[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

I am not a bbpress author, not a lot I can do.

bbpress is a WordPress project – suggest you write to Matt Mullenweg about why no-one is currently assigned to bbpress to keep it up to date.

matt@mullenweg.com cc: press@automattic.com.

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

ok, glad you are fixed

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

add this plugin

BP Classic

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

the backend seems to only save one moderator.

This code should fix

add_action ('bbp_subscriptions_metabox' , 'rew_set_hidden_subscribers' ) ;
add_action ('bbp_topic_attributes_metabox_save' , 'rew_save_subscriptions', 10 , 2) ;

function rew_set_hidden_subscribers ($post) {
	// Get user IDs
	$user_ids = bbp_get_subscribers( $post->ID );
	$list = implode(",",$user_ids); 

	// Output
	?>
	<input name="rew_topic_subscription" id="rew_topic_subscription" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $list; ?>" />
	<?php
}

function rew_save_subscriptions ( $topic_id, $forum_id ) {
	// Handle Subscriptions
	if ( bbp_is_subscriptions_active() && ! empty( $_POST['rew_topic_subscription'] )) {
		//update_option ($subscriptions)
		$subscriptions = explode(",", $_POST['rew_topic_subscription']);
		foreach ($subscriptions as $subscription_id ) {
			// Check if subscribed and if so do nothing
			if (bbp_is_user_subscribed( $subscription_id, $topic_id )) continue;
			else {
			bbp_add_user_subscription( $subscription_id, $topic_id );
			}
		}
	}
}

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

or if you use

bbp style pack

this fix is automatically added

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

most people use the front end for moderators, they see their abilities in the admin links

you just set the moderators for each forum on the backend

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

Not a lot – I delete 3-6 posts a day on this forum.

As AI starts to get more popular for spammers, it is getting harder to spot them, many posts now have several sentences seeming to answer the question (though almost always in a generic way) before containing a link to their site to get their backlinks quota’s up.

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

thanks, and thanks for posting back your solution

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

great and thanks for the detailed response 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

that’s great news – Since you said you were having problems (‘am finding it pretty hard going to be honest’) any recommendations or tips on setting this up?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

I don’t know of anything that does this within bbpress.

However bbpress just uses then wordpress login, so anything that does that in wp would work.

This looks like a possible option…

WP User Switch

Otherwise you could just allow ‘anonymous posting’ which would let users post under multiple names, but of course could not be limited to paid members.

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

what wordpress theme as

dashboard>appearance>themes

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

great – glad you are fixed 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

yes, that sounds about right – try asking rankmath from what field they get the breadcrumb element

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

great and thanks for posting back the solution – so are you all fixed ?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

you should have a breadcrumb navigation, what theme are you using?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Breadcrumbs

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

yes please

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

sorry, I’d like to help, but you site keeps throwing ad click bait at me

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

when you have completed, in the spirit of open software and helping others, can you post your final solution code please

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

for completeness look at

\bbpress\includes\topics\functions.php line 96

This is what bbpress does to create a new topic.

on line 378 it has a hook

do_action( 'bbp_new_topic',......

which is used in

bbpress\bbpress\includes\core\actions.php

Line 206: add_action( 'bbp_new_topic',  'bbp_update_topic', 10, 5 );
Line 241: add_action( 'bbp_new_topic',    'bbp_notify_forum_subscribers', 11, 4 );
Line 287: add_action( 'bbp_new_topic',        'bbp_increase_forum_topic_count' );
Line 327: add_action( 'bbp_new_topic',     'bbp_increase_user_topic_count' );
Line 346: add_action( 'bbp_new_topic', 'bbp_update_topic_engagements', 20 );
Line 350: add_action( 'bbp_new_topic', 'bbp_update_topic_voice_count', 30 );

to call the other functions that update the meta, and thus get the topic to show.

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

Thanks, I’ve just tested your scenario above, and yes that is a bug.

I am not a bbpress author, just someone who helps out here.

Strangely that metabox doesn’t actually let you change the subscribers, it simply lists them, not sure why 🙂

if you are using

bbp style pack

then I’ve included a fix for this in version 5.7.8.

You can also add comprehensive subscription management functionality for the backend from the ‘subscriptions management’ tab.

Otherwise you could add this code:

add_action ('bbp_subscriptions_metabox' , 'rew_set_hidden_subscribers' ) ;
add_action ('bbp_topic_attributes_metabox_save' , 'rew_save_subscriptions', 10 , 2) ;

function rew_set_hidden_subscribers ($post) {
	// Get user IDs
	$user_ids = bbp_get_subscribers( $post->ID );
	$list = implode(",",$user_ids); 

	// Output
	?>
	<input name="rew_topic_subscription" id="rew_topic_subscription" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $list; ?>" />
	<?php
}

function rew_save_subscriptions ( $topic_id, $forum_id ) {
	// Handle Subscriptions
	if ( bbp_is_subscriptions_active() && ! empty( $_POST['rew_topic_subscription'] )) {
		//update_option ($subscriptions)
		$subscriptions = explode(",", $_POST['rew_topic_subscription']);
		foreach ($subscriptions as $subscription_id ) {
			// Check if subscribed and if so do nothing
			if (bbp_is_user_subscribed( $subscription_id, $topic_id )) continue;
			else {
			bbp_add_user_subscription( $subscription_id, $topic_id );
			}
		}
	}
}

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

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

To understand that you need to understand that bbpress is a sister project to WordPress.

Wordpress development (and therefore bbpress development) is funded by

1. the commercial arm of wordpress – Automattic
2. Donations and sponsorship from paid plugins and theme organizations who have a commercial interest in ensuring that WordPress continues

At the moment no-one is sponsoring bbpress development, so no developer is currently being paid to maintain it.

Hence no-one is updating even the tested to value.

You could write to the board of wordpress.org, but beyond that not much we can do – I have tried !

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

you could probably skip this.

Once imported you can run

dashboard>tools>forums>repair forums> and run one at a time. One of these recalculates that field, so you do not need to import it.

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

great – glad you are fixed

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 6 months ago]

This is one of the new FSE themes, so you need a fix to work with bbpress.
install

bbp style pack

once activated, navigate to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack, and you should see the first tab called ‘Theme Support’ – if you don’t see this, come back.

In that tab, select

Enable Theme Support

and save

The forums should then display