How do I access the attachments once uploaded?

I’ve been trying everything I can and by changing the ‘New Default User Role’ in the /settings/general’ section of the WP panel to ‘Subscriber’… even for an existing bbp user… I’m now able to upload attachments.

I’ve tried many things and believe this is what triggered the fix as I had it set to ‘Forum Participant’ and could not get anything to upload.

Hope this helps narrow things down.

Any idea why the uploaded file does not inherit the parent folders’ security permissions? We’re getting the ubiquitous (and meaningless) “500 – Internal server error.” error message when clicking on the file icon. Once we tweak security at a parent folder level and the security settings cascade down to the uploaded file, everything is OK, but not until then. This is a Windows 2008 VM running IIS.

You are right. We discovered that the same problem exists when uploaded directly from the “Media Library” section. Seems to be a common Windows/IIS, but the solution is uncommonly elusive. Thanks for writing back.

I have just installed this plugin and had this same upload issue but then discovered I could attach on “new” topics and replys only and not on the “Edits” of topics and replys. I am using Admin account. This can’t be by design because the offer to attach is displayed on the edit forms. Appreciate any help you can give.

I’m having the same troubles everyone else is claiming. I’m trying to upload as the Administrator. So I don’t see how my problem could be a permissions/user role issue. No file is uploaded on new topics or replies. I can, however, upload a file from the WP admin and thus, shows up as an attachment on the topic. But that defeats the purpose. The file I’m uploading is a simply jpg that is 10k in size.

A few observations here between your forum here and the plugin by default, running on a default Twenty-Ten theme or Twenty-Eleven theme.

On the upload form below, clicking “add another file” adds the 2nd, 3rd, 4th input. By default on my setup, the javascript for this doesn’t work. It simply #’s the url and doesn’t add the additional fields. In the plugin settings, I have js and css both checked and saved. I have the “Maximum files to upload” set to 4. So it should so more than that.

So I suspect that if the javascript portion isn’t working right out of the box, then something else must be going on to where it’s not just “install and activate the plugin and it’s ready to go”.

The Media Library works just fine every site I’ve tested this on. The plugin just doesn’t upload anything. I’m able to upload images from the WP-admin side with no problem. The images just don’t upload from the attachment input in the forum (the plugin).

And again as I mentioned, the javascript to “add another file” doesn’t work. The attachment upload and javascript on this site may work, but it doesn’t work “by default” on any other theme, such as Twenty-Ten or Twenty-Eleven. By saying that you can make yours work is fine, but doens’t solve the problem of everyone else. How about testing it yourself on a brand new install of WordPress, with the Twenty-Ten theme and the same plugin that you can download from the WP plugin site. Basically, testing it the same way the rest of us have to work with it.

Sorry for the tone here, but just think it needs further testing that matches a scenario that the rest of the world would use. The plugin’s concept is top-notch, just needs more QA.

Thanks for your patience Millan. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. I do again want to say that the concept of this plugin is fantastic. That’s why I want it to work for me so much.

Here is what I’ve found .. which maybe you can answer on.

In a brand new install of WordPress and the BBP 2 plugin (Your plugin is not installed yet); Upon page load, Firebug displays an error stating: ajaxurl is not defined

When I remove the BBPress 2 plugin, the error goes away.

Now, when I view your site here with Firebug, you’re not getting the “ajaxurl is not defined” error. Is there something set up in your theme to fix this error?

So I’m suspecting that maybe something about that error with the BBPress plugin itself that is keeping your plugin for working correctly, since it shows up on a brand new install of everything (without your plugin being installed).

Also, I’m not seeing anything show up in the server logs. I’m also trying to upload a 7kb jpg file as the admin user.

I have some 15 demo installations of bbPress with different themes and plugins, and I have zero issues with it. Something in your case is breaking it, and same thing maybe is causing problems with upload. ajaxurl is required for bbPress for ajax calls to work, and I am sure that bbPress attempts to add that. If it is missing, something is causing that. I can’t help you much with that anyway. But, once you get all that to work, my plugin should be working. As I said, on very different setups I have no problems.

And I can’t reproduce upload problems you have. So far there were 3-4 reports about upload problems, and all of them were related to plugin settings limits or with problems with upload in WordPress.

In anycase, next version will have error logging to see why upload fails.

There you go, problem solved. I will add FAQ entry for users that might also experience issues with missing jQuery.

Thanks for your post. I will be including some of these things into FAQ for the plugin, and most importantly, next version (1.3) will have error logging to see why the upload failed when it does.