[Robkk]

You modify the template bbPress is inheriting from your theme. Use what the file and go to the page with the forum index shortcode to see which template has the banner in it, then go to other bbPress forum pages to see what template bbPress is inheriting by default.

A step by step is pretty difficult since all themes are different.

Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template

If you really want the banner, use what ever template that is coming from.

The first issue I’ve got is when you click ‘Forum One’, it shows the message, ‘This forum contains 1 topic, and was last updated by…” but doesn’t actually show the topic.

Try some troubleshooting, try a default theme to see if the issue is present, you should also try leaving only bbPress active to see if could be a plugin issue.

Troubleshooting

[Stagger Lee]

Thanks Robby.

Dont want to talk about design and style. It would ruin all from my title.
But yes, bbPress is ugly as hell when installed and takes lot of time to design. Better to keep written notes what you do and how, to be able to use it next time.

I have some ideas of making bbPress more acceptable to Pods or ACF. It would open many possibilities. Some of them could be, polls, attachments (very regulated and narrowed), SVG icons, reply title (it is just text input field), avatars, etc..

Dont know what to say about buddyPress serving as “Jetpack”. I like to install buddyPress along with bbPress and think they do better with design. Guess it is up to them, will they be standalone WP plugin or serve as filling gaps for bbPress.

Anything that is the same as Jetpack. Lots of modules all deactivated on default, to not force people use what they dont need and want. And without connection to wordpress.com.
If you make some better cooperation with Pods you get automatically mass of new developers and possibly mass of custom tweaks shared around. Same would be with bbPress “Jetpack” or buddyPress if they want it.

Back to your question. Cannot point exactly what is hard for begginers and users. It is all small bits and parts making it difficult. Even to me is hard and takes lot of time to have one bbPress forum ready for live server.
Guess it is huge amount of time spent searching on Google and forums howto. I made those mistakes on my first 2-3 instalaltions and noticed it is impossible to continue this way. Now I have searchable and filterable database with bbPress, buddyPress snippets. Just for bbPress circa 150 of them and some tutorials. But not many people will do this. When they spend half day searching on Google how to solve something they will simply go to phpbb, SMF forum and it is one user less.

Most of this time lost is fixing and tweaking third party plugins, using their adapted code in functions.php, etc. Design OK, but usually easy to find answer on Google.

In some way I try to imagine how would it be to charge a client for a bbPress installation and customization. I dont do it for money, i spend time on it because I think it is fun. But so many spent hours and days is impossible to charge. Hence, nobody will setup bbPress forum for living and earning. Web companies goes to other solutions.

In matter of fact price of one bbPress installation and customization goes easy to level of one very advanced web shop. Only know it is not sustainable and should not be this way.

Dont want to talk about money, just took it as example of how many hours and days bbPress takes to be finished and looks professional.

[project_subdomain]

I’m using the default backend design -> menu for all my menus. Tested this at the main navigation menu on my usual desktop version. Actual links show up but throw a 404-page only when clicking.

My mobile navigation menu (plugin: Responsive Menu) then simply could use one of those menus.

Should be also possible to make new menu items via functions to one of the menus created in backend design -> menu, right? Already tried this, but really have no idea if the correct slug ID is correct (mobile-menu is the name I gave the menu in backend):

add_filter ('wp_nav_menu_items', 'add_account-link');
function add_account_link ( $items, $args ) {
 if (is_user_logged_in() && $args->menu->slug == 'mobile_menu') {

$items = '<ul><li><a href="#">Account</a></li>';

$items ='<ul><li><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>" >Profile</a></li>';
$items ='<li><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>replies" >My replies</a></li>';
$items ='<li><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>topics" >My topics</a></li>';
$items ='<li><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>favorites" >My favorites</a></li>';
$items ='<li><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>subscriptions" >My subscriptions</a></li>';
</ul></ul>;
}
return $items;
    }

[Robkk]

As long as the users have registered and their default role is a participant they should be able to create topics.

You can try troubleshooting for other possible issues too.

