Question of the day: Is your account actually an admin account?
You assumed wrong. That’s okay, because next you need to figure out which plugin isn’t working correctly by deactivating them one at a time and seeing which one stops the bad stuff from happening. 
I have a hunch it’s the bbPress Admin Bar Addition one.
Ultimately, you just need to open the hood and start tinkering.
What version of bbPress? And where are these incorrect links located? What plugins other than bbPress are you running?
This felt like a bug to me, either in bbPress or some other thing, so I created a ticket and fixed it right away for bbPress 2.1.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1887
Users with accounts should almost always have the ‘read’ capability. If they lost it somehow, it seems like it’s because something interfered with it.
You don’t get to change those links; they are created automatically by WordPress.
What version of WordPress are you using?
This should be as easy as finding the link in your theme, and changing it. Search your theme’s template files for #new-topic and see what you find.
In bbPress 2.1, functions.php is replaced with bbpress-functions.php in your theme, to avoid the conflict.
Looks like your theme doesn’t allow for bbPress to work correctly. What versions of BuddyPress and bbPress are you using?
Yeah; the meta queries are really awful.
I think I’ve resolved the issue. You’re one of the first people to report back using bbPress 2.x at that scale, so I’d love some feedback on the change.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4059
The URLs do follow the same structure as WordPress, exactly actually.
Keep in mind that WordPress has never needed to have a mixed post-type URL structure, except for the case of attachments (which don’t really count.)
None of the words in the URL are ‘useless’ since they’re all indicative of where the content lives.
bbPress and WordPress are designed to allow those with specific needs and wants to customize the codebase, and contribute the changes they needed up-stream to the parent project. If this is something multiple people would like, I suggest you group up and build it. If it works, and more people want it, we absorb it into bbPress core.
Boom.
It doesn’t directly. I’m working on ways of addressing this for a quick 2.2 release.
“Forum Moderator” is a role in bbPress. There is a ‘moderator’ capability you can map too, if you’re a developer also.
bbPress 2.2 will include more functionality in this regard.
You’ll need to write a plugin to prevent logged-out users from seeing the forums. You can also make each forum ‘private’ which will hide them from logged out users.
Can you replace your big code-dumps with links to pastebin, or some other place? Thanks!
single-forum-edit.php is used by BuddyPress, for group forums. You can also do /edit on a forum, and it will use that template.
Twenty Ten missing the feedback-no-replies.php reference was an oversight, just fixed now. r4049
It might need some additional CSS to make it actually look the part, but it should look *okay* enough to start.
Saw you created a ticket on trac; thanks!
I tested on Chrome 20 and Aurora (Firefox 15) and it works for me.
Most likely a JS error, or some other conflict. Marking as resolved, since it works by itself.
Create a WordPress page, and use the new topic shortcode: [bbp-topic-form]
Probably out of memory. Both bbPress and BuddyPress are large plugins. Loading up all that code takes resources that your host may not have. If you deactivate one ore the other, does everything come back up?
bbPress doesn’t put posts in pending status, for any reason.
Does this problem happen for all forums? Group forums? Can you narrow the issue down to something smaller and reproducible?
You’ll have more luck asking over at buddypress.org.
Access log isn’t very helpful here. The error log will be, as well as any information you can provide on the memory monitoring side. What function causes the spike, etc…
You’re welcome. I tried to clear it up a bit, and you’re right that it’s still a weird experience. If you have improvements, I’d love to see them.
“Restart” is what’s causing the problem, since it literally restarts the import from 0. Don’t tick that box, and it should continue where it left off.
Visit your permalinks page, and save them.
If the theme is all you’re worried about, don’t use bbPress 1.x. It’s outdated and no longer under active development, so you’re investing in a dead-end. bbPress 2.1 can be themed to look like anything you want it to later; you’re better off starting clean with the newer engine than trying to fix up the old one because you like the paint.
