[@robin-w Moderator 19 minutes ago]

Thanks, and yes I was considering whether a function in your child theme might be affecting this.

so since you can test easily (that is untick the option, save and see if it remains unticked), then my next step would be to see what could be affecting this.

So my next step would be that it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Then come back

[@robin-w Moderator 39 minutes ago]

thanks, just tried that with Enable bbPress for Block Themes and twenty twenty five, and no problems.

What theme are you using? and do you have any customized functions?

[@robin-w Moderator 59 minutes ago]

ok, sorry to sound like I do not believe you, I do, but I need to be very sure what is happening especially as we are using different languages 🙂

so to summarise:

Changing any OTHER item in settings>forums works and saves ok
changing settings>forums>Auto-embed links to untick this and then save – It still shows as ticked

Yes?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 hour, 12 minutes ago]

ummm, ok I have not seen this happen before.

As a test, can you untick another option and save – I need to work out if it is that setting or any setting on that page that is not working.

[@robin-w Moderator 1 hour, 22 minutes ago]

ok, so are you saying that in settings forums on

Auto-embed links

you unset this and click save changes at the bottom of the page, but when you look again, this setting is still ticked?

or is it unticked, but changing it makes no difference?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 day ago]

on your latter point, I am just a moderator here, and not a bbpress author.

The authors tend to release updates every few years, rather than more frequently.

My personal view is that you should consider bbpress to be a ‘mature’ product, ie any releases will be to fix issues rather than add functionality.

bbpress is written really well, and has loads of hooks. In essence it is a WordPress product, written by the founder of WordPress, and taken into a plugin by sponsorship from WordPress.
There are no show stopper bugs in it, it may throw a few notices (and these are very few at the moment), but WordPress recommends that you should not show error messages in live sites.

I currently have my test site running WordPress 6.9 and php 8.2 with no issues.

The only major issue with bbpress at the moment is that it does not work well with FSE themes.

However my bbp style pack plugin has fixes for this

bbp style pack

as well as block versions of the widgets and a ton of styling and functionality add-ons.

All plugins are subject to the authors commitment, and bbpress is no different.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 days ago]

@mike80222 many thanks for this useful information 🙂 much appreciated

[@robin-w Moderator 4 days, 7 hours ago]

ok, thanks.

the line of code referred to is looking for a host url on logout from bbpress.

‘$redirect_to = bbp_get_url_scheme() . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’];’

$_SERVER is a php thing and the manual says ‘$_SERVER an array containing information such as headers, paths, and script locations. The entries in this array are created by the web server, therefore there is no guarantee that every web server will provide any of these; servers may omit some, or provide others not listed here. However, most of these variables are accounted for in the » CGI/1.1 specification, and are likely to be defined.’

Are you maybe running on a local host?

[@robin-w Moderator 4 days, 23 hours ago]

so when does this error occur?

[@robin-w Moderator 5 days, 4 hours ago]

on the translations, these are part of buddypress not bbpress, so you would need to ask the question on their support forum

https://buddypress.org/support/

on the grey box, what exactly do you want to change?

[@robin-w Moderator 5 days, 7 hours ago]

link please to a live example with clear explanation of an element that is not right and why

[@robin-w Moderator 3 weeks, 4 days ago]

suspect this is an AI generated spam, but in case not,

bbpress latest version is 2.6.14 and was updated 4 months ago.

bbPress

[@robin-w Moderator 4 weeks, 1 day ago]

Group Forum with bbp private groups

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month ago]

ok, so given that it is a buddypress function that creates a group forum, can you ask that question on the buddypress support forum, as they are more likely to know a hook that you could use

https://buddypress.org/support/

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month ago]

I’m pretty sure that the buddypress function hooks to the new_forum_handler in bbpress, so this should work

add_action( 'bbp_new_forum_post_extras', 'rew_add_pg', 10 , 1) ;

function rew_add_pg ($forum_id ) {
	 add_post_meta( $forum_id, '_private_group', 'group1', false );
}

Let me know of not.

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month, 1 week ago]

ok, so what setting are you using for ‘Auto Approval disabled’ ?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month, 2 weeks ago]

ok, I know of nothing similar

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month, 2 weeks ago]

why?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month, 2 weeks ago]

no problem, glad to have helped in a small way – let me know that it has been fixed when you are finished 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month, 2 weeks ago]

otherwise if it is just a small number of entries, you could fix these as you have just done

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month, 2 weeks ago]

ok, yes that is interesting.

so now I am suspecting that in the database there is something wrong for those entries, and that changing the date is in effect changing some data in the topic entry (it holds things like no. replies, data of reply etc.) that when you do any update gets fixed.

you could try

dashboard>tools>forums>repair forums>

and try running these one at a time, and after each see if that has fixed.

Recalculate parent topic for each reply
Recalculate parent forum for each topic and reply
Recalculate private and hidden forums
Recalculate last activity in each topic and forum
Recount replies in each topic

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month, 2 weeks ago]

ok, so that’s good, I wanted to check that first.

So now as a test for the August 28, 2017 reply

in dashboard>replies>edit reply try changing the publish date on the August 28, 2017 one to October 20, 2025

and see if it now appears?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month, 2 weeks ago]

ok, so lets test date theory.

so in one of the forums that has the issue

1. find a post with multiple replies that all show – a topic without the problem
then in dashboard>replies>edit replies
find one of the replies and look at all the settings for that

2. Then find a post with multiple replies where replies do not show, and again
in dashboard>replies>edit replies
find one of the replies and look at all the settings for that

and see if there are any differences.

then come back

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month, 2 weeks ago]

thanks, so lets try some other stuff to see if we can eliminate.

So just another question, do you have a topic where there are replies both before 2016 and after – ie a post that is showing SOME but not all of the replies? Or is it a case that a topic either shows all or none of the replies?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month, 2 weeks ago]

ok, thanks for that – fixing this is all about finding a difference, so excuse if these questions sound like they are going nowhere !

the settings for the other forums that work is also

Type: forum
Status: open
Visibility: private

but with a parent set

yes ?