[John James Jacoby]

When a plugin is updated via WordPress’s Admin Interface

• It is deactivated
• New files are pulled down
• It is reactivated

Problem is, the bbPress Notify Spam plugin isn’t coded in such a way to fail gracefully when bbPress is not active. Thus when WordPress tries to reactivate bbPress, a fatal error occurs. Not because of bbPress, but because bbPress is temporarily not there, and bbPress Notify Spam tries to call bbPress functions.

The fix is for that plugin author to use bbPress’s sub-actions and filters to include its files and execute code, and not call bbPress core functions without confirming bbPress is active previously in its call stack.

Sorry y’all for the inconvenience, but there’s little we can do in bbPress core to prevent this type of thing.

[aborruso]

Hi all,
I know that there are several post about it, but I’m not able to find a solution for my forum.
It’s password proteceted and I cannot send you any link.

– I have WordPress 3.9.1 and bbpress 2.5.4
– I use Twenty Eleven (I know it’s a bad theme for bbpress)
– I have copied the content of /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default folder in my theme folder
– I have edited all the php files of my /wp-content/themes/mytheme/bbpress folder and commented “get_sidebar()” function
– I have created forum.php and bbpress.php file starting from page.php template and commented “get_sidebar()” function

But I have always the sidebar (below bbpress).

If I use this code

function disable_all_widgets( $sidebars_widgets ) {       
    if ( function_exists('is_bbpress') ) {
        if (is_bbpress()) {
            $sidebars_widgets = array(false);
            remove_all_actions('bp_register_widgets');
            unregister_sidebar( 'bp_core_widgets' );
        }
    }
    return $sidebars_widgets;
}

add_filter('sidebars_widgets', 'disable_all_widgets', 1, 1);

all the widgets disappear, but I have always meta links.

I know I should change theme. Do you have some tips for this one?

Thank you,

Andrea

[Tom Dyer]

Hi,

I’ve recently migrated a large forum from phpBB to bbPress using the import tool (which has gone extremely smoothly – so thanks to all who have worked on the importer tools!)
Users have been imported successfully, and I can login via wp-admin with the password that was used on the previous phpBB forum… All of that is glorious! 😀

On our site however, I’ve created an ajax login so visitors never have to get in via /wp-admin
The issue I’m having is that whatever code is used to check a users old password and convert it to a WordPress encoded password is not being run when I attempt to log a user in via wp_signon().

Is there a filter or something I can run to ensure that bbPress runs the password conversion when a user logs in via my ajax login prompt?

[southcot]

How does the link:-

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2593

… relate to this issue?

[pwdesign]

Just uploaded https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-notify-nospam/ 1.5.3. No change. Site still down…please help.

[Stephen Edgar]

@pwdesign, see this post, basically for some reason bbPress is being disabled after updating under certain conditions (not exactly sure what these are yet).

[Stephen Edgar]

I think this plugin is supposed to do that, I haven’t tried it personally 😉

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-forum-redirect/

[Stephen Edgar]

If I login via http://localhost/wp-login.php I get logged in and returned to the home/front page http://localhost/

If I login via http://localhost/wp-admin the url becomes http://localhost/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

If I login via a separate WordPress installed in /pref as a sub directory of the localhost install via http://localhost/pref/wp-admin the login URL becomes http://localhost/pref/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2Fpref%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

Note how the sub folder on my install is also /pref and is also part of the new redirect URL, for whatever reason, most likely a .htaccess issue or some other oddity in your config is is changing the redirect to /wp39.

With multiple WordPress installs this quite easily happens and you need to make sure you are loading the correct WordPress install you are actually intending to load 😉

[Styled Themes]

The latest WP and bbPress versions,yes…actually tried it again with a fresh install of WP, but same issue and with twenty fourteen and thirteen.
No bbpress login widget, just logging in with the Default WordPress admin login form to get to the dashboard. So correct on the example wp-login.php url you posted. I will use my localhost on XAMPP as an example:

http://localhost/pref/wp-login.php

If I use http://localhost/pref/wp-admin I do get logged into the dashboard. The url becomes

http://localhost/wp39/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2Fwp39%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

when hitting the wp-admin url method.

[Stephen Edgar]

Are you using WordPress 3.9.1 and bbPress 2.5.4?

I’m going to need some detailed steps to reproduce the issue as I cannot.

Are you logging in through the bbPress login widget?

Are you logging in via http://example.com/wp-login.php and then redirected to your front page?

