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I was having a LOT of issue any time I edited a private or hidden forum, don’t know if it’s related, but found if I cleared cache (W3C) right before saving, that seemed to help it save properly…

yup; I’ve got this exact same problem. Sub-Forums of a category are disappearing from the forum list random (either when posts are deleted or changes are made to the forum itself).

This only happens with Hidden and Private forums.

yup your right. as long as there is at least 1 public sub-forum the rest display without issue; regardless of whether they are private, hidden etc…

.. clearly a code bug in bbpress; will be nice if devs can jump in on this one.

Yup, i think so may be we should find another solution! in my case i add a public blocked forum “Announcement” inside eatch category it’s not a choise but i should do it. But is’nt so important this issue?!!!

• This reply was modified 12 years, 2 months ago by libertux.
• This reply was modified 12 years, 2 months ago by libertux.
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Just got hit with this issue myself. Thought I’d throw my 2c on the pile.

If a category or forum has children, and no child is public, I run into some strange bugs where the category disowns all its children.

I’m trying to have a hidden category with private subforums for administrative purposes, ideally I could have:

Category = hidden
Subforum = private
Topics in Subform = public

Unfortunately both of these setups hit the bug documented above. The two setups I’ve found which works are either:

Category = hidden
Subforum + Topics = public

This has the undesirable side effect of subscribers being able to find the topic even though it’s nested in a hidden category.

OR:

Category = hidden
Subforum = private
Topics = private

This seems to work OK, but it requires that every new topic in the private subforums be switched to be flagged as private in the wp-admin area.

I’m gonna keep working on this, see if I can figure out a solution.

Hey folks, I had the same problem as you all. With no solution forthcoming, I dug down into the code and used a bunch of debug_zval_dump() statements to see the actual SQL.

The problem is that the code is producing this query to find out whether or not you have subforums:

SELECT ID FROM wp_posts WHERE post_parent = 31 AND post_status IN ( 'publish' ) AND post_type = 'forum' ORDER BY ID DESC

But the status for your private subforums is ‘private’. You want to see this:

SELECT ID FROM wp_posts WHERE post_parent = 31 AND post_status IN ( 'publish','private' ) AND post_type = 'forum' ORDER BY ID DESC

I found this on line 1287 of bb-common-functions.php:

    $post_status = array( bbp_get_public_status_id() );

That line of code is what puts the ( ‘publish’) list in the SQL. I changed it to:

    $post_status = array( bbp_get_public_status_id(), bbp_get_private_status_id() );

Now my subforums are showing up correctly. To see if this fix would have any adverse affects, I created a public forum, added a private subforum and logged out. The private subforum was not visible. Seems like this fix worked for me.

If you don’t have access to the actual source code, I’m afraid you won’t be able to do what I did, but I wanted to share that for those who do. Perhaps somebody can make some sort of plugin to help everyone else. I’m actually not a PHP guy and hardly know what I’m doing at all and I’m new to bbpress as well. If anybody comes up with anything better, I’d love to see it!

My example ans

I’m looking for the solution to this also…

This was a topic for a much older version

please explain in detail your issue

If you prefer that instead of using this old thread, I edit or update the support request that I posted a month ago …just let me know. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/sub-forums-stop-displaying/

Thank you Robin!!! Very kind of you to let me know. This is not urgent.