Thanks for your assistance and prompt reply.
It would seem that a good deal of my agony was caused by an error in the documentation page for this website:
I went to:
Under the subheading “views” I copied the shortcode and then pasted it into the text of my WP page. It appeared as follows:
[bbp-single-view id=’popular’]
I then lost hours trying to get the list of popular posts to appear. Instead I just kept getting the oh bother message.
Turns out that the shortcode has dodgy apostrophes. Once I edited those the shortcode worked:
[bbp-single-view id='popular']
This is a very nasty black hole for those that are unaware.
