The search in bbPress 2.0 is purposely limited. It’s possible to remove the restriction with code (a small plugin) but I wouldn’t recommend it, since the actual number of users that search your forums is surprisingly small.
For an example, had you searched these forums, you would have found several topics about this already. Instead you naturally skimmed the site, didn’t see an immediate answer anywhere, and asked your question. 
You can do that fairly easily by reading the plugin descriptions. Please understand that this is a transitional period for bbPress, and things are going to be a little confusing for a while.
Also, keep in mind that any bbPress plugins in the WordPress repo, were there for a very, very specific use case, where bbPress stand-alone was integrated with WordPress. That type of setup is considered ‘advanced’ by most users, so the audience is limited.
Lastly, browsing the plugin repo for ‘bbpress’ probably isn’t going to really provide you the results you want anyways. You’ll have better luck looking for the functionality you want, and then seeing how nicely bbPress plays with it.
Perfect thanks. You’ll have a much better experience with it in the WordPress plugin repo; more downloads, users, etc…
Yes. Delete the plugin via your favorite FTP program, and see if things come back to normal. If so, you need to do some trouble shooting to see what the conflict is. If not, you still need to trouble shoot, but at least you know bbPress isn’t the problem.
@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?
