[mlwilkerson]

I’m seeing the same thing as originally reported by @mfiguerasma.

I first noticed it when my non-admin user (TestUser) *suddenly* could no longer see a topic that he had formerly been able to see. In my case, I am using sub-forums. (See: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2191#comment:17 )

I have a BP Group called GroupH.
The group forum root is a type=category group called “Group Forums”
Subforum1-GroupH is under the forum “GroupH”.

GroupH is the group forum, i.e the one you see in a the drop-down in the settings where you select which forum is associated with the BP Group.

So, it’s:

Group Forums
GroupH
Subforum1-GroupH
Topic1-Subforum1-GroupH

All of the forums and subforums have a Visibility setting of Private (in the admin settings screens).

So Topic1-Subforum1-GroupH was accessible by my TestUser one minute and then wasn’t the next minute. I knew that I hadn’t changed the visibility settings on my forums or anything else, but I realized that what I had done (thinking it was merely “for good measure”) was to run:
Tools->bbPress->Recalculate private and hidden forums

I recreated my original scenario, verified that TestUser could access Topic1-Subforum1-GroupH, and then used Updraft to take snapshots of my database before running “Recalculate private and hidden forums” calculate again. Sure enough, after that “repair”, it was broken again.

So I debugged it. This repair tool kicks off bbp_repair_forum_visibility() which updates two options in the options table:
_bbp_private_forums
_bbp_hidden_forums

These are pre-calculated, cached, lists of forums.

If the forum_id for GroupH appears in _bbp_hidden_forums, then TestUser won’t be able to access Topic1-Subforum1-GroupH. Before running this “repair”, the forum_id for GroupH does not appear in that list. After the repair it does.

So, how is the forum_id for GroupH getting into this list of hidden forums when the post_status on the forum is most definitely private? (Verified by looking at its row in the posts table)

It’s getting there precisely by the means @mfiguerasma showed.

When the query is being run to get a list of all “hidden” forums, in order to create _bbp_hidden_forums, it invokes the pre_get_posts filter. bbPress uses that filter bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility() to change the query_vars.

Notice what’s happening here:

(1) The WP_Query is saying “I am trying to find a list of *hidden* forums” (I have my own reasons for why I want a list of hidden forums.)

(2) But bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility() seems to be second-guessing. I receives query_vars with post_type=hidden, but then the way its logic works is to say: “What are various post statuses that this user has permission to see. Ah, this user can see both hidden and private ones, so I’ll update the query_vars to include post_types of both hidden and private.”

I think the logic of bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility() is exactly backwards. It’s trying to include all of the post_types that the user can access. But that’s not why it has been invoked. It’s been invoked in the process of simply creating a list of hidden forums for _bbp_hidden_forums and its messing that up by including the private post_status.

(3) So what the WP_Query gets back is a list of forum_ids for all hidden *and private* groups. And that’s the list that ultimately gets stored in _bbp_hidden_forums.

So this “repair” actually breaks my forums.

If you simply remove this bbPress filter before doing the repair, it seems to produce the correct result. My TestUser can access Topic1-Subforum1-GroupH both before and after the repair when we remove the filter:
remove_action(‘pre_get_posts’,’bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility’,4);

[epretorious]

I’ve just performed a clean installation of WP 4.5.3 and installed Version 2.5.10 of bbPress plugin. I am currently using the Twenty Fourteen theme.

I installed bbPress by following the instructions here on bbPress.org:

1. I created an empty page named “Forums” using the default forum root slug heading (i.e., ‘forums’).
2. Then I added the empty Forums page to the site’s main menu.

The only trouble that I’m having so far is: The “Forums” menu item [in the Secondary, Left-hand menu] isn’t highlighted when viewing the Forums page. I’d begin digging around to see if I can fix the problem myself but – without knowing anything about the complexities of WordPress – I’m not even sure where to begin debugging this. Is the menu’s dynamic functionality driven directly by WordPress? By the Twenty Fourteen theme? Or by the bbPress plugin?

