[Stephen Edgar]

Try posting WordPress questions on https://wordpress.org/support/

(I would also break up your question into multiple questions eg. Post your BackupBuddy plugin question in there support section for the plugin.)

[TheSeoGuy]

http://www.claverton-energy.com – running WordPress since 2008. In Dec 2012 I was asked to rebuild it, enhance its features, including installation of bbPress / BuddyPress etc.

PROBLEM: an item I have not been able to solve is that users with Admin access can log in, but cannot access the default Admin page. However, they are able to use the Edit option when viewing a page whilst logged in.

I’ve read through numerous forum posts on WordPress.org and other sites, and tried solutions others have found, but have not solved the problem. Some ‘solutions’ have created additional setbacks! Trying to force a database upgrade resulted in all user’s passwords ceasing to work, requiring manual resets via MySQL… 🙂

Over the past month;
– the site has been successively upgraded to 3.5.0 and then to 3.5.1
– wp-admin / wp-includes directories have been replaced with fresh copies to eliminate possibility of a corrupt file
– wp-config has been replaced with latest version
– Database “repair” run from Cpanel
– checked for “curly” quotes in user meta-data
– site used standard wp_ table prefixes
– disk space is not an issue
– max memory use test shows +80mb which seems ok
– directory / file permissions are 755 / 644 respectively throughout

And yet, the problem persists…

An additional / presumably related issue: whilst the Super Admin can access all WP Admin areas, including plugin sub-pages. However, the BackupBuddy plugin does NOT show the menu subpages, and entering the URL for those gives that same “you don’t have permissions to access that page” error! Deactivating & deleting it and adding it back via FTP does not resolve that problem.

NB: The underlying problem pre-dates the rebuild, the site now runs:
– BuddyPress / and the Buddy theme,
– Quick Cache
– Stop Spammer Registrations & Confirm User Registration plugin
– User Spam Remover
– Wordfence security
– BuddyPress backup

Any suggestions on how to solve our “permissions” issues would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Ben

[panthercove]

Ok i have installed wamp 2.2 wordpress 3.5 on my xp pro all worked fine with the install i can call up with http://localhost/wordpress my page and i can call up with http://www.panthercove.org/wordpress fine on my local computer display is fine in IE but if i go on my local network ore from out site the internet browser gives me just a wide(collar)and black display and all settings are of. can some one tell me what did i miss in my setup then i have on the same wamp server drupal what is doing fine you can check it ad http://www.panthercove.org/drupal do i have my promission set rong?

[Mitesh Patel]

Same problem here as well.

What’s more, this is a problem on testbp.org as well! Although on testbp.org the ‘discussion’ page correctly gets the current_page_parent class, it fails when you go to any forum or topic page. The ‘support’ menu item on both buddypress.org and bbpress.org remains highlighted no matter where you are in forums area.

So my question would be, how did they set-up forums on bbpress.org and buddypress.org? I searched high and low – everywhere, but failed to find a solution. What are we doing wrong? IS it a wp_nav_menu specific problem or with bbpress?

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2204

[Shashank Shekhar]

Hi I am using bbpress 2.2.4 with user-role-editor 3.10 ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/ ) and wordpress 3.5.1.
I have created a custom role ‘SiteAdministrator’ with permissions lying between Administrator and Editor. (it have all capabilities of editor including user creation/edit/listing etc. and not have edit-dashboard permission).
I have given all forum permissions also to this role.

But on logging-in with this user in admin, I am getting only ‘Topics’ and ‘Replies’ menus in admin sidebar. There is no ‘Forum’ menu available.
Topics and replies are working well for all creation/editing.
For forums I can list it by direct url pasting in address bar after login, ex. http://mysite.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=forum . Also I am able to edit any forum and update.
But when I try to create a new forum by using http://mysite.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=forum, it not working giving error on blank page “Invalid post type”.

Please let me know why there are no forum menus/submenus available in admin sidebar and not able to create new forums by direct url?

Tried giving permissions various ways in user-role-editor panel but not working. May be there some incompatibility of user-role-editor with bbpress roles.
Please someone help.

[matrixd]

Hi Erlend, I found where is the problem, but I dont know the solution!

In WordPress in General settings I have setup the time of my country (Greece) which is +2 hours UTC.

