[rock714]

http://www.t-34.com
bbPress Version 2.5.14
WordPress 4.8.9 running Sahifa theme.

I just recently took over admin and cleanup of the above site. My role is Administrator, Participant in WP. I am not able to delete some forums that have aged quite a bit and have no activity. When I try to access the forums for administrative cleanup I get the following message:

“Sorry, you are not allowed to edit posts in this post type.”

I noted that the previous admin has Administrator, Keymaster role. I have searched through every menu, plugin and widget possible but the option of Keymaster does not seem to exist anywhere so I cannot promote myself to Keymaster.

I have tried to use the change forum role but the only options are Moderator, Participant, Spectator and Blocked. I also created a new user with Administrator role, then edited the user but the only options under forum role are Moderator, Participant, Spectator and Blocked.

Kinda stuck here. Any suggestions?

[Robin W]

yep, that’s a wordpress standard which bbpress also obeys- you can’t change your own privileges !!

so create a temporary admin account with administrator privilege, and log in as that temporary account – then go into

dashboard>users>edit users>’your old account name’ and edit, and near the bottom you will see that you can change yourself to keymaster.

Once saved, you can then delete the temporary admin account

🙂

[Robin W]

ok, just re-read your post, and that may not fix it – I suspect there is some code somewhere that is blocking setting of keymasters.

[rock714]

Robin,

Thanks, as you noted I did try to create a temp admin account but no luck. Anyone else have any ideas?

[Robin W]

ok, something has removed the keymaster role.

what plugins are you running ?

[rock714]

Robin, I am running 23 plugin’s

Admin Columns
Admin Menu Editor
Another WP Classifieds
BAW Login/logout
bbPress
BP Disable
BuddyPress
Code Snippets
Code Toolkit
Email Users
Events Manager
Grand FlaGallery
Mmm Simple File list
Nav Menu Roles
Peters Login Redirect
REmove Dashboard Access
s2Member Framework
SSL Insecure
TinyMCE
User Role Editor
WooCommerce
WordFence
WP Spam Shield

Still no luck. I have 2 users that have Keymaster access on their profiles.

[Robin W]

ok, the fix strategy would be

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, 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.

But I would start wth User Role editior – that looks a likely suspect