anyway
seems like there is an issue with the parent links with WP 4.4
Hours of searching and trial and error for nothing.
I just downgraded WP for now and wait till there is some progress.
I believe that am having the exact same issue as well after updating to WP 4.4
In more detail, here is what is going on. My child board URLs used to link to:
/forum/categories/parent/child/
Now, the links point to:
/forum/categories/child/ (which returns a 404 error, while the link above still works)
It appears that for some reason the parent category isn’t being included when the URL is generated. The actual URLs all still work the same, but the links that are created are wrong.
In regards to user permission mods, I’ve used a combination of the following (but all were deactivated) and still had the problem.
Advanced Access Member by
AG Custom Admin
Restrict User Access
User Role Editor
However, didn’t test this on WP4.3 but my forums were originally created through buddypress, then added extra ones. The group with the subforums was private as were the forums. I was struggling to see them even after the rollback, but making them public solved the problem. This might be a solution here, although I think not as I’d of expected it to find the page but show nothing
Same here; have an automated update plugin istalled and after update to WP 4.4 subfiorums result in a 404-page. Downgraded to 4.3.1 and bbPress subforums are reachable again. When does bbPress come with a patch for this bug?
Same here, using the Kleo Theme. I’ve been struggling the past few days to find the issue and finally found out I was not alone.
The problem is this is happening the same week we’re getting many, many new users and this is has a terrible effect (people thinking our forums are a prank and do not exist for real…)
I’ll try the downgrade process but any hint/patch would be greatly appreciated from the BuddyPress/BBpress team.
This bug is a real nightmare and should not happen on such a popular plugin.
Please DO SOMETHING!
Downgrading partially solved the issue.
But as I toyed with many settings, I git another issue.
Whenever I go to a private forum as a participant user, I do not display the posts but directly a post creation form with nothing else around. I have no clue if it’s related or not.
Really angry about that all.
Hi Guys,
I know that people are testing in the background, but please keep your findings coming. I was unable to reproduce the issue myself, but others are busy investigating…
Let’s hope to have a workaround soon.
Pascal.
As long as you are not a paying customer you have nothing to be angry about. Better help the community to solve this issue instead of just being angry about it 😉
The guys behind this know what they are doing and will soon give us a solution, till then just stick with the previous version and wait 🙂
Very, very True @schwarzkopfclub: anger is useless and I just overreacted because I’ve spent so much time trying to fix this.
I am conscious it’s a complicated task and that it’s hard to reproduce as all sites are different.
I’m sure the guys @ BuddyPress will fix this and I’ll be patient. 🙂
Guys some devs and I are having a hard time duplicating this issue.
This is how I tested it and come across no issues.
WordPress: 4.4
bbPress: 2.5.8
I tried these default WordPress themes
2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016
I tried these forum structures.
Category > Forum > Forum
Category > Forum > Private: Forum
Category > Forum
Category > Private: Forum
Forum > Forum
Forum > Private: Forum
Category > Category > Category > Forum
Category > Category > Category > Private: Forum
Category > Category > Forum
Category > Category > Private: Forum
With the postname permalink structure (since it is most commonly used and I want to try to duplicate it)
Other things I like to ask is if this is a theme side 404 message being outputted or the normal no topics/forums found here message bbPress outputs like the one below (it could be different if you are using a different language than English for bbPress of course).
Oh bother! No topics were found here!
If you guys can help ask a few questions like the ones that @casiepa asked and these additional ones.
Another thing I may suggest to help try to gather information for the developers, is to try to duplicate the issue yourself. Try to duplicate the issue again on a local installation on your computer. If you can tell us step by step to duplicate it.
I have a fixed the issue with my buddypress by reinstalling WP.
The issue with the forum still appears on 4.4
I will later upload my files for you guys.
And also will try to tell explicit what I have done to get this, even on a fresh installment
Thanks for jumping on this everyone, it’s appreciated. 🙂
@casiepa I have WP 4.4 with BuddyPress, bbPress and WooCommerce in a local environment. No fancy permalink settings, except for the root forum slug set to “forum”. But to be sure, here is a screenshot of my forum’s permalink settings: https://i.imgur.com/X6jfnrQ.png
I also should have mentioned before that all of my parent & child forums are set to private.
@KPDub I tried the same thing that you did by turning the parent forum from private into public. That worked to solve the incorrectly generated URLs! It does require making the parent forum public though, which we obviously don’t want all users and guests to see. So it appears that the issue has some relationship to parent forums being set to private.
Here is my actual structure that always works:
/forum/categories/parent/child/
After WP 4.4, if the “parent” forum is set to “Private”, then the forum links to:
/forum/categories/child/ (which returns a 404 error, while the above link still works)
After setting the “parent” forum to “Public”, the correct URL is made again:
/forum/categories/parent/child/
…but, the leaves the “parent” forum’s threads visible to everyone.
@schwarzkopfclub If my information in this post doesn’t lead to replication of the bug, I will try to make it happen from a fresh setup. 🙂
@robkk My 404 error is my custom theme’s version (theme/404.php), not the “Oh bother” one that bbPress includes.
Thanks. The issue was introduced in WordPress 4.4 and there’s a patch available now. Could you test it to see if it makes it work for you? https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35084
