[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

no problem, glad you are fixed !!

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

so you want you to be able to create topics and replies, but your users to just read?

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

so who do you want to see the forum page – just you?, just registered users or who?

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

ahh!!

7.1 has some issues with bbpress (or visa versa)

so 3 fixes
1. downgrade to a lesser version of php
2. upgrade to bbpress 2.6rc3
3. in bbpress 2.5.13 in includes/forums/functions.php
change line 1851 from
$meta_query = $posts_query->get( ‘meta_query’ );
to
$meta_query = $posts_query->get( ‘meta_query’, array() );
and change line 1796 from
$post_stati = $posts_query->get( 'post_status' );

to

$post_stati = $posts_query->get( ‘post_status’ ); 
if (!is_array($post_stati)){
                                             $post_stati = array($post_stati);
}

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

ok, can I have a link to the working site?

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

ok, you have two choices

either use the default wordpress lost password and register

http://mysite.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
http://mysite.com/wp-login.php?action=register

obviously changing the ‘mysite.com’ to your sites name

or create pages within your site and use the bbpress shortcodes
and then reference the page url

eg create a page called ‘password’ and have it’s permalink as say ‘password’ and put
[bbp-login] as the page content (you can precede this with any text you like, or have text after) eg

Lost you password?- enter your email and we'll send a new one straight to you
[bbp-login]

Then in the widget you would put

http://mysite.com/password/

you can do the same with [bbp-register] to display the register screen.

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

can you check what versions of php each is using.

If you can’t immediately tell from your host details, this plugin will add it to the dashboard

Display PHP Version

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

ok, you’ll need to do some elimination

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

@cocktail5555

so you dev site is working finem, but the live site isn’t – correct?

Is the dev site a local installation?

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

@daltmc

Try

dashboard>settings>permalinks

and just click save
this resets the permalinks, and sometimes gets sites going

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

Also, when clicking on a forum from the forum index on the frontend, I get a blank page:
http://hatchnutrition.com/forum/

that works fine – do you still have a problem?

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

I am sure you know, there are plugins that do that for the WordPress comments, so that even commenters who do not have a WordPress account on that site can check a box to receive email alerts of new comments.

wasn’t aware of that.

I don’t know of any plugin that does this for bbpress.

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

presume you are fixed as it looks left aligned – if not please give us a link to a specific example and state which element

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

if a user is logged out, then wordpress does not know who they are, so I am struggling to understand how it would know which user to subscribe ??

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

so 3 fixes
1. downgrade to a lesser version of php
2. upgrade to bbpress 2.6rc3
3. in bbpress 2.5.13 in includes/forums/functions.php
change line 1851 from
$meta_query = $posts_query->get( ‘meta_query’ );

to
$meta_query = $posts_query->get( ‘meta_query’, array() );

and change line 1796 from
$post_stati = $posts_query->get( 'post_status' );

to

$post_stati = $posts_query->get( ‘post_status’ ); 
if (!is_array($post_stati)){
                                             $post_stati = array($post_stati);
}

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

great – glad you are fixed

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

great – glad you are fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

Suspect you are using php 7.1
so 3 fixes
1. downgrade to a lesser version of php
2. upgrade to bbpress 2.6rc3
3. in bbpress 2.5.13 in includes/forums/functions.php
change line 1851 from
$meta_query = $posts_query->get( ‘meta_query’ );
to
$meta_query = $posts_query->get( ‘meta_query’, array() );
and change line 1796 from

$post_stati = $posts_query->get( 'post_status' );

to

$post_stati = $posts_query->get( ‘post_status’ ); 
if (!is_array($post_stati)){
    			$post_stati = array($post_stati);
}

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

kicked it round some more, and got to this as a better answer

add_filter( 'bbp_get_caps_for_role', 'rew_moderator', 10, 2);

function rew_moderator ($caps, $role) {
	if ($role == bbp_get_moderator_role() ) {
		$caps['edit_others_forums'] = true ;
		$caps['delete_forums'] = true ;
		$caps['delete_others_forums'] = true ;
	}
return $caps ;
}

add_filter ('bbp_map_forum_meta_caps', 'rew_mod', 10,4) ;

function rew_mod ( $caps, $cap, $user_id, $args) {
	switch ( $cap ) {
	
	case 'bbp_forums_admin'  :
		if ( user_can( $user_id, 'moderate' ) ) {
				$caps = array( 'moderate' );
		}
		
	case 'edit_forums'         :
	case 'edit_others_forums'  :
	
		if ( user_can( $user_id, 'moderate' ) ) {
				$caps = array( 'moderate' );
		}
	
	}
	
return $caps ;
}

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

ok, I’ve been kicking this around for the last 3 hours!!

Capabilities are spread all over the files in bbpress, so it’s taken a while to get to something.

But I’ve learnt some good stuff along the way !!

This is close to a perfect solution, and seems workable

add_filter ('bbp_register_forum_post_type', 'rew_change') ; 

function rew_change () {
	$rew = array(
				'labels'              => bbp_get_forum_post_type_labels(),
				'rewrite'             => bbp_get_forum_post_type_rewrite(),
				'supports'            => bbp_get_forum_post_type_supports(),
				'description'         => __( 'bbPress Forums', 'bbpress' ),
				'capabilities'        => bbp_get_topic_caps(),
				'capability_type'     => array( 'forum', 'forums' ),
				'menu_position'       => 555555,
				'has_archive'         => bbp_get_root_slug(),
				'exclude_from_search' => true,
				'show_in_nav_menus'   => true,
				'public'              => true,
				'show_ui'             => current_user_can( 'moderate' ),
				'can_export'          => true,
				'hierarchical'        => false,
				'query_var'           => true,
				'menu_icon'           => ''
			) ;
	return apply_filters( 'rew_change', $rew );
}

add_filter( 'bbp_get_caps_for_role', 'rew_moderator', 10, 2);

function rew_moderator ($caps, $role) {
	if ($role == bbp_get_moderator_role() ) {
		$caps['edit_others_forums'] = true ;
		$caps['delete_forums'] = true ;
		$caps['delete_others_forums'] = true ;
		$caps['publish_forums'] = true ;
		$caps['read_private_forums'] = true ;
		$caps['read_hidden_forums'] = true ;
		$caps['edit_forums'] = true ;
				
	}

return $caps ;
	
}

The line

'capabilities' => bbp_get_topic_caps(),

should say

'capabilities' => bbp_get_forum_caps(),

and my 2nd filter should then make that work, but for whatever reason it doesn’t.

But as it gives the topic permissions which for a moderator are what you want for forums, it should be fine.

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

try this in the additional css of the theme

dashboard>appearance>customise>additional css

.entry-header, .entry-content, .entry-summary, .entry-meta {
    max-width: 604px;
   }

and amend max width to whatever you want

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

you need to get bbpress to use the correct theme template

see

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

item 8

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

bbp capabilities are allocated against bbpress roles, so suspect that it would be easier to add forums to the moderator role

I think the capability you need to add is

bbp_forums_admin

so set to user to moderator and add the above capability to preferably the moderator role but could be the editor role

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

If you set them as moderators, then they don’t get forums in the dashboard

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 2 months ago]

sorry that sounds buddypress to me, so I’ll back out