Troubleshooting

[jambla]

Hi I am using bbPress version Version 2.5.8, website link is http://fantasypremierhq.com/

I cannot seem to style the register button on http://fantasypremierhq.com/register/, it defaults to in line css. The submit button class is button.submit.user-submit. I have managed to style everything else fine, including other buttons on the profile page. Any suggestions?
thanks

[Robkk]

well I don’t think you can merge forums by default in bbPress.

Hello, I have set my forum up with four different forums, but I want to strip this down to two, so effectively merging three forums into one.

How can I do this?

I think there is a plugin to export all the topics and replies of a forum and then you can import the that data into another forum.

I think there is also a different way to do this, some other guy did this with some other plugin. I might have to look that up and see the plugin he used.

Is it better to rename one forum, then move everything from the other two forums into the first?

Or, should I somehow merge all three into one?

I don’t think it matters really?? It might be best just to move all the data in a new forum though.

In any case, how will this affect posters subscriptions? Will they still have direct access to the forums once moved if people add to a topic?

This is a great question about the subscriptions, this will need some testing. I think they can have direct access to the topic once it is moved.

[PinkishHue]

@julia_b (If you’re still waiting for a reply!) – you need to put this in your functions.php file, more info here: https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/

This works great, thanks so much for sharing this code!

I’ve also managed, with very little tweaking, to get this displaying replies under topics within the topics list (this is very rough with some bits commented out but pasting here in case it helps someone)

// https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-add-latest-reply-or-topic-to-forum-list/
function jagreplies_add_last_reply() { { 
 $jagreplies_last_reply_id = bbp_get_topic_last_reply_id();
 //$jagreplies_last_topic_id = bbp_get_forum_last_topic_id();

$new_args = array(
    'post_type'=> 'reply',
    'p' => $jagreplies_last_reply_id
);
$post_title_args = array(
    'post_type'=> 'topic',
    'p' => $jagreplies_last_topic_id
);
$other_args = array(
    'post_type'=> 'topic',
    'p' => $jagreplies_last_topic_id
);
$jagreplies_query = new WP_Query( $post_title_args );
$nest_query = new WP_Query( $new_args );
$another_nest_query = new WP_Query( $other_args );

   if ( $jagreplies_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $jagreplies_query->have_posts() ) : $jagreplies_query->the_post();
     $this_post_id=$post->ID;
     $this_post_permalink= get_permalink(); ?>   
                             
     <!--<a href="<?php //echo $this_post_permalink; ?>">-->

<?php endwhile; 
   endif; wp_reset_query();

   if ( $nest_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $nest_query->have_posts() ) : $nest_query->the_post();
     $this_post_id=$post->ID;
     //$this_post_title= get_the_title();
     //$this_post_content= get_the_excerpt(); 
     $this_post_content= the_content(); ?>

     <h1><?php echo $this_post_title; ?></h1></a>
     <div class="the_content"><?php echo $this_post_content; ?></div>
                     
   <?php endwhile;
elseif ( $another_nest_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $another_nest_query->have_posts() ) : $another_nest_query->the_post();
     $this_post_id=$post->ID;
     //$this_post_title= get_the_title();
     //$this_post_content= get_the_excerpt();
     $this_post_content= the_content(); ?>   
                                  
     <!--<h1><?php //echo $this_post_title; ?></h1></a>-->
     <div class="the_content"><?php echo $this_post_content; ?></div>
                     
   <?php endwhile; 
   endif; 
    }} 
// Hook into action
add_action('bbp_theme_after_topic_freshness_author','jagreplies_add_last_reply');

This is extremely useful in creating a ‘Facebook’ style site where all content can be displayed on one single page (I know, Facebook, yuck! But it’s what ‘the people’ like)

Now I just need to try to get the bbpress Ajax Replies plugin working in conjunction with this so people can post and reply from that single page. Interesting!

**edited to add – if using my code above you may just want to change the last line ‘bbp_theme_after_topic_freshness_author’ to a different hook depending on where you want to display it, I am using customised templates but I’m not sure how it would look loading the content there if using the default templates

[bzwb]

Hello,

I installed a plugin(Sceko/White) to style my bbpress but after uninstalling, the forum page is now disorganized. Topics, Posts and freshness is listed vertically (screenshot attached). I tried uninstalling and reinstalling bbpress but the forum layout is still disorganized.

