It’s all good… My testing of Firefox 29, Apache 2.x, and bbPress 2.5.4 here with Twenty Fourteen and things work perfectly.
Also what I meant by TinyMCE plugin is there are quite a few plugins that enhance/modify/tweak the TinyMCE, ‘TinyMCE Advanced’ and ‘Ultimate TinyMCE’ to name just two.
Anyways when/if you have another look at troubleshooting this just ask away any Q’s 🙂
Hi Stephen,
Are you talking about the bbPress toolbar when creating a topic or reply?
Yes.
What happens if you switch to the Twenty Fourteen theme?
The Twenty Fourteen theme has the same issue.
Have you disabled any TinyMCE plugins?
I didn’t install a plug-in called TinyMCE. I thought it was included by default.
Have you tried disabling all your plugins except bbPress to see if the issue is resolved?
No. As I said, the site works find when using Chrome, or IE on the Linux/Apache box (with all plug-ins enabled). When I use the site hosted by Windows Server/IIS 8.5, Chrome, IE, and Firefox work.
So it looks like a bug that only shows up when Firefox + Apache + bbpress are all working together. Any other combination seems to work fine.
What version of WordPress and bbPress are you using?
Latest version of both.
Note: Please don’t bump old topics, create a new topic please, things change and most of the time the issue will be a different issue.
Very sorry. I’ll do that next time.
Note: I’ve decided that I’m just going to leave it as is. If Firefox users want to post, they can forfeit the editing tools, or use another browser.
Sorry to have wasted your time. Maybe I’ll try to troubleshoot it again when I have more time.
Thanks for your reply.
ok, I’ve just installed bbpress, buddypress and private groups on a new test site, added a couple of forums, and set one to subscribe.
Without private groups it is fine, with private groups both forums show as subscribed, so I can replicate your problem 🙂
I’ll take a look tomorrow as to whether I can work a fix for it.
Hi,
I am using iThemes Exchange and bbPress Membership Add-on and want to include access to a specific forum in one of the memberships.
The issues is that the list of forums is not showing on a page where it should list all the forums available for that membership. I have logged this issue with iThemes, but replied with the following:
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I was installing bbPress on my site to test this issue and I got the following:
Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3245
Can you start a ticket with them as well. There’s a good chance this could be part of the issue.
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Thanks for any help.
P.
The problem is that my search form is only returning a list of recent posts. It’s not including ANY forum information, and it’s not including any valid search results. Prior to installing BBPress, my search results were displayed on a formatted page that said “Search Results.” Now when you search, it’s saying “Latest Posts.” Somewhere with the installation, something is rerouting the code to pull from somewhere else.
In my searchform.php the code is:
<form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" class="form-search <?php if (is_404() || !have_posts()) { ?> well <?php } ?>" action="<?php echo home_url('/'); ?>">
<label class="visuallyhidden" for="s"><?php _e('Search for:', 'roots'); ?></label>
<input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" class="search-query" placeholder="<?php _e('Search', 'roots'); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>">
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="<?php _e('Search', 'roots'); ?>" class="btn">
</form>
Hi Stephen,
thank you for this detailed explanation of the background to this new behavior of bbpress.
I’m with my forum not online yet and still experimenting on my test area. That is why I made a lot of things in the backend, because I would like to get to know everything about bbpress before I go online definitely. And so I have noticed it that the reply-titles are missing. Now I will try out your advice in the future everything if possible only to manage in the front-end.
Thank you for your explanations to this new behavior.
Morgensonne
We have a test site setup, but we pay a company a lot of money per hour to run diagnostics on larger problems. I’m trying to get to the bottom of this problem using your support before I turn it over to them.
“you say ‘our site continues to use the search functions that we setup. ‘ have you some special search function, or how is your search working?”
– Nothing special, just that our search function calls our own loop-search.php file and search.php file and the loop-search.php file in the plugin seems to be overriding the loop-search.php file in our theme file.
ok, sounds like you need a test site
https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/
so that you can test things like installing bbpress prior to going live !
Anyway, back to your immediate issue, it will be very theme dependant, and sounds like your theme is doing something with search after you’ve disabled it
you say ‘our site continues to use the search functions that we setup. ‘ have you some special search function, or how is your search working?
