seems they are helping you on the trac ticket, but first step would be
It could be a theme or plugin issue
Plugins
Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
Themes
If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.
Then come back
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When viewing http://thewritepractice.com/topic/test/ as admin, the Edit link is there in the box. When viewing it as the author of it however, not seeing Edit.
The above are wordpress roles (and useful info) but can you tell me what bbpress roles you have set for this user.
Maybe I’m blind but …
I’ve just installed bbPress plugin to my WP, with the idea to import Mingle forums but “Getting There” is not getting me anywhere as there is no Import Forums tab.
The only tabs there are All Forums and New Forum
Am I in the wrong place or…?
Help please! 🙁
Im designing a forum with users, panel users and expert users.
I want users to be able to ‘upgrade’ there account. All they have to do to make this happen is provide the website with extra information. (this sounds to me like a “buy a subscription” function and have them pick a Bronze, Silver or Gold subscription, so im looking in to bbpress/wordpress membership plugins, but there doesn’t seem to be one that suits me)
I don’t need paid subscriptions, I just want to change there forum role. It would be nice to intergrade this with something like a form plugin, so I can intergrade that with mailchimp so i can make lists based on there ‘subscription’
Another method would be have different sign up form on the website, before they become member and have them fill out the information I need based on the Role they want to become.
ok, it’s back to looking at this aspect specifically.
1. some themes only show the edit when you hover in the topic/reply content, this is theme specific not bbpress.
2. I know you have already tested the below but please try again as bbpress is tested with default themes. Try twentyten as I know it gives a firm edit box :
Plugins
Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
Themes
If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.
Then come back.
Hi Robin,
Okay, I’m just now realizing that we have two problems going on here then.
1. Problem #1 was a universal to bbPress problem, and your code above fixes that.
2. Problem #2 is the fact that at http://thewritepractice.com/bw, the forum does not realize that you are the author of the topic you’re posting. There is no Edit button in the in-box area. Only when I enable “Edit others topics” for Participants via the bbPress Advanced Capabilities plugin do you then see the Edit link in the in-box area.
Any ideas on how we can fix this problem, and what might be causing it?
ok, you mention ‘contributor’ – do you mean wordpress roles or bbpress roles?
I have disabled file uploads in my bbPress forum
ok, so how did you do that?
ok,
create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/%your-theme-name%/bbpress
find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
then change lines
<?php if ( !bbp_is_forum_category() && bbp_has_topics() ) : ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics' ); ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'topics' ); ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics' ); ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic' ); ?>
<?php elseif ( !bbp_is_forum_category() ) : ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback', 'no-topics' ); ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic' ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
to
<?php if ( !bbp_is_forum_category() && bbp_has_topics() ) : ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic' ); ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics' ); ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'topics' ); ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics' ); ?>
<?php elseif ( !bbp_is_forum_category() ) : ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic' ); ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback', 'no-topics' ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
and save
that should do it
I have disabled file uploads in my bbPress forum, and all works well, that is to say, people can’t upload files.
Until… you go back into a post you made and edit it, when you are editing the post then the ability to attach a file is now available.
How can I switch it off so it is actually off?
Please help.
🙂
WordPress 4.0.1
bbPress Version 2.5.4
http://www.thewargameswebsite.com/
ok, the following code removes the edit for bbpress, but leaves it for normal wordpress pages
function wpse_remove_edit_post_link( $link ) {
if (is_bbpress()) return '' ;
else return $link ;
}
add_filter('edit_post_link', 'wpse_remove_edit_post_link');
The users will still be able to edit their topics and replies via the in-box edit buttons
No problem.
Now you are back to the original, you might like to try this plugin that I have recently published
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/
to style the elements within bbpress
Wow. Crazy that nobody has ever tried to use that feature before!
Here’s the interesting thing though. WordPress.org’s support forum is (I’m 99% sure) built in bbPress and it does successfully allow you to edit topics that you’ve posted. The interface you are sent to when editing your topic does not reside inside the WordPress admin area. Rather it is right there on the publicly facing page.
I wonder how they are doing that?
Another interesting wrinkle in this whole thing is that according to the bbPress User Roles and Capabilities, participants should be able to edit their own topics.
I too had this issue and found countless other posts dated many years ago with no solution. I am using bbpress v2.5.4 and buddypress v2.1.1 on WordPress v4.1. I “resolved” this by editing my functions.php file within the bbpress plugin directory and replacing any character values with a blank. Good enough for me. This “solution” IS NOT RECOMMENDED as any update to bbpress is more than likely to overwrite it. Unless you don’t mind going back in and remembering to re-hack it after each update. No doubt it can be done better. The client just requested I get rid of the code values. Without further to do…
GoTo: yoursite\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\common\functions.php
Between Lines 1090 and 1091 Add:
$search_bbpress_titles = array("&# 039;", "&am p;", "R 11;", "&qu ot;"); // ' & - "
$topic_title = str_replace($search_bbpress_titles, '', $topic_title);
Then add the same two lines further down between Lines 1233 and 1234.
