[marc_stadelmann]

Hi,
I installed the latest version of bbPress on the latest version of WP.
Under Reply, I don’t have the combo box for the “Reply To” but a Text Field.
Nothing under Screen Options.
Any advice?
Thanks,
Marc

[Vili]

Thanks for your time and effort in trying to help me Robkk, but I am aware of the above. Perhaps I should have mentioned that I have been using and developing with WordPress since around 2005 and my history with bbPress goes back to when it was first publicly released as the 0.x versions. So, I do know my way around the systems and have an understanding of how things work in general and what to do if they don’t. Still, I do appreciate your time.

I also don’t doubt that bbPress Moderation works for most installations. It doesn’t for me (every post gets moderated, even after approving a user’s post), which may be due to my theme but could also be because of a plugin conflict, as you mention. The question then becomes whether I start troubleshooting my installation for a plugin that doesn’t appear to be supported any longer and based on its support forum seems to have some kinks, or if I should try an alternative approach in case someone has found a better solution to the problem. Considering that this thread has been here for almost a week now, I am starting to think that no alternative solutions are going to come up, which then leaves me to either try to get bbPress Moderation to work as you suggest, or write something myself.

A third option could be to wait for the maker of the bbPress Notify (No-Spam) plugin to come up with something, as his future plans with the bbPress Moderation Plugin Add-On appear to be to turn it into a successor for bbPress Moderation. But that one’s not here yet (if it ever will), and it of course also comes with a recurring subscription fee.

Or I could wait for this feature to end up in core bbPress itself, as you mentioned.

Well, at least I have options. 🙂

[Matoca]

@Robkk,
Some very good information here. I appreciate the post.

I have not done any significant WP troubleshooting since I discovered this only today when my moderators emailed me to say they weren’t getting emails. My first stop usually is the forum to see what other users might be having the same problems. Surprised me to find someone else having the same identical problem and at the exact same time. Since then I have been methodically going through the website to ensure that everything else seems to be working fine. Most important, the forum is working properly!

I keep everything up to date and I have WP set to auto update. And bbPress is also up to date.

I did not try the plugin yet because I want to check things in a certain order rather than adding another new plugin to my site and another layer of complications.

Yes, the notifications have been in place this way for quite a while. I see in my inbox that I was experimenting with it by Fall 2013 and put into place for notifying the moderators shortly after that. Since notifications are part of the default settings I would have seen them immediately and gladly used them. I wanted to avoid having a lot of email forwarders on the Bluehost server and this has worked extremely well.

I don’t allow comments on the site and so that isn’t something I can check. The specific purpose of the notifications for topics and replies is to help the moderators monitor the forum around the clock.

I have Wordfence on my website and it set to notify me of all Admin logins and other security alerts. They all stopped coming to my email on 8/5/15, another indication that something is amiss with emails, not necessarily with bbPress.

And an interesting development tonight that I am trying to sort out is that I use Gravity Forms on my website so that dog owners with very sick dogs can get Urgent Advice around the clock. The forms they fill out go out by email to all administrators as they are generated.

Tonight we got an Urgent Advice form submission and the notification did not come to my administrator address (and that means no other administrator got it) but it did come to the website email address (a Bluehost box). That also comes, as I said, to my desktop client at home. Otherwise I would have had to look in the dashboard forms to know it had been generated. This tells me that something may be wrong, not with bbPress, but with Bluehost emails. I have checked the notifications for Urgent Advice and it is still set properly to go to all administrators.

So my next step should be to check with Bluehost support to see why these many different notifications from bbPress, Gravity Forms and Wordfence that are being generated are not being sent to any administrator emails. I’ll get back here when I find out more.
Matoca

[Robkk]

I am sorry I barely know about importing into bbPress. I am just going to quote what Stephen said to similar issues during importation.

What happens if you logout and log in again, also fully refreshing the import page would do the same thing, if you’ve left the import page open for too long without doing anything then the MySQL connection is dropped from the database and is most often the cause of only seeing Starting without any other error.

It sounds like you are hitting this crazy freezing issue, it’s not easy to track down, but once you’ve found the offending database row you should be good to go.

Following the instructions @robkk linked to above should help track it down, when I hit this issue if I’ve got 100,000 replies to import and it fails at 2,100, I’ll delete those first 2,199 reply rows from a working copy/backup of the database as a quick indicator of if/when the issue will crop again, helps to “scope” out whats going on.

[Robkk]

sorry for the late reply, there is some bbPress integration plugins for wishlist, they may be paid plugins though.

Wishlist Member bbPress Integration – It’s Finally Possible!

[Robkk]

Sorry for the late reply, there are a couple of ways to do this.

Easiest way to do this, might be to install this plugin. And use the supplied shortcodes in the plugin.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/voter-plugin/

The supplied shortcode are one for custom post types, which you can use for bbPress’s custom post types, (topic)

[voter_plugin_top_voted type=topic num=15]

[Robkk]

Closing this in favor of your other topic.

Trouble Importing phpbb

[Robkk]

Closing this in favor of your other topic.

Trouble Importing phpbb

[Robkk]

Yeah this is custom development. I suggest you hire a developer if you want something like this.

In this plugin though, it deletes replies by the set hours in the settings. You can edit the code to change the post_status to “publish” instead of “spam”. This might be resource intensive depending on how many replies you have currently on your forums.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-auto-delete-spam-replies/

[Robkk]

@matoca

Okay for some reason I am having trouble getting Forum notifications on my test site to any user except the blog owner like you said, I may have to report a bug or do more testing/discuss with the devs. And I might have also found another bug messing with this too.

The topic subscriptions work well though when I tested them.

Did you try some troubleshooting already to see if there could be another thing causing the issue?? I want to make sure before I report any kind of bug.

Troubleshooting

Just to make sure you are using the latest WordPress and bbPress?
Did you use the plugin mentioned above, Asychronous subscriptions, abd see if it fixed it?
Do other emails work on your site like new user registration, new comment, etc. ?

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.

Is this something you did recently, or was it always set up like this for 2 years.

I want double notification for the moderators and I don’t mind getting triple notification.

This might be custom development.

[Robkk]

Sorry for the late reply, but while I was testing the notification emails today I didn’t seem to see any issues with the line breaks, they are all still there.

Maybe you have a plugin that can customize the notification messages in bbPress and the messages are bunched together because of that??

[Robkk]

Merging topics still works for me when I tested it with the latest version of bbPress and WordPress.

If merging topics doesn’t work for a specific forum, you may need to repair your forums possibly??

Troubleshooting

You may also need to find and see if there is a plugin or theme issue too.

If merging forums does not work at all on your site try this with some troubleshooting also.

Create a hidden forum so it would only be visible to Keymasters and MOderators, then create a few topics and try merging them together.

[Robkk]

This is because your font color of your site is white for the content, and bbPress forums are white and gray by default making your font invisible.

You can copy the bbpress.css from the bbPress plugin into your child theme into a folder called bbpress and customize the styles of your site.

Theme Compatibility

Or you can install a plugin like this, and put transparent for any background colors.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

[Robkk]

did you customize the bbPress templates by copying them into your theme??

Try switching to a default theme to see if the issue persists.

Troubleshooting

[Matoca]

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

[Robkk]

@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.

[Robkk]

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

[Robkk]

@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

[Robkk]

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.

[Matoca]

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

[Vili]

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.

[Navinn]

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

[aleahl213]

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?

[aleahl213]

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?

[richard-kramer]

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.