[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

ok, I’ve done some more thinking whilst trying to compose a support ticket.

so the once a day ‘update’ what is this supposed to do and which way – eg are you adding and deleting users based on AD, or updating AD based on WordPress/bbpress

Does your WordPress/bbpress site have a local user database or is the AD database used for authentication?

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

yes, that’s what I’m trying to get you to 🙂

So if you were using a WordPress user database, then the roles I posted a link to above would give you exactly what you want – participants would be able to post.

However I suspect this plugin references the AD database, and is not storing bbpress roles – so when it looks for permissions it finds no roles to allocate permissions against, so does not allow access.

now bbpress roles are stored in the same part of the database as WordPress roles, so it may well be that this plugin is not storing these settings, hence no access.

I’ll put a post in their support forum to see if they can help

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

so if you look at

dashboard>plugins

do you have an active directory integration plugin such as

Active Directory Integration / LDAP Integration

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

yes, participants should be able to create topics and replies viz :

bbPress User Roles and Capabilities

I strongly suspect the issue is with active directory, you already have said that it rolls back settings, which makes me suspect that the entire WordPress database is being rolled back – if you create say a test post on the website, does it stay overnight, or does it disappear – this would help determine where to go next.

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

thanks

so is this a new installation of bbpress, a new problem with bbpress, or when did this start

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

great – thanks for your helpful responses. Appreciate the intranet, been there !

is this website just for bbpress, or are you running a bunch of other stuff on it – just need to know as it will help how we go forward

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

great – thanks for posting that useful tip 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

second question is

you say ‘And every time it is updated (once a day) the roles I have assigned manually are lost …’ – what roles are you assigning, and how are you doing this eg ‘I go onto the dashboard and do this and then do that and then give them the xx role in then yy area’

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

ok, it may be hard to help for a site we cannot see, but let’s see where we get to.

So first question is

you say ‘The problem is that if I assign users the Participant role, they cannot create topics or reply to created topics.’ – so can you desbribe this eactly eg ‘they get a message saying you are not permitted to…’ or ‘they create a topic but when they press submit nothing happens ‘ etc.

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

great – glad you are fixed

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

you’d do better to put that amended template into your child theme – that way bbpress updates won’t overwrite it

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/user-details.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

and save

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/user-details.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

I did a code search and found this function in includes/common/functions line 1507 which seems a highly likely candidate.

function bbp_logout_url( $url = '', $redirect_to = '' ) {

	// If there is no redirect in the URL, let's add one...
	if ( ! strstr( $url, 'redirect_to' ) ) {

		// Get the forum root, to maybe use as a default
		$forum_root = bbp_get_root_url();

		// No redirect passed, so check referer and fallback to request uri
		if ( empty( $redirect_to ) ) {

			// Check for a valid referer
			$redirect_to = wp_get_referer();

			// Fallback to request uri if invalid referer
			if ( false === $redirect_to ) {
				$redirect_to = bbp_get_url_scheme() . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
			}
		}

		// Filter the $redirect_to destination
		$filtered  = apply_filters( 'bbp_logout_url_redirect_to', $redirect_to );

		// Validate $redirect_to, default to root
		$validated = wp_validate_redirect( $filtered, $forum_root );

		// Assemble $redirect_to and add it (encoded) to full $url
		$appended  = add_query_arg( array( 'loggedout'   => 'true'   ), $validated );
		$encoded   = urlencode( $appended );
		$url       = add_query_arg( array( 'redirect_to' => $encoded ), $url       );
	}

	// Filter & return
	return apply_filters( 'bbp_logout_url', $url, $redirect_to );
}

so maybe filtering on ‘bbp_logout_url’ would work.

Let me know if you need further help

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

I strongly suspect it is theme related or maybe other plugin.

In either case, it is not directly bbpress, so yes, I’d hide it with css

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

can you list your plugins please- the original error
Line 1: <div class="error"> <p>This Plugin needs BBpress to work, pls. install it first and activate.</p></div>

is not from bbpress

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

presuming in

dashboard>settings>forums you have Roles set to participant, then users will get the participant role upon their next login or if ‘remember me’ set tehir next remembered visit to the website (the website, not just forums) after you installed bbpress.

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

you’re welcome !

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

@webcreations907 thanks for that – really helpful 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

I found this in another thread

Found the solution: simply selecting ‘Dutch’ in the Admin > General Settings section instead of ‘Dutch (Formal)’ in the field ‘Website Language’ did the trick. After saving and refreshing the website, the forum shows the Dutch translation.

don’t know if that helps

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

as far as I know this still works

bbPress – Moderation Tools

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

hmm..not come across this before, from googling seems to be a wrodpress.com thing – doesn’t mean that I’m right – there’s tons on the internet that I don’t know, but just tried <!-- nextpage-> on posts in a couple of test sites, and it does nothing.

Can only suggest you find out what is adding it, but you may need to accept that it doesn’t work in bbpress

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

so are you running this plugin?

Automatically Paginate Posts

or another that does this, or does your theme add this ?

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

Great – thanks for posting that – I now understand 🙂

is this a WordPress.com hosted site?

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

I got a couple of emails, but no post here, did you mean to delete?

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

sorry ‘using’ 🙂 do you have thread replies set in

dashboard>settings>forums>threaded replies

was really just asking as I cannot remember if it is a problem of threaded replies or a problem generally

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years ago]

ok, I don’t fully understand your question.

Can you rephrase it as a series of steps I can repeat.

so ‘create a topic, do this, do that and then you see this happens’