[rossagrant]

Would that only really affect sites that were running BBPress standalone with WP?

It wouldn’t affect Buddypress profiles would it?

I’ve checked on my staging site, and the forums tabs with ‘created topics’ ‘replies’ etc still work great for users just assigned a ‘Member’ role with no specific BBPress role.

[John James Jacoby]

@rossagrant – You are correct. The downside to only being a “Member” and not having a role on the site, is bbPress suppresses profile pages for those users. This is mostly because of WordPress Multisite, to prevent guessing user profile slugs and pulling up profiles of users that don’t actually exist on the site, and also to not link off to spam/deleted user accounts.

Lots of moving parts.

Naturally, if you *need* to override any of these weird nuances, there are filters everywhere for developers to make modifications to these behaviors. Ideally, bbPress comes with the solutions that are best for everyone, and the other answers come when specific questions like this are asked.

If this turns out to not be the best configuration, we can always change it, but I suspect it’s the best compromise that’s currently possible.

[John James Jacoby]

@tzeldin88 – There’s a tool to batch the user forum role process, in Tools > Forums

It’s likely the custom roles you’re making won’t work, at least I haven’t tried it yet myself. While it’s not impossible to make work, I don’t think it’s a great setup for the future of your site.

WordPress purposely excludes a UI for roles and capabilities because they’re easy to muck up, and difficult to reset back to stock.

[John James Jacoby]

In Tools > Forums are some uninstall tools, but if you don’t have forum content, there’s nothing to uninstall. Reinstalling bbPress is just uploading the files and activating the plugin.

Unclear how bbPress works with WPML, haven’t tried the two together.

[htz77]

To clarify my question above — According to this (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spectator-and-visitor-someone-can-explain-this-roles/) the Capabilities of a Participant are:
– assign_topic_tags
– edit_replies
– edit_topics
– participate
– publish_replies
– publish_topics
– read_private_forums
– spectate

So I assigned those same Capabilities to a different role — a custom role called Student — but the Student still can’t actually participate in the forum.

(I used Justin Tadlock’s Members plugin to create the custom role, and assign the capabilities.)

Thanks! -Todd

[jakewho]

I will try and find out from my web host, but in the mean time is there a way to completely uninstall bbPress and then reinstall it. I don’t currently have have any discussion forum content, so there is nothing for me to lose.

One other potential symptom…I have WPML installed and all of my user facing content is set to be displayed in Portuguese. When I have created new forums, they don’t show up in the dashboard as being associated with either English or Portuguese. They should show up as being associated with Portuguese, since that is the language I had set when I created the forum.

…I do have lots of pages and posts, so I wouldn’t want to lose any of this content.

Thanks much

[rossagrant]

Nice explanation JJ, I now get it mate! 🙂

So all NEW signups that register will be assigned the ‘Member’ label dynamically if I don’t tick the box in the backend to make all new sign-ups a participant for example.

I’m cool with that if it’s the case.

I don’t anyone to have a specific role other than ‘Member’ unless I upgrade someone to a mod for example.

Leaving the box unchecked would thus stop any members thinking “why am I just a member when that guy is a participant’.

As long as all future members who end up with a S2 Member role will still be able to post as a ‘Member’, that works just great for me.

Is that right?

[htz77]

I have a similar problem (though not related to s2member). I have a custom Site Role (called “Student”), which I had enabled to participate in the Forums, by assigning the necessary Capabilities (using the Members plugin from Justin Tadlock). This worked fine in bbPress v2.1.2.

But I just updated to bbPress v2.2.1, and now bbPress has a new concept of Forum Roles, separate from (but somehow related to) Site Roles. So now all my Student users are unable to participate anymore!

I do NOT want to have to manually set the new Forum Role for each Student. Instead, I tried using the Members plugin to (again) add the necessary Capabilities to my Student role, to match those of bbPress’s new Participant role. I did this by matching the checkboxes displayed by the Members plugin. But this did not work. In fact the Members plugin shows that a Participant has 28 Capabilities, though only 8 are actually “checked”. So are some of a Participant’s capabilities somehow HIDDEN? Can I somehow tell bbPress to use my Student role?

Hoping for help on this.

[John James Jacoby]

This.

This is dope. Thanks for sharing!

[brspart]

“Hello.

I need some help.
when I upgraded to version 2.2.1 my forum was link this http://db.tt/WO0W0n3q
how do I solve this problem?

Thanks
Bruno”

Please help me
thanks
Bruno

[thesnowjunkies]

Currently, I am using Yoast breadcrumbs with my setup (bbPress 2.2 with WP 3.4). Everything is super sweet except when I go to a topic, the “forums” link disappears and replaces it with a “topics” link.

