Robkk,
Administrators are not getting the notifications that are indicated in the Forum settings for Forum Email Notifications. Nor are getting the “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” in the forum.
Only I, the blog owner, is getting notifications because they are going to the website email address, not to specific User addresses, there is no user with this website email address. User addresses, I assume, are grabbed by bbPress from the user accounts. bbPress must be able to look at the User accounts, see which ones are Administrators and blog owner (which I have checked) and then sends notifications to those user email addresses.
The two methods to notify the administrators is on purpose, so that if one fails they still get notifications. However, both of the methods bbPress uses to send notifications have failed.
I want double notification for the moderators and I don’t mind getting triple notification.
We just want both the bbPress dashboard and the forum notifications to work and they are not.
my best
patrice
@vilimaunula
I’m just not entirely sure if it’s more time and effort to write the above than it is to manually delete spam messages
I was basically saying you do not need to manually delete every spam post, but you can bulk delete and auto delete spam posts. With Akismet installed it marks registered users posts that may be from spammers as spam, using the comment blacklist (bbPress uses this too) will put posts as pending as review. So that may help keep spam to a minimum.
I tested bbPress moderation, and it seems to work fine when I tested it.
I tried guest posting, registred member posting, and it seems to put the posts into moderation as pending.
You set up bbPress moderation in settings > bbPress moderation in the WordPress backend. I had everything enabled just so I can test anonymous posting too.
I received emails immediately for any posts pending moderation. I had checked that the respective posts were shown in the WordPress backend in the posts section (Either Topics or Replies in All Topics or All Replies), and when you see the pending action link all the posts in moderation should be there. To approve a reply the plugin author lists it here https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpressmoderation/faq/.
If you are 100% percent sure that it does not work, try some troubleshooting to find any possible plugin conflicts. I had a simple test site with bbPress and bbPress moderation only, and it worked fine.
Troubleshooting
Also know that some of the bbPress moderation functionality is set for core, and might be in the plugin next big release, but like I said before the plugin works fine for now, but there could be a possible plugin conflict with another plugin.
It is part of your set of editable templates from bbPress. Like I said copy the file into a child theme in a folder called bbpress.
The directory “wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/” contains the directories “bbpress”, “css”, “extras”, and “js”, and the file “bbpress-functions.php”.
The “bbpress” directory contains template parts. Copy any of them into a directory named “bbpress” in your themes root, so it looks like: /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/bbpress/
Theme Compatibility
@matoca
If you still have double notifications still, try some troubleshooting first. I think it could be a possible plugin issue, maybe plugins that might do the same thing like maybe BuddyPress Group Email Subscription. I also saw possible issues with wp-cron and duplicate emails, but try the troubleshooting first.
Troubleshooting
This is the plugin I meant before. In the other topic I didn’t make it work for Forums, but it seems to work fine when I edit the plugin myself and allow it to show forums instead.
here is a plugin I tested and works for displaying users subscribed to topics in a widget. I just changed anything saying topic to forum and it shows a list of subscribers of a forum. Hopefully that would help you for what you want.
https://github.com/easydigitaldownloads/bbPress-Topic-Subscribers
If you are working on something, I would like to see the end result. Users have been asking for something to better manage user subscriptions, the best I could find is that widget. I would like to see what you can create.
I just discovered that our site is having the exact same problem. All administrators are not getting notifications of new topics or new replies starting 8/5/15. I’ve checked the Forum Setting under Email Notifications and nothing has changed. I have not made any modifications to the site in weeks, other than the usual WP updates, which are automatic now. All plugins are current and there are no other issues. New forum topics and replies are showing up in the forum properly.
However in the dashboard topics, a new topic that was actually written August 6, 2015 at 4:04 pm is indicating that it was written “8 hours, 53 minutes ago.” Thus the dashboard is indicating this topic was not written 8-6-15 but rather would have been written around 5:30 EST this morning, 8-8-15. This is a huge difference of nearly two days! In the forum the topic details shows the correct date and time of August 6, 2015 at 4:04 pm. This was the first new topic after this hiccup. Neither any new topics or replies written since then are coming to our email notifications and all have this disparity of date and time in the dashboard.
In addition, all administrators check off “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” in the forum. Thus everyone usually gets two copies of notification of each new topic and reply. That is not working either. So all administrators are not getting either notification, the forum or the email notifications.
I have an email address for the website via a Bluehost mailbox and I have one email forwarder from that box to my home email client. This includes these notifications. These notifications are arriving in my inbox with the correct date and time! No other administrator gets this particular email. I did not include them in this forwarding email notification because that meant everyone would get 3 copies of each new topic or new reply.
Thus, administrators are not getting notifications, while I am only getting the email forwarded one via Bluehost. This indicates to me that there is now a problem with bbPress notifications, under Settings>Forums>Forum Settings>Email Notifications>Notifications about new topics are sent to. And there is also a problem with the date and time of topics and replies in the database that displays information in the dashboard.
Do I actually need to add another plugin to resolve this??? It’s been working for almost 2 years now without a hitch. In addition the dashboard should reflect the actual date the topic or reply is written, not 2 days after the fact.
Thank you for any help you can provide.
Matoca
You can bulk delete spam posts in the WordPress backend to make things go faster. There is also a plugin to autodelete spam replies on wordpress.org.
Unless I’m missing something, since the problem in my case is that some spam posts get through (don’t get marked as spam), a plugin that automatically deletes spam posts wouldn’t really help here.
To reiterate: the problem I’m trying to solve is manual spammers who register on the website and post on the forums. The most straightforward way to combat this would seem to be to moderate all messages by new users, which is a built in function of WordPress but not bbPress. The bbPress Moderation plugin in theory offers that functionality but doesn’t seem to work for me and also doesn’t appear to be maintained any longer.
