[rexall]

Sat 16 Aug 2014, 6:03 pm

WP 3.9.2
BBP 2.5.4
http://REBTinfo.info
http://rebtinfo.info/forums/
http://rebtinfo.info/forum/forum/general-topics/open-discussion-2/

Hello,

We are nearly recovered from a hacking incident. I uninstalled Simple:Press because although it is a sweet program, it is buggy and temperamental and conflicts with my WP.

OK, just installed bbPress 2.5.4 . At some point the forum links on my dashboard disappeared. I have uninstalled and reinstalled bbPress several times, even deleted it manually from the server, but I cannot get hose links back even though the forum seems to be installed => http://rebtinfo.info/forums/ .
How do I get the links back? The installation is so new, don’t need to preserve the contents if radical surgery is necessary.

Thanks v. much!

Aloha,

Rex
Khon Kaen, Thailand

http://www.MindBodyThailand.net
http://REBTinfo.info

[Robin W]

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.

[rexall]

Sun 17 Aug 2014, 12:17 pm

Thanks, Robin.

Nope, it’s not a plugin problem. But I found the solution in another thread, and might as well pass it along here. This issue seems to come up for a lot of people, and it is v. perplexing.

The problem was a “permissions” issue. Somehow, I don’t know how, in my admin WP user account, my bbPress “role” was reset to “participant,” the default bbPress level for all new WP users. This may have happened because I deleted and reinstalled bbPress. Dunno, but participants do not see the forum links in the dashboard.

Fortunately, a stupid-but-effective solution: Create a new WP user, set as “admin.” Then set the bbPress role to “Keymaster.” As soon as I did that, the forum links in the dashboard reappeared.

[Robin W]

Hey great – glad you’re fixed, and thanks for posting your solution, it means that I can advise this for future !