[Robin W]

if you could both let me know what version of WordPress you are on, and whether the speed is the same for posting both topics and replies that would be very useful 🙂

[Robin W]

I have ported the key bits from this plugin to my style pack plugin

bbp style pack

[zoddshop63]

Is there any replacement for bbpress toolkit. I constantly get spammed with this email.

An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 702 of the file /usr/local/lsws/Example/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbp-toolkit/includes/main_page.php. Error message: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function create_function() in /usr/local/lsws/Example/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbp-toolkit/includes/main_page.php:702
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/lsws/Example/html/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(308): forums_toolkit_page()
#1 /usr/local/lsws/Example/html/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(332): WP_Hook->apply_filters()
#2 /usr/local/lsws/Example/html/wordpress/wp-includes/plugin.php(517): WP_Hook->do_action()
#3 /usr/local/lsws/Example/html/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php(259): do_action()
#4 /usr/local/lsws/Example/html/wordpress/wp-admin/tools.php(40): require_once(‘…’)
#5 {main}
thrown

[Robin W]

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]

sorry bbpress just uses the wordpress user system.

I’d suggest you use one of the many login plugins to enhance your users perception of your site eg

Theme My Login

[Robin W]

ok start with

https://wordpress.org/plugins/check-email/ and set up logging

this will tell you if the site is trying to send emails, and you can see what address it is trying to send from, which I suspect is what your email system does not like.

if it is the sending email address, you can change this using

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Subscription Emails

[Robin W]

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]

so what do you mean by ‘activation’ ?

bbpress just uses wordpress ‘registration’
bbpress has ‘subscriptions’

so not sure what ‘activation’ you are meaning?

[frenchalps]

Quick update to this, from WordPress – the JetPack developers are hoping to issue a fix for JetPack tomorrow, Tuesday May 16th 2023. This should resolve the ‘blank post’ issue on bbPress.

[kent3452]

Hi, I am using bbPress to run a forum where my users can upload contents on it.
everything was working fine until few days ago I realized that whenever I tried to click on a topic in a specific forum, Critical Error occured in WordPress. By downgrading PHP version to 7.4 from 8.0, I managed to access the topics again. However, now I am unable to see the reply’s contents neither the attachements (my users can upload file in reply as well).

Strangely, when I click EDIT in reply, I can see the reply in texts (attachments do not show though) but when I hit the Submit button, the reply box is still blank.
I checked the Replies box in WordPress admin and I can see they are correctly linked to the topic.

Can somebody help me? I have been looking through a respectful amount online but I could not find a solution 🙁

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[Robin W]

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

[frenchalps]

Quick update from WordPress (via a support ticket on a Business subscription)

BEGINS

Hey there!

I’m following up today to let you know we’ve identified the issue with bbPRess and Jetpack; our Jetpack developers have found a fix, which is currently being worked on. If all goes well with the development of this fix, we expect it to be released as early as this coming Tuesday.

We appreciate your time and effort, and thank you so much for bringing this to our attention and allowing us the opportunity to get it fixed!

ENDS

[Robin W]

It may well be the address that bbpress is sending from.

this is typically noreply@ and if this email address does not exist then many email hosts will not permit its transit through the system.

either

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Subscription Emails

where you can amend the address and change the wording as well

or

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

add_filter('bbp_get_do_not_reply_address','my_bbp_no_reply_email');
function no_reply_email(){
    $email = 'noreply@yourdomain.com'; // any email you want
    return $email;
}

and change the address

[frenchalps]

Quick update for us, with thanks to Robin. It might be that Jetpack is the root cause of our Forum posts suddenly showing as blank. Jetpack is managed by our host (WordPress Business) so they are investigating.

[sapnawp]

Step 1: Setting Up Your Hosting
Step 2: Installing WordPress
Step 3: Installing Translation Files Manually
Changing the Language of WordPress Manually
Switch Languages in the Admin Interface

To use this plugin:
Go to the plugins areas of WordPress and click the “Add New” button.
Search for the plugin, “English WordPress Admin.”
Install and activate the plugin. This will add a new function to the top admin bar that allows switching from the native language of the WordPress installation to English and vice-versa.

[Robin W]

ok, presume you have bbpress enabled ?

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]

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]

ok, I’ve released version 5.5.2 of

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Theme Support and there is a fix in there which stops this.

I will report the issue to Astra as well to fix in a future release of their theme

[Robin W]

I’d start by seeing in email is working

Check & Log Email

[Robin W]

ok, so is the email working or are subscriptions not working ?

so I would start with using this email to see if emails are being sent

Check & Log Email

[Robin W]

I have added this feature to

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Subscription Management and activate

You can then manage a users subscriptions in dashboard>users

[Robin W]

well this site has 7 forums with 131,555 topics. The ‘fixing wordpress’ support forum itself is powered by bbpress and that has over 700,000.

Measured in nano-seconds every topic adds to performance, but I’d suspect you’d struggle to measure any meaningful site slow down with 99.9% of sites with forums.

Ultimately it does depend on server performance and site configuration.

[Robin W]

bbPress Notify (No-Spam)

will let you set this up

[Robin W]

ah, ok that should all be fine.

bbpress just uses the wordpress posts and postmeta tables (with ‘custom post types’) within your website sql database, so if you move the whole site it will move with it.

No need to split this topic since it is all one logical issue 🙂

[Robin W]

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?