Hi, I recently installed bbPress and BuddyPress to create a forum. Everything is looking great so far except the /forums page. It is not displaying correctly. I am using the Interface Theme (free WordPress theme) which supports both bbPress and BuddyPress. You can see the problem below:
http://www.meowmethod.com/forums
The forum topics ARE working, so my problem is only with the forums page.
http://www.meowmethod.com/forums/forum/test-forum/
Troubleshooting:
*** The problem goes away when I activated the 2014 WordPress Theme, but I don’t want to use that one. So I am inclined to believe that it might be a theme problem. ***
I don’t have a forums wordpress page created (problem occurs with one created). The problem persists with BuddyPress deactivated.
I would appreciate any opinions and advice !!
Thanks in advance 🙂
I am using WordPress Version 3.9.1
and the latest version of bbPress (installed today).
hello
i have a wordpress site with bbpress installed. i have 3 subforums in bbpress. on the homepage of my wordpress site, i would like to list out those 3 forums with the lastest 5 posts from each.
please take a look at this image:
the styling doesn’t have to look like the attached as long as i can list out the individual subforums and 5 of its most recent posts.
i have setup 3 columns with ability to put shortcodes.
i tried using some of the shortcodes provided by bbpress with no luck.
SOS please!!! i’m running out of options…lol
thanks in advance,
chris
Hi,
@netweb many thanks for the info:
If you use WordPress 4.0.x (Any alpha or beta of the next version of WordPress) bbPress will not work, we are currently investigating this.
Please post when this issue has been resolved.
no joy to-date – on test local installs – but no pain either!
On my configuration, following settings are different than yours (others are similar):
– dashboard>settings>private groups> General settings : all checked (please note that ” Hide topic and reply counts” option doesn’t change anything. But I don’t care).
– search as non-logged in : I can’t test it because a non-logged in user is not able to see forums pages : the user has to log in before.
———————-
Just to let you know:
– search as user1 : ok (I get similar result)
– search as user2 : ok (I get similar result).
– Here is the point : if I log on as user2 and search for a term I know is only in forum 1, it shows the result but it should not.
ok, I have just set up a test as follows :
user1 access to group 1
user2 access to group 2
forum 1 assigned to group 1 visibility private parent:no parent
forum 2 assigned to group 1 and group 2 visibility private parent:no parent
dashboard>settings>private groups>
visibility
set to off (unchecked)
all other options blank
general settings
all blank
The I log on as user2 and search for a term I know is in both forums, and it only shows the results for forum 2.
Then I log in as user1 and search for a term I know is in both forums, and it shows the results for forum 1 and forum 2.
Then I log out, and serach again, and it show no results from either forum.
Which bits of the above are different for you?
WordPress 3.9.1
BP 2.0.1
Sorry, but it’s a dev site created by the client so I can’t publish the url.
It’s on a shared account at Bluehost.
The ‘from’ on received emails is [account name]@box557.bluehost.com
The site_url and home_url are the same and use ‘www’.
I can test bbpress patches.
Okay, I have a bit more knowledge about the problem.
I’ve been using a lot of time now and went back to my first working bbpress version and have then sequentially tested the following versions.
Result: everything works correctly up to version 2.41!
The title for the replies are there and consequently the permalink is correct, too. From version 2.51 the problem is back! Version 2.50 I could not test because the download link to version 2.5, unfortunately, contains the version 2.54. But I guess that the problem starts with 2.50.
All versions tested in the same configuration (plugins and theme).
Something suspicious: In versions that work correctly in the reply list (admin area) is in the field for the title: (no title). In the versions that have the error: in the reply list (admin area) in the field for the title is always the right title, but not in the post itself, there the line is empty. (Only posts that were written with a faulty version!! The others (up to version 2.41) are fine.)
Very strange.
So now I have version 2.41 back in action and everything running smoothly again.
Am I the only one who has this error?
Then I would stick to version 2.41 for all time ….(???)
