[@indigoo Participant 8 years, 4 months ago]

I’m wondering if anyone at bbPress is paying any attention to this. We’re having the same problem at a non-profit I’m trying to help set up bbPress. If I’m logged in as an Admin, I can post, but if I’m logged in as a user (participant role in bbPress and subscriber in aMember) I can see the forums but not post. Exactly the same as the OP.

Has anyone found a solution for this?

Thanks if you can help.

[@indigoo Participant 8 years, 5 months ago]

Oh, wait. I got that one too! LOL

I found that a code block had been added to my member home page by the second code snippet. I deleted that block and all good now.

Thanks for your help!

[@indigoo Participant 8 years, 5 months ago]

I was trying to say, “It does NOW place a small edit link.” It is working on that page, just also putting that stray text on another page too.

I did manage to change the placement of the “edit profile” link on the forum page to get it to be right align. I guess this only shows on the main forums page and individual forum pages, not on topic pages.

All I really need to do now is to get the extra text removed from the other members area page it was added to.

[@indigoo Participant 8 years, 5 months ago]

EDITED: I first added the second code snippet you provided, then realized I needed to other one, so I deleted that second snippet and used the first at the end of the functions.php file in my child theme. It does not place a small “edit profile” link centered at the top of my forum main page, which is a help (thanks), but it also places the following text at the bottom of my members home page when logged in: “Click edit button to change this code.”

That is not a clickable link and it is also not in the right location. Also, I can’t see where that specific text is being defined to edit the wording, which I’d want if it was a working link. It would be great to also have the edit link on the members home page, not just the forum main page, or even better to be able to add it to the sidebar that shows on all member area pages, but at least I’d like to remove this text from the non-forum page.

Thanks in advance if you can sort this.

[@indigoo Participant 8 years, 5 months ago]

Where would this code be added? I’m trying to do the same by adding it to my child theme’s bbpress.php file, but is just showing the raw code on the page. I may be in the wrong file, or else have something else missing. Thanks if you can direct.

[@indigoo Participant 8 years, 5 months ago]

It took me a ridiculous amount of time to find where to make this change and make it, and even then it is in the main bbPress code. I couldn’t get it to see anything I put in my child theme, because it is accessed through plugins, not themes. I know I’ll have to update the file again manually as soon as I update bbPress.

Also, that plugin only allows you to add new fields, not display existing ones. Doesn’t it seem odd that you would be prompted to enter data in fields on user profile edit, but then not have any of them show on view? By default the user fields should be available to show, at least standard ones like description, website, and social media profiles.

If you use that plugin to manually create some of those fields, your users will see two of each, the original ones that won’t show in view mode, and the custom ones you created. Not workable.

So really I see nothing to do other than manually editing the user-profile.php file to line by line include each field you want to show. How are some people not caring about this? It just seems so fundamental to me. Why go all the way to something like BuddyPress when all you want is field data already being collected to actually show?