Hello,

I’m using Gonzo theme with wordpress 4.1 and bbpress 2.5.4

Problem is;

Everything works fine except the frontend side. It is not possible to login with either owner account or a participator account, noone can create a new topic.

I can reply to opened topics, do anything on backend side however creating new topics is my problem.

I do not use any plugins related with roles or bbpress.

I’ve tried eliminating every plugin but it’s not related with it.

Do you have any suggestions for a solution?

Thank you

[@ulasyener Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

any suggestions?

[@ulasyener Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

Really need help. Any ideas?

[@lynqoid Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

Have you tried using a default theme instead, see if it solves it?

[@ulasyener Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

Yes and i’ve no plugins related with bbpress. I deactivated them all and also tried to repair roles from the repair tool.

Not working 🙁

[@lynqoid Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

If you have done the following:
– disable ALL plugins one by one (not just ones you think could be causing it)
– activated a default theme
– used the repair tools
– re-saved permalinks

And it’s still broken, then the only next thing you can do is create a local installation of bbPress and test the reverse way, test it’s working, add your theme, test it’s working, add one plugin and keep going till it breaks.

Good luck with your site.

[@ulasyener Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

Big thanks! Fixed 🙂

[@lynqoid Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

What did you do? It might help someone in the future.

[@ulasyener Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

Yes you are right.

Tools > Forum > Reset Forums

That worked like a charm. (Caution : Everything resets including forum database)

Thanks again Lynqoid

[@lynqoid Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

No problem, glad you got your forum sorted!

[@shally1584 Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Hi Lynqoid,

I have same issue.I reset the forum and still have the same problem. Users assigned with the participant role cannot view and create forum topics. All other roles (keymaster,moderator,spectator,blocked) are working perfectly okay except “participant”.
Your suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[@awpt Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

I have the same problem but I dont have Tools > Forum > Reset Forums
is there any extension to do it ?
in tools tab I hve nothing about bbpress

[@shally1584 Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Do you have bbpress plugin installed

[@awpt Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Of course bbpress plugin is installed because of that Im confused and the forums with old topics are there in site.com/forums all data is there I deactivated all plugins to see if it works but nothing changed

[@awpt Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

another question sorry for the double posting , so I was looking in database to uninstall bbpress for a new installation but I cant find also the bbpress tables in database

[@shally1584 Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Wish i could help with that but i’m not tech-oriented.Hopefully we’d get it sorted out.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 9 months ago]

@awpt

bbPress uses the WordPress post tables.

but to reset forum go to tools>forums>reset forums

you should see these sub-menu items under tools

Tools
available tools
import
export
forums

[@principiante Participant 6 years, 8 months ago]

I have the same problem, users cant create new topic.
If I reset forums, than I will lost oll forums and topics?
Thank you!

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 8 months ago]

yes all data is lost

[@dredarsenic Participant 3 years, 6 months ago]

Hi there, my issue is similar to this, but maybe you can enlight.

On the front end, users should be able to submit a topic, whey they try, they get “A name is required for this term.” error, I have already reset the forum, but sill have the same thing.
Also the despite that message, the topic will appear in the WP admin dashboard under Topics, but will never show in the forum on the front end, any idea?

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 6 months ago]

‘A name is required for this term’ is not a bbpress error.

Is this site in English, or have you translated it ?

[@weeddelivery Participant 3 years, 6 months ago]

Try resaving your permalinks?

[@dredarsenic Participant 3 years, 6 months ago]

the site is in English, I did not translate it
I have tried to resave the permalinks, got the same issue.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 6 months ago]

ok, so I don’t think that is coming directly from bbpress.

It may well be a theme or plugin issue.

eg googling I found this :

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/277874/creating-menu-always-gives-error-a-name-is-required-for-this-term

so

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users

Health Check & Troubleshooting

Then come back

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 6 months ago]

looks like an issue with this function

wp_insert_term()

where that error message is created.