Reply To: Topic Content Missing for All Users but Adminstrators, but Replies Show?!
Unfortunately, you can’t assume that because your account has a certain role, that you’re able to do certain things, especially once you start installing membership plugins that directly manipulate the way roles and capabilities work.
(Role/cap problems are amongst the worst to troubleshoot in WordPress, IMO. There is no UI to help you, and there is little documentation available to guide you through the complex process of unraveling WordPress’s role based access control. It’s also my experience that most role/membership plugins are quirky, and can oftentimes leave your users and roles in a very crippled and polluted state.)
Do any of these plugins that you’re using place limitations on types of posts that users can see? Is it possible you blocked Topics on accident?
I wrote a bbPress plugin almost a year ago to try and provide a bbPress specific solution to roles and capabilities, and troubleshooting why specific users are blocked from certain things:
https://github.com/johnjamesjacoby/bbp-capabilities
You’ll need to install it on your site manually with your favorite FTP program. After installing the plugin, visit your Users in wp-admin and try editing a user that’s having issues viewing topics. At the very bottom, underneath their Forum Role, will be a large table of bbPress capabilities, the current permission, the source of that permission, and allow you to manipulate it. Anything highlighted in yellow is a deviation from the role (saved to the user instead) and there is a button to reset the user’s capabilities back to match the default role.
Hopefully this all helps track this down.
