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Thanks so much, @082net!

That did the trick for me.

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I see the ticket @Alexandru Vornicescu linked to — https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2121 — was closed and marked as invalid. The response being ‘Run the user role reset tool in: Tools > Forums’

However, I was having the same issue and running the ‘role reset’ tool did not fix the issue for me. So, I’m not sure the issue is invalid.

I could not get this issue fixed until I followed the instructions found on this post – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fix-404-issue-for-bbpress-2-2-x/

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Thanks. I’ll take a look at that.

Is there any way you could find out where things stand on the ticket I mentioned?

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@jaredatch

Ok, so now imagine you come in one morning and the amount of SPAM you have to clean up is 1000 times the normal amount. Literally, 1000 times.

I understand that there will always be some SPAM that gets through, but we went from averaging .25 missed SPAM posts a month in the previous 12 months to having 1,138 missed SPAM posts in April.

We pay the enterprise level for the Akismet service and it has always done a great job for us until now.

I don’t want to come off as sounding angry, because I’m really not. I just want to make sure that we aren’t too quick to dismiss the possibility that bbPress’ implementation of the Akismet API could be improved.

Perhaps the ticket I noted is an indication that there could be an improvement made?

Here is the description from that ticket —

“The Akismet folk have suggested that adding user roles to the info submitted to Akismet would allow them to do a better job of checking comments for spam. The forthcoming patch adds the appropriate info.”

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@jaredatch I already have recaptcha set up on registration. I’ll check to see if there are other plugins that will assist, but SPAMMERs are actually using humans to do the registration part these days. They’re tenacious.

@John James Jacoby

It just seems very odd that I’ve had such a huge spike in missed SPAM since switching from the standalone to the plugin.

I was hoping this ticket would make it into 2.1 and help with the issue

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1623

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Just checking to see if anyone can answer my latest 2 questions.

Thanks

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<i>A couple of questions, does it matter if I do that before or after installing and activating bbpress?</i>

Doesn’t matter

<i>And, should the child theme contain the modified functions.php?</I>

No. Both the functions file in your parent theme and your child theme will load. No need to copy on to the other.

<i>”Copy the files from plugins>bbpress>bbp-themes>bbp-twentyten into your child theme folder.”

Does this mean that you can just dump the whole thing, including subdirectories in, or do certain things go certain places?</i>

You should dump everything as-is, otherwise things will likely break.

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Here’s a real basic rundown of what I did.

Add this to your theme’s functions.php file

add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

Create a Child theme for your current theme — https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Copy the files from plugins>bbpress>bbp-themes>bbp-twentyten into your child theme folder.

Go to your WP Admin and activate your child theme

Edit the child theme as needed to match your site. You may be able to get by with just editing yourchildtheme>css>bbpress.css, but you can change any of the theme files to make the forums look however you want.

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wp-config.php is located in the root of your wordpress directory.

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Oh Sorry. Looks like this class definition in your style.css file is setting the styles for that.

.singular .entry-title {

color: black;

font-size: 36px;

font-weight: bold;

line-height: 48px;

}

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Are you able to view your php error logs? If not, you could add this to your wp-config.php..

define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);

Viewing the errors will give you an idea of where the problem is.

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try adding your styles to a new class on either of those stylesheets…

.bbp-topic-title a {

//your styles here

}

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@garthkoyle

Try this —

add_filter('bbp_has_replies_query', 'modify_replies_query');



function modify_replies_query($bbp_r)

{

$bbp_r = 'DESC';



return $bbp_r;

}

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I did do some logging, but didn’t see anything unusual.

However, now the SPAM posts that were apparently caught by akismet and triggering the freshness date update but not appearing on the site are now appearing on the site… or so it seems.

I may have interpreted what was happening incorrectly.

Anyway, I’m no longer seeing this issue.

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At 440 missed SPAM posts for the month – an average of 19 per day.

Between this and the issues with WP Super Cache, I’m starting to lose users.

I don’t want to sound ungrateful. I wish I had the knowledge & time to be helpful with these issues.

How are things looking with 2.1? Should I expect some fixes that address these issues?

I looked through trac and saw a couple tickets regarding Akismet, but couldn’t tell if they’d help with the missed SPAM. I didn’t see anything regarding caching.

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Thanks Lynq,

I’m not having an issue with false positives, but actually SPAM posts that get through that normally get caught by Akismet.

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@jaredatch

Unfortunately, the site is in a production environment. I’d be nervous about using 2.1 before it’s ready.

Here’s another site I use bbpress on — http://hawkcentral.com/forums/

Right now, the “Week 5 picks” and “Thoughts From Week 2 in College Football” topics show a freshness of 19 hours and 20 hours respectively. The users showing on the home page are obviously spam users (that I’ve since been blocked) and their posts have already been marked as spam by Akismet.

I’ve dug into the code and I can see where the last active time is getting updated. I’m going to put some logging code in and see if I can discover what’s happening.

I’ll report back.

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More on this…

It appears that replies that get marked as spam by Akismet are updating the topic freshness.

Anyone else seeing this?

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I’d be interested to know how to get latest posts to paginate too.

Thanks

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Just migrated from standalone to plugin a couple weeks ago and this one has me stumped. I’m having issues where the freshness time doesn’t match up with the latest reply time.

http://ragbrai.com/forums

WP v3.3.1

BBPress v2.0.2

From what I can see the freshness time is based on the topic’s ‘_bbp_last_active_time’ meta tag.

On my forums, using the ‘Route Announcement Party – Who’s In?’ as an example, you can see the freshness date is way off when you compared to the time of the latest reply.

Currently the ‘_bbp_last_active_time’ meta_key has a value of ‘2012-03-08 08:51:03’

From what I can tell that meta_key is set based on the post_date of the topic or the post_date of the latest reply of the topic with a status of publish, right?

The latest published reply for that topic has a post_date of ‘2012-01-26 08:13:57’

The only post in the database with a post_date of ‘2012-03-08 08:51:03’ is a reply to a different topic and it has a status of ‘spam’

Maybe something went wonky with the import from stand alone.

Is anyone else seeing anything like this?

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@jaredatch – no guest posting, just want a give the users a way to police the forums and alert me of abusive posts or other terms violations.

Thanks @daveshine. I’ll take a look at that if SPAM starts to get out of control. Right now, it looks like Akismet is handling things well enough.

wp-reportpost looks like it may do the trick. Thanks for the feedback.

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Yep. I found wp-reportpost ( https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-reportpost/ )

Looks pretty good. Just looking for other ideas/recommendations or if there is anything out there specifically for bbpress.