I can’t see to get <?php comments_template(); ?> to work, it only outputs the string comments are closed. The plugin ‘bbPress Topics for Posts’ could’ve helped buy I’m getting an error when I activate it.

Is there a way I could enable comments on/under forum or topic pages?

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

The plugin ‘bbPress Topics for Posts’ could’ve helped buy I’m getting an error when I activate it.

so what exact error message are you getting ?

[@athep Participant 3 years, 10 months ago]

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in ..\wp-content\plugins\bbpress-post-topics\index.php:924
Stack trace: #0 ..\wp-includes\class-wp-hook.php(287): bbppt_activate('')
#1 ..\wp-includes\class-wp-hook.php(311): WP_Hook->apply_filters('', Array)
#2 ..\wp-includes\plugin.php(484): WP_Hook->do_action(Array)
#3 ..\wp-admin\plugins.php(193): do_action('activate_bbpres...')
#4 {main} thrown in ..\wp-content\plugins\bbpress-post-topics\index.php on line 924

Edit: formatted for readability

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

thanks, I’ll take a look tomorrow

[@athep Participant 3 years, 10 months ago]

The plugin successfully activated once I moved to a live server, so that’s fine. But it’s not what I was looking for, am I missing something?

I’d like wordpress comments under forums or topics (single-forum.php or single-topic.php)

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

ok, I just released version 1.8.4 which for other new users should fix the error you were getting.

and you are correct, that plugin does forums under posts.

I know of nothing that does comments under forums, I am intrigued as to the reason for wanting this ?

[@athep Participant 3 years, 10 months ago]

It’s my site’s current layout, I have the forum or topic (depending on which page I’m on) on top and hopefully if I get a solution, the wordpress comments under

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

ok, still not sure why you want the ability for someone to comment on a forum page, or more strangely in a topic page??

but try setting up a page with the the same permalink as your forums root, and then put the shortcode

[bbp-forum-index]

in it

then set that page to have comments

it might work, it might not !

[@athep Participant 3 years, 10 months ago]

comment_status is closed in these pages, wish I knew of a way to enable them.

I got this from stackoverflow

function set_post_comment_status( $post_id, $status = 'open' ){
    global $wpdb;
    $wpdb->update( $wpdb->prefix . 'posts', [ 'comment_status' => $status ], [ 'ID' => $post_id ] );
}

and tried passing the topic id, it didn’t work

[@athep Participant 3 years, 10 months ago]

Got the above from this stackoverflow thread

My problem is exactly like that except for bbpress

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

this turns comments on in bbpress

add_filter ('bbp_force_comment_status' , 'rew_set_comments_on') ;

function rew_set_comments_on () {
	return true ;
}

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

[@athep Participant 3 years, 10 months ago]

Another save by Robin! Thank you so much, this worked like a charm

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

great – glad you are fixed !!