Members of my private groups are getting the following bbPress notice when attempting to create a new topic in their group forum. I’m using the bbPress 2.2 group forums, not the old BuddyPress group forums.

ERROR: This forum is hidden and you do not have the capability to read or create new topics in it.

I thought the idea was that the “participant” forum role capabilities got hit with an override when it is a group member posting in his/her own group. Unfortunately my group members don’t seem to be acquiring the necessary capabilities to create topics in a hidden forum. I realize the philosophy governing bbpress roles and group forums moving forward is still in limbo, but it would be really great to get my private groups back to a point where their forums are operational.

If anyone has ideas, I’d love to hear them!

[@aaclayton Member 13 years ago]

OK, I looked into the code, and this is something I’ll need to go bring up on the bbPress forums as it’s an issue with the extend buddypress component of the bbPress plugin.

I opened a ticket here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2140. Hopefully this helps!

[@gemonon Participant 13 years ago]

Having the same issue using buddypress bundled with commonsinabox 1.0 :/

[@3ruce Participant 12 years, 10 months ago]

I’ve also run into this… it’s not clear from the debugging page if a resolution has been found though?