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.
Yep. They are just posts, after all. 
I promise if you are using BuddyPress 1.5 and bbPress 2.0 in an unmodified, vanilla installation, they work seamlessly together once you decide which forum setup to use. You can even use both of them, like I have setup at testbp.org, provided you change the bbPress 2.0 slugs in Admin > Settings > Forums.
If you need support for your site specifically, please make your own topic so you do not pollute other peoples conversations with your questions.
There is no bbPress 1.5. Are you confusing it with BuddyPress?
I can’t be the only person looking to theme this for their site.
Clearly you’re not, and no one said you were. You are however one of the few having trouble getting it to work. Because of that I’d appreciate if you open your own support topic to get help for what you need rather than pollute this topic for everyone else.
So by removing all of the Genesis actions, bbPress is able to do what it needs to without any kind of conflict? Seems pretty straight forward. I could transform your code into a bbPress 2.0 core patch, but I’d be flying blind not having a copy to test with.
I would literally be taking exactly what you have and making bbPress load it like it does the Akismet and BuddyPress extensions.
Regarding: 2, bbPress allows for easy customizing of its slugs, so you can prevent them from colliding. Admin > Settings > Forums
Regarding: 3, Site Tracking is only visible on Network Activated installations of BuddyPress. Otherwise it is on by default.
Cache related. Looking into it.
Since WangGaurd is for bbPress 2.0, it should be in the WordPress plugin repository so bbPress 2.0 users can download it via the WordPress dashboard.
Everything in bbPress and BuddyPress is coded using the WordPress actions API. There is absolutely no reason to modify any core files to do what you want to do. There are plenty of examples on how to accomplish what you need on the WordPress codex, and even in the bbPress code itself.
Before you start chopping out pieces of core code, try to understand why it’s there. If you have questions on a specific piece of code in bbPress, open a new topic and I’m happy to explain why it’s there.
Would not be difficult to turn on WordPress’s existing oEmbed functionality.
This was by design to avoid querying each forum for it’s children on each page load if it didn’t have any children.
The ‘_bbp_forum_subforum_count’ post meta only contains a count of public forums, as returned by bbp_forum_query_subforum_ids() which uses bbp_get_public_child_ids().
Now that forum status is baked into the query filter, this kind of check could probably use a rethink. Go ahead and open a ticket and I’ll look at it for 2.1.
Since it looks like you are not using pretty permalinks, you’ll want to append “&feed=1” to the end of any of your existing bbPress URLs. “&feed=rss2” should work also.
@enderandrew – I can’t accurately guess at what’s wrong. Try again? 
I’ll probably come up with a bbPress Skeleton theme/plugin, to show off some of the flexibility. It’s possible to write a custom “bbPress Pack” that would totally override the default bbPress theme layer, without it even touching your current theme. I think that’s the ideal setup really, one where you can kinda “bolt on” parts of a website without needing to move files around here or there.
