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“Bug: ‘Under Construction’ Message Shown Instead of Permission Denied (Themeless/Oxygen)”

bberry — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:06:59 +0000

Issue

In a themeless setup (Oxygen Builder), guests can browse forums normally, but when they click Add Topic (and I suspect try to reply too), wpForo displays:

🚧 Forum Board is Under Construction 🚧

The board is Active — the guest simply lacks permission to post. This placeholder replaces the correct permission‑denied notice.

Actual Behavior

wpForo outputs hard‑coded HTML instead of a wpForo notice:

<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 55px; color: #0A75B5;">
    🚧  Forum Board is Under Construction  🚧
div>

It appears inside the fallback wrapper:

indicating wpForo is using a themeless placeholder instead of the posting form.

Expected Behavior

Guests without posting permissions should see the standard wpForo error notice:

Permission denied

The “Under Construction” placeholder should only appear when a board is actually inactive.

How to Reproduce

Use wpForo 2.x with Oxygen Builder (theme disabled).
Ensure the board is Active.
As a guest, click Start Discussion.

Likely Cause

When Oxygen disables theme templates, wpForo’s posting route can’t load its form template. Instead of falling back to the notice system, it falls back to the “Under Construction” placeholder intended for inactive boards.

Impact

Misleading UX (“Under Construction” instead of “Log in to post”)
Breaks guest posting flow
Only occurs in themeless setups (Oxygen, headless themes)

Suggested Fix

Posting routes should:

Check posting permissions first
Show the correct permission‑denied notice
Only use the “Under Construction” placeholder if the board is actually inactive

Happy to provide screenshots or additional details if needed.

wpForo Forum Loading Very Slowly After Reaching 1,000+ Members

Danieljohn — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:06:27 +0000

I've been using wpForo for several months, and everything worked fine at first. However, after my forum grew to more than 1,000 registered members and a few thousand posts, page loading times became noticeably slower. Topic pages sometimes take several seconds to load, especially during peak traffic hours.

I've already enabled caching and optimized my database, but the performance improvement has been minimal. Has anyone faced a similar issue with wpForo? I'd appreciate any suggestions on settings, plugins, or server optimizations that could help improve forum speed.

Forums with No Access can be Subscribed to by Users

moptop — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:39:28 +0000

I have a private forum with access set to only the Administrator and Moderator. But when I make a post regular users are getting notifications. I discovered this because my SMTP plugin keeps a log of all emails going out. When I go to the Forum Members section and I look under any members' subscription check marks, anyone has the ability to see the hidden forums and subscribe to them. They don't have access to see the posts because they can't access the forum, but sometimes the notifications have the content of the post in the body of the email.

Why are regular users who do not have access to the forum able to subscribe to it and even see that it exists? I have attached screenshots showing that you can subscribe to any and all forums, private or not through your profile.

I have an Administration forum with a Private Test Forum that only I have access to, but people are getting notifications from it because they are able to select it from their profile.

WPForo: 2.4.17
Wordpress: 6.9.4

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Remove the warning message for users who aren't allowed to attach files?

vanessa — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:02:51 +0000

Hi there,

Is there a way to remove the message " You are not allowed to attach files on this forum. It is possible that you have not reached the minimum required number of posts, or your user group does not have permission to attach files in this forum."

that shows to users who aren't allowed to attach files?

We'd rather just have this hidden completely and not show the message if a user can't attach files.

thx

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wpforo custom fields broken

konaa — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:38:08 +0000

So I do not know if its a bug or if the settings are messed up but I have uninstalled and reinstalled wpforo custom fields and every time I do it doesn't even let admins to edit members information on the front end but members can anybody who has permissions to edit account information cant even look at it. Also on top of that when it did work members could see secondary usergroups but I only want my moderation team to be able to see it and edit it.

User delete error: missing argument" on Frontend Self-Delete

Luis952 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:14:08 +0000

When a user tries to delete their own account via the frontend profile page (/participant/username/?wpfaction=user_delete&_wpfnonce=XXX), it always fails on the first attempt with:

"User delete error: missing argument."

The server returns a 302 redirect to the members page, but the error is set. Clicking delete a second time works and the account is removed.

We confirmed via browser DevTools that the error is rendered server-side in the HTML. We tested flushing permalinks, deactivating all other plugins, and different user accounts — the issue persists. Custom URL slugs are configured (member → participant, members → participants).

It seems like wpForo does not correctly resolve the user ID from the profile URL on the first delete request. Could this be related to custom slug configuration or a PHP 8.3 compatibility issue?

Any help appreciated. Happy to provide more details.

wpForo 2.4.17 | WordPress 6.9.4 | PHP 8.3

Pagination issue

PhuongNH — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:54:01 +0000

Sorry for more question

have have experienced this issue before? I can see this forum's Pagination is nice but mine.

Latest Astra theme
Plugin

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
EWWW Image Optimizer
Site Kit by Google
WP Mail SMTP Pro
wpForo

Please help

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Broken layout if file name is long

PhuongNH — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:35:04 +0000

Is this plugin bug? I guess i need to modify css

any comment please

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Board 1 shows the translated phrases correctly, but Board 2 still displays the English text.

simon000000 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:06:41 +0000

Hello wpForo team,

I am using wpForo multi-board setup with two boards:

Board 1
Chinese Community
slug: /chinese-community/

Board 2
Malaysia Real Estate
slug: /real-estate/

Both boards are using locale: zh_CN.

The issue is:

Board 1 displays translations correctly (Chinese).
However on Board 2 some front-end phrases still appear in English.

Examples:

Admin Control Panel
Add New Category or Forum
Share
Forum Information
Mark all read
Unread Posts
Forum contains no unread posts
Not Replied

I already checked:

• wpForo → Phrases
• Language = zh_CN
• Translations exist and are saved
• Cleared forum cache
• Cleared site cache

Board 1 shows the translated phrases correctly, but Board 2 still displays the English text.

My questions:

Are phrases stored per board or globally in wpForo multi-board mode?
Is there a way to sync phrases across boards?
Could this be related to phrase cache or language loading?

I would prefer solving this inside wpForo instead of forcing translation via PHP filters.

Site: https://168forum.my

Thank you for your help.

After Migration: Search results show pages of results but gives "No posts found" message

chelsey@cp — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:20:39 +0000

When you search for something, it shows that there are several pages of results (Page 1/4) but gives a "No posts found" message and doesn't display any on the page. My forum was migrated from a previous bbpress forum. Anything posted after the migration will show but anything before the migration does not show. I've excluded my forum url from cache.

https://nascanet.org/ask-nasca/

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