[Robkk]

I am trying to say troubleshoot an issue if it could be something else like a theme causing the issue, so switching to a default theme could test that.

Troubleshooting

Remember reply pagination does not show up if you have threaded replies enabled.

Here is a ticket to fix reply pagination in threaded replies, but for now the patch only works for forums that are not hidden or private.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2785

[artstellars.com]

Hi bbpress team, thanks for creating such good forum product. It’s a great plugin that I can create my own forum easily. There’re two questions. First one is the lost password page doesn’t work when I activated the Woocommerce theme but if I de-active the Woocommerce the lost password page works! I do need Woocommerce to show my gallery. My url is: http://artstellars.co.nz/lost-password/

Another question is the Chinese username registration by bbpress. it says “ERROR: This username is invalid because it uses illegal characters. Please enter a valid username.” if I register using a Chinese as a username. Is there any pacth can work around this?

I am using the latest version of bbpress v.2.5.8, Woocommerce v.2.4.7 and WordPress v.4.3.1. Thanks.

[Akawey]

Hello,
Ps all my users’ profile pages return a 404 error page.
the url structure is http://mysite.com/forum/user/USERNAME

Only my admin profile page shows and even if I make another user admin, their profile page still returns the 404 page.
It’s a new site and just a few users are registered for testing.

I’ve followed an old topic on this and there’s no solution, so I have raised this one.
Thanks in anticipation.

[Robkk]

my apologies for not replying faster.

Its all good.

Since I see you do not have a VPS already when using BuddyPress, you may not have enough memory at all on your current plan.

Having VPS hosting or better is usually recommended if you are going to use BuddyPress. But I guess a small community should be able to handle something like shared hosting.

Getting Started

As a test and since the error is related to the Activity component in BuddyPress, you can just try disabling the component in BuddyPress to see if the error disappears.

For the second error you are getting, hopefully you are not trying to edit the BuddyPress plugin and causing more issues.

You can also try reinstalling BuddyPress as a last resort to see if that would resolve any issues.

[tylerkroff]

I’ve switched between about 5 different themes, trying to install bbpress with each one. Each time, the result is the same. I get a message saying that bbpress was installed, but when I try to go back to the WordPress dashboard, I just get a completely white page. I can’t even navigate back to delete bbpress, so I have to do it manually through FTP.

Right now I am using the Genesis Framework theme, but the same problem has happened with the default themes (Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, etc.)

Any ideas what it might be?

My website is http://www.poorpilots.com/

I am using the latest version of WordPress.

[Robkk]

Any testing for the issue in this ticket is greatly appreciated.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2739

[Bet Hannon]

Yep, while it doesn’t do it when I post, it does print the <p> tags for at least some users–and that part is weird. It looks like this:

<p>I completely support a focus on...

I have the plugin “bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab” running. I haven’t been able to test yet, but the client really does need that full visual editor for their users, so I hope it’s not that.

I did double-check the plain text filter. Maybe there was a caching issue with respect to the filter? I emptied all the caches just to be sure.

[Robkk]

Nevermind I think you have to update to 4x, the other importer is for a much older version of vBull.

Make sure to have a backup saved before doing an import. You may try doing a backup on a test server also.

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vbulletin

Import Forums

Import Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

You should be able to delete any imported users.

Deleting bbPress

If it is a test server, I guess you can always manually delete data using phpMyAdmin and start fresh.

[Robkk]

You are able to sticky topics making the sticky topics have its own space is possible I think, I might have to do some testing to make sure.

THe second one might be a little tricky to do. It might require autosubscribing to that one topic after registration, or just include the topics summary and a link to it after a user has registered to a site.

[UgoDimma]

Hey buddy

I have bbpress install with buddypress in my WordPress, all with the latest version as at the time of writing this post.

My forums and topics redirects to 404, page not found when my users clicked on any of them, except the forums that are part of the buddypress group the said user is a member of.

As an admin, I can view all of them the normal way without any form of restriction and redirection both at the front and back end.

Even forum category that is the mother of some forums and topics are been redirected to 404 page even if the user has a forum he/she has an access to.

I have followed some directives of people on similar cases, but none works for me, wp-admin –> tools –> forum and recalculated everything there, and went to wp-admin –> tools –> buddypress and recalculated everything.
I went to permalink and update it, but nothing seems to be working.

