I’m just a guy sat in his kitchen who was helped several years ago when I was setting bbpress up, so I try to help others – I’m not a bbpress author.
Updates from the bbpress authors are few and far between, I think they are on other projects now, and maybe consider bbpress as a mature product. The philosophy was always to keep bbpress small, and let other plugins add stuff that was needed.
I do ask them to update the ‘tested to’ but it rarely happens. I test bbpress with new versions.
That is and will always be the issue with open source software – it relies on people doing stuff for free, and people’s focus changes and people move on. That is annoying, but the reality of life.
If you have things that need core updates, you can raise them on trac
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/report
That way at least stuff that is wrong or could be done better gets logged.
Thanks, Robin for the plugin suggestion, but it’s more of the core of bbPress which seems quite outdated and a little messy with code. Plus, doing template overrides, there are things which hoped would be there that I can override. Some styles are using!important, some styles are reused in ways they shouldn’t be, so I had to get creative with overrides…I had to use javascript to remove/change/add classes to select elements: ie buttons.
Then, on the bbpress plugin page at .org, this shows up as a notice:
This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
Time to revamp this plugin and bring the coding and features up-to-date–plus capabilities. Even here in this forum, the font size is just 12 px. Time to move it up a bit, especially for accessibility 🙂
HI
Wordpress has issued a warning on the plugins page at wordpress.org saying that this plugin hasen’t been tested with the current version of wordpress
So Just out of curiosity is bbPress 2.6.9 campatible with the latest version of wordpress 6.2 ??
And has it also been tested with the newest version of PHP 7.4/8.0/8.1/8.2 ??
The information tab on the plugins page in wordpress.org says:
Version: 2.6.9
Author The bbPress Contributors
Last update: 1 year ago
Demands WordPress version: 5.0 or newer
compatible up to: 5.9.5
Demands PHP version: 5.6.20 or newer
Please check and inform me and the rest of the plugins users about the status.
Oh yeah and remember to update the plugins inforation tab at wordpress.org
/Lars
Robin, I totally understand you being just a man in the kitchen. Thats the way it should be, haha.
Yes, It’s mostly like the css I looked at when testing the plugin.
Thank’s for the filter. will give it whirl and report back.
it could be a theme or plugin issue
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.
If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users
Health Check & Troubleshooting
Then come back
MAIL SERVER SETTINGS FOR ESS MODULE (EMPLOYEE SELF SERVICE MODULE)
SMTP MAIL SERVER PARAMETERS
ERROR : Socket Error pops up while doing;
TEST SMTP DEFAULT SMTP SERVER SETTINGS
Some other mail server setting types go through but some do not. Is there something we are missing in this setup?
Regards
K. Magabo
ok, I cannot replicate that issue.
it could be a theme or plugin issue
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.
If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users
Health Check & Troubleshooting
Then come back
Brilliant! Thanks for the codes. Just tested and it works like a charm! 😀
As I guessed, it’s coming from your theme
You can try this: (it’s not tested)
function aa_profile_title ( $title, $id ) {
if ( bbp_is_single_user_profile() && empty(get_post_type($id)) ) {
$author_id = bbp_get_displayed_user_field('ID');
$nickname = um_get_display_name( $author_id );
$title = $nickname;
}
return $title;
}
add_filter( 'the_title', 'aa_profile_title', 10, 2);
Hi, here is my test site. Still under construction.
I found that most of the time WordPress display correctly in “display name publicly as” using NICKNAME. But there are times where it displays USERNAME in “display name publicly as” even though users have already registered their nickname in Ultimate Member profile.
Running Atra 4.1.2. I had the issue with Bbpress forum search gets stuck using Astra theme.
I came across your code in another thread and implemented it into functions.php and the issue stopped, although I wanted to use the plugin instead.
I was actually running the non-latest version of Astra, and it seems like the issue resolved itself after updating the theme to 4.1.2.
Brand new user, and have set up bbpress but have one feature I need to add still and can’t find it in my search of previous posts here.
I want to replace the Topic Tags box with a select box or checkboxes showing a pre-definted list of Topic Tags. At osme point we may allow users to create new ones, but not now.
What is the best approach here? I can edit the template for the post form and manually add the tags, but I’d prefer it pull them from the existing topic tags list so we can update that and have the latest list of tags displayed.
Many thanks.
bbpress Version: 2.6.9
WP version: (latest)
Theme: twentythirteen (child)
Forum: https://wjsociety.org/forums/forum/william-james-papers-for-discussion/
it could be a theme or plugin issue
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.
If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users
Health Check & Troubleshooting
Then come back
can the “tested up to” be bumped to 6.1 or 6.2 for the plugin?
Created a forum (for a school) with the top level being a category, directory type closed to act as a single parent. Created a sub-forum as a child to act as a school class (one of more to come). There will be a fixed number of topics underneath, each representing an assignment for certain chapters. Students will create replies but cannot add topics because they are fixed. However, I understand if you close the sub-forum to prevent topics from being added you also prevent any replies. There apparently is no easy way to circumvent this. I have the latest WordPress installed and it’s a Twenty Sixteen theme. The site is http://www.biblebookletschool.com.
I installed bbpress 2.6.9 and bbp style pack 5.4.2 and I set up two forums and one test message so far. I was able to change most of the look with the bbp style pack but what I can’t figure out is how I change the root page of the forum. All I see is above the two forums is the word “Forums” in big red letters. I tried using elementor pro and the regular editor but it doesn’t work.
I’m using WordPress 6.1.1 and site is behind a maintenance plugin under development.
As a participant. I am a keymaster so I have created participants to test out the forum. I logged into the forum in a different browser as a participant.
it could be a theme or plugin issue
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.
If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users
Health Check & Troubleshooting
Then come back
it could be a theme or plugin issue
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.
If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users
Health Check & Troubleshooting
Then come back
thanks for confirming, yes I only put that change into the latest version 🙂 wording above amended to make that clear
@robin-w
Just wanted to confirm the theme support checkbox is working – one thing of note – I had to update to the latest version 🙂
for others finding this thread – if you have the additional bbp-style-pack plugin – and why would you not have this 🙂 – and are at the latest version
bbp style pack
then this fix is available at a single click – so not coding or other plugins needed.
once activated just go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack and click the theme support button
oh dear I was hoping not to use any plugins. I prefer just to add to functions.php but everything I’ve tested on this page so far, does not work: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/11717/prevent-users-from-changing-their-email-address.
Astra has promised they’ll fix that bug with their next upgrade but then that would mean installing two plugins, so I’ll give up at this point. I’ll just remind users not to change their email.
that is the wordpress profile.
so you will fix that part by
Profile & Dashboard fields [Modify/Disable/Remove]
There is also a bbpress profile, but you are using the astra theme, and there is a bug which astra know about which stops it working – it just goes to a page with a permanent loop
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bbpress-user-profile-broken-on-latest-update/
you get to a bbpress profile by clicking the username in the forums.
You can turn this off using
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Profile
