[pelmoggian]

Just to add some information – running the latest version of BBPress.

[gerryj]

Hello,

does anyone know if I can get the latest reply ID from a topic with the topic id?
I already looked online, but haven’t really found a fitting function for this.
Something like bbp_get_latest_reply_by_topic_id($topic_id); would be perfect.
Thanks in advance.

Regards
Gerry Zeller

[Robin W]

@johnjamesjacoby –

as far as I understand, the issue is detailed in changeset 7190 – yes?

so it is basically to hide the ‘generate passwword’ in form-user-passwords.php if the user’s browser does not support js or it is disabled.

If so, at the moment all bbpress pages end up with a no-js class as bbpress sets ‘no-js’ as the default, which means that the quicktags do not display on the topic and reply forms as they need js but the css thinks it is no-js, and the visual editor does not work for the same reasons.

At the moment you only test for js using the script technique in form-user-passwords.php viz

<script type="text/javascript">
	document.body.className = document.body.className.replace( 'no-js', 'js' );
</script>

so I would suggest 1 of 2 approaches

1. putting this test in more generally so it runs on any bbpress page (as usefully suggested by @webcreations907) maybe by adding to the main function, or adding a filter in \includes\core\filters.php to run the script

so something like :

add_filter ('bbp_body_class' , bbp_test_js) ;
function bbp_test_js ($classes) {
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
	document.body.className = document.body.className.replace( 'no-js', 'js' );
</script>
<?php
return $classes ;
}

so that others could disable it

2. changing the class to bbp-no-js should work, if you do this in the bbp_body_class function and the form-user-passwords.php and in css, then I can no reason why it would not work if that is the sole intention of this.

[webcreations907]

@robin-w if you remove the no-js in php, then it doesn’t allow the reason for adding it which would be to test if the browser supports javascript/jquery.

Just an example
Say you have a slider(JS dependent) that you only want to show if the browser supports js, then adding .no-js .my-slider{display:none;} would hide the slider if the browser didn’t support it, while if the browser supports JS then the no-js would be removed by JS and the slider would be displayed. Because the only way the class was removed was with JS which would verify the browser supports JS.

So if you remove it with PHP then there is no test and the slider is shown regardless if the browser supports JS or not. Not sure what the percentage of browser users that have it disabled, sure it’s a very very small amount.

You can see that in theme TwentyTwentyOne in template-functions.php the theme does it the same way I mentioned above in earlier post.

Just wanted to mention it, hopefully it gets updated shortly and a fix gets out for it.

[Robin W]

ok, in my testing

working :

function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    $args['quicktags'] = false;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

not working

function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

[John James Jacoby]

Can you please post the code snippet you are using to enable the visual editor?

In my testing, it is working OK using these snippets:

Enable Visual Editor

[Robin W]

looks ok without testing – does it work ?

[Robin W]

untested but

bbp_get_topic_subscription_link (array( 'object_id'  => $topic_id) ))

[thesupplyroom]

Hello,

Is there a way I can edit the forums pages to include a banner BEFORE the topic? so for example, on my “latest topics” page I have an image before using shortcode [bbp-topic-index].

So I would like that same image to carry through at the top of my forum topics on:

http://www.mywebsite/forums/topic/topic-title

I understand I can achieve this by changing the topic category description to the banner and then using the BBP Style Pack plugin to set “show description” but this isnt an ideal solution as it only shows on the forum category list not on the actual posts…

Any ideas?

[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

[A.]

Hi Robin,

We will do some further testing/troubleshooting. If something comes up I will let you know.

Thanks for your support!

[Robin W]

ok, I cannot replicate – might be a multisite issue, might not.

all I can suggest further is the standard advice :

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

Then come back

[Robin W]

1. if you set up a new test user and subscribe them, do you see this?
2. suggest you get one user to unsubscribe and subscribe again to a forum, and see if that fixes for them

[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]

suspect that as bbpress has custom post types, your sidebar manager is responsible

so standard testing advice is

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]

untested, but this should take out newlines and change the excerpt length to 150 – just change the 150 in the code to whatever length you want.

