[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 9 months ago]

All – let me just clarify that I’m just a guy sat in his kitchen who helps out here, I am not a bbpress author !!

@craigcotner & @iqfy- trashing topics or replies calls a standard WordPress function which checks for comments and media on each post before trashing. This involves a database lookup to check whether anything in those tables needs deleting and it is this that seems to be taking the time and making you both time out. Topics and replies don’t have comments or media that is attached in that way, so these steps are not needed.

Now trashing a reply is fairly easy, replies don’t hold any data that needs referencing elsewhere that we need to worry about.

But Topics have engagements and subscriptions to be gone through.

so if I wrote some code to allow you to delete a numbered topic, this could use a quicker method to permanently delete all the replies, and then use the proper function to delete the topic.

And as long as the topic or reply it is not latest activity, then we can maybe skip the step that needs to recalculate what the lastest activity now needs to be.

That should prevent timeouts I hope.

SO 2 things here

1. any topic/reply being got rid of should not be the ‘latest activity’ in the forum – but I’m guessing if the topic is still getting replies and therefore ‘hot’ then you would not be deleting it
2. this would be deleting it a numbered topic at a time, so you would look up the topic and then in the dashboard there would be an option to enter that topic number to trash it.

Does that sound as if it would work for you?

@jimmyt53 – not sure how easily I’d be able to fix that, but I’ll think about it as I progress. so

1. how would you want to pick topics for deletion – by ‘older than’ presumably? and
2. just from one forum or across all forums?
3. again could not be a topic or reply where it is latest activity

Feedback before I start code something that doesn’t help would be great 🙂

and from all – are we talking about permanently deleting – ie reduce database size, or just trashing – ie stopping people seeing, but retaining the ability to restore later?

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 9 months ago]

Staging sites can be very useful, but they have limited capability.

In essence the forums are stored in the posts and postmeta tables in the database.

At best, if none of your staging changes have involved changes to posts and pages or any other custom post types, you might get away with copying these tables to staging to ‘catch up’.

Otherwise almost all ‘design’ changes will involve writes to some tables in the database, so you will have the staging database with some changes, and the live site with others, making matching them back very hard.

Unless you staging site changes are very complex, you might do better to simply note every change you make in staging as a list of actions.

Then when you are ready to go live, take a further live site copy to staging, put your live site in maintenance, and repeat your list of changes on staging to validate that they work, then sync staging back to live.

Sorry, but that’s the best I can offer

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 9 months ago]

Having taken a look, I’d guess your theme is doing that – there are many inline css rules applying to mobile.

Sorry beyond help from me.

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 9 months ago]

so

1. are the emails showing in the WP Mail SMTP plugin logs?
2. have you talked to your hoster – if working in staging, then might be a domain configuration issue

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 9 months ago]

link to an example please

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 9 months ago]

great – glad you are fixed !!

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 9 months ago]

@steveorevo – thanks for posting this, I’ll substitute it for my solution on next release of my style pack plugin – it is much better and cleaner 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 9 months ago]

once you’re across, come back and I’ll take another look, but whilst jetpack is interfering I can’t give you solutions !

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 9 months ago]

your theme or another plugin might be affecting my template loading

if you want to check this:

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, 9 months ago]

thanks.

wordpress.org are the people behind WordPress – it is just the WordPress product.

Wordpress.com is the hosting company that WordPress has that allows you to have a website with WordPress.

There are many hosting companies – virtually all of whom let you have WordPress as a product on your website.

As far as I know it is wordpress.com who insist on the site having Jetpack, but since I have never lodged a site there, I have no idea if they let you change the settings.

https://santarosaphotographicsociety.org is listed as using wordpress.com on https://sitechecker.pro/hosting-checker/

your site https://steveruddyphotography.com/ is listed as hosted by InMotion Hosting, Inc.

so I suspect you actually want to move santarosaphotographicsociety away from wordpress.com not to it.

Other hosters might insist on you having Jetpack, and indeed may restrict the settings – none of the ones I use do either of those.

Anyway, hopefully you’ll get to a resolution.

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 9 months ago]

try this in your custom css

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum, #bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.topic {
	padding: 5px 25px !important;
}

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 9 months ago]

🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 9 months ago]

I’m now hugely confused.

who are you hosting with??

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

ok so you are using a plugin to upload images – yes?

If so is it this

bbPress Multi Image Uploader

or something else?

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

My bbPress install is 100% default. There is no custom styling at all. I haven’t made any changes to the settings.

ok, so bbpress without anything else does not have the ‘visual/text’ options, so what is adding these please.

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

just tried 2014 and it uploads as full size unless you constrain.

so when you say you use the image icon in the bbPress editor does this ask anything about size?

If not then it could be a plugin issue

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, 10 months ago]

thanks, fully appreciate that most of this stuff is annoying as hell 🙂

The problem is that all wp websites are a combination of wordpress and its settings, your theme and its settings, any adjustments to that theme, and all the plugins and each of their settings. That’s before we look at things like php versions, apache stuff, ht-acess, hoster settings and limitations and a bunch more stuff. That makes most sites pretty unique, so site A will never replicate site B in it’s problems and issues.

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.

my test site is twenty ten. I’ll try twenty fourteen to see if that sheds any light.

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

I am trying to help you, but if you asked me what my camera was and I said a Nikon, that would not help you in telling me what settings I could use to do xx, you’d need a model number to know what the options are.

Similarly when I ask you for settings and there are 3 in the list, just giving me one doesn’t help 🙂

I suspect the 3 settings won’t either, but I am trying to eliminate stuff.

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

you settings don’t show – maybe type them in?

I have no idea or interest in what they are set to on this forum – we are not trying to fix this forum 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

ok, sorry I can’t help you any further, it will be a difference that you will need to work out.

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

@steveorevo – thanks for this

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

portal-admin is not a default wordpress or bbpress role, so how ever you created that, you’ll need to add the appropriate bbpress capabilities to it.

bbPress User Roles and Capabilities

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

Not suggesting what you are doing is wrong, just that I suspect it is unusual 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

in all honesty, I’m no sure many people have topics with 2000 replies and indeed ones that they then want to trash 🙂

As it happens, I’m looking at how topics get trashed at the moment – add a new reply to this topic if I haven’t come back in a week

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

do you mean access to the forums on the front end ?

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

item 3

You really don’t want to give access at the backend – bbpress is simply not designed to work that way !