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Do you have any WordPress Role editing plugins installed? Or membership plugins like S2Member?

It’s possible something has altered your role capabilities so that bbPress’s read_topics capability is broken.

Or, it’s possible it’s just a template issue. The query itself happens in bbp_has_replies(), so start your debugging there to see if it’s a template problem, or a dataset problem.

I wrote my own theme and am always trying to do things the right way but initially things were not working correctly with bbPress or BuddyPress. I now realise was my theme using the_excerpt rather than the_content on the special pages.

I’d read the topics in the buddypress codex on theme support but these mainly addressed the issue of altering pages using the template selection rather then explaining what a theme author needs to do to make their theme work properly with bbPress or BuddyPress. Just explaining how it injects its content into pages (by hooking the_content) is not immediately obvious to the newcomer.

In my theme I had been using is_singular() to know when to show content rather then expert and use parameterised preferences for each post type for when is_singluar() was false.

Simply changing this test to (is_singular() || is_page()) suddenly turned my theme from incompatible to reasonably compatible. The “/forums” slug still did not work properly but after searching around I discovered the is_bbPress() function and expanded the test to:

(is_singular() || is_page() || (function_exists(‘is_bbPress’) && is_bbPress()))

There may be other tricks and gotchas I haven’t found yet, but as I say it would be really nice to have a topic directed specifically at theme authors to make sure they know what needs to be in place to make things work.

Ok what is not clear in that particular guide is the necessity of creating a new forum but selecting ‘category’ rather than ‘forum’ when you save/create it, this category is the groups forums parent and the slug that you would see appear in that select option, the one referenced ‘Groups Forum’ is simply an example name.

Have a read of this other guide to installing bbPress from new written by our own @mercime as it explains the steps very clearly:

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

The upgrading guide will need a little editing to make things clearer.

@mbonner considering it’s a brand new site then root profiles will be disabled (that is the default) so it can’t be related to that problem.

Try updating BP to 1.9.2 (released yesterday) and deactivate WooCommerce. There shouldn’t be any conflict with bbPress and BuddyPress. However, WooCommerce is third party so there might be a conflict there.

It probably is in a plugin.

Hopefully BP and bbpress are not throwing that warning.

You could try setting debug to true in wp-config.
And then go to the dashboard and see if the warnings continue.
Then deactivate the plugins one at a time to narrow it down.

> repeated thousands of times
Per what? Each load or over a large time period?

@blueonit Backup database and upgrade your bbPress plugin to lastest 2.5.3 https://bbpress.org/download/

I have the latest version of bbpress, but still get a notification warning. Could you please help?

Thank you so much.

i don’t think you understood what i was trying to say, bbpress is the forum software which integrates most tightly with buddypress.

forums are bbpress which is a separate plugin.

Here’s a great example of a large WP/BuddyPress/bbPress-made community:

http://tamrielfoundry.com/

I have a couple of sites I’m working on myself, though they’re not good examples as I haven’t fully completed them and zero advertising has gone in as of now (though they are live).

Hey guys,

I found your thread and thought you guys may have a similar issue as I’m having as it relates to buddypress and registration. Was wondering if you are encountering this:

bbPress (2.5.3) seems to completely ignore what the user had originally set as their password on my registration page from the very beginning of registration.

More detailed explanation:
On the registration page, the user chooses their own password, and then once approved, the user is then sent an automated registration message which then assigns the user a new random password. The user then has to log in using this random password and reset the password.

Have you encountered this? Any solutions?

thank you,
Matt

I’m experiencing a simular problem with bp groups and bbpress. If my group admins change their group settings from public to private, the forum type doesn’t. The forum tools doesn’t fix it.

WP 3.8
BP 1.8.1
BBPRESS 2.5.2

Thanks!
Daniel

That’ll do it for ya. Sorry if my post wasn’t as clear as it should have been — I personally need to edit every file when I create my bbPress themes.

There is a basic outline of what to do https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

Also this should be helpful:

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/

You also only need to copy the templates that you want to change.

These are probably questions better asked on bbPress forum – remember although bbPress integrates with buddyPress it is a standalone plugin.

I doubt however you need to overload all the files as above.

Put the bbPress theme files into your WordPress theme directory:

wp-content/themes/yourtheme

In yourtheme/css place the bbpress.css file
In yourtheme/bbpress, place all of the files you need to edit. Most of them (I believe):

bbpress/content-archive-forum.php
bbpress/content-archive-topic.php
bbpress/content-search.php
bbpress/content-single-forum.php
bbpress/content-single-reply.php
bbpress/content-single-topic-lead.php
bbpress/content-single-topic.php
bbpress/content-single-user.php
bbpress/content-single-view.php
bbpress/content-statistics.php
bbpress/content-topic-tag-edit.php
bbpress/feedback-logged-in.php
bbpress/feedback-no-access.php
bbpress/feedback-no-forums.php
bbpress/feedback-no-replies.php
bbpress/feedback-no-search.php
bbpress/feedback-no-topics.php
bbpress/form-anonymous.php
bbpress/form-forum.php
bbpress/form-protected.php
bbpress/form-reply-move.php
bbpress/form-reply.php
bbpress/form-search.php
bbpress/form-topic-merge.php
bbpress/form-topic-split.php
bbpress/form-topic-tag.php
bbpress/form-topic.php
bbpress/form-user-edit.php
bbpress/form-user-login.php
bbpress/form-user-lost-pass.php
bbpress/form-user-register.php
bbpress/form-user-roles.php
bbpress/loop-forums.php
bbpress/loop-mysingle-topic.php
bbpress/loop-mytopics.php
bbpress/loop-replies.php
bbpress/loop-search-forum.php
bbpress/loop-search-reply.php
bbpress/loop-search-topic.php
bbpress/loop-search.php
bbpress/loop-single-forum.php
bbpress/loop-single-reply.php
bbpress/loop-single-topic.php
bbpress/loop-topics.php
bbpress/pagination-replies.php
bbpress/pagination-search.php
bbpress/pagination-topics.php
bbpress/user-details.php
bbpress/user-favorites.php
bbpress/user-profile.php
bbpress/user-replies-created.php
bbpress/user-subscriptions.php
bbpress/user-topics-created.php