[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress 2.5.9 is out, and is a security release for all previous 2.x versions.

bbPress versions 2.5.8 and earlier are susceptible to a form of cross-site-scripting, due to the way users are linked to their profiles when they are mentioned in topics and replies.

Check the 2.5 milestone for a comprehensive changelog of fixes.

Take a moment to update your bbPress installations to 2.5.9. If you’re using WordPress’s built-in updater, it should only take a click or two.

These fixes have also been ported over to 2.6, which we continue to run here at bbPress.org and BuddyPress.org.

[giobby]

I’ve run in the same issue by importing into PHPBB.

You can read through my post: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/import-phpbb-wrong-authors/

If you check, you may find that some authors are displayed as anonymous because the corresponding attribute in wp_posts.post_author has no match with your wp_users.id

I’ve found out that these authors have still the old user id of the forum you are importing from (VBulletin).

I can’t guarantee the following solution will work for you, but I recommend you to create a temporary table to map your old user ids to the new wordpress ones by joinin them on the user_email attribute.

Then just update all the orphan wp_posts.post_author with the right wordpress id.

I can’t guarantee this will fix all your dirty posts.

[giobby]

I leave this reply for those who faced the same issue and also for the developers who may find where the problem is.

From one side we have a wrong author getting associated to the wordpress posts (forum, topic and replies).

One thing that can be done to fix this after having run the import is to match the date and time of the post, the ip address of the author and potentially the last 8 characters of the content (will not work if it’s a smiley or bb code).

This would fix the issue even if I can’t guarantee it will work for all the dirty posts.

The second thing, even more worrying, is the fact that certain authors are associated to the topics/replies with their old PHPBB user_id.
It’s easy to spot them because those dirty posts won’t join with the wp_user table and therefore they are reported as anonymous users in the website.

One way to fix that after the import is to update all those old PHPBB ids by replacing them with the corresponding wordpress users ids (just join on email address).

[alingrad]

Hi,

I just installed on a test domain WordPress, bbPress and WPML. All are updated to the latest versions. I don’t use any other plugins and the theme is also the default one, Twenty Sixteen.

I setup 2 languages: german as default and english. So the URLs are like this.

website.com
website.com/en

I posted some topics in bbPress in both languages and I can see them per language, which is what I want. On the german version I see only the german posts and on the english version I see only the english post.

Of course, a problem may be with the bbPress slugs settings. I cannot translate them but I can live with them.

What I noticed is that when I go to profile and try to see the “Topics Started”, “Favorites” and “Subscriptions”, I see only a message that I don’t have any of those, although on the main Profile page shows that I have started 11 topics.

That might be also a problem because it counts the topics from both languages. But I can live with that also, for the moment.

I switched the languages and I made english default. After doing this, everything worked fine in english but not anymore in german, because german became the second language.

Basically, I can see the “Topics Started”, “Favorites” and “Subscriptions” only for the default language.

Only “Replies Created” show up for both languages.

I also attached some screenshots.

I also changed the theme from Twenty Sixteen to Twenty Fifteen and also Twenty Fourteen. Same problem.

I setup another test website as WP Multisite, without WPML and everything works properly. I had to install another plugin to connect both languages. But I would like to use WPML and a single website, if this is possible.

I hope there is a fix for this. bbPress is the most used forum and WPML should be able to handle it.

Thank you very much for your time.

Best Regards,
Alin

[bwarntzen]

shure : http://www.o-norge.no/wordpress/?post_type=forum

[Robkk]

There is no special optionYou would have to edit the bbPress templates, and I guess replace the reply form with the comment form.

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/comments_template/

And I guess you might need to do more work like remove any other mentions of replies in bbPress entirely like in topic/forum stats, notices/descriptions, user profile data, activate show lead topic, find a plugin to allow mods to move comments to other topics. Then you might need to find different plugins that you need if you want quoting, attachments, bbcode, and more for custom features.

Then I guess if you want to ever leave bbPress with your custom comments integration, you will need to create a custom import for whatever you are importing to.

