[Robin W]

I cannot replicate this on my test site – I presume you have this as the statistics widget?

if 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

[crugman]

Hello,

I have just installed the latest version of bbPress, but on the forums page, I am seeing the following errors. The ‘Registered Users’ and ‘Forums’ part seems fine but the rest are not.

Here is the code from that section of the file:

<dt><?php esc_html_e( 'Forums', 'bbpress' ); ?></dt>
	<dd>
		<strong><?php echo esc_html( $stats['forum_count'] ); ?></strong>
	</dd>

	<dt><?php esc_html_e( 'Topics', 'bbpress' ); ?></dt>
	<dd>
		<strong><?php echo esc_html( $stats['topic_count'] ); ?></strong>
	</dd>

	<dt><?php esc_html_e( 'Replies', 'bbpress' ); ?></dt>
	<dd>
		<strong><?php echo esc_html( $stats['reply_count'] ); ?></strong>
	</dd>

	<dt><?php esc_html_e( 'Topic Tags', 'bbpress' ); ?></dt>
	<dd>
		<strong><?php echo esc_html( $stats['topic_tag_count'] ); ?></strong>
	</dd>

[Robin W]

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]

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

[thefarmer]

Thx and especially for the plugin which I shall implement. It blocks public access to user profiles and that’s got to be a good thing much appreciated. But I’ll explain why I doubt that’s the cause here.

This beta test really should have been a piece of cake. 6 savvy users, each with bespoke usernames at least 8 characters upper lower case and special characters. And strong passwords, thankfully.

(Standard) version of Linit Login Attempts Reloaded (‘LLAR’) plugin was loaded, not anticipating any action.

Only 3 of the 6 users bothered to post a few trivial posts. Within a day or so, LLAR flagged up failed login attempts from only those users who had posted. Not many at first but it grew exponentially over the next few days from multiple IPs (presumably bots) to about 1000/day before I shut it down.

Now it’s not conclusive, but seems unlikely that a random attack on user profiles would only find the exact 3 users who posted. More likely those usernames were found from their posts I figure. Usernames were, after all, in the page conetent, And so the html if that were visible.

But also visible in the RSS feed perhaps?

I have now turned off WP’s entire RSS etc feed. Blocked offending usernames. Allocated new usernames, will implement your plugin and start the beta test again.

Shall post the outcome. Let’s see what happens !

thx and much appreciated all your stuff not just on this, RW

TheFarmer

[thefarmer]

I’m building a small community forum with about 20 users. Bbp 2.6.9. WP 6.0.1 Login Attempts reloaded plugin.

Intention is for the whole forum to be private, and require user login to view and/or post.

Seems simple enough and works well so began live beta test. The forum is set ‘private’. But topics within it have to be set ‘public’ for logged in participant users to see. If topics are set ‘private’ only admin/keyholders can see, and that would not be good.

OK, so the ‘public’ topics and replies don’t seem publicly visible, after all they are in a private forum. For example https://mysite.com/forum/topicpage only returns content if user is logged in.

So far so good.

Except….early on in a limited test, an unexpected and uninvited brute force attack was able to identify three correct usernames (but not passwords) which I can only presume must come from reading topic post content ???

So what does a ‘public’ topic in a ‘private’ forum mean? Is content somehow publicly visible, and how do I get all content in a private forum to be properly private and only visible to logged on users? Or is there a security flaw?

Thx and I’ve run out of ideas, help appreciated TheFarmer

[Robin W]

ok, I’ve just tried this on my test site with just twentyten and bbppress and it sends with carriage returns, so possible that the email system you are using or indeed the email recipient software is stripping – may be may not be.

otherwise 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

[ewd910]

Hi, I’m having an issue where my forum notifications are not being formatted correctly. None of the spacing that exists in the default notification message exists in the resulting email, and I have confirmed that the message is being sent using the ‘text/html’ content type header. I added a <br> tag to the notification email as a test as well, but it was sent in plain text and not rendered as a line break. Anything I should try?

[harryz808]

Aloha. I’m trying to get bbpress working and I’m having a problem. bbpress has been installed and activated, but I don’t see ‘Forum’ on the dashboard. This is bbpress 2.6.9 running on WP 6.0.1. I have uninstalled and re-installed bbpress with no change.

Searching the internet tells me it’s a conflict with another plugin or with the theme. However, I’ve installed the “Health Check and Troubleshooting” plugin (https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/health-check/) and when I enable it, then enable bbpress, I still don’t see the Forum in the dashboard. Changing themes did not help either.