If I change to UTC the problem with unread icons solved, but I have wrong time in my bbpress posts.

Is something you can do?

Thanks

[muffinbomb]

Andre: that was EXACTLY what I was looking for. I scoured the net, looked through BBPress documentation for hours and FOUND NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. The ‘veterans’ of BBPress responses were in loops or archaic at best.

I’ve been working on WordPress and web development for over a decade and so often do I fall on searches that yield really unhelpful ‘answers’. HOWEVER, FINALLY there has been ONE ANSWER that beats them all!

Even though your post was made over a year ago, IT HELPED! Now I can finally stop figuring out how to use templates for BBPress 2.2.4! Thank you!

[Stephen Edgar]

The good thing though is that the majority of what is included in the 2.3 update can be used manually on your MySQL database to convert the BBCodes & Magic URL’s to WordPress friendly HTML.

I just haven’t written any docs on this yet, I also haven’t actually done it on a site I desperately need to do this with. Hopefully in the next couple of days I can get some time to get this started.

[ssmedia]

Hi,

I’m having a very strange problem with bbpress.

I’m using the lastest version of WordPress and bbpress and I created a super stick topic. These are just rules and guidelines so I closed it to replies. I can see it in the category forum page such as this (http://causepages.com/sw/forum/health-insurance-finance/) when logged in as a user but when I actually click into it, it’s not shown. (I just get my sidebar).

Can anyone help with this please?

[Diver Zant]

Please help, what is wrong with my bbpress forum 2.2.4 ? Since I uploaded it is too small on page and with Newcast template of WordPress looks terrible. how can I fix it, do I need to know some coding ? Thank you for your help really appriciate it.

http://urbex.cz/forums/

[jessecarllane]

Additional information:

bbPress version: is 2.2.4
WordPress version: 3.5.1

Site: http://www.ElectricityClub.org

Settings:
For the forum Anonymous posting setting, “Allow guest users without accounts to create topics and replies” is unchecked. So how did an anonymous user manage to post a snoring advertisement?

Is there some other setting to block anonymous postings?

[rklockner]

The setup:
1 site that is a WordPress/bbPress Forum site.
1 site that is a pay (non-Wordpress) forum site that is answered by industry professionals.

When a question is answered by a pro in the pay site, I run a series of insert statements that adds the topic/reply to the WordPress site.

All works as planned with one exception. I can’t edit any of the replies (I can edit topics).

When I click to edit the reply, it brings up the page to edit. I make the desired change and hit Post. It takes me right back to the same edit page with my changes still in tact. However, as soon as you leave the page and attempt to view the changes in the forum, all work has been lost.

I should also note that I did not build the WordPress site, so I don’t know if there are any errors being suppressed, or some other scenario (I don’t know where I would turn these on either).

Any thoughts?

[Shashank Shekhar]

I am getting the same issue in bbpress 2.2.4 with wordpress 3.5.1. In my site Profile pages have body class “error404” included automatically. Other bbpress pages are fine. “error 404” is defined with styles in theme which disturbing layout of the page. What I have done is just put bbpress/single-user.php inside my theme for custom editing (still not edited, just putting inside the theme created the issue).
My theme is built using wordpress twenty-twelve theme very little customized.

This issue is also mentioned here in bbpress trac: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1478 , closed, but dont know why I getting this problem.

Is this really fixed with bbpress? Please let me know what I can do to fix the problem?

[Shashank Shekhar]

Hello,
As per bbpress doc I found by default it uses page.php in wordpress theme to render all its contents. But since I have to use different template with a different sidebar and widgets I created forum.php copied from page.php in my wp-theme and luckily it worked. Dont know why its not mentioned in bbpress docs. Also, forums.php working fine, so I am in more doubt which file naming conventions is correct. Is it something missed to mention in bbpress docs? Please let me know.

Further, for the bbpress user pages, like profile, edit profile, topic started etc. I need to use a custom template file in my theme. In bbpress templates as per documentation, I have checked all user templates inside are just contains the content part only not including header, footer, sidebar etc. And by default it also renders by page.php.

How can I make a custom user template file other than page.php or forum.php which control all user related contents, so that I can have different template for forum or other pages?

