[Robin W]

ok, I can’t guarantee that the alternate template will work in all circumstances, if you want to try further

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

[Robin W]

ok, the fix strategy would be

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.

But I would start wth User Role editior – that looks a likely suspect

[Robin W]

ok, just tested this on my test site, and it works fine.

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

[Robin W]

ok, as a product you can do

add_action( 'digimember_purchase', 'digitest_purchase', 10, 4 );
function digitest_purchase( $user_id, $product_id, $order_id, $reason )
{
    switch ($reason)
    {
        case 'order_paid':
        // handle paid orders here
			if ($product_id == '12') {
		update_user_meta ($user_id , 'private_group' , '*group1*') ;
		}
        break;

        case 'order_cancelled':
		if ($product_id == '12') {
        delete_user_meta ($user_id , 'private_group' ) ;
		}
        break;

        case 'payment_missing':
        // handle missing rebilling payment here
        break;
    }
}

where in this case ’12’ is the product id of the subscription product

time period and other conditionals are I’m afraid well beyond free help

[Robin W]

yes, that is helpful

so this code will add a user to private group 1 on paying membership, and take them out on cancellation

add_action( 'digimember_purchase', 'digitest_purchase', 10, 4 );
function digitest_purchase( $user_id, $product_id, $order_id, $reason )
{
    switch ($reason)
    {
        case 'order_paid':
        // handle paid orders here
		update_user_meta ($user_id , 'private_group' , '*group1*') ;
        break;

        case 'order_cancelled':
        delete_user_meta ($user_id , 'private_group' ) ;
        break;

        case 'payment_missing':
        // handle missing rebilling payment here
        break;
    }
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file – or use

Code Snippets

Then set up forums so that group 1 users can access the forum, and everyone else just see it

[adelheid41]

When I use the widget or the recover password one, from a test user account, I get the answer:

Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /wp-login.php on this server.

Apache/2.4.37 (Debian) Server at thewisdomfactory.net Port 80

What does that mean and what do I need to do to make it work?

[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

[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

[dwcouch]

I’m setting up a new site and have been testing registration and forums workflows.

In an effort to reset the site back to 0 content – I deleted all test users and their topics in BBPress. After deleting all topics, I went to the trash and deleted them permanently.

Topics now shows nothing. However the number of topics still show up in the topics column in forums admin.

[Robin W]

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

[wurkagency]

You might as well stop it. It’ll fail in between, so take the latest version which works out. 🙂

[lantaarntje]

Ok thanks ! at this moment i’m converting again ( attempt 213237218378237 ) if it fails i try your latest one.

[schossie]

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…

[Robin W]

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

[ginaginagina]

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

[designserve]

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.

[designserve]

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 🙂

[John James Jacoby]

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.

[ginaginagina]

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.

[rickmunroe17]

I am using Divi theme version 3.2.2.5 and the latest version of the BBPress wordpress plugin.

Trying to have a full width forum without the sidebar.

Cannot figure out how to hide the sidebar in both desktop and mobile.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Robin W]

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

[theatereleven]

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!

[Pascal Casier]

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.

[Pascal Casier]

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.

[jeepcreed]

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