I test updated bbPress 2.2 (it does NOT say that it is 2.2.1) on my MAMP server, and it is now missing several of the Settings from 2.1.3 that I actually used.
“Theme Packages – Current Package” is gone, which I set to Twenty Ten (bbPress) on my sites, although then I use the ‘bbPress (Twenty Eleven)’ child theme from ServerPress.com as my active theme – which may negate any effect of this setting.
I don’t see the “Per RSS Page” settings any more, and I have “Akismet – Use Akismet” selected on the production site in 2.1.3; now those are gone in 2.2.
I did not see anything in the Changelog for 2.2 that led me to expect these changes.
I also have ‘Search bbPress 2.0’ ver 1.0 from ServerPress.com installed; I wonder if that will still work in 2.2.x???
After a bad week following an update from Wordfence 3.3.7 to 3.4.1 (just fixed in 3.4.4), I am in no hurry to update another major plugin on my site prematurely.
Done, upgraded immediately. Everything seems to work fine but i can’t see the theme selector in main settings.. is it normal or is a bug? I’d love to find it back cuz I need to set it back from default theme compat to twentyten
I have the same issue, and in the plugin folder there is no bbp-theme-compat folder after the upgrade.
Bloody hell, I have this now!
BBPress was just instantly marking these posts by this user as spam, even though they weren’t!
Is there an option somewhere that would have marked this user as spammer which would go away when their role is changed to Participant?
What’s really bizarre is, I have installed the user roles plugin just now and examined user capabilities in both the plugin menu and directly in the DB looking at the capability entry string.
The free user that can’t currently post, has the EXACT same capabilities as those free users who CAN post.
There are no differences, and yet this one user account that can’t post seems to be able to write a reply and submit it, the slug in the URL adapts as it should and increases the post number in the slug by one, but it then doesn’t show the post, and it doesn’t appear front or backend.
SO BIZARRE!
If I change their ‘Forum Role’ in the drop down at the bottom of their edit profile dashboard screen to ‘Participant’, then they CAN post normally.
I shouldn’t have to do this though.
Anyone have any kind of clue what else it could be?
I tried installing bbPress 2.2 today because I’ve used it on another site and love it. But, the 3 custom post types didn’t show up in the navigation menu in the Admin panel at all (and entering the URL for them doesn’t work either). The bbPress “Forums” menu items do show up in Settings and Tools though. Strange.
I activated and deactivated all of my plugins and traced it to a conflict between WPMU Appointments+ and bbPress. As soon as I activate Appointments, the bbPress post types vanish. Does anyone have experience with fixing this? I need the Appointments feature on my site and really wish that I could use bbPress instead of some other forum plugin.
WordPress version 3.4.2
bbPress version 2.2
WPMU Appointments+ 1.1.5.1 plugin site
Disable BuddyPress’s Forums component. If you’re using bbPress 2.2 on a brand new installation, it will power everything n
wordpress & bbpress definitely need better role/capability/permissions management, some 3rd party plugins can fill the gap for now, and i imagine the new system will be a step in the right direction, but we need some details on the new system 🙂
sam
Thanks for the error message, but why not include a description of what you’re trying to do?
John – You’ll want to update to bbPress 1.1 first; the schematic changed from 1.0 to 1.1.
If there’s missing user data, then the fallback is to Anonymous. The only way there’s missing data is if that user information was deleted or manually altered, directly in the database. In that circumstance, bbPress has no other place to look for user information.
To avoid this problem in the future, but them in:
/wp-content/languages/bbpress/bbpress-ja.*
Cheers Sam, I’ll check that out. I’ve not seen any documentation about this new system yet.
I’m guessing there is a good reason for it, but would be nice to turn it off and revert if it’s going to cause big issues with any site that has altered roles (of which there will be a high percentage).
plugins like user role editor allow granular customization of user roles & capabilities, an important feature for cms/forum systems which wordpress/bbpress is otherwise lacking, google “granular permissions” for more info
so you would use it to inspect the permissions for your s2 or other roles and it should be a matter of just checking the boxes of the capabilities you want your roles to have, unless something has changed in bbp 2.2 ?
if you are careful it will not change (unless you tell it to) or break anything in my experience, but any changes made to role permissions are made to the db so proceed somewhat cautiously, and it is always possible to change things back if you kept screen shots of original role settings in plugin window –
but i’m still not sure exactly what the new role system is about at all, are there any reference links on this ?
sam
Add the [bbp-topic-index] shortcode to your page.
https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
Hey Sam, I use custom caps built straight nto S2member and just assign different caps all to various s2level1 packages, so only have FREE subscribers at level 0 and paid members at level 1.
The majority of the free subscribers can access and use forums in bbpress 2.2, but anyone with level 1 access hits a 404 regardless of accessing the forum directory or topics.
Bizarrely the forum tab on profiles of these level 1 members will show their threads.