so firstly you need to alter the default in wordpress which is 55 so

add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'rew_change_default_length' ) ;

function rew_change_default_length () {
    return 150;
}

then alter it in the bbpress function, and change to take out line breaks

add_filter ('bbp_get_topic_excerpt' , 'rew_remove_line_breaks', 10 , 3) ;

function rew_remove_line_breaks ($excerpt, $topic_id, $length){
		$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_id );
		//change length here
		$length   = 150 ;
		$excerpt  = get_post_field( 'post_excerpt', $topic_id );

		if ( empty( $excerpt ) ) {
			$excerpt = bbp_get_topic_content( $topic_id );
		}

		$excerpt = trim( strip_tags( $excerpt ) );
		
		//take out line breaks
		$excerpt = preg_replace("/\r|\n/", "", $excerpt);

		// Multibyte support
		if ( function_exists( 'mb_strlen' ) ) {
			$excerpt_length = mb_strlen( $excerpt );
		} else {
			$excerpt_length = strlen( $excerpt );
		}

		if ( ! empty( $length ) && ( $excerpt_length > $length ) ) {
			$excerpt  = mb_substr( $excerpt, 0, $length - 1 );
			$excerpt .= '…';
		}
		
		
		// Filter & return
		return apply_filters( 'rew_get_topic_excerpt', $excerpt, $topic_id, $length );
}

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

[Robin W]

I am not a bbpress author, just someone who helps out here.

Every website is unique, and this doesn’t happen on my test site – I have not seen this reported elsewhere as an issue, and the code has a duplicate function check in it.

line 307 of includes/replies/functions

/** Reply Duplicate *******************************************************/

	if ( ! bbp_check_for_duplicate( array( 'post_type' => bbp_get_reply_post_type(), 'post_author' => $reply_author, 'post_content' => $reply_content, 'post_parent' => $topic_id, 'anonymous_data' => $anonymous_data ) ) ) {
		bbp_add_error( 'bbp_reply_duplicate', __( '<strong>Error</strong>: Duplicate reply detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that.', 'bbpress' ) );
	}

I am not able to say why you are getting this.

[maksanse]

Hello Robin and thank you for your answer.
I made a test with only bbpress and twenty twenty one theme activated and the issue still occurs :

1) Create a post and double click on the “send” button
2) Your action creates 2 posts instead of one (the situation doesn’t seem handled by bbpress ?).

Please have a look at the following video :
http://www.loom.com/share/b5e083721cea47409a8c7c0ad769329f

I guess anyone can encounter this situation because no theme or function was active in my test. Shouldn’t that be handled by the core ?

Best regards

[Chuckie]

Yes – it clearly states that firefox will no longer show content that is embedded from another site. And that you have to view it on that actual site.

I know that a few weeks ago I changed the security headers on my site to prevent hijacking but that pertains to my site.

At the moment i have uploaded the image to my site and used the TinyMCE approach.

Look:

https://www.publictalksoftware.co.uk/support-forums/topic/test-embedding-an-image-from-imgur/#post-9083

The first image pasted in visually (https://i.stack.imgur.com/8MjBc.png) but the second won’t.

How odd – NOW they show!

Ho hum.

[Robin W]

untested, but this should work

add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_author_display_name' , 'rew_reply_change_to_first_name', 10 , 2 ) ;

function rew_reply_change_to_first_name ($author_name, $reply_id) {
	// Get the author ID
	$author_id = bbp_get_reply_author_id( $reply_id );
	$user = get_userdata($author_id); 
	$first_name = $user->user_firstname;
return $first_name ;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_author_display_name' , 'rew_topic_change_to_first_name', 10 , 2 ) ;

function rew_topic_change_to_first_name ($author_name, $topic_id) {
	// Get the author ID
	$author_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id );
	$user = get_userdata($author_id); 
	$first_name = $user->user_firstname;
return $first_name ;
}

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

[Robin W]

If you have allowed the serach, then it should appear in your main forum list.

If it is not, 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]

you need to be a keymaster to see forums in the dashboard – check your settings

dashboard>users

If you are not, then you need to get a keymaster to set you up.

If you are a keymaster 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]

\includes\replies\template.php

line 127

function bbp_has_replies

but be aware -lots of plugins filter this.

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

[mariaat]

I use the BuddyX-PRO theme on the live-site. I tested BBPress with the free BuddyX theme and all parts were translated.
I’ve contacted WBcom again, after they told me last week it was an issue of BBpress.
Thanks for your help.