[Bryan Morgan]

I am using the latest install of wordpress, buddypress and bbpress as well as gravity forms. I am needing to place a Gravity From inside a private bbpress forum topic as this form is meant to be seen only by members of this private buddypress group. When using the typical “add form” button at the top of the edit topic page which adds the shortcode to embed the form it places the shortcode there but then the shortcode is the only thing that appears when viewing the topic, not the intended form. Is shortcode not the way to do this and if not what is the best way to proceed to allow only members of this private group access to this form?

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress blocks shortcodes by default.

You will need to use this plugin to setup ‘allowed’ shortcodes:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist/