Thanks Robin, I’d already deactivated everything other than bbpress and worked steadily from there. Everything worked except uploading images with just bbPress active.
Then I activated just the single bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab plugin and it worked.
It probably bamboozled me because when I started up at the beginning with just bbPress and that plugin I hadn’t found the ‘media button’ check box in the plugin settings! grr.
So then I tried to be smart and add a user role management plugin which then messed everything up ever after.
Sometimes I need the hint to go back to basics, just have one thing work and figure out the clash point!
Cheers Robin!
yup this is correct. Their WP user roles are both set to Subscriber and also their Forum role is set to Participant.
Still cannot created a topic, reply or add any media due to not being able to do the first two things.
:S