@kineticlic – If I understand correctly, you’re saying you want to turn off the bbPress breadcrumb and use the one that comes with the theme? By doing this, chances are the theme’s breadcrumb won’t understand what to do with the bbPress specific pages.
Good question. The main reason it loads all the time is shortcodes. bbPress doesn’t have any way to know that the_content contains a shortcode when the head of the page is being processed, so including it all the time is the safest bet for most people.
If you want to dial in your installation, you can wrap the CSS enqueue in a is_bbpress() check. is_bbpress() returns true when WordPress is loading up a bbPress specific page.
Can you elaborate a little bit more? You’re saying that even by giving them ‘read_private_forums’ they were still not able to view private forums?
To put it another way, the caps aren’t matching up to the forum type?
Maybe an easier way to get a unique sidebar for your forums is to try this:
1. Make a file in your active theme called bbpress.php.
2. Copy the contents of your page.php into bbpress.php.
3. Instead of calling get_sidebar(), put your custom sidebar code there
4. Done.
Since you seem satisfied with everything else, this should be the easiest may to get by for now. I’ll take a look through the instructions again and try to put something more in-depth together soon.
Are you able to see your DB, or see what ‘_bbp_forums_per_page’ is set to? If you go to Admin > Settings > Form, what are your “per page” settings set to?
Is there anything anywhere in your WordPress settings where you’ve limited your posts per page to 5?
Perfect. Happy to help, and happy you were able to figure it out. Good work!
add_filter( 'bbp_show_lead_topic', '__return_true' );
You need to increase the amount of available memory on your server. I suspect you have other plugins or a theme framework active also, as WordPress + bbPress alone shouldn’t be pushing 32Mb.
Do a Google search on increasing available memory for your server configuration. There are different ways to do it depending on your level of access and/or experience.
This was a concern with using custom post types. There isn’t a guaranteed way to position top level admin menus. This is th first conflict I’ve heard of.
If that plugin is only for bbPress 2.0, yes please 
From the page you linked above:
Currently support bbPress 0.9.0.5, 1.0-RC-3 And BuddyPress 1.0.1
Working on getting a copy of Genesis to test with.
The WordPress plugin repository should not have any bbPress 1.x plugins in it. The ones that are there have descriptions that explain what they do. It may not be obvious at first, but with a little reading it should become clear.
Either delete the physical WP page, or put the bbp-forum-index short-code in it. bbPress assumes if there is a page already where the slug is, that you are manually overriding it.
Sounds like st missing files. Try reinstalling and check back.
Is there a physical WordPress page with the “forums” slug?
The BuddyPress plugin repo is an automated theme layer on top of the plugins in the WordPress repo that are tagged with “BuddyPress”
The bbPress plugin repo is still a dedicated repo for 1.0 version plugins.
Are you using a plugin that is being greedy with it’s query filtering?
Nothing in bbPress core should be limiting it to 5.
BuddyPress selfishly takes over the “register” slug. If you’d rather use bbPress, you’ll need to make a WordPress page with a different slug.
