if you go into a users bbpress profile, then there is a subscriptions tab, and yes you can unsubscibe them
Thanks @robin-w. Good to know it’s possible.
If I’m on my own profile I can see the little X icons, but these don’t appear when I view the profiles of other users even though I’m admin.
Possibly a permissions or template issue so I will investigate further. The site in question is site old and was set up many, many years ago.
are you a bbpress keymaster as well as an admin?
Yep in the users list it says I am keymaster.
just confirm this is the bbpress profile, not the wordpress one.
ie you get to this by clicking the username in a topic/reply in the forums
Hey I have the same question and same issue.
Using a WP theme (tested on Twenty Seventeen, 21, 22, 24) and with bbpress v2.6.17 (troubleshoot mode, no other plugins), when I visit the bbpress profile on the front-end of a user there is no way to unsubscribe them.
My profile is Admin + Keymaster.
Another “expected” place where I searched that option was on the back-end profile.
Then I searched the unsubscribe button on the admin page for the specific topic they are subscribed to. There is the subscription metabox (#bbp_topic_subscriptions_metabox) but that simply lists the users. It does not give any “unsubscribe” button. Any reason the topic admin page does not offer that possibility to admin/keymasters.
Currently the only way I have to unsub a user is either to go to the database (not acceptable for non-dev, or non-trusted admins), or impersonate that user with a “user switching” plugin (or the Publishpress capabilities that also give that option), visite the topic “as” that user and click unsubscribe.
Any idea on how we could debug that?
Note that I can see the red “x” button to unsubscribe from topics or forums when I visit my own profile.
Update: as I was not sure there was no permission or some other setting somewhere that was f*** things up, to be sure I installed a fresh WP install, installed Twenty Seventeen, bbpress, created 2 users (1 admin/keymaster and 1 subscriber), created a Forum and Topic with the admin. I subscribed to the topic with the subscriber.
I still can’t see the button on the basic user profile to unsubscribe him from the topic as an admin. The bug is confirmed.
@jgasba Thanks for posting, the original thread was old, but exactly the right place for you to add your comments.
So the subscribe/unsubscribe features in profile refer to the user accessing the profile. So if you go into a users bbpress profile, then there is a subscriptions tab, but this is for you (as admin/keymaster in your case) to ‘also’ subscribe/unsubscribe, it does not allow you to subscribe/unsubscribe a user.
You can manage subscriptions using the bbp style pack additional plugin (which has lots of other stuff you can amend in bbpress)
so Install
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Subscription Management
and activate, and follow the explanation there of how to manage subscitions for users, forums and topics
This seems like a reasonable thing to add to bbPress core directly.
@robin-w mind if we merge that in from your style pack plugin? 😁
very happy for you to do so, I basically imported it from the bbp-toolkit plugin by Pascal Casier when he closed it 🙂