Morgensonne
Hi Robin,
I’ve done everything. Neither a plugin yet the theme makes the problem. I have ALL plugins turned off and tested the Twenty Ten and Twenty Fourteen themes. It is up to bbpress! The real problem why the permalinks contained the ID is, that the title bar of replies is empty. Because there is no title, the ID is taken to the permalink.
BUT so far everything worked fine! The title was always automatically set for each reply.
So there must be something happened during the update.
I can try to reinstall bbpress. BUT: What happens if I uninstall bbpress???
Is everything in the forum lost?
Morgensonne
It’s me again!
Preparing some topics for the the test you ask me to do, I’ve found something strange :
– When the search keyword is used in a topic that belongs to the most private forum (Forum A in my example : restricted to Group 1) but in any topic of the other forum (Forum B : restricted to Group 1 and 2), the search does not filter : the topic is displayed in results (search work out by a logged in user that belongs to the Group 2.
That was the case of all my previous tests!
– But when the search keyword is used in both topics that belongs to Forum A or Forum B, then the search function seems to filter correctly : the topic that belongs to Forum A does not appear in the result list.
So… what shall I do?
Shall I go on creating a new search.php file as you explained to me?
Sorry to have been so long to find this “special behaviour”!
Ok I’ll do that now.
Please could you tell me before :
– Should I desactive all plugins before (except bbPress and Private Groups before)?
– Should I switch to Twenty Twelve theme again?
– May I create topics I will test using any logged in user (as the admin user)?
You wrote : “But one of these is in a private forum so a non-logged in user should see”
Please note that my both forums are private ones, then no non-logged-in users are supposed to have an acces to any forum.
– Forum A is to be used by Group 1 only.
– Forum B is to used by Group 1 and Group 2.
Thank you, Robin, for your feedback!!
I did that first. Surely 3 times. It remains as it is: The title is missing (reply to …………) and the permalink does not take the title, but the ID. Probably because there is no title! The field is empty.
I have just tested the following:
1) new WordPress posts: permalink is as it should be.
2) new post in the bbpress forum written in the admin area: permalink is as it should be.
3) new post in bbpress forum written in the forum area: permalink is as it should be.
4) reply to topic written in the forum area: permalink is incorrect (ID) and title is missing (field is empty)
The problem therefore only occurs when replies are written in the forum area!!
I’m getting quite desperate. I have no idea what I should do. 🙁
In the older forum replies all is correct and now suddenly it no longer works.
One more thing, please:
How does the option works in the bbpress-admin:”Create new answer”?
I can not set anywhere, on which post I want to write a reply…. (?)
Thanks for the help!
Morgensonne
good, I couldn’t fathom out why chnagingh a lsug would affect anything !
Ok, that’s strange, it works fine on my test site, and just uses the same core functionality as the main functions.
Not sure what to suggest next….let me have a think overnight !
Hello,
I am testing out the forum and don’t see an option during the creation of a forum to remove the sidebar.
I am using theme Point Version: 1.0.6 By MyThemeShop.
Thanks for any help in resolving this.
Nick
Hi!
Thank you for the release.
The top level forum issue is now fixed.
Unfortunetly, there is no change about the search functionnality.
When testing the new release :
1- I deleted definitly forums and recreated new ones, with new names and new slugs. I kept existing groups (that were already defined in the plugin settings) and existing users settings. And, of course, I created new topics using various logged in users.
Then I made some tests.
2- I changed forums slugs and made some tests again : it seems to be ok (except for the search).
I’m really embarrassing with the issue related to the not filtered search results list because I will be forced to disable search functionality in bbPress settings.
Do you think it should be fixed or it is linked to my own configuration with no hope to repare it?
Regards
m.
An easy way to achieve the second option would be to copy paste this code at the end of the file named functions.php in your current theme folder.
