Hi @dimalifragis,
There was no quick workaround or solution; otherwise, I’d have provided it earlier. This issue affects a select few who wish to use wpForo’s SEO output over TSF’s. Try to understand vicariously my previous reply about why I’m not working full-time on this matter.
Please refrain from insulting me. You’re acting impudent and are currently verging on extortion. I’m questioning whether I should help you further. I assume you understand these forums are run by volunteers providing free plugins with free support, free of charge?
“Life is short, and progress is slow” — Gabriel Lippmann.
“All good things come to those who wait” — Violet Fane et al.
And I’m genuinely sorry, but I didn’t suppose you’d find it so pressing that this needed to be resolved within three business days. The SEO Framework’s outputted meta tags are still perfectly OK (I’d argue even better), although it won’t allow deindexing certain forum parts without custom coding. Even though some meta output of your site changed since the update, search engines do not respond to those changes within days, but rather weeks or even months. There’s objectively no need to rush here.
Even if there was a rush, why didn’t you do your due diligence by testing the updates first, and why didn’t you hire someone to fix this for you but rely on free support? Alas, now I have “failed to provide some quick solution.” I hope you understand that this isn’t how anyone here operates, seeing you’ve been here for over three years. Impertinent.
Now, the changes of wpForo v2.0 are so severe I must restudy the plugin — this takes time, and I told you previously it might take “a week or two.” I’m not sure if you know how development works, but the gist is that all developers are swamped. It is why I requested the authors of wpForo to respect fellow developers’ time by easing changes through deprecation. I chose to support wpForo because users like you requested it, but my actions are in no way conventional. Just look at Yoast steamrolling inconsiderate and bad code, expecting others to comply.
But, here I am, at 2 AM on a Sunday night, providing you with a solution as a volunteer. Slavery has no place here; I’m helping you because I want to help everyone, so I hope you enjoy your fucking “quick solution in order for you to maintain your rankings”:
if ( ! function_exists( 'wpforo_feature' ) ) {
function wpforo_feature( $option ) {
if ( 'html_cashe' === $option ) return false;
static $features;
if ( ! $features ) {
$features = array_merge(
[
'user-admin-bar' => 0,
'page-title' => 1,
'top-bar' => 1,
'top-bar-search' => 1,
'breadcrumb' => 1,
'footer-stat' => 1,
'notifications' => 1,
'notifications-live' => 0,
'notifications-bar' => 1,
'mention-nicknames' => 1,
'content-do_shortcode' => 0,
'view-logging' => 1,
'track-logging' => 1,
'goto-unread' => 1,
'goto-unread-button' => 0,
'profile' => 1,
'user-register' => 1,
'user-register-email-confirm' => 1,
'disable_new_user_admin_notification' => 1,
'register-url' => 0,
'login-url' => 0,
'resetpass-url' => 1,
'replace-avatar' => 1,
'avatars' => 1,
'custom-avatars' => 1,
'signature' => 1,
'rating' => 1,
'rating_title' => 1,
'member_cashe' => 1,
'object_cashe' => 1,
'option_cache' => 1,
'html_cashe' => 0,
'memory_cashe' => 1,
'seo-title' => 1,
'seo-meta' => 1,
'seo-profile' => 1,
'rss-feed' => 1,
'font-awesome' => 1,
'bp_activity' => 1,
'bp_notification' => 1,
'bp_forum_tab' => 1,
'um_forum_tab' => 1,
'um_notification' => 1,
'user-synch' => 0,
'role-synch' => 1,
'output-buffer' => 1,
'wp-date-format' => 0,
'subscribe_conf' => 1,
'subscribe_checkbox_on_post_editor' => 1,
'subscribe_checkbox_default_status' => 0,
'attach-media-lib' => 1,
'admin-cp' => 1,
'debug-mode' => 0,
'copyright' => 1,
],
get_option( 'wpforo_features', [] )
);
}
return $features[ $option ] ?? false;
}
}
Please put it in a plugin or theme, and it will bring back the aforementioned deleted function’s functionality upon which TSF relies for wpForo support.
Lastly, I’m not sure which plugin you mean by being proven bullet-proof, but there aren’t any. Welcome to broadband internet, relying on 77 million lines of rickety code composed in dirty garages maintained by volunteers anno 1999.
