Cannot create new topic from forum index

Forgot to mention that when they click submit for a new topic from the Index, it sends them to the Login/Profile page

ok, can I have the settings please for :

Forum Visibility

Forum visibility – active/non active
Redirect pages – active/non active
URL for login
URL for non logged in
Freshness – active/non active
Freshness Message

General Settings

Hide topic and reply counts – active/non active
Show Descriptions – active/non active
Remove ‘Private Prefix’ – active/non active

Thanks

and a list of the groups, and which forums have which groups

Forum Visibility

Forum visibility – non active
Redirect pages – I dont see a click box for this I just see that it says if your visibility is active it will use the URL you list
URL for login – https://gptxffa.com/?page_id=83
URL for non logged in – https://gptxffa.com/?page_id=83
Freshness – non active
Freshness Message – none

General Settings

Hide topic and reply counts – non active
Show Descriptions – non active
Remove ‘Private Prefix’ – non active

Group 1-
Chat
Dept. Concerns
News
Pres/Rep’s Corner
Budget Reports
Minutes and Meetings
Assoc. Minutes
Admin Minutes
City Mngt. Minutes
Special Committees
General
Polls/Votes

Group 2:
Chat
Dept. Concerns
News
Pres/Rep’s Corner
Budget Reports
Minutes and Meetings
Assoc. Minutes
Admin Minutes
City Mngt. Minutes
Special Committees
General
Polls/Votes
Exec. Board

All members Group 1 are subscribers/participant

All members in Group 2 are subscribers/moderators

Thanks, let me look into that further

ok, so you have a forum with sub forums – yes?

and can users raise topics in then sub-forums, but not the main forum?

Does group 2 have sub forum as well?

General:
–Chat
–Dept. Concerns
–Polls/Votes

Minutes and Meetings:
–Admin Minutes
–Assoc. Minutes
–City Mngt. Minutes
–Exec. Board

News:
–Pres/Rep’s Corner
–Budget Reports
–Special Committees

the issue is that Group 1 members cannot start a new topic from the forum index page.

Yes if they go into a give subforum they can create the topic from there.

Group 2 members do not have any issues.

I’ve had a test or two, and can’t immediately replicate your issue, so can I confirm my understanding.

So taking the general area

You have general forum with groups 1 & 2 allocated to it
This has sub forums of chat, Dept. concerns and Poll/Votes all of which have groups 1 & 2 allocated with them

You have a user with subscribers/participant role allocated to just group 1

When logged in and they go to the general forums page, they can type in all the topic details, but when they click submit they get sent to the login page.

When they do the same on a sub-forum, it all works fine.

Group 2 who are subscribers/moderators don’t have an issue (I’d be fairly sure that this is because they are moderators)

Is this a good problem definition?

“When logged in and they go to the general forums page, they can type in all the topic details, but when they click submit they get sent to the login page.”

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NO,

If they open the “General Forum” they can create a new topic.

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I have my Forum “Homepage” to display the 15 most recent topics up top, then below that it displays the Forum Index and each subforum.

Below that it has an area to create a new topics. Being that this is the “Home page” you have to click the drop down menu and select which subforum your topic should be assigned into.

When Group 1 members try and do this they are sent to the login page.

When the open any of the subforums listed above they can create the topic in that forum.

This is my functions.php plugin if it possibly could be causing an issue.

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add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_forum_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_topic_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

function ja_return_blank() {

    return '';

}

add_filter('protected_title_format', 'ntwb_remove_protected_title');
function ntwb_remove_protected_title($title) {
	return '%s';
}

add_filter('private_title_format', 'ntwb_remove_private_title');
function ntwb_remove_private_title($title) {
	return '%s';
}

function recent_bbpress_topics() {
 echo do_shortcode("[bbp-forum-index] [bbp-topic-form]");
 }

add_action('bbp_template_after_topics_index','recent_bbpress_topics');

add_filter( 'bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form', 'custom_bbp_access_topic_form' );
function custom_bbp_access_topic_form( $retval ) {

	if ( bbp_is_forum_archive() ) {
		$retval = bbp_current_user_can_publish_topics();
	}

	return $retval;

}

Ok, I have limited time to decode functions that change the default way bbpress works.

So I need you to tell me in details what this does

add_filter( 'bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form', 'custom_bbp_access_topic_form' );
function custom_bbp_access_topic_form( $retval ) {

	if ( bbp_is_forum_archive() ) {
		$retval = bbp_current_user_can_publish_topics();
	}

	return $retval;

}

and why it is needed

well dont make me lie!

Looking back at previous post/topics on BBpress I found where I got it.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-topic-form-shortcode-issue/

The objective is to be able to create a new topic area displayed on the index.

It always worked fine, until adding this plugin. Now it only works for the group 2 ‘moderator’ accounts.

Ok, I’ve done some digging and put the code on my test site. The code above is not as far as I can see affecting the issue.

can you

a. take out

URL for login – https://gptxffa.com/?page_id=83
URL for non logged in – https://gptxffa.com/?page_id=83

they aren’t used, and I just want to eliminate them.

b. are all your forums set to ‘private’

c. does this happen across all forums for group 1 users – ie can you test if it is just one forum, or any