Great – thanks for posting your solution.
Sorry for delay in replying – have been v. busy lately !
bbpress has a rich set of capabilities which you can use to create custom roles – read the attached and you should be able to create roles to suit your needs
Custom Capabilities
https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/
hmm, not sure what to suggest here
Something has become corrupt, and from what you write it sounds as though you changed something in the database directly, rather than from the dashboard?
Can you confirm what you changed and how?
sorry, I’m just a humble user of the software, but given that this is free software the phrase ‘expect’ seems somewhat demanding – you should expect nothing, but be grateful for what other people do for free for you. Or maybe join in and help develop what you see as failings.
‘it becomes something useable as actual forum software’ is just plain insulting and not polite at all, just putting ‘polite’ in then header and the sentence before doesn’t excuse this, and if you don’t get a response, I shouldn’t be surprised.
Maybe try starting again with a more friendly approach ?
Wordpress insists that you ether an email address, but you only need enter something that looks valid.
So for instance for my non existent test users, I simply create their accounts with a dummy unique email address such as
testuser1@qhqhttyweyywttw.com
testuser2@qhqhttyweyywttw.com
Then just give you users their username and initial password, and ask them to change the password.
Once that is done, there are no additional security risks in setting them up this way, as the only risk is of they click ‘lost password’ and that will send an email to the (hopefully!) non-existent user email above, hence the horrible email address above.
You could even disable password reset
http://wpsnipp.com/index.php/functions-php/remove-the-lost-your-password-link/
and stop that happening
@zejio – you have the same symptoms, but probably not the same problem, – but have you tried checking the plugins and themes as above?
@evolveworkforce – Sorry but can you absolutely confirm that :
1. The plugin is activated
2. with JUST bbpress plugin and 2012 theme you are not seeing ANY of the following
Forums
Topics
Replies
Settings>forums
Thanks
ok, le’s start by eliminating themes and plugins
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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.
So which of any of the following is showing in the dashboard?
Forums
Topics
Replies
Settings>forums
ok, It could be a theme or plugin issue
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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.
Forums are set using
Dashboard>settings>forums
Is this what is missing?
Not quite sure why you’re having a problem.
ALL views of forums/topics should show last post as the latest reply to a topic, not quite sure why you’re seeing that differently.
what ‘theme’ did you buy?
what levels for both wordpress and bbpress are you using for your dummy account, and what other plugins are you using?
bbpress allows you to build and use templates, so yes it is technically possible
I’d suggest you post a project on
http://jobs.wordpress.net/
Users set to the participant roles cannot create forums or categories
sorry, how does this relate to bbpress?
great, I was about to suggest that ass the issue !
Glad you’re fixed !
I am totally new to ck editor!
does it not work in the background (dashboard)?
and is that where you want it to work
I don’t know of one that does this
Great – glad you’re fixed !
no problem, I’ve just removed it !
easiest way would be to run some code through to correct – since you are asking, I expect this is beyond your skillset so suggest you post a request on
http://jobs.wordpress.net/
It should be a fairly cheap solution – code would be less than 20 lines !