View post on imgur.com

Pls how do i revert back to the default bbpress settings?

Thanks

[bzwb]

Hi @sceko,

thanks for the effort you put into the bbpress plugin but it didnt work out well for me.
I tried uninstalling the white plugin and reinstalling bbpress but the forum layout is disorganized.

View post on imgur.com

Pls how do i revert back to the default bbpress settings?

[Media Cookery]

Here is the site: http://www.stacknfade.com/forum

Default email notifications for subscriptions and topic replies are not working. Thanks for any help.

[Media Cookery]

I’m having this same problem, but I have not installed WP-SMTP or bbPress Notify (no spam). The default bbPress subscription and topic reply notifications do nothing. They should be sending email notifications, correct? I get nothing for subscriptions or reply notifications.

Any suggestions? Thank you.

[Stephen Edgar]

There might be a bug if your site contains a port in the url though.

This is what I am suspecting it might be, we’ve had issues in the past with users using MAMP on Mac using port 8888

Have a look at the following post, you’d want to diagnose the issue in a similar way to that it is described here:

How to get bbPress to work on a local WAMP installation

If your site is using the standard port 80 then I’d suggest disabling all of your plugins and switching to one of the default themes Twenty Fifteen, Fourteen, or Thirteen with no plugins activated, if you cannot view the dashboard with the above configuration then it will be something in the setup environment, if that works activate bbPress, if that works then start activating your other plugins and you should eventually get to a plugin that causes your dashboard to disappear, when you do thats the offender.

[carlharrison1]

Good afternoon all,

Please try to ignore my stupidity but I am a novice in this game 🙂

I have set up my main forum page with a fusion slider behind my header, now is there anyway I can get this style to copy to each forum POST that is added within the main forum section? From what I gather each new post is picking up the default style settings but Im not sure how to copy the main template to each new post.

Please help

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

Also to note, until bbPress 2.5 pt_BR is 100% translated the only translations delivered via WordPress Update will be bbPress 2.4, language packs are only built once they are complete at 100%

This link shows the bbPress language packs available:
https://api.wordpress.org/translations/plugins/1.0/?slug=bbpress&version=2.5

These need to be translated to 100% to get these via WordPress Update
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.5.x/pt-br/default

If you can help translate those strings then you’ll get bbPress 2.5 translations, you can also get in contact with your locale team via https://br.wordpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

A year or two ago we had lots of translation issues with bbPress, to fix this I got en_AU (English Australian) of the ground and translated all the things, WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress and help out on the #polyglots team https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/

The string I translated to test was the Pending string replaced with stickfinger for en_AU:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/en-au/default?filters%5Bstatus%5D=either&filters%5Boriginal_id%5D=196793&filters%5Btranslation_id%5D=9251229

I then downloaded the .po and .mo files (at the bottom of that screen you can export these) and replaced my en_AU bbpress-en_AU.mo/bbpress-en_AU.po files in /wp-content/languages/plugins

What happens if you export the .po/.mo files from /bbpress/2.5.x/pt-br/default?

Also make sure your files are named bbpress-pt_BR.mo and bbpress-pt_BR.po

[stickFinger]

Hi Stephen

Thanks for your input here.:-)

I guess i did not understand you very well 🙁
You telling that in the en_US.po file it works, am i correct?

I´ve just download a fresh copy of the po file at: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/pt-br/default

and that is the header:

 Translation of Development in Portuguese (Brazil)
# This file is distributed under the same license as the Development package.
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"PO-Revision-Date: 2015-07-15 17:00:03+0000\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1);\n"
"X-Generator: GlotPress/1.0-alpha-1000\n"
"Project-Id-Version: Development\n"

there is no Kewyword list
I´ve read something regarding this issue also on buddypress foruns. It seems that the strings after the “_x(….” caracter is the problem on some languages.

