[Robin W]

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.

The Wordfence warning is one that is automatically pumped out when a plugin reaches certain parameters. I love Wordfence and use it on all my sites, but these ‘catch all’ warnings can alarm people when they do not need to.

But with open software you make your choices….

[Swiss-Cheese]

Word Fence security plugin told me today:

“Issue Found:

The Plugin “bbPress” appears to be abandoned (updated November 29, 2021, tested to WP 6.3.2).
Type: Vulnerability Scan”

Is this true?

[getfree]

BUMP.
Robin, my users are complaining that they are being logged out. It’s not certain yet if that has happened while the browser has just been idle.

I tested this with keymaster and participant accounts and found no difference when I closed the browser and re-opened it.

Brave and Edge browsers worked just fine (login, close, re-open and the user is still logged in) but when I tested two different Chrome profiles the other one remembered me, and the other one (again, no difference between participant and keymaster).

The only difference that I could find was that the one that remembered the login has one plugin, Lastpass, and the other doesn’t have any. But then again a third profile which has a bunch of plugins did not remembered the login.

I just can’t figure out what could make the difference here.

[getfree]

Hello BBpressers 🙂

Left, center and right align show correctly on my moderator account, but like “<p style=”text-align: left;”>vasen</p>” for the forum “participants”.

Same for adding <h1>HEADER</h1> in the text editor, which the Graphic shows correctly, but when a participant sends the message you just see what you have written.

Example https://pokerifoorumi.org/aihe/testi-ketju/#post-1918 and the next post.

How could I approve a bit of basic html, or at the very least get the graphic side to work properly for the participants?

WP 6.4.2, Hello Theme, BBpress 2.6.9, TinyMCE Visual Tab 1.0.1

[electech1313]

I tried a new theme and the troubleshooting tool. No joy. I am going to create a clone site from scratch and make sure I install bbpress first and test the edit feature. I’ll install AWPCP second to see if the same issue happens. I’ll post the results once I’m done. Fortunately the site is for testing anyway. I have some users but I know all of them so it won’t be a big deal. I think I installed AWPCP first initially but I don’t remember for sure.

[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

[Robin W]

it is unusual to see index.php included in a url

https://meltdowncnc.com/wordpress2/index.php/forums/topic/website-test-committee-input/

what theme are you using?

[Robin W]

ok, so as a test

deactivate the AWPCP Classifieds and see if the topic/reply edit then goes to the correct place – if so I’d suspect that AWPCP Classifieds may be looking for ‘/edit/ and taking that through to their page, but let’s see if that happens

[electech1313]

I recently installed bbpress and AWPCP Classifieds. Whenever a user clicks the edit button to edit their post, it takes them to a page that asks for the Ad email and access key. This page is default with AWPCP and is called -Edit Ad. Inside that page is the shortcode [AWPCPEDITAD]. I disabled the AWPCP plugin to test and the result was when a user clicked the edit button, it then just shows the shortcode text from the -Edit Ad page. I am little more than a beginner when it comes to web development. I have built a few websites but they are all basic and mostly wordpress sites. This is the site address if you would like to look at it. https://meltdowncnc.com/wordpress2/

The site is for testing. Hopefully once it is done, I can put it into service for my club. Thanks if anyone can help.

[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

[dianaringer2018]

Hello,

I am trying to follow the step-by-step instructions, and I am still having trouble displaying the main forum page. I am trying to use method 1. I checked and verified the settings.

I added some test forums and topics, and I can see them in the backend.
Forum Root = Forums
Permalink structure is set to POSTNAME
Category | Tag base left blank (default)

I created a page called Forums and nothing displayed.
I tried adding the shortcode and still nothing appears.

I am referring to: https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#3-%c2%a0creating-a-forum-page

Page Links: https://bkswathq.com/forums
Wordpress : 6.3.2
bbp Version 2.6.9

Thanks in advance.
Fills silly to be stuck so early on in the process.

[Robin W]

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 6.3 and php 8.1 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.

But with open software you make your choices….

[norcom41]

I suppose add_filter(‘mod_’,’upd_($role,$caps)’) should have this for arguments even though they’re for the return values. bbp_get_participant_role probably provides the elements for all the capabilities, but if only some are modified in the array, the others could be lost during the return if not also repeated. In my test the init statements are displayed on the screen as if they are errors. Then when the user choses a subforum it prompts for a login to add a topic. This opens up another area to suppress that request itself. That’s why programmers get plugins because you have to be an expert to know how to do all this. If you want to know the basics you have to go back to school.

[kingtetra]

I need help fixing this issue with my forum the staging site works fine! The production site does not, I have talked to wordpress support and they couldn’t figure it out either. Everything is the same… How do I fix this issue. Everytime I post to the forum I have to clear cache and cookies to see it. but it works just fine on test site? SOMEBODY HELP! Thank you, here is my sites:
staging: https://staging-018d-simplysoundadvice.wpcomstaging.com/
Production: https://simplysoundadvice.com

[tltsyslog]

Awesome, i was able to test it to run every hour and check for posts older than 1 days and it works.

Thank you so much @robin-w

[Robin W]

sorry, I’m just a free volunteer, I generally don’t have the time to look at individual problems, and this seems to be specific to your site.

I am suspicious that it might be caching software – can you confirm that neither your site or hoster use this, or if they do as a test disable.

I would also try

dashboard>settings>permalinks and just click save – this resets the permalinks and may help

Then I would do the following

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

[Ronny Kreuzberg]

I did set it up correctly, you wish i can give you a admin access to the site, it is only a test site because i have the same Problem on my Main page. I thought it was due to customizing but seems to be another issue.

