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Hello,

I did some forum searching and found this to be an issue from almost a year ago, however, its just hit me. It seemed that eventually others thought that maybe some other plugins were making the conflict, but if this is the case, there needs to be a fail-safe implemented into bbPress that a user with the WP Role of Administrator always can visit the Tools > Forums and Settings > Forums links.

And so here I begin:

I logged into one of my admin accounts, didn’t see the main CPT “Replies” “Forums” or “Topics” on the main admin. I thought it was funny so I tried to visit Settings > Forums, nothing. Same with Tools.

I look in my Users page and the Keymaster role is no longer listed at the top as a filter. I try “Change forum role to…” on my admins, but the Keymaster role is not listed, and I can only change my other admin account to Moderator. I try to change the one I’m currently logged in from Participant (was once Keymaster) to Moderator, but nothing happens.

I tried deactiving, reactivating. Nothing. Deleting and reinstalling, nothing. I tried removing plugins, nothing.

Here’s the thing, another forum post blamed it on All in One SEO. Well I don’t have that installed. I don’t know why a plugin would be deleting “Keymaster” role.

Again, I get that you can have a non Admin be a keymaster.. That’s nice. Why not have the admin ALWAYS be a nothing less than Keymaster? It doesn’t make much sense to have complete awesome and total control over the main platform, but not over a plugin?

Thanks for any assistance.

The codex page for this is outdated and a lot of the threads are for older versions so here is a version for WP 3.8, bbPress 2.5.2.

Resources

Here are the pages from which I pieced this together.

https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
http://op111.net/53/
http://perishablepress.com/bbpress-theme-template-files/
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/wordpress-child-themes-dev/

WordPress Child Themes – What, Why & How

Initial Setup

Install WordPress and bbPress.

Step #1: Create a child theme of your WordPress theme.

Even though what you’re wanting to change is bbPress and not your WordPress, there are not separate themes for plugins, so you need to create a child theme of whatever WordPress theme you are using to have a place to put the bbPress plugin child theme files. This will ensure that any updates to bbPress or your WordPress theme will not overwrite your changes. Here is how you create a child theme:

1. FTP to your website
2. Go to ../wp-content/themes
3. Create a new folder for your child theme. Name it yourtheme-child for the sake of organization.
4. Create a new file called style.css and add the below, changing the valuesto the value for your child theme. The critical fields are Theme Name, Template, and the the parent theme directory name (which should be the same as “Template”) in the @import. Everything else is used by wordpress.org for categorizing templates so don’t stress if you don’t know what to put there:

/*
 Theme Name: Your Theme Name Child
 Theme URI: Your website if you don't intend to publish a separate site just for your theme
 Description: A brief description of your child theme
 Author: your name
 Author URI: your website
 Template: parent-theme-directory
 Version: 1.0.0
 Tags:  whatever tags you might want to use for your child theme
*/

@import url("../parent-theme-directory/style.css");

/* =Theme customization starts here
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

5. FTP your newly created style.css to ../wp-content/themes/yourtheme-child

Step #2: Add your bbPress Child Theme files to your WordPress Child Theme

1. Create a folder called “bbpress” on your local machine.
2. FTP to ../wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates
3. Download the contents of the “Default” folder to the “bbpress” folder on your local machine
4. Edit the files you want to change for bbPress (see bbpress-theme-template-files link under resources above).
5. Delete any files you haven’t changed. You can skip this step if it’s confusing, but you should try to only upload files you’ve changed.
6. FTP to ../wp/content/themes/yourtheme-child
7. Create a folder called “bbpress” inside yourtheme-child
8. Copy the contents of the “bbpress” folder in your local machine to the “bbpress” folder inside your child theme folder.

Step #3: Activate your Child Theme

Once you have created your child theme and made changes to the bbPress files in the child theme, you need to activate the child theme in order to see the changes on your site.

