[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/

[dianedeboer]

Hi, when using the widget Recent Topics or Recent Activity nothing shows on my Forum page.

I don’t know why, because in the past this page always showed this information.It should show latest activity of the different topics. Should I use shortcodes?

Recente forum berichten

Can somebody help me with this?

Diane de Boer

[kreartmedia]

Hi ! I have the exact same bug.

I did the same tests, disable plugins and change theme and it’s still not working.

The last log error I have is this : [proxy_fcgi:error [pid 14982:tid 140197144532736 [client 207.253.115.34:0 AH01071: Got error ‘SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near ” at lin…………bbp_locate_template, load_template, require(‘/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-topics.php’), bbp_get_template_part, bbp_locate_template, load_template, require(‘/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-topic.php’), bbp…’

[Robin W]

It does make sense that it would be related to a recent update…but if the problem persists when everything is disabled and I’m using a default WordPress theme, then how could something else still be affecting it?

There is always a reason, computers don’t start doing things differently for no reason, the problem is tracking that down 🙂 🙂

If this was a bbpress issue then 1. given no update in bbpress there is no change to affect your site so no reason for it to start happening and 2. this support forum would have hundreds of topics on the subject posted in the last few days.

My test forum continues to work fine.

so if not plugin update or theme change then a setting could be affecting.

so I’d suggest you switch debug on and see if that is showing any issues

https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-enable-debugging-in-wordpress/

after that we’re onto software higher up.

so what PHP version are you running?

[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

[chunming0920]

https://savemental.com/forums/forum/test/

thx!

[chunming0920]

Blank white page on latest WordPress version 6.3.

How to slove it ? thx a lot

[alexandra440382]

I had been using that one, now I’m switching to the latest version of tinyMCE (https://www.tiny.cloud/get-tiny/) and I’ve been trying to make it do the same (enable HTML for it only).

I’ve tried this function with no succeeds

add_filter( 'bbp_kses_allowed_tags', 'ntwb_bbpress_custom_kses_allowed_tags' );