Please some help.

[bo-oz]

Hi,

I tried installing bbPress, after activation I was redirected to a page which told me “you have insufficient rights”. After a refresh, the plugin was activated but nothing changed in the menu (no formums menu option, also no settings -> forums was added). I tried deactivating -> activating and completely re-installing the plugin, but nothing worked so far.

I use wordpress 4.3.1 and the latest version bbPress to automated plugin install.

I’m also using WPML, could that be causing conflicts?

[Robkk]

I do not use the plugin, I just found it in the WordPress repository.

The plugin author has been active in the support forums in the past few weeks, so I assume people are using it still and with at least most with the latest version of WordPress.

You can contact the plugin author in their support forums if you have any concerns with the plugin working with the latest version of WordPress.

If a bbPress post contains a word that you put in the comment blacklist, the topic or reply will be marked as pending, and will be pending until moderation approval.

Moderation and BlackListing

The plugin I linked to just replaces profanity words you list with characters such as ***

[Robkk]

Which one did you link me?

Robin’s plugin for just bbPress fields.

What I did, which seems to work fine for now…

Yeah I told you the WordPress code would work. If you want cleaner templates you may nee to use the hook.

bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details

I might be saying very stupid things here (gotta learn some way), but I tried changing bbp_theme_before_topic_title to bbp_topic_class which is what my inexperienced self thought would do the trick, but it didn’t.

Oh, you are trying to make a post class. You can try this to see if it adds a new-topic post class to any new topics. I haven’t tested this though.

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_class','rkk_unread_topic' );
function rkk_unread_topic($classes) {
	$offset = 60*60*1; 
	if ( get_post_time() > date('U') - $offset ) {
			  $classes[] = 'new-topic';
		  return $classes;
	}
}

[tvirtual]

I have contacted aMember to see if I can get some further help as far as protecting the forum based on the user’s access in aMember. aMember is not protecting the forum as I expected. The forum is just not displaying at all for my test users. Hopefully aMember can help further. Thanks for your reply.

[NickUdd]

Hi,

I did a testinstall and imported my phpbb forum. I have since made some theme modifications.

Now I want to go live but need to re import all the topics. How do I clean up my current installation?

[project_subdomain]

tested commenting out above part several times which gave me correct titles and wrong titles when active. Did a systematic check then by deactivating plugins one after one and custom codes one after one and reversed, also refreshed the page title via backend (no caching in use). Nothing found to make the titles correct except commenting out above part.
I cannot reproduce it as well.

[Robkk]

It is weird that you got this new issue. I just tested the snippet again on my WAMP server to check with the latest version of WordPress, switched to German again, and also see if it conflicts with the last code snippet I gave you, but I do not see an issue on my side.

[lfeddern]

Hi,

I have a catagory with several different forums in it. I would like to display the most recent topics from the category. Am I right in thinking there is no shortcode that allows this?

Could I achieve this by just getting them to display some how by forum id? If I have to query the latest topics from certain forums which function would I have to use? I have looked at the docs but the functions don’t seem to be documented.

Thanks for any help;

[Robkk]

Okay I tested this theme again today and found some issues are actually in the bbPress plugin right now, but it is fixed in the latest dev version.

The user profile page being transparent is related to this bug listed here for theme compatibility.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2545

This is what the profile page and its sub pages looks like this with the modification in the bbPress plugin and without any WP Fix plugins, a custom bbpress.php, without transferring the bbPress templates into the theme.

There is also a possibility to fix the forum search, views listing, topic tag archive, moving replies, easily by either using archive and single for most of these bbPress pages to have better compatibility with these type frameworks. For example it might be best to use is_tax() for topic tag archives but using is_archive() will definitely work for most themes and theme frameworks.

Creating a bbpress.php is sort of a workaround for this. I do not have that much familiarality with the theme and framework that you have to know exactly how it needs to be to post anything to help with this quite yet.

I thought that guide would help you get most of the way there, since all you would need to change is the urls of your site, but I guess you are just transferring basically from bbPress to bbPress.

