[Fuskeduske]

Hi Ziga,

Hmm, weird. Even with latest build of 2.6 i still have an issue, with an imported database from phpbb. But thanks anyway 🙂

-Mads

[Dysschord]

I have tried searching, and haven’t found this issue. I may not be using proper terms.

The email notifications are being sent just fine. However, they all are proceeded by a bunch of characters, i.e. similar to the following (plus there are strange codes within the email itself)

=?UTF-8?Q?ly=20To:=20Safety=20in=20Chir?==?UTF-8?Q?iqui?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

The subject lines are fine. However, there are also lines of the notification showing extraneous codes and line breaks in strange places, including middle of a word, like the following:

A new reply has been posted by a user. Please login to read full p=
osting and respond.
IMPORTANT: You cannot reply to forum postings via email. You must be logged=
in to reply.=20

Lastly, the end of the excerpts show codes too, such as =E2=80=A6

Using latest version of WP and plugin.

[packzap]

Some users are getting their posts and new topics flagged in my bbPress/Wordpress site as spam. They are long-time contributors with valid and thoughtful comments. It seems that bbPress occasionally gets too aggressive flagging valid posts as spam. I am running the latest bbPress (2.5.10) and WordPress (4.5.3) versions. Is there anyway to correct this situation?

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress compatible with PHP 7 and HHVM

The warnings you see are from a 3rd party library, these issues would only affect you if you are importing forums from another forum software package.

You can see our Travis CI PHP 7 tests here: https://travis-ci.org/ntwb/bbPress/jobs/147321446
(We don’t have 100% code coverage yet but we are progressing nicely)

[Texiwill]

Hello,

I ran the PHP 7 Compatibility test against bbPress with the following results. Be nice if they could be fixed so I can use bbPress with PHP 7.

FILE: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOUND 1 ERROR AFFECTING 1 LINE
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 310 | ERROR | INI directive 'safe_mode' is deprecated from PHP 5.3 and forbidden from PHP 5.4.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

FILE: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/parser.php
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOUND 3 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 4 LINES
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  293 | ERROR   | Deprecated PHP4 style constructor are not supported since PHP7
 1149 | ERROR   | preg_replace() - /e modifier is forbidden in PHP 7.0
 1150 | ERROR   | preg_replace() - /e modifier is forbidden in PHP 7.0
 1386 | WARNING | The use of function split is discouraged from PHP version 5.3; use preg_split instead
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

THank you,
Edward

[Stephen Edgar]

The latest version of bbPress is 2.5.10, 2.6 will be the next major release and 2.6.1.1 does not, nor will probably ever exist…

[jlarsen01]

The link didn’t help… 🙁

When I do a search in BBPress with a single word like “Computer” if works fine… but when I add “Computer Test” in the BBPress search it puts a “+” symbol between Computer and test in the URL string. If I remove the “+” and just use a space or a %20 it works fine.

[Stephen Edgar]

Fingers crossed for your localhost test

[Robkk]

I rolled back bbPress since I read they changed their mail headers in 2.5.4 – so I went from the latest (2.5.9) to 2.5.3

Update it to the latest version.

Edited the database and added multiple addresses in the wp_options field for admin – still no notifications.

Maybe consider reverting this to what you had previously.

Did you do all what is described below @benjieblock?

Create a forum and subscribe to the forum, and create a topic with your admin account and also subscribe to it on a live test site to test these subscriptions in.

Create a test participant user to just post test posts in that topic you just created to test topic subscription emails, and create topics in the forum to test forum subscription emails.

I guess now just check on your Admin/Keymaster email {your admin user email} to see if any of them sent.

This is just troubleshooting to see if you can even get 1 subscription email, either topic or forum subscription emails using bbPress by default without any new plugins.

If it works without any plugins we can go from there.

IF it doesn’t we need to find a plugin/theme/custom code snippet that might be causing an issue.

