As you describe you should have
Private forums – readable only by logged in users with participant role (ie members)
Hidden forums – readable only by moderators/keymasters
Your issue is that logged in user cannot see the private forums.
At a quick guess I’d suggest that your users need roles assigned – having re-read my documentation this isn’t at all clear – I’m off to tidy that bit!
In dashboard>users>edit user you’ll find forum roles at the bottom of each user’s details
Anyway that’s my guess, come back if I guessed wrong !
You could also use
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-private-groups if you don’t want to give your ‘officers’ back end access
Couple of issues… I’m not sure what version of wordpress is being run (as ridiculous as this sounds. I came in halfway on a project, and another developer I got to look at the site also could not tell me), but it is something before 3.8. The bbPress version is 2.4.1. Site only shows a splash page to non-members, and registration is blocked, so a link to it would be pointless.
1) Hitting “Edit” on a topic as administrator puts the HTML for the editor into the text box of an editor. If I hit “submit” without changing the contents, it edits the topic, but includes the edit form in the topic. Here is a screenshot. Clicking on submit in the resulting form within the topic does the edit as it should. I am not sure if this happens for regular members… see issue 3.
2) Clicking “Edit” on a reply results in the following message:
“There’s nothing here.
If there were posts in the database, you’d be seeing them. Try creating a post, and see if that solves your problem.”
When I go to the dashboard > replies, I can clearly see all the replies listed there.
3) I realize this is a known issue, but I could not find a good resolution for my case. Topics are not viewable by regular members, but all replies are viewable. Anyone with bbPress moderator role and above can view topics just fine. s2member is being run on the site, and from what I understand, s2member admins get bbPress moderator roles, while bbPress moderators get s2member admin roles. I have tried disactivating the s2member plugin, and the topics show up fine then. I can’t ditch s2member, but obviously am not going to give every member admin/moderator roles just so they can see topics. In fact, every member should only be a participant. There should never be any need for moderators (save for the actual admin). I’ve checked visibility on the forums, and everything is set to public.
You got caught by the Akismet spam filter 🙁
Anyways to answer your question, no, at this stage this cannot be done.
We have a few areas in bbPress we would like to be able to add ‘Bulk Edit’ to in the backend but we need some enhancements to WordPress be implemented upstream first.
It is a new multisite. We do not have any role editing software installed at this time. Here is the list of all plugins/theme we are using:
Theme
InspireBook by rtCamp
Plugins
bbPress
BuddyPress
rtMedia Pro
rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress
WooDojo
Try
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-private-groups
This has lots of options, including changing the freshness link so that it does not give a back door
OK, I am with you now and by the way there is no such thing as a stupid question 🙂
You should see a ‘reply’ link but when I look at your forum you are using WordPress 3.5.1, Twenty Eleven theme, a Twenty Eleven bbPress child theme and bbPress v 2.3.2. You also have other plugins modifying/extending the Twenty Eleven theme.
Why are you using old versions? Many of these modifications will be the primary cause of your issues and upgrading all of these and even a newer theme would fix most of your issues.
That is the first thing I would do, update to WordPress 3.9.1 and bbPress 2.5.3
Ha! Lets not hijack this topic any further, I updated my stance (or lack of) here 😉
Oh! Hehehe 😉 Always more than one way to do things in WordPress 🙂
There is actually a patch to add this permanently to bbPress 2.6
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2570
Do you think this is a good idea?
Should it be an active hyperlink or plain text? (I just realised my patch is only plain text)
Anyway, for now here is the patch as a plugin https://gist.github.com/ntwb/a19b187f2170235f16bf
(The extra HTML markup should match it to the existing profile fields for most themes)
Note: If this is shipped with bbPress 2.6 you will then see two profile fields 😉
Hello,
Here’s the solution for this issue:
Link: http://www.dailysdigest.com/wordpress/fix-sufficient-permissions-access-page-error-wordpress/
The 3rd Solution worked for me based on my experience. Cheers!
bbPress doesn’t actually create any WordPress pages.
You should be able to create a page titled ‘forums’ add the shortcode and bbPress will use that page.
