If it's important for you to have the topics of each forum listed on your forum index page you can call them individually by using a shortcode for a particular parent forum (in this case, using WP's do_shortcode):

<?php echo do_shortcode('[bbp-single-forum id=1234]') ?>

where 1234 is the ID number of the parent forum. I've experimented with this for a *Category* type parent forum and it works well. I imagine it would do the same thing for a *Forum* type parent forum. You'd obviously want to lead it with a header title for the parent forum.

Call each parent forum this way and you've got a nicely organized index page. (NOTE: you can call individual (non-parent) forums this way too but by default they call the entire single forum template part that includes the form. If you're interested in messing with this it's handled in [your bbPress directory]/bbpress/content-single-forum.php.)

The disadvantage is that it's built manually for each parent so any new parent forums will have to added manually as well, but you do have a lot of control.

You can order your forums by defining the Order in the respective Forum's admin page. Counting starts at 0, which is the default.

Creating sub-forms is simply a matter of creating a parent forum and then for each child (sub-) forum make that parent forum the Parent in Forum Attributes. (Parents that are defined as type Forums can contain their own topics but parents that are Categories only contain other forums.)

Unfortunately, in the forums index sub-forums are necessarily presented with their topic and reply counts in parenthesis as defined in bbp_list_forums() in loop-single-forum.php. What's worse: there is no containing element around the count so it's not possible to style those separately from the sub-form name. [@johnjamesjacoby or other admin: Can this be updated outside of core code?]

However, you can style the sub-forums with CSS as they are listed as a

I'm new to bbpress, so please excuse this if I'm overlooking something obvious.

I'd like to change the forum display hierarchy so that categories are displayed at a higher level and all forums under the category as displayed separately under that category; instead of one area for all forums under a particular category to show total posts and topics, I'd like a section for each forum.

Hopefully I explained that adequately. Thank you!

Category forums are great for 'grouping' a bunch of forums together. Also a category forum cannot contain it's own posts, hence no 'add topic' box to the category forum page.

As far as I can tell, you use a "Category" if you want to group a collection of forums under a parent forum, but you don't want that parent forum to be a place where users can post. Did I understand this correctly, and is this the complete scope of this separation?

When using Forums SUB Categories with bbpress plugin, the way all the categories are listed on the frontend is very confusing for the users ... (I receive many messages saying that it is not clear) !

and I agree it is confusing, as it appears like this :

MAIN CATEGORIE 1
Name of subcat 1 (no of posts/no of replys), Name of subcat 2 (no of posts/no of replys), Name of subcat 3 (no of posts/no of replys), Name of subcat 4 (no of posts/no of replys), Name of subcat 5 (no of posts/no of replys), Name of subcat 6 (no of posts/no of replys),

MAIN CATEGORIE 2
Name of subcat 1 (no of posts/no of replys), Name of subcat 2 (no of posts/no of replys), Name of subcat 3 (no of posts/no of replys), Name of subcat 4 (no of posts/no of replys), Name of subcat 5 (no of posts/no of replys), Name of subcat 6 (no of posts/no of replys),

Any way of customising this ?

Or should I use NO sub categories ?

Thank you

As the Key Master of bbPress, I have also successfully created two forum categories and several sub-forums (children) where members can post messages...theoretically.

But, I'm experiencing the following issues that I have no clue how to resolve:
1. Signed in as the Key Master, I don't see where I can create a new post
2. As part of registering as a forum user using a different user name, I did not receive an e-mail containing my password. So, I signed into my WordPress Dashboard Users area and assigned my second user name one so I could access my forum with my non-Key Master user name. Not having this forum registration process work without having to sign into WordPress is a problem.
3. No matter which user name I sign into the forum with, when I click on any listing in the Forum Main Theme's area, I get the "The page cannot be found" error message. See: http://wolfetracksproductions.com/fresh_tracks/forum/
4. When I get the "The page cannot be found" error message, the URL repeats the directory where I installed the bbPress software and I'm not clear as to why this is happening: http://wolfetracksproductions.com/fresh_tracks/forum/forum/production
I did install the bbPress software in a folder called "forum" which is a subfolder of my WordPress.org blogging software.

Please help!

Thank you in advance for your kindness.

Deb

PS: Is there a way to do this with the default theme?

tr.bb-category {
font-size:bigger;
}

Or whatever markup you wanna give to it...

I love that theme though, other than this!

Probably due to their age, some themes show the list of forums without showing which ones are categories. I was wondering if there is a simple way by playing with the front_page.php of showing first the parent forum (or category) and underneath the list (indented if possible) of all the child forums.

I am trying to use the Invertigo theme but it lacks this feature.

You can see am image of the front page here: http://imm.io/16zh

Are there any plugins that i can use to generate these lists? i already have the list set up in my wordpress theme sidebar where they use js to open and close the list. so i am really looking for something that i can customize the list to match that.

I have been looking through the forum to see if i can find the solution to this but am still unable to do so, so any help/direction would be appreciated. thanks

Just quoting the paragraph under the Category checkbox in your dashboard.

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/topic-icons/

follow the instruction.

Like in this site:
http://tecnoblog.net/forum/

Whenever I do exclude=7,8 it just does it as

exclude=7
and then
8

It results as only showing from 8 (except for stickies).

Looked it up in a PHPXref and found that 'exclude=7,8' should work, try removing the $page and see what happens.

get_latest_topics (line 61)
void get_latest_topics ([ $args = null])
$args

So...what is $args?