[Robin W]

I can only suggest

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

[craigcotner]

I totally get that you are not an author… Your bbp Style Pack is the first plugin I added to my install.

My site is a gathering of sports fans. So we have a lot of threads that get very big. I do a few things since I just moved over from a phpBB board. I first took some topics that were several years old and had thousands of replies and first split them up. Only keeping the newer posts. Then took the older thread and put it in a holding area. Then I break them down in to smaller pieces so I can delete them. This is the part that is taking forever to do.

This is sort of a first time clean up of the old phpBB board after I imported it to bbPress. So once I get through that, I can see a time where I am not deleting old threads as much.

But for the long haul, I can see where I would regularly close threads and want to delete them. So I like how I can just put topics in a “holding” forum that only I can see. Then if you have a way through your plugin that I can enter a topic ID for deletion would work perfect!

[Robin W]

All – let me just clarify that I’m just a guy sat in his kitchen who helps out here, I am not a bbpress author !!

@craigcotner & @iqfy- trashing topics or replies calls a standard WordPress function which checks for comments and media on each post before trashing. This involves a database lookup to check whether anything in those tables needs deleting and it is this that seems to be taking the time and making you both time out. Topics and replies don’t have comments or media that is attached in that way, so these steps are not needed.

Now trashing a reply is fairly easy, replies don’t hold any data that needs referencing elsewhere that we need to worry about.

But Topics have engagements and subscriptions to be gone through.

so if I wrote some code to allow you to delete a numbered topic, this could use a quicker method to permanently delete all the replies, and then use the proper function to delete the topic.

And as long as the topic or reply it is not latest activity, then we can maybe skip the step that needs to recalculate what the lastest activity now needs to be.

That should prevent timeouts I hope.

SO 2 things here

1. any topic/reply being got rid of should not be the ‘latest activity’ in the forum – but I’m guessing if the topic is still getting replies and therefore ‘hot’ then you would not be deleting it
2. this would be deleting it a numbered topic at a time, so you would look up the topic and then in the dashboard there would be an option to enter that topic number to trash it.

Does that sound as if it would work for you?

@jimmyt53 – not sure how easily I’d be able to fix that, but I’ll think about it as I progress. so

1. how would you want to pick topics for deletion – by ‘older than’ presumably? and
2. just from one forum or across all forums?
3. again could not be a topic or reply where it is latest activity

Feedback before I start code something that doesn’t help would be great 🙂

and from all – are we talking about permanently deleting – ie reduce database size, or just trashing – ie stopping people seeing, but retaining the ability to restore later?

[mrentropy]

I realize this topic is more than six years old, but I’ve been attempting to achieve similar behavior, and adding the following code in a custom plug-in seems to work. I have a taxonomy of “ideacategory” and I’m able to create a bbPress view called “ideacat” that filters all of the topics where the category term is equal to “24-hour-market-watch.”

function idea_register_custom_views() {
		
	bbp_register_view(
		'ideacat',
			esc_html__( 'Idea Category', 'bbpress' ),
			apply_filters( 'bbp_register_view_ideacat', array(
			'tax_query' => array(
				array(
					'taxonomy' => 'ideacategory',
					'field' => 'slug',
					'terms' => array( '24-hour-market-watch' )
				)
			),
			'show_stickies' => false
			)
		) );

}

add_action( 'bbp_register_views', 'idea_register_custom_views' );

[Amber]

Hey! I am working on syncing my staging site to my production. We have over 4,000 post in our BBPress plug in. Is there anyway I can export that data from my production site then import it again when I push staging to production. Otherwise I will loose 2 months of forum posts.

Thanks in advance!

[sruddy]

Thanks I always get the two mixed up. I’m changing it to WP.org hosted by InMotion, same as my site.