[Robkk]

Maybe the URL of the registration page can be used as the URI.

Yes use that page you created with the bbPress registration form shortcode. You can also use the default WordPress registration page which would be.

http://yoursite.com/open/wp-login.php?action=register

Same for the Lost Password page, you can use the page you placed the bbPress lost password shortcode or the default lost password form by WordPress.

[Stephen Edgar]

What happens if you resave your permalinks? Go to Settings > Permalinks

A more common and now default of WordPress is to use the Post name format, also known as pretty permalinks, as such the following would be what you’d see for the “maine” forum

http://www.plowandanchorconnect.com/forums/forum/plow-and-anchor-forums/maine

[division123]

Hi, i am trying to remove the sidebar as well, below is my code from page.php which I have duplicated and renamed bbpress.php but I can’t see which code I need to remove?

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php
$options = get_option(‘sf_dante_options’);

$default_show_page_heading = $options[‘default_show_page_heading’];
$default_page_heading_bg_alt = $options[‘default_page_heading_bg_alt’];
$default_sidebar_config = $options[‘default_sidebar_config’];
$default_left_sidebar = $options[‘default_left_sidebar’];
$default_right_sidebar = $options[‘default_right_sidebar’];
$sidebar_width = $options[‘sidebar_width’];

$pb_active = sf_get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘_spb_js_status’, true);
$show_page_title = sf_get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sf_page_title’, true);
$page_title_style = sf_get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sf_page_title_style’, true);
$page_title = sf_get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sf_page_title_one’, true);
$page_subtitle = sf_get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sf_page_subtitle’, true);
$page_title_bg = sf_get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sf_page_title_bg’, true);
$fancy_title_image = rwmb_meta(‘sf_page_title_image’, ‘type=image&size=full’);
$page_title_text_style = sf_get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sf_page_title_text_style’, true);
$fancy_title_image_url = “”;

if ($show_page_title == “”) {
$show_page_title = $default_show_page_heading;
}
if ($page_title_bg == “”) {
$page_title_bg = $default_page_heading_bg_alt;
}
if ($page_title == “”) {
$page_title = get_the_title();
}

foreach ($fancy_title_image as $detail_image) {
$fancy_title_image_url = $detail_image[‘url’];
break;
}

if (!$fancy_title_image) {
$fancy_title_image = get_post_thumbnail_id();
$fancy_title_image_url = wp_get_attachment_url( $fancy_title_image, ‘full’ );
}

$sidebar_config = sf_get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sf_sidebar_config’, true);
$left_sidebar = sf_get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sf_left_sidebar’, true);
$right_sidebar = sf_get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sf_right_sidebar’, true);

if ($sidebar_config == “”) {
$sidebar_config = $default_sidebar_config;
}
if ($left_sidebar == “”) {
$left_sidebar = $default_left_sidebar;
}
if ($right_sidebar == “”) {
$right_sidebar = $default_right_sidebar;
}

sf_set_sidebar_global($sidebar_config);

$page_wrap_class = $post_class_extra = $sidebar_class = ”;
if ($sidebar_config == “left-sidebar”) {
$page_wrap_class = ‘has-left-sidebar has-one-sidebar row’;
if ($sidebar_width == “reduced”) {
$post_class_extra = ‘push-right col-sm-9’;
$sidebar_class = ‘col-sm-3’;
} else {
$post_class_extra = ‘push-right col-sm-8’;
$sidebar_class = ‘col-sm-4’;
}
} else if ($sidebar_config == “right-sidebar”) {
$page_wrap_class = ‘has-right-sidebar has-one-sidebar row’;
if ($sidebar_width == “reduced”) {
$post_class_extra = ‘col-sm-9’;
$sidebar_class = ‘col-sm-3’;
} else {
$post_class_extra = ‘col-sm-8’;
$sidebar_class = ‘col-sm-4’;
}
} else if ($sidebar_config == “both-sidebars”) {
$page_wrap_class = ‘has-both-sidebars row’;
$post_class_extra = ‘col-sm-9’;
$sidebar_class = ‘col-sm-3’;
} else {
$page_wrap_class = ‘has-no-sidebar’;
}

