can you check
dashboard>settings>forums
item – Automatically give registered visitors the xx role
I suspect you have this checked and set to spectator?
Thanks everyone, I have now reported this as a error in 2.6.2
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3297#ticket
I’ll update when the bbpress authors take a look
if you are using bbpress 2.6.x there is a moderator setting in the forums part (right hand side in dashboard forum edit) where you list users who can moderate
great – 2 seem to be fixed by this, although I still don’t know why !
@cassel great – thanks – please do report back, this is not the long term solution, but will let me work with the authors to get to a resolution.
that’s really interesting…. Let me think further
It would be great if some others can try my plugin and let me know the results
both are just a ‘post parent’ in the posts table. For bbpress the only difference is that categories don’t get topics, whereas forums do !
I can create the problem now on my test site. If I add the plugin (which I was doing to de-bug) the problem goes away. This is despite it just being the code that the function uses !
I would like to eliminate that you posted to a closed topic.
I would however like you to look at this situation
Forum a – forum, open, public parent 0
Forum b – sub forum, public, parent forum a
Topic x – an OPEN topic
Reply 1 – a reply to the above topic
reply 2 – a second reply
can you get the problem with this set up and my plugin deactivated ?
No, that just updates a reply – I’d already eliminates that – sorry
the repair tool deletes EVERY last active, and recalculates them all.
The function on the new reply contains all the right logic, and debugged it seems fine. I cannot see why it should not work, but agree it doesn’t.
you can deactivate the plugin if you wish.
is this a forum within a forum or category, or a top level forum?
sorry, how are you restricting the roles to particular forums?
ok, I think I am becoming deranged by this problem 🙂
Would someone like to try this very small plugin and let me know if it fixes.
I don’t promise it will – it works on my test site but it should make no difference !!
so go to
bbp Refresh Last Active Time
and download the plugin to your PC.
Go into
dashboard>plugins>add new plugin>upload and upload the file you have just downloaded then activate
Then try to add a new reply on a sub forum – please do this on public forums and hierarchy – this does not fix public/private mixes, and I don’t know if it works for private forums yet !
Please report back in either case
can I just ask those that are having issues whether they are using threaded replies?
No, I’m deep in code, this is not simple !
In your case, If you move the private forum out from under a public forum, I suspect you will work.
bbpress 2.6 has changed the way that forums are displayed. If you have a hidden forum, then set it to a group that is not used (if needbe create a further group, but assign n o users to it), and it will not be displayed.
@cassel – thanks I’m still looking at this issue
When I go to your site, if I select the testing forum as a non logged in user, I cannot see the topic form, but I can reply to an existing topic.
I thought that was what you wanted?
@cassel – I’m continuing to dig into your sub forums – do you know what php version you are on ?
EDIT : If you are running style pack, you can see this in
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>plugin information
Otherwise (for others ) if you don’t know how to find out, can you install this
Display PHP Version
and you can see from the dashboard – you can disable and delete the plugin once you have done so
find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php
transfer this to your pc and edit
change line 31 from
<?php if ( bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() ) : ?>
to
<?php if ( bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() && is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>
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/form-topic.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
yes if you know how to FTP a file and have a child theme – come back if you do
yes, if you care to look, you’ll find lots of questions have been answered.
it is scheduled for 2.6.3, but that is not guarenteed
