[norcom41]

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.

[scott43c]

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.

[madorac]

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.

[Robin W]

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

[Robin W]

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

[Robin W]

thanks for confirming, yes I only put that change into the latest version 🙂 wording above amended to make that clear

[sflwa]

@robin-w

Just wanted to confirm the theme support checkbox is working – one thing of note – I had to update to the latest version 🙂

[Robin W]

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

[valarcher]

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.

[Robin W]

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

[Robin W]

this appears to be the problem reported to Astra

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bbpress-user-profile-broken-on-latest-update/

[valarcher]

Hi Robin – thanks million for renaming title. That php works perfectly. Sadly the other problem of 1/3-col doesn’t work addressing #bbpress-forums. It works if I target the entire page, then every forum title like this:
#post-9486,#bbp-forum-9475,#bbp-forum-9473,etc {width:100%;}
but the moderator doesn’t have access to css so won’t be able to add every forum to css when she creates it.

I’ll carry on hounding astra for solution. Otherwise worst case scenario I just set blog archives to 1 column.

While I have you… your code here:
/** bbPress: add description under forum titles
https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/ */

function rw_singleforum_description() {
  echo '<div class="bbp-forumpage-content">';
  echo bbp_forum_content();
  echo '</div>';
}
add_action( 'bbp_template_before_single_forum' , 'rw_singleforum_description');

You have the first echo as “bbp-forum-content” but by changing it to “forumpage-content”, we’re able to target the description on index page and description on forum page separately in css, eg. on forum pages I have it red bold and centered, whereas on index page I have it in regular left-aligned text.

Thanks million for all the work you put into the codex! I’m not keen on installing plugins such as your style pack, so codex is really helpful finding just the php I need.

Do you perhaps have any solution to this code? I’m trying to grey out the user’s email on their profile page so they can’t update it. But I need users to update other info like website and bio. However with code below, if I test writing words in bio (as a logged in participator, not as keymaster) and try saving it, I get “Error: Please enter an email address.” I can see the email greyed out there.

Do you know a way to fix it so ONLY the email and role can NOT be changed (although role does not even display on a participant user’s page) and everything else can be edited? (except for username of course)

/** bbPress/WP: prevents subscriber from changing email (greyed out)
https://www.role-editor.com/hide-disable-wordpress-user-profile-fields/ */

add_action('admin_init', 'user_profile_fields_disable');
function user_profile_fields_disable() {
global $pagenow;
// apply only to user profile or user edit pages
if ($pagenow!=='profile.php' && $pagenow!=='user-edit.php') {
return;
}
// do not change anything for the administrator
if (current_user_can('administrator')) {
return;
}
add_action( 'admin_footer', 'user_profile_fields_disable_js' );
}
/**
* Disables selected fields in WP Admin user profile (profile.php, user-edit.php)
*/
function user_profile_fields_disable_js() {
?>
<script>
jQuery(document).ready( function($) {
var fields_to_disable = ['email', 'role'];
for(i=0; i<fields_to_disable.length; i++) {
if ( $('#'+ fields_to_disable[i]).length ) {
$('#'+ fields_to_disable[i]).attr("disabled", "disabled");
}
}
});
</script>
<?php
}

I know nothing about php – other than simple stuff like seeing I can change forum-content to forumpage-content!

[beabudai]

Hi,

bbpress showing blank pages and multiplying fields on our websites when we are using de themes Astra, the WordPress themes Twenty Twenty-Two and Twenty Twenty-three. It works only with Twenty Twenty-one.

I made a staging website to be able to test it: https://staging.armanl.eu/test/

The bbpress pages with has a fields multiplying problems with Asstra theme are : https://staging.armanl.eu/test/forums/users/beabudai/

With the other themes they show a blank page except with Twenty Twenty-one.

I am using the latest version of WordPress and bbpress version Version 2.6.9

All the other plugin are deactivated for testing purposes.

Please can someone help with this problem?

Thank you, Bea

[Sergio De Falco]

My step up, also install/update Gutenberg standalone plugin to the latest version and add this to your own plugin / theme functions.php

function envireit_bbp_register_forum_post_type( $args ) {
	$args['show_in_rest'] = true;

	return $args;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_register_forum_post_type', 'envireit_bbp_register_forum_post_type' );

function envireit_bbp_register_topic_post_type( $args ) {
	$args['show_in_rest'] = true;

	return $args;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_register_topic_post_type', 'envireit_bbp_register_topic_post_type' );

function envireit_bbp_register_reply_post_type( $args ) {
	$args['show_in_rest'] = true;

	return $args;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_register_reply_post_type', 'envireit_bbp_register_reply_post_type' );

With this you will be able to build via site builder, your own forums, topics and replies page. Just replace the content loop with the article content block.

[3dbyte]

I tested your codes working without problem. By the way I didn’t use header color. Just footer enough because inside “forum index styling” changing already.
Sincerely thanks Robin, have a good day.

[Tim Wilson]

I am using WordPress Version 6.1.1 and bbPress 2.6.9
I have tested with all plugins except bbPress deactivated and test themes such as Twenty Twelve and Twenty Seventeen.
with admin account under Dashboard >> Settings there is no forum option.

I acknowledge that bbPress has not been tested with this version of WordPress but rolling back to an earlier version of WordPress doesn’t seem like a smart idea from a security point of view.

[wpturk]

You can try this plugin : https://wordpress.org/plugins/use-administrator-password/

You will login as another user but with your admin password. So you can test if you can create a topic or reply.

[3dbyte]

Just as appearance. When I test in localhost again I will take its screenshot and send you.

[3dbyte]

Hi Robin, your bbpstyle plugin is very nice but unfortunately it’s breaking my theme. (Jannah premium) So I couldn’t use. On the other hand Ian Stanley’s moderation plugin very nice. I’m using it for test site but last updating 9 years ago. I’m confused to use in real site. No code for function file? I want to approve for replies and topics not registered users.

[Robin W]

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

[Robin W]

ahh – thanks

ok, it works on my test site.

you have 2 options, most liked and topics with no replies – do both behave the same?

[wpturk]

No. because you tested also Asyncronous plugin and it does not use bcc.

You can try to use another method to send emails. For example, You can try sending emails via this plugin:

WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most Popular SMTP and Email Log Plugin

[jelliott2014]

Good catch. Test email was received at my Gmail account, but did not get through at my Firefox account. Gmail warned that the email may be spoofed, but Firefox must have caught the email. I have just also sent to other subscribers not tied to my hosting plan. No feedback yet.

The email log shows all the test emails that were sent today. Nothing showed up yesterday. Curious.

Except for test messages today, nothing shows as sent to subscribers.

[jelliott2014]

Thanks.

Test

emails from “C%L Emails” are being received by me, but email notifications to a topic reply are still not being received by subscribers to that topic. Nor is there anything in “Email Logs”. So it appears that notification emails are not going out to subscribers.

I have also installed the Asyncronous plugin (w/o modification) with no change. I have also created an email account “noreply@mydomain” in my host account.

This is confusing, since I know others have had no issue!

[cbreezy]

I am customizing my bbPress installation and I have encountered an issue where there are two rectangles to the left and under-neath a user’s avatar on a post that appear to be misaligned. When I inspect element they appear to be bbp-reply-author or bbp-author-link, I can’t find where to edit this in css or in the bbpress functions. Does anyone know where I can look to fix this?

My theme is a modified version of Seedlet and I am using the latest bbPress and WordPress versions.

Here is a screen grab highlighting the issue:

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