[delaitec]

Hello.

I have a WordPress site with a configured BBPress Forum and a WPMAIL SMTP plugin.

I recently started receiving 2 mistakes that appear at the same time on the WPMAIL SMTP event log.

On WPMAIL SMTP I tested the sending of emails, and the site is sending email normally.
What may be causing these EVENTS?

See topic on WPMAIL SMTP FORUM:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bbpress-related-log-events/

[Robin W]

add this plugin and use to test if email is working

Check & Log Email – Easy Email Testing & Mail logging

[jmmcforum]

I’ve created pages for my website for register, login, and forgot password to use my forum but when I test it out no email sends to the user. How can I get the emails to send? Not sure if it matters, but I am using Kubio pro for my website theme. I’m new to (and not that good at) building website so any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[scmsteve]

I just did a test post, closed it to simulate the same post status and then trashed it, all worked fine. So the issue is why the older posts couldn’t do the same thing. Bizarre.

[Robin W]

of the original, or a test post?

[Robin W]

bbpress uses custom post types, so uses their status in the posts table (not post meta) to determine whether to display.

So on trashing a topic, I would expect the post_status on the posts table to be changed to trash.

To enable you to ‘untrash’ a topic (say if it was a mistake) in tbe post_meta table, I would then expect to see

_bbp_pre_trashed_replies	a:4:{i:0;i:33965;i:1;i:33963;i:2;i:33959;i:3;i:33956;}
_wp_trash_meta_status	publish
_wp_trash_meta_time	1748443956

The trash status being the status BEFORE it was trashed, so that it can go back to this if you made a mistake.

I am not sure what the other statuses are doing there, if you have been trashing and untrashing, other stuff might happen, and other bbpress plugins might be adding things.

I’d suggest you try creating a test topic and then trashing it, and seeing what happens, so that you can see a ‘clean’ set of entries.

If you still have problems, then it could be a theme or plugin issue, so I’d try creating and trashing a topic with the below happening.

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.

[neon67]

I’d be happy to take part in testing! I have a large live forum with over 10,000 topics. Let me know when the free AI model appears. P.S. – I’m going to test wordpress.org— ai-engine plugin – but more with the MCP purpose for administration

[neon67]

Thanks for your efforts! I think the plugin would be much more popular for testing if you added free AIs there. And the ability to limit yourself not only to the forum topic, but also to a special professional section. This solves the problem of spam and empty talk.

[Robin W]

ok, as a test can you deactivate the block member posting and check whether that changes anything – just to eliminate, you can re-enable straight after the test.

[Earl_D]

I tried using Buddy-bbPress Support Topic to create support topics on my BBP current version install but it created a critcal error and I deactivated. Are there any other alternative to add that functionality? Also running the latest BP version and WP 6.81
Thanks for the help.

[andiganter]

After extensive testing and numerous attempts, I finally found the solution (thanks to ChatGPT). I would like to post it here because other users may encounter the same problem and appreciate a quick solution, and so that the effort is at least worthwhile for others. Here is the CSS code, which simply needs to be inserted at the bottom of the Customizer under “Custom CSS”:

.entry-title {
  white-space: normal !important;
  word-break: break-word !important;
  overflow-wrap: break-word !important;
  hyphens: auto !important;
  line-height: 1.2 !important;
  max-width: 100% !important;
  text-align: center !important;
}

[Robin W]

hmmm…

Just looked on my test site, and the newest appears at the top, and changes when I add a reply.

I can see yours does not match this.

What other (if any) bbpress related plugins are you using?

[packzap]

From that document:

Moving to a New Server
If you are moving WordPress from one server to another, begin by backing up your WordPress directory, images, plugins, and other files on your site as well as the database. See WordPress Backups and Backing Up Your Database.

Keeping Your Domain Name and URLs
Moving your domain without changing the Home and Site URLs of your WordPress site is very simple, and in most cases can be done by moving the files.

If database and URL remain the same, you can move by just copying your files and database.

If database name or user changes, edit wp-config.php to have the correct values.

If you want to test before you switch, you must temporarily change “siteurl” and “home” in the database table “wp_options” (through phpMyAdmin or similar).

If you had any kind of rewrites (permalinks) setup you must disable .htaccess and reconfigure permalinks when it goes live.

[Robin W]

That’s great – thanks for testing and your help in finding the issues 🙂

[downybirch]

Aha!

Fixed it!

All seems good, both on the development dashboard using Brave and on the testing site using Firefox.

