This is complementary to this recent post: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/remove-members-from-forum/

I’m trying to figure out a solve for users that are no longer paying members who have left the membership and are still receiving email notifications for topics or forums they’ve subscribed to.

I understand the way the membership software and bbPress could be improved, however, until that happens, I need a workaround even if it’s manual.

I tried changing the status of a user, per Robin’s suggestion to “blocked”, however, they are still receiving notifications.

Any other suggestions?

The user cannot edit these themselves, since they’ve left the membership.

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks, I took a second look at this and I put a filter into my style pack plugin a while ago to stop blocked users getting emails as bbpress does not do this.

If you want to do this directly, add this to your functions file

function rew_fltr_get_forum_subscribers( $user_ids ) {
        if (!empty( $user_ids ) ) {
                $new_user_ids = array();
                foreach ($user_ids as $uid) {
                        if (bbp_get_user_role($uid) != 'bbp_blocked') {
                                $new_user_ids[] = $uid;
                        }
                }
                return $new_user_ids;
        } else {
                return $user_ids;
        } 
}; 
// add the filter

if(!function_exists('bbptoolkit_fltr_get_forum_subscribers')){
add_filter( 'bbp_forum_subscription_user_ids', 'rew_fltr_get_forum_subscribers', 10, 1 );
}

[@lnangel Participant 6 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks, Robin. I took a look at that plugin but didn’t see how that would impact emails. I saw “Forum Roles” and blocked users..but what do I check and where to make sure they don’t get notifications?

I’ll check out the code as well, but plug and play is preferred.

Thanks very much!

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 4 months ago]

the plugin just does this automatically for blocked users, no settings involved

[@lnangel Participant 6 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks, Robin!

[@lnangel Participant 6 years, 4 months ago]

Argh, I just tested it with a blocked dummy account and the replies still come through, unfortunately. 🙁

So you’re saying the only thing I should have to do is change the Forum Role within WordPress>Users to “blocked” and this should work, correct?

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 4 months ago]

yes – my plugin activated and user blocked – if that is not happening come back and I’ll take a further look.

can you also let me know if you are using bbp toolkit – not suggesting you do, I just need to know !

[@lnangel Participant 6 years, 4 months ago]

You’re very helpful, Robin.

Yes, plugin activated and user is blocked. I am NOT using bbp toolkit.

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 4 months ago]

ok, I’ve released version 3.9.6 of style pack

can you update and test again for me please

[@lnangel Participant 6 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks Robin, looks like that did the trick!

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 4 months ago]

great – glad you are fixed