I’d suggest that as a test you deacativate LearnDash & bbPress Integration nand see if the error persists, from the link I can’t tell what is sending this code
You might as well stop it. It’ll fail in between, so take the latest version which works out. 🙂
Ok thanks ! at this moment i’m converting again ( attempt 213237218378237 ) if it fails i try your latest one.
Hi Robin,
update:
I was just testing the forum again to see if it still works. In the beginning it did. I could post in all the forums and after 2-3 posts also the freshness/latest activity returned to “no topics”. Then after I posted around 15 test topics in all the different forums with different test users. It suddenly stopped working again. The latest activity widget didnt show any info anymore and all the topics I had written and were accessible for other members just a minute ago where not anymore…
hmm, I can only suggest that
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
Wordpress 5.2.2
bbPress 2.5.14
URL: forums are private, so URL won’t be helpful.
There’s no button or link to approve anything in my forums. Everything’s just pending. In the past, I replies showed up (when we first installed this; we haven’t used it in a long time, and just getting back into getting these set up). When I click to preview the replies/topics, they are just titles, nothing is written about the topic. We’re testing the forums with my team, so I know each team member wrote something and submitted it — they didn’t just write a title. Additionally, each of them are moderators, wouldn’t their posts just go through since they have the power to approve posts, too (or should, if this was working)?
What is happening? Why:
is nothing showing up for the content part of their replies and topics
why aren’t their posts going through automatically (since they are moderators)
why can I not — as the admin/keymaster, see the “approve” link?
Here’s a screenshot:
https://share.getcloudapp.com/Z4uZkZ2K 
I installed the following plugin on my dev site:
https://wpfavs.com/plugins/import-export-for-bbpress
Export is working perfectly (latest wordpress and bbpress).
Import not working at all but I might be doing something wrong. Very disappointing because this plugin looks so promising.
Giving up for now, I hope this helps someone I’ll actively update this if I make any progress.
Thanks I actually feel better too that I have some company!
So, so many late nights. I’m looking at very old plugins and searching around the Internet at the moment. Wondering whether to try installing old versions of wordpress and bbpress so that they will work with old plugins, and then transfer to the latest bbpress somehow. I’ve been scraping my sites to get the CSVs and now I can’t import them, I actually can’t believe the situation I’m in. I decided on bbpress with buddypress for my new system last year and I’ve spent months setting it up, I can’t bear to start from scratch again.
Thanks for listening 🙂
You may want to try the latest 2.6 release candidate instead:
Download
It includes a few changes to how stickies are queried, and may fix this problem for you.
I thought this would naturally happen as a super sticky topic. Basically, I want the same message to show up at the top of each forum so that members see it before they start posting (sort of like a “Read this before you get started” pinned topic). However, as soon as I started creating other sub-forums and topics, it got pushed to the bottom of the page, which obviously means a lot of people will miss it entirely.
How do you get it to stay at the top of each forum as a reminder?
My forums are all private, so you wouldn’t be able to see it (hence, I’m not adding a URL), but I am including a screenshot.
Wordpress version: 5.2.2
bbPress version: 2.5.14
Screenshot: https://share.getcloudapp.com/eDuoLJGy
Unfortunately, I can’t test a different theme; I just tried in staging to do that and the site broke completely, so I don’t want to test in my live site. However, this doesn’t seem like a theme issue.
just as a test, can you confirm that it is just a bulk edit in the backend that is the problem.
so can you try deleting just one topic on the backend and see if that creates the problem or is ok – that will help me find where the issue is
I typically use Discourse for my forums, but would like to set one up in WordPress directly. I know BBPress has stood the test of time and is hard core WordPress, used by people like Elliot for AdvancedCustomFields support.
But is development planned for the future? I just don’t want to sink a lot of time into something that isn’t going to be supported. I’d gladly pay for BBPress… Whatever. Just want to know there’s a future.
For example. in this box I can’t add an image via a simple paste in. That’s a big deal for support forums where screenshots are used.
Thanks anyone for advice on this!
Hi,
So you are publishing from the backend (/wp-admin) and set the publication date (the WordPress one) in e.g. 3 days and it appears immediately? For the test make sure to put some days in the future, not just hours.
If the post appears immediately then you have an issue with your Theme or another plugin that is not respecting the standard WordPress way of working. So you would have to switch to a standard theme and/or start deactivating plugins that could have an influence.
Hi Peter,
If you are looking for per forum moderators, I would propose to use bbPress 2.6 which has all of that included. You can find RC7 on https://bbpress.org/download/
RC 7 is very stable, but like any upgrade: first in test and if all works fine, you do it in production.
Pascal.
