[Dani-Girl]

I can’t get bbpress to work.

I’ve uploaded bbpress to my plugins directory.

After I click on “activate” in the Plugins list, I get this message:

You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

I’m logged in as the main Administrator (since there is only 1 user right now)

What am I doing wrong?

[aaclayton]

@dtbaker perhaps I’m misunderstanding, but you are adding a postmeta key=>value for every user that visits your forum? That seems fairly suicidal.

The other problem I see, is that if you are pulling posts for which:
bbpress_unread_posts_last_visit_X < _bbp_last_active_time

You will be omitting topics that were created after _bbp_last_active_time, which are quite clearly also unread by the particular user.

[blg002]

For posterities sake, i think i figured this out thanks to this article. I was close just had few things I didn’t know about, hopefully I’m not doing anything too terrible.

function add_custom_role( $bbp_roles ) {
  $bbp_roles['my_custom_role'] = array( 
    'name' => 'My Custom User',
    'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() ) // i just want them to have the same capabilities as participants
  );

  return $bbp_roles;
}   
add_filter( 'bbp_get_dynamic_roles', 'add_custom_role', 1 );

[Daniel J. Lewis]

I’d like this, too. It seems that the bbpress.org forums even do that. Have you figured out a way?

[Anders]

Not sure if it’s related, but here goes:

I’m not using Recent Topics and Private and Hidden forums does not appear in search results for me.

I do however have a couple of “private” forums that I’m restricting access to with the “Members” + “Tehnik BBPress Permissions” plugins, and with those the protected posts and replies appear in the search results.

I’m also using “bbPress – Private Replies” and “bbPress – Private Topics” (same as “Private Replies” but modified to work on topics) and that combo is able to hide the private content from the search result.

Another equally serious problem is that when a user uploads and attaches confidential images or data to a post and marks the post as private, the post is correctly hidden but the files are accessible to all users in the media manager. I have been unable to restrict access to the media manager.

[draftcalc]

Hello, I apologize if this is addressed elsewhere, but doing a quick couple searches, I was unable to find a concerete way to convert my Vanilla Forums over to bbPress… pixelnated, what did you use to convert? I’m nervous about converting, any suggestions?

[Drover]

I found THIS in the Codex, which almost tells me what I need. But where do I place the new, modified file?

Thanks.

[Timo Reith]

After about two hours I could find a solution for me. It turned out that current_user_can( 'bbp_forums_admin' ) resulted in false. This is why I could not access the menu or even write replies although the user admin showed me as WP administrator and forum keymaster.

I wanted to check why my user did not have the capability “bbp_forums_admin” and installed the plugin Capability Manager Enhanced. After activation of the plugin everything worked fine again. All menu items showed up and I could post replies. Maybe this plugin fixed what bbpress messed up after updating to 2.3.2…

[justmattb]

Currently, my bbPress base is set to: community/forums

This works fine with everything except for the breadcrumbs. It shows the following:

Home > Forums
instead of
Home > Community > Forums

I’ve read this post:

How do I edit bbPress breadcrumbs?

But can’t figure out how I would inject something between “Home” and “Forum Root” without having to modify the <?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?> section in all files where it sits. I’d rather do this in my functions.php file with a filter like the above link shows. Any ideas?

[gowdemon]

@kevinjohngallagher
Hi, I tried installing the plugin since I am not good with codes. When I tried to activate the plugin I got the following error.

“The package could not be installed. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature.”

Any idea how to fix it?

[somuee]

Running 2 sites on 2 different servers with completely different themes and plugins and all users except admins get told “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page” when they try to go to their dashboards. Happens even when ALL plugins (including bbPress) are deactivated and with all themes, including Twenty Twelve.

WP 3.5.2
bbPress 2.3.2

[Laughing Cat]

for example, after trying to log in for several times, and finally succeeded at it, I replied in this topic, but now I can’t post new messages except in this topic… what’s wrong? if I go to another forum or discussion in bbPress.org support forums, it will say I’m an anonymous user, but if I come to this thread I’m logged in correctly. If I try to log in from other pages it will redirect me to forums home. If I clear my browser cache and cookies I’ll have trouble logging in anyway.

[GGGamers]

I have made a test side in order to run bbpress and buddypress. But i didnt found the url of bbpress forum… when i click on the forum it give me this kind of link (http://pakshares.com/test/members/admin/forums/) which i am not able to place on my menu…

[remedy01]

Hello,

I am trying to add the logged in user’s forum topics to my BuddyPress site in a custom sidebar. I keep getting this error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_has_forum_topics()

..when inserting the following:

<?php locate_template( array( 'forums/forums-loop.php' ), true ); ?>

How can I easily list the logged in user’s forum posts without relying on the recent topics widget that ships with bbPress?

Thanks

[jeanbledsoe]

I’m having the same issue. I designed the client’s site using Impact Page Builder. But when I use bbPress to set up forums, the option to assign an Impact template is not there. Therefore, the forum looks like this: http://northidahocvma.org/forums/forum/forum-2?preview=true&preview_id=607&preview_nonce=7b2aed77ba
Instead of having the Impact styling like this: http://northidahocvma.org/
I’m using the latest versions of both WordPress & bbPress with Twenty Twelve theme. Any other suggestions?

