Hello,

My Versions:
WP 5.7.2
bbPress 2.6.6
BuddyPress 8.0.0

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This custom function stopped working fully when bbPress changed tables from usermeta to postmeta. Particularly, new users are no longer automatically subscribed to subforums. (We don’t use Groups yet, so I don’t know if that works or not.) Any help would be very greatly appreciated!

/** GROUP AND FORUM SUBSCRIPTIONS
* SUBSCRIBE NEW USERS TO GROUPS AND FORUMS
* This critical code subscribes new users to BuddyPress Groups and bbPress Forums,
* according to corresponding xProfile interest registration user choices!
* “Add to BuddyPress groups and forums (including sub-forums) based on xProfile checkbox selection”
* “add-to-buddypress-groups-based-on-xprofile-selection-upon-activation.php”
* Author: Harsha Venkatesh (“Greathmaster”, formerly of Paid Memberships Pro)
*/

//Subscribe a user to a group
function my_bp_core_activated_user($user_id)
{

$groups = array(2 => “HIKING”,
3 => “PADDLING”,
4 => “CYCLING”,
5 => “SKIING”,);

$forums = array(“HIKING” => 7142,
“PADDLING” => 7145,
“CYCLING” => 7147,
“SKIING” => 7066);

$selected_groups = xprofile_get_field_data(‘149’, $user_id);

if(!empty($selected_groups))
{
foreach($groups as $group_id => $group_name)
{
if(in_array($group_name, $selected_groups))
{
groups_join_group($group_id, $user_id );
//bbp_add_user_forum_subscription( $user_id, $forums[$group_name] );
subscribe_to_forums($user_id, $forums[$group_name]);
}
}
}

$overall_group_id = 1;
$overall_forum_id = 7133;

groups_join_group($overall_group_id, $user_id );
//bbp_add_user_forum_subscription( $user_id, $overall_forum_id);
subscribe_to_forums($user_id, $overall_forum_id);
}

//Subscribe a user to a forum and it’s sub forums
function subscribe_to_forums($user_id, $forum_id)
{
//subscribe to the parent forum
bbp_add_user_forum_subscription( $user_id, $forum_id);

//subscribe to sub forums (if they exist)
if (bbp_get_forum_subforum_count( $forum_id ) > 0)
{
$sub_forums = bbp_forum_get_subforums($forum_id);

foreach($sub_forums as $sub_forum)
{
bbp_add_user_forum_subscription( $user_id, $sub_forum->ID);
}
}
}

function my_init()
{
add_action(‘bp_core_activated_user’, ‘my_bp_core_activated_user’,15, 1);
}

add_action(‘init’, ‘my_init’);

~end

[@aprilschmitt27 Participant 3 years, 2 months ago]

Hello,

I realize that this great plugin is supported by an all volunteer group. But it’s been 4 months without even a reply. I’m still holding out hope that someone has any ideas to try to get this script working again.

Regards,
~April

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 2 months ago]

just looked at this – sorry, as you say I don’t get to every item, and this is bespoke code which means something to someone, but without a heavy investment of time, it is hard to debug why it is not working 🙂

the function bbp_add_user_forum_subscription is still valid, and should work fine, so the actual change to the way bbpress works should not affect it.

I have little knowledge of buddypress, so I cannot say whether that code is still valid.

Have you turned debugging on ? and is it showing anything ?

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 2 months ago]

ps – I presume you have a function

groups_join_group but have not shown it for simplicity ?

[@aprilschmitt27 Participant 3 years, 2 months ago]

Robin W,

Thank you very much for volunteering some thoughts. Especially that you indicating that changes this year haven’t affected the bbp_add_user_forum_subscription function. And it appears that groups_join_group is a BuddyPress function. Your reminder to turn on the debug was priceless. There was only one, unrelated notice.

I rechecked the Developer’s (Harsha Vetkatesh’s) code online and realized that he had added an updated version! At https://gist.github.com/greathmaster/e67f1ae0feb28c9ab3521b404c8e0544. I added it into a staging copy and it threw a specific error. I’m going to see if I can contact him.

Thanks again for the Forum. Our trail club uses it very frequently.

Best Regards,
~April

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 2 months ago]

great – glad to have been a small help

[@aprilschmitt27 Participant 3 years, 1 month ago]

Although I do not see it here, I received the following email:

“hardep457 wrote:
Thanks for posting this, I also face same problem till now.
Post Link: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/subforum-function-stopped-working/#post-224077”

hardep457, I was unable to reach the person who created the original script. If you have an even remotely possible solution, it would be super awesome if you could share it.

Regards,
~April

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 1 month ago]

that post was a spam post, so I deleted it.

[@aprilschmitt27 Participant 3 years, 1 month ago]

Thank you Robin.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 1 month ago]

🙂

[@aprilschmitt27 Participant 3 years, 1 month ago]

This topic has been resolved! We discovered what was causing this problem. It was not any custom code or plugin update issue. It was simply that I had changed the bbPress Forum > Visibility from “public” to “private”. Evidentially this prevents a plugin (like bbPress Toolkit) or custom code (like ours) from accessing the information.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 1 month ago]

🙂