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Okay, fine, it’s “nobody’s fault”. But nothing will get fixed if one simply says, “well, that’s life in the world of WordPress, so live with it”, which is what your first comment conveyed. That aside, sure, I’ll try to respond to your suggestion to document a repeatable case, even though, as I said, this issue seems to pop out in a semi-random fashion.

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Thanks for the reply. I hear what you are saying, but it seems that this problem — with the menus somewhat randomly disappearing and reappearing when you deactivate/reactivate other plugins — is particularly prevalent with bbPress. At least I haven’t run into it before, and it’s not because I’m a “newbie” with little experience using many different plugins in the same site. Not trying to assign “blame” here, but it seems that this may be a case of where one can’t solve a problem until one admits there really is a problem to be solved. Yes, I fully appreciate how much great free software that is available out there, and it doesn’t all have to be “perfect” – but I think in this case perhaps it could be better with a bit of effort applied to eliminate/reduce this problem. Cheers.

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I have experienced similar problems with the bbPress menus not showing in the dashboard. For example, I have a site where both CPT UI and WordPress SEO plugins are installed. The menu items appeared adjacent to each other in the dashboard – then WordPress SEO menu appeared just above the CPT UI menu. After I installed bbPress, the Forums, Topics and Replies menus did not appear in the dashboard. When I use Chrome inspector to look at the code, it appeared that the bbPress menus were trying to display below the WordPress SEO menu and above the CPT UI menu — but they did not appear. I tried deactivating the WordPress SEO plugin to see what would happen and, sure enough, the bbPress menus then DID appear in the dashboard, just above the CPT UI menu. I reactivated WordPRess SEO, and everything now looks fine: SEO appears above Forums, Topics and Replies, followed by CPT UI.

So, perhaps all’s well that ends well, but this semi-random behavior is concerning. I’ve seen other similar issues myself, and employed different solutions recommended by others on different discussion threads. One of these involved installing the Capability Manager plugin. That fixed the dashboard menu problem but BROKE the CPT UI plugin! I deactivated Capability Manager, which un-broke CPT UI, and still the menus displayed correctly. So, again, all’s well that ends well — but what the heck is going on here? It would be nice if the bbPress plugin developer would weigh in on this topic — and figure out a way to eliminate these issues.