Hi, I’ve got an issue with the user experience when someone is not logged in:
I disabled the topic creation for not logged in users, but the form is still there. When the non-logged user writte and submit its topic, he got the message: “ERROR: You do not have permission to create new topics.” This is no good, since the customer took his time to write something.
I would like to hide the posting form for non logged users and display them a message to ask them to be connected first, how could I do that?
Regards,
Webpage with forum: http://www.rhinopiping.com/Forums/forum/english/
Wordpress 4.2.4 and bbpress up to date
I see now that the characters was like this in the old IP.Board DB… Is there a way to make bbPress convert the letters to the proper one?
I just imported my old forum from IP.Board to bbPress and this is a Norwegian forum, all of the characters “æ ø å” became some weird signs. See the picture below.
What is happening here? Is there a way I can import without this problem? Or fix it?
bbpress 2.0.3 and gd bbpress attachment 1.8.2
I get the upload box and press the “reply” button or the “submit” button to create a new topic, but the file is just being ignored. It won’t show up in the forum and it isn’t added to the media library either.
Hi I have the following problem.
I want to merge 2 topics.
I press the link Merge in the topic I want to merge and at the next screen under the Label “Destination” has the following message: “There are no other topics in this forum to merge with”.
There are many topics in the same forum.
I had this abbility, to merge topics, in previous versions (before 2.5.7).
Now I have WordPress 4.2.4 and Bbpress 2.5.8
Is something that I must check?
Thanks
Kostas
When ever you create a threat you can see everything fine but when someone goes to reply to one its very hard to see. Is there a fix to were i can make the text darker thanks
http://tawforum.ddns.net/tech/index.php/forums/topic/hey-guys/
Ive recently tried installing version 2.5.7 bbpress and phpbb 3.0.14 but am still stuck.
Ive also tried moving the data to another database on the same server
Anyone know anything else I can try?
How can I see where this thing is getting stuck? Is there any logs i can be checking?
All I can see is just “Starting Conversion” every single time 🙁
Its so frustrating….please help me im going crazy lol
TIA
There is a plugin I tested and works for displaying users subscribed to topics in a widget. I just changed anything saying topic to forum and it shows a list of subscribers of a forum. Hopefully that would help you for what you want.
It may not work for BuddyPress group forums though.
How to unsubscribe banned users to forums and new topics
Yeah I think this is the filter.
apply_filters( 'bbp_get_teeny_mce_buttons', $buttons );
bbp_get_teeny_mce_buttons
Any javascript you would need for the buttons you may need to copy editor.js in your child theme in a folder called js so that your code is enqueued.
Theme Compatibility
Read Robin’s comment, he basically created a copy of the login widget in the reply.
Using custom placeholder text in reply form (bbp_reply_content)
@casiepa
And the answer was … ?
How to unsubscribe banned users to forums and new topics
How, as a wordpress admin, can I find a list of all the users that subscribed to new topics in a forum ? Any specific page ? Or even a SQL statement to the DB ?
Every user has a list of their subscriptions in their profile. You can show the user that if they want to unsubscribe, or you can switch to them and do it yourself.
I had thoughts that listing users subscribed to a forum in a widget or an alternative, may be resource intensive.
In phpMyAdmin, in the usermeta table normally called wp_usermeta with the meta-key wp__bbp_subscriptions.
if a user has an ID of 3, and was subscribed to topics 10, 12 and 15, and forums 1, 3 and 6, you would see
user_id 3
meta_key wp__bbp_subscriptions
meta_value 1,3,6,10,12,15
I’m increasingly thinking about writing a custom plugin. I suppose one basic idea would be to create a new user role like “Untrusted Subscriber”, make it the default role for new subscriptions and mark all comments, topics and replies by such users as “pending” until the user is updated to regular “Subscriber” status. The system should also serve a page explaining this when these users post. Something like that.
If you make a plugin like that create a topic in the plugins forum on this site. This could also be useful in the core of bbPress too.
As much as I tried earlier, I couldn’t really get bbPress Moderation to work. It may have something to do with my theme, but I also see that I’m not the only one with problems.
If you are a plugin dev, you can always fork this plugin to make it work. If you want to share your forked version with other users for bbPress then you put your fork on the WordPress plugin repository.
I’m just not entirely sure if it’s more time and effort to write the above than it is to manually delete spam messages and users. So, I was wondering if someone else may already have found a solution.
You can bulk delete spam posts in the WordPress backend to make things go faster. There is also a plugin to autodelete spam replies on wordpress.org.
The powerpoint you can create by yourself. If you need any information about bbPress, I could help you there, or you can get inspired by some slideshows on slideshare.
@bergblume
Idk why that would cause an issue in your theme. Try out just “s” and see if that causes an issue still.
You can also try some troubleshooting to see if it just your theme causing the issue.
Troubleshooting
@pinkishhue
extra points if you make a quicktag button for bbPress that is similar to how the bbPress post toolbar plugin has their emoticons button.
Do some troubleshooting. See if it could be a plugin/theme issue or that a redirect function was set up incorrectly.
Troubleshooting
Make sure to disable the automatic delete option in S2member so that you won’t come across this problem again.
There would be an option to delete a user and attribute their content to another user if you ever decide to delete a user in the future. So keep the old account and it’s data before transferring.
Only thing I can think of is possibly changing the new users account ID to the old one in phpMyAdmin, this would work if the bbPress posts have the original users account ID still in the post meta. You may need to still change the new users account posts though. But maybe not with this SQL command.
How to: Change author attribution on all posts at once
