[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]

Sorry, I will go back to just “bbPress” and “bbp style pack”, which currently shows the body “This topic is empty”.

However, my original issue with “There has been a critical error on this website.” occurred when the only users that could read this page were in Group5 = VIEWS UK, so maybe we should both add “bbP private groups” too?

Are you using Troubleshooting Mode to restrict the active plugins like me?

[Robin W]

ok, I’m a bit lost as to what your testing is showing.

The essence of fault finding is taking a setup that works and finding the difference between that and one that doesn’t work.

so I have a test site working with bbpress and style pack and nothing else. If your site with that same setup doesn’t work, then we can find the difference.

If it does work, then yes adding back plugins until it fails is a good strategy, but until we are both seeing the same, then it is not doing much good?

[Robin W]

ok, so this on my test site with just bbpress and style pack, using admin and keymaster roles publishes fine

<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
hello
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

do you still get a critical error with this combination, and if so I still need the exact error it produces

[hollandnumerics]

Sorry, I missed Keymaster for Forum Role.

Plus extra plugins added, but no change to what is seen when viewing the topic:

bbPNNS Private Groups Bridge
bbP private groups
GD bbPress Tools
powerSearch for bbPress

[Robin W]

so in dashboard>users you will see a column showing the bbpress role

[Robin W]

ok, but what about the bbpress role?

[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

[hollandnumerics]

• I have tried Troubleshooting mode, with no active plugins.
• Activated bbPress, then bbp style pack.
• Topic “test 1” now displays, but body shows “This topic is empty”, even though the HTML tags are seen when the topic is edited.

Do I need to activate more plugins?

I have the following bbp-related plugins installed:

bbp-valoration
Version 0.1.1 by Eric Zeidan | Auto-updates enabled

bbPNNS Private Groups Bridge
Version 1.5.1.1 by Vinny Alves (UseStrict Consulting) | Auto-updates disabled

bbP private groups
Version 3.9.7 by Robin Wilson | Auto-updates enabled

bbPress
Version 2.6.14 by The bbPress Contributors | Auto-updates disabled

bbPress Move Topics
Version 1.1.6 by Pascal Casier | Auto-updates enabled

bbPress Notify (No-Spam)
Version 2.19.3 by Vinny Alves (UseStrict Consulting) | Auto-updates disabled

bbpress Simple View Counts
Version 0.2 by jezza101 | Auto-updates enabled

bbPress Votes
Version 1.2.5 by G.Breant | Auto-updates enabled

bbp style pack
Version 6.3.9 by Robin Wilson | Auto-updates disabled

bbp User Ranking
Version 3.7 by Robin Wilson | Auto-updates enabled

[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?

[hollandnumerics]

WP: 6.8.1 (latest).
bbPress: 2.6.13 (latest).
bbPress Move Topics 1.1.6 (latest).
bbp style pack: 6.3.9 (latest).
themes: Twenty Fifteen and Twenty Twenty-five.
site: https://hollandnumerics.org.uk

Forum topic contains <TABLE>, <TBODY>, <TR> and <TD> HTML tags.

1. Able to edit title, body, tags in Forum Topic.
2. Clicking [Update] starts update.
3. Edit viewer disappears and Post list appears.
4. Forum Topic is unchanged.
5. No error messages.

Have also tried moving Topic to Page, but this fails to change type.
Creating new Forum Topic with copy of body text also does not complete.

[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.

[Robin W]

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[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.

[farrahhenleyeducation]

I have tried all the recommended solutions here (I searched). Installed the hellow-elementor-bbpress-fix (which broke all my ELemntor templates again after fixing them by unchecking the theme support box in bb press style pack. I moved the folder into a child theme…ect.

Any idea why search results are not linking?

[Robin W]

@enkoes – thanks for that, I’ll add it to my list of bbpress compatible plugins

[Robin W]

great – glad you are fixed !!

I suspect that hello elementor authors have now got the theme working with bbpress, so my fix is no longer necessary

[farrahhenleyeducation]

I have installed bbpress and am using elementor pro with the Hello Elementor theme. I am also using Simple Membership. I installed the bbp style pack as well but that plugin broke the rest of my site layout. I have created a POST TEMPLATE in elementor that has been applied to posts in a category and once the bbp style pack plug in is activated, that template is broken. Deactivating the plugin puts the post format back. Any idea why this is happening?

[Earl_D]

Spent the better part of the day looking for a plug-in or code that supports mentions in BBPress topics and replies. I found lots of references to plugins that don’t work anymore and tried code that does work either.

Does anyone have viable alternatives.
Thanks

[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

[Robin W]

you are correct, and yes I had raised a ticket to fix that option when it was called blacklist_keys, but the wrong change was made

I have raised a new ticket to add it to the list, but bbpress releases new version at quite long intervals. (I am not a bbpress author)

In the meantime you can either leave your change in and make a note to refresh on new bbpress versions, or there are some hooks to skip moderation and maybe add a new version of the code – I’ll take a look at that soon

[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