BBPress, first topic missing for all roles.

If you look on the bbPress forums, you’ll see that this is an issue being experienced by many people — and they are all using different membership or capability management plugins.

So the problem seems to be with bbPress. (Yet another reason not to use it!)

Two things you could try. First, if you don’t need it, you could disable the all setting in Alternative View Protection, and just enable all the other options there.

Second, you could try installing the Capability Manager Enhanced plugin, and see if you can somehow give an extra permission to the relevant user levels that might make the topic re-appear.

I’ve done that already. Looking at the BBPress forum, it appears the upgrade to 4.0 may have broken it.

Downgraded WordPress to the last version from 4.0 and it fixed it. ??

Marking as resolved, it’s being looked into.

I had this issue but when I deactivated s2Member, my bbPress posts DID show up :/

Any way we can make this unresolved as the issue is still there and I am not confident in reverting back to earlier WP version without corrupting my site.
I cannot deactivate s2 and the temp fix I have is messy. Help.

@samtiff: No, once it’s closed, it’s closed. And we don’t know that you have the same problem anyway. If you want, you can always open a new thread.

@samtiff, @phil Meadows: The fact that deactivating s2Member means your posts show up doesn’t mean that the problem is caused by s2Member. It just shows there is a conflict.

Since the same problem is being experienced by users with different membership plugins, my money is on the problem being with bbPress. Indeed, bbPress has been experiencing this problem off and on with membership plugins for a couple of years. (That’s one of the reasons I won’t touch it. There are much better forum plugins around.)

If I’m right, you’d be better off getting the bbPress devs to look into it.

A fix/hack has been found here -> https://github.com/websharks/s2member/issues/321

We’re running Optimizemember and are experiencing this same issue.

Here’s the solution that works for us, as provided by hnla on the github forum here: https://github.com/websharks/s2member/issues/321

SOLUTION
Add the following to your theme’s functions.php file. If you’re using a child theme, use the functions.php located there.

function show_bbp_lead_topic_true() { $show_lead = true; return $show_lead; } add_filter('bbp_show_lead_topic', 'show_bbp_lead_topic_true');