[randrcomputers]

I re-enabled plugin, ran repair again and will let it run to further test. site is vpinball.com if you want to look

[Scaffies]

Hello,

after upgrading to v2.6.2 we now see all topic posts smaller than before, indented by the options above each topic. This is for the topics only, all replies to the topics look normal.

For admins with more options, it reduces the topic width to 50% … so it is an issue.
For all regular members with only 3 available options, topic width is reduced by ~20%.

Here is a screenshot – the pics and video at the left should fill out the entire width:

Latest version of WordPress and all other plugins.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[tauschring]

Wordpress 5.3 bbpress 2.6.2

Hi,
I would like to create a link to the list of subscribed topics in the page menu in a bbpress forum. Since I use wp user manager as logon widget, unfortunately this does not include it. The bbpress login widget is not used because you can not upload a photo when editing the profile and because many fields are displayed that I do not use. Wp usermanager I could restrict to the fields User-Display-Name, Firstname, Lastname and E.Mail-Address.

In order to be able to display lists like subscriptions and favorites, I would like to create the following link in the sidebar that works in my text widget:
“Abonnierte Themen”

“Test-1234” is a sample user that works with the above link in the text widget .. “test-1234” should be replaced by a variable with the display user name, thus linking each logged in user to his own subscription list leads.

Or would it be better to write a plugin widget? Then I’ll learn how to do.

Since I am new to WordPress and bbpress and also have little experience with PHP, I ask for help how to solve it.
Thank you and greetings from the Lake of Konstanz,
Klaus

[jeechriz55]

WordPress crashes happen very rarely but when they do, they can cause a great deal of stress. Fortunately, they are most often very easily fixed without any loss of content.

It has been my experience that 99% of the time any issues with WordPress is plugin related. A site may work fine for a while, then an update in either the WordPress program or a plugin will cause an incompatibility issue causing the database to fail. Troubleshooting a WordPress crash is very easy and you can be back up and running in a few minutes. The first, and most obvious place to start is to look at any recent changes you may have made, an update or a new plugin installation. Sometimes though, it is not so obvious. Travel Fast

Steps to troubleshooting a WordPress crash:

Since you most likely will not be able to access the dashboard of your WordPress installation, you must have access to your files either through an FTP client or from the File Manager in your web hosting cPanel. Navigate to the wp-content folder in your file manager or ftp.
Open that folder and inside you will see a plugins folder.
Rename the plugins folder plugins.bak
Create a new folder (directory) and call it plugins.
Check your website. If the website now loads, you have verified that it is indeed a plugin compatibility issue.
If you are running an older version of WordPress, now is a good time to upgrade to the latest, most stable version.
Once the latest version is installed, you can begin to troubleshoot to find out which of your plugins is causing the incompatibility issue.
Reinstall your plugins one at a time. After each installation, test your site to make sure it is still working properly. Update each plugin to the newest version if there has been an upgrade made available.
If at any time during this process your WordPress crashes again, you know you have found the culprit. Simply access your cPanel or FTP again and delete the plugin.
You will need to either download a newer version of that plugin directly from the developer source or wait for an update to become available for it before you can install that plugin again.
Most plugin developers work tirelessly to keep their plugins up-to-date with the latest versions of WordPress, but occasionally an update is a little slow in coming or the WordPress update is a major one that has changed the core functions of the program and the developers have not been able to keep up.

Steps to take when the WordPress crash is not plugin related:

If you have tried the above and the troubleshooting has not been a plugin issue, there are two other areas you can try.

Go into your cPanel and into the MySQL panel that will bring up the list of databases installed on your account. Click on the restore/repair database. If the crash was due to damage to your database, this should correct the problem.
You should have a database backup on file. (install a plugin to take care of this on a regular basis if you haven’t already) You can do a database restore from your backup file. If you have not been in the habit of backing up your sites, and you do not have any backup files, I am sorry to say that you may have lost your website. You will need to contact support to see if they have any recent backups or if they can offer any support.
It really is important that you keep your WordPress up to date and update your plugins as often as soon as the new versions are made available. Most importantly, you should backup all files before doing any kind of updates or upgrades. The plugins available today make this process automated. Set it up when you install your blog and you will never have to think of it again. It will do the backups and email them to you weekly so you will be prepared in just such an instance. Readuce Anxiety!