[Ed]

i’m in the same situation – and i’ve yet to find a post that explains how to remove the sidebar correctly.

JJJ, could you write a post that explains how to do that – in an idiot proof format?

Thanks!

[disqusnow]

Good day everyone. Can somebody help with this. I just installed bbpress forum on my wordpress.org site. I created a forum topic. But when I log out from the site and click on the forum topic it displays this message “This Forum is empty”. When I logged in as an external site user the problem still remain.
Does anyone how I can fix this problem so that when an external user clicks on a forum topic, the forum will load properly and allow the user to leave a reply or comment.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

[Robin W]

I hope this has a very simple solution.

I need to either stop a BBpress template-tags function from happening, or over-ride it with a new one, but want to do this from a plugin, rather than amending BBpress code.

Is there a line of code that simply stops a function within BBpress, or a quick way to overwrite one using a plugin.

More detail below

I want to revise the bbp_single_topic_description which is currently used in content-single-topic.php to show the phrase “This topic contains 2 replies, has 2 voices etc.” below a post

The bbp_single_topic_description is defined in /includes/topics/template-tags.php

I have written a pluggin that creates a new function, and uses the bbp_template_before_single_topic action hook in content-single-topic.php to display the new wording .

ie

add_action( 'bbp_template_before_single_topic',  'btv_single_topic_description');
function btv_single_topic_description( $args = '' ) {
	CODING STUFF;
	}

But I need to stop the old wording displaying as well as this.

I have three approaches

1. Just comment out the appropriate line in content-single-topic.php – simple to do, but of course gets overwritten by new releases
2. Do something in the plugin that stops bbp_single_topic_description from working using code within my plugin – if this is easy, that is what I’d like to do, but as the function doesn’t have an action hook as far as I know, I don’t know how to remove it.
3. Do something to make my function replace/overwrite the bbpress function, so that I don’t have to hook it anywhere?

Can anyone help me with either 2 or 3 – I hope it’s an easy answer, but am stumped !

[cymnet]

Hi there,
I have recently installed bbPress on our site.
It is a great feature.

However,
if you take a look at:
http://cym.org/webmaster/support/forum/front-end-support/

You will notice that the area where we can insert a new heading is covered up by the text editor.

I cant find the code to amend the layout for this.

Help!

[jeanbledsoe]

I’ve designed a site using theme 2012 in WordPress 3.5.2, with Impact Page Builder for page templates.
Now I need to add 2 forums to the site but I don’t know how to format them so they have the same look created with Impact. I’m using bbPress 2.3.2.
Here is the link to the site: http://northidahocvma.org/
This is what the forum page looks like: http://northidahocvma.org/forums/forum/forum-2

[bchhun]

WordPress version: 3.5.2
bbPress version: 2.3.2
Number of plugins: 1 (bbpress)
Active theme: Twenty-twelve
Environment: Virtual machine built with Vagrant.
Folder rights ?: All good.
Have I fiddled with bbpress source code ?: not yet.

I’m having the same issue as multiple topics I’ve seen here.

The Nonce hidden field is in the form (inspected with Chrome dev tools) but I always get the “ERROR: Are you sure you wanted to do that?”

[Unsal Korkmaz]

Shortcode to display posts like ShowCase:
http://theme.firmasite.com/showcase-shortcode/

I would like to hear your suggestions on this. Please send a comment in post.

[Ed]

I’m trying to import from vanilla to latest bbpress (the vanilla install comes via punbb & others).

I get the following errors while importing users:

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 ‘jtf>IS” WHERE ID = “48076”‘ at line 1]
UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = “fe9b68005ebfc248e03446f81d7fe8d752547189$;>iNO”jtf>IS” WHERE ID = “48076”

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 ‘R!`+o-KG’V” WHERE ID = “48068”‘ at line 1]
UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = “f5f993c4bed3f54ed56fa8352215e213efe03746$”R!`+o-KG’V” WHERE ID = “48068”

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 ‘48065″‘ at line 1]
UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = “513e8099ef2e9efdf7a2b9a65e531e80f365e6eb$wys%KRZ|VCz”” WHERE ID = “48065”

What can I do?

[CroNiXer]

I have wordpress 3.5.1 and bbpress 2.3.2. Theme I’m using is Avenue and here is link to my site forum

[terrykiwi]

I installed & activated the current version of bbPress into the current version of WP.

I got the “do not have permissions” error, and following the threads in this support forum, installed User Role Editor and clicked Reset.

I was then able to open bbPress settings, but could not find any help at all, so had no idea where to start.

On checking the site, I find that there are new menus “Activate”, “Activity”, “Members” & “Register”.

I deactivated bbPress – no change.
I deactivated User Role Editor – no change.
I deleted bbPress & User Role Editor – no change.

So now the site is messed up with additional menus that I can’t remove. I need help to resolve this ASAP.

Thank you for any assistance.