1. Log into your WordPress admin panel
2. Go to Appearance -> Themes
3. Find your child theme. It would be the same as the “Theme Name” you gave it in the first line of the style.css you created in Step 1.
4. Click “live preview” and make sure nothing has gone horribly wrong.
5. Activate the child theme.

Since you didn’t change any files from your wordpress theme, the theme for the site will be inherited from the parent theme so the only changes you should see are the changes you made to the bbpress files that you uploaded to your child theme. The only problem I encountered was that because it was a new theme, my custom “header top menu” was not associated with the theme, so I just had to go into the menu and check the box to tell it to use that custom menu as the header menu.

When I tried to create a topic under the forum, I get this error message:

ERROR: You do not have permission to create new topics.

I also am not able to go into any link under Dashboard>Forum – I think somehow the permission setting is all jacked up…

I already deleted and re-installed the Plugin, tested it on TwentyThirdteen, the problem still persist.

I am using bbPress 2.5.2-5234, WP Version 3.8. The site is collaborativemotherhood.com. Also, the site is password protected (ctseng01, santaynezvalley) The forum link is in the footer, between “Mommy Power” and “Help Center”

Thanks for your help.

Mod: I edited and removed the user/pass from your post.

Could someone help me I have put BP on my site and it doesnt seem to work at all. I can access the dashboard features etc but It doesnt seem to be workable for my members (i know its not FB but I thought that was principle) It doesnt have walls etc. Can someone expalin either have I done it wrong or what I need to do. Please help
I am a complete novice so please be kind lol www.englishnetworkonline.com My theme is sunspot
Please help Thankyou

Hi,

I installed WordPress (3.8) and BBpress (2.4) in arab for a client.
But I can’t have both translations at the same time…

If I want to have WordPress in arab, it only works if I to tweak the wp-config this way: define(‘WPLANG’, ‘ar_AR’); -> then, BBpress remains in english
But if I want to have BBPress in arab, it only works if I tweak the wp-config this way: define(‘WPLANG’, ‘ar’); -> then, WordPress remains in english

So far, it’s one OR the other, but I would like, logically, one AND the other.

So…what can I do?

Thanks

Hi,

Whenever I logout, using bbpress conections widget, if I’m inside a private forum I get a 404 page.
But I’m at any other page or post or even in a public forum everything goes OK.

If at least I could set on the widget a logout url, I will send the user to the home.

Regards,

i have added bbpress forum on my site along with buddypress. My forum posts has reply box at bottom which doesn’t have any border and reply area looks like white empty space. I want it to look like this site reply box with border. I have also attached a screen shot of the reply box look.
Is there any solution to this?

http://tinypic.com/r/2cg0qqo/5

Hello all,

I would like to know if someone know how to do in order to make a forum which appear in every page of the site. For example, on the WP website, there are only one forum, but each plugin have his own “forum”. However, if I go in the page “forum”, I can see all the topics of all the plugins.
Do you know how can I do in order to do that ?

thank u very much.

Hi

How can I translate the ‘Search’ string in the Search Box at content-archive-forum.php:

<div id="bbpress-forums">

	<?php if ( bbp_allow_search() ) : ?>

		<div class="bbp-search-form">

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'search' ); ?>

		</div>

I want to translate it to my website language but I can’t really find the file to modify…

Thanks for the support

Hi – I am setting up a forum similar to this one using bbpress:

http://aslstem.cs.washington.edu/

I want to be able to allow people to create an account and then post YouTube videos in ASL. I then want them to be able to embed the video into their forum page (similar to the above).

Here is the bbpress I’ve created:

http://hissign.com/bbpress/forum.php?id=1

I’m calling the forum ASL exchange and you’ll notice that I created a test topic called Baby Signs. When you click on that post you’ll notice the YTV video link but I was unable to embed the video in the post so the video plays there (instead of just the link).

Can someone explain to me how or what I need to do to embed the video into the post?

Thanks.