[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

which forum !!!!!

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

sorry, I’m not going to keep clicking forums to try and find one, either give me one or I’ll give up

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

ok, that’s your site, but where is a closed topic?

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

need a link to a live example on your site

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

put this in the style pack custom css or your theme’s custom css

#bbpress-forums .status-closed, #bbpress-forums .status-closed a {
	background-color: none !important;
}

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

if you are using bbp-styler-pack, the the backgorund is set in

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Topic/Reply Display item 4

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

Thanks for that – very useful.

Wordpress has a bewildering set of names including username, user display name and user nicename

As far as I can see, bbpress seems to be using the user database setting for user nicename.

So can you try adding this code

add_filter( 'manage_users_columns', 'rew_add_user_nicename', 20, 1);
add_filter( 'manage_users_custom_column','rew_add_user_row', 20, 3 );

function rew_add_user_nicename($columns)  {
	$new = array();
  foreach($columns as $key => $title) {
	 $new[$key] = $title;
	 //add the 2 columns after the forum role column
    if ($key=='bbp_user_role') {
	$new['nicename'] = 'Nicename';
	}
    
  }
 return $new;
}

function rew_add_user_row($retval = '', $column_name = '', $user_id = 0) {
	if ($column_name == 'nicename') {
		$user_info = get_userdata($user_id);
		$user_nicename = $user_info->user_nicename;
		$retval = '-->'.$user_nicename.'<--';
	}
return $retval ;
}

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

This will add a column to the dashboard>users table to show you exactly what is set as the user nicename. I have enclosed it in arrows eg

–>name here<–

so you can see if there are leading or trailing spaces.

try adding that name to the moderators and see if that works?

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

can you confirm that the issue you are having is this exactly

I have a topic with a reply. I wanted to split the reply into it’s own topic. Then I was going to move the new topic to another forum.

I can start the split process but when I tell it to perform the split I get this error:

“A variable mismatch has been detected.”

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

what version of Astra are you on?

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

if you users are registering, you’ll capture their email address in that part of the process.

If you are allowing anonymous posting, then the ‘create topic’ form has an email field which is not shown apart from to you as admin.

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

thanks for that, now totally understand.

Given that you have about 100 to do and they are in separate files, it would take longer to write the code, transfer the files and then run the code through them, than to just manually copy/paste into topics.

sorry, I know it is boring, but it is probably the best way.

do 10 in the morning and 10 in the evening each day, and in a week it’ll be done

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

so is this one text file with around 100 entries or around 100 text files?

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

how many do you have?

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

for daunting read ‘full of options’

You need do nothing in style pack and bbpress will still work fine. you only need change what you want to

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

I just tried adding a user with a space in the name ie ‘test user’

then in dashboard>forums>edit forum>moderators I typed in ‘test user’

it did not pick up the name as I typed it so I had to type the full name, but it did accept it, and added it correctly to the forum database.

per forum moderators are relatively new, and the 15 yr old and 8 year old threads would have been for bbpress version 1.

so on my test site bbpress does allow moderators with spaces in the names.

my next suggestion would be 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 years, 2 months ago]

or maybe this if you don’t actually want bbpress in itself

https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-add-additional-user-profile-fields-in-wordpress-registration/

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

ok, for input, try

bbp profile information

which lets users add profile information.

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

ok, I found the divi theme on one of my customer sites and tested and followed Dozza’s advice

so go to

dashboard>Divi > Theme options > Builder > Advanced > Static CSS File Generation > Clear.
then
dashboard> divi > Theme Options > Performance> Dynamic CSS option and disable

THEN critically you need to clear and server side caching, AND clear your browser cache.

Server side will depend on your host, and/or any caching plugins you have installed.
Browser – see this helpful article

How To Clear Cache for All Major Browsers

then it all worked fine

thanks Dozza for your work on this 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

thanks, do keep us updated.

as this is a commercial theme, I do not have access to it, but agree it would be good to have it fully working with bbpress

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 2 months ago]

that’s an interesting view given that the Divi Theme authors think it is a divi theme issue (but have not done anything about it).

2023 is an FSE theme which has a whole bunch of different issues I am working on.

I presume you tried the fixes suggested by Dozza above ?

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 3 months ago]

so moving bbpress forums between 2 websites is really very hard, and requires preparation on source site and extraction of meta data on target site.

the wordpess export/import tools are not sufficient.

the last time I did it I ended up with a 57 stage process, and I’ve still not found anyway to describe to someone not versed in bbpress how to do this.

sorry beyond free help, but if you’d like me to help on a paid basis, contact me via

Contact me

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 3 months ago]

@webcreations907 – good spot – I hate reply threading with a vengeance, so don’t have it switched on.

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 3 months ago]

🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 3 months ago]

I’m just a guy sat in his kitchen who was helped several years ago when I was setting bbpress up, so I try to help others – I’m not a bbpress author.

Updates from the bbpress authors are few and far between, I think they are on other projects now, and maybe consider bbpress as a mature product. The philosophy was always to keep bbpress small, and let other plugins add stuff that was needed.

I do ask them to update the ‘tested to’ but it rarely happens. I test bbpress with new versions.

That is and will always be the issue with open source software – it relies on people doing stuff for free, and people’s focus changes and people move on. That is annoying, but the reality of life.

If you have things that need core updates, you can raise them on trac

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/report

That way at least stuff that is wrong or could be done better gets logged.