Also in the future the larger your forums grow and if you allow both subscription emails for every mod and keymaster in your forum, you will need to consider using smtp and AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions.

[Earl_D]

I am running the latest BBP with WP 4.53 and BP 2.6.1.1 with sitewide and group forums using a 2012 child theme. I would like to show the forum pages full width in twenty twelve. I have tried several options to do this from using CSS to change the site content width along side copying the full with template and remaining Bbpress.php in the 2012 child theme folder as well as copying the Bbpress template folder to my 2012 child theme folder.

None of that has worked the closest it comes is the removal of the sidebar but the Bbpress content still doesn’t display full width. I have looked through the codex and the forums here but have not found a solution. Is there something I am missing? Can anyone point me to a definitive solution to this nagging problem. thank you

[roshansachan]

You can test this behaviour on any topic on https://bbpress.org/forums . As per the docs for roles and capabilities a participant should be able to only assign tags and not delete them.

[roshansachan]

Testing if a participant can delete topic tags.Sorry,but I just deleted all the topic tags assigned to this topic.
I have been facing this issue on a new forum I am working on.

[allancaeg]

For my users, the main focus of their bbPress membership site is their latest posted thread.

How do I show on their dashboard the details of their latest thread? Preferably with 1) the first post 2), 3) the latest post, and 4) field to post an update to this topic.

[benjieblock]

Hi Pascal
Nope no smtp. I did a test to see if I received emails with the “forgot your password” link and it worked. I will try the smtp plugin for testing to let you know.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi, Do you use any SMTP plugin ? One that has good logging?
Could you please tell us if the email is generated and leaves your server or if it’s not even sent?

I use postman SMTP for testing because it has very good logging features, but any SMTP plugin with good logging would do.

Pascal.

[matilda4]

Hello Support Forum
I have a displaying issue I couldn’t find the issue until now and was wondering if someone experienced similar or has a hint what could resolve it.

Issue:
We setup several forums, which are accessible only with corresponding membership (using plugins, see below). Under each forum we created one topic only so far. When accessing a specific forum (example qigong and meditation as per the link below) it lists all topics; even the ones from the different forums. As per my understanding it should only display the topics of that specific forum.

Theme is Newstube, but I changed it to the wordpress latest default theme (twenty sixteen) and the issue persists. I have also deactivated all but the bbpress plugins and the issue persists.

Wordpress: 4.5.3
BBpress: 2.5.9

Is installed in combination with iThemes Exchange / Membership and Membership bb press add-on.

Website: Redacted

Under menu “account”, login. Test user we setup is (since only members can access the forum):
User: Redacted
PW: Redacted

Am I overlooking something simple and obvious, or what could the issue be? Any help is very much appreciated.

Thank you.
Matilda

[benjieblock]

Hi All,

Issue: I have the age old issue of notifications not sending to admins.

URL: http: // www . homecarekn . ca/
Theme: Enfold
Wordpress: 4.5.3
bbPress: 2.5.3 (rolled back from 2.5.9)

What I tried:
– I know emails are sending when I requested a password reset on my account and it sent.
– I rolled back bbPress since I read they changed their mail headers in 2.5.4 – so I went from the latest (2.5.9) to 2.5.3
– Plugin – AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions – didn’t work
– Plugin – bbPress Notify (No-Spam) – didn’t work
– Plugin – Reply Subscribed – forces reply email from new topics and replies

Tried the plugins one at a time – created new topics and replied
Tried plugins all together – created some new topics and replied
Tried varying plugins activated /deactivated – created new topics and replied
No emails to editors, keymasters, or admins

Edited the database and added multiple addresses in the wp_options field for admin – still no notifications.
Did anyone ever figure out what and why this happens?
-Ben

[darkoned12000]

Thank you Stephen for the assistance so far.

