[Robin W]

ok, so presuming this is in any topic, then if you fancy sharing the shortcode you are using and the php code, I might take a look at that

Outside of your php code, I’d 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

[wdseocompany]

Hi Robin, thanks for coming back so quick; the URL of the topic would be:
/forums/topic/test-topic-creation/

Then when pressing the edit button it’s:
/forums/topic/test-topic-creation/edit/

Kind Regards,
Matt P

[cstoll]

Hi,

I’m creating this topic on the off chance that somebody else might have experienced a similar thing and can point me in the right direction as to what has caused this.

So for unknown reasons, all forums and posts suddenly disappeared completely from our WordPress instance. They are not in the trash and I also couldn’t locate them in the database anymore. No plugin updates or any other suspicious actions have been performed that I know of which could’ve been behind this.

Also, this didn’t happen to our DEV instance which is essentially in the same state in terms of active plugins etc.

Anyone ever heard of something like this happening? I’m not so much concerned about restoring the lost forums because it was only test forums and test posts so far. But I don’t want to have this happen in the future with actual forums and posts on there. I know that backups can be made, but then there’d still be the content you’d lose in-between performing them manually.

We are using bbPress in conjunction with LearnPress and it was forums tied to a LearnPress course that were lost (we didn’t have any ‘free-standing’ ones), if that provides any hints.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[rinh]

Greetings

I’m administrating a small forum currently on open source Vanilla, but they seem to discontinue their open source version and I’m looking for other solutions. Since we’re also already on WordPress bbPress seems like a choice to look into, but I’m worried we’ll get into the same situation again with the software being discontinued or outdated.

When I installed bbPress I noticed it said untested with the current version of WordPress, but also it does seem to be updated the past year so there may be no problem.

I need to ask though if bbPress is alive and planning to be alive for the future?
Are there any security concerns with it being updated so rarely or that’s perfectly fine?

Thank you in advance!

[anniemeisy]

Thank you for answering. Will test it

[janecarole]

One other person got it, and I assumed that all were. The other person is my husband … and I just remembered he is set up as an admin, though he doesn’t function as one! I will set up a test user. Can you tell me how to “deactivate” the subscriptions email tab? I don’t see how to do that.

[Robin W]

oh, and do you know that all users are getting this, or are you assuming because you do? do you have a test user set up ?

[Robin W]

ok, just found a few minutes.

When you say ‘ The Meets forum says it has 113 subscribers’ – where is this shown? not a feature I use on my test site, so I’m struggling to find it 🙂

do you have an additional plugin doing this?

[Robin W]

thanks for posting. The site needs access to replicate so cannot be reproduced without.

bbpress does not have a WYSIWYG editor by default, so what code/plugin are you using to get this? I’d suspect your theme may be doing this, and therefore may be creating the problem.

You also have an error in your theme (Use of undefined constant bbp_reply_id ), which is either code you have added to what looks like a parent theme, or an error in the theme itself.

I’d suggest that you prove this by

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 if it is theme contact the theme author as it is a paid theme

[Robin W]

it shows on my test site

[Alfapi]

Hi,

In the plugin GD bbPress Attachments I have the error “It appears this file is already present in your media library as post 38220!” when I upload file and If i rename the file, I have the same error.

After many tests, I realized that I need the change the “title” filed in the file properties in the detail tabs.

How to solve the issue?

[craigcotner]

@robin-w absolutely zero rush at all. Have some fun!!!

I am excited to see what you come up with. Right now I have 2 topics, both with 449 replies, that I would love to test out once you have something ready. Delete one the old fashion way and see how long it takes and then your new way. Right now I am guessing the current way would take 6-7min to send to the trash and another 9-11min to completely delete.

[Robin W]

making progress, but it is a lot of work to do the testing phase.

Queen’s jubilee here in the uk, so may be early next weeek before I have a tested version

[Robin W]

standard fault finding advice applies viz

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

[deborahdavidson]

Not sure if this is Divi related or BB Press related. We have a BB press search function for our Forum which has been fine until recently. However, suddenly only page 1 displays correctly in the search results (first image). The rest of the pages look like the second photo – you have to scroll down to reach the menu which has been corrupted and then the search results are after that (and are displaying correctly. All plugins, themes and WordPress are the latest versions. Hope someone can help (please) …

https://thefdforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1.png
https://thefdforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2.png

Wordpress Version: 6.0
bbPress Version: 2.6.9

Home

[Robin W]

If you have deactivated bbpress, then the error cannot show as this is a bbpress function, where are you seeing these errors – if in a log, then are you sure the log is being cleared before each test

[beachcalsix]

Further info update:

Hi, after doing further testing, I’m still getting an error. I deactivated youzify. Then, I deactivated bbpress and buddypress but still getting an error. I am not too familiar with the files and coding but I opened the files where the errors are indicatd in the above error message I posted. If anyone is familiar and sees an error, I would really appreciate the heads up. Probably a long shot but thought I’d try. Thanks!

