For the top menus, you should be able to go to Appearance > Menus and create a custom menu item that links to /forums.
Look in firebug/chrome inspector and see if it is throwing any errors. Might be a conflict somewhere.
It’s likely something with your theme. Try activating TwentyTen/Eleven and see if that fixes it.
The default access bbPress gives should be fine.
I’d just place one of the login-form widgets in the sidebar, that will be the easiest way to go.
Look through the WP.org repo (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=bbpress) – there are a few plugins that should help with this depending on what method you want to use (such as recaptcha etc).
FYI a better way instal of hacking core or using CSS is placing this in your functions.php
add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_forum_description', 'ja_return_blank' ) );
add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_topic_description', 'ja_return_blank' ) );
function ja_return_blank() {
ja_return '';
}
What version of bbPress?
The best way to do it would be to make tweaks in your theme’s style.css that override the styles bbPress is using.
I’d recommend using Firebug (or similar) to track down the CSS.
If you are using bbPress 2.x you should be able to go to Settings > Forums and check ‘Allow Revisions’.
If you don’t want to use WordPress my recommendation would be to check out Vanilla
Right now it can’t be done without creating a custom theme. There is a ticket in trac though to have this option in future versions since it seems to be a fairly regular request 
Yeah when your theme is screwing stuff up, there isnt much you can do other than try to manual make tweaks to unbreak bbPress
What’s your URL? I want to see what you are talking about
Currently there is no option for this, you will have to see if you can find a plugin.
Did you instal bbPress 2.x from the WordPress dashboard?
If you did, go to Setting -> Permalinks page with will reset your permalinks, then try again and see if that fixes it.
It’s likely caused by the plugin doing weird things. The first thing you should do is contact the plugin author and see if they can fix the issue within the plugin.
You’ve fixed this, marking resolved
As OC2PS mentioned, there are plugins that solve *some* of these issues.
bbPress 2.0 is the first release of the plugin addition of bbPress. As time goes on (see bbPress 2.1) some of these features will slowly start to be incorporated into bbPress core.
For now I would look through all the plugin available on WP.org for bbPress
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/bbpress
Right now there are no filters in place so without creating a new theme there isn’t much you can do.
However, if you DID create a new theme, you could change “Freshness” to whatever you want.
For what it’s worth I agree with you – IMO there should eventually be a filter in place where you can chance that without having to create a new theme
Closing since this is an old topic. If you encounter this issue feel free to create a new topic
Do you have a URL or example?
Most people won’t know what you mean otherwise
Alright, so I took a glance at http://blog.max-encumbrance.com/bbforums
What is the problem – it seems to be rendering OK.
Yeah, any new themes or plugins, definitely share with the bbPress community
Do you have a screenshot? I just want to double check and see if we are on the same page
