[htrev]

Strange one this…

I’m running WP3.5.2, BP1.7 with bbPress forums and the Razor theme. Also using the GES plugin for email notifications. About 1 time in 10 or so, a bbPress forum post doesn’t appear in its group’s activity stream. This can happen for either new topics or replies. I can’t find anything in the forums about this and can’t spot a pattern.

Appreciate that this is a tough one to locate since it’s not repeatable. Ever heard of this kind of thing happening before? Suspect it might be due to a plugin conflict but I’ve only ever seen it happen on my live site and it’s not really feasible to deactivate plugins there.

Thanks in advance

PS The community I’m representing are loving the site – up till now we’ve been making do with a Yahoo group 🙁 so by way of thanks I’ve donated $20 to r-a-y through paypal.

[htrev]

Update: I’m running W3 Total Cache with Xcache. Turned off W3TC but left XCache on – problem still occuring.

[htrev]

Also when this problem occurs, the update doesn’t get emailed via GES as GES gets its content from the activity stream.

The topic/reply DOES appear in the all members activity stream, just not the My groups one or on the group’s Home tab. So looks like the association between the item and the group is being lost somewhere. The item appears in the forum OK.

[shanebp]

The stray posts never appear in the group stream?
Or don’t appear until some hours have past?

Inconsistent behaviour is a tough bug.
But at least it’s specific to Group forums.

Are you using Page Caching in the cache plugins?
That can cause BP problems re serving stale pages, but you most likely would have seen that issue elsewhere on your site as well.

Have you raised this issue on the bbPress forums?

You’ll probably have to comb thru the database for activity entries.
And try to eliminate the possibility of a malformed row in the context of the group stream.

[htrev]

I’ve had a look in the database and realised what the problem is. The rogue posts are coming from people posting using the ppBress form (I have a page that includes it using the shortcode bbp-topic-form) which creates a topic in the group’s forum, but doesn’t associate the topic with the group.

You can mark this issue resolved! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.