[franpeppe]

Hello Robin,
Thank you for your reply, i tried as you said with bbpress 2.5.4 but nothing changes, i tried also to reinstall the latest version of bbpress and update the permalinks but nothing changes too.

[Robin W]

bbpress is not particularly Xampp friendly, and without being able to see your site of ocurse it’s hard to start to problem find.

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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.

Then come back

[franpeppe]

Hello,
I have updated bbPress plugin to the latest version and i noticed that my forum is not working correctly now, when i go in the main page of the forum it loads just one topic and the page is without CSS, just a blank page with the title of the topic and some infos like the date and the creator.
Then i tried to download some old versions of bbPress to install but i dont remember which version was installed before.
So i tried bbPress 2.5.4 (its the one that i think it was installed before) and with this one i cant reach any page of the forum, infact when i go in the forum section of wordpress dashboard it load just a blank page.
I tried already some versions of bbPress from 2.5.1 to 2.5.9 then 2.6.0 and the latest but nothing changes.
The only difference is that with 2.6.0 or next loads correctly the forum section in the dashboard and with 2.5.9 or prev doesnt.

What went wrong just updating and reverting the update?

[Chuckie]

I was running a Query Monitor on my site and noted the following:

Undefined index: latest-user

wp-content/plugins/bbpress-improved-statistics-users-online/includes/public/class.online.php:229
bbPress_Advanced_Statistics_Online->allowed_tags()

So I had a look at the core file at that line and found:

        private function allowed_tags() {
            // Store all of the strings currently replace
            $this->_tags = array(   
                        "%MINS%"                => $this->parent->option['user_inactivity_time'],
                        "%COUNT_ACTIVE_USERS%"  => $this->stats["count"]["active"],
                        "%HOURS%"               => $this->parent->option['user_activity_time'],
                        "%COUNT_ALL_USERS%"     => $this->stats["count"]["inactive"] - $this->stats["count"]["guests"],
                        "%COUNT_ALL_GUSERS%"    => $this->stats["count"]["guests"],
                        "%COUNT_ACTIVE_GUSERS%" => $this->stats["count"]["guestsa"],
                        "%USER_USERS%"          => _n("user", "users", $this->stats["count"]["active"], 'bbpress-improved-statistics-users-online'),
                        "%GUEST_GUESTS%"        => _n("guest", "guests", $this->stats["count"]["guestsa"], 'bbpress-improved-statistics-users-online'),
                        "%ALL_USER_USERS%"      => _n("user", "users", $this->stats["count"]["inactive"] - $this->stats["count"]["guests"], 'bbpress-improved-statistics-users-online'),
                        "%ALL_GUEST_GUESTS%"    => _n("guest", "guests", $this->stats["count"]["guests"], 'bbpress-improved-statistics-users-online'),
                        "%USER_RECORD%"         => $this->most_users( "record" ),
                        "%USER_RECORD_DATE%"    => $this->most_users( "date" ),
                        "%USER_RECORD_TIME%"    => $this->most_users( "time" ),
                        "%LATEST_USER%"         => $this->stats["latest-user"]
                    );

The offender is:

"%LATEST_USER%" => $this->stats["latest-user"]

So I tried to find where latest-user is also used and only found one place in all the files, here:

        private function stats_extra( $activity ) {
            
            if( $this->parent->option["bbpress_statistics"] == "on" ) {
                // Add the bbPress Statistics
                $activity["bbpress"] = $this->get_formatted_statistics();
            }
            
            if( $this->parent->option["last_user"] == "on" ) {
                // Get the HTML latest usser
                $activity["latest-user"] = $this->get_latestuser( true );
            }
            
            if( $this->parent->option["most_users_online"] == "on" ) {
                // Get/set the most users ever online, users the active online users
                $activity["most-users"] = $this->get_mostusers( $activity["count"]["active"] );
            }
            
            return $activity;
        }

This led me to:

            // Create the statistics variable
            $this->stats = $this->stats_extra( $activity );

So this warning looks like a false positive to me. Thoughts?

