Breaks nested replies – disable for those?

I’ve encountered the same issue. A fix would be great, but even a short-term workaround would help.

Sorry, I have no plans to support bbPress nested replies.

Because of how things work behind the scenes of TinyMCE, the editor WordPress and bbPress uses, it would require a lot of time and resources to add that compatibility.

This plugin was never intended to do a bunch of custom stuff, but rather simply turn back on the editor. I do not support issues that come with the editor itself.

I also encountered this problem. After some research and experimentation, I found a fix that seems to work for me (I have not tested the fix extensively so I have no idea if this fix will work for you.)

Unfortunately, it involves modifying a bbPress core file, which should be avoided wherever possible. However, if you really need this to work, feel free to give it a try!

Problem: At a really high level, when bbPress moves the editor, it’s not moving the event bindings properly.

Solution: Destroy and recreate the Visual Editor so that the event bindings are re-initiated.

Replace all the code in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/js/reply.js with the following:

addReply = {
	moveForm : function(replyId, parentId, respondId, postId) {
		var t = this, div, reply = t.I(replyId), respond = t.I(respondId), cancel = t.I('bbp-cancel-reply-to-link'), parent = t.I('bbp_reply_to'), post = t.I('bbp_topic_id');

		t.removeEditor();

		if ( ! reply || ! respond || ! cancel || ! parent )
			return;

		t.respondId = respondId;
		postId = postId || false;

		if ( ! t.I('bbp-temp-form-div') ) {
			div = document.createElement('div');
			div.id = 'bbp-temp-form-div';
			div.style.display = 'none';
			respond.parentNode.insertBefore(div, respond);
		}

		reply.parentNode.insertBefore(respond);
		if ( post && postId )
			post.value = postId;
		parent.value = parentId;
		cancel.style.display = '';

		t.addEditor();

		cancel.onclick = function() {
			var t = addReply, temp = t.I('bbp-temp-form-div'), respond = t.I(t.respondId);

			t.removeEditor();

			if ( ! temp || ! respond )
				return;

			t.I('bbp_reply_to').value = '0';
			temp.parentNode.insertBefore(respond, temp);
			temp.parentNode.removeChild(temp);
			this.style.display = 'none';
			this.onclick = null;

			t.addEditor();

			return false;
		}

		try { t.I('bbp_reply_content').focus(); }
		catch(e) {}

		return false;
	},

	I : function(e) {
		return document.getElementById(e);
	},

	removeEditor : function() {
		try {
			console.log('removing...');
			tinyMCE.EditorManager.execCommand('mceFocus', false,'bbp_reply_content');
			tinymce.EditorManager.execCommand('mceRemoveEditor',false, 'bbp_reply_content');
		} catch(el) {}
	},

	addEditor : function() {
		try {
			console.log('adding...');
			tinymce.EditorManager.execCommand('mceAddEditor',false, 'bbp_reply_content');
		} catch (e) {}
	}
}

Note: In my experience, Firefox doesn’t seem able to correctly insert the editor div underneath the nested reply regardless if this plugin is enabled or not. The editor will also appear at the bottom of the page.