When I uninstall bbPress, the Dashboard link disappears and Administrator rights to access the WP dashboard is denied.

I have disabled all plugins and switched to standard WP theme, only running bbPress. Still a problem. Checked all roles. I cannot remove the plugin without this problem. bbPress version 2.5.12-6148

Am I the only one baffled by this?

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years, 10 months ago]

so ok with deactivate, but not with uninstall ?

[@core12ministries Participant 7 years, 10 months ago]

Cannot deactivate – same issue. Must leave activated to keep access to my WP-Admin. As long as I stay in the WP dashboard, I can work with it. If I leave the WP-Admin – I cannot access the WP dashboard.

I was locked out – then discovered if I used the Admin bar to view “comments”, it would load the dashboard w/o the “dashboard link”. Then re-activated the bbPress plugin (as it was the last known action before losing dashboard access). When I reactivated – the wp-dashboard was back to normal with full functions.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years, 10 months ago]

hmmm…

Do you have FTP access to your site?

[@core12ministries Participant 7 years, 10 months ago]

Yes.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years, 10 months ago]

ok, suspect that the database has an issue

two thoughts

1.do you have other plugins that are bbpress related? If so deactivate these first
2. Use FPT and go into

wp-content/plugins and rename the bbpress directory to something such as bbpressold

wordpress should then recognise it as gone.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years, 10 months ago]

if that doesn’t work, you can rename it back

[@core12ministries Participant 7 years, 10 months ago]

One of the first things I attempted. Renaming does the same as “deactivating” the plugin. There are no other bbPress related plugins.

It is acting like a script issue where the Admin functions aren’t finding the proper variables. But I’m not a pro coder… just a logic guy.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years, 10 months ago]

ok, not sure I can help further – think it is a wordpress/database issue.

Last 2 throws of the dice

1. is debug switched on, and if not turn it on to see what errors are appearing. if you need instructions for that – come back

2. try changing theme to a default one like twentyseventeen, then deactivate and see if that does anything. if that works you could switch back to your normal theme once bbpress is gone.

[@core12ministries Participant 7 years, 10 months ago]

I did switch on debugging… but it doesn’t throw an error. And I disabled all and selected a different theme… same problem.

I’ve even re-installed wordpress (through the dashboard) but it didn’t fix the problem… Thanks for digging in and offering help. I’ll keep searching.

[@core12ministries Participant 7 years, 10 months ago]

I looked into my user meta under wp_capabilities and found the bbpress access rights. s:13:”bbp_keymaster”;b:1;

When I delete this from my wp_capabilities I lose all access to the dashboard and administrator functions. I put it back into database and functions return to normal.

Still digging…

[@core12ministries Participant 7 years, 10 months ago]

Oops… forgot to change my a:2 to a:1 after removing the bbpress capability. So now, when I remove s:13:”bbp_keymaster”;b:1; from my wp_capabilities and properly set my administrator serial.

Then…

I go to the dashboard and click “plugins” to view the bbpress plugin. Before I take another action, I view my database to find s:13:”bbp_keymaster”;b:1; added back to my wp_capabilities field.

Still stumbling around on this…