Here’s what I want:
Home>>Forums>>Example Forum>>Example Topic

Here’s what I get:
Home>>Topics>>Example Forum>>Example Topic

My current workaround has been to make a custom topics page and then have it redirect to “Forums” — but of course it still says “Topics” in the breadcrumb.

I do understand this may just be a plugin issue and not for this board, but if anyone has any ideas…

[jakewho]

I successfully upgraded to bbPress v2.2 (and then 2.2.1), but for some reason I can no longer see my forums. Since I am still in the process of setting up my site, I have tried everything I could think of, including deleting all forums and topics…then I deleted the BuddyPress and bbPress plugins and reinstalled and reactivated them. When I create a new forum, I still can’t see the forum layout for my forum page(s). What I see instead is a blank page (plus the description text for the forum), but none of the blank fields for creating a topic associated with the forum or for entering content into the topic/forum. When I create create a topic and associate it with the forum, it still does the same thing.

A URL where this can be seen is: http://www.cbblogers.com/forums/comunidade/sorteio/

Thanks

[kannued]

Another note: In integration, the IP addresses in the topics matches the IP addresses of the topics in bbpress 1.1. It is just the author’s name that is wrong in the integration.

[Pippin Williamson]

There’s a trac ticket on the topic somewhere.

[Scott Kingsley Clark]

Oops, sorry, saw the Trac URL just as I was posting! I put it into there, linking for reference:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2046

[Sami Keijonen]

Hmmm and now I’m thinking why there is no sticky post support for custom post types in WP.

[remike]

I am currently using Graphene Theme which apparently should be compatible with bbPress
Curently my index page looks like this
http://hosting0948899.az.pl/wp/forums/

The index displays as if I get search results for all my pages with forums instered inside.
The same with user profile page…

What can I do? What causes the problem?

• This topic was modified 13 years, 11 months ago by remike.

[sambedingfield]

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The site is built upon the latest WordPress, with the bbPress forum plugin installed. The simple and tactile user interface is consistent throughout each aspect, with large (seasonal changing) illustrations when playing cards. This is all brought to life with animated elements and sound effects.

Games are created as custom posts, and become published when another user has accepting to challenge them. This allows users to share their experiences or look for opponents through social networks. Experience points and currency is also stored as custom meta, which is all cached to help load time.

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Also, here’s a replay of one of my recent games: http://www.ratsclan.com/game/ba6b6a4e/

This is also my first ever work on a WordPress or bbPress site, so any feedback is much appreciated!

[metaphorcreations]

Can you please add:

apply_filters( ‘widget_title’, $title );

to the bbPress widget titles? I’m pretty sure this should be standard implementation within widgets.

[Rasheed Bydousi]

Hello,

Is there any way to keep the bbpress-ar.mo file safe ?

Is it possible to keep the language file inside wp-content/languages ?

Thanks

[John James Jacoby]

@rossagrant – The display role is actually a bit different than taking the literal role from the user. It uses capabilities rather than the role, to adjust the output based on the user’s ability.

See the bbp_get_user_display_role function for more.

It does this because it needs to handle Inactive users (spam/deleted) as well as anonymous/logged-out users, neither of which have a literal role, but also have different “roles” in the forum, for lack of a better way to put it.

“Member” is the ambiguous word I used for “user is registered, but does not actually have a literal role on this site in the database.”

Open to suggestions here, if it’s too confusing.

[baydream]

Hi All
After installing and activating the plugin I have the following message, any ideas on how to get rid of this?

Fatal error: Call to undefined function user_can() in /homepages/**/*****/htdocs/**/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/capabilities.php on line 226

I do not know the wordpress version as I cannot access the information, the bb plugin was downloaded today. I believe the theme installed was Atahulpa

[markkelly1982]

I’ve narrowed the above problem down a bit more:

The ‘Participant’ who created the forum though the group cannot post topics. Everyone else can post to it.

[Sami Keijonen]

Thanks Pippin. Justin Tadlock gave me same advice to go into that file. Let me tell you that it’s little out of my head. But I definitely try this out and report here if I find a solution.

$query->set( 'meta_key', '_bbp_last_active_time' );
$query->set( 'orderby', 'meta_value' );

This actually works better because now sticky posts are in their ‘natural’ position, not last.

[markkelly1982]

Hey John,

I’m having the following issue:

Participants cannot create topics or reply to topics on forums that have been created through the ‘Groups’ section.

They can create topics or reply to topics on forums that have been created direct though the forums section.

On the forums that have been created through the ‘Groups’ section it returns the following:

ERROR: You do not have permission to reply.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Mark