[sontru]

I found the bug report pages and have logged the two issues:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2205

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2206

[sontru]

Participant is not one of WordPress’s user roles! It only gets introduced with bbPress.

There’s nothing wrong with my add_user() function (I don’t have one!) The problem occurs when calling up the WordPress function ‘add_user_to_blog’ when bbPress is active.

Is there a way of reporting bugs found in bbPress?

[David Wang]

Hi! I’m new to bbPress and have some questions. I wouldn’t mind paid consulting so if you’re an expert please let me know how to get in touch.

I run a business providing support plans which customers subscribe to for ongoing tech support for their WordPress site. I want to have a system where I am able to log all the support activities for each customer. Each post would then be a support incident for the customer. They would then be able to login to see a history of the activity in their account.

I am thinking of creating a forum for each customer and a new thread (topic) for each support incident. Customers are not allowed to create new threads – they can only comment. My question is how to setup bbPress so that:

1. Customers can only view threads in forums that they have access to
2. Customers can only comment on existing threads and cannot create new threads
3. Customers receive notifications of new threads to forums that they are assigned to.

I would really appreciate any pointers. Thanks all!

[Shane Gowland]

The ‘participant’ role is one of WordPress’ user roles. bbPress assigns the bbp_participant role, which makes me think there is something else going on here. Are you running any other plugins or custom functions?

Perhaps you could use something like Multisite User Management to set ‘no role’ as the default across the network. You might need to make some code changes to it though.

What does your add_user() function look like? It sounds like this could be resolved by wrapping your code in a !is_admin() conditional.

[sontru]

You misunderstand – I don’t want network users to be added as a participant! (The bug is that bbPress does this even, at installation/activation, the default option says not too!)

The second bug is a bigger problem here, as there is no work-around except disabling bbPress!

(I did see your plugin and article before posting, and thought the code had been absorbed into bbPress, but obviously not. If the feature is already present, why write this plugin?)

[mostafaqanbari]

i really don’t understand why bbpress includes topics inside “user replies created”!. i just designed a forum based on bbpress and i want to show just replies in “user replies created”. by using sql i checked type of each reply and if “topic_type” is not equal to “reply” so ignore it. everything works fine until i realized pagination(page numbers) functionality doesn’t ignore topics! for example assume page limitation is 5, i have 3 replies and 3topic and as i said i ignored topics and i see just 3 replies but also page numbers! the worst thing is ordered items with their dates and if date of replies are older that topics i see the very first page empty and for seeing replies created i should navigate to see them! how can i tell pagination that ignore topics in this particulate page?!
PS: i installed BBpress beside Buddypress for having powerfull profile abilities. wordpress 3.5 and lates bbpress till now(2.2.3)

[Shane Gowland]

Here’s a solution I came up with a few months back. http://shanegowland.com/wp/2012/wordpress-plugin-multisite-bbpress-forum-participants/

[sontru]

If bbPress is running on a WordPress Multisite subdomain, then it seems to be adding network users who visit a sub site to the sub site’s users as participants – this includes the super-admin!

Activate bbPress plugin on a subdomain and ths default setting is unchecked:

`
Auto role | Automatically assign default role to new, registered users upon visiting the site.
`

Visit the sub site as any network user, and they are added as a participant! Only after checking the Auto role option, saving and unchecking it and saving again, does this work as intended.

The second bug is a major one and can only be stopped by deactivating bbPress!

I am writing a plugin which creates users and adds them to blogs. I am using the add_user_to_blog* function and each time I call it with bbPress activated, it adds the admin user who is calling the function to ALL blogs as a participant! If I go into a subdomain as a admin user of that site, this admin user is not listed (even in subdomain who have bbPress enabled), but I as this admin can see all sites are listed in my Sites drop down. I manually look into the database and see in the wp_usermeta table that this user has capabilities and level (of 0) entries for all blogs!

Of course if I deactivate bbPress and call up the add_user_to_blog, everything works as expected, and the user calling up the function does not get added as a participant to ALL the sub sites! I think there is some sort of filter that bbPress is applying that is causing this.

Could someone look at this and see if they can replicate it and fix it?

[@mercime]

The Group Forums issue has been resolved at https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-groups-not-working/

[Stephen Edgar]

A lack of response or lack of solution from your posts elsewhere still does not make this a bbPress support issue, closing this topic.

[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

[Stephen Edgar]

This is the .zip file to download and extract on your PC to then upload with FTP to your webhost:

https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs/archive/master.zip

[Halo Diehard]

Copy all the files to your themes root directory and it should look something like this:

/wp-content/themes/my-theme/bbpress-functions.php
/wp-content/themes/my-theme/bbpress
/wp-content/themes/my-theme/css

(Where ‘my-theme’ is the name of your theme, there is nothing you need to activate.)

Now I am *really* confused! Because the file I downloaded for this theme is called “default”, and none of those files are in it 😀

[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

[Stephen Edgar]

Indeed you can do this, you just need to use a custom query to query both topic & reply custom post types.

`function my_get_posts( $query ) {

if ( is_home() && $query->is_main_query() )
$query->set( ‘post_type’, array( ‘topic’, ‘reply’ ) );

return $query;
}
add_filter( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘my_get_posts’ );
`

[Stephen Edgar]

Apologies, I missed this when you posted this. This has been fixed in the upcoming bbPress 2.3.release.

[Stephen Edgar]

See this topic https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/remove-freshness-date-in-forum-topic-pages/

[Stephen Edgar]

I suggest you post this over at http://buddypress.org as it is more of a BuddyPress issue.

[Stephen Edgar]

Copy all the files to your themes root directory and it should look something like this:

• /wp-content/themes/my-theme/bbpress-functions.php
• /wp-content/themes/my-theme/bbpress
• /wp-content/themes/my-theme/css

(Where ‘my-theme’ is the name of your theme, there is nothing you need to activate.)

[Halo Diehard]

Hello, thank you for creating this theme! I am trying to install it and have copied the “default” file into my theme’s root. Was I supposed to only copy the files inside the default file? I don’t see any difference in my bbPress look.

Or is there somewhere on my dashboard I have to activate it?

Thanks 🙂

[pilotindia.arnab]

Guys I’m getting an error with the ‘forum’ link. On the top left corner of the forum you get Home>Forum>Fourm1>Topic1 if you are in any topic/forum. When I click at ‘Forum’ I am redirected to a page which has all the forums (Forum1, Forum2, etc..) but it comes unformatted. Plz take a look at http://wingsofindia.com/forum/forum-1/ and click on Forum on the top left for a better explanation of my problem. This prob is specific to my theme. Maybe the prob is with my style.css – not sure. Plz suggest ways..
bbpress 2.2.4

[Lynq]

Hey muffin, the theme is kind of like a jump start to get people going, it’s not a fully complete theme. Descriptions currently are a little difficult but should be able to get them sorted.

[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.

[kriskl]

Hi,

I have similar problem.. recent;y discovered over 100 replies pending just after 2 weeks of using bbpress….

which needless to say, is a lot of pain to approve all of them one by one manually!! 🙁

as they are all legit, not spam

Is it possible to turn OFF pending mode??

thanks

Kris

 

 

[ssmedia]

Hi, strange issue when trying to setup forums with buddypress groups.

The second step asks me if I want to create enable a discussion forum. If it’s checked and I try to go to the next page I get a blank screen. If I leave it unchecked it works strangely enough.

I’ve also shown this on the following screencast so others can properly understand: http://screencast.com/t/slWNcdFzCDJf

Can anyone help please?