$remove_breadcrumbs = sf_get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sf_no_breadcrumbs’, true);
$remove_bottom_spacing = sf_get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sf_no_bottom_spacing’, true);
$remove_top_spacing = sf_get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sf_no_top_spacing’, true);

if ($remove_bottom_spacing) {
$page_wrap_class .= ‘ no-bottom-spacing’;
}
if ($remove_top_spacing) {
$page_wrap_class .= ‘ no-top-spacing’;
}

$options = get_option(‘sf_dante_options’);
$disable_pagecomments = false;
if (isset($options[‘disable_pagecomments’]) && $options[‘disable_pagecomments’] == 1) {
$disable_pagecomments = true;
}

?>

<?php if ($show_page_title) { ?>
<div class=”container”>
<div class=”row”>
<?php if ($page_title_style == “fancy”) { ?>
<?php if ($fancy_title_image_url != “”) { ?>
<div class=”page-heading fancy-heading col-sm-12 clearfix alt-bg <?php echo $page_title_text_style; ?>-style fancy-image” style=”background-image: url(<?php echo $fancy_title_image_url; ?>);”>
<?php } else { ?>
<div class=”page-heading fancy-heading col-sm-12 clearfix alt-bg <?php echo $page_title_bg; ?>”>
<?php } ?>
<div class=”heading-text”>
<h1 class=”entry-title”><?php echo $page_title; ?></h1>
<?php if ($page_subtitle) { ?>
<h3><?php echo $page_subtitle; ?></h3>
<?php } ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php } else { ?>
<div class=”page-heading col-sm-12 clearfix alt-bg <?php echo $page_title_bg; ?>”>
<div class=”heading-text”>
<h1 class=”entry-title”><?php echo $page_title; ?></h1>
</div>
<?php
// BREADCRUMBS
if (!$remove_breadcrumbs) {
echo sf_breadcrumbs();
}
?>
</div>
<?php } ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php } ?>

<?php if ($sidebar_config != “no-sidebars” || $pb_active != “true”) { ?>
<div class=”container”>
<?php } ?>

<div class=”inner-page-wrap <?php echo $page_wrap_class; ?> clearfix”>

<?php if (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<!– OPEN page –>
<div class=”clearfix <?php echo $post_class_extra; ?>” id=”<?php the_ID(); ?>”>

<?php if ($sidebar_config == “both-sidebars”) { ?>
<div class=”row”>
<div class=”page-content col-sm-8″>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<div class=”link-pages”><?php wp_link_pages(); ?></div>

<?php if ( comments_open() && !$disable_pagecomments ) { ?>
<div id=”comment-area”>
<?php comments_template(”, true); ?>
</div>
<?php } ?>
</div>

<aside class=”sidebar left-sidebar col-sm-4″>
<div class=”sidebar-widget-wrap sticky-widget”>
<?php dynamic_sidebar( $left_sidebar ); ?>
</div>
</aside>
</div>
<?php } else { ?>
<div class=”page-content clearfix”>

<?php the_content(); ?>

<div class=”link-pages”><?php wp_link_pages(); ?></div>

<?php if ( comments_open() && !$disable_pagecomments ) { ?>
<?php if ($sidebar_config == “no-sidebars” && $pb_active == “true”) { ?>
<div id=”comment-area” class=”container”>
<?php } else { ?>
<div id=”comment-area”>
<?php } ?>
<?php comments_template(”, true); ?>
</div>
<?php } ?>
</div>
<?php } ?>

<!– CLOSE page –>
</div>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ($sidebar_config == “left-sidebar”) { ?>
<aside class=”sidebar left-sidebar <?php echo $sidebar_class; ?>”>
<div class=”sidebar-widget-wrap sticky-widget”>
<?php dynamic_sidebar( $left_sidebar ); ?>
</div>
</aside>
<?php } else if ($sidebar_config == “right-sidebar”) { ?>
<aside class=”sidebar right-sidebar <?php echo $sidebar_class; ?>”>
<div class=”sidebar-widget-wrap sticky-widget”>
<?php dynamic_sidebar( $right_sidebar ); ?>
</div>
</aside>
<?php } else if ($sidebar_config == “both-sidebars”) { ?>
<aside class=”sidebar right-sidebar col-sm-3″>
<div class=”sidebar-widget-wrap sticky-widget”>
<?php dynamic_sidebar( $right_sidebar ); ?>
</div>
</aside>
<?php } ?>

