Fix Forum Emails

Email notifications sent by bbPress will sometimes include unwanted HTML entities, particularly in the email subject but sometimes in the email text as well.

For example, a forum topic as follows:

 My thoughts & objections 

might come through with an email subject as follows:

 My thoughts & objections 

There is a fix for this marked “under consideration” in the bbPress bug tracking system:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2865

In the meantime, this plugin implements a version of the suggested fix. (Props to @thebrandonallen for the patch code.)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

This plugin only works with bbPress 2.5.8 or later.

If you’re using other plugins that affect how bbPress sends emails, then this plugin may not solve your HTML entities issues.