Forums and categories are designed and architected to be the construct that groups topics and replies together into a familiar relationship.
What you want to do *could* be possible, but I think you’ll have more success creating your own taxonomy structure to group topics together with, and using the core Forum/Category structure as the canonical place where that topic ultimately lives.
Research creating custom WordPress taxonomies. It should help you achieve what you’re trying to do pretty easily.
I understand now. No need to send anything, thanks for the offer.
Growing pains with any software are sometimes difficult, for everyone – users and developers. The process of moving bbPress into a WordPress plugin was not without its own. I am confident that the end result with today’s iterations is better than the previous, and hopefully your experience coincides with that.
Interesting. I’ll take a look, thanks.
So you own it, and it works? If so, I fail to understand your position on the matter.
If you empty out the tags field, it will replace the tags of the topic. This does not happen in the default template.
@jankowalski – Surely you don’t think being compensated for hard work is wrong?
It will append itself to existing WordPress core roles and capabilities, and adds a custom role for global forums in multi site installations.
Anything is possible, but it would need to be built; it does not exist in bbPress currently. 
That’s what I figured. Thanks again.
Your spam situation should be fixed, too.
That’s awesome Chris! Great work! Mind if I link this video in a page in the Codex?
When it comes time to put together round 2 of this video, I have a few suggestions on things I’d like to see included.
1. Instead of dropping the files into the active theme, can you walk through quickly making a child theme? I bet many users are not able to hack away at the core files of their themes because they’ve purchased them just don’t have control over that code.
2. Have you looked into dropping a ‘bbpress,php’ file into the root of the existing theme? You get less control over the actual template code, but it speeds up the process of getting the sidebar placement working in forums, topics, and the various other edit screens.
3. Good tip on loading the JS in the footer. Probably a core patch there so no one has to do that later.
That’s my only real suggestions. The video is great and does a good job at showing how easy it is to do with a little bit of investigation into the code.
Unsure if there is a way in the UI to see it. You should be able to log in as a subscriber and then start debugging that users role and capabilities. You could install/use the Debug Bar and Debug Bar Console plugins to allow you to safely play with WordPress functions and variables; otherwise you’re left to cowboy coding and var_dump’ing things out so you can see them.
You can also try out the “Members” plugn by Justin Tadlock. I believe it comes with a UI that allows you to map capabilities to each role. Unsure how well it plays with other permissions plugins like Wishlist though.
More likely it’s to do with the Wishlist plugin not obeying bbPress’s mapped capabilities. I’ve seen this come up a few times. You’ll want to trouble-shoot by looking at the capabilities that a subscriber has, and making sure they have the proper bbPress ones.
No need to post tickets here. I’ll see them right away.
It’s a neat idea, bundling them together like that. Hm.
BuddyPress totally takes the registration process over. You’ll want to pick either/or, or make a custom one to suit your needs.
It will be changed in bbPress 2.1.
Not a wise idea to hack the core files. Would have better luck passing the correct argument into your theme.
Can’t change your login, sorry. It’s linked everywhere throughout the .org sites, so it will break other things if we change it.
It’s hard if you can’t code, since the things you’re mostly emphasizing are things that need to be coded, or documentation that requires understanding the code base. It’s one of those times where there’s no shortage of opinions and ideas, but there’s a huge shortage of labor.
You’ll need to filter the kses filter on the_content to allow that set of tags. Do a google search for filtering the kses filter, and there should be lots of examples.
Create a page with the same slug as your forum root. It will appear as an empty page. Then use the Shortcode [bbp-topic-index] to show the topics index.
I don’t know what you mean? Other than in Settings > Forums ?
No, but I don’t think the demand for paid modules was worth monitoring the plugin daily.
