[@oprcsingapore Participant 12 years, 12 months ago]

thanks markafoote , as none techy guy i did not know how to apply your suggestion which worked for me.

once i activated the bbpress, I made a new page and pasted “[bbp-forum-index]” in the body of the page, then press published, at last after 2 days of trying and searching it worked.

I dont know why this step is totally ignored by all the youtube clips i saw of how to install bbpress

from what i understand the forum needs a page to show the forums and topics
hope this helps others