Suggestion:
BBpress should have capability to use different template files for different kind of pages, or their should be settings in bbpress admin to select which template to use for what kind of pages.
This is somewhat, wp-members, woocommerce and other plugins do for better integration in wordpress. These plugins have the ability to create different pages in admin editor having selected particular template to render and putting inside their shortcodes to render various types of contents. And also have the settings in their admin to set different pages/template for different stuff.

Please let me know if this possible with bbpress 2.2.4 with wp 3.5.1 currently.
If not possible please let me know how I can achieve the effect, with some sample custom code hints. Currently I dont need help to create bbpress admin side settings dropdown etc., becoz these are the thing I mentioned as suggestions to make bbpress better theme compatible.
Right now, just need help how to use different template for user pages than other forum pages.

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Thanks
Shashank

[Stephen Edgar]

Standard bbPress & WordPress do NOT support ‘signatures’ in the user profiles.

What are you using for bbPress signatures?

[chevymanusa]

I have looked around. Profile builder (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile-builder/) will allow me to do what I want, but I have to redirect the page or something to that extend. I was looking for a way to just to allow users to change their signature and not their display name.

Still hoping, someone somewhere has an answer to this and they will post here shortly.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll keep looking.

[Chris Collins]

I have a fresh multisite/buddypress/bbpress.   I installed sitewide forums and made sure group functionality was turned on for forums.  This is on a sub site with buddypress multisite turned on.  I had previously had the same issues I have now on a already installed site.  Because of these issue I scrubbed the install, wiped the database and reinstalled fresh.  I still have this issue.  when I create a topic from buddypress group forum page it goes to a blank page with this error

“<br /> <b>Fatal error</b>: Call to undefined function bb_get_id_from_slug() in <b>/home/spanef/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-functions.php</b> on line <b>178</b><br />”

 

I have seen previous solutions about deleting the forum ids in bp_group_meta which i did and upon recreation still didn’t work.

I have the newest wordpress, buddypress and bbpress .  This is a fresh install.   Do you have any idea what i can do, I have to have this working.

[Stephen Edgar]

It is limited to embedding a linked image only.

GD bbPress attachments is fully compatible with bbPress 2.2.x as far as I know.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/

[dannyjimmy]

I’m in the same camp as @Nova; I’ve got custom taxonomies that I want to be included with forum posts.

In the meantime I’m just creating my own post type “discussion”, i.e. faking a forum with wordpress posts.

(the trick there is to find/create a view where posts are sorted by “last comment”)

Did you figure anything out? (Nova or anyone else…)

[Stephen Edgar]

Some progress at least which is a good thing…

The WordPress import has an option import_allow_create_users: return false if you only want to allow mapping to existing users and I think that should work for you to fix the mappings.

Details are here: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-importer/other_notes/

[steilenhang]

I made the first step work. Waiting for a while and then just continuing did the job.

However I am having trouble with the WordPress import/export function. When I am about to import at the live site it wants me to manually fit the users who wrote the posts with the ones on the site. When you import from one site to another I can see that this is needed, but in my case the users are a exact match, and we are talking about a couple of thousands users.. *Scratching the back of my head*

[steilenhang]

Well that almost worked! It imports for a while (no loop, all good), but then I get this error. I don’t know if that is a memory issue or what?

WordPress database error: [User ‘steilenhang’ has exceeded the ‘max_updates’ resource (current value: 36000)]

[Stephen Edgar]

I would look updating whatever it is holding you back from upgrading to WordPress 3.5.1 for the security fixes 3.4 & 3.5 have introduced at a bare minimum.

That said give it a try on a test site and if that works use the builtin WordPress Import/Export tool to export all the forums, topics & replies and then import them https://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#WordPress

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you looked in the WordPress Plugin Directory for something to do what you are after?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

bbPress uses WordPress to maintain/manage users and usernames etc so there might just be something that suits your needs. I am not sure if any would be compatible with the bbPress front end profile editor but it might be worth a shot. (eg https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/chevymanusa/edit/ )

[John James Jacoby]

For users that are experiencing 404 issues for non-admins, it’s likely another plugin that’s causing the problem. In some cases, it might actually be BuddyPress, as I found a bug and fixed it yesterday. 🙂

If you’re having these issues, share what plugins you have active, and let’s see if we can sniff out what’s going on together.