[auludag]

and more info: i am using the latest version of WordPress and bbpress.

forum link (turkish) http://kadinlarkosku.com/kadinlarkosku-forum/

[Robin W]

Just tested, and it works fine on twentyfourteen on my test site.

Any chance of a link to your site?

[mlwilkerson]

I’m seeing the same thing as originally reported by @mfiguerasma.

I first noticed it when my non-admin user (TestUser) *suddenly* could no longer see a topic that he had formerly been able to see. In my case, I am using sub-forums. (See: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2191#comment:17 )

I have a BP Group called GroupH.
The group forum root is a type=category group called “Group Forums”
Subforum1-GroupH is under the forum “GroupH”.

GroupH is the group forum, i.e the one you see in a the drop-down in the settings where you select which forum is associated with the BP Group.

So, it’s:

Group Forums
GroupH
Subforum1-GroupH
Topic1-Subforum1-GroupH

All of the forums and subforums have a Visibility setting of Private (in the admin settings screens).

So Topic1-Subforum1-GroupH was accessible by my TestUser one minute and then wasn’t the next minute. I knew that I hadn’t changed the visibility settings on my forums or anything else, but I realized that what I had done (thinking it was merely “for good measure”) was to run:
Tools->bbPress->Recalculate private and hidden forums

I recreated my original scenario, verified that TestUser could access Topic1-Subforum1-GroupH, and then used Updraft to take snapshots of my database before running “Recalculate private and hidden forums” calculate again. Sure enough, after that “repair”, it was broken again.

So I debugged it. This repair tool kicks off bbp_repair_forum_visibility() which updates two options in the options table:
_bbp_private_forums
_bbp_hidden_forums

These are pre-calculated, cached, lists of forums.

If the forum_id for GroupH appears in _bbp_hidden_forums, then TestUser won’t be able to access Topic1-Subforum1-GroupH. Before running this “repair”, the forum_id for GroupH does not appear in that list. After the repair it does.

So, how is the forum_id for GroupH getting into this list of hidden forums when the post_status on the forum is most definitely private? (Verified by looking at its row in the posts table)

It’s getting there precisely by the means @mfiguerasma showed.

When the query is being run to get a list of all “hidden” forums, in order to create _bbp_hidden_forums, it invokes the pre_get_posts filter. bbPress uses that filter bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility() to change the query_vars.

Notice what’s happening here:

(1) The WP_Query is saying “I am trying to find a list of *hidden* forums” (I have my own reasons for why I want a list of hidden forums.)

(2) But bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility() seems to be second-guessing. I receives query_vars with post_type=hidden, but then the way its logic works is to say: “What are various post statuses that this user has permission to see. Ah, this user can see both hidden and private ones, so I’ll update the query_vars to include post_types of both hidden and private.”

I think the logic of bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility() is exactly backwards. It’s trying to include all of the post_types that the user can access. But that’s not why it has been invoked. It’s been invoked in the process of simply creating a list of hidden forums for _bbp_hidden_forums and its messing that up by including the private post_status.

(3) So what the WP_Query gets back is a list of forum_ids for all hidden *and private* groups. And that’s the list that ultimately gets stored in _bbp_hidden_forums.

So this “repair” actually breaks my forums.

If you simply remove this bbPress filter before doing the repair, it seems to produce the correct result. My TestUser can access Topic1-Subforum1-GroupH both before and after the repair when we remove the filter:
remove_action(‘pre_get_posts’,’bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility’,4);

[Robin W]

The second fatal error is related to your plugin social-networks-auto-poster-facebook-twitter-g

suggest you deactivate this as a test and see if all the errors go away

then come back

[flashwolf]

yes i go back to my theme

i can’t post a link here for a lot of reason
first, this web site is adult ( elegant but adult) ( perhaps in private but i prefer to say you before)
and second to use the forum you must be member and i have block the invitation

perhaps you can give me an other plug of forum who work with buddypress to do the test
thx

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and buddypress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Stephen Edgar]

I’d suggest taking this plugin for a test drive

https://github.com/r-a-y/bbp-quote/blob/master/bbp-quote.php

[subrat4dc]

I have again tested and check the sticky and pagination count by keeping sticky and super sticky for newer posts and also repaired the counts, this time i have observed the correct count.

Now, my question is, is it possible to make the sticky post visible as sticky or super sticky for a particular duration which can be set through admin panel and after completing the duration that particular post with sticky or super sticky type will convert to normal type?

Need suggestions.

[brookeashley]

Hi there,
I am using WordPress 4.6, a Genesis child theme, and the latest BBPress. I have set up BBPress and it’s all working well. The only issue is that when I click on a username in the forum the link doesn’t go to the profile page. It goes to a page with all of that users WordPress posts on it.

