bbPress Forums Created Through Course Disappeared

[christina.stoll]

Hi,

for unknown reasons, all forums and posts suddenly disappeared completely from our WordPress instance. They are not in the trash and I also couldn’t locate them in the database anymore. No plugin updates or any other suspicious actions have been performed that I know of which could’ve been behind this.

Also, this didn’t happen to our DEV instance which is essentially in the same state in terms of active plugins etc.

I’m not so much concerned about restoring the lost forums because it was only test forums and test posts so far. But I don’t want to have this happen in the future with actual forums and posts on there. I know that backups can be made, but then there’d still be the content you’d lose in-between performing them manually.

It was forums tied to a LearnPress course that were lost (we didn’t have any ‘free-standing’ ones), that’s why I’m posting about this here. bbPress support already said that on their end, forums deletion would need to be consciously triggered through Tools > Forums > Reset Forums.

Is there any action in LearnPress that could trigger something like that so we can avoid it in the future?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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