I am in contact with the plugin developer Aspen Grove Studios for plugin Image Upload for bbPress Pro. The Jetpack is confirmed as the culprit. However I have not solved the issue of image size in the posts. I think it may have to do with I have hidden the sidebar on the forums pages but the bbPress plugin doesn’t;’t recognize the additional space. I reaching for straws. 🙂

[Robin W]

your theme or another plugin might be affecting my template loading

if you want to check this:

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]

try this in your custom css

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum, #bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.topic {
	padding: 5px 25px !important;
}

[sruddy]

I just got done with jetpack support. They told me

Jetpack is a required plugin, and your site will not operate properly without it. This tells me there is a plugin conflict with BBPress.

You would need to contact BBPress support for assistance. Their support site is here. https://bbpress.org/forums/

[sruddy]

No I paid for, Image Upload for bbPress Pro. Using the healthcheck plugin you suggested confirmed the problem was due to Jetpack plugin. It turns out I can’t turn pack off and wordpress.org controls the settings.

[ddbell]

I thought the tabs were supposed to be there by default. I guess not. I am brand new to bbPress.

Just to Clarify, I have quite a few other plugins on the site. The bbPress plugin is just one part of the website and is a recent addition. The bbPress plugin was 100% default but it seems other plugins affect this text area in bbPress.

On the backup test website I was using as a test site, it looks like the tabs were there from the bbPress style plugin I installed which was only on the test site but not the main suite. I forgot I installed that…. but had never used it. It was only on the test site.

For the test site I just did the following to test.

I disabled the bbPress style plugin. It then only had the Visual Text tool bar and was stuck in Visual text mode (which I don’t want because I need to use HTML).

I then disabled the bbPress style plugin and also disabled all plugins except bbPress itself. Then it was in Text edit mode with no tool bars at all and no tabs at all.

I then re-enabable the bbPress style plugin so the only plugins on the site activated were bbPress and the bbPress style plugin. Then there was the text tool bar (not the visual tool bar), but no tabs.

I then re-enabled all other plugins. Now it has the tabs which switch between the Visual toolbar and the Text tool bar. So it seems one of the other plugins, unrelated to bbPress is adding the Visual Tool bar which also adds it into bbPress too. I’m not sure which one because I didn’t test one by one.

So that will work for me. I now added the bbPress style plugin to the main site and I have tabs and the text Editor I need. Other users can use the Visual if they want.

I didn’t realize a another plugin could change what happens inside of a different plugin. I guess WordPress can get convoluted with lots of moving parts. I may go back and try to figure out exactly which plugin adds the extra tool bar. But I like it to have both so it works fine as is now.

[Robin W]

ok so you are using a plugin to upload images – yes?

If so is it this

bbPress Multi Image Uploader

or something else?

[Robin W]

My bbPress install is 100% default. There is no custom styling at all. I haven’t made any changes to the settings.

ok, so bbpress without anything else does not have the ‘visual/text’ options, so what is adding these please.

[ddbell]

I went into my user for the Keymaster, checked “Disable Visual Editor”, saved the changes, then unchecked it and saved the changes. I was trying to see if it would toggle something.

Now the Visual editor tool bar shows up but here are no tab for Visual/Text so there is no way to Editi in Text mode. I checked other Participant accounts and the tabs are missing for all users. All users are stuck in Visual Editing. I need text mode editing for myself.

In the website backup, tested from my same PC and same browsers, all user accounts for both Keymaster and Participants have the tabs for Visual/Text. So I know it is not a local computer or Browser issue. Again, I don’t want to load the backup on the main site because there have been orders and subscribers since the last backup.

It is all accounts so it isn’t an account issue.

The Visual/Text tab shows up everywhere else when writing except for in the bbPress forum.

So the issue is isolated to bbPress, for all users.

[ddbell]

The Text Edit Bar and buttons for the text area is missing on my Keymaster account. It shows up in regular user accounts. It was working in my Keymaster until recently. My bbPress install is 100% default. There is no custom styling at all. I haven’t made any changes to the settings.

I loaded a site backup on a different URL and the Edit Bar shows up for the same Keymaster account in the backup. However, I don’t want to reload the backup on the main site because I have have Woocommerce orders since the last update.

I already tried clear the browser cache and tried multiple browsers but that didn’t fix it.

Is there any setting to control this?

