[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

No problem, glad to help and the plugin is improved !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

ok, suggest https://wordpress.org/support/ is the pace to go

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

hmm, not sure quite the best way to proceed.

So did bbpress change when the theme changed?, or why did you deactivate it? and did you deactivate because of THIS problem? or has this problem only occurred since you deactivated/recativated?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

as far as I know it is a minimum of four

see

https://wordpress.org/plugins/network-username-restrictions-override/

Whilst this hasn’t been updated it probably still works !

Otherwise this is a wordpress thing rather than bbpress, so post in

Support Forums

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

Presume you have also asked this in the buddypress forums, as that would be a better place to post.

https://buddypress.org/support/

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

ok, lets break this down

A)

I was having trouble with a theme so I deactivated and reactivated bb press, since then all my “private” forums take me to a 404 page

and

However all the pages which I embedded the private forums via shortcode are still working

Can you explain further where you can and cannot see forums?

1. Are they visible from the backend

Dashboard>forums>all Forums and then ‘view’ a forum

2. On the ‘the pages which I embedded the private forums via shortcode are still working ‘ – so you can view here – yes?

3. when is the 404 page occurring – is it just the forum root page, and if so are these being listed but going to 404 when you click.

B) I presume you are logged on, at what level and can you try different levels eg participant, moderator and keymaster and tell us if this is different or the same.

c) You don’ tell us what trouble you were having with the theme, so it would be good to eliminate this and plugins so

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

ok,

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

I’ve just added a shortcode to one of my plugins that lets you custom list forums

bbp additional shortcodes

[display-forum-index forum= ‘2932, 2921′ breadcrumb=’no’ search=’no’] Displays the selected forum indexes – see the site for details

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

As you no doubt already know, this is just a warning message, and bbpress say it is an issue with wordpress, and are waiting for wordpress to fix. Also as you know (but for others reading this), turning off debug fixes this.

If you want it to disappear whilst you are developing (and so need debug on), then go to

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/sub-actions.php

and comment out/change line 147

_doing_it_wrong( __FUNCTION__, __( 'The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init().', 'bbpress' ), '2.3' );

to

//_doing_it_wrong( __FUNCTION__, __( 'The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init().', 'bbpress' ), '2.3' );

and change back after developing as well as turning debug off for the production environment

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

thanks for posting this

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

@2cats

I often find when you leave a problem alone, the brain mulls it over in the background, so awoke in the middle of last night knowing what the issue was, so I have now fixed the problem with speedy searches !

Can you try a new version of 2.5.3 beta, as before delete current plugin, download and add new

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/private-groups-2-5-3/

And let me know that this does what is expected !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

The template you’ll want to alter is

loop-single-reply

Would take a lot of altering

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/%your-theme-name%/bbpress
find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

This is an error in wordpress and awaiting their fix

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2412

Switching off debug fixes it, but appreciate that it is annoying !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

Forums are stored in the database, so you will not find them using ftp

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

Hey sorry that we didn’t get round to you – it is all volunteers that support this forum, and thanks for posting the solution to help others in future

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

great – glad it’s working.

I did have an alternate faster solution which worked fine on my large test site UNLESS you hit the breadcrumb search after doing a search, when it ran out of memory! Go back to search via any other route and it was fine ! I’m still seeing if I can crack the issue with that (lots of resets) so I might come up with a faster solution.

Let us know how you get on.

If I don’t find a better solution in a few days, I’ll take that one live so that you get further updates via the usual route.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

@cbsy lots of ways to achieve this – two below

1. Look in

Dashboard>settings>forums>Forum Root slug, and see what ‘forum root’ is set to

The create a page with this name on it – so title the page this

The in that page write whatever intro you want, and then put

[bbp-forum-index] at the bottom of the content

bbpress will then use this page as your forum root.

2.

Add the following to your functions file

add_action ('bbp_template_before_forums_index' , 'my_intro' ) ;

Function my_intro () {
Echo '<div class="entry-content"> Here is my intro text. This is lots of writing to introduce the forums and make people read this stuff </div>' ;
}

Functions files and child themes – explained !

If you hit prolems or need further help, just come back !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

Try the following

//adds login/logout to menu
//filter to add login/logout to menu
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_nav_menu_login_link' );
function my_nav_menu_login_link($menu) {
    //uncomment the next line if you only want login on bbpress pages
    //if(is_bbpress()) {
    if (is_user_logged_in()) {
        //set the $url on the next line to the page you want users to go back to when they logout
        $url = 'http://www.mysite.com/forums' ;
        $url2=wp_logout_url($url) ;
        $loginlink = '<li><a title="Logout" href="'.$url2.'">Logout</a></li>';
        }
    else {
        $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
        $user=$current_user->user_login ;
        //set $page on the next line = the permalink for your login page
        $page='login' ;
        $loginlink = '<li><a href="/'.$page.'/">Login</a></li>';
                }
    //uncomment out the next lines if you only want login on bbpress pages
    //      }
    //  else {
    //  $loginlink="" ;
    //      }
        $menu = $menu . $loginlink;
        return $menu;
}

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

Just had a look at your site, and you seem to have ‘fixed’ this – correct, and if so how did you do it?

If by altering core file, let me know, and I’ll give you a better solution.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

ok, presume you’ll progress with the theme author

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

try changing ‘logout’ to “logout”

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

Several plugins that will do this for you, bbpress stores the entries as 3 custom post types, Forums, Topics, and Replies

I googled ‘wordpress export custom post to excel’ and got several inc.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ultimate-csv-importer/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-csv-exporter/

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

easiest way would be to uncode my shortcode

bbp additional shortcodes

or just use the do_shortcode function within your code

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

I’m sorry but I don’t understand what you mean.

What shortcodes – where?

You will need to either provide examples or explain further.

Sorry, but I am trying to help you, but there are hundreds of ways to set up wordpress/bbpress so need clear issues to resolve eg it looks like this, it needs to look like this

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

it should be :

Dashboard>settings>forums>forum root slug and set to forums