[@robin-w Moderator 2 weeks ago]

Every website is a unique combination of hoster, operating and hosting systems (eg apache, PHp) WordPress theme, plugins, settings and content, so I cannot just give you an answer.

So between ‘some time ago’ (days? weeks? years?) and now – what has changed on your site?

If you cannot answer that, then I can only suggest the core fault finding viz..

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 2 weeks ago]

ok, so it was working – yes?

[@robin-w Moderator 2 weeks ago]

ok, so it was working – yes?

If so something has changed to stop it working, eg theme or plugin update, but could be other things.

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

Ok, so what have you updated?

[@robin-w Moderator 3 weeks ago]

no problem, glad to have helped 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 3 weeks ago]

If I understand you correctly, you use the ‘code’ option

eg

<b>
some words
</b>

So you type all your ‘code’ and then highlight it, and click the code button.

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

iltaja is an AI spambot I suspect, this forum gets lots of these.

If not I’m sure they will reply again.

From your post about changing number of replies to 13, if the ‘faulty’ post is changing, then I suspect that looking at the database won’t help at this stage.

Let me do some more thinking…

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

do you still have the original Mingle forum?

If so, can you check that all the entries around this one have transferred to bbpress ie they have the same number of replies and are in the same order on page 7/8

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

ok, some late night thinking….

bbpress just uses the WordPress function that finds and shows posts (bbpress forums, topics and replies are just posts with a custom post type!).

So I’m thinking that the ‘find matches’ wordpress part is finding x number of replies, but then the ‘display part’ is finding one less/more to display, then at that point the page count gets to be wrong.

This is just a guess at the moment, but as you are seeing issues with other topics that are not all ‘page 8’ I don’t think it is a pure maths issue.

So my current hypothesis is that there is an item that is in the database as a match, but there is not a corresponding item to display – this could be for lots of reasons.

If you go to your link but page 7, from the post numbered 120998 with text ‘AnTiHrIsTiS — Kingpin: Life of Crime (PC)’ this entry on page 7 has a link of

/steam-records/page/8#120998

If my thinking is correct (and it is probably wrong!) I’d guess it is at this point that the permalinks start to go wrong.

So if you change the replies per page from 14 to 13, does it still start to go wrong from that same post number, or does it start to go wrong from another post number.

This will help us narrow down what the issue might be.

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

Thanks, it is evening here in the UK, I’ll try and look at this tomorrow

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

ok, back to this…

so yo say the permalink

mydomain/bbforums/topic/stream-records/page/8#post-121032

Where are you seeing this permalink?

eg

“I go to forums, select forum ‘xxx’ and then I do this and get to the topic by pressing that, and the I see the permalink at…”

and in

dashboard>settings>permalinks

what is the permalink structure?

[@robin-w Moderator 3 weeks, 2 days ago]

maybe try changing the replies per page in

dashboard>settings>forums

and see what difference that makes

[@robin-w Moderator 3 weeks, 2 days ago]

ok, I am not a bbpress author, just someone who tries to help out.

So it’s Sunday morning here in the UK, and I have guests coming for lunch, so I will try and pick this up later.

But let’s just eliminate some stuff.

1.

dashboard>settings>permalinks and just click save – this resets the permalinks and may help

2.

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 3 weeks, 2 days ago]

Do you have reply threading switched on?

dashboard>settings>forums>Reply Threading

[@robin-w Moderator 3 weeks, 2 days ago]

is this for users, or from the dashboard?

and what theme are you using?

[@robin-w Moderator 3 weeks, 2 days ago]

so
is it displaying fine, but just that the links are wrong, or
is it displaying incorrectly?

[@robin-w Moderator 3 weeks, 2 days ago]

Not sure what has disappeared – they are not in your menus but I can find and display forums and entries eg

https://tonernews.com/forums/topic/topic-hp-oem-inkjets-for-sale/

[@robin-w Moderator 3 weeks, 4 days 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 3 weeks, 4 days 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 3 weeks, 4 days 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 3 weeks, 5 days 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 3 weeks, 5 days 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 3 weeks, 5 days ago]

great – hope you get it working how you want

[@robin-w Moderator 3 weeks, 5 days ago]

unspammed !

[@robin-w Moderator 3 weeks, 6 days 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