Make sure to create a backup of the file functions.php first. And always do the changes on a test server, not the live one.
function rsb_limit_posting( $retval ) {
// count topics of the current user
$topic_count = bbp_get_user_topic_count_raw( get_current_user_id() );
// if they are 10 or more, do not allow him to create new topic
if ( $topic_count > 9 ) return false;
// otherwise return the default
return $retval;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form', 'rsb_limit_posting' );
The code above hide the “new topic form” for users who posted 10 or more topics.
Hope it helps… good luck!
There is nothing you need to remove manually, if you go to Tools -> Forums -> Reset Forums all bbPress data will be deleted from the database.
If you are changing the user ID directly in the database and ‘do it wrong’ you are most certainly going to have permission and capability issues with the user ID.
You should create a new user, assign them the WordPress ‘Administrator’, then assign the bbPress role ‘Keymaster’. Logout of your current admin account and test your new admin account. If everything works and you have transferred any posts, pages, forums, topics, replies etc to the new user then go ahead and delete the old account once you have confirmed ‘all the things’.
Note: Your posts were being picked up as spam by Akismet for some reason that is why they didn’t show up.
This will be a theme issue, you can confirm this by testing with the Twenty Fourteen theme.
On my local server search results URLs get pretty permalinks and search works. On my live server the query string is shown and no search results are returned.
I did a test by manually entering the search URL as it was prettyfied on my local server and surprisingly search works.
The search URL that bbPress returns looks like this and returns no results:
http://www.onedesigns.com/support/search?action=bbp-search-request&bbp_search=pinboard
The prettified link for the same search looks like this:
http://www.onedesigns.com/support/search/pinboard
So the search engine works and apparently it’s the permalinks that cause the issue. Changing or resaving WordPress’ permalink setting didn’t make any difference.
A var_dump for bbp_search returns NULL.
The only difference between my local server and live server is that on my local server I use Apache and on my live serve nginx + Varnish.
Is there any incompatibility between bbPress and nginx or Varnish? Are there any permalink configurations I must apply?
Thank you
Is this even possible? I got hit by multiple progressive spam bots and am stuck with 12,000 posts to delete, but no dev team to upgrade forums to latest version. I need a plug in or work around to help me delete all these spam posts.
Any ideas?
I installed BBpress on wordpress, but when using HTML tags then these are not working.
They are also not white or anything, it’s totally not in the post. Bold, Italic etc are working fine.
For example which code is not working:
eg
http://www.naturalparenting.com.au/natural-parenting-forums/topic/what-did-your-babies-weigh-at-birth/
I have tried everything. I figure its something simple but cant work it out
Latest wordpress and bbpress version.
I’ve just started working on a plugin that will have some additional shortcodes in it
the only functional one so far is the ability to show the latest xx topics
you can download it from here
bbp additional shortcodes
you use the shortcode
[bbp_display_topic_index show=’5′]
OK Guys,
I worked this out it is definitely linked to the memberships plugins being used. I found that for non members they were not seeing the first post. I then disabled the membership plugin and found that the non members could now see the first post.
I re-enabled the membership plugin (Paid Membership Pro) and looked for a setting which might be causing this behaviour. I found it in PMPro – Membership>Filter searches and archives? I set this option to “No – Non-members will see restricted post/pages in searches and archives”. and tada it is now working.
This setting’s description is a little misleading on first glance but I assure you non-members will not see restricted forums or topics.
I know other people have has similar success in their chosen membership plugin so look for that elusive setting and test it out.
Cheers
Camo
I would like to display the latest 5 topics, exactly as displayed on the homepage of bbpress. How do I go about this, I can’t seem to see a shortcode that would work?
but i don’t want this boring theme
Yes, I know that – it was simply to test that it was a theme issue
as I said before
you’ll need to contact their support site for this as it’s a paid theme
http://themeforest.net/item/x-the-theme/5871901/support
they should be able to help you
Themes can be very complicated, and we don’t offer a service to make bbpress work with bespoke/paid themes – that is for the theme authors to do 🙂