I don’t seem to have a profile page that I have access to anywhere. Do I need to set up a profile plugin of some kind? How do I control what url those links go to?

Any help would be great!

Thank you!

[maryt66]

Thanks all for your answers – very helpful. It looks like you are trying to move towards accessibility. I’ll be happy to help with testing if my client decides to go ahead.

[Stephen Edgar]

Your theme developers will need to be a little more specific than “bbPress code has some problems”.

If bbPress’ code didn’t change and you updated your theme and now bbPress doesn’t work, then this is not a bPress issue, it is a issue with your theme and what changed in the latest theme update.

I suggest you contact the theme developers again, link them here to this post of mine, if there is a bbPress issue, I’m happy to work with the theme author to fix bbPress if that is the case.

[Robkk]

Just so you guys know there is a plugin for bbPress that could do what you guys want.

It is fairly new, so consider testing it out and if you come across any issues contact the developer in their support forum.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-anonymous-subscriptions/

[crosstherubicon]

I am on WP 4.5.3 and the latest version of bbPress, just installed it yesterday

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[greggish]

Do any of the mods or developers have an ETA on when v2.6 might reach beta or perhaps latest stable release?

From the July 13th blog post:

Speaking of bbPress 2.6, we’re working on refactoring per-forum moderators now, and we’ll have a beta ready for everyone to try shortly!

bbPress 2.5.10 – Security Release

[crosstherubicon]

I just installed bbPress today so the latest and greatest. WP ver 4.5.3. When I add forums and topics they do not show up on the Forums page when logged out. When logged in they do show up. These have been set up as Forum, Open and Public. Topics have been set up as Normal and Open under the appropriate forum. Why would they not show up when logged out but do show up when logged in?

[Robin W]

try switching themes to see if it us definitely the latest update, and then contact the theme author

[Stephen Edgar]

We would love have full WCAG 2.0 compliance 🙂

Our open tickets for further improvements are here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=General+-+Accessibility&order=priority

We will also follow WordPress’ lead and any initiatives by the accessibility team

https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/

There is also the accessibility team handbook: https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/handbook/

For bbPress much of what is needed right now is testing of our open tickets to make sure we are on the right track, any help would be graciously welcome 🙂

[superaven]

Do any of the mods or developers have an ETA on when v2.6 might reach beta or perhaps latest stable release?

[joshgb93]

Hi,

I’m having some issues between bbpress and Ultimate Member plugin.
Ultimate Member has a feature that lets us add custom permissions on the menu’s links, allowing X user role to see Y links on the menu. It always works well, except when I’m on the forums root (smilang.com/forums), where all logged-in users see the website menu as group X, no matter their current role. If they go on a specific forum or topic, the issue goes away and the menu gets back to normal.

See the images for an example:

On the forums root (Not OK)

Elsewhere on the forums (OK)

I’ve also contacted Ultimate Member’s support team about this, I just did a plugin and theme conflict test, it doesn’t seem like it’s my theme nor any other plugins than UM and bbpress. I’m waiting for their answer now but I was wondering if you could find anything that would cause this.

I’m using bbpress 2.6-alpha, I just updated in hopes it would fix things but it doesn’t change anything. WordPress 4.5.3
Thanks!

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[associationofnailtechnicians]

Hello we just installed bbPress and have a minor issue. It is probably a setting or something not I have not set up correctly im guessing.

Ok so the forum itself loads up ok fine, example:

Test Forum

However if we goto

https://aont.uk/forums/

The page does not show anything really worthwhile.

I have even created a page called “Forums” and added just the line [bbp-forum-index] onto the page, but still it shows up nothing of any use.

Anyone know what is going on here and how I could fix it?

Many thanks

[jem3299]

I had a member post a snippet or two of php in a couple of replies without closing the tag. The order of the replies are now messed up. Sometimes a reply will post up before the last one. Sometimes it will go to the top. On some topics they seem to be fine.

I have deleted all of the entries that had code in them. I have run the repair tools several times.

I have even installed the “Sort topic replies” plugin. The sorting does not appear to be working with that, however the option to always have the main topic post at the top does work and does make it a bit better.

I’m using the latest version and the link is http://www.dualcreatives.com/forums/ but most of this is happening in the private member forums. The public forum only has a few and I don’t see it happening on those.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I might fix this?

[elronaldo]

Yikes! See previous post immediately above… when I finished with the above tests, I returned to the root forum display (public view) and the one forum I’d started setting up was gone, I assume as a byproduct of my 2 failed post attempts above. It was still present in the admin view of the forums, and editing/updating it (correcting some spelling in the headline and description) made it re-appear in the public view…

Gonna go try a couple of other forum plug-ins now, but wish I could use the one supported by WP creators… hopefully, we’ll get a solution soon and can come back to this plug-in…

[Robin W]

ok, so something is turning it off.

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back