I removed these 3 plug-ins and installed the bbp style pack. The forum is still functioning as far as I can tell.
I was also able to stop the registration attack by hiding the login page. Thank you so much for your help.
Thank you for your response.
bbp manage subscriptions has been withdrawn
bbpress toolkit should not be used as it was closed due to a security issue
bbpress unread posts is also no longer maintained
What will happen to our site if I delete them? I took a look at ‘bbp style pack’ but was not clear if it will keep our site functioning after deleting these 3 plugins above.
Thank you so much for your time.
Thank you for your response. We have been bombarded by false registrations, which look like a bot attack. They register as a new subscriber, and they change their password, but none of them ever log in.
What’s interesting to me is that this issue doesn’t seem to be common. I found a few email throttle plugins but they are all 4-5 years old, untested, and abandoned. On the other hand, I thought this SMTP limiting was common practice to prevent from spamming. Very puzzling.
Yup. I actually consulted with our ISP and I was told to slow down the sending rate. Their firewall will blacklist me when more than 50 recipients a time and/or 1,000 emails in 1 hour.
Yes, it has been installed but does not seem to help. The documentation suggests nothing about throttling, unfortunately.
Thank you for your help. It took me a while to figure out what’s going on. It seems bbPressNotify is the culprit. I once installed this plugin and modified the message with it. But then when I found out it allows forum to notify only one of the three forums unless I pay for the add-on subscription, I deleted the plugin. Apparently it is still in effect. That is why it only sends a notification to the Editor forum with the message I originally defined a long time ago with bbPressNotify. I don’t know how to delete the leftover data of this plugin.
Just for clarification, was bbPress could have done what I need without any plugin? Just recap, what I need is:
We have 3 forums
1) Editor forum (hidden from all) – editors subscribed
2) Contributor forum (hidden from public) – contributors and editors subscribed
3) Subscribers forum (public) – all registered users subscribed
Notification from each forum new post/reply
Did I really need bbP Private Groups plugin, and did I really need notification plugin for sending out notifications, or bbP could have done this without plugins?
Sorry, I should have been clearer. For some reason, notification to the Editor forum has been working since day one but ones to the Contributors forum and the Subscribers forum never send out any notification even to editors who are subscribed to all three. So the problem seems to be at the forum level.
Also, for the life of me, I can’t find where to modify the notification messages.
Hmmm, then something I am doing wrong. They are all subscribed to each forum but not receiving any notification on the new post/reply.
Thank you for your help! bbPress Notify wants $15 subscription fee for this feature, bbPress Private Group Bridge add-on, which isn’t possible with this non-profit organization site.
I looked hard at bbPress Toolkit but I couldn’t find the way to do this. Any pointer would be appreciated.
Worked like a charm! Thank you so so so much! I am in a happy place!
I always get confused about the relationship since WP and bbP are SSO 🙁
The new public registration is always WP Subscriber, who is subscribed to bbP Announcement forum by bbP Toolkit. This is the only user role that needs to go to bbP edit-profile page. The other role in use is the Contributor which should jump to wp-admin/profile.php instead of bbP edit-profile. I hope this is somewhat clearer.
Thank you so so so much! This code is working great. Just one last thing. How can I make this code run only when the user role is Subscriber? -Hiro
Thank you! I just ran it and worked beautifully (as far as I can tell)!
Thank you so much for the snippets. I am no developer and have been struggling with this, to be honest.
I think line 2 is missing a closing ‘)’ and
Getting a parse error on line 4. Is ‘=>’ supposed to be ‘->’ or something else is upsetting the parser? Any help would be appreciated.
Understood. Altho visitors love their avatar shows up at the top.
Now I need to hide Edit Profile menu item to all other than Subscriber but can’t find the way. Is there a way?
I installed it on another WP site and it didn’t crash so it seems my sandbox is broken. Sorry about that.
I was not able to find the way to what I am looking for, that is, to have Subscriber’s toolbar links of Edit Profile and Dashboard to the same page, /forums/users/{username} that the bbPress login widget gives. Can this plugin do it?
Hmmm, something might be wrong with my bbPress. I need to investigate.
Yes very much. In fact, the login widget is bb Press 🙁
For some reason, this plugin killed my site :_(
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An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 68 of the file /home/xxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbp-style-pack/bbp-style-pack.php. Error message: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function bbp_get_version() in /home/xxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbp-style-pack/bbp-style-pack.php:68
Yup, I already have that option turned on. Now I still don’t know what to do with 500+ Subscribers who are not subscribed to the forums. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Hmmm, I do have this plugin installed but couldn’t find the way. I need to go over the documentation again. Thank you.
Hi @robin-w,
I am having another thought. Is there any easy way to have all the users under one of the roles subscribe to one or more forums? In other words, I am considering a bulk action to make all the subscriber role users subscribed to an Announcement forum and General discussion forum, and so on. Then let them unsubscribe by themselves if they wish. If this is possible, I may be able to ditch bbP Manage Subscriptions plugin altogether.
Thank you for your help.
-Hiro
It is working as far as I can tell, but this site was compromised. The malware was found, which led me to install WordFence, and this plugin is marked critical. There is no way of knowing this plugin was the security hole, however.
Hi, thank you for your response. I do have bbPress Toolkit but I don’t think it can do what bbP Manage Subscriptions did. What it does is to force a user to subscribe/unsubscribe to a specific forum(s). For example, you can pick up active contributors and force them to subscribe to the contributors’ forum. This is all done in a convenient table.
