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In reply to: Multisite Plugin/bbPress Activation Issues
I apologize, this is a MultiSite Error. Can’t seem to activate more than 1 plugin at a time.
Disregard.
I’ve provided negativity without solution to my silly issue;
Unchecking “Prefix all forum content with the Forum Root slug (Recommended)” will remove that slug entirely from the forums listing. That will get the average user most of the way.
Users with the issue I have running MultiSite – a feature with documentation – I changed the Forum Root to “forumroot” (instead of “Forums”). I then created a new Page called “Forums” and in the content placed “[bbp-forum-index]” – the forum index shortcode.
Finally, go to Settings/Reading and change “Front page displays” to “A Static Page”. Select the “Forums” Page as the Front Page.
You should now have “www.website.com/forum/forum/etc.” – although I changed my Single Forum Slug to “content”. So I have “www.website.com/forum/content/etc.”. Had I not made any changes it would have been “www.website.com/forum/forums/forum/etc.”. How redundant for trying to be advanced.
In the end – “Forums” and “forumroot” are identical. Again suggesting it’s useless.
*high five*
Revival!
It gets hilariously worse when running a MultiSite – Calling a SubSite “Forum” – then working around this issue. The bigger your site, the less you want everything to weigh for User loading and Server handling. There’s now an option in the bbPress Settings called ‘Prefix all forum content with the Forum Root slug (Recommended)’ – I’ve unchecked it. I’m willing to bet I run into *at least* one hundred different user issues now that I’ve done so. This was definitely designed for the smaller blog, even with it’s latest updates I’m having unrelated issues not addressed in documentation.
I’m an advanced User, too. As cool as BuddyPress is, it’s pretty much useless without bbPress integration. As much as people would like to pretend (yep, you’re dreaming) their running their own “social media website”, it’s an unrealistic dream compared to running a Forum. Financing that dream over the Forum is poor form, but w/e.
By the time it gets addressed, the advanced users with thousands of of hits a day wont change it. Why? Because of the Social Media Integration like Facebook, Twitter, and G+ – NOT BUDDYPRESS (which I run for other much different *fluffy* reasons). Likes and Shares are gold, it’s networking and sales. We will weigh our links; SHARING LINKS and LIKES; over making the url pretty for SEO at that point… no matter how terrific the fix.
8 years too late pretty much. I know it’s community driven – and that’s respectable. Doesn’t change the bigger picture, though, and imo this plugin outweighs BuddyPress in importance concerning the current evolution of WordPress itself.
