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You can go to the WordPress Settings -> Discussion: Moderation, and increase the number of links allowed before a topic goes into moderation. I believe the fact that you are not being informed is a bug. Someone who knows more about this will probably chime in at some point.
In reply to: Using this forum on iPhone7 / spam on this forumThat’s interesting. I don’t *think* this is the problem that we’ve been having. The reports I get are more along the lines of “I submitted a post and the site never came back” / “the site won’t respond” / “the page froze up” – these are almost exclusively iPhone/iPad users and they mostly *claim* that the problem only happens with our site.
Things (mostly) clear up if I can get them to power cycle their phone, but it doesn’t exactly create good will towards our site to make them do that. I wish I had some clue what this is about. But I guess it’s not related to what you’re seeing here.
In reply to: Using this forum on iPhone7 / spam on this forumI am curious to hear more about the iPhone issue. We have ongoing problems that *appear* to be related to iPhones on both of our WP sites. And the problems are not just related to bbPress. People have trouble posting on forums, but they also have trouble signing up to the site (through MemberPress) and sometimes simply viewing blog posts.
I don’t personally have any Apple devices, and these problems are a mystery to me. So if there’s any more information available, I’d love to hear it.
In reply to: Editing bbpress css from dashboard?One more thing I just thought of. Watch out for bbpress.min.css (and any other “min” files when overriding both css and javascript). These min files are compressed versions of the regular css and js files. So bbpress.min.css will will be used in preference to bbpress.css. If you want to override things without disturbing any of the files in the plugin, you’ll need to first edit bbpress.css and then generate bbpress.min.css from that. There are various tools to do this, but I only know about the ones on Linux.
As I say, if you don’t want to do any of this, there are plugins that may do the job. I think Robin makes one.
In reply to: Editing bbpress css from dashboard?I am not an expert on this, but what I do it to make a css subdirectory in my child theme. In that directory, css files should override the css in plugins (if they provide for the possibility of overrides, which bbPress does).
There are more details here: https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2
And here: https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-styling-crib/
And there are also some plugins that can do these things for you.
In reply to: Center align IMGUR imagesThis worked for me:
<center> <img src="https://i.imgur.com/W6QaJvk.jpeg" width=216 height=298> </center>In reply to: last topic/comment@2cats, just out of curiosity is it the mechanics of putting in the patch that you’re uncomfortable with. Or it it the fact that you (or your clients) would then have to deal with the patched code when updates happen.
Also I’m assuming that you’re aware of the plug-in mentioned above that fixes some of the current bbPress bugs.
Clearly the bbPress developers (who donate their time) can only do so much. But I too am curious how the priorities are set. BuddyPress recently ran a survey asking users about their priorities. I wonder if there is something like this in the works for bbPress. Sometimes I also wonder about the feasibility of a group of users with specific needs *hiring* a bbPress developer to make certain fixes and integrate them into the build. But these are just random thoughts of someone who doesn’t really know much about how these things work.
In reply to: Sticky post duplicated on all forumsYou’re right, it was super-sticky. Pilot error, thank goodness!
And thank you very much for the database info.In reply to: last topic/commentGuess we were typing our replies at the same time. Glad you got it worked out!
In reply to: last topic/commentI edited the php file indicated in the trac ticket. On my setup this is:
public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/functions.php
This is a very simple change to one line, but it does require editing the bbPress code, and (AFAIK) can’t be done in a child theme. So you would have to keep this in mind every time you update bbPress.
If you’re not familiar with doing this type of thing, then you probably want to either:
(1) Consider using by bbp-style-pack by @robin-w, which I *believe* fixes this. Robin can answer questions about that.
(2) Just wait for the bug to get fixed. I don’t really know how the priorities for bugs are set, but my impression is that this one could take a while. I might be wrong.
In reply to: last topic/commentHi @fl3xtra,
If I understand correctly the problem you’re having, it’s a bug:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3356
I’ve tried this patch on one of my sites and it appears to work. Bear in mind that I am NOT an expert on this.
Here’s the thread where I found out about the patch:
In reply to: Threaded Replies Not WorkingHoly cow! That’s exactly what I was looking for, and appears to explain why I never see this bug as an admin. I guess the problem was that I was searching trac for “threading” and didn’t include variants like “threaded.” Duhh! Thank you so much (once again) @robin-w.