Could someone please tell me how this is achieved? Or maybe tell me how to fix this?

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

[flashwolf]

hello
i have install bbpress 2.5.10
on buddypress 2.6.2
and i use wordpress 4.52

in the left menu on wordpress , i have a link “Forums”
I have created all my forums

i have created a page nammed “info”
and i have included “[bbp-forum-index]”

when i choose the page “info” in the menu
i have all the forums, but when i choose a forum i return to the index of the website
and when i am in the member area of buddypress, i have the icon “Forums” and i cant open subject if i can do it

so where is the problem

Thx for your help

[iliyan]

How to set the title with Yoast? Such page “/forum/” doesn’t exist in WordPress Pages.
I am using Yoast from a long time but don’t know how to set a title for such case.

[Stephen Edgar]

Awesome, glad you’re sorted…

Now I’ve just got to finish getting https://es.wordpress.org/support/ 100% translated 🙂

[Robkk]

@maruthemany Use this plugin instead.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-tools/

[Stephen Edgar]

I just setup a new site with WP 4.5.3 and bbPress 2.5.10 es_ES

Everything is translated for me: https://cloudup.com/ckbF2DGSPEl

Does the theme you are using include custom bbPress templates?

It looks like there might be an issue with the file form-reply.php

The file can be found in: templates/default/bbpress/form-reply.php

It should match: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.10/templates/default/bbpress/form-reply.php

Can you check the above for me please?

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for the screenshots, they are a big help 🙂

The “before” screenshot has lots of untranslated strings, Topic, Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2, Participant, Edit, Move etc etc

Wheres most of the above are now translated in your “after” screenshot, I see 4 strings untranslated though: Reply to, Notify me of follow-up replies via email, Tags: and Submit

Those 4 strings all appear to be translated correctly, e.g https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress/stable/es/default?filters%5Bstatus%5D=either&filters%5Boriginal_id%5D=93987&filters%5Btranslation_id%5D=3551506

p.s. Spam isn’t translated, Spam appears to be Spam in any language 😉

I’ll dig around some more and see what I can find

[pleyades38]

Thanks for your help!

I have deleted .po/.mo files so the plugin is untranslated:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/24hykm4gvh1zyc8/before.png?dl=0

Then, I have updated translations automatically through wordpress and this is the result:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/eua75i925izq41z/after.png?dl=0

The strings I indicated before remain untranslated, as well as the form strings in the screenshot. You can see some strings are translated an some are not. I know the language file contains all the translations but somehow the plugin insn’t finding them all.

I have no ideas…

[Stephen Edgar]

This is strange, bbPress is 100% translated into Spanish

https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/es/default/wp-plugins/bbpress

Here are the strings with voice, so they should work

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress/stable/es/default?filters%5Bterm%5D=Voices&filters%5Buser_login%5D=&filters%5Bstatus%5D=current_or_waiting_or_fuzzy_or_untranslated&filter=Filter&sort%5Bby%5D=priority&sort%5Bhow%5D=desc

Can you try removing any .po/.mo files from the languages folder that you mentioned in your original post please?

[Robin W]

Have you installed the genesis extend plugin?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/

[brookeashley]

Hi there,
I am using WordPress 4.6, a Genesis child theme, and the latest BBPress. I have set up BBPress and it’s all working well. The only issue is that when I click on a username in the forum the link doesn’t go to the profile page. It goes to a page with all of that users WordPress posts on it.

I don’t seem to have a profile page that I have access to anywhere. Do I need to set up a profile plugin of some kind? How do I control what url those links go to?

Any help would be great!

Thank you!

[Joe Siegler]

Regarding password. I’m talking about a single password protected page on my site. Then I use this plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ft-password-protect-children-pages/

to then password protect child page under that one password protected page. Hasn’t been updated in forever, but despite the warning, it still works fine.