First file:
An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 62 of the file /home/advance1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/notifications.php. Error message: Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function bbp_format_buddypress_notifications(), 5

this is the code showing in the above file currently:

Line 62-6 :

function bbp_format_buddypress_notifications( $content, $item_id, $secondary_item_id, $action_item_count, $format, $component_action_name, $component_name, $id ) {

// Bail if not the notification action we are looking for
if ( 0 !== strpos( $component_action_name, ‘bbp_new_reply’ ) ) {
return $content;
}

_______________
The code found in this file: passed in /home/advance1/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 307:

line 303: // Avoid the array_slice() if possible.
if ( 0 == $the_[‘accepted_args’] ) {
$value = call_user_func( $the_[‘function’] );
} elseif ( $the_[‘accepted_args’] >= $num_args ) {
line 307–> $value = call_user_func_array( $the_[‘function’], $args );
} else {
$value = call_user_func_array( $the_[‘function’], array_slice( $args, 0, (int) $the_[‘accepted_args’] ) );
}
}
} while ( false !== next( $this->iterations[ $nesting_level ] ) );

________________
Last error file:passed in /home/advance1/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 307

[beachcalsix]

Thanks for the help! I will do some testing today.
Thanks again!

[Robin W]

it looks like youzify from that error log (but cannot guarantee).

I’d suggest you try deactivating youzify as a test and see if the error diappears.

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]

so did you do the plugin test ?

[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]

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

[Jimmyt53]

Hi Robin and thanks for picking up on this. To answer your questions:

1. how would you want to pick topics for deletion – by ‘older than’ presumably?

Yes. A the moment I have to go month by month and wait for WP to do its thing

2. just from one forum or across all forums?

All forums.

3. again could not be a topic or reply where it is latest activity

Not an issue as these topics and replies would be at least seven years old

4. Are we talking about permanently deleting – ie reduce database size, or just trashing – ie stopping people seeing, but retaining the ability to restore later?

Permanent deletion required as my ISP is telling me that I’m nearing my limit on the number of files (but not the capacity in terms of memory usage) and this would allow me to get rid of material that is no longer relevant.

[Robin W]

All – let me just clarify that I’m just a guy sat in his kitchen who helps out here, I am not a bbpress author !!

@craigcotner & @iqfy- trashing topics or replies calls a standard WordPress function which checks for comments and media on each post before trashing. This involves a database lookup to check whether anything in those tables needs deleting and it is this that seems to be taking the time and making you both time out. Topics and replies don’t have comments or media that is attached in that way, so these steps are not needed.

Now trashing a reply is fairly easy, replies don’t hold any data that needs referencing elsewhere that we need to worry about.

But Topics have engagements and subscriptions to be gone through.

so if I wrote some code to allow you to delete a numbered topic, this could use a quicker method to permanently delete all the replies, and then use the proper function to delete the topic.

And as long as the topic or reply it is not latest activity, then we can maybe skip the step that needs to recalculate what the lastest activity now needs to be.

That should prevent timeouts I hope.

SO 2 things here

1. any topic/reply being got rid of should not be the ‘latest activity’ in the forum – but I’m guessing if the topic is still getting replies and therefore ‘hot’ then you would not be deleting it
2. this would be deleting it a numbered topic at a time, so you would look up the topic and then in the dashboard there would be an option to enter that topic number to trash it.

Does that sound as if it would work for you?

@jimmyt53 – not sure how easily I’d be able to fix that, but I’ll think about it as I progress. so

1. how would you want to pick topics for deletion – by ‘older than’ presumably? and
2. just from one forum or across all forums?
3. again could not be a topic or reply where it is latest activity

Feedback before I start code something that doesn’t help would be great 🙂

and from all – are we talking about permanently deleting – ie reduce database size, or just trashing – ie stopping people seeing, but retaining the ability to restore later?

[Robin W]

your theme or another plugin might be affecting my template loading

if you want to check this:

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