[Robin W]

ok so let’s try the standard fault finding

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and my fix plugin 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

[tomcrise]

Hello,

I found a bug when using bbrpess and WOOF (Woocommerce Product Filter). Indeed, when bbpress is activated, when you want to filter products by category, the WOOF’s widget disappears. With a lot of tests on multiples websites, I found this bug comes from bbpess.phpclass on setup_variables() function when the attribute topic_tag_tax_id gets apply_filters( 'bbp_topic_tag_tax_id', 'topic-tag' ) value. When you comment this line, the bug is solve.
As I don’t need tags on my Forum, I just need to set $this->topic_tag_tax_id = 0 and hide Topic tags form.

But Here is my final problem : How can I overwrite this class because it’s not a template but the plugin file ?

PS : I tried every possibilities (plugins versions, select another theme, change product database, catch network and files errors), the bug really comes from here as strange as it may seem.

Cheers,

TomCrise

[Robin W]

none of this testd, but the actual adding of an image to the post would be something like

add_action('bbp_template_before_single_topic', 'pym_print_featured_image_single_forum', 11);
		
	function pym_print_featured_image_single_forum() {
		if (has_post_thumbnail()) {
			echo '<div class="pym-bbp-topic-thumbnail">';
			echo get_the_post_thumbnail(null, 'thumbnail' );
			echo '</div>';
		}
	}

adding featured topic to the backend would be something like

add_post_type_support('topic', array('thumbnail'));

Code could be written to allow the user to add an image, but that’s a chunk of work !!

[Robin W]

ok, so next I’d test whether you email service is working correctly

How to Fix the WordPress Not Sending Emails Issue (+ Tips on How to Fix It with Most Used Contact Form Plugins)

[eglider]

Hi,
Using WP with Twenty-twenty latest. I am looking for advise concerning the email notification. No email is sent out whether new post appear, or new topic started etc. What do i do wrong? All other emails form the website is received including registration notification of new user to the forum.
thanks

[Robin W]

ok, but it is over 2 month since I looked at this, and I have no memory of what I did or what I wrote. If you can’t make the effort to test promptly free stuff other people write for you, then my enthusiasm to get re-engaged with this is very low 🙁

[ecollart]

Hello,

Sorry for the delay but I finally I tried your add_moderator_by_id and it seems to work but I cannot test mail notification for the moment and I can’t see the moderator added on the forum list.

But I need to say that in that list, the “-” displayed in moderator column is not there for those I tested with your code…

I will do more test probably next week…

Eric Collart

[ecollart]

Hello,

not being programmer, I can’t use this as it is but can this be used to help in my case to restore the edit and delete function from the topic top bar menu when using Polylang (FR and EN) ?

I am pushing at Polylang free support too but no luck so far … would be good to have Polylang and bbPress to talk together as being 2 big actors in WordPress…

Sorry if the question seems obvious to you …

Thanks for your help

Eric Collart

Ps: I can provide access to test if useful…

[DeepBlue]

ok thanks 🙂

the second one i tested it : it works fine but there is a problem :

Case 1 : if user replies : he would see “reply awaiting moderation” on his post AND this post will be public : it should be hidden for all except admin / the poster

Case 2 : if user posts a topic : he posts the topic and then nothing happens, he can think its a bug, as he would actually have to scroll up to see his topic is actualy listed at the top with the topic subject (awaiting moderation)

so 2 problems in this case 2 :
– he can think its a bug and that his topic has not been posted and so would try again
– the topic subject is public : it should be hidden

Waiting to test first plugin to see if it works better !