[Josh Virkler]

Ok, so beloaw is the most recent response from Cloudways. Can anyone from bbPress possibly provide the info requested so we can properly exclude this from Redis? Thanks!

————————-
These specific errors typically occur due to the buddy boss caching group conflicting with the Redis keys.
It is usually essential to exclude some of the cache groups/plugins to ensure that there are no conflicts due to different ways of handling of cache key which can cause issues with transients.

If any conflicts are observed, the best way to do this is to exclude them as instructed in the guide below:-

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-ignored-groups-and-how-to-best-apply/

https://objectcache.pro/docs/ignoring-groups

This typically requires a bit of testing due to different caching statuses which can still be utilized to ensure the proper allocation of resources.

We have already implemented a documented fix that was typically applied by Buddy Boss:-
https://github.com/buddyboss/buddyboss-platform/issues/1715

However, despite numerous methods, the issue remains. Due to the circumstance of this issue, it’s imperative to check in with the plugin team before excluding their groups further, they can typically provide proper cache groups which can ensure perfect performance as other caching groups involving BuddyBoss typically was not documented and could have a negative performance impact if excluded without proper evaluation.

[TreeTrail]

Significant Problem:

Every few days, some Sub-Forums stop displaying!  This seems to happen after a new topic is added.  I’m not sure when this problem started.  Currently, the “HIKING” sub-forums do not display.  Sometimes I can get this issue to reset by changing the Sub-Forums Visibility setting to “Public” and then back to “Private”.  I clear browser histories and resave Permalinks.  But this is a temporary solution.  With my limited knowledge, I’ve spent many many hours trying to pinpoint the cause and resolve this.  I now set up a test copy site, that is using the WP 2022 theme with only 2 plugins: a page builder and bbPress.  And there are no bbPress scripts in the Function.php file.  The problem still persists.  Any assistance would be very greatly appreciated!  Testing site: https://staging39.wilmingtontrailclub.org/bbpress-forum-test/

*******************************************
Testing Site Configuration:

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timezone: America/New_York
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database_size: 287.33 MB (301287561 bytes)
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### wp-active-theme ###

name: Twenty Twenty-Two (twentytwentytwo)
version: 1.4
author: the WordPress team
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theme_path: /home/customer/www/staging39.wilmingtontrailclub.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/twentytwentytwo
auto_update: Disabled

### wp-themes-inactive (2) ###

Kleo Child: author: SeventhQueen, version: (undefined), Auto-updates disabled
Kleo: version: 5.2.0, author: SeventhQueen, Auto-updates disabled

### wp-mu-plugins (1) ###

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### wp-plugins-active (2) ###

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### wp-plugins-inactive (32) ###

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### wp-media ###

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### wp-constants ###

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WP_CONTENT_DIR: /home/customer/www/staging39.wilmingtontrailclub.org/public_html/wp-content
WP_PLUGIN_DIR: /home/customer/www/staging39.wilmingtontrailclub.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins
WP_MEMORY_LIMIT: 256M
WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT: 768M
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WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY: false
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SCRIPT_DEBUG: true
WP_CACHE: false
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### wp-filesystem ###

wordpress: writable
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uploads: writable
plugins: writable
themes: writable
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~April Schmitt

WTC Webmaster <wtcwebmaster1@gmail.com>

[forgreforn]

If you’re experiencing issues with avatar and nickname alignment in your CSS, but it only happens with certain nicknames, it might be related to the length of the nickname or the content within it. Here are some common reasons why this issue can occur and how to address it:

Nickname Length: Longer nicknames might overflow their container or push the avatar out of alignment. You can control this by setting a maximum width for the nickname container and using CSS properties like overflow to handle text that exceeds that width.

css

.nickname-container {
max-width: 150px; /* Adjust the width as needed */
overflow: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis; /* Adds ellipsis for text overflow */
}

Text Content: Unusual characters or long strings without spaces in a nickname might disrupt the layout. Ensure that your CSS and HTML can handle various character types and lengths. You might need to adjust the font size or line height to accommodate the content.

css

.nickname-container {
font-size: 14px; /* Adjust font size as needed */
line-height: 1.2; /* Adjust line height as needed */
}

CSS Specificity: Make sure that the CSS rules you’ve defined for nicknames are specific enough and not being overridden by more general CSS rules elsewhere in your stylesheet.

Testing: Test your layout with different nicknames to identify patterns in which the issue occurs. This can help you pinpoint any specific conditions that trigger the problem.

If you can provide more details about the HTML and CSS you’re using and any specific examples of problematic nicknames, I can offer more targeted assistance.

[ditout]

Hi,
Thank you so much,
I am testing the forum, I filled the login and I found it’s not enough,
Because I want the users who must to fill register( with a E mail to confirm),
after having registered, it will be redirect to the profile page, so the users will fill the profile,
after that, he could use the forum,
So how can I do ? the bbpress login is too simple and cannot do that.
Thanks a lot !

[Robin W]

thanks

search should just look at the forums, but other elements such as themes or other plugins can change that.

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

the appearance>widgets that you showed are not widgets but sidebars that contain widgets – there is no bbpress sidebar.

[dianedeboer]

I can’t say. I noticed that the default lay-out is used for this page. I used to have a custom made lay-out which is developed by a specialist. He placed the codes for this in a child theme and everything worked just fine. But for a few weeks now, this lay-out is gone. The child theme is still active.
So I guess this is the problem.

While I do want to re-use the custom lay-out it is more important that when looking at the forum page without login people see only the latest activity.

So how can I make this happen?

[ibnat]

All topics have this link at the bottom and it is also visible when logged out of the forum.

Here is an example: https://iberianatureforum.com/forums/topic/testing-you-tube-embed/