I’ve just had another client who upgraded to 4.4 and then reverted to still have the problem.
He fixed it by toggling each forum between public and private and saving in between.
He didn’t need to alter anything within my plugin, or the forum groups within the forum, just the forum visibility
thanks for the update and your help – really appreciate it
so did you need to do both to get it working, and in which order
sorry – I haven’t read in detail this whole thread – do you need to do something else as well as
I used the following procedure:
◾Go to you dashboard > forums
◾“Edit” a forum
◾At the Forum Groups box deselect all groups (That box is added by bbPress private groups)
◾At the Forum Attributes box set visibility to Public
◾Choose Update
And now, revert to the previous settings:
◾Re-select/check the Forum Groups,
◾Re-apply visibility to Private
◾Choose Update
?
@shades404 – I am the author of private groups.
I don’t know why you fix would work, but if it does then great, and others should try this. Can you let me know if you’re using buddypress as well please.
Given that there is a bug with 4.4 which @netweb says will be fixed in 4.4.1, I’d prefer not to try and fix within my plugin, as I’d need to work out a workaround, and then unfix this when the 4.4.1 comes out.
As long as @shades404’s fix works, then I’ll recommend this – can anyone else verify this, and come back on this thread to see if it is a good fix?
sorry I am fully tied up in a website development the moment, so i’m unable to help at this time
Tecca, thanks and great that you are now fixed !
If you want to delete everything bbpress datawise and start again then
Dashboard>tools>forums>reset forums
sorry that it doesn’t work with multisite – only so much free time I can give to coding plugins 🙂
Try adding !important – your theme may be overriding the settings viz
Layout and functionality – Examples you can use
you can use the shortcode [bbp-topic-index] in a new page – this will show the latest 15 topics across all forums with pagination.
Before Posting
in particular
]https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/troubleshooting/
An interesting discussion, and can I perhaps add my thoughts as a plugin developer
You start from a perspective that bbpress would naturally seek to be all things to all people and should want to compete with other products.
I cannot speak for bbpress authors, but as a plugin author I write for the enjoyment and challenge of coding and to help others – I am not in an arms race or commercially minded – I can do plenty of that outside bbpress – and if some code I write has one user or thousands as long as it does what I want it to, I am happy. Yes it is nice to have good feedback, and improve it using others suggestions, but when these are posted as pseudo demands, or as a big list of complaints, then I have to say I would turn off. I do this for free, in my spare time, and for my enjoyment, and I suspect that the bbpress authors do the same as well.
I have to say therefore I find your general thrust of your demands, and your ‘I know better’ how bbpress should be run attitude upsetting.
This is a free product – if you want to improve it don’t whinge for the sidelines – write a detailed spec or better still write the code and submit it yourself.
Just telling others how they should do something that costs you nothing seems a very negative way to go about things.
Just my view 🙂
