Some checks are done to check ancestry in some places to prevent total exposure. It’s a tricky balance to strike, and one that won’t start to be fully baked in until 2.1.
It’s only helpful if you can install the debug-bar plugin and turn WP_DEBUG on. If so, it would be nice to take a look.
So, as weird as it sounds, this is by design. The ability to stagger the forum privacy is a feature, and the ability to walk up the forum tree for every topic and check it’s visibility is currently too labor intensive to do.
The obvious fix is not to have public forums within private forums.
Possible a logged in user is spamming it and being caught by Akismet?
@Landon – This topic is 2 years old and doesn’t pertain to the code for the version of bbPress you’re using. Can you start a new topic and I’ll delete your post here?
Shortcodes don’t naturally work in sidebars. 
Possible your theme has them enabled?
Can you confirm that no other timestamps are adversely affected? That function is used rather extensively through-out bbPress, so it’s possible it might skew the math of other times in the other direction.
I deleted it because I tested it myself and couldn’t duplicate it, so I knew it wouldn’t matter. Thanks anyways for posting though. The mystery continues.
@ebharding – Rather than hardcode the time difference, can you change:
function bbp_convert_date( $time, $d = 'U', $translate = false ) {
to
function bbp_convert_date( $time, $d = 'G', $translate = false ) {
and report back results?
That isn’t the template notices section, that’s the description section. To modify the look of that area, you’ll need to create a custom child theme and change the output of the individual _author functions.
bbPress does not do this in its own. Can you post a screenshot of what is happening?
‘Top level’ templates cannot be in sub-folders. WordPress has no way to load them or filter their locations.
Not exactly a problem with the tool, bu could be running out of memory. Will look into it and run some more tests.
This depends totally on the configuration of your theme.
Copy and paste the code you need into a custom widget like you were doing initially.
Possibly 2 sticky topics showing?
The ‘Leave a comment’ text isn’t part of bbPress. Not sure what you mean…
I don’t know what you mean by ‘forum navigation link.’
Best way to stay updated is to subscribe to this topic.
It’s really bizarre when this happens for some people and not for others. I’ve *never* been able to duplicate it when others can, so any insight you have into your installation and what caused it to start working incorrectly would be really helpful.
How did you go about protecting your ‘members only’ section of your site? You’ll want to apply that same logic to feeds as well. If there is a core bbPress bug causing this, please open a trac ticket to discuss.
Rename your template-twocolumn.php to ‘bbpress.php’ and you’re all set.
Change your password over in the WordPress.org forums. Sign-up-Lost-Pass here is temporarily being worked on.
Despite the inflammatory remarks from their team in the topic you linked me to, I tweeted the Pagelines guys about getting access to their forums or getting things figured out together.
Considering you are paying them for support, I think the ball is in their court. If there’s a problem with their theme and bbPress they need to put a guy on it and send me a theme to test, similar to how StudioPress and Genesis handled it for the 2.0 release.
If bbPress is doing something that’s causing headaches, I’m happy to fix it – the difference being that bbPress’s code is immediately accessible to them, and their themes are not to me.