I was just grabbing entries and not the last one of each type these were the final counts for each:
Converting forums (100 – 199)
Calculating forum hierarchy (0 – 99)
No forum subscriptions to convert
Converting topics (5200 – 5299)
No anonymous topic authors to convert
Calculating topic stickies (0 – 99)
No super stickies to stick
No closed topics to close
Converting topic tags (2800 – 2899)
No topic subscriptions to convert
No favorites to convert
Converting replies (56200 – 56299)
No anonymous reply authors to convert
No threaded replies to convert
Conversion Complete
Started process again with Converting forums (0 – 99)

During that particular run the error_log didn’t have any exceptions only these two lines over and over (yes these do show in my output window on the import screen):
[02-Jul-2016 16:39:08 UTC] PHP Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/darkone/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 319
[02-Jul-2016 16:39:08 UTC] PHP Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/darkone/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 320

My website is hosted with https://www.knownhost.com/managed-vps-hosting.html. Believe it is using CentOS6 x32, but I can try to get you particulars of what it is running if you let me know what you need? I am running the conversion right in the same instance just different folder off the root for my WP install.

If you add extra debug to converter.php I can run it and send you any results if that helps? But this is a live server environment. So the website I am converting the database for is up and running and is not shutdown for this process. I was just trying to see what a test run would show me.

Thanks for all the efforts.

[darkoned12000]

Just to describe my process in this trial run I am doing with the import of IPB 3.47 to bbpress 2.6a:

– Install latest version of WP
– Download and install latest version of bbpress
– Open ‘Tool -> Forums -> Import Forums’
– Selected ‘Invision’ and put in all my database info. I did set ‘Table Prefix’ to ‘ipb_’ since all of my tables in my ipboard setup start with ‘ibp_’
– Row Limit and Time Delay (set to default), Convert Users is checked and nothing else is checked and I clicked ‘Start’

Here is a listing of the sql code executed, I only listed items that there was something done, ‘no conversions’ for items are not listed:

Code for convert Forum:
<p class="" title="SELECT convert(forums.id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS id,convert(forums.parent_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS parent_id,convert(forums.topics USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS topics,convert(forums.posts USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS posts,convert(forums.name USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS name,convert(forums.name_seo USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS name_seo,convert(forums.description USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS description,convert(forums.position USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS position FROM ipb_forums AS forums LIMIT 100, 100">Converting forums (100 - 199)</p>

Code for Forum Heirarchy:
<p class="" title="SELECT post_id AS value_id, meta_value FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = &quot;_bbp_old_forum_parent_id&quot; AND meta_value > 0 LIMIT 0, 100">Calculating forum hierarchy (0 - 99)</p>

Code for Topics:
<p class="loading" title="SELECT convert(topics.tid USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS tid,convert(topics.posts USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS posts,convert(topics.forum_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS forum_id,convert(topics.starter_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS starter_id,convert(posts.post USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS post,convert(topics.title USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS title,convert(topics.pinned USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS pinned,convert(topics.start_date USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS start_date,convert(topics.last_post USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS last_post FROM ipb_topics AS topics INNER JOIN ipb_posts AS posts ON(topics.tid = posts.topic_id) WHERE posts.new_topic = 1 LIMIT 1100, 100">Converting topics (1100 - 1199)</p>

Code for Topic Stickies:
<p class="" title="SELECT post_id AS value_id, meta_value FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = &quot;_bbp_old_sticky_status_id&quot; AND meta_value = &quot;sticky&quot; LIMIT 0, 100">Calculating topic stickies (0 - 99)</p>

Code for Topic Tags:
<p class="" title="SELECT convert(core_tags.tag_meta_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS tag_meta_id,convert(core_tags.tag_text USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS tag_text FROM ipb_core_tags AS core_tags LIMIT 1800, 100">Converting topic tags (1800 - 1899)</p>

Code for Replies:
<p class="" title="SELECT convert(posts.pid USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS pid,convert(posts.topic_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS topic_id,convert(posts.ip_address USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS ip_address,convert(posts.author_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS author_id,convert(posts.post USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS post,convert(posts.post_date USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS post_date,convert(posts.edit_time USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS edit_time FROM ipb_posts AS posts LIMIT 400, 100">Converting replies (400 - 499)</p>

Conversion Complete
Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/darkone/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 319

<Script started over again with ‘Converting Fourms’

[Stephen Edgar]

noticed that it had created several duplicates of each forum area and replicated posts more than once. It’s almost like it didn’t know it finished and restarted the process all over.

