[Robin W]

Every website is a unique combination of hoster, operating and hosting systems (eg apache, PHp) WordPress theme, plugins, settings and content, so I cannot just give you an answer.

So between ‘some time ago’ (days? weeks? years?) and now – what has changed on your site?

If you cannot answer that, then I can only suggest the core fault finding viz..

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, some late night thinking….

bbpress just uses the WordPress function that finds and shows posts (bbpress forums, topics and replies are just posts with a custom post type!).

So I’m thinking that the ‘find matches’ wordpress part is finding x number of replies, but then the ‘display part’ is finding one less/more to display, then at that point the page count gets to be wrong.

This is just a guess at the moment, but as you are seeing issues with other topics that are not all ‘page 8’ I don’t think it is a pure maths issue.

So my current hypothesis is that there is an item that is in the database as a match, but there is not a corresponding item to display – this could be for lots of reasons.

If you go to your link but page 7, from the post numbered 120998 with text ‘AnTiHrIsTiS — Kingpin: Life of Crime (PC)’ this entry on page 7 has a link of

/steam-records/page/8#120998

If my thinking is correct (and it is probably wrong!) I’d guess it is at this point that the permalinks start to go wrong.

So if you change the replies per page from 14 to 13, does it still start to go wrong from that same post number, or does it start to go wrong from another post number.

This will help us narrow down what the issue might be.

[Robin W]

ok, I am not a bbpress author, just someone who tries to help out.

So it’s Sunday morning here in the UK, and I have guests coming for lunch, so I will try and pick this up later.

But let’s just eliminate some stuff.

1.

dashboard>settings>permalinks and just click save – this resets the permalinks and may help

2.

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

[qiwichupa]

Hi. I have encountered this problem: after installing bbpress and converting Mingle forum (this operation was not without problems), in some topics some permalinks are generated with wrong pages.

For example, following this link…:
mydomain/bbforums/topic/stream-records/page/8#post-121032
(I deleted the real domain since my thread was marked as spam, but I can provide it below if needed.)

… we get to page 8 and go down to post 121032 – the second one on that page. But if we go up to the first post on this page, we can see that the link to it is formed as “…/page/7#post-120964″ – as if the post was located on the previous page. Also, if you go down to the bottom of this page, you will see that the last posts are formed as “…/page/9#post-121104″. – that is leading to the next page.

Of course, I experimented with the settings of the paginator, changed the number of displayed posts on the page. In fact, it didn’t change anything, only the posts with the same error were changed. At the same time, if you do not change the settings of the paginator, a few posts with an incorrect link managed to “cure” by splitting the topic starting from this post, and then connecting the new topic with the previous one. But the above post didn’t work, so we can’t say that this is the solution.

I suspect that the cause of the problem may be an incorrectly performed forum import operation, but this operation was not easy (all posts were initially converted as replays and I had to manually correct their status in the database, also some posts were duplicated and were in the wrong id-order) and I would like to understand what exactly can cause this problem and how to fix it.

Of course I’ve already tried bbpress’ built-in error correction options, but they didn’t have any effect.

It’s strange that the paginator seems to be working correctly – it gives the right number of posts per page, and links to these pages also work correctly, but the permalinks with anchors are not working correctly.

Maybe someone has encountered a similar problem and can advise in what direction to look for its solution?

Tech info:
WordPress Version: 6.8.1
Current WordPress Theme: Twenty Fourteen/twentyfourteen-garage version 1.2
PHP Version: 7.4.33
MySQL Version: 10.6.22-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
bbPress (2.6.14)
bbP private groups (3.9.7)
bbp style pack (6.3.9)

the last two plugins do not affect the problem, when you turn them off it remains

[tonernews]

Since bbPress is owned by WordPress and since our site was built with WordPress, we are trying to figure out what happened to the tens of thousands of VIEWS that use to show up inside your bbPress app, now they have disappeared.

any help would be appreciated.
thanks
HM

[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.

[loona677]

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]

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