Thanks Stephen,
Yes for me it was a plugin Ad King Pro that was in conflict with bbpress.
My bbpress is working perfectly.
I’ll run along to Ad King Pro to establish whats going on.
The AdKingPro plugin is quite extensive in functions bordering overload but still useful.
Your forums are showing in your settings.
Mine are not so maybe since bbPress are claiming 2.5.3 is compatible to 3.9 there could be a confict with the theme: I’m using twentyfourteen or another plugin installed could be the problem.
Plugins installed could be the issue try deactivating all your plugins to see if it fixes things. Then active each plugin one by one to establish which plugins are causing the problem.
Don’t install an older version of wordpress quite just yet.
What version of wordpress are you using?
Looks like this development is still alive judging from their date of blog posts.
However bbpress is not up to date as from today’s date with wordpress 3.9
Broken
2.5.3 Tested on wordpress 3.9 it says installed but no admin forum links in the wordpress admin settings.
may work with older versions of wordpress
Must be work in progress