Hmmmm, that is weird, especially the forum duplicates

Is there any logs or debugging that I can turn on

Right click, “inspect element” will show you the actual MySQL queries in the raw web page source code that are taking place that importer uses for each step.

If there is mods installed on IPB could this mess with the importer at all?

Possibly, I’ve not tested any of the importable forums with any mods, there are simply far too many permutations and combinations, the MySQL debug above should help with determining if this is a factor or not.

The ini_set is bbPress’ attempt at bumping PHPs memory limit to 256mb if it can during import, you can ignore this.

The WordPress database error Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes for query CREATE TABLE wp_bbp_converter_translator issue I still need to fix, I’ll try to get that fixed today, see https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2936

[darkoned12000]

Hello Everyone

I just recently installed bbpress 2.6 alpha build because I heard there was some more improvements to the database importer. I was trying a test run of converting my IPB v3.47 forums to bbpress 2.6a and I put in all of the info into the script and it looks like it was working and I went away for a few hours and came back and it was still running. I thought this was odd because the forums/users are not abnormally large.

I opened up the forums link inside the WP admin and noticed that it had created several duplicates of each forum area and replicated posts more than once. It’s almost like it didn’t know it finished and restarted the process all over.

Is there any logs or debugging that I can turn on that would provide help into troubleshooting this issue as to why the importer never stops processing? If there is mods installed on IPB could this mess with the importer at all?

I did find an error_log file and here is some of the issues I saw in it:

[03-Jul-2016 17:18:48 UTC] PHP Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/darkone/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 319
[03-Jul-2016 17:18:48 UTC] PHP Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/darkone/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 320

[02-Jul-2016 17:10:39 UTC] WordPress database error Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes for query CREATE TABLE wp_bbp_converter_translator (
meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment,
value_type varchar(25) null,
value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default ‘0’,
meta_key varchar(255) null,
meta_value varchar(255) null,
PRIMARY KEY (meta_id),
KEY value_id (value_id),
KEY meta_join (meta_key, meta_value) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci made by do_action(‘wp_ajax_bbconverter_process’), call_user_func_array, BBP_Converter->process_callback, BBP_Converter->sync_table, dbDelta

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

[Robkk]

If you would want that feature in that particular shortcode, you would have to filter the code, and change the query.

You can also make a new shortcode or a custom view to display the latest topics and limit the number of topics.

[Brian]

Appreciate the info. I’m currently testing a different forum, and it looks like it might work with no customization needed.

[haddly]

Hi Robkk,

Thanks for the code. unfortunately it doesn’t work for my website. Well, I have a vagrant set up on my computer with a copy website and i test everything there before i make real changes.
I made a child theme and a style.css file (this works as my wordpress site recognises it) and i made a functions.php file and added the code you gave me. The thing is, i tried some other code that exists on https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#23-show%c2%a0the-bbpress-forum-search-everywhere and they didnt work either.
any suggestions?
would greatly appreciate any help.
thx
Dan

[khunmax]

UPDATE and BUMP

After further testing I have discovered that the error in this code is not due to whether the user is admin or non admin.

I (admin) have a two word username (blank space in the middle of the two words).

I created a non admin user account also with a two word user name and get the same error. When that use clicks on the my profile link they are taken to Oops page.

So in its current form Robins code does not work if the user has a username with more than one word in it.

Any chance someone can fix this.

Thanks in advance and kind regards

Max