[andrew55]

When recently updating to 2.6.2 version of bbPress, I am getting 404s when new user arrives on homepage of forums. 404s are visible to user and showing in logs. When page is hard refreshed, forums show up.

But strange, if, if user goes to link within forums (topic, etc.), no 404s occur.

I am using bbp-forum-index shortcode on homepage of forums. I did a test and issue doesn’t occur when shortcodes aren’t used (no 404), but of course, no forums are available.

With shortcodes, even through 404s occur, the sidebar displays and shows the user’s logged-in info (avatar, etc).

Issue seems to only occur when user is logged in and visits forums. I have forums on their own WordPress installation within a directory of main site.

I thought it might have been cache, but issue still occurs when cache is disabled.

Here is link to site:

https://www.lifeleap.org/community/

Any suggestions on what might be occurring or what I do to troubleshoot issue? Thanks for any help

[janiszewski99]

Problem solved!

I have disabled the plugins:

WP Fastest Cache and
WPBakery Page Builder

It helped —> I could already add a new forum.

The strange thing is that when I turned the plugins back on, the site still worked correctly 🙂
Maybe the problem was on the cache side …

Thanks for pointing me to the solution 🙂

[hardel]

Robin, I installed your plugin but when I made a test post, it still displayed as 5 hours ago in the sidebar widget for latest posts.

[Chuckie]

To test:

Just click Submit to try and submit an empty reply to a topic that is quite long (perhaps several replies already).

When you hit submit it scrolls to the top of the page. This is misleading. If I scroll back down to the forum I tried submitting I now see some errors:

• ERROR: Your reply cannot be empty.
• ERROR: Please solve Captcha correctly.

The user should have been taken to the location of this error div, not the top of the page.

[Chuckie]

Just to let you know that this was a bbp style pack issue. It was discussed here:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-cant-view-their-profile/

The latest update of bbp style pack resolves this problem.

[neohack]

I’m having an issue with links instead of it being keebu.com/forums/dommains there is a double forum listing as seen below!! i’m new guys to bbpress I’m using the latest install of
wordpress 5.3
bbpress 2.6.2
buddyPress 5.0.0

https://keebu.com/forums/forum/domains/

[Chuckie]

It seems to be this html that builds a load of divs:

        function build_html() {
            
            $this->sort_users();
            $data = $this->stats_builder();
            $HTMLOutput = "";
            
            foreach( $data as $key => $html ) {
               $HTMLOutput .= "<div class='bbpas-" . $key . "' id='bbpas-" . $key . "'>" . $html . "</div>";
            }
            
            return $HTMLOutput;
        }

That is called by this:

function widget( $arg, $instance ) {
        
        echo $arg['before_widget'] . 
             $arg['before_title'] . 
             $instance['heading'] . 
             $arg['after_title'] . 
             $this->_parent->online->build_html() . 
             $arg['after_widget'];
    }     

So the is_logged_in test would have to be applied to build_html and if $key is a certain value do the logged in test.

Elsewhere i found this:

            // Section: Users active in last x hours
            if(in_array( 'last_x_hours', $stat ) ) {                
                $HTMLOutput["inactive"] = $this->section_userstats( $this->stats, "inactive" );                
            }

So I guess the $key of interest is inactive. Funny index to use for that …

[Robin W]

I only started php in 2014 – necessity makes a great motivator.

I doubt if it would take you that long to find where the output is, and add a is_logged_in test to it.

[Chuckie]

Infact … to provide more info …

If I say log in as “Test123” normal user and hover over his profile URL, it is all lowercase “test123” but clicking the link will not work. If I change the link by pasting it into a browser and adjusting it to “Test123” then the link works and I can now view my profile.

So there is an issue with normal users who have title case in their user name and not being allowed to view their profiles because the slugs in the links are all lowercase. Admin can view these profiles but not the users.

Only users who has all lowercase usernames can view their profiles.

[Chuckie]

I originally asked this issue here:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-cant-view-their-profile/

I have now found out why it happens. It has to do with the Title Case of the user name. For example, if my user name is:

Test123

Then I will not be able to view my profile.

But if my user name is:

test123

I can view my profile.

I don’t know if this is a bbPress 2.6.2 bug or bbp style pack bug (since I am using the latter theme templates).

For some reason the administrator can view these profile pages despite the case issue. But not normal participants. I notice that the URL is always the lowercase slug. Are we somehow using the username rather than the nice name? Either way, this is the cause and it means many of my users can’t view their profiles as they have used Title Case in many instances.