Now, the forums don’t use true child pages, so that plugin shouldn’t work – it didn’t. Tried anyway for the hell of it. So that led me to ask about whether bbpress can be put behind a general password like that – couldn’t find anything about password in the settings.

As for the style plugin, I’ll check that out. Tkx.

[Robkk]

@adanoski

Your issue could be related to what I detailed here. This happens in a good amount of themes now.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2966

[Robin W]

on 1) this plugin will give you the ability to style

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-style-pack

2) Do you know how the password protected area works? Is it a plugin, is it set in the dashboard?

[Stephen Edgar]

This plugin might help https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-auto-close-topics/

[Joe Siegler]

I’ll be short. Just installed this and looking at it for a possible forum option. Linkage:

http://www.rowlettanglicans.org/forums/

Wordpress version is 4.53, and bbpress is 2.5.10

1) You’ll see the colors are all wrong. Theme is Divi. Obviously css work needs to be done, but I’m not even sure where to begin with that. Any ideas?

2) Also, is it possible to stick this software behind a overall password? We have a password protected members are on the church site, and they’re wanting me to put this in the private area, which is already behind a password. Is this possible at all? I tried putting the slug wiht the same URL as the password protected area, but it didn’t pick up the system password for that (which isn’t a surprise, but hey, I tried). My thought is to put it behind our church’s password protected area, and then not require people to have accounts to post.

[Robkk]

I have kept two topics as super sticky and the same are showing under each forum topics due to which the “bbp-pagination-count” shows wrong results but the same get fixed in next page (i.e. page 2).

Also, I have noticed that, one of my topic is showing twice i.e. on first as well as on second page.

This might be related to this issue, if you the topic you are seeing is a sticky topic.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1642

You can Try to see if this works for the first issue you are seeing though.

Go to the repair tools in Tools > Forums and try running

Recalculate the sticky relationship of each topic

and

Count topics in each forum

Make sure to run them separately and see if that fixes your first issue.

[Robkk]

Just so you guys know there is a plugin for bbPress that could do what you guys want.

It is fairly new, so consider testing it out and if you come across any issues contact the developer in their support forum.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-anonymous-subscriptions/

[Robkk]

Right, yeah I missed that.

Follow this tutorial to have the url like you want.

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-get-rid-of-wordpress-from-your-wordpress-site-url/

[mobilportal]

Thanks but I need URL http://www.mydomain.com/forum/disqus1
After remove the forum root slug its http://www.mydomain.com/wp/forum/disqus1

wp is folder with installed wordpress

[Stephen Edgar]

We would love have full WCAG 2.0 compliance 🙂

Our open tickets for further improvements are here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=General+-+Accessibility&order=priority

We will also follow WordPress’ lead and any initiatives by the accessibility team

https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/

There is also the accessibility team handbook: https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/handbook/

For bbPress much of what is needed right now is testing of our open tickets to make sure we are on the right track, any help would be graciously welcome 🙂

[Robkk]

@maryt66

bbPress needs some more work to be more accessible to visually impaired users. There are some tickets in the bbPress trac for bbPress for adjusting things like the breadcrumbs markup, notices markup, and some heading changes, etc.

A lot has been suggested for improvements from this gist and I think there could be some other improvements regarding admin link markup, topic status labels, and just having a horizontal layout might be better in the end for users.

Robins plugin I think won’t really help in most of these areas and won’t really make your forums moer accessible, I think only a possible contrast issue in one area at best is what his plugin can help with.

[Robkk]

@haddly

I have noticed a potential legal issue. If the forum users all start receiving notifications and they want to unsubscribe, they can’t do this through the email notification that they receive.
I believe legally, they must have the option to unsubscribe within the email.
can this be done with bbpress?

Yes, there is even a plan to introduce it sometime into core.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2707

[Robin W]

This could be an issue with your rewrite rules. To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your original permalink structure and save again.