function ntwb_bbpress_custom_kses_allowed_tags() {
	return    array(
    'a' => array(
        'href' => true,
        'target' => true,
        'rel' => true,
        'title' => true
    ),
    'abbr' => array(),
    'acronym' => array(),
    'address' => array(),
    'applet' => array(),
    'area' => array(
        'shape' => true,
        'coords' => true,
        'href' => true,
        'alt' => true
    ),
    'article' => array(),
    'aside' => array(),
    'audio' => array(
        'src' => true,
        'controls' => true
    ),
    'b' => array(),
    'base' => array(
        'href' => true,
        'target' => true
    ),
    'basefont' => array(),
    'bdi' => array(),
    'bdo' => array(),
    'big' => array(),
    'blockquote' => array(
        'cite' => true
    ),
    'body' => array(),
    'br' => array(),
    'button' => array(
        'type' => true,
        'name' => true,
        'value' => true
    ),
    'canvas' => array(
        'width' => true,
        'height' => true
    ),
    'caption' => array(),
    'center' => array(),
    'cite' => array(),
    'code' => array(),
    'col' => array(
        'span' => true
    ),
    'colgroup' => array(
        'span' => true
    ),
    'data' => array(
        'value' => true
    ),
    'datalist' => array(),
    'dd' => array(),
    'del' => array(
        'cite' => true
    ),
    'details' => array(),
    'dfn' => array(),
    'dialog' => array(),
    'dir' => array(),
    'div' => array(),
    'dl' => array(),
    'dt' => array(),
    'em' => array(),
    'embed' => array(
        'src' => true,
        'type' => true
    ),
    'fieldset' => array(),
    'figcaption' => array(),
    'figure' => array(),
    'font' => array(),
    'footer' => array(),
    'form' => array(
        'action' => true,
        'method' => true
    ),
    'frame' => array(),
    'frameset' => array(),
    'h1' => array(),
    'h2' => array(),
    'h3' => array(),
    'h4' => array(),
    'h5' => array(),
    'h6' => array(),
    'head' => array(),
    'header' => array(),
    'hr' => array(),
    'html' => array(),
    'i' => array(),
    'iframe' => array(
        'src' => true,
        'width' => true,
        'height' => true
    ),
    'img' => array(
        'src' => true,
        'alt' => true,
        'width' => true,
        'height' => true
    ),
    'input' => array(
        'type' => true,
        'name' => true,
        'value' => true
    ),
    'ins' => array(
        'cite' => true
    ),
    'kbd' => array(),
    'label' => array(
        'for' => true
    ),
    'legend' => array(),
    'li' => array(),
    'link' => array(
        'href' => true,
        'rel' => true,
        'type' => true
    ),
    'main' => array(),
    'map' => array(
        'name' => true
    ),
    'mark' => array(),
    'menu' => array(),
    'menuitem' => array(),
    'meta' => array(
        'name' => true,
        'content' => true
    ),
    'meter' => array(),
    'nav' => array(),
    'noframes' => array(),
    'noscript' => array(),
    'object' => array(
        'data' => true,
        'type' => true,
        'width' => true,
        'height' => true
    ),
    'ol' => array(),
    'optgroup' => array(
        'label' => true
    ),
    'option' => array(
        'value' => true
    ),
    'output' => array(),
    'a',
    'abbr',
    'address',
    'area',
    'article',
    'aside',
    'audio',
    'b',
    'base',
    'bdi',
    'bdo',
    'blockquote',
    'body',
    'br',
    'button',
    'canvas',
    'caption',
    'cite',
    'code',
    'col',
    'colgroup',
    'data',
    'datalist',
    'dd',
    'del',
    'details',
    'dfn',
    'dialog',
    'div',
    'dl',
    'dt',
    'em',
    'embed',
    'fieldset',
    'figcaption',
    'figure',
    'footer',
    'form',
    'h1',
    'h2',
    'h3',
    'h4',
    'h5',
    'h6',
    'head',
    'header',
    'hr',
    'html',
    'i',
    'iframe',
    'img',
    'input',
    'ins',
    'kbd',
    'label',
    'legend',
    'li',
    'link',
    'main',
    'map',
    'mark',
    'menu',
    'menuitem',
    'meta',
    'meter',
    'nav',
    'noscript',
    'object',
    'ol',
    'optgroup',
    'option',
    'output',
    'p',
    'param',
    'picture',
    'pre',
    'progress',
    'q',
    'rp',
    'rt',
    'ruby',
    's',
    'samp',
    'script',
    'section',
    'select',
    'small',
    'source',
    'span',
    'strong',
    'style',
    'sub',
    'summary',
    'sup',
    'svg',
    'table',
    'tbody',
    'td',
    'template',
    'textarea',
    'tfoot',
    'th',
    'thead',
    'time',
    'title',
    'tr',
    'track',
    'u',
    'ul',
    'var',
    'video',
    'wbr',
 
	);
}

[Robin W]

suspect something your theme is doing, as works fine on my test site.

try

.bbp-topic-form, .bbp-reply-form, .bbp-topic-tag-form {
	width: 80% !important;
}

or

.bbp-topic-form, .bbp-reply-form, .bbp-topic-tag-form {
	width: 300px !important;
}

and play with the 80% or 300px – you can’t have both rules – they are just different ways of changing width.

[ibnat]

Hello

When I post a link to a You tube video in a forum post there is no embedding. Instead there is a link to the video over at Youtube.

In forum settings I have the box ticked to embed.

An example is here: https://iberianatureforum.com/forums/topic/promo-video-for-25th-anniversary-of-cabaneros-national-park/

Thanks in advance for any help

(I am using latest versions of BBPress and WordPress)

[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….

[Steve Manes]

No, it’s a WP 6.3.1 site I built specifically to test BBPress. It’s mostly just Elementor and Astra (Pros), the Classic Editor, Simple Custom CSS and JS PRO and BBPress. It’s behavior I haven’t seen with CSS overrides in WordPress before.

As you can see, the class specifies Roboto for the breadcrumb but it’s showing a serif font, even in the sample rollover in Inspector’s Styles window. The class works fine from the parent page but not in /forums/topic/

[Steve Manes]

One thing I noticed as I was using CSS to re-style BBPress is that the CSS classes don’t carry over to individual discussions. That is, if I create a bunch of class overrides for the main page, in my test case /alpha-site, they go away under /forums/topic/. In Inspector it looks like the page defaults back to bbpress.min.css, overriding those class overrides.

Any way around this?