Also, when looking at the View Details of bbpress, I see this: Warning: This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress. Is this my problem?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Harry Z

[Robin W]

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]

thanks – I can see the issue – suggest you change the keymaster pw to prevent this site being hacked

I’ll now use my test site to see if I can work out what is happening

[Robin W]

1. can’t see as I don’t have access
2. when you say ‘blank bbpress’ did you do the full tests above?

[chenryahts]

Yep, using a child theme. But, the child theme isn’t listed, only twentytwentytwo itself, and selecting it didn’t change anything.

So, maybe I misunderstood your directions, but this did not solve the issue. I still get a blank white page.

I’m happy to test something else or troubleshoot it.

[Robin W]

just loaded that code to my test site, and it runs fine.

suggest you delete and try it again

[cathyskach]

I tested this on our staging site. Switching out for the Twenty Twenty theme, the dates populated, so I presume the problem to be the theme. What advice do you have for a fix?

PS: I tried taking out the short code on the member-only (parent) page to allow you access to the forum but it seems to still want a password.

Cathy

[Robin W]

ok, given that I cannot access site (in effect you are sending me a photo of your car engine, rather than letting me see the car itself) 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

[Robin W]

yes just tried ‘forum’ and it does not show

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, so I followed your test.

I created a forum called ‘test hidden forum’ and a topic within it called ‘test hidden topic’

I logged in as a participant and did a search for ‘hidden’ – no results.

What search were you doing that I could replicate?

EDIT – sorry just looked at what you did in trac – I’ll try that

[rinde]

Is bbPress no longer being updated?

It shows Last Updated: 8 months ago Untested with your version of WordPress

We are on WordPress 6.01.
I want to buy a theme for bbPress but am afraid it won’t work since it hasn’t been updated in so long 🙂

[Robin W]

ok, now that we have checked the permalinks and the slugs, then 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]

maybe it’s the if function, try

add_action ('bbp_new_topic_post_extras', 'rew_spam_update_last_active', 10 ,1 ) ;

function rew_spam_update_last_active ($topic_id) {
	//this function tests if a new topic has been marked as spam by Akismet.  If so then the last active date will be wrong
	//So we use topic walker to recalculate it
	bbp_update_topic_walker ($topic_id,  '', 0, 0, true) ;
	}

It’s not the answer, but might help get to the solution problem

[Robin W]

‘It looks like if the fix was inside bbp_topic_freshness_link() it would be much easier to test, ;’

agree but it just wouldn’t work there, that is not where or when the issue is occurring.

Try

add_action ('bbp_new_topic_post_extras', 'rew_spam_update_last_active', 10 ,1 ) ;

function rew_spam_update_last_active ($topic_id) {
	//this function tests if a new topic has been marked as spam by Akismet.  If so then the last active date will be wrong
	//So we use topic walker to recalculate it
	if (!empty (get_post_meta( $topic_id, '_bbp_akismet_user_result' ))) {
	bbp_update_topic_walker ($topic_id,  '', 0, 0, true) ;
	}
}

[gtatar]

Thank you, Robin. I added the snipped, and it partially worked. The anchor text “time ago” now reflects the time of the latest good post. However the URL is for the latest spam post.

I started digging a bit through bbpress code. It looks like if the fix was inside bbp_topic_freshness_link() it would be much easier to test, as we would not need to wait for a new spam post to test the fix. And perhaps make decisions based on the wp_post status having the value “publish”. This way the solution would not be specific to Akismet. But I am really too new to WordPress coding and bbPress to be making this kind of changes myself.

[Robin W]

ok, give this a try – it may or may not do the trick !!

add_action ('bbp_new_topic_post_extras', 'rew_spam_update_last_active', 10 ,1 ) ;

function rew_spam_update_last_active ($topic_id) {
	//this function tests if a new topic has been marked as spam by Akismet.  If so then the last active date will be wrong
	//So we use topic walker to recalculate it
	if (!empty (get_post_meta( $topic_id, '_bbp_akismet_user_result' ))) {
	bbp_update_topic_walker ($topic_id) ;
	}
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[gtatar]

Hi Robin. Thank you for looking at this. Yes, I can replicate the problem and test a fix. In fact, I have the described situation on my forum right now:

https://www.totalsync.com/forum/

And it is likely to stay this way for the next few days. If necessary I can also recrate it manually.