[Robin W]

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?

[Chuckie]

In fact there are several style conflicts. The related issue is here:

https://github.com/EnlighterJS/Plugin.WordPress/issues/234

#confused #wanttofix

[falabart]

Yes, users were imported from Active Directory, and WordPress user roles were synchronized from an Active Directory group created for this purpose.

Sorry, I don’t know very well how this forum works … who will you ask for help? Will I receive an answer in this post or should I look for it somewhere else?

Thanks for your help and for your patience.

[Robin W]

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

[falabart]

I have that plugin installed and it is working.

But what I would like (but I don’t know if it is possible) is that there is only one Keymaster (the administrator of WordPress) and the rest of the users are Participants by default, being able to create and respond to topics.

[Robin W]

so if you look at

dashboard>plugins

do you have an active directory integration plugin such as

Active Directory Integration / LDAP Integration

[falabart]

Active Directory updates the database daily, adding or deleting users. This database also synchronizes the WordPress roles of each user. But the bbpress forum roles do not appear in our Active Directory …

Would forum roles need to be synced from a specific Active Directory field?

Would this help the role “Participant” have the permissions it should have?

[Robin W]

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.

[falabart]

Regarding the second question,

I go to the Users section of the WordPress backoffice, and once there I select all the users and go to the top tab: “Change forum role to …” and select “Participant”.

So that role assigns me well, but when Active Directory syncs again, those roles disappear, leaving it blank. This happens to me even though in Settings – Forums I have “Participant” selected in the “Roles” option.

[webcreations907]

<!-- nextpage-> converts to paginated links when using wp_link_pages() WordPress function for pages, posts, etc content, some themes add it some may not. As stated on WordPress wp_link_pages() must be in a loop/used for post content output.

I don’t think(maybe wrong) that it would be a good idea to use it in topics and replies for bbpress since bbpress has it’s own pagination functionality.

Thought I’d mention it. 🙂

[Robin W]

as far as I know this still works

bbPress – Moderation Tools

[Robin W]

so are you running this plugin?

Automatically Paginate Posts

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

[Robin W]

Great – thanks for posting that – I now understand 🙂

is this a WordPress.com hosted site?

[Robin W]

for moderation This one still works as far as I know and would let you moderate guest posts

bbPress – Moderation Tools

as for registration, bbpress just uses WordPress registration, so a plugin that does that would be fine. You don’t state what plugins you have tried, and why they didn’t work – if you find one that is close, come back.

[terotolkki]

I am trying to achieve the following:

Allow users to post as guests but those would always go to moderation first. Registered users can post normally.

Allow users to register to my forum through some social plugin so they don’t need to register yet to another website. I just haven’t found a suitable social plugin that would help with this.

Point with all this is to lower the bar for people to start using the forum.

Any help would he highly appreciated.

I am running WordPress version 5.4 and bbPress version is 2.6.4. Website is in coming soon mode so I can’t provide a link to it.

[Robin W]

looks like a genesis theme

try adding

bbPress Genesis Extend

that should fix it

come back if not

[robbytherobot]

Thanks I will bear your link in mind as I do have some WordPress projects on the go and could do with help at times for reasonable cost or maybe there are things I can help with (decent copywriter and editor!)

Amazing how one bad advice can change everything – based on this $2500 quote I’ve decided to ditch wordpress/bbpress for the project and go for one click install of Vanilla and save myself $2500 to setup a forum lol.

[robbytherobot]

Hello, sorry first of all I am not a full on developer so forgive any basic questions, I have only just considered using bbpress for a forum I want to setup, I am familiar with WordPress and working with various plugins, can modify basic code etc when I need to, however it’s not my main job. I’ve installed bbpress and am looking at getting a theme to work well with it. Am willing to pay for a pro theme that is simple for users, nothing that special is required.

I just want to ask how hard is it as a fairly competent end user with some technical know how to set up a basic bbpress site, add a fairly functional user friendly theme, and get a forum up and running? It’s not wordpress.org, it might have max 100 users, closed/private forum.

I had assumed like most plugins bbpress would work fairly well “out of the box” and adding a template and maybe a few additional plugins to improve functionality would not be a big deal.

However I’ve just been quoted $2500 by a developer to do the above, to say my jaw hit the floor would be an understatement! Is bbpress THAT hard to implement that I need to pay mega bucks to get something simple up and running with it?? 🙁

PS the only reason I considered paying someone was to get it done in a few days rather than a few weeks as I have my main work to be getting on with as well… Otherwise I’d sit down and work through it step by step usually!

[Robin W]

bbPress Styling Crib

or

bbp style pack

[Jay Holtslander]

It’s unfortunate that the edit capability for previous replies is timed.

Adding:

• GD Power Search for bbPress

[shirleyhoutman]

demo forum index page

[shirleyhoutman]

On my website the [bbp-forum-index] page looks different compared to the demopage and there is nowhere to change this.

https://kennis.energyparty.nl/forums/ here is what it looks like and this )https://preview.themeforest.net/item/helpguru-a-selfservice-knowledge-base-wordpress-theme/full_screen_preview/8465592?_ga=2.241461826.1982604040.1586206741-1853262959.1578605226) is what i want it to be. How can I change this layout.
Should I change the forums and categories or is it something else.

[Chuckie]

I have put an issue here:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-a-variable-mismatch-has-been-detected-2/#new-topic-0

[Robin W]

bbp topic count

[adishor22]

It looks like this is a known bug, and a patch might be implemented in the future (see “Attachments”):
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3341

Editing bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/notifications.php as shown there has fixed the issue for me.