What happens if you open http://example.com/wp-admin and login via that URL?
(After hitting the above URL you should now have a URL similar to:
http://example.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1)

[aborruso]

Hi Stephen,
I have updated my site to WordPress 3.9.1 and bbPress 2.5.4.

I have the post reply button, but the reply href of reply is not related to the post ID, but it is related to new post.

In this forum instead you have https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/topic_name/?bbp_reply_to=147344&_wpnonce=fda342eb5b#new-post

Is it normal?

[Win Win]

Hi,
I tried everything : desactivate plugins, change themes, and even reset wordpress database..
I followed every possible guide.
but nothing worked! I always get the bullet points as a list for my forums..
The link to my forum-test: http://comment-devenirriche.com/forums/
Can anyone help ?
Thank you 🙂
WordPress version: 3.9.1, bbPress version: 2.0.1, my site: http://comment-devenirriche.com/

[Styled Themes]

I just installed bbPress and discovering that as the admin, if I log into my WordPress dashboard, I am redirected to the site’s front page…no dashboard. I have to add a sub page to the url in my browser to get there. If I enable the admin bar, then I can use that to get into the dashboard home page. However, if I uninstall bbPress, it goes back to normal…I login and I am on my dashboard home page.

Any ideas what is causing this?

[Lumartist]

Hello Stephen Edgar,

thanks for your reply. I did turn on WP_DEBUG, as I just got an “error” in the header part of my site. As I wanted to know what’s going on there, I activated WP_DEBUG. I guess the “error” is coming from the “warning”, not the “notices”.

I already tryed to disable all of my modules, but the error was still there. I am not sure where it is coming from exactly. I also did empty my functions.php, but nothing changed. The error also appears on other themes, not just my custom one.

I followed your links, but I think my technical understanding is not enough, to understand what the solution is. I am more of a designer than a coder.

I guess I have to reinstall wordpress completly, but I am a bit afraid, that the error will come back at some point.

The stange thing, as said, is, that the error does not appear on a mirror installation, which is exactly the same as the main one. Well, sort of. There’re even mor plugins running, for testing purposes.

Anyway – Thanks for your help so far. I will try a few other things. I also did contact our server admin, as we are running a root server. But I am not sure, that he can help me on this.

Thanks again, and have a nice sunday. 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Everything is stored in the wp_posts table including WordPress posts, pages, bbPress forums, topics and replies so a rough guess here is that the 12,000 topics have been imported but not the replies.

If your comfortable using phpMyAdmin can you run this query for me on your vBulletin 3 database:

SELECT
post.postid AS postid,
thread.forumid AS forumid,
post.threadid AS threadid,
post.ipaddress AS ipaddress,
post.userid AS userid,
post.pagetext AS pagetext,
post.dateline AS dateline 
FROM post AS post 
INNER JOIN thread AS thread USING (threadid) 
WHERE post.parentid != 0

That should return the first 30 rows of your 346,000 replies, does it? Or do you get an error?

[Stephen Edgar]

If the users imported already exist then the user will be imported again with the imported_ prefix. If your uses are already in the WordPress wp_users table then you shouldn’t need to import them which would be the case for SimplePress.

[Stephen Edgar]

Don’t use WP_DEBUG i.e. define('WP_DEBUG', false); in your wp-cong.php file is the simple answer.

It will be one of your plugins ‘doing it wrong’

For more technical details on the error see any/all of this tickets 😉 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24169
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4830
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2309

[Stephen Edgar]

Oh, my bad, the plugin description is “This is a simple plugin that adds a recaptcha validation to the bbPress 2.0 topic creation and topic reply forum.” so it is not actually a recaptcha for the login page 😉

bbpress.org is hooked into wordpress.org so spam bots are handled by the WordPress team 😉

Have another look through the WordPress plugins for one that does what you require, there are a quite a few of them.

[Stephen Edgar]

I just installed the current version 1.5.3 and have no issues

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-notify-nospam/

This Fatal error: Call to undefined function bbp_get_topic_post_type(), are you sure bbPress is activated?

[yoosuke]

Good evening MrRobinW and MrStephenEdgar!
Japan is currently rainy season.
I like rainy days as well as sunny days.

Well, I need your help again…(Of course my website is going well these days!)

This time, I wanna remove a <option> tag
with adding php function into “function.php” of WordPress.