NOTE: You will have to remove the spaces from the $search_bbpress_titles array line as I was unable to post without it parsing that line. Don’t know the coding on this form to post properly. Email me if you need the code.
Looking forward to any other helpful input. No need to remind me how better you are at coding. 🙂
Oops I am typing too fast for BBpress
Just shows how much we don’t play with – I’ve never hit that link.
By the way I’m not part of the plugin team, just a humble user !
But after a bit of testing, for a topic called Test Topic :
Within the post you’ll see an edit which takes you to
http://www.mysite.com/forums/topic/test-topic/edit/
which allows a user to edit
But the EDIT link at the bottom goes to
http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=18358&action=edit
which is a wordpress supplied link, which a user isn’t allowed to edit as it is a backend function, unless they have privilege to access topics on the backend which only moderators and keymasters can do.
So participants see this link which they can’t use !!
Well spotted – I’ll take a look when I get a moment at whether this can be switched off in wordpress for bbpress pages, or the link changed.
Sorry u might be confusing. There’s 2 different backgrounds. The one that I’m talking about now is the actual background of the tables. The even and odd of the forum. I changed it by putting this in my child theme:
#bbpress-forums div.odd,
#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
background-color: “the color you see”!Important;
}
#bbpress-forums div.even,
#bbpress-forums ul.even {
background-color:” the color you see”!important;
}
I then changed the parts that affect the actual theme through theme options. After doing this, I noticed stuff wasn’t changing back once I put it back to the default color. I then tried changing the code above and it didn’t work anymore. Then I even deleted the code, yet it still didn’t change back to normal.
The original background was dark I believe. Can’t remember for sure. But now it’s white and a tan, which I set with the code above, but I can’t change it back.
Haven’t had a detailed look but
bb_register_view should be bbp_register_view
bb is buddypress, bbp is bbpress
ok, sorry but I have not come across these before, and can only find them in connection with site5 when googled.
I can’t say why bbpress is affecting your site
@Robin W
A lot of webhosts use resource points when they provide unlimited resources in terms of bandwidth, diskspace, email accounts, Subdomains, Databases.
Luckily for Site5 they do not directly disable the website but if it exceeds the limit for 30 days in a given month they do give a warning regarding that they will disable it.
I’m quite happy with Site5 as it’s quite a good webhost especially for the price (which I currently don’t see many other competition that can provide the same for the price).
But yea with the BBpress plugin it just overuses the resources which makes it almost unable to make use of it and as our website is mainly focused around the forum we would either need a way to optimise it or a way to convert it to another platform.
Moving to another webhost for that reason is a bit silly and probably would end up me paying more than what I pay currently.
Wow. Here’s a quick followup: after submitting this bbPress topic, I see a green Edit link at the bottom of this screen (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/participants-arent-able-to-edit-their-own-topics/). When I click it, I get the exact same error message:
You are not allowed to edit this item.
This is feeling like a global bbPress problem.
What’s going on here??
Hi,
When a user creates an account at http://thewritepractice.com/index.php?/register/JUZsw5 and then goes to the bbPress forum at http://thewritepractice.com/bw and posts a topic, there is an Edit link at the bottom of that topic. But when they click that link, they get this error message:
You are not allowed to edit this item.
A few notes:
- I’m on the latest version of WordPress.
- This problem persists when all plugins but bbPress is activated.
- This problem persists when the 2015 theme is activated.
I installed and activated the bbPress Advanced Capabilities plugin and learned that if I enabled “Edit others topics” for Participants, the participant could then edit their topic.
So in other words, bbPress thinks that the topic is being created by someone other than themselves.
Any ideas how this could be the case? It’s very strange…
Thanks!
Okay, I’m officially freaking out now. After hearing about it quite a bit, I finally learned how to create a child theme. I did so, and I began adding css related to bbpress with “!important” to change things. After changing a few things, I realized the text color wasn’t going to work, so I went into my theme options, and there is a way to change colors without having to go into code. Luckily, there is a default button, so I can just press that to go back to default. Basically, I changed each one and then refreshed the forum to see if that was it. I finally found it, but I didn’t like what it did to the rest of the site, so I went back to default. Now nothing is changing on the forum, even though everything else is going back to normal in the theme.
So I then started deleting the changes I made in my child theme .css, and it isn’t changing anything. I even went as far as to go back to my parent theme. This made the forum disappear, so I deactivated it and re-activated it. Well, now it is right back to the one after it was changed. How could it still be changed? I tried deleting it and re installing it, but it still won’t change. How could this have happened?
Sorry for panicking, but I simply don’t understand how this happened. Thank you for any answers.
I’m working on a site that HAS to have a “custom” button on TinyMCE to insert a custom string for users through the visual editor on BBPress. It works fine through the wp-admin, but it has to work on the actual forum pages. I located where the failure happens – does anyone know how or what I need to replace this with in order for it to work with BBpress? Or any other hacks I can try?? (It’s basically selecting all the text, then I do a search for a specific item and add their custom string to that item):
var content = tinyMCE.get(‘content’).getContent();
Looking at the code, I though maybe it should be:
var content = tinyMCE.get(‘bb_topic_content’).getContent();
but that didn’t work either….