[sruddy]

The image uploader used to ask for size, but after installing the bbPress image loader upgrade, it no longer gives the size field. thanks for the trouble shooting thing. This twenty fourteen theme has been modified and is now using a child theme. I’m not exactly sure what that means but I see no additional settings for the child portion. Neither the wordpress page editor nor the forum page editor have any format choices either. In addition I tried to make one page full width with this code .page-id-17507 .site-inner, .page-id-17507 .site-footer {
max-width: none !important;
width: 95% !important;
}
but it had no affect either, it works on my wordpress.com webpages at https://steveruddyphotography.com/
but not on this website.

[Robin W]

just tried 2014 and it uploads as full size unless you constrain.

so when you say you use the image icon in the bbPress editor does this ask anything about size?

If not then it could be a plugin issue

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]

thanks, fully appreciate that most of this stuff is annoying as hell 🙂

The problem is that all wp websites are a combination of wordpress and its settings, your theme and its settings, any adjustments to that theme, and all the plugins and each of their settings. That’s before we look at things like php versions, apache stuff, ht-acess, hoster settings and limitations and a bunch more stuff. That makes most sites pretty unique, so site A will never replicate site B in it’s problems and issues.

I’m just a guy sat in his kitchen who was helped several years ago when I was setting bbpress up, so I try to help others – I’m not a bbpress author.

my test site is twenty ten. I’ll try twenty fourteen to see if that sheds any light.

[Robin W]

portal-admin is not a default wordpress or bbpress role, so how ever you created that, you’ll need to add the appropriate bbpress capabilities to it.

bbPress User Roles and Capabilities

[Robin W]

do you mean access to the forums on the front end ?

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

item 3

You really don’t want to give access at the backend – bbpress is simply not designed to work that way !

[Steveorevo]

Very nice work with the style pack Robin! I do have one issue with Mega Max menu compatibility. For whatever reason, it doesn’t look like shortcodes are being processed when style pack is activated (which is how MegaMax allows menus to be embedded).

Otherwise I’d recommend your style pack for bbPress users as this “simply works” to deliver the forum styling to Twenty Twenty Two without having to painfully apply one’s own CSS rules to make it marginally pretty.

For those willing to go that far, I found that simply adding a basic, default template page as described on WordPress.org will do the trick. Supposedly block editor doesn’t care for/use PHP template pages anymore so it’s otherwise ignored.

For simplicity, I just replace Twenty Twenty Two’s otherwise empty index.php with the “skinny” template index.php I created here:

https://gist.github.com/Steveorevo/96d8015bcf353221e1cf0cd6b89bb766

[Robin W]

backend forums are generally only seen by bbpress keymasters

I’d need further details on what roles, are these default roles or have you set them up etc. to try and help further

[sruddy]

The image icon in the bbPress editor that is part of the plugin.

[Robin W]

as a test can you turn off bbpress engagements

dashboard>settings>forums>engagements

and see if the problem goes away

[miltonics]

I’m getting an error when I’m testing a “new account”. I’ve tracked it down to bbpress & woocommerce memberships.

Immediately on purchase I only get this:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_users_for_object() on null in /home/customer/www/midwestpermaculture.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/users/engagements.php:125 Stack trace: #0 /home/customer/www/midwestpermaculture.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/users/engagements.php(146): bbp_get_users_for_object(47093, ‘_bbp_moderator_…’, ‘post’) #1 /home/customer/www/midwestpermaculture.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/users/capabilities.php(107): bbp_is_object_of_user(47093, 366, ‘_bbp_moderator_…’) #2 /home/customer/www/midwestpermaculture.com/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(307): bbp_map_primary_meta_caps(Array, ‘moderate’, 366, Array) #3 /home/customer/www/midwestpermaculture.com/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php(189): WP_Hook->apply_filters(Array, Array) #4 /home/customer/www/midwestpermaculture.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/sub-actions.php(523): apply_filters(‘bbp_map_meta_ca…’, Array, ‘moderate’, 366, in /home/customer/www/midwestpermaculture.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/users/engagements.php on line 125

Any ideas?

It would be really nice to have forums in our membership site.

Thanks!