Hello, just installed and activated bbpress with several extensions to improve functionality; however, my forum page does not look like a forum at all. I even set up the bbpress sidebar, and it isn’t showing either. I’m using WordPress version 5.2.2 and bbPress version 2.5.14. The link to my staging site where I am testing this is http://www.jeepcreed.com/stagingnew/forums
Users on my forum are having trouble posting links, both linked text and as bare URL’s in the post. I would like all users to be able to post links.
I tried a test post with a link with a non-admin account, and it didn’t work. The post doesn’t even show up. With my main account that is subscribed to that topic, it shows a notification for a new post there, but there is no new post, seemingly due to having a link in it.
Thanks!
Ben
And to recreate the problem before:
I used the forum repair tool as I could still see the activity of already deleted posts. That made that the problem reoccurred again…
I have a post in a topic, that I actually created, but when I want to open it I get this:
The post also disappeared from the latest activity widget.
Then if I click on collective emergence forum it looks like as if there was no topic existing:
I hope this is what you meant by recreating the problem…Otherwise please tell me again what you need. Thanks!
Yes that makes sense.
Maybe to start with what I see now is that I have 2 groups set as Core Men and Core women. I set the forums to private. Now while testing I see that the core men can see the core women forum (although not be able to access it) but the core women dont see the core men forum (which is what I want)
Before, both the core men and core women forum where set to hidden forums. Then I experienced the troubles I was explaining in the posts above and tried to set the core men forum to private. The core women forum was still hidden but suddenly it was visible for the core men.
One of my test users couldnt see the forums at all even though he had the right role assigned. then I deleted him and recreated the account – assigned the roles again that where needed (this time in a different order) and then it worked BUT additionally he sees now the core women forum.
I hope it makes sense, it is not easy to explain. But it seems like there are a lot of things going wrong suddenly and I dont know why.
I wasnt even sure anymore if the plugin is the problem from what I posted initially, as I realised that through deleting the topics the issue was repeated…
Thank you
Now I found out that all of this happened after I deleted all the topics I had, as they were only for testing purposes.
When I turned the forums from private to public and then to private again, I noticed that the forum started to work normal again. I did a test post in every category and then deleted the test topics again, and this is when I noticed that the deleting of the topics must have caused the probelm.
Does this make sense to anyone??? I am concerned that although it is working now that this might happen again.
WP Version 5.2.2 BBP 2.5.14
I am using bbp private groups plugin. When somebody posts something in a private group the user who posts can’t see his own post afterwards, and also nobody else. But it appears visible in the forum overview that somebody has posted. You can see the title and the time of the post. After the user has posted there comes a page up which says: no results found. But then as I just said the post exists, but is not accessible. (But I also experienced that posts that where not accessible suddenly become again. Then the author can see his post again and also other members, with the autorisation for that forum.)
Also the posts dont show in the latest activity widget anymore and then suddenly they do again.
I am pretty sure I have all the user roles and private group settings correct. It worked in the past and out of the sudden these strange things happen.
The forums that arent set to private and have no user role or group assigend seem to work fine.
Has somebody any idea what could have gone wrong?
thank you!
That they now are mainly doing other things is sad for us, but they have a perfect right to do as they wish, and should feel under no obligation to spend time supporting the code.
Agree that they have the right to do as they wish, but they should at least publicly announce whether they are going to end bbPress development, or if it’s going to continue to languish for years at a time.
I understand @johnjamesjacoby is a very busy guy, but we are constantly told to be wary of plugins that are old.
More importantly, a lot of us have moved on to other software, rather than continue to beta-test bbPress 2.6 (which has been in some form of RC for over 3 years, and the latest RC came out in December of last year).
I have a big project that I’m putting together for somebody (they want WordPress), and some kind of lightweight/small forums are planned for, and it’s frustrating that I’m having to look elsewhere for forum software, or rigging some kind of fancy comment system (trying to avoid Disqus and Facebook for obvious reasons).
It’s odd, because bbPress could be a selling point for WordPress in their competition with other platforms. It’s also odd, because they have some very competent people working for them, but then they allow bbPress to kind of just drift along.
untested, and probably from a purist view not the most elegant solution, but this should work
add_filter( 'bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form' , 'rew_only_mods' , 10 , 1) ;
function rew_only_mods ($retval) {
// Users need to earn access
$retval = false;
//check if admin
if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster() ) {
$retval = true;
}
//check if moderator
$role = bbp_get_user_role( get_current_user_id());
if ($role == 'bbp_moderator') {
$retval = true;
}
// Allow access to be filtered
return (bool) apply_filters( 'rew_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form', (bool) $retval );
}
Also allows keymasters, but I presume you want that.
Put this in your child theme’s function file – or use
Code Snippets
So I just setup a whole new test site, installed buddypress and bbpress
added the dizkusZK converter to the converters list
Ran it against a copy of the database that contains a dizkus forum.
got error:
WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
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(191), meta_value(191)) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci;
No data to cleanStarting Conversion
but if you really want to debug
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
