which theme are you using?
Have you tried the two methods in 3
Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1
and looked at no. 8 in the same bit
bbpress works with a default theme.
If you have done a fresh install to a default theme with no other plugins, then it should work.
Beyond that I cannot help further – sorry
ok, I’d suggest you start again.
Delete the bbpress database by :
Dashboard>tools>forums>reset forums
then deactivate and delete the plugin
Then reinstall
is this a new bbpress installation?
ok, so with all plugins except bppress deactivated, and a default theme such as twentyten you cannot create new topics at the front end – yes?
If so is this a new bbpress installation?
did you try
Dashboard>settings>permalinks. Don’t change anything, but just click save. This resets the permalinks, and can solve some 404 errors.
unless there is a way to set it up so that all posts have to be moderated before they go live?
you’ll still be spammed to death !
Also, do you have any ideas about getting the page comments onto the forum?
sorry no, not a plugin I’ve looked at !
you can allow anonymous users to post
dashboard>settings>forums> and tick anonymous posting, but you may regret letting everyone post.
to save someone scrolling through, this is the solution posted by @themusiciangirl1 – thanks Maya !
Guys, I DID IT! After spending the better part of a day sweating over this problem, I finally fixed it. The solution is so simple, I have no idea why it took me so freaking long to think of it!
1. Download and install the “page links to” plugin at https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/
2. Go to Dashboard –> All pages –> and then click edit on your default forum page (usually http://www.yoursite.com/forums)
3. Once you’re on the editing page, scroll down to where your new plugin has two, magic little options for you. The first one, “this is a normal wordpress page,” is probably checked. Instead, check the one right below it, the one that says “custom url” or something like that. Enter the url for the page that you WANT your default forums page to be. Click publish.
TA-DA! Now, when you click on “forums” in your breadcrumbs trail, instead of taking you to that default index page, it’ll take you to the special one that you made using the index shortcode.
I run a website with 20 pages, over 500 blog posts, many picture galleries, 27 forums, 3,000 topics, and over 8,000 replies.
This loads as fast as another site with the same hoster which has 15 pages, no posts and no blog.
There’s probably a difference if you get a stopwatch out, but users are interested in content not speed unless it is ridiculously slow.
Hope that helps !
Great – glad you’re fixed !
add this plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/
dashboard>plugins>add new and search for bbp-style-pack
when loaded and activated
Dashboard>settings>forum display
and select no. 4
hmmm.. I can’t immediately see how that would be done.
so you have
settings>forums ‘Allow guest users without accounts to create topics and replies’ unchecked?
Can you put your solution on here to help others
try adding this to your functions file
add_filter('bbp_has_replies_query', 'modify_replies_query');
function modify_replies_query($bbp_r) {
$bbp_r = 'ASC';
return $bbp_r;
}
Functions files and child themes – explained !
ok, just because there are the same symptoms, doesn’t mean that the solution is the same !
have you installed
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/
