<br />
	/*<br />
	 * all topics published by guests<br />
	 * must be approved by admin<br />
	 */<br />
	add_action( 'save_post', 'pending_guest_topics' );<br />
	function pending_guest_topics( $post_id ) {<br />
		if ($parent_id = wp_is_post_revision($post_id)) {<br />
			$post_id = $parent_id;<br />
		}</p>
<p>		if(!is_user_logged_in() && current_user_can('manage-options')==false) {<br />
			// unhook this function so it doesn't loop infinitely<br />
			remove_action('save_post', 'pending_guest_topics');<br />
			wp_update_post(array('ID' => $post_id, 'post_status' => 'pending'));</p>
<p>			// re-hook this function<br />
			add_action('save_post', 'pending_guest_topics');<br />
		}<br />

Which is why I wanted a way to do this without altering member roles. Because I have a fair quantity of members with a unique role already (I heavily use User Role Editor).

Like I said... I have two users who have a custom role already: StoreItems. So they can edit items in the store from a different plugin. Their bbpress membership is normal. One of these users will eventually have VIP and the other will have Special.

In order to do as you instructed, I will have to make some convoluted things happen.

Let say you will have membership system as follows: (no need to be moderator or administrator here and no forum private setting needed here)

Public Forums Area
-> Guest Member (public)
-> Participant Member (default member)
-> No custom setting but make sure each forums is not hidden or private.
-> Make sure this Participant Member role able to
-> publish_replies
-> publish_topics
-> edit_topics
-> edit_replies
-> assign_topic_tags
-> read

Special Forums Area
-> Participant Member can read here
-> Special Member, you need to upgrade from Participant member
-> No custom setting but make sure each forums is not hidden or private.
-> Make sure this Special Member role able to
-> publish_replies
-> publish_topics
-> edit_topics
-> edit_replies
-> assign_topic_tags
-> read

Restricted Forums Area
-> VIP Member
-> Custom setting, make sure each forums hidden.
-> Make sure this Special Member role able to
-> publish_replies
-> publish_topics
-> edit_topics
-> edit_replies
-> assign_topic_tags
-> read
-> read_hidden_forums

And the most important to make sure you edit all forums and topics based on above setting, just edit it and you have Members plugin setting.

Try activate members plugins and tick 'Enable the role manager' and 'Enable the content permissions feature' and when you edit a forum or topic a Members setting appears. Use it to restrict roles.

The main reason is because I will something akin to the following:

-Most of the forums (100% visible to all members and public; only members may post)
-Special Forum (100% visible to all members and public; only SOME members may post)
-Restricted Completely Forum (0% visible to public and general members; SOME members may see and post)

It is important to mention that the members who can see the restricted areas are not necessarily admins or moderators. Also we use WP for all kinds of things aside from just bbPress and I heavily use User Role Editor already. I have, for example, two users who have a special role that allows them to edit items in the store. One of these users will eventually have access to the restricted forum; the other will not and will have no idea it exists. Neither of these users are moderators or admins on the fourm. You can see how at this point relying on user roles to accomplish this task is unrealistic.

What I wouldn't mind doing is some kind of meta way of doing this. I have a few ideas but I wanted to ask if anybody else has done this or knows of a way to potentially do this before I start mucking around and potentially breaking things.

Thank you!

Like the heading says, if I follow links from usernames I land on a blank profile page. The user name's there (heading), but there's no content.

Can someone point me in the direction of a solution, please?

Justin

This user was created manually initially (and the user profile worked). Since then I have installed a commercial membership plugin that may have had its hand at work here (although it really shouldn't have).

I've done some further testing and have been able to see that the user_nicename formatting is changed when using a update function of the membership plugin. This is obviously the cause of the issue here.

Is there anywhere that the expected formatting of the user_nicename property is detailed so that I can refer the plugin author to it? Seems the fault lies with their coding.

Thanks for your input & help!

Can you confirm what the user_nicename is for the user you're seeing this issue with? Do you have any other plugins responsible for creating users (Facebook, Twitter) that might not be obeying the expected formatting of user_nicename?

I have installed the bbPress plugin on a few wordpress instances and tend to favour a vanilla install coupled with CSS overrides to provide the look & feel I need.

On a recent install I have spotted an issue with user profiles. When I try and navigate to the user's profile (typically yoursite.com/users/<username>) I am receiving a 404 page from WordPress.

I can browse to another users profile and it resolves fine. The only difference I can see is that the profile which is not working has a username which has spaces e.g. FirstName LastName as opposed to FirstNameLastName.

Has anyone else had this issue and know if its a genuine bug or a "feature"? :P

Cheers, Matt

$custom_title = bb_get_usermeta($user->ID, 'bbpress_title');

What I had to do was to go into the WordPress Discussion settings and uncheck 'Users must be registered and logged in to comment '.

When I did that it gave me the boxes to comment.

Cheers,

Glyn

See http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-and-studiopress-genesis-can-someone-please-tell-me-if-this-works for instance.

In short: bbPress uses WordPress users, your users can register like they would normally for the WordPress installation. There are shortcodes for login / register pages though.

I've worked it out....

I have just set up bbpress 2.0 as a plug in to my WordPress website and it is working great.

However, I can's seem to work out how a user (other than me) can register and log in to start a topic or reply to a post....

Can anyone help?

Many thanks,

Glyn

Moving discussion here going forward. :)

I have a fresh multisite WordPress 3.1.4 with bbPress plugin 2.0-beta-3b. I can run bbPress both in network-activate mode or per site-activate. As network-admin I can create forums, post and reply to posts. But if I configure that new WordPress users can register themselves, they are not allowed to create forum topics or reply.

What extra configurations do I have to do to configure that all new registered WordPress users can create topics and reply to them?

Thanks

Kai

If you want the Permalinks options to work, you have to change the "options-permalinks.php" file. Mine initially looked like this:

**********

$permalink_options = array(
'mod_rewrite' => array(
'title' => __( 'Permalink type' ),
'type' => 'radio',
'options' => array(
'0' => sprintf( __( '<span>None</span> %s' ), bb_get_uri( 'forums.php', array( 'id' => 1 ), BB_URI_CONTEXT_TEXT ) ),
'1' => sprintf( __( '<span>Numeric</span> %s' ), bb_get_uri( 'forums/1', null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_TEXT ) ),
'slugs' => sprintf( __( '<span>Name based</span> %s' ), bb_get_uri( '/forums/first-forum', null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_TEXT ) )
)
)
);

**********

And so I changed it to this:

**********

$permalink_options = array(
'mod_rewrite' => array(
'title' => __( 'Permalink type' ),
'type' => 'radio',
'options' => array(
'0' => sprintf( __( '<span>None</span> %s' ), bb_get_uri( 'forums.php', array( 'id' => 1 ), BB_URI_CONTEXT_TEXT ) ),
'1' => sprintf( __( '<span>Numeric</span> %s' ), bb_get_uri( '/1', null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_TEXT ) ),
'slugs' => sprintf( __( '<span>Name based</span> %s' ), bb_get_uri( '/first-forum', null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_TEXT ) )
)
)
);

**********

When I attempt to edit user profile it switched to my WordPress and gives me a "Error 404: Page Not Found".

Here is a sample URL: "http://jernigan.co/forums/profile/admin"