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I’m having trouble seeing forum fonts and replies because the font is too blurry and not readable. I hope you can change the font family to something more readable.

I migrated an old custom forum to bbpress, and today (I opened the forum yesterday) a user registered and wrote a topic, but it wasn’t visible (I noticed this by accident because the section in the frontend where it says “x topics are not public” is really small), and I had to manually approve it.
Why? Do I have to set the permissions for registered users somewhere?
Thanks

Bonjour,

J’appelle sur mon site :
echo do_shortcode(‘

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Seulement le moteur de recherche s’affiche quand même, avez-vous une idée ou une solution svp ?
Merci

I’m calling on my website:
echo do_shortcode(‘

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Only the search engine is still displayed. Do you have any ideas or solutions, please?
Thanks

Hello,
I’ve noticed a possible bug in the way Yoast SEO generates sitemaps for bbPress replies.

– In the topic-sitemap.xml files, the topic URLs are correctly generated and point to the actual topics (e.g. https://www.example.com/topic-name.html).

– But in the reply-sitemap.xml files, every reply entry points to the same generic URL like https://www.example.com/forums/reply, which doesn’t resolve to the actual reply.

As a result:

– These sitemap entries are invalid because they don’t lead to a specific page.

I built a custom plugin (with ChatGPT’s help) that adds proper URLs for replies, but I’m wondering: does it even make sense to submit reply URLs to Google?
Wouldn’t it be better if Yoast excluded replies from the sitemap entirely, and only kept topics?

I also noticed that in the Yoast settings (SEO → Search Appearance → Content Types) it is possible to disable “Replies”. That solves the problem, but shouldn’t this be the default setting?
Or alternatively, if replies are enabled, shouldn’t Yoast output the correct URLs instead of /forums/reply?

Can you clarify what the recommended behavior is?

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I’d like to share a very useful snippet for bbPress that I had a hard time finding on Google, but which can save a lot of time.

For many communities it’s extremely helpful to have the “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” box checked by default. This way, users are automatically notified of new replies and are more likely to come back to the forum and engage in the discussion.

Here is a simple solution that works on the latest WordPress + bbPress. Just add it to your theme’s functions.php or into a small custom plugin:

// Auto-check the "Notify me of follow-up replies via email" box (topic + reply forms)
add_action('wp_footer', function () {
    if (is_admin() || !function_exists('bbp_is_subscriptions_active') || !bbp_is_subscriptions_active() || !is_user_logged_in()) {
        return;
    }
    ?>
    <script>
    document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
        var t = document.getElementById('bbp_topic_subscription');
        if (t && !t.checked) t.checked = true;

        var r = document.getElementById('bbp_reply_subscription');
        if (r && !r.checked) r.checked = true;
    });
    </script>
    <?php
}, 99);

With this snippet, whenever a logged-in user creates a new topic or reply, the subscription checkbox will already be checked by default.
Of course, the user can still uncheck it if they don’t want notifications.

This small trick makes it much easier to keep members engaged and ensures they don’t miss important replies.

Hope it helps others too, since I believe this should be more widely documented!

In Settings > Forums, it asks me to select “Current Package” where I can find a package that displays the forum with categories, perhaps with two columns, and with an image under each category.

Thanks

Does anyone have a solution for cross posting between forums.

Hi Robin,

I’m writing some code to pay a little “reward points” bonus to the author of a forum topic, when that topic receives X number of replies.
All works fine, hooking to bbp_new_reply.
But I would like to exclude any replies by the author themself from the total replies count.
Total replies count is currently bbp_get_topic_reply_count( $topic_id )
So I need to subtract author_own_replies from that total.

I have $topic_id, $author_id, $reply_id, $forum_id

Any easy way to achieve this?

I’m trying to avoid SQL queries.

Can we apply any conditions for users to create new topics without requiring admin approval?

Hello everyone

My site was created with WordPress 6.8.2 and BBPress 6.2.14 with the WordPress 2025 theme block template.

In the BBPress documentation titled: “Layout and functionality – Examples you can use” at:

Development & Updates

in line 12 it says:

12. Add a modal login (pop-up) window
This is quite neat and the instructions add it to the menu and, if necessary, add the login/logout.

The login looks like this
https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/53/2014/02/modal-login3-300×144.jpg

There are different styles available and you can have your own style.

Instructions can be found here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/modal-login-in-a-menu/

I tried to access it, but unfortunately the link gives an error of
Error 404 – Destination Not Found.

Please advise on how I can enable the above mentioned forum registration and login pop-up in my site’s forum?

Thank you in advance for your help.