Note: I also posted this on Bbpress as well; not sure where the issue(s) was coming from. Hoping someone can help clarify.

Hi Folks – I hope someone can take a look at this particular issue I’m having!

WP 4.1
BB 2.5.4
Buddy 2.0.2

Participants can login, see the forums, but now receive “Oh bother! No topics were found here” when attempting to view the contents of the forum. When I change their status to Moderator, they can see it and write new topics and replies.

I have subscriber roles that allow them access to the private forums. Changing these settings do not affect their ability to access the forum.

Is there a setting somewhere in these versions that would cause Participants to lose the ability to read the forums?

Note – I have deactivated all plugins except bbpress and activated a new theme without change. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

[@ubernaut Participant 10 years ago]

did you try running the repair scripts in the bbpress options?

[@lemond404 Participant 10 years ago]

Yes I went down the list, checking each time and none resolved this issue.

When Participants click on the forum topic, they get redirected to the new post submit form, and can also post. I deleted buddypress and reinstalled but I’m afraid whatever changed in the role is deep in the code.

[@ubernaut Participant 10 years ago]

I’ve had a similar situation in the past this plugin was able to help straiten things out for me it was made by jjj the lead for bbpress:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-capabilities/

[@lemond404 Participant 10 years ago]

Thanks. Downloaded and reset the defaults for the participant role to no avail. I also created a new user with no results. It appears this is only affecting the participant role.

I also noticed that the forums page was not accurately showing the latest(freshness) post in each category – i.e. the latest post listed was older than the most recent post once you click through into the category.

[@ubernaut Participant 10 years ago]

another thing you can try is re-saving your permalinks if you haven’t tried that one yet. beyond that you are probably beyond my ability to help but maybe someone else who knows more either here or on the bbpress support forum maybe able to help you further.