Something like this would definitely help in your case though.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2605

I guess you can try Exporting and Importing through the regular WordPress tools provided in the Tools section. I tried just exporting all the bbPress post types Forums, Topics, Replies, then run the repair tools, but that did not help and kind of messed up my test site. You can try that, maybe using ALL content instead or not running the repair tools though I recommend using a test server/local development area first.

[Robkk]

I think this is somewhat related to your other topic here.

Recently edited replies to the top

I guess you have to make sure the reply sorting is only working on the single topics and not the user profile pages.

You can try something like this to see if it works. You may not even need the second conditional bbp_is_single_user() but I was making sure.

function custom_bbp_has_replies( $args ) { 
    if ( bbp_is_single_topic{} && !bbp_is_single_user() ) { 
        $args['orderby'] .= 'post_modified';
        $args['order'] .= 'DESC';
    } 
    return $args; 
} 
add_filter('bbp_before_has_replies_parse_args', 'custom_bbp_has_replies' );' );

Since I am not 100% sure that I have the right conditionals since I haven’t tested this you can double check here.

bbPress Conditional Tags

[tw_crowther]

WordPress Version: 4.3.1
Theme: Omega
bbPress Version: 2.5.8

Issue: I installed the bbPress plug-in. Created a Forum called Forum, and created one Topic so I can test. All bbPress settings are left as default.

I created a Page called Forums and added this page to my site navigation.

My issues are 3 fold.
1) When I click on “Forum” in the site navigation to access the page I created I do not see any forum imbedded on this page, all I see is are the words “Archives” then the title “Forums” in the main body of text.
2) If I click on the title Forums this does direct me to the bbPress Forum I created – How do I integrate the Forum directly onto the “Forums” custom page I created?
3) I notice the Forum URL is <sitename>/forums/forum/forum/ is there a way to remove 2 of these levels so the URL is simply <sitename>/forums

I hope this makes sense and you are able to help.
Kind regards,
Tom.

[Robkk]

1) Are Private forums visible to all logged in users? I thought for sure it restricted access to only moderators and keymasters, but when I did some testing I noticed they’re very much visible. I didn’t see anything about it in the Layout and Funcionality article, so any tips on having a truly private forum for me and my forum staff?

Hidden Forums are only seen by Mods and Keymasters. Layout and Functionality article is basically a code snippet collection not something explaining how bbPress works.

The information you need to know are somewhat in here.

Creating Content

2) I wanted to prevent users changing their display name, so they would be forced to display themselves as whatever their username is, however, when editing form-user-edit.php they still had access to do so in the WP-Admin. Following the steps in Restricting access to WP Admin did nothing. The WP Admin Bar was still visible, and Participants or lower still have access to it.

Deny Ability To Change Display Name

[Robkk]

Use this PHP Function. Add it to your child themes function.php file or in a functionaility plugin.

function rkk_last_reply_link() {
	?>
    <a class="rkk-last-reply-link" href="<?php bbp_topic_last_reply_url(); ?>">Go to latest post</a>
    <?php
}
add_action( 'bbp_template_before_replies_loop', 'rkk_last_reply_link' );

[leo-l]

Ok so not sure this is the best approach but it seems to work well.

// Run query to get all the published replies for the topic
$widget_query = new WP_Query( array(
			'post_type'           => bbp_get_reply_post_type(),
			'post_parent'		  => bbp_get_topic_id(),
			'ignore_sticky_posts' => true,
			'no_found_rows'       => true,
			'post_status'		  => 'publish',
		) );

// Get the replies per page setting value and the count of the total replies + 1 for the initial topic
$posts_per_page = get_option('_bbp_replies_per_page');
$total_posts = $widget_query->post_count + 1;

// if the total replies is greater than the per page setting pagination is used so need to structure url with page number
if($total_posts > $posts_per_page)
{
	// Work out last page number and build url using topic link and last reply id
        $total_pages = ceil($total_posts/$posts_per_page);
	$url = bbp_get_topic_permalink()."page/".$total_pages."/#post-".$widget_query->posts[0]->ID;
}else{
	// Same url as above but without page number as not needed
        $url = bbp_get_topic_permalink()."#post-".$widget_query->posts[0]->ID;
}

I then added the following where i wanted to place the link

if ( $widget_query->have_posts() ) {
	echo "<a href=\"".$url."\">Go to latest post</a>";
}