Still do not recommend it, but if you really really want I suggest hiring a developer if you do not have the knowledge or time to do all of this by yourself.

[Robin W]

try my style pack

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

and go to

settings>bbp style pack>breadcrumbs

where you can say which appear and what they say

[Robkk]

Devs say that its intentional for now and looking for a way to implement it without any further issues.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2523

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2340

There is a couple of fixes out there.

1. This patch enables threaded replies, but will not work in private forums.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2785

2. I have not tested this proposed fix.

https://wpup.co/bbpress-threaded-nested-replies-with-paging/

[Robkk]

I do not recommend trying to use WordPress comments with bbPress, just use the default replies.

[Robkk]

Devs say that its intentional for now and looking for a way to implement it without any further issues.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2523

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2340

There is a couple of fixes out there.

1. This patch enables threaded replies, but will not work in private forums.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2785

2. I have not tested this proposed fix.

https://wpup.co/bbpress-threaded-nested-replies-with-paging/

[Robkk]

@maketheest

When you enable the tinymce editor in bbPress, for now you have to edit that snippet you posted and edit it for every buttons html tags that you will end up using. Whenever you may be quoting another user using a different plugin you may need to use the paste as a text php code snippet in the guide.

https://codex.bbpress.org/enable-visual-editor/

Read this WordPress guide about the character entities.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Code_in_Your_Posts

[Robkk]

The plugin description on WordPress.org states it should show up on the premium version of the plugin, contact the plugin author about this.

[alcarendor]

I want to put a menu entries of the forums in a tab of the menu. While a user is loged in, all looks fine, but when a visitor enter without login, the main menu is broken: all entries are shown in the complete menu. See the images for better understand.

Good Menu: http://imgur.com/tval2B3
Bad menu: http://imgur.com/6wuTRRB

I use the evoLve theme (3.5.0) (but the problem persits in TwentyFifteen and others) and the last version of BBpress (2.5.8) and WordPress 4.5.1

(sorry for my ugly english)

[hutad]

Hi – I just installed BBPress and I can’t seem to have the admin reply to any posts. I created an account under the name Hutad and tried to reply as the Admin and can’t see the response live on the site. It’s in my backend but not live. I am using a custom theme.
Here is the link to the topic/website

https://wiperecord.com/forums/topic/dui-in-california/#post-2630

Any suggestions much appreciated.

I’m using the latest wordpress version

[d_ncs]

Hi.

I am looking for a wordpress theme to offer freelander services. I would like to have a system by which users can ask for a quote to all or some of freelanders.

I think that if i can create a forum with some categories depending of freelander works, where freelanders would be subscribed, users can go to desired category/thread and there ask for a budget/quote of a work they need to do.

Users can subscribe to this category/thread clincking in “Notify me of follow-up replies via email form” and, in this way, they can wait for freelanders answer with a budget.

I think that all freelander answers should be private, so only the user that asked for a budget can know the answers.

[arathra]

	/**
	 * Filter whether to trigger an error for _doing_it_wrong() calls.
	 *
	 * @since 3.1.0
	 *
	 * @param bool $trigger Whether to trigger the error for _doing_it_wrong() calls. Default true.
	 */
	if ( WP_DEBUG && apply_filters( 'doing_it_wrong_trigger_error', true ) ) {
		if ( function_exists( '__' ) ) {
			$version = is_null( $version ) ? '' : sprintf( __( '(This message was added in version %s.)' ), $version );
			/* translators: %s: Codex URL */
			$message .= ' ' . sprintf( __( 'Please see <a href="%s">Debugging in WordPress</a> for more information.' ),
				__( 'https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress' )
			);
			trigger_error( sprintf( __( '%1$s was called <strong>incorrectly</strong>. %2$s %3$s' ), $function, $message, $version ) );
		} else {
			$version = is_null( $version ) ? '' : sprintf( '(This message was added in version %s.)', $version );
			$message .= sprintf( ' Please see <a href="%s">Debugging in WordPress</a> for more information.',
				'https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress'
			);
			trigger_error( sprintf( '%1$s was called <strong>incorrectly</strong>. %2$s %3$s', $function, $message, $version ) );
		}
	}

Is the function, line 3901 is : trigger_error( sprintf( __( ‘%1$s was called incorrectly. %2$s %3$s’ ), $function, $message, $version ) );

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict

As Cherrypress is a paid theme – then contact the theme author for help.

