[jwarren]

So, I’ve added bbpress to quite a big WordPress site. While everything works fine and dandy for the admins, most (if not all) regular users aren’t able to view their profile page or edit their profile. I’ve changed all regular users to the “Participant” role, but it still simply returns a 404. Which capabilities do I need to add to the Participant to enable the profile?

Additionally, I’m generating the edit profile link like so:

`/forums/users/<?php wp_get_current_user()->user_login ?>

However, this feels a bit hacky and fragile – is there a better way?

WP 3.8, bbPress 2.5.1

[ronthai]

Menu link to Profile

<?php global $current_user;
      get_currentuserinfo();
     echo  $current_user->user_login . "";      
?>

[jwarren]

Thanks @ronthai, but that’s kind of the same thing I’m doing. If you check the source, you’ll see wp_get_current_user() basically abstracts the same thing. Did check out your linked post though, neat idea.

Any idea on the edit profile capabilities? It’s really kicking my arse.

[ronthai]

I thought it might had to do with your linked php part, but have not tried it.

If they are participant, edit profile should work, no idea why you get a 404

EDIT:
Just tried your php code in a link and does not work for me

[jwarren]

Thanks for giving it a shot. Sorry, the code wasn’t a straight copy and paste and I slightly borked it in the post.

It’s basically:

<?php $this_user = wp_get_current_user(); ?>
<a href="/forums/users/<?php echo $this_user->user_login; ?>/edit/">Edit Forum profile</a>

You’ll find that this should generate the same URL as you’ve done.

[jwarren]

Okay, sorted!

I took a dive into bbPress source code, and ‘bb_get_user_profile_url()’ is the correct function to use to get to a user’s profile. Here’s the source link

And an example usage:

<?php $this_user = wp_get_current_user(); ?>
<a href="<?php echo bbp_get_user_profile_url($this_user->ID); ?>edit/">Edit Forum profile</a>

[jwarren]

Sorry, that should be: bbp_get_user_profile_url()

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for adding the Codex page @jwarren 🙂

bbp_get_user_profile_url