[Mike]

I’m having a problem with this still, in bbpress 2.5.3, WordPress 3.9.1, Buddypress 2.0.1

In a public forum associated with a site, logged-in Buddpyress users who are not a member of that individual site get a 404 error because they don’t have ‘spectate’ privileges.
Is that expected behaviour?
N.B. I have tweaked things so that visiting users are *not* automatically set up with a site role. I only give them bbp_participant status if they already have a role in the blog site. Is that the issue?

In debugging, I notice that in bbpress/includes/users/capabilities.php the visiting bbpress user who is not a member of the site is mapped a list of capabilities, including ‘specate’. However, in bbp_forum_enforce_blocked, the capabilities of the WordPress user are checked for spectate, not the bbp user. Hence the 404. If I check for the bbp user’s capabilities inside bbp_forum_enforce_blocked, they have been reset in any case.

Can anyone give guidance on this? Thanks.

[Mike]

This turned out to be a clash with the admin-message plugin (wpmudev.org).
If I comment out the include_once statement at the very bottom of admin-message.php, which pulls in all the spammy advertising stuff WPMU put into your admin pages, the forum menus reappear.

As this issue seems to occur with quite a few plugins, it might be useful to draw up a list of plugins which cause compatibility issues with bbPress.

If you know of any please comment in this thread.

[Mike]

I added a simple check in bbpress/inlcudes/users/capabilities.php to see whether the current user has a role in the current blog, before giving them a forum role:

	/** Ready *****************************************************************/

	// Load up bbPress once
	$bbp         = bbpress();

	// Get whether or not to add a role to the user account
	$blog_role = bbp_get_user_blog_role( $user_id );
	$add_to_site = bbp_allow_global_access() && $blog_role != false;

With that in place I can reset all my previous changes so that the default setting for global access is true.
I’ve edited the text in Forums -> Settings to show that ‘global access’ is really now just ‘site access’.

Ideally this would be a separate option in Forums -> Settings, to limit automatic forum access to site members. I will submit a patch if I get the time.

The problem with the default settings is that in a large Buddypress-type site, every time I visit a new site when logged in, that site is added to my My Sites list.

[Mike]

OK, thanks.
Any thoughts on giving the site users bbPress roles automatically, rather than the network users?
And on running:
Tools -> Forums -> Repair Forums -> Remap existing users to default forum roles
for all blogs too?

[Mike]

I think what is required in this context is an option to automatically assign forum roles to registered blog users, but not registered network users, as is currently the case.

[Mike]

Well I set the default value for ‘allow global access’ to false in the options file:

function bbp_allow_global_access( $default = 0 ) {
	return (bool) apply_filters( 'bbp_allow_global_access', (bool) get_option( '_bbp_allow_global_access', $default ) );
}

Hopefully that together with my other changes will have done the trick.