That is very kind of you @robin-w. I was a little… demoralized today, as I did put a lot of work into my bbpress-forum, which is based on INK interface kit, and it would be very disappointing if all the effort would’ve been for naught, even if it’s just the subscription.
Please let me know if I can help you with anything, even if it’s just testing!
Thanks again for all the work!
Presume this doesn’t happen when you switch to a default theme?
Actually, the strange thing is, that it also does happen with a standard theme, like twenty fourteen. I didn’t test it before, as I thought it would be a problem with my custom theme, but now I see, that it happens also with other themes.
Also test whether it is actually subscribing to all forums, or just saying that it is.
Well, if I visit the subscription list with subscribed forums and topics, I do see the whole forum list, with categories and forums, no matter which forum I did subscribe to. It’s the same with the source code, I do see all the forums.
I should add, that it is working wth topics. If I subscribe to a topic, only that topic appears in the subscribed topics list.
Presume this doesn’t happen when you switch to a default theme?
Also test whether it is actually subscribing to all forums, or just saying that it is.
Tom,
am struggling to keep up with your testing 🙂
Ok, so can you let me have your ‘private group’ settings for
forum visibility
general settings
so that I can replicate what you are seeing
Hi Robin,
I tried inputting Hello, and received an unformatted list of our latest posts (labeled “Latest Posts”).
I tried putting MBA, a term that would normally turn up pages of results, and again received an unformatted list of our latest posts.
I tried searching names of faculty/staff members tagged in our directories and posts, and again received an unformatted list of our latest posts.
I’ve attempted to include a screenshot to show you, but my reply does not go through. I’m hoping that you’ll be able to recreate this issue so we are both seeing the same thing!
Hi Robin,
I’ve been trying to post this reply since last week and for whatever reason it hasn’t been working. So, sorry if you’ve been receiving all of them…
When I go to our site, after I’ve cleared all the caches, etc, in multiple browsers, and I see an unformatted listing of our 10 latest posts. I cannot include a screenshot-that is what has been keeping my replies from going through.
I’ve been using common search terms that would return search on our site, MBA, Daniels, Master’s Degrees, etc.
Instead, all I see is an unformatted page that has “Latest Posts” listed. Even if the search didn’t turn up results, it should still have a formatted page saying No search results.
I’m hoping you’re able to recreate this. Thanks for you help!
Jenna
@robin-w Hi, I’m back! 😛 (and I haven’t forgotten about my promise to donate – I’m still waiting for my invoice to be paid!)
I’ve been testing this plugin, and although the updates seem to have improved a few things, I’m still having issues when trying to list topics.
If I look at http://www.mysite.com/topics as an administrator/keymaster, I can see all topics fine.
If I look at http://www.mysite.com/topics as any other user then I just get a white page
This appears to be the same error as before, with the query timing out due to the large amount of topics it’s trying to check privileges for.
Is there a way to use the ‘Topics Per Page’ value from bbpress as the limit on the query? I understand this might screw up the pagination slightly, but I’d rather the page count was wrong than the topics listing being unavailable.
I was looking into adding this myself, but I don’t know where I can pull the current page information from in order to set the query offset…
Do you think this would be a viable option to reduce the amount of work the database/php is doing each time?
*edit* Pagination would be an issue if I did the above wouldn’t it… Hmmmm [scratches head].
Would a JOIN sql statement be an option in order to do the matching of groups-to-users-to-topics bit while grabbing the topics, rather than grabbing all topics and then checking each one individually?
We have installed all the latest versions based on Genesis framework.
I don’t know why visiting every forum (concept) shows all created topics and not only related topics.
Did we set up something wrong?
http://academy.sepid.co/forums/
It should shows only one topic when we go down to forum.
I have tested with twentyten-theme and twentyfourteen and without any plugins. The behavior is unchanged, if I use bbpress 2.5x.
What would I like to happen?
I would like that bbpress is running like under version 2.41.
That is:
1. In the dashboard -> replies, the title is automatically written to the title box with the prefix “reply to: .. (topic title) ..”
2. This in turn causes that the permalinks include not only the ID, but – like it is defined in the WP settings – again the full title of the posts.
