Hmm that’s strange. Where are you trying to use those shortcodes? Just in the main post editor?
Unfortunately as you said it’s with you theme. The best thing would be to ask your theme author for help.
Usually when that happens the theme is doing something weird with the loop or filtering the_content in a way that bbPress is not expecting.
You are not going to be able to do #1 unless you are comforatable making a custom bbPress theme.
#2 and #3 can be down by just making CSS tweaks in your theme’s style.css. You should be able to use firebug (or similar) to help you find the best place to put the changes.
Currently there is no plugin that handles this (at the moment) for bbPress 2.x.
Anyone can write a plugin and contribute it to the WordPress.org plugin repo.
There is stuff in your theme’s CSS that is conflicting.
Specifically the reply class.
As I said we don’t have any copy and paste code to do this at the moment.
You’ll need to do some digging around in the bbPress theme and remove the tag functions. Another alternative would be to hide them with CSS but that is not ideal at all.
What version of bbPress are you using?
Do you have a link to the URL?
If you are not using BuddyPress, typically the bbp-forum-index shortcode isn’t even needed.
You should be able to just refresh you permalinks and then go to yourdomain.com/forums (unless you changed this slug)
There is no need to bump your thread 3 times in 24 hours, thats not going to help get a reply any faster.
First thing is this would be a better question to ask you theme author.
Secondly, you didn’t provide near enough information. Telling us it’s broke doesn’t give us enough info.
What theme are you using? What version of bbPress are you using? What is the URL of the site? Do you have a screenshot? What code did you use to remove the sidebar?
I could go on with the details but you get the point.
Search excludes topics/replies/forums by default – mainly because most people who install bbPress don’t have their search results styled/configured to handle the results correctly.
There are a few plugins out there that should get you started, however 
I’d check out
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-bbpress/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/
The number of posts and topics shown on a page (which results in pagination) is in the Settings > Forums, you should be able to set the number to whatever you think is best.
I think default is 15 or 30 if I recall.
Unfortunately it’s an issue with your theme so it’s hard for us to tell you exactly what the problem is.
I would try contacting the theme author.
That URL doesn’t load for me it seems.
Weird, everything seems to come up for me.
Not much you can do since you changed core files.
Make sure you have a backup of your current bbPress directory before the upgrade (it will get deleted). Then after the upgrade you will have to start manually merging your edits back to 2.1 core again.
Ideally you shouldn’t touch core if at all possible.
Is this on a production site or a site that is currently in development?
What theme are you using. If you temporarily switch your site to TwentyEleven does it still do it?
Sure you could probably do that, however you would need to make a custom theme with a little bit of PHP changes.
What user role does that user have, is it actually “moderator” or does it just have the moderator capability?
It only does this for moderators, no other use types?
If you are using bbPress 2.x you should simply be able to set that forum to “hidden” in the settings for that particular one.
There should be filters in place for this. Have you looked?
Yep thats correct. You can pick and choose the args if you don’t want to reset all of them.
function custom_forum_breadcrumb( $args ) {
$args['sep'] = ' | ';
return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_breadcrumb_pre', 'custom_forum_breadcrumb' );
Unfortunately I don’t know of a plugin that does that for bbPress 2.x.
I am aware of this one https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cubepoints-buddypress-integration/ however it also requires BuddyPress.
