Ah ok. The only thing I can think of is that I might be careful about commenting out some of those lines… but instead, put in forum numbers that you know won’t be an issue. That’s total speculation though.
Either way, I wouldn’t comment out those two lines at the top of the settings:
‘//$read_only_forums=false; // true = stop ALL members from starting topics in ALL forums’
‘//$read_only_forums=false; // true = stop ALL members from replying to topics in ALL forums’
If that doesn’t work, it’s probably a compatibility issue – _ck_ has mentioned that she’s not updating a lot of her plugins for version 1.0 until December or so…
The instructions in the readme file should mention the settings?
* Until an admin menu is created, edit read-only-forums.php and change settings near the top as desired
* Add the read-only-forums.php file to bbPress’ my-plugins/ directory and activate.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/installation/
What version of bbPress are you using? The plugin may not be compatible with version 1.0…
Also – what edits did you make to the settings section of the admin?
I just did a bunch of googling for “intermittent error 500”, and some users have reported a similar issue when their server uses up all their RAM.
Are you on a shared server? Or is there anything on your server that might be eating up your memory?
Differently? I’m not sure what you mean…
Is it after a particular action (e.g. after you submit a post)? Or does it just happen randomly as you click around the site…
Does it show the error every time? Or only some times…
This plugin should allow you to restrict who can post into a particular forum:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/
I use it on one of my sites, and it works great!
Woah, did you hack the core? (i.e. edit something besides a plugin)
I strongly suggest you restore the core code and find another way to fix the earlier problem! If you post details of the earlier problem, we can try to troubleshoot it for ya here.
Try deactivating any recent plugins, and see if that helps?
If the problem has started recently, it’s probably either a change that you made… or one made by your host!
Is it possible there’s an extra space at the beginning or end of your config file or in a plugin you’ve installed recently?
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/wordpress-error-warning-cannot-modify-header-information/
If you’re not comfortable changing folder permissions, than bbPress isn’t going to be a good solution for you. That said, I don’t know of any solution that supports plugins and is also drag-and-drop easy. It should be easy to do this stuff, but it’s not yet.
Like Chris mentioned, your best bet is probably to find someone nearby who can help you.
That plugin was written by _ck_ – she’s stated that she’s not going to update her plugins until bbPress 1.0 has had a chance to settle down… around December or so:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbcode-buttons-and-bbpress-smilies-not-working-for-me
If you’re in any sort of hurry to use her plugins, your best bet is to use bbPress 0.9.
That’s probably your problem with many of your plugin issues. Many plugins are not compatible with version 1.0+, which was released fairly recently.
If you want to use a lot of plugins, you need to either use version 0.9 or be able to edit the plugins yourself to make sure they are compatible.
What version of bbPress are you using? Many plugins aren’t compatible on version 1.0 yet…
You probably want to disable all your new plugins, and activate/test them one at a time. When things stop working, that’s your problematic plugin.
There’s a setting on the admin page called, “Ask for poll during new topic creation? (requires AJAX on)”… try turning that on? That should do the trick…
Yah, a lot of plugins don’t have admin menus… they either:
* Have no settings at all, or
* Have the settings at the top of their code, and require you to edt them using a text editing program
Hopefully that’s the case! If you’re not sure, let us know which plugins you’re using…
Is the site itself slow, or just the dashboard?
Also – try bb-benchmark to see how many queries there are, and how long the render time is:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-benchmark/
Ruby on Rails has some stuff to allow memcached storage of user sessions:
http://awesomerails.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/memcache-sessions-in-rails/
@finalwebsite – _ck_ is a female developer. 
I was referring to her statements that “the performance boost will be trivial, almost non-existent for a single server setup” and ” Memcache is only beneficial for multi-server systems, it’s why it was invented in the first place.” But ymmv!
Sam had some thoughts on how bbPress 1.0/Backpress enabled the WordPress memcached plugin here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/topic-query-count-in-alpha-10-any-progress#post-19600
_ck_ also had some thoughts on how memcached would or wouldn’t increase performance (although it sounds like performance isn’t your main goal in making the switch):
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/covert-wp-super-cache-plug-in-for-bbpress/page/2#post-38232
Good luck – and keep us posted on how it goes!
Hehe, most people talk as though bbPress doesn’t exist.
I personally talk as if bbPress 1.0 doesn’t exist… 0.9 or bust!
I haven’t used Vanilla, so I can’t comment on them… I wish there was more benchmarking across boards platforms for speed. But I haven’t seen much on that front…
You might want to try the new CSS Q&A site that’s affiliated with stackoverflow… http://doctype.com
I have nothing to do with it – but it’s designed for CSS Q&A!
Nice stab, Ipstenu!
I thought the template permissions issue was fixed in 1.0.2 though… maybe the folder was created by an earlier install version?
