without getting into looking at the code, you might want to look at the meta for a topic which is imported vs. one that is added. I think there is a ‘parent’ or ‘forum_id’ set in topic meta to say which forum it belongs to, which might need setting for the imported ones to get the repair tools and updates working correctly.
or even the actual post parent of the imported topic might need setting.
If it is not that, come back and I’ll do some digging further.
Thanks for your reply.
I have looked at this in a bit more detail but not got anywhere!
As you suggested I compared two topics for a topic imported vs one entered and the differences don’t seem relevant (e.g. no ip address for the imported ones etc.). I also looked at the records from the postmeta table for the two topics and again don’t think there are relevant differences though again no ip address for the imported, 0 for _bbp_reply_count for the imported.
So no luck there.
I tried looking at the code of bbpress.php but could not work out how it picked up the count or incremented it.
Interestingly I also tried using the shortcode [bbp-stats] in a test page and that reported the correct number of topics despite the individual forum count being incorrect! How can that be?
Interestingly I also tried using the shortcode [bbp-stats] in a test page and that reported the correct number of topics despite the individual forum count being incorrect! How can that be?
I should start by saying that I am not a bbpress author, just someone trying to help 🙂
the [bbp-stats] shortcode does the wordpress function
wp_count_posts( bbp_get_topic_post_type())
so actually counts the number of topics in the database.
the forums page calls a function bbp_get_forum_topic_count in \bbpress\includes\forums\template.php
This looks up the number held in the forum’s post meta under _bbp_topic_count (which you had already worked out)
so how did you delete the post which caused the numnber to fail back?
Thanks for your help on this. Like me you obviously relish a challenge.
To answer your question, I believe the topic count number has been reset wrongly when new topics I added as that is all other members of the forum could do and I have seen the number change and this is what led me to try to sort this out. I do not want to add a topic myself as the site is live and >400 members would then be alerted. However, there were a few topics which were imported added when I was setting it up which I did not want. I had set these to “hidden”. I just deleted one of these and the topic count immediately changed to the wrong number. So if you have a test site you could just try deleting a topic.
So it must be whatever function which updates the topic count which is causing the issue but I have not found this.
so are they still set as ‘hidden’ ?
The forum was showing as 675 topics 5 hidden. I deleted one of the hidden ones and now have 5 topics 4 hidden.
I can’t see anything in the code that would do anything other than decrease the count by 1 on trashing a hidden or published topic.
If it was set to hidden, then it changes the following meta_bbp_total_topic_count_hidden
Strange then that it also changed the total topic count. I will have another look at the code tomorrow.
Thanks.
these functions are held in bbpress\includes\forums\template.php and \bbpress\includes\forums\functions.php
the one changing the count is in functions.php
bbp_bump_forum_topic_count
After much searching in that file and then further comparisons of the posts (and then the linked postmeta records) created vs those imported I spotted an error in the postmeta records for those imported.
I had had to write my own code to import a forum from WP Symposium and I had swapped two record numbers between two meta_keys. An update in the database table seems to have fixed this.
Thanks for your advice while I was finding the problem I had created!
hey that’s great to hear – glad you are fixed !!