Some free subscribers set at level 0 can access forums but can’t post. You can submit a reply but it doesn’t show front or backend, and yet trying to submit the same reply again straight after gives you the duplicate post error message although NOTHING got posted anyway.
What are the role editor plugins going to enable me to do?
I’ve never used them. Would love to get to the bottom of why some level 0 members can post and yet a user with an identical role can’t?
i am building a site using bbpress & s2member, but i am also using user role editor plugin to apply custom capabilities to s2 member roles, so far this has worked fine, but i have not updated this test site to bbpress 2.2 yet
ross, have you tried inspecting your s2 member roles with something like user role editor, members, or role scoper ? this should allow you to customize you roles w bbpress permissions as needed
also, is there a clear explanation anywhere about just what this new role system in bbpress 2.2 is and what it means for sites with custom capabilities ?
sam
Assigning a forum role of ‘participant’ to the free members that for some reason cant post fixes the issue.
If everyone could be assigned a ‘participant’ role as default that might be the way forward with this?
Not quite sure where the role named ‘member’ is being assigned from to my free members in the forums, as it doesn’t seem to be selectable role in the drop down for forum role.
I have ‘Participant’ set as the default role which I think it was preset to in the forums options now.
I notice the tick box to assign this role to all new signups, but a box to assign it to existing members except admins would be cool.
I’m not sure what the best way is, but I’m guessing there will be an awful lot of sites breaking if they do this upgrade.
Would love to hear some suggestions.
Not to sound ungrateful though, I love BBPress. I’ll gladly help test everything on my staging site until we can work it out for everyone.
🙂
Okay and I’ve also got some weird things happening too:
– If a member signs up for a free account on my site, they are automatically assigned the regular WP ‘subscriber’ role. These members can use the forums normally, and when they now post, they have the word ‘member’ assigned under their avatar.
– If a user pays for membership and gets an S2 Member level, they can’t see any forums, they just get a 404.
Now if I go into these members profiles in the backend, i can assign their ‘forum role’ from the drop down to something like ‘Participant’.
They still keep their S2 level, but can now also use forums.
1. Why can’t we assign them as ‘members’ like normal FREE users who are assigned that tag. It doesn’t appear in the forum role drop down menu in the edit user screen.
2. Bizarrely I have a couple of accounts that although are FREE accounts with the usual WP ‘subscriber’ role assigned, they can’t actually post.
They can see the forums, type a response and post it, but it doesn’t appear anywhere.
Pretty bizarre. Would be cool to get a good explanation of how this new dynamic role process works.
Cheers JJ 🙂
You are using the ‘OneAll Social Login’ plugin to register users rather than the bbPress (WordPress) process and I would suspect that any errors related to incorrect username/password issues would be related to how this plugin is registering users with WordPress rather than this being a bbPress issue.
Try asking your question in the plugin support at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/oa-social-login and that may also sort out why users are not receiving the activation email also.
Hey James,
Looks like this new role capabilities change is going to cause me some pretty big issues, wondered if you could advise.
I use S2Member on my site (probably the best and most supported membership plugin).
It creates S2 Member roles for paid members away from the standard roles in WP.
For standard subscribers the forums are accessible no problem, however for anyone with a paid S2Member role, they can’t even see the root index of the forums which is /forums.
It returns a 404.
I can’t ditch s2member as it is the heart of my site and controls access to everything.
There are thousands of sites out the using this, any advice on how we can make them play nicely?
So I had to reinstall BuddyPress and bbPress, and now for some reason it won’t allow me to publish a new topic. I have the site-wide installation, and there is a “New Topic” button on my Forum Directory page… but when I click it nothing happens.
Please assist!
I believe the 404 problem may be the same as the one described here – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-2-all-forums-now-return-page-not-found/
I will try to solution suggested there when I upgrade again. Thanks to Jennifer for explaining the things to try.
Does anyone know of a way that I could solve the problem that I have with permissions? I partially understand what is going wrong due to the way the new system works, but I wouldn’t have thought it should change the permissions for existing roles.
bbPress 2.2 language files should go in /languages, not /bbp-languages, so: /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/languages/bbpress-ja.mo.
Can you provide a live URL?
Have you refreshed permalinks by visiting Settings > Permalinks?
Are only your BuddyPress group forums not displaying correctly? If you have sitewide forums, are those working?
Does BuddyPress have a Forums tab in Settings > BuddyPress?
If yes, BuddyPress is trying to handle your group forums using its internal (older) version of bbPress.
Is “Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums” checked in Settings > Forums?
If yes, then bbPress is trying to handle the Group Forums. Have you imported your Group Forums using Tools > Forums > Import?
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
This change to anonymous still occurs when integrating bbpress2.2 in wp 3.4.2. The plugin by bb-to-wp-users-copier is a 404. This problem existed over 4 years ago. Do I have to go into to change the display name for every user manually in the database? That doesn’t sound right.