Why? As I had written:
1. Permalinks only with ID are not good for search engines.
2. The handling of the replies in the admin area (dashboard) is not good. If you have opened a reply, then you can no longer see at what post it belongs, because the title box is empty. How do you personally deal with that?
Do you have the ability to install bbpress version 2.41 in your test area? Then you can watch live, how version 2.41 works and what you see in the dashboard –> replies. (= title is there and permalink with title)
This is, what I want to have back!
Do you know a way to implement this again with version 2.54?
Morgensonne
Sorry – saved a bit early.. to continue…
so apart from your dashboard display, I can see what you see.
Does your dashboard issue disappear with twentyten (which is what I am testing with) ?
And now since I can see what you see, what would you like to happen ?
Ok I’ve looked at the screen shots, basically you sent through one of the backend which showed
1. ‘no title’ against the replies in Dashboard>replies.
2. a shortened permalink eg http://www.mysite.com/forums/reply/13691/ and in the title box ‘enter title here’ in grey for an entry under 2.5.4
3. a long permalink eg http://www.mysite.com/forums/reply/items-for-sale where the reply was headed reply to: ‘items for sale’
(this to help anyone else looking at this topic!)
In testing I get the same 2 & 3, so yes the way permalinks are storing for replies has changed.
I get no problems however with the dashboard display.
I haven’t tested or used this plugin with buddypress, but this sets up private groups to prevent search and /topics revealing topics, and has widgets for recent topics and recent replies
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/
Hi I have a problem with having members register on my website. I have set up the login widget and register page. When I do a test registration it brings me to my wordpress login page and says user registration is not allowed.
So I went to general settings and put anyone can join. When I did another test registration, it went successfully but it allowed me access to the dashboard/backend. I set the new user title as subscriber and contributor but both lead to the dashboard. How do I have the user subscribe but without access to my dashboard?
And my replies come as
http://www.mytestblog.de/blog/foren/reply/140/
Since version 2.5x…….. What’s going on?
Why is in your reply URL “topic” and not “reply”?
Hi Robin,
I’ve been trying to post this reply since yesterday and for whatever reason it hasn’t been working. So, sorry if you’ve been receiving all of them…
When I go to our site, after I’ve cleared all the caches, etc, in multiple browsers, this is what I see:
I’ve been using common search terms that would return search on our site, MBA, Daniels, Master’s Degrees, etc.
Instead, all I see is an unformatted page that has “Latest Posts” listed. Even if the search didn’t turn up results, it should still have a formatted page saying No search results.
I’m hoping you’re able to recreate this. Thanks for you help!
Jenna
Hi Robin,
it seems that Stephen had no idea about this.
In the meantime I have heard by John James, that this is not a bug. It would be correct. Replies only ever had titles because WordPress forced all posts to have them until 3.7. I’m confused about that, because at bbpress 2:41 I have reply-titles with WordPress 3.9.
And you had written that your reply-titles are still there and also in the permalink (bbpress 2:54 and twentyten-theme). So I want to ask you to have a second look on it: is it really the REPLY-title in the permalink? Topic-titles I also have in the permalinks, only the replies have no title and the permalink shows only the ID.
My permalinks should contain the post NAME (not the ID) like this:
mytestblog.de/blog/foren/reply/reply-to-this-is-a-test/
bbpress 2.41 does exactly in this way!
Now – with bbpress 2.5x – the permalink is like this:
mytestblog.de/blog/foren/reply/140/
140 is the ID of the topic reply.
I would like to have it again that way as it runs under bbpress version 2.41. 🙁
Why do I want this?
1. permalink without reply-title, but only with reply-ID is not good for search engines.
2. if I open a reply-post in the admin area, there is no title “reply to: …. (topic title) …” (the title bar is empty) and I do not know to which post this reply refers. This is not good for handling the forum in practice.
Robin, would you be so kind to look again to see if it really is th REPLY-title, which you have in your permalink? I can also take a screenshot to illustrate where my problem is.
Thank you very much for your help!
Morgensonne
When I type in anything in the search, I receive a list of ‘latest posts’ (see screen shot). I typed in MBA, which for us, a business school, is something that usually turns up many posts. Not only does it pull a ‘latest posts’ page, it’s also unformatted.
http://awesomescreenshot.com/03730e6s9f