[Robin W]

untested, but this should work

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topics_per_page', 'rew_amend_topics', 10 , 2) ;

function rew_amend_topics ($retval, $default ) {
	$forum = bbp_get_forum_id() ;
	if ($forum == 123) $retval = 10 ;
	if ($forum == 456) $retval = 5 ;
return $retval ;
}

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

[Mike Witt]

I have a bit of a mystery here, which I *think* involves an interaction between bbPress and BuddyPress. I’m going to put it out here, just in case anyone has any ideas. I have NOT tested this on a clean site with only bbPress and BuddyPress so it’s also possible that there’s some other interaction.

What’s happening is that BuddyPress notifications times look right with the exception of notifications for bbPress forum post/replies. Notifications for forum replies are offset by the site’s offset from UTC. So, for example, if the WordPress Timezone setting is “New York” (which is currently UTC-4) the a forum notification says “4 hours ago” immediately.

Any ideas?

[Robin W]

on no. 4

So style pack got rid of the home – yes ? that shows that it is doing something.

So you have a page with a permalink of forum? yes?
With presumably the [bbp-forum-index] shirtcode in it – yes ?

and you have set the breadcrumb root to …com/forum. As a test can you try setting this to

https://www.facebook.com/

and see if it takes you to facebook

This will tell us if style pack is executing the link, but something else in your site is redirecting.

[Robin W]

ok, let’s try the standard fault finding :

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, starting with wpforms, and then style pack.

Then come back

[Robin W]

1. suspect this is something learndash is doing – as a test confirm by deactivating learndash and see if they show.

2. The IP adrress only shows for keymasters, ordinary users won’t see it.

[eefkedigibitch]

Hi There,

I have several questions about my forum. If you need me to ask these in different topic, please let me know, I’ll adjust it.

1. Some of my forums are open to everyone, also not registered users. I have them set as ‘status: open’ and ‘visibility: public’ but when I visit the forum, I get a message I’m not allowed.
The message I see is the message I set for customers that want to view a forum about a LearnDash course. Because only if the course is purchased, the forum should be visible for that user.
But now this message also pops up on forums that have nothing to do with LearnDash.
So how can I fix this?

2. In the forum I created some test posts and replies. So I am the author and my name is visible. But under my name (next to my role) is also my IP address showing. Why is that? And how can I deactivate that?

3. Because my website also has a shop the users will have an account of the general website. So if you want to see the profile (own profiles only) I need it to link to the user profile.
And also the button to register or login should link to the general pages.
Where can I set this?

4. I changed the settings of the breadcrumbs. I deleted Home, so the first one is now Forums. First Forums linked to the page I was already on. So in the bbp stylepack I set a new URL to the starting page of the forum – …com/forum. But somehow it links to …com/forums and that page I don’t want to use, never.
In the general WP settings, I found the Forum Root Slug settings and tried to change that from forums into forum. That didn’t work.
So now I don’t know how to make the ‘forums’ page go away and link the breadcrumb Forums to the right page.
Do you know the solution?

This is it for now…haha.
Hopefully you can help me, I’d really appreciate it!!
Thanks so much already.
Kind regards,
Eve

[waprothero]

Robin:
I did the test, several times, clearing caches, etc, etc.
No change. The default role is still blank. No change.

At the top of the page, I see the snippet, so it’s running.

[waprothero]

Robin:
Following your simple instructions for a snippet, I just wanted to check to make sure I’m making the test you suggested (thanks, btw):

Snippet Content, using wpCode snippet plugin:

add-action(‘plugins_loaded’,’rew_remove_bbp_role’);
function rew_remove_bb_role'(){
remove_action( ‘bbp_user_register’,’bbp_user_add_role_on_register’,10,1);
}

Snippet location: Universal Snippet

Is this correct?

[Robin W]

ok, for the moment, I’d suggest you add the code snippets plugin, that gives you an area to put it in.

That will let us test to get to a problem definition.

Once we know if this (or something else) is the solution, then we can get it into the right place, but I would prefer to be sure that the code is functioning so code snippets gives that certainty

[Robin W]

as a test, let’s stop it adding the forum role on registration to see if that is interfering.

so use this code

add_action ('plugins_loaded' , 'rew_remove_bbp_role') ;

function rew_remove_bbp_role () {
	remove_action( 'bbp_user_register',   'bbp_user_add_role_on_register', 10, 1 );
}

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

and then let me know if this makes a difference

[newtech1]

stupid me, I forgot I had made the forum private w=in a test I was doing, it works fine.