At a create-topic page, users can select one specific forum.
And the souse code is like…

<label for="bbp_forum_id">in forum</label><br />
<select name="bbp_forum_id" id="bbp_forum_id" tabindex="103">
<option value="" class="level-0">select：</option>
<option class="level-0" value="1">Apple</option>
<option class="level-0" value="2">Banana</option>
<option class="level-0" value="3">Grapes</option>
<option class="level-0" value="4">Elephant</option>
</select>

In my website, these 4 forums has been set to the public,
and I don’t wanna change the setting.

However, I do not show the last one (Elephant!) to every users at the time.
In this case, what code should I put into the “function.php” of WordPress.

For me, The case is too difficult to solve.orz
Would you please advice me…

many thanks

WordPress: ver3.9.1
bbPress: ver2.5.3

[Lumartist]

Hello everyone!

First let me say, that I am not sure if the problem is coming from bbpress. Please let me know it is a general problem.

The reason I am posting the problem here is, that it appeared right after todays bbpress-update, and there’s also a reference in the message.

This is the error message I am reciving (debugging enabled):

Warning: mysql_connect(): Headers and client library minor version mismatch. Headers:50535 Library:50617 in /home/www/xxx/www/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1372

Strict Standards: Redefining already defined constructor for class Tehnik_BBPress_Permissions_Load in /home/www/xxx/www/wp-content/plugins/tehnik-bbpress-permissions/tehnik_bpp_init.php on line 35

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/www/xxx/www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3245

Notice: bp_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 1.7.) in /home/www/xxx/www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3245

Strict Standards: Declaration of BP_Poke_Component::setup_globals() should be compatible with BP_Component::setup_globals($args = Array) in /home/www/xxx/www/wp-content/plugins/bp-poke/bp-poke-component.php on line 57

Strict Standards: Declaration of BP_Poke_Component::includes() should be compatible with BP_Component::includes($includes = Array) in /home/www/xxx/www/wp-content/plugins/bp-poke/bp-poke-component.php on line 57

The strange thing is, that I am running an exact mirror of the page and db on a subdomain, where I am testing plugins, etc. There I am not getting the error.

I did had a search on google, but couldn’t find anything helpful. As I am not a coder or server-tech myself, I am a bit lost here. I did try a few things, like disableing plugins, or enabling another theme. But nothing helped so far.

Here’s a list of plugins I am using right now:

• (BuddyDev)BP Poke
• Advanced Custom Fields
• bbPress
• bbPress New Topics
• BuddyPress
• CodeStyling Localization
• iThemes Security
• Members
• Regenerate Thumbnails
• Require Featured Image
• rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress
• Tehnik BBPress Permissions
• WP Smush.it

I thought it might be a problem with iThemes Security, so I tryed to disable a few things, and also disabled the whole plugin. But the problem is still the same.

Thanks for your help in advance!

Best regards,

Lumartist

[dilasso]

Hi,

My bbpress is working fine. I just want the recent topics to be displayed on my forum-root-page.

The site can be found here http://schole.at/intern/ (you cannot see the forum index, as the site forum is private, but the site shows the problem anyway).

I use a page with shortcodes. Using the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] just displays the forum index. But when i try to use the shortcode [bbp-topic-index] the result is as u can see in the link above: it just shows the shortcode itselve.

I would just like to have the recent topics to be diplayed as they are here in the forum root on bbpress.org/forums

Thanx for your help.

Wordpress 3.9.1
bbpress 2.5.4.
Theme: Dynamik Website Builder on Genesis Framework

[sigwinstonwolf]

Hi stephen, the version is 3.6.4

You’re right. I have checked the wordpress database, i have this tables:

wp_bbp_converter_translator
wp_commentmeta
wp_comments
wp_links
wp_options
wp_postmeta
wp_posts
wp_terms
wp_term_relationship
wp_term_taxonomy
wp_usermeta
wp_users

The “wp_posts” table contains 12.878 record, exactly as my original vbulletin forum.

But, but no other table contains 346.000 records.
Only the table “wp_postmeta” contains 127.513 record that look like this:

column meta_id: 638945
column post_id: 25653
column meta_keys: _bbp_last_active_time
column meta value: 2013-05-06 21:53:24

Nothing in the database.
thanks

[Neosnc]

Hi Stephen,

I just updated to bbPress 2.5.4 and noticed the css load issue again. I’ve created a patch and my first trac ticket here!

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2613

[Stephen Edgar]

I’d suggest using a plugin rather than reCaptcha directly

There are a few various anti-spam, anti-bot, captcha type plugins available that work with bbPress in WordPress plugin repo https://wordpress.org/plugins/

e.g. https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-recaptcha/