In reply to: Threaded topics not workingHi @renatoscarvalho,
I’m also trying to understand what the current situation is with this problem. The most comprehensive post I could find is somewhat old:
I’ve just posted a reply at the bottom of that one in hopes of getting some clarification.
In reply to: Threaded Replies Not WorkingI’m just trying to get some information on this. If I understand things correctly, the threading problem is a known bug. But I’ve been unable to find anything in trac that is clearly a bug report (maybe I’m not searching right). I would appreciate some clarification of just what the underlying problem is, and what track ticket(s) are pertinent, if anyone would be so kind as to provide that.
In reply to: Tagging/mentioning another userI don’t know what to do if there’s no login name visible. Actually I thought there always was one (in forums running bbPress/BuddyPress). Can you click on the user in question and go to their profile?
In reply to: Tagging/mentioning another userHi @cassel,
The at sign is used with the user’s login name, not the display name. Logins are unique. Of course a user might have the same display and login name, but it’s the login that’s used in the mention. Notice that my display name is my full name, but you would mention me as mike80222.
I believe that BuddyPress handles notifying a user when they are mentioned, although I am also unsure about the exact boundaries between BuddyPress and bbPress responsibilities.
In reply to: Topics under forums in urlsYes, I’m sure that guessing forum names is even easier than guessing topics. But it’s easy to protect the forums, just not the topics. The whole business with MP “rules” is a bit complicated.
The fact that you mentioned groups (which I haven’t used) made me take a look at that. It turns out that, if you use groups, then all the topics (as well as the group forum) do appear under the group in the url. So, one could use groups in conjunction with MP wildcard rules to provide per group protection based on MP subscriptions. I hadn’t thought of that, and it’s a good thing to keep in mind. Though it’s a bit hokey. I think I’m going to use this as motivation to do more work on understanding the memberpress code, especially surrounding rules. That’s something I probably should be doing anyway.
Re: the Private Groups plug-in. I didn’t actually try it, but I looked over the documentation and it looks like another awesome plugin. It also looks like a more flexible and easier way to manage group access than what I’m doing. But for better or worse, I’m sort of tied to doing things through MP subscriptions and therefore MP rules. But others who might stumble onto this thread looking to control forum access will certainly want to consider Private Groups.
In reply to: Topics under forums in urlsYes, control means prevent. I’d like people with different types of memberships to be able to access different forums. I can exercise control based on the URL, but the fact that the topic URLs are not “tied” to the forum URLs means that people can go directly to the topics (which can be easy to guess) even if they can’t access the forum directly.
The ‘memberships’ I’m talking about are MemberPress subscriptions. MP actually has a strategy for controlling bbPress forum access, but (AFAICT) it doesn’t quite work with the degree of control I would like.
I don’t understand ALL the ins and outs of either MemberPress or bbPress, just for the record. What I’m doing here is partially a learning exercise. But I actually do have a practical application on the physics site my wife and I run: PhysicsCafe.org.
In reply to: MemberPress and bbPressActually, I’m specifically looking to link some of the forums to memberpress memberships in a better way than I’m currently doing it. What I’m really hoping is to find other folks using both MemberPress and bbPress to discuss this with. It was kind of a shot in the dark 🙂
In reply to: PHP compatibilityTwo sites that I’m involved with run bbPress with PHP 7.3.16 and one with PHP 7.3.19. There haven’t been any problems with PHP that I’m aware of. For whatever that’s worth.
In reply to: Several questions regarding freshnessRobin, thank you. 2 and 3 make sense and I appreciate knowing that 3356 is the one to watch. (I do understand that there is a lot of work to do and I am by no means complaining. Only trying to understand the situation.)
About 1: So if I understand you correctly, this is just a “text change” and the intent is to display the last activity of any sort (freshness?) at the main forum level when the bug is fixed. Is that correct? I’ve seen some discussion about “last post” vs “last reply” and I think what I’m calling “freshness” might also be called “last reply.” So I guess I was worried that I may not quite understand the terminology, or how it’s “supposed to work.”
In reply to: Freshness is way offSorry, I guess this is still an open ticket, right?
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3297In reply to: Freshness is way offStill not working for me either, bbPress 2.6.4.
In reply to: Freshness is way offI’m having this problem too (on v 2.6.3). Running the “repair” scripts above does fix the freshness, but you have to run them every time there’s a new reply. So there must still be a bug there, right?
In reply to: Notification EmailsGreat. Thanks so much!
