I just solved it 2 minutes ago On my new site http://justaskpatrick.com I turned on registration and made the default role forum participant. On this new site I was also able to get the shortcodes working. I wasn’t able to on my main site http://allaboutfocus.com .
Does anybody have any ideas? Is this specific to genesis? Thanks.
I know that seems obvious Rev. but it’s not. If you are installing this for the first time “Forums Base Slug” does not mean anything to. A simple one or two liner in the instructions (as indicated above) that says “Congratulations. Your forums is up and running. Visit xxxxxxxxxxx.com/forums or xxxxxxxxx.xom/[what-is-in-the-forums-base-slug-field] would really help. After I installed it the first time it took me a couple of hours to find my forums page.