[arathra]

I’ve narrowed this down to bbpress and have read up a load of suggestions but none seem to work and I can’t get rid of this error message which leaves the rest of the admin page blank.

The message I get is:

Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /home/xxxx/public_html/home/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3901

Followed by

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/xxxx/public_html/home/wp-includes/functions.php:3901) in /home/xxxx/public_html/home/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1171

The first message I understand is a noted bug which I can ignore.

The second appears only when bbpress is activated (even with no other plugins activated on a new 4.5 installation of WP is there).

I’ve checked /wp-includes/functions.php and there are no spaces at the beginning or end of it (as suggested on another thread as a possible cause) and likewise /wp-includes/pluggable.php has no spaces.

What else might be causing this error and can I do anything about it?

Many thanks for any help here…

[Robkk]

@zimmermannc

Moderators cannot see the forums menu in the WordPress backend. To see the Forums menu item they need the keep_gate capability which only Keymasters have.

Moderators can create forums on the frontend of your site if you used the [bbp-forum-form] shortcode in a page

Editing forums, I am not sure how they are supposed to do that on the frontend, maybe bbPress had some functionality for managing BuddyPress group forums that is broken. Have to look into it.

[Robkk]

@let-me-see

I don’t subscribe to every one of these topics on the forum that I help users in.

i was going to just delete the login information after you posted it, and tell you to delete the user you just created after too.

instead just email me the login info.

https://robkkdev.wordpress.com/contact/

[JaneAkshar]

These are my plugins
bbPress
Category Posts Widget
Contact Form 7
Display Posts Shortcode
iThemes Security
jetpack by WordPress.com
Really Simple CAPTCHA
Wordfence Security
WP Google Maps
WP-Members
Yoast SEO

[investacube]

Hi @daveodea did you find a solution? I have exactly the same situation. So far, I have verified that:

1. there are no errors being logged anywhere server side and
2. the issue isn’t related to caching, either server side or via a wordpress plugin.

I have also:

1. disabled all plugins except buddypress;
2. enabled my main theme, in case I had some conflicted code in my child theme;
3. tried with the twenty sixteen theme.

But I still can’t resolve this issues. Does any one have anymore advice they could give me?

[Robkk]

See if this post can help lead you to create what you want.

https://wpshout.com/wordpress-custom-post-backgrounds/

[Robkk]

I used the plugin wp-members

Is it this plugin??

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-members/

I cannot seem to figure out how you did the members area thing with this plugin (if it is the correct plugin).

So I have done loads more searching and it is known problem which BBPress do nothing about

Well there might be related issues to search redirecting to the home page, some had issues with the search query having a url structure and query different than intended by default, and some had issues with search plugins on their site, and I think some I tried to contact personally to help them since they had a premium theme and it is hard to just figure it out on premium themes that might have some kind of fancy ajax search having conflicts with the default bbPress search for example. Your issue could be somewhat related to the url structure.

Do you have any steps that maybe I can try to replicate to find the cause of this issue, like explain how you set everything up?

So you ditch the BBPress function, it does not work. And amend the normal search to include forums.

Yes this can be a workaround for some, but since you may have private members only content this solution may not be practical.

Does the default bbPress search work fine on a fresh installation with just your theme and no other plugins like wp-members?

If you haven’t already known if bbPress search works by default with just your theme and bbPress activated, consider created a localhost setup to test the default bbPress search to see if it works on a default fresh installation, then we can work backwards and try to find the cause of this issue that you are experiencing.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/testing-your-bbpress-installation/creating-a-test-site/

[Robkk]

Yeah I can confirm it is a bug, I created this trac ticket on the issue awhile back.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2869