[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Ok, so I cannot replicate either

Mine just saves correctly

or

‘If in the fields as in the image I write random words, the plugin stops working and all the forums are visible for all’

mine appends the random words to the current forum url, which then just send you to a 404 page

Can you confirm that you are still having both these issues?

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Hey thanks for continuing to test – really appreciated it !

on the settings page – I can’t replicate this – I just tried a new install, and whatever combination of activate I use in the general settings, they still save ok. I am not sure what to suggest next – let me have a think.

For the random words, I’ll take a look later today and fix.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

ok,

so given

No other plugins than bbpress
a theme of twentyten
and that you as user are set up with ‘participant’ or above authority

what exactly do you mean by ‘I cant add topic to forum’

Is this :

as a user in the front end?
as a participant or above in the back end?
what message are you getting, and when – eg “you cannot post topics…”

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

thanks, does this happen as you enter this page, or as you try to exit?

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

great – thank you – I will update the code to stop the error for future users !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

and another thought – have you been into settings to set up the groups? Dashboard>settings>private groups

It may be that I’ve not allowed for this – so if you have just downloaded the plugin and gone straight into setting up a page it might fail – I’d need to test, but please let me know.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

‘Sorry for my english. ‘ – do not apologise your English is excellent !

Ok, I have just re-tested and I do not get that issue – I can create pages and posts fine.

You could just try deleting and re-installing the plugin just to eliminate any load issues – unless you have just downloaded it, maybe download the latest version from my website so that we are both on version 1.4.

Then maybe we should try to eliminate plugin and theme conflicts

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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Come back and let me know.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

If you’re not seeing settings>forums in the reading/writing list then either your install is faulty or you have a conflict – these can cause parts of the backend to not display/go missing.

The easiest way to check would be to disable all plugins except bbp and switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve. If it all show up ok in that then either theme or plugin related, and you can start to work out which. However you may not want to do that on your live site !!!

Maybe get your test site going, and then revisit bbpress ?

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Thanks, I can’t replicate this – might be an issue with running it on wamp?

Anyway can you let me know when you get this – ie what were you doing at the time.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Thanks, Stephen !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

ok, just because it was annoying me, I looked further

you should have a folder in your theme called forums which has a number of .css files in it.

As far as I can work out, somewhere you can set up schemes for your forums within this these, or another plugin, and you have selected theme 4?

Anyway two .css files are active

in http://www.betatestarena.com/forums/

the page is using

/forums/#4.css as it’s style file

This has

body.it-background {
}

ie not set, but uses

body.custom-background {
  background-attachment: fixed;
  background-color: #000000;
  background-image: url("http://www.betatestarena.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Background.png");
  background-position: center top;
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
}

to give you the background color

In your other link – http://www.betatestarena.com/forum/announcements/

the page is using

/forums/ammouncements/#4.css as its style file

which has

body.it-background {
  background-image: none !important;
}
body.it-background {
  background-color: #D2D2D8 !important;
}

on lines 760 and 761

which set the off-white color.

so play with these settings to get what you want.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

This is coming from your theme, which seems to be setting lots of things in this area, some relating to the woocommerce elements of your theme.

As this is a paid theme, I suggest you go to the theme’s support site for help is getting this fixed.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

How do you mean?

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

New bbpress installation?
Old installation with new problem?

Have you other plugins?

Try

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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

As I think you have guessed as you posted a while ago on the Emphaino wordpress support site, this is a theme issue.

I can only suggest you try a basic bbpress page to see if this will display sufficiently well to fit in with your theme.

So create a file called bbpress.php and into this drop the following code

<?php
get_header(); ?>

		<div id="container">
			<div id="content" role="main">

			<?php
			/* Run the loop to output the page.
			 * If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
			 * called loop-page.php and that will be used instead.
			 */
			get_template_part( 'loop', 'page' );
			?>

			</div><!-- #content -->
		</div><!-- #container -->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Then save this file in the root of your theme.

bbpress will then use this file instead of your theme’s page file for the display of bbpress pages.

Give it a go, and if it fixes the problem come back and let us know. If it doesn’t then you will need to do some styling, and that will take some research to fix !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Without using code for 21K users, I can get it to 42 quick actions – or the same action 42 times !

NOW be careful – make sure you know who you want to be different – eg administrators, as if you bulk change and then log out without changing back, then you may lose admin access – and then you’ll need to use phpmyadmin using nasty sql stuff to correct this.

So start by making a list of users with admin, or other wordpress roles you’ll want to be different – write these names onto a post it note and stick this to your screen so you won’t forget !!!!


Then go into

Dashboard>users>all users

At the top right of the page you see ‘screen options’ click this and typically you’ll see a part that says

20 users apply

Change this to 999 users and click the apply box.

This will then display 999 users at a time, so you can bulk change 999 in one go.

Then next to the ‘username’ heading you’ll see a tick box which is the ‘select all’ option, click this and it will select all 999 of page 1 users

Above this you’ll see a ‘bulk actions’ and then the bits we want to the right of that – the ability to change the wordpress and forum roles.

So having ticked to select all the 999 users displayed on page 1, click the ‘change role to’ and select the subscriber role, and then the change box, and hey presto all 999 are now subscribers.

Tick the ‘select all’ again, and select the bbpress participant role, and change that.

so now all page 1 users are correctly set.

Now select page 2 on the right just below the bulk change forum role and repeat !

So for each page (21 or 22 of them) you do

Select page
click ‘the select all’ box,
click forum to ‘subscriber’ and click change
click ‘the select all’ box,
click role to ‘particpant’ and click change
select next page

THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHANGE THE ADMINS BACK BEFORE LOGGING OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Probably taken me longer to type these instructions than for you to execute them !

Mod Note: I edited your post Robin 😉 Cheers, Stephen

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Hi, sorry you didn’t get answered the first time

bbpress roles are separate to wordpress roles, and confusingly don’t appear as part of the user creation.

So

go into

Dashboard>users>set up new user

set up your user for wordpress, and click confirm/save or whatever it says.

It will come back with a screen saying ‘user created – edit user’ click the edit part and go back into the user (you can also do this anytime by just editing the user through ‘all users’)

At the bottom of this screen you will now see forum role, and here you set their forum level.

Click save, and you user will now have the appropriate forum level access.

I know you’ll be screaming by now – I’m just a volunteer so don’t blame me that this is how it works !

If you go back up to the worpress roles, you also see in the wordpress role dropdown that you can set “no role for this site” – so you can have a user who has say participant role for the forums but no role for the wordpress bit. I use this in conjunction with the ‘restrict content’ plugin to have a membership site where club members have access through the wordpress subscriber role to members only pages (and access to the forums through the participant role), whilst letting non-members access and contribute to the forums by having no wordpress role, but just a bbpress participant role.

Come back if any of that isn’t clear !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

You’re welcome !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Great, glad you’re fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

re changing roles, see

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Given this is the second forum you’ve tried, I’d bet that your issues are theme rather than forum related !

can you give a url, or tell us what theme you’re using?

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

the front page layout is achieved by ‘topics’ to the url eg

www/mysite.com/topics

add this url to your menu (links), and you have a latest topics page

and the display is the content, not in a sidebar as a widget.

Not sure if you wanted it in a sidebar that would be very populated.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

suggest you start with looking at

bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/members.php

This changes bbpress to go to buddypress profile, and should give you all the code you need.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Great, glad you’re fixed