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Yeah, I did run that remap tool…but it didn’t have any effect. A very difficult error, this one, but at least the workaround works.
Pretty much all the forum-related capabilities were not active (and I’m not sure why not, either).
For the administrator role, there was no capability to delete, edit, publish or even read topics, forums or replies.
The keymaster role does have all these capabilities, but for some reason that is not translating over to administrator.
Looks like something quite odd is happening with roles and capabilities in multisite.
Well, I think I’ve found a better workaround than the Network Activate Solution.
Based on a lead from this topic from a year ago https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/missing-admin-menu-items/ , I tried activating Capability Manager Enhanced (https://wordpress.org/plugins/capability-manager-enhanced/) and surprise! There were the missing capabilities, not checked, not active, in the Capability Manager settings.
So I just enabled all the forum-related capabilities for administrators (could do this for any role, I’m sure) in CME, and that made everything work again for the site administrators, even when bbPress is not activated network-wide.
So that’s a much better solution (from my perspective, at least). If you want to use bbPress in multisite, just be sure to also use Capability Manager Enhanced on any site where you want the site admin to have the capability to add/edit/delete/manage forums.
I’ve tried deactivating just about everything except BuddyPress, with no progress. I’ll keep trying on this over the weekend. Thanks again for helping!
No cache, no.
We do have buddypress running, although from what I can tell, that shouldn’t cause any problems, should it?
That looked like a very good solution, but it didn’t work. Thanks!
I can see a blank spot in the sidebar where the forum menu should be, but a site admin, even with a forum role of keymaster, can’t actually see it.
Really appreciate the help–I’m kind of stumped.
thanks @tharsheblows
This is in a large multisite install, and occurs on every site in the install, regardless of which theme is in use, and even when no other plugins are activated.
The problem is quite specific–as @nathanegraham says above–
Network Admins (what used to be called super admins) can access the bbPress Forums, Topics, and Replies in the dashboard menu on any site where bbPress is activated. But site admins for that particular site can not. (unless it is network activated. Then it works for both site admins and network admins).
The forum items in the Settings menu are there and visible. But not much use when the site admin can not create forums.
This is the case even when Join my multisite is deactivated (even when it’s uninstalled).
It’s a really specific problem, I realize, but it’s a clear issue that network admins do have access to that menu and site admins do not.
AT first I thought that the forums menu was functioning, just not visible, but it turns out the problem is deeper.
If, as a site admin, I have the direct link to the forums menu ( /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=forum ), I can see the menu, but if I try to create a new forum, I get an “Invalid post type” error. It does seem that I can edit existing forums.
Again, network activating bbPress solves this problem (although it creates others).
Happy to provide any more info that might help!
I have been poking around trying to find a fix but no luck.
This is quite a serious problem for multisite. I hope that the team can take a look?
Yeah, not trying to be discouraging, @nathanegraham, but this is a bug–and I am already running WordPress 4.0 and still experiencing the problem.
Activating network-wide also has the consequence that sites that do not need bbPress, but do need other plugins, sometimes have trouble with those other plugins because of conflicts with bbPress (I’m suspecting that as a problem now with Join My Multisite plugin).
Would be great to see a fix soon, if possible! @netweb? Anyone?
@netweb Any ideas about this? It’s a fairly major issue in multisite, and I’d love to have a solution.
I can document this exact problem on our Multisite install. Seems like some problem with the roles/permissions in multisite? And in fact, even with the direct link, site admins can’t create forums (although super admins/network admins can).
Meanwhile the workaround of network-activating is effective, but that’s not a good long-term solution. We have thousands of sites in the network and only a fraction of them need to use bbPress. (thanks, @nathanegraham for the tip on that workaround, though!)
