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Add the following to your functions.php file

function custom_bbp_list_forums() {
  $args['separator'] = '<br />';
 
  return $args;
}
 
add_filter('bbp_before_list_forums_parse_args', 'custom_bbp_list_forums' );

That will result in something like this, depending on your themes styles:

So you want “Page 1”, “Page 2” etc? Currently bbPress forums do not support any form of pagination like that.

Reorganizing your category and forums structure is a much better idea, you won’t find many forums on the internet with their forums setup with that much fragmentation and is one of the reasons bbPress has not spent the time adding pagination to forums.

As I said, you alot of forum software that has pagination for the categories/forums.

This is why the time has not been spent adding this into bbPress, most of the time it is not needed.

What you should do is organize more “top level” categories if that’s what it takes.

category A
– sub-category A1
— forum AA1
— forum AA2
category B
— sub-category B1
— forum BB1
— forum BB2

I cannot think of any, it’s just a bad user experience to make users search through pages of categories and/or forums to find the one they want to read or post in.