[@robin-w Moderator 1 day, 3 hours ago]

great – glad you are fixed, and no problem re your lack of knowledge, I suspect your knowledge of WordPress is much greater than my knowledge of railway signaling 🙂

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

Registered members on the Forum can still see the “Contact” Link below people’s Avatars and I have just tested using a identity I use for testing and have successfully sent a PM to myself as Administrator – this instantly showed “You have 1 message unread” on my Administrator identity and clicking on the link has taken me to the message and all previous messages, just as it always has.

That is not from the private groups plugin That plugin has nothing to do with messaging.

If you care to list the ‘forum type’ plugins you are using, then I might be able to say which is doing this.

[@robin-w Moderator 1 day, 6 hours ago]

ok, if the private groups plugin is not showing as active in

dashboaard>plugins

then it is not active.

Deactivating/reactivating a plugin may have fixed an issue

The 3 you have left are because these plugins need the authors to fix the issue, or if you are not at latest versions, you to update them.

Simple lightbox
welcome email editor
constructions

These errors will not cause your site to fail but will do in some later version of WordPress : WordPress will eventually chnage these form a ‘Notice’ error to a ‘Critial’ error, but that may be years away (or next week!)

If everything else is working, then I’d suggest you just switch off the error display, and enjoy your site

[@robin-w Moderator 1 day, 22 hours ago]

ok, you should be seeing these.

so to see the error, use the following plugin

WP Debugging

you should also check that your site is sending emails ok, I use the following plugin

Check & Log Email – Easy Email Testing & Mail logging

[@robin-w Moderator 2 days, 1 hour ago]

There should be an email sent to the email address in :

dashboard>settings>general>Administration Email Address

in that email it will give you the exact error, which is the detail we need to help

[@robin-w Moderator 2 days, 18 hours ago]

great – hope you get it working how you want

[@robin-w Moderator 2 days, 18 hours ago]

unspammed !

[@robin-w Moderator 3 days, 7 hours ago]

1. yes, this is the intended behavior
2. yes, that behavior is set by a function which is called by an action, so we can remove it, and do something else.

so untested, but this should work

remove_action( 'bbp_template_redirect', 'bbp_forum_enforce_blocked', 1  );

add_action( 'bbp_template_redirect', 'rew_forum_enforce_blocked', 1  );

function rew_forum_enforce_blocked() {

	// Bail if not logged in or keymaster
	if ( ! is_user_logged_in() || bbp_is_user_keymaster() ) {
		return;
	}

	// Set 404 if in bbPress and user cannot spectate
	if ( is_bbpress() && ! current_user_can( 'spectate' ) ) {
		//DON'T DO THE SET 404 ie this is the code that the default bbp_forum_enforce_blocked does
		//bbp_set_404();
		// DO SOMETHING ELSE HERE!
	}
}

What the something else is, you will need to decide

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

3. I can’t say what the original authors intentions were, but I suspect yes

[@robin-w Moderator 4 days, 21 hours ago]

by the way, I tried your long post on my test site, and it worked ok.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 days, 21 hours ago]

ok 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 5 days, 2 hours ago]

you probably need to increase page size and/or memory size

for memory

Increasing the WordPress memory limit

for page size

https://www.cloudways.com/blog/increase-media-file-maximum-upload-size-in-wordpress/#:~:text=To%20increase%20the%20maximum%20page,upload%20larger%20pages%20or%20files.

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

The saving of updates to large topics containing table tags is still not working.

ok, so now we need to address this.

I’m going to suggest we don’t do troubleshooting mode for the moment, but let’s see what works and doesn’t work in live.

You say ‘large topics containing table tags’ so we need to define this.

so in live can you answer each one of these plaese

1. pure text say ‘hello’ works – yes/no?
2. Pure text but a lot of it works – yes/no?
3. `<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
hello
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>`
works – yes/no?

4. IF they all work, and please confirm this for each of the above, then can you post an example of what doesn’t work?

[@robin-w Moderator 5 days, 20 hours ago]

do come back if you are able top tell me the error codes, quite happy to try and help further

[@robin-w Moderator 6 days, 2 hours ago]

ok, so without being able to see errors, I’m not sure I can help further, clearly there is something not working correctly on your site, and without fixing that, I do not know if it is contributing to the other issues you are having.

If you have FTP access, you can change wp-config to log and display errors, there are plenty of articles on the web that can do so, and several plugins that might work.

[@robin-w Moderator 6 days, 3 hours ago]

so no email in the email logs

dashboard>check and log email>email logs

[@robin-w Moderator 6 days, 4 hours ago]

ok, so now you need to generate the ‘critical error’ screen, and the logs should show the email sent

[@robin-w Moderator 6 days, 18 hours ago]

email does not have to match, but lots of things in between the send and recieve can jink emails they consider spam or suspicious.

So if you are not getting the error emails, can I suggest you install

Check & Log Email – Easy Email Testing & Mail logging

and use this to test emails, and if the site attempts to send an email, the email logs can tell you what it tried to send.

[@robin-w Moderator 6 days, 21 hours ago]

I can’t fix the error until you get your admin emails working !!

so the admin email address in

dashboard>settings>general need to be a valid and working email, you can’t run a site without this working, so I think as a first action you need to fix this.

when you have, come back

[@robin-w Moderator 1 week ago]

ok, I think we need to start again as I was working on the assumption that the problem was with tables, not with just text.

so in Live

1. If you post just text on the FRONT end – does it work?
2. If you just post text in the BACK end – does it work?
3. If you update that text with just text in the FRONT end – does it work?
4. If you update that text with just text in the BACK end – does it work?

For certainty
the FRONT end is where users would post, just as you are posting on this site
The BACK end is where you go via Dashboard>topics

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

Does this occur anytime you try and access the forum page?

if so, 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.

If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users

Health Check & Troubleshooting

Then come back

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

we have 2 issues I believe :

1. An issue where IF a topic/reply contains table tags (eg. <table>, <tr> etc.) then on update the post does not save?

2. an issue where you are getting a critical error.

I would suggest we tackle these one at a time, so maybe see if we can fix the <table> issue first.

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

ok, I’m a bit lost as to what your testing is showing.

The essence of fault finding is taking a setup that works and finding the difference between that and one that doesn’t work.

so I have a test site working with bbpress and style pack and nothing else. If your site with that same setup doesn’t work, then we can find the difference.

If it does work, then yes adding back plugins until it fails is a good strategy, but until we are both seeing the same, then it is not doing much good?

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

ok, so this on my test site with just bbpress and style pack, using admin and keymaster roles publishes fine

<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
hello
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

do you still get a critical error with this combination, and if so I still need the exact error it produces

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

so in dashboard>users you will see a column showing the bbpress role

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

ok, but what about the bbpress role?