If you can only create a page with the slug forums-2 then there is another page using the forums slug or is in the trash.
bbPress does not include a ‘Email Setting’ field.
Most likely https://wordpress.org/support/ is what you need or the support forum for the plugin you are using.
Pasting HTML and metadata is a WordPress/TinyMCE issue, and not really a bbPress bug to solve. There are WordPress plugins to disable HTML pasting, and we do support them, and we could go as far as including this in core as a helper for people that do turn TinyMCE on.
I’m here again!
It’s great I have a place to come back!
Now, I’m looking for advice on How to show “Website” part at User Profile page.
By default, 4 sections are displayed on User Profile page.
1.user-description, 2.forum-role, 3.topic-count, 4.reply-count
In edit page, There is a section for entering users “Website”.
in spite of entering the section, it would not be display at User’s Profile page.
How can I display it at the User’s Profile page.
I found that I need to add some PHPcodes into “user-profile.php”.
But as you know, I have no idea What codes I have to put in.
would you please advice me…
WordPress: ver3.9.1
bbPress: ver2.5.3
@eherman24 thank you for your input.
@cronhound thanks for your feedback.
@gautamgupta Thank you 🙂 Congratulations on being accepted again to the Google Summer of Code and choosing to contribute to bbPress development again! Cheers!
Was just coming back to say i fixed it, left out the”_” but Stephen has already caught it.
But now? A new problem.
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘l” WHERE ID = “96386”‘ at line 1]
UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = “xxxxxxx”l” WHERE ID = “96386”
Any ideas?
Hmmmm, this is not going to be quick nor easy to solve at this stage. There are quite few updates for pasting from Word and Excel slated for WordPress 3.9.2 but I haven’t tested any of them for bbPress, I’ll take a look in the next few days.
@demonboy We are aware of this and hopefully we’ll have this in the next version of bbPress #2589
It depends how you are replacing the WordPress comments with bbPress replies, if your using a plugin for this then I would look to the plugin being an issue and go to that plugins support forums to find any known issues.
If you are doing this manually using bbPress then per your original post here:
For the past two weeks or so I’ve had a problem in the forums on my site where members comments no longer appear immediately. It can take a while for them to appear. I’m not sure how long, but several minutes.
This could be a performance issue, I would start by running some tests on a test post, add a reply and time how long it takes to appear in your sites backend as you state that the ‘do appear’, just not immediately, try using the Twenty Fourteen theme and disable all your other plugins except bbPress and time how long it takes now.
You might find your theme and plugins and using all the resources available in your web hosting plan, if this is the case contact your host to see what options or suggestions they may have for you.
Member of my website can only comment via BBPress. I’ve switched off WordPress comments because that would be confusing.
I haven’t been able to find evidence of anyone else experiencing the same thing on the BBPress forums and I’ve searched BuddyPress too so I’m looking to identify potential culprits. Plugins have got to be up there!
You need to be clearer here on describing your issue:
If it is WordPress comments ask on WordPress Support
If it is bbPress replies then you are in the right place.
In either case, check if they are being caught by Akismet or WordPress moderation, have a look in the backend for replies that have a status ‘pending’.
This has nothing to do with bbPress (or WordPress), you will need to contact the email/systems/network administrator of the school and work with them to allow the forum subscription emails.
Hi ,
I have a forum with bbpress, buddypress and wordpress CMS. I have collected data which i want to post on regular interval with my collected data.
I want to know which columns and tables are affected and in which sequence when a new post is created so that I can post a new forum topic directly from database.
Hi Robin. To answer your questions; I only need this to attach to books, so only for bbpress topics. I don’t want replies rated. I tested it on wordpress posts, and it works there, but I’m not using wordpress posts. Probably the only modification I’ll make is to let users change their rating. Right now, once you give a star rating, it won’t let you change it later. Yes, I agree; it needs to hook to bbpress. It seems like it would be easy to do that, but I’m not certain.
ok, I’ve had a very quick look, the plugin is fine – it copes with custom post types, I think the problem is that it hooks to wordpress ‘the content’, and I think it needs to hook to bbpress – I’ll have a further play later.
