[PHC Solutions]

I am currently testing the RC5 with a vBulletin 3 import and I am encountering fatal errors. Or should errors be indicated for a resolution?

[calepwhoward]

Here are the details:

~ WordPress 4.9.8
~ Travel Eye Pro theme
~ BBPress Version 2.5.14

This issue is with a company Intranet so not accessible from the Internet.

When a new topic is created via the Topic option in the WordPress dashboard subscribers are not notified. When a new Topic is created on the Forum page using the New Topic fields and editor subscribers are notified. I’ve tested this across multiple forums and this behavior is repeatable. I see the new topics in the forums regardless of where they’re entered but subscribers are only notified if the topic is created from the forum webpage. Have I missed a configuration step in WordPress or is this a bug?

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer. Happy Monday!

[msmohanish2017]

I have installed the plugin suggested by you. I am trying to test it with two users(subscribers). I am still facing an issue that when a subscriber creates a Topic in the forum that topic is visible to another subscriber.
I want if any new Topic or Reply is created, it should be held for moderation(pending for approval) and after approval only by Administrator, it should get displayed to the frontend.

Please suggest.

Thanks

[robertstaddon]

Thank you, @robin-w!

So I found found the cause of the bug. There is a typo on line 303 of the “bbpress/includes/topics/template.php” file in the latest version of bbPress (2.5.14). It tries to set the “post_status” query value to “readable”. This is an invalid value for “post_status”. What the programmer intended was to set the “perm” query value to “readable”.

[longtall]

Tearing my hair out here trying to change the content container to transparent. I’ve tried changing the bbpress.css file, putting custom css in the bbl style pack, but nothing seems to work.
Really appreciate some help here as I don’t what else I can do.
WordPress 4.9.8
bbPress 2.5.14
http://dftasmania.com/forums/topic/test-topic/
Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Longtall

[nemoprofeta]

Hello,
we are migrating our site which includes a bbPress forum. The migration process is pretty long. So we’d rather not close the forum for a long time.

We’ll start the migration import the whole database. The rest of the process will take several days. This means that in the meantime new discussions will be added to the forum.

We thought we could add those new discussions using the XML importer. But in our tests it didn’t work. The discussions don’t show up in the frontend. And when we try to fix them with the bbPress tools, they disappear.

Is there a way to do it?

[maxlevel]

@robin-w 1 and 2 both yes and I will contact you.

@odevbul Thanks, I already tested the above plugin as well as this
bbPress Moderation By Ian Stanley

The problem is that both plugins work for all forums and I need it for only one of my forums.

[Robin W]

you need to alter ‘post’ to topic and reply eg (untested)

function adding_custom_meta_boxes( $post_type, $post ) {
    add_meta_box( 
        'my-meta-box',
        __( 'My Meta Box' ),
        'render_my_meta_box',
        'topic',
        'normal',
        'default'
    );
add_meta_box( 
        'my-meta-box2',
        __( 'My Meta Box 2' ),
        'render_my_meta_box',
        'reply',
        'normal',
        'default'
    );

}
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'adding_custom_meta_boxes', 10, 2 );

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue issue, so you’ll need to test to find out which

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

Deactivate all but 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

[rgilman]

Hi Robin, thanks for your response. It looks like (style pack) latest activity gets me close and will provide a great starting point and tutorial from a bbp master.

Apologies for the lack of clarity in my initial post. Let me explain a bit more.

I’m developing a site that builds on Commons In A Box. You can see more about what we are doing at https://github.com/ContextInstitute/bfcom. The readme and wiki are out-of-date in the details but the general direction is right.

We are designing for a large number of BuddyPress groups, each with its own forum. It will be a private site with access only to registered users. Most users will be involved in only a subset of the groups/forums.

Each user will have a personalized home page/dashboard. One of the features on that dashboard will be a listing of the most recent posts/replies in topics in all of the forums to which that user belongs. So we need to start from something like groups_get_user_groups( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) and then go into something like what you do in (style pack) latest activity.

Having (style pack) latest activity as a starting point feels like a tremendous help.

Thank you again. 🙂

[Robin W]

If I understand it, my ‘recent activity widget’ does that

you can find it in

bbp style pack

once activated you’ll find a new widget called

(style pack) latest activity

[Robin W]

not tested as going out soon, but this should work

add_action ( 'bbp_new_topic', 'myprefix_assign_tag_to_post', 10, 4 );
add_action ( 'bbp_edit_topic', 'myprefix_assign_tag_to_post', 10, 4 );

function myprefix_assign_tag_to_post($topic_id, $forum_id, $anonymous_data, $topic_author) {
if( $forum_id == '168'  && bbp_current_user_can_publish_topics() ) {
	wp_set_post_terms( $topic_id, 'introductions', 'topic-tag', true );
}

elseif($forum_id == '1343' && bbp_current_user_can_publish_topics() ) {
		wp_set_post_terms( $topic_id, 'discovery', 'topic-tag', true );

}
}

[domeboys]

I tried several other tests.

Test 1: I deactivated WP Super Cache and activated bbPress. I cleared cache. The white screen with 500 error occurred immediately.

Test 2: I deactivated both WP Super Cache and bbPress. The home page comes up and articles can be viewed. The root page for the forums can be viewed, but the individual forums are not displayed.