[DeepBlue]

Hi Robin

This plugin has been closed from WordPress plugins on 11 february

Any other plugin to moderate topics ?

i was hoping that the feature for comments :

Before a comment appears
1) Before a comment appears Comment must be manually approved
2) Comment author must have a previously approved comment

would also work for bbpress

but i tested and it doesnt work…

Apparently only the 2 settings comment moderation blacklist are working :

– number of links
– stopwords

but the problem is there is no warning message showing if someone adds 2 links for instance and then submits, nothing tells him his post is pending moderation (same test for stop words)

Also the admin doesnt have any notification of pending post, no mail, nothing on dashboard, i had to go directly to admin topics to see the pending topics

Best moderation would be to always moderate the first post for any user, how could i do that ?

i just found this other moderation plugin that does exactly what im describing but it’s 8 years old without update, does it still work ?

Thanks a lot !

[Robin W]

untested (as I am on holiday without test server access), but try

add_filter ('bbp_get_reply_author_link' , 'rew_return_null' ) ;
add_filter ('bbp_get_topic_author_link' , 'rew_return_null' ) ;
add_filter ('bbp_get_author_link' , 'rew_return_null' ) ;

function rew_return_null () {
return ;
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[iprg]

Robin, wow, that is exactly what I was looking for…
Will test it, thanks!

Jan

[DeepBlue]

Test to see what REPLY does 😀

Edit : actually any REPLY button on any message is simply a reply to the entire topic ?

Second question : can we quote on BBpress ? this is very useful, i dont see this option

Thanks 🙂

[Robin W]

with wordpress 5.9 this works on my test site

bbp style pack

go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>topic/reply form and look at item 9

[Robin W]

Would I just use– for example– an existing WP installation, and install the latest bbPress as a plugin? Then, once installed in WP as a plugin, I go to bbPress, dashboard > tools > … ?

basically yes 🙂

[ajaxStardust]

Thank you!

I think I get what you’re saying, but I’m not quite following what to do. I’m sure it’s easy. 🙂

Would I just use– for example– an existing WP installation, and install the latest bbPress as a plugin? Then, once installed in WP as a plugin, I go to bbPress, dashboard > tools > … ?

I presume there will be an “update database” process. Cool. This will be interesting. Backup, of course. 🙂

Thanks!

[ollietubb1]

I would like to add a title banner to all my forum pages so that it is consistent with the rest of the website.

This page is an example of what I would like it to look like – wbc1.otiscreative.co.uk/forum-home/ – this is created with Divi though with shortcodes which doesn’t work so this is just for visual representation.

So, I think I am after a way to inject this title banner into the forum pages, perhaps using the functions.php file, I am not entirely sure but would really appreciate some guidance on how to crack this.

This is my current forum layout – wbc1.otiscreative.co.uk/forums/

Thanks so much,
Ollie

PS. I am using latest version of WP and bbPress.

[ollietubb1]

Hi there,

I hope someone can help. I have an issue with these two bbPress pages.

See here example: wbc1.otiscreative.co.uk/forums/users/ollie-tubb/

It picks up the divi default formatting rather than the structure of the other pages, see example here: wbc1.otiscreative.co.uk/advice/finance/

It needs to sit in the same style template but I don’t know how to do this. I am using Divi theme but i am using the bbPress default set-up (not shortcodes).

Help would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks,
Ollie
PS. I am using latest version of WP and bbPress.

[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]

next page works fine on my test site.

Standard tests need to be performed

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]

ok, 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

[ollietubb1]

Hello Robin,

Me again! We have come back to bbPress as after testing BuddyPress the client has decided this is more effective for their purpose.

Please can you let me know the best way to remove the sidebar from the forum pages? I found some old articles but nothing very recent. I am using DIVI theme if that helps.

Here is the forum so far – https://wbc1.otiscreative.co.uk/forums/

Many thanks,
Ollie

[Robin W]

On my test site – it goes into being draft

If you look at

dashboard>replies>all replies

you should see it as draft in there – I did an approve to get it back.

Can you test that you get the same.

If you are getting that as well, then I’ll take a look to see what the bug is, as agree it should work on the front end.

[budget101]

I just created a new forum as a test, (called “test”) and when I did, the “Community” header just changed links, now it links to the Test forum. I’d like to remove the link entirely.