[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

[Allinop]

Re: Website: allinop.comI have used the following css to modify the [bbp-topic-index]

.bbp-topic-voice-count,
.bbp-topic-reply-count,
.bbp-topic-freshness {  /* Hides elements related to voice count, reply count, and topic freshness */
  display: none;
}

.avatar-14 {  /* Hides avatars with the class "avatar-14" */
  display: none !important;
}

.bbp-search-form {  /* Hides the bbPress search form */
  display: none;
}

I have 2 issues:

Firstly, the topic titles do not take the entire horizontal space.
It is as if the hidden elements still occupy the space.
I have tried ‘hidden: none’ instead ‘display: none’ to no avail.

Secondly, I’ve been trying to also remove the border around the list of latest topics.

I have unsuccessfully tried:

.bbp-topic {
  border: none;
}

and

.bbp-topic {
  outline: none;
}

I would be grateful for 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

[eefkedigibitch]

Okay this was a quick test.
I deactivated all my plugins accept for bbpress and still ‘Forums’ wasn’t shown in the left navigation bar. I reinstalled wordpress (6.4.3) but still nothing. So I don’t know what is going on, but I think bbpress isn’t compatible with this WP version or something…

[sayhi2lonnie]

I’ve spent a lot of time preparing my website for launch, but I’ve encountered a few roadblocks that I can’t seem to overcome. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Forum URL: https://HeresOurSquirrel.com

Issues:

#1: Sometimes when I sign on, it fails and suggests the page is cached. However, I am not using any caching app.

#2: When registering… (I am using the Ultimate Members plugin — is there any other way to handle this?)

2a) emails aren’t being sent
2b) role isn’t being set (they’re participants, but the role isn’t being set to contributor)
2c) no users are being displayed under the “membership” menu item

#3: When signing on as the admin (“TheSquirrel”) I can’t get to the dashboard… when entering “https://www.heresoursquirrel.com/wp-admin” in the address bar and clicking enter, it just returns to the Forum.

I created two test accounts; One participant, and one keyholder, so if you would like to sign on as either, please DM me and I will provide the sign-on credentials.

Any other feedback would be greatly appreciated.

WordPress Current version: 6.4.3
bbPress Version 2.6.9

Thank you in advance!!

[webcreations907]

If you’re using the style pack to edit your email template, add the below as a test to your email template.

Catch Time: {catch_date_time}
Anglers: {anglers}

Then add this function to your functions.php file or code snippets plugin which ever your using.

if( !function_exists('afc_email_bbp_subscription_mail') ){
	function afc_email_bbp_subscription_mail( $message, $reply_id, $topic_id ) {
		if ( function_exists( 'get_field' ) && $topic_id != 0 ) {

			$afc_replace = array(
				'{catch_date_time}' => get_field( 'catch_date_time', $topic_id),
				'{anglers}'         => get_field( 'anglers', $topic_id )
				);

			$message = strtr( $message , $afc_replace);
		}
		return $message;
	}
	add_filter( 'bbp_forum_subscription_mail_message' , 'afc_email_bbp_subscription_mail', 100 , 3 );
}

Then test it out by creating a topic in a forum that has subscribers you can test with, and make sure to set those values when creating your topic.

[newtech1]

Whoops. I am wrong. IT IS NOW WORKING! I need to test auto login and some other features since this is a private forum.

One issue that I do not think can be solved is I am using ACF plugin for Custom fields within topics. The email notification only has the topic text, it does not include any of the custom field results. Assume no one know how to resolve this. ACF plugin support will not help because they know nothing about bbpress.

The reason I have forum users posting in the backend is because I could never get the ACF plugin to work properly on the frontend.

Thanks!

[webcreations907]

Will try posting again..

You can try the below code, either add it to your theme’s functions.php file, or use the code snippets plugin.

Make sure to select your “Forum” when creating a topic and make sure the forum has subscribers to test it out on.

if( function_exists( 'bbp_get_topic_post_type' ) ){
	function newtech1_bbpress_new_topic( $post ) {
		if( isset( $post->post_type ) && $post->post_type == bbp_get_topic_post_type() ){
			do_action( 'bbp_new_'.bbp_get_topic_post_type(), $post->ID , $post->post_parent, [] , $post->post_author );
		}
	}
	add_action(  'draft_to_publish' ,  'newtech1_bbpress_new_topic', 10 );
}

[newtech1]

I should mention I installed the style pack. I have verified users that are subscribed to the forum.
I went into Subscription Emails and ran ‘Sent Test Topic Email’. The test email was sent out with no problem. I then posted a topic in the forum. No email notification was sent out.

I am thinking if topics are posted from the backend, or maybe from moderators, that email notifications do not work. Can someone test this? I cannot test it because we do not have topic creation on the front end. (We have customized fields that we could never get to work on the frontend so made topic creation via backend.)

[Robin W]

Yes that would be a good explanation , let me test

[bastizim]

Thanks for your reply, Robin. I have used the repair functions and the gaps are still there.

I have installed a local test system and a script, that iterates through the replies and fix the menu_order in wp_posts of every reply with a simple counter.

It works at the test system, but I’m not sure, if there could be any side effects.

[Robin W]

ok, the code is probably ok, but chat gpt has a long way to go !

A function needs something to call it, otherwise it just sits there.

Not tested, but add these 2 lines before or after (doesn’t matter which) the function

add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_content', 'replace_suit_symbols' ) ;
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_content', 'replace_suit_symbols' ) ;

[Robin W]

ok, so we are back to the fault finding

It’s not twenty twenty four as I’ve just double checked that, so I’d suspect another plugin if you are happy that your role has keymaster.

so use the healthcheck tool to test you site with just bbpress and your theme, and then add back plugins until you get the problem

[Robin W]

I’m not suggesting you change themes, simply that you do this as a test. This just lets us see where the problem lies so that we can fix it.

bbpress works fine with 2024 as long as you fixed it at the theme support tab in style pack settings to enable it for FSE theme.

[Robin W]

ok, so you definitely have bbpress enabled 🙂

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. don’t use twenty twenty four, as it is an FSE theme

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

[enkoes]

I cleared the cache but no luck. I tested with iPad (safari & chrome) even with desktop, all appears overlapping. But other widgets (from Bbp Style Pack) like recent topics & recent reply has no overlapping issues.

[Robin W]

probably (untested)

add_action ('plugins_loaded' , 'rew_move_reply_button' ) ;

function rew_move_reply_button () {
	remove_action ( 'bbp_template_before_single_topic', 'bsp_display_reply_button' );
	add_action ( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_content', 'bsp_display_reply_button' );
}

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

[enkoes]

Thanks for your reply!

I only found three widgets in your plugin, ie, Latest Activity, Single Forum Information & Single Topic Information. But they are not the widget I’m looking for. The widget I mean should look like the one used in bbPress support forum (located top left).

Regards.

[Robin W]

I can only suggest the basic fault finding

viz :

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 is probably a combination of plugins/theme, you’ll need to work out which.

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

[wagganation]

while bbpress is active, when i log in to admin the side bar is missing, luckily i have the top bar. i deactivated bbpress and the problem goes away. so obviously this plugin causing it!.have the latest version of wordpress.

[ahillmortons]

Hi @flamuren

Did you find the cause of this? I have the same issue.

When going to Profile>Forums>Replies Created – pressing on anything other than page 1 gives a 404.

The URL format of: /members/(member)/forums/replies/

Changes to: /members/(member)/page/2/

So the /forums/replies/ appears to be missing

Trying to correct this by changing the URL to: /members/(member)/forums/replies/page/2/

That simply shows the content from the first link, so only the latest few replies show.

I can’t seem to find a fix in the settings or overcome it with plugin testing.

Any advice pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks,

Andy

[Robin W]

they are correct that it has not been updated for a couple of years.

I am just a moderator here, and not a bbpress author.

The authors tend to release updates every few years, rather than more frequently.

My personal view is that you should consider bbpress to be a ‘mature’ product, ie any releases will be to fix issues rather than add functionality.

bbpress is written really well, and has loads of hooks. There are no show stopper bugs in it, it may throw a few deprecation notices (and these are very few at the moment), but WordPress recommends that you should not show error messages in live sites.

I currently have my test site running WordPress 6.4.x and php 8.2 with no issues.

The only major issue with bbpress at the moment is that it does not work well with FSE themes.

However my bbp style pack plugin has fixes for this

bbp style pack

as well as block versions of the widgets and a ton of styling and functionality add-ons.

All plugins are subject to the authors commitment, and bbpress is no different.

The main WordPress support forums use bbpress, and it would be mega work to move those over to some other product.

[kagunda]

Hi Robin, I also noticed that on my staging site.

The Forum, which is available to members only shows the entry page. When you try to get into the forum, the elements do not show. My site is: https://tayfamilyhistg.wpenginepowered.com/forum/

I am using the Oxygen Builder WordPress plugin. When I switch back to a different theme it shows but I don’t understand why the forum is not showing with Oxygen Builder. I am using all the latest versions.

[aballagh]

Hello.

I would like a forum index that is separate from the archives page, but haven’t been able to get that working.

I’ve changed the slug in the settings, created a page with that slug, but it redirects to the posts archives every time.

If I include the shortcode on the archives page it works fine, but then it’s available to the general public, and I’d like it to be on its own, and available to members only.

Any help would be appreciated.

WP and BBP are latest versions. Archives page is here: https://simcoecountygreenbelt.ca/our-work/ and the Forum Index is supposed to be here: https://simcoecountygreenbelt.ca/community/