_others_topics'  => false,
                'read_private_topics'   => true,
 
                // Reply caps
                'publish_replies'       => true,
                'edit_replies'          => true,
                'edit_others_replies'   => false,
                'delete_replies'        => false,
                'delete_others_replies' => false,
                'read_private_replies'  => true,
 
                // Topic tag caps
                'manage_topic_tags'     => false,
                'edit_topic_tags'       => false,
                'delete_topic_tags'     => false,
                'assign_topic_tags'     => true,
            );
 
           
 
            break;
 
        default :
            return $role;
    }
}

Forum private, topic private
participant can read !

So the code works on my test site.

Can you duplicate this and come back with results?

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[kfweb]

Where I will search meta tag!
Meta tag is very important but latest SEO Pack All in one may be misused.
Please fix the problem! Or anyone suggestion for me?
This is our website

[sixolar]

Hello there !

I’m trying to using the wonderful bbp private groups plugin, and everything seemed fine until some “actual” users said they could’t see any topics, even if they created it…

So :
– Moderators and admins can see every forums and topic like they should.
– Users can see the forums corresponding to their group, see the latest activity in those forums and post in them BUT when they go to a forum it says no topic.. when they create a topic, they are redirected to the “you’re not allowed to see this” page !

bbp PG settings :
forum visibility – off
general settings – all on

Did I just missed something important?

Note : I’m using buddypress too, I tried disabling it but it didn’t change anything.