[Chuckie]

I have only just noticed this. I use the “bbPress Advanced Statistics” plugin as I like the way it presents the data at the bottom on the forum page.

However, if I “log out”, it still lists all the names of the users from the last 24 hours. That is not right. It should only list last 24 forum activity if a user is logged in. Technically it is exposing users names for a non logged in user when I don’t want it to.

I am using latest bbPress 2.6.2

Any advice appreciated. Thanks.

[Chuckie]

I am using the latest version of the forums 2.6.2 and associated bbp style pack plugin | forum template.

Today I was creating a topic and hit submit. At first I wondered what had happened because it didn’t seem to submit. I then eventually noticed (see image):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cxv5lwz2ya82hcy/bbPress-Error.png?dl=0

I assume that it must have scrolled to the top but this error message is just not standing out from the crowd. Any advice to get this error message more noticeable?

Thank you.

[Robin W]

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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.

Then come back

[chetan0412]

So.. again issue is back. After letest update again getting below 404 error that “bbpress.min.css?ver=2.6.2” missing.

/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.min.css?ver=2.6.2

what to do ?

[scabbrox]

Hi and thanks for the quick reply.

It is indeed set to do that, it always has been in the past to allow new applicants the ability to see areas of the forum that are public and make an application to join.

The difference is now it’s adding it also to anyone who also has a role assigned manually.

I can try turning it off but am concerned this may impact the ability of genuine Spectators (potential applicants and former members) to make applications and see the public forums.

I’ll test it and get back to you if needed.

[mvaneijgen]

I’m updating a forum at the moment and while starting working at it I’d opted out of using the 2.6 beta version, because when testing it the feature that I need most didn’t seem to work, pagination and nested replies.

I know this also was not supported on the older versions, but while searching for a solution I came across an article bbPress threaded (nested) replies & paging which fixed the issue for me and this didn’t seem to work on the newer 2.6 version.

I’ve found some threads on this, but they haven’t been updated in some time.

• https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/feature-request-pagination-for-threaded-comments/
• https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3201

Is there any news on this? My site isn’t going live for some time, but if I know it isn’t on the road map I’ll have to take some measures to fix the issue for this particular site.

[Chuckie]

I have an update for you @robin-w

I thought I had set up “WP Super cache” to ignore the support_forums URLs but I don’t know if that was working. I have deactivated by caching plugin and done a test and it seemed to work.

I am going to leave caching off and see how it goes (with your plugin active and my caching deactivated).

[Chuckie]

BUT

If I activate your plugin then it works. Those sub forum topics replies are updating the parents forums correctly.

So the only differences are:

1. The forum that I was testing with on my site was closed.
2. Thus the topic I was adding a reply to was closed.
3. For all the others (my private forums) they are inside Categories.

Hope this helps.

[Robin W]

I can create the problem now on my test site. If I add the plugin (which I was doing to de-bug) the problem goes away. This is despite it just being the code that the function uses !

I would like to eliminate that you posted to a closed topic.

I would however like you to look at this situation

Forum a – forum, open, public parent 0
Forum b – sub forum, public, parent forum a
Topic x – an OPEN topic
Reply 1 – a reply to the above topic
reply 2 – a second reply

can you get the problem with this set up and my plugin deactivated ?

[Robin W]

ok, I think I am becoming deranged by this problem 🙂

Would someone like to try this very small plugin and let me know if it fixes.

I don’t promise it will – it works on my test site but it should make no difference !!

so go to

bbp Refresh Last Active Time

and download the plugin to your PC.

Go into

dashboard>plugins>add new plugin>upload and upload the file you have just downloaded then activate

Then try to add a new reply on a sub forum – please do this on public forums and hierarchy – this does not fix public/private mixes, and I don’t know if it works for private forums yet !

Please report back in either case

[wout77]

I have a sidebar active on all forum pages with the BBpress login widget in it. However, when you enter your username and password, you first get redirected to an extra captcha screen where you have to check you are not a robot. While that is fine for security reasons, after you check that box, you get redirected to the standard WordPress login screen where you have to enter your username and password a second time! And that feels very confusing for the users.

So the question is: how can I eliminate that second step… is this a known issue maybe? Or am I missing a setting somewhere?

If anybody in the hivemind has a suggestion, I’m all ears 🙂 thanks!

The site is running all the latest versions, by the way.