[markf1]

Thank you Robkk,

The bbPress is working perfectly in my child theme without having a bbPress.php file included in the theme at all, so I’m happy with it all now.

I guess I mis understood the codex instructions or more likely was trying to make things more complicated than need be (i specialize in that).

your reply helps me understand how it should be done. thanks!

[markf1]

thank you Robkk. I believe you are correct.

[markf1]

I guess I am happy without having the bbPress.php in my child theme. You can see the cose for my bbPress.php file in one of the earlier posts in this thread.

I would be curious to know what is wrong with it if that is something you can easily identify.

thanks again for your help!

[markf1]

Hi Robin,
twenty twelve theme without bbpress.php works – CORRECT
twenty twelve theme with bbpress.php doesn’t work – CORRECT
twenty tweleve child with bbpress.php and twenty twelve parent without bbpress.php doesn’t work – CORRECT

twenty tweleve child without bbpress.php and twentytwelve parent without bbpress.php doesn’t work – THIS WORKS!

I had not tried that. I don’t get it. The forum still appears wrapped with all my child theme styling but I don’t have that bbPress.php file customized to be shown as such. Anyway it seems to be working as it should now!

As usual I seem to have made this more complicated than necessary and by removing the bbPress.php from my child theme – voila.

Thank you for all your help!!

[markf1]

so just to be clear and re-cap.

When I left everything the same, with bbPress.php in my child theme, and the default/unchanged twenty twelve parent theme, then activated the twenty twelve theme – the forum links worked and the problem went away.

Switch back to child theme and problem resumes.

Add bbPress.php to Twenty Twelve theme and then activate Twenty Twelve – problem remains.

thanks for your ongoing help!

[markf1]

Hi robin,

I put my bbPress.php into the Twenty Twelve parent theme, activated the twenty tweleve theme, and the forum links still do not work / problem remains with that config.

I tried the above with also removing the bbPress.php from my child theme. still no joy.

I tried the above with my child theme activated. continued no luck.

I made a page with the short code. links don’t work, problem remains.

Thanks for your continued help!

[markf1]

Dashboard>Setings>Permalinks> Post name radio button is selected. (http://www.telluridemountainclub.org/sample-post/)

Dashboard>Setings>Forums
Forum Root Slug
Forum Root – mtn-club-forums
Forum Prefix – checked
Forum root should show – Forum Index

Single Forum Slugs
Forum – forum
Topic – topic

[markf1]

The main theme is Twenty Twelve. I have “wrapped” the WP php on each file (page.php, index.php, category.php, etc) with my own structure and styles. Did not change the original WP php in the files.

The only thing in the theme functions.php is a minor function dealing with post thumbnail size.

I have an unsubstantiated feeling this may be having to do with the permalinks or slug settings?

Continued thanks for your help!

[markf1]

Robin,

I deactivated all the Plug-Ins except bbPress. No change, problem remains.

I switched to TwentyTwelcve theme and is whacked out the site but.. the forum links do seem to work.

So it appears that my child theme is somehow causing this. Maybe link styling/css? Or maybe something in the functions.php?

I’m unsure of how to trouble shoot this. Any suggestions much appreciated.

Thanks!

[markf1]

Hi Robin,

I followed your instructions. Below is what is displayed as the permalink under the heading for edit> Mountain Club Suggestions.

Permalink: http://www.telluridemountainclub.org/mtn-club-forums/forum/membership-2/

Thanks for your help!

[markf1]

thank you for your reply Robin.

I tried what you suggested but it did not fix the problem. Do you have any other trouble shooting advice?

I need to get this working.

I originally had set this up over 1 year ago. The site owners wanted to have the forum but didn’t want to let anyone register or join. The forums and topics I put in worked correctly. I think that I had added the forum to the site nav menu as a category versus a page. Now that they want to enable the registration and etc I have followed the bbPress docs and made a page for the forum and I’m using that in the site nav menu.

I have tried making some new forums and topics (test 4) with this new config but neither the older forums/topics or the new test forums/topics seem to have the links working correctly. Not sure if this is relevant or any help in figuring this out.

thank you.

Thanks