Hello all,
I have been running BBpress for more than three of years, but started getting feedback that ‘Participants’ could no longer post or reply a month ago.
The user error message gives me no clue as to what’s behind the issue ‘ERROR your reply/post cannot be created’, and there’s nothing in the settings that gives a clue either.

I paid up to get ‘Pro tools’ to contribute something financially to the developer pot, but found no new clues in the tools either.

So this morning I thought I would chance a deactivation of the plugin and reinstall.

The moment I pressed deactivate, I got the message in the title of the post. My entire site is out of action – nothing public except the error message in the title. I can’t access the wp-admin only the FTP, but what to do? My site is out completely.
I believe I am up to date on all WP software (as flagged by the WP admin zone)… and anyway, I cannot offer any other info now.

The source code behind the message says:
Line 1: <div class="error"> <p>This Plugin needs BBpress to work, pls. install it first and activate.</p></div>
Please help. It’s my busy time of the year.
http://www.abeillessauvages.com

[@solitary_bee Participant 4 years, 8 months ago]

OK, so I am a working on a solution to deactivate all plugins using FTP and this YT video.

I have successfully got back the wp-admin and will proceed to reactivate one by one my plugins.

I will report back when I have some info to share.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 months ago]

ok, come back when you have something more, and I’ll try to help.

If you do, please let us have a list of your plugins 🙂

[@solitary_bee Participant 4 years, 8 months ago]

Hello I have been looking at this for a number of days.

I reactivated plugins one by one and then a couple of people successfully posted, then two or three more couldn’t post then one did.

My bizarre theory is that it has something to do with a bbpress update quite a while ago. I already had Buddypress for two or three years with every member of my community manually given a basic S1 level when I created their account (so additional info was password-protected). When I added the recommended bbPress to develop a forum, I noted that only a number of my more active members got the status “Participants”, the numbers seem to reflect a few active users out of my total pool of users. It wasn’t automatic that everyone was assigned the Participant status, especially if they had never logged in. I assumed that it came from them reading forum/bbPress generated pages.

Since the beginning of the year, this has changed; everybody but the three Admins have been marked as a participants – 30% of these have never even logged in to my Buddypress environment, have never even reacted to the initial password email. The term ‘participant’ in a sense has become meaningless to me as an admin, because it tells me nothing any more.

I have to investigate there’s an ‘arrival date’ relationship with those who have posted and those who can’t.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 months ago]

presuming in

dashboard>settings>forums you have Roles set to participant, then users will get the participant role upon their next login or if ‘remember me’ set tehir next remembered visit to the website (the website, not just forums) after you installed bbpress.

[@solitary_bee Participant 4 years, 8 months ago]

Yes I get that, and I see my settings are configured to automatically now give this status to new additions, and supposedly the ability to post, but ‘half’ of those that already have the status cannot.

It’s a real shame that there are no codes written into the error messages.

I guess my two questions are (in the context of my above post)

1. When did all my historically inactive users get all their statuses changed to participants, it could only be with a recent BBpress plugin update?
2. Is there another encoded condition that has to be satisfied aside from “if user = Participant then validate post or reply?”.

I know an invalid or heavy file may stop posting, but I have increased the values of the attachments so this is out. Failed posters have however not always been uploading anything more than their text.

Anyway I should stop speculating and see when the successful and failed posters were entered into the system.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 months ago]

can you list your plugins please- the original error
Line 1: <div class="error"> <p>This Plugin needs BBpress to work, pls. install it first and activate.</p></div>

is not from bbpress