</div>

<?php if ($sidebar_config != “no-sidebars” || $pb_active != “true”) { ?>
</div>
<?php } ?>

<!–// WordPress Hook //–>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

[beherawr]

This can happen also in some default themes like Twenty Fifteen (should work in Twenty Twelve though), but can also be easily fixed by placing the bbPress template files into a child theme.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

I tried copying my ‘css’ and ‘bbpress’ directories from my template files to my theme as outlined in your link, however it changed nothing.

Do profiles show up without BuddyPress?

Not quite sure what you mean…. if you mean can I see a user profile with bbpress deactivated then the answer is no.

Also, the link to the ‘Edit Profile’ button is exactly what I needed, however it currently returns to 404 because of the previous unresolved issue.

[Robkk]

Is there STILL no way to do this? I have anonymous posting allowed, but can’t eliminate the email box. I don’t want bbpress collecting email addresses.

By default the email address is still required for anonymous posting.

You might need to hire a developer to create this functionality for you.

[Robkk]

1. Users are set to be able to edit their posts/replies, and the Edit button does show up, however when they click on Edit it simply goes to 404. Admins also cannot edit via the Edit button without 404.

This can happen also in some default themes like Twenty Fifteen (should work in Twenty Twelve though), but can also be easily fixed by placing the bbPress template files into a child theme.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

2. User profiles are not showing up. Upon clicking on an avatar or manually typing in the profile url (with my username) it returns 404.

Do profiles show up without BuddyPress?

(I also need to figure out how to put an ‘Edit Profile’ button somewhere, but that won’t matter if I can’t fix these other two issues)

Works for bbPress profiles though, I might update it for BuddyPress later.

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[PinkishHue]

Hmm that’s a stinker.

What URL are you actually taken to when you get the 404 message, is the URL right? I believe it should be – ‘my-post-title/edit’

Have you tried disabling all other plugins AND using the default theme at same time? (difficult if the site is live of course)

If it’s not on a live site maybe try a fresh bbpress install? Also there are some repair tools in the settings you can try (I haven’t had experience using these but it’s worth a try)

[beherawr]

Installed bbpress through wordpress and everything is going great except for two problems.

1. Users are set to be able to edit their posts/replies, and the Edit button does show up, however when they click on Edit it simply goes to 404. Admins also cannot edit via the Edit button without 404.

2. User profiles are not showing up. Upon clicking on an avatar or manually typing in the profile url (with my username) it returns 404. (I also need to figure out how to put an ‘Edit Profile’ button somewhere, but that won’t matter if I can’t fix these other two issues)

What I’ve already done:
-Switched to a default theme, didn’t change anything, switched back to Gameplanet theme
-Disabled all plugins except bbpress, problem persisted
-Changed permalink type to something else and then back again, problem persisted

I would greatly appreciate any help that could be offered as I really need this working by next week. If it’s something that involves an in-depth look I’d even be willing to pay someone to help, although I fear it’s probably a simple problem that I’m just overlooking.

Contact email – emooreofficial@gmail.com
Forums – http://wcg.website/wp/index.php/wcg-forums

[Robin W]

The ‘something happened’ is unfortunately the key to this.

Users will have a role, and the default roles are stated in

bbPress User Roles and Capabilities

so as long as a user has the right level, then the default will tell you what they should have.

But an plugin, or change to functions code can change the default roles, so without pouring over the code, it is impossible to say whether a user has a particular level beyond seeing what they can do.

So you’ll need to come back to ‘something happened’ to wpork out wthat that was and why it affected.

So have you done

theme updates
plugin updates
changed themes
added or deactivated plugins