Try visiting your permalinks page, and saving them. Sometimes they need a refresh after bbPress is installed.
What version are you running?
I believe this is fixed in the upcoming bbPress 2.1
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1645
If you don’t have anything in your forums yet I’d give 2.1 a try and see if that fixes it.
Try (you need to do this quickly and temporarily since it is a live site) setting wp_debug to true (in the wp-config) and then activating bbPress.
wp_debug will force any erros that are happening under the hood to surface. At least then you can use it to track down what is going wrong.
Hi!
I am encountering issues with a fresh install of bbPress 2.0 plugin:
http://squales.high-bridge.fr/forums shows 404 error.
Plugin settings are all by default. My permalinks settings are default : (i.e.: http://squales.high-bridge.fr/?p=123)
I created a page with the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] linked in my nav bar.
Forums show OK, but bbPress navigation link “Forums” shows a blank page.
Any help would be appreciated 
Many thanks in advance!!
Ah yeah, sorry, it’s a live site. http://prosportschick.com
I tried setting the theme back to stock, and had no other plugins running. In general the only ones we use are jetpack and discus, so I’m not concerned about running out of headroom on from our web host (though I suppose that’s a possibility).
I don’t know. Typically speaking I know precisely enough to get myself into trouble, and I’m worried about breaking off more than I can chew.
I was able to install simplepress without similar issues, but I’m not in the mood to pay that much for support.
Hello Everyone,
We have a WordPress install on our internal server. Let’s say this is