[Robin W]

great – glad you are fixed, and no problem re your lack of knowledge, I suspect your knowledge of WordPress is much greater than my knowledge of railway signaling 🙂

[Robin W]

ok, if the private groups plugin is not showing as active in

dashboaard>plugins

then it is not active.

Deactivating/reactivating a plugin may have fixed an issue

The 3 you have left are because these plugins need the authors to fix the issue, or if you are not at latest versions, you to update them.

Simple lightbox
welcome email editor
constructions

These errors will not cause your site to fail but will do in some later version of WordPress : WordPress will eventually chnage these form a ‘Notice’ error to a ‘Critial’ error, but that may be years away (or next week!)

If everything else is working, then I’d suggest you just switch off the error display, and enjoy your site

[Robin W]

ok, you should be seeing these.

so to see the error, use the following plugin

WP Debugging

you should also check that your site is sending emails ok, I use the following plugin

Check & Log Email – Easy Email Testing & Mail logging

[Robin W]

1. yes, this is the intended behavior
2. yes, that behavior is set by a function which is called by an action, so we can remove it, and do something else.

so untested, but this should work

remove_action( 'bbp_template_redirect', 'bbp_forum_enforce_blocked', 1  );

add_action( 'bbp_template_redirect', 'rew_forum_enforce_blocked', 1  );

function rew_forum_enforce_blocked() {

	// Bail if not logged in or keymaster
	if ( ! is_user_logged_in() || bbp_is_user_keymaster() ) {
		return;
	}

	// Set 404 if in bbPress and user cannot spectate
	if ( is_bbpress() && ! current_user_can( 'spectate' ) ) {
		//DON'T DO THE SET 404 ie this is the code that the default bbp_forum_enforce_blocked does
		//bbp_set_404();
		// DO SOMETHING ELSE HERE!
	}
}

What the something else is, you will need to decide

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

3. I can’t say what the original authors intentions were, but I suspect yes

[hollandnumerics]

I increased the WordPress memory to 256M in wp-config.php, but there was no change.

I tried to increase the page size in wp-config.php too, but I’m not sure it worked.

I’m not going to have access to my WordPress admin screens for a few weeks now, but I’ll get back to you if I have any further news.

Thanks………..Phil

[Robin W]

you probably need to increase page size and/or memory size

for memory

Increasing the WordPress memory limit

for page size

https://www.cloudways.com/blog/increase-media-file-maximum-upload-size-in-wordpress/#:~:text=To%20increase%20the%20maximum%20page,upload%20larger%20pages%20or%20files.

[hollandnumerics]

Check Email installed. It defaults to local sendmail, instead of installed Postman SMTP that uses smtp.officce365.com. However:

This test email proves that your WordPress installation at https://hollandnumerics.org.uk can send emails. Sent: Sun, 06 Jul 2025 10:10:50 +0000

[Robin W]

email does not have to match, but lots of things in between the send and recieve can jink emails they consider spam or suspicious.

So if you are not getting the error emails, can I suggest you install

Check & Log Email – Easy Email Testing & Mail logging

and use this to test emails, and if the site attempts to send an email, the email logs can tell you what it tried to send.

[hollandnumerics]

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[Robin W]

Does this occur anytime you try and access the forum page?

if so, 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

[watbos]

Upon update of bbPress plugin followed by activation, my user forum returns Critical Error. Thank you for any help.

Website: clubposh.com

Hosted at Hostgator
Wordpress version: 6.8.1
bbPress 2.6.14
Theme: OnePress Child (a child version)
PHP version: 8.3.6

[hollandnumerics]

Wordpress membership levels:

Free = Subscriber
Programming = Student
Recruiter = Employer
Admin = Administrator
Educational Games = Customer

Wordpress roles:

Subscriber
Student
Employer
Administrator
Customer
Keymaster
Participant
views_subscriber
views_student

bbPress Private Groups:

Group1 = Registered
Group2 = Programming
Group3 = Recruiter
Group4 = Admin
Group5 = VIEWS UK
Group6 = Educational
Group7 = No messages

[Robin W]

what are your wordpress and bbpress user levels?

eg

admin and bbp-keymaster
Subscriber and particiapnt

etc

[hardel]

Hi Robin, I’m replying to this old thread to report that the pagination issue has not been fixed in version 2.6.14. This ticket, which was marked as complete for version 2.6.14, highlights the pagination issue in comment 17: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3576#comment:17

Is there a way you can relay this info to @johnjamesjacoby?

[Robin W]

https://www.godaddy.com/en-uk/help/fix-my-wordpress-site-when-its-experiencing-a-critical-error-40968

[hollandnumerics]

Hi @robin-w,

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[theomichaels]

Oh thank you for the quick reply, just to clarify, we have a mix of users that are registered in WordPress and others just registered on our platform; I guess I’m trying to get away from non-Wordpress users also having to register seperatky? Many thanks!

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses the WordPress user login, so if they are registered already, they don’t need to re-register to use bbpress.

[Martine]

Bonjour,
je viens d’installer bbPress sur mon site WordPress mais les pages : forum, incription, etc…. n’ont pas été créée….
Merci pour votre aide.

Hello,
I just installed bbPress on my WordPress site, but the forum, registration, etc. pages haven’t been created.
Thank you for your help.

[Robin W]

Comment Mention

[Robin W]

Install this additional plugin

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>theme support

and you’ll be able to set it to work

[Ricsca2]

I have to do a redirect of bbpress url with ip but if I disable the wp url rewrite the wp urls continue to be half translated and do not use the ip..

Can I have the confirmation that the url of the bbpress treads without url regrite is

http://www.MYSITE.com/wordpress/?post_type=topic&p=26715

Thanks

[Robin W]

Until bbpress fixes this, the following code will correct

add_filter ('bbp_blacklist_keys' , 'rew_disallowed_keys') ;

function rew_disallowed_keys () {
	$moderation = trim( get_option( 'disallowed_keys' ) );
return $moderation ;
}

If you are using

bbp style pack

a new version incorporating this fix will be released shortly and the fix will automatically be applied – with an option in bbPress bug fixes tab to turn that off if you don’t want it, or are using you own code

[scmsteve]

We had a rash of spam coming into our form today and we were confused because even after adding keywords in to the “Disallowed Comment Keys” in WordPress we were still seeing posts making it through to the forums that contained words we put into that list.

I think I found a bug in bbPress, and man, it must be rather longstanding… I found a post in the forum from about two years ago that talked about the reworking of the blacklist to using the disallow list [or that the name of the list had changed], and maybe this crept in at that time.

Here is the code:

bbpress/includes/common/functions.php:
866 // Strict mode uses WordPress “blacklist” settings
867 if ( true === $strict ) {
868 $hook_name = ‘blacklist’;
869 $option_name = ‘disallow_keys’;

In actuality, the key name in the options table is ‘disallowed_keys’.

I changed the code on our site and it seems to have stopped the flood. Would you take a look and see if I am correct about this? If not, please let me know and I will revert our copy and apologize for the false alarm. 🙂

Thanks!
Steve

[Robin W]

ok, I use captcha.

This guide is quite good at explaining, but you will need to create a google account first.

https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-add-captcha-in-wordpress-login-and-registration-form/