Issue with bbpress plugin

@manas Mitra – From the looks of that error it appears that bbPress is actually the culprit here. Looks like they are applying a filter to all queries of every post type, and for whatever reason the data they are looking for is empty. Basically they are missing what we call a sanity check (making sure data matches the type we expect. In this case calling in_array without making sure that the data is actually an array. Likely the error is common( not just with popup maker but potentially other custom post types), but your only seeing it because your site because you have WP_DEBUG enabled and WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY turned on. Without those on the error would be logged but page load just fine.

I have not seen this before, but am happy to investigate.

Is this an existing install of bbPress or a new one? IE Can I easily duplicate the problem simply by enabling both or could it be that you have 1000s of topics and replies which for whatever reason is leading to issues.

Hi danieliser,

It is a fresh new project and development has just started in localhost. I can adjust WP_DEBUG & WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY parameters in this development environment, but won’t be able to in production as it is a shared server and making changes to server configurations are not allowed.

Let me advance the development a bit and after uploading it to server, I shall again try to find a way out.

Thanks for your reply.

@manas Mitra – To clarify, your Production site should never run with WP_DEBUG or _WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY on. Those are for dev & staging sites only.

The problem, is because your using them you see 2 errors. If you disabled DEBUG such as on production server, then the first error wouldn’t be shown, and the second is caused by the first one being shown, so it won’t appear either.

IE the error probably exists in bbPress in general, but nobody sees it because 99% of sites do not ever turn on WP_DEBUG so they never see any errors.

Hope that helps.

Hi there, I have the same issue with bbpress, my wp debug is on false mode.
When i’m on admin panel i see …wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1446.
In another hand, popup maker don’t work :(. It was all fine before i made upgrade to newest version.

ok popup maker works fine :)), only my conditions dissapears, so that’s no problem.

Only bbpress issue worry me ??

@softfolio – So far as I have been able to tell, the issue is a bug in how bbPress hooks into all WP Queries rather than just specific ones. Not exactly sure why they are doing it, or how to prevent it from our end.

May be a good idea to start a ticket in their forums as well.

I have had a ticket in their forum for a week and just found out today, disabling Popup Maker makes the functions.php header error disappear.

This is a frustrating error, as publishing/updating posts/pages takes you to a blank white screen with the various errors. The posts will save, but you can’t easily get back to them.

FYI – bbPress authors are passing the blame to other plugin authors, as it appears to be an issue with other plugins conflicting with bbPress as well.

Yes jkuzma, this is suppose to happen. bbpress is a big name and obviously they won’t accept the errors, after all Matt Mullenweg is one of the authors of bbpress. I feel sorry for danieliser. Popup Maker is 5 star without any doubt.

I agree. Popup Maker is the best. Push comes to shove, I will be removing BBPress after I substitute its user registration/login options.

@jkuzma, @manas Mitra – Lol welcome to my world, had similar issue with WooCommerce, but they added it to their list of stuff to address in the next major version update so least they agknowleged :).

I don’t know who is behind BBPress at the moment but I’m not sure its Matt that is directly steering those support tickets dismissal as it is their support guys being used to pointing people to problem prone plugins, very similar to how I do when major issues arise and it ends up being in another plugin or theme. But sometimes its not :), gotta get it resolved though.

I will look at duplicating it and seeing if I can find the issue, if so I will pass it to them myself with a solution.

Hi danieliser,

I can help you recreate the issue. If you require, I shall create a demo site with the exact configuration and provide you the admin login credential. You may fiddle with it as long as you require. Please confirm if you need it.

Best Regards.

@manas Mitra – Sorry, its better for me to do it locally so I can quickly try modifications to files, run XDebug which allows me to step through how each function works etc.

Appreciate the offer though.

danieliser,

WordPress provides me with my livelihood. I get a lot of help from WordPress community and WordPress related facebook groups. This offer was the easiest way to contribute to the community.

Looking out for more great plugins from you.

Best Regards.

@manas Mitra – Be sure to check out a WordCamp then if you haven’t already. I attended several before becoming an organizer to start one in my own area which we did last month successfully :).