[schossie]

Hello I have the latest wordpress and bbpress version.
Some of my users told me that they cant subscribe to a forum anymore. By deactivating all my plugins and activating them again I found out it is due to BP Plugin.

Do you know anything about that?
Thanks a lot!

[Milan Petrovic]

There are a lot of forums using it (it is my most popular plugin), but seeing features in action depend on the feature used, and if they are allowed for visitors without an account. My website official support forum uses more than 60% of plugin features. The best way to test is via demo website I can set up, just send me a demo request and I will set it up: https://www.dev4press.com/request-demo/.

[Chuckie]

Please look here:

Theocratic Software

Is it possible to style the “Latest Forum Activity” widget so that it looks similar to “Recent Posts” widget just above it?

[kayo404]

Hi,
I’m new to bbpress and have created my first forum. It’s on a testing domain for now.

Question:
When I create a testforum it will show up as:
/forums/forum/testforum/

If I create a topic in this forum it will show up as:
/forums/topic/test-topic/

Is it possible to have the topic in the same url as the forum, like this:
/forums/forum/testforum/test-topic/

Thank you.

[randrcomputers]

9.75 seconds to load shortcut “bbp-forum-index”, 3.75 seconds to load shortcut “new-posts-last-month” really seems index takes FOREVER i even made a test index page with no widgets and no sidebar and still takes nearly 10 sec. i would be thrilled if i could shave just a few seconds of the index somehow

[randrcomputers]

I do use shortcode for bbpress index display is there another way but man is index super slow to load! latest post shortcode is fine its just the index. rest of site is fine jumping from topic to topic but something must be going on. I have researched this and seems related to shortcode or amount of posts/topics/replies? site has only 80,000 posts with 6,044 topics so not big at all

[zettis]

Here is a different plug in that does a reasonable job:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/

After installing it, go to discussion settings and then set it to create a forum topic for each post, copy tags, etc. Then you have an option to apply settings to all existing posts.

I tried this on a test site and it worked pretty well. It did not do all the bookkeeping of reply counts correctly, but it did create appropriate topics for each post and import the comments and replies to them. Local bookkeeping services

It is also reversible as it does not delete either the posts or comments — if you deactivate the plug in your posts (which were unchanged anyway) and their comments are intact. You do still have a bunch of new topics in your target forum.

yes, I also removed the add-in

[nybbles]

Hi,

I can’t get the login form to login. All it does no matter what you type in is redirect the user to the WordPress login page.

Home

I setup a test user… user and pass are “test”

I’ve tried everything and I’m baffled….

[orangeturtle1000]

Hi Robin, still having issues but have made some progress on being able to replicate the issue.

The issue is related to deleting posts and more specifically deleting the latest post that has been submitted to a particular forum topic.

It seems that the plugin is failing to refresh the Last Post entry after the last post gets deleted. It is failing to revert back to the previous post.

[lhawk]

I’m helping a non-profit to create a forum on their site, and I’m using Physio Q template but I built the site with Elementor Pro. And, really, it doesn’t matter what template I use, I can’t seem to figure out how to edit it so that it looks really nice. I’ve installed “bb style pack” but it doesn’t help with things like needing a sidebar with a place to log in, etc. It just looks off and we’re going to want to make it look more like the rest of the site: robust, easy to read, etc.

The “Forums” page looks fine, but that styling no longer works once the topic is selected.

https://thethirdtalk.com/forums/forum/test-forum/

Any suggestions? I saw something about editing the single.php file, but I really don’t want to install more plugins or use too many workarounds to get it to look like the rest of the site. Thank you in advance!

