CUNY Academic Commons

Very odd. I just updated everything (WP, plugins, themes) to the latest, and I'm able to post new forum topics to the Help & Support (http://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/test-new-topic__trashed/?view=all). Could you try again to see if the upgrades did indeed solve the problem? Otherwise, can you let me know which user you were testing with to see if maybe it's user-specific?

Hmm, I'm still experiencing the issue with the raytest user account in a hidden group.

I just invited your test account to the hidden group. Can you give it a test?

Thanks for the invite! I'm seeing it now.

Appears to be similar to https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/6980 and https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3030#ticket. Let me poke around a bit to see what's up.

This appears to be fixed now. Here's the critical bit: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commonsinabox-org/blob/master/wp-content/themes/cbox-theme/forums/form-reply.php#L24

John made a change for this in bbPress but I'm pretty sure it's wrong. https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6452 form-reply.php should reference the topic permalink, not the reply permalink.

Like I said in the bbPress ticket, I have no idea why this pops up only occasionally. Do you think it warrants the same fix in cbox-theme?

This bug appears to be reproduceable if a subscriber attempts to post to a hidden group forum.

John's commit doesn't really apply to CBOX or BuddyPress at the moment because that fix is scheduled for bbPress 2.6, which isn't released yet.

Here's my stab at fixing this for CBOX - https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/commit/ff0757c481a70f37614dce00eb1b7989d3fc8bb3

I've basically patched up our workaround to post to the group's /forum/ slug, which ensures(?) that bbPress will look for the POST response there.

From what you mention in the bbPress ticket:

This causes weird things to happen. bbp_new_reply_handler() still catches, but cap checks fail, because the bbPress group forum extension only maps group admin/moderator caps to 'participate' when bp_is_group_forum().

This should work because of the caps checks relying on bp_is_group_forum().

It appears to work. Can you confirm?

This is pretty good timing for a CBOX maintenance release anyway due to the BP Group Email Subscription template issue, which needs to be patched as well. I'll look into porting back the GES fix to CBOX 1.0.x branch.