At this point, I reverted back to WP Super Cache active and bbPress not active.

[domeboys]

Robin, I did not explain well.

Last week’s problem was high CPU usage. Installing WP SuperCache was part of the recommended fix. The site seemed stable since.

Today’s problem was 500 errors keeping anyone from being unable to access the site. Upgrading PHP and disabling bbPress were two of the actions taken. The site is stable except for the forums.

All I am trying to achieve right now is to get my forums running again. If off the top of your head, you know how to exclude bbPress from WP SuperCache, that information would be helpful. If not, I will try to figure it out and test it.

I appreciate your help.

[domeboys]

Thank you, Robin. I am new here, and wanted to ensure I was at the right place. I’ve had bbPress installed for the last 16 months with no problems until now.

To answer your question directly, that earlier error description is all HostGator gave me when I asked them for documentation to provide you.

Here is further background on the problem.

Today’s issue began with all users presented with “500 Error. Internal Server Error.” when accessing the site, which is a mix of free and subscriber content and has both free and subscriber forums.

By clearing browser cache, one could get on the site (both articles and forums) for about a 10 minute period before the 500 errors returned. However, during that window, one could only view the free forum, but could not enter replies, because being logged in first is a site requirement. For that same reason, one could not view subscriber articles or the subscriber forum.

During that approximate 10 minutes, when trying to log in, one was presented with a message that said “Error: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress.” This seemed to make no sense, since cookies were in fact enabled.

I tested the problem with three different browsers and it was the same – MS Edge, Firefox and Chrome. I can get into my backend WP Dashboard to administer the site with no issue.

HostGator support determined that by disabling all plugins, the problem would go away. Then the process of going through the plug-ins one by one led them to identify bbPress as the culprit. When bbPress is enabled, the 500 errors return. With it disabled, logins and both free and premium article access work normally. But both forums are down.

If there is other information I can gather, please let me know what and how to get it. Or if you need backend access to my WP installation, I am happy to grant that.

[liyacaty]

Hi all.
After a lot of testings and experiments in order to get the board running with all the same functionalities I had before in 3.0.14, I tried to install a clean version of 3.20, then install the extensions needed. The tentative was successful so I decided to follow this way to bring my old board to the new version in production mode.
The problem is related to the data migration from 3.0 to 3.2.
I’ve managed to export the old data from a clean 3.0.x DB (without any mod installed) and then import them in the new, empty 3.2 DB, but the two structures differ a lot, giving me many errors.
I’ve tried to manage those errors, but editing a 150MB SQL file it’s a huge waste of time.
I’ve looked for a routine in the php migration code present in the install subdir, but I didn’t find anything usable in a easy way.
Has anyone met the same problem and is there anybody that could give me a draft solution?
Thanks in advance.

[haddly]

Hi there,
I want to do a test mailing in my staging area, to see if a new WP plugin works for BBpress. In order to do this, i want to change all emails to my personal email address for all that are subscribed to the forum (so i don’t accidentally send out mails to real users,(this has actually happened to me before)). The problem is that the WP user_email is found in the DB wp_users and the forum meta info is found in the DB wp_usermeta. What SQL statement would i use if i wanted to change the email of all bbpress “Participants” to “myemail@email.com”. I want to do something like:
UPDATE wp_users SET user_email = "myemail@email.com" WHERE wp_usermeta.meta_key = "participant";

[blackandbluebird]

Hello. I have successfully edited all breadcrumbs on the Forums and Topics pages, but have been unable to edit the breadcrumbs on the bbPress generated user profile page. Currently, the page title reads “Edit profile for User: testname” and the breadcrumb reads “You are here: Home”

I want to edit that breadcrumb to read “You are here: Home > Forums > Profile”

Any insights? Thanks!

[Robin W]

I meant test with just bbpress, so eliminating toolkit, which you have done.

If it was working, and now is not, then something has changed with that account.

So first, I suggest you go though the settings for the working and not working user and check any differences

[maksanse]

Hi Robin,
Thanks for the quick answer, but I don’t understand it. What do you mean ?

Disabling bbp toolkit doesn’t solve the issue. (I need to have the Tiny MCE editor you see on picture WORKING because my users need to upload images). And btw, it was working correctly a few days ago, so disabling it is not the solution for me.

I made some other test and it appears that if I use other admin account, the editor displays correctly. So it’s only with ONE admin account (the one I do everything on my forum) that the issue is present.

Any other idea ?

[mygirlfriday805]

Hello,

It was recently brought to my attention that registrations were not being sent. I asked the users to try the “forgot password” link and this does not work either. I set up the plugin “Easy WP SMTP” and tested it and it works… but now I have 332 users registered and they cannot login. What do I do?

[Robin W]

not that I know – I cab only suggest as a test you remove your string modifier and see if that fixes.

[Robin W]

what is confusing me is that in

dashboard>settings>forums>single forum slug you have

discussion where I have forum, and it is this slug that is the extra one showing in the url.

Why you have discussion, I have no idea, I have not seen this before

all I can suggest is that it could be a theme or plugin issue issue, so you’ll need to test to find out which

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

and see what is setting this to discussion

Then come back

[lookingahead]

also, i’m using what i believe is the latest version of buddypress (version 3.2.0)

[lookingahead]

@robin-w i’m using version 2.5.14 — that’s the latest version, right?