Android phone is happy too.

Top work – thanks!

[downybirch]

OK – if I go to the Forums root folder, Latest Actity displays correctly.

If I go to a topic within a forum, the raw HTML appears again.

I guess you’ll need to propagate the fix to the next level down.

Cheers.

[downybirch]

We’re part of the way there…

I’ve updated to your 6.3.2, cleared caches on WP and my browsers.

I’m using Brave for development, Firefox to test.

The raw html doesn’t appear if I log in to the WP dashboard and preview the site (Brave), but if I log in as a user (Firefox) the problem reappears. Still only for the ‘Last Reply’ and ‘Last Activity’ links.

Brave on my phone is also displaying the raw html.

Thanks.

[Robin W]

I just found the issue, and fixed it in 6.3.2 just released.

Can you test and confirm please?

[packzap]

I’m running the the latest: {bbPress version 2.6.13) / WordPress version 6.8.1}. I’ve been running bbPress for 10 to 15 years, starting with the 0.x versions. I notice when I look at the database in MyPHPadmin there are many tables with the prefix of bb_ and even more tables starting with wsy****_.

So just to review, when we move the bbPress/Wordpress installation from one server to another we do so in these steps?

1. Copy all web files over to new server
2. Copy the database.sql over to new server
3. Edit the first few lines of wp-config.php with the pertinent new database settings
4. Go into the Admin panel of the site and make sure the bbPress plugin is active
5. Then go to Tools, Forums, click the Import forums tab, select Platform, bbPress1 and enter the pertinent database details
6. In the table prefix section be sure to add the prefixes from your database (in my case bb_ and wsy****_, i guess entered as bb_wsy****_?)
7. Click Start, and then fold your hands together and pray the import works 😉

[downybirch]

I’m running WP 6.8.1 wih bbp 2.6.13 and bbp style pack 6.3.0 on the Twenty Twenty-Four theme.

When I view my forum as a logged in user, I see this under the Last Activity section:

Last Activity: <a href="https://scottishpolicy.org/forums/topic/right-to-privacy/" title="Right to privacy">1 day, 9 hours ago</a>

I’ve used Inspector to look at the code in the browser (Firefox and Brave – both are affected) and I can’t spot anything obvious.

Is this a known issue?

Is there a fix?

[Robin W]

could be hundreds of reasons, and may be coincidental of 6.8 or may not.

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

[Robin W]

ok, I am just a guy trying to help, I do not work for bbpress, and I simply listed what I did on my test site to get it to work.

so I cannot help for your specific site, but you have installed guttenburg 20.x when the instructions say a different version.

But if the instruction don’t work, then you are on your own to get it going.

[Robin W]

There are many reasons why this might occur, that are site specific. This is not a known error with bbpress and more likely to be related to either the set up of your site, or 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

If that does not point to the error, then I’d suggest you contact your host provider for help.

[yosmc]

Hi all,

I’ve been doing a test run today to import my old phpBB board to bbpress, and it worked surprisingly well (as in: the whole process finished without hanging).

In the end, though, I do have a number of problems, and I was wondering if anyone doing a similar import was able to solve them.

– The old board has thousands of registered users (many of them spammers :/ ), and I didn’t want to clutter my WordPress install with all those accounts, especially since it’s a multisite install and I’m mainly migrating the board for archiving purposes. So I didn’t check the “import user accounts” box, but now all user names are just “Anonymous”. Any way to migrate the user names without the accounts?

– It seems like quoted posts are broken, as the “bbcode_quote” tag isn’t applied where it should be.

– Smilies aren’t imported properly. The relative path to the smilies is lost, and when there’s more than one smiley in a row, only the first one has an image tag.

– [img] tags aren’t being properly converted either. Or rather the conversion seems to work ok, but after the actual link, the [img] code, which bbpress can’t read, is retained for some reason.

– Like I said, overall conversion seemed to work well, but cluttered the error log with hundreds of these messages:

PHP Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/parser.php on line 1289

Anything to worry about?

– I understand that no attachments are imported by default, but maybe someone found a workaround?

Thanks!

[krishanatwp]

I cannot subscribe to group forums.
When clicking “subscribe”, nothing happens.
I created a private test forum. In this test forum, subscribe works just fine, i.e. the link changes to “unsubscribe”.

https://metaphorum.org
WP 6.7.2
Astra, Astra Pro. I did not try with a standard theme because it works on my test forum.
bbpress: 2.6.12
BuddyPress: 14.3.4