[Robin W]

this works on my test site

add_filter( 'bbp_default_styles', 'rew_dequeue_bbpress_css' ) ;

function rew_dequeue_bbpress_css ($defaults ){
unset ($defaults['bbp-default']) ;
return $defaults ;
}

[cryptoking]

I am a newbie on BBPress and just installed it and I’m in the process of setting it up. The problem is that the body columns are not aligning with the topic headings.

I did some testing and this is the default layout which is not aligning.

Forum: Imagination Room

However if I create a new Page and insert the shortcode the alignment is perfect, so I’m not sure what’s happening, but I don’t want to create several dozen pages and insert shortcodes, so I’d like to figure out why it’s not aligning.

test

I’ve tried messing with some of the css but I couldn’t figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Robin W]

answers from my perspective – I’m just a bbpress user who helps out here, and has written some plugins including style pack

1. it was bbpress authors’ choice to change freshness to last post – it does the same thing, and you can change what it says to what you want either using code or style pack. I don’t think there is any change in philosophy, apart from that what most other forums call that column.

2. I logged 3297 which is incorporated in 3356, which is as far as I know the fix. It is awaiting bbpress authors to look at it.

3. Given that bbpress authors have lots to look at, and that the freshness problem was not in 2.5.x code, I simply added a re-run of the 2.5.x code into my plugin and made it an option, which seems to fix the issue for many people. Given I am designer, author, tester, and everything else for my style pack plugin, I can simply do this. I do not have the problem that my code will affect 300,000 sites, or is run by several people who have busy lives and need to agree who will do what.

[kellyteagle]

Hi,
An odd problem that I’ve just become aware of. When a user replies to a Post in Forum, the ‘last post’ info gets updated on the list of posts, but the Forum page does not. The result is that the Posts lists page displays Last post: 11 minutes ago by Ann Other. The forum page displays Last post: 2 days 21 hours ago by Some Onelse

There are no other error messages anywhere, and the site is running the latest versions of WP, BuddyPress and BBpress.
Can anyone help please?

Thanks,
Kelly

[megatill]

Hi – I have a WordPress site that has been operational for 5 years.
I wanted to add a Discussion Forum using bbPress, and I have been successful in installing the bbPress plug-in.
Using the bbPress Shortcode Codex, I wanted to create a requirement for people to log into my new Discussion Forum using
[bbp-register] – Display the register screen.
[bbp-lost-pass] – Display the lost password screen.

However, when I test these two options, it appears that these two options actually create a new WordPress account – with no connection to my existing WordPress site at all. When I test the Register facility, a new page opens with the WordPress create account box (create username and password).

What is wrong with the Shortcode usage, please?

WordPress 5.4.1 running Enterprise theme.

Who and What I Find – About this site

bbPress Version 2.6.5

[John James Jacoby]

It sounds like you no longer have the Keymaster forum role.

Be sure to update to the latest version of bbPress, and check your Users for any other Keymaster accounts that you don’t recognize.

[Robin W]

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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.

Then come back

[MiltonBC]

Hi, I just installed bbpress and have the latest version of wordpress (5.4). I see “voices” and “posts” but no “views”.

Is this standard? I would like to see the number of views by topic.

Is there a simple fix for a non-programmer type guy?

[Ben]

I upgraded to 2.6.5 . In WordPress menu Settings->Forums, I checked Super Moderators(Allow Moderators and Keymasters to edit users) .I tested setting the user role Editor / Keymaster. In WordPress menu can’t look the Users menu.

How can i do ?

Thx.

[Robin W]

nothing I know of, when testing I just hit the refresh button in my browser

[Robin W]

I’m just a bbpress user who helps out here.

I did not respond to allow and other community members to respond if they wished.

I appreciated that you are frustrated, but you are using free software, and with that comes volunteer support. I’m not sure why you feel entitled to get someone to fix your problems for free and at a weekend.

There are 300,000 bbpress sites, and I have been offering support on this forum for 6 years, and have seen most issues that bbpress has had over the years.

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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.

Then come back