[Scott Wyden Kivowitz]

Hi Everyone,

I set up BBPress on a friend’s website, http://blog.photographersadventureclub.com.

Until the recent 2.3 update, everything was fine. For some reason now the admin tabs no longer show: Forum & Threads. However, BBPress options do show under the Tools and Settings tabs. There is just no way to create new forums and moderate threads from the backend now.

Screenshot: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s6/sh/bb933cf9-6022-41e4-9351-8c4490614d45/43718dd30fd7252c58abd34de2f405bb

Running WP 3.5.1 with the following active plugins:

Akismet
AutoChimp
bbPress
CSV User Import
Custom Login Logo Lite
Events +
FancyBox for WordPress
Flare
Google Analytics for WordPress
Google Maps
Membership Premium
NextGEN Gallery
NextGEN Gallery Voting
NextGEN Gallery Voting Premium
No Self Pings
Remove WPMU Notification Plugin Nag
Wordfence Security
WordPress Backup to Dropbox
WordPress SEO
Yelp Widget Pro

Any help would be appreciated!

[webheadcoder]

I am having the same problem. My bbpress was fine before upgrading to 2.3. My site has a ton of plugins, but I don’t have any of the same plugins listed above. I tried deactivating all but bbpress and changing my theme to twenty twelve and it still doesn’t show. I’m thinking it must be something with old user permissions from bbpress 2.2.x or some option maybe that is interfering.

[webheadcoder]

forgot to say, i am logged in as the super admin and looking at the user list shows my forum role as empty. I guess that’s the problem, my user wasn’t assigned the keymaster role.

[Scott Wyden Kivowitz]

@webheadllc still happening for you?

[webheadcoder]

I just figured it out. I found a bunch of other topics on this and found a hint at: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-3-default-role-not-assigned/

Basically I went to Settings->Forums and checked the “Auto role” checkbox that says “Automatically assign default role to new, registered users upon visiting the site.”. After checking this the Forums, Topics, Replies menus showed up and my user was assigned a role. I then unchecked the Auto role setting since it was originally unchecked. not sure if it should be checked or unchecked in the long term.

[Scott Wyden Kivowitz]

Worked for me too. Thanks so much for finding and sharing that!