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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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/
I just tested on a different site with only the Yoast SEO plugin installed and running Twenty Twelve theme, and the same issue – the page title (in the <title> tag) is “Forums Archive” and the breadcrumb is “Forums”. SO, maybe that’s just default behavior? Is there any way to change “Forums” to “Community”? Thanks
Thanks, I’ve just tested your scenario above, and yes that is a bug.
I am not a bbpress author, just someone who helps out here.
Strangely that metabox doesn’t actually let you change the subscribers, it simply lists them, not sure why 🙂
if you are using
bbp style pack
then I’ve included a fix for this in version 5.7.8.
You can also add comprehensive subscription management functionality for the backend from the ‘subscriptions management’ tab.
Otherwise you could add this code:
add_action ('bbp_subscriptions_metabox' , 'rew_set_hidden_subscribers' ) ;
add_action ('bbp_topic_attributes_metabox_save' , 'rew_save_subscriptions', 10 , 2) ;
function rew_set_hidden_subscribers ($post) {
// Get user IDs
$user_ids = bbp_get_subscribers( $post->ID );
$list = implode(",",$user_ids);
// Output
?>
<input name="rew_topic_subscription" id="rew_topic_subscription" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $list; ?>" />
<?php
}
function rew_save_subscriptions ( $topic_id, $forum_id ) {
// Handle Subscriptions
if ( bbp_is_subscriptions_active() && ! empty( $_POST['rew_topic_subscription'] )) {
//update_option ($subscriptions)
$subscriptions = explode(",", $_POST['rew_topic_subscription']);
foreach ($subscriptions as $subscription_id ) {
// Check if subscribed and if so do nothing
if (bbp_is_user_subscribed( $subscription_id, $topic_id )) continue;
else {
bbp_add_user_subscription( $subscription_id, $topic_id );
}
}
}
}
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
Hello, I am using the latest version of bbPress along with the generatepress theme. I used Method 2 on the getting started instructions and set the forum root slug to “community”, and created a page titled “Community”, with the slug “community”. I used [bbp-forum-index] on the page.
My only issues are the page title (in the <title> tag) is “Forums Archive”, and I can’t seem to change it. And my breadcrumb trail is Home >> Forums. Somewhere, my site is pulling the term “Forums” for the <title> and breadcrumb (it’s a Rankmath breadcrumb).
Any ideas?
To understand that you need to understand that bbpress is a sister project to WordPress.
Wordpress development (and therefore bbpress development) is funded by
1. the commercial arm of wordpress – Automattic
2. Donations and sponsorship from paid plugins and theme organizations who have a commercial interest in ensuring that WordPress continues
At the moment no-one is sponsoring bbpress development, so no developer is currently being paid to maintain it.
Hence no-one is updating even the tested to value.
You could write to the board of wordpress.org, but beyond that not much we can do – I have tried !
Prevention is better than cure. Why cant the authors simply address the tested up to values etc in the text files and push an update? This will stop those warnings.
bbpress stores entries as WordPress posts within the database.
My test site has over 8,000 posts and the whole database takes up 155MB.
It is not something you probably need to worry about – most hosters offer storage in the multiple GB realms.
Plugins, media and themes take file space (rather than database).
If you want to keep an eye on it go to
dashboard>tools>site Health>info>directories and size and you can see what is being used
Thanks for the hint. I already think about it, but did not test it. So now i tried PHP 7.4.x and it works way better, just some server settings to optimize, to pretend memory exhaustion 😉
So i had some memory issues, easy tto solve in server settings.
Just an update to confirm that this issue is fixed if you use the bbp style pack plugin mentioned above, with the latest version of bbpress. 👍
ok, just tried that, I cannot replicate this on my test site
so I created a topic by ‘fred’ a participant and logged out.
I then logged in as an admin, and subscribed to the topic in the front end
I then went to dashboard>topics>all topics>edit that topic and just clicked update
I was still subscribed to the topic
Hi,
I found the issue with the topics subscription.
How to reproduce this issue:
1. Subscribe to the topic.
2. Go to the topic editing in the admin area and update it.
3. Check the subscription – the subscription is deleted.
Has anyone encountered this? I tested this issue on 2 installations.
Regards.
Hi,
My name is André and I’m running into some issues I hope some of you can solve. Good to know is that links to mentioned pages are at the bottom of this post.
The Issues
When I create a bbpress forum, the forum index won’t display on the default page I created ( /forums/ ) but displays a blank page.
The forum index will display on any other different page like this one /forums-2/
When I visit a test forum I get a blank page again.
So I thought I would create a new forum slug in bbpress and page accordingly, named guitar-forums as I was sure no other plugin will have claimed that url. But here the same issues. Nothing works on /guitar-forums/ but the index does show on /guitar-forums-2/
What I’ve done first
I have had previously installed asgaros forum but have removed the plugin and removed the asgaros data tables from the database. I also deleted the old forums page and emptied the trash.
I then did:
switching to default twenty x theme
purged all cache incl server side caching
disabling all other plugins
reset bbpress
Links
Default website forum index link: https://vpbex8y4m8.onrocket.site/forums/
Forum index on a different page: https://vpbex8y4m8.onrocket.site/forums-2/
Forum link: https://vpbex8y4m8.onrocket.site/forums/forum/test-forum/
Other Info
Theme: spectra one
wordpress version 6.4.2
bbpress version 2.6.9
Just retested and that still works on my test site.
I’ve not used sass, so unsure how it might affect that.
so 2 things I would try first
Firstly, see if the changes appear on a computer that has never seen that site before – browsers often keep local copies of files and don’t always spot chnages.
Secondly try a change you have made in the custom css part of your theme and see if that works.
If you are at the start of styling the forums, you might want to look at
bbp style pack
which has an easy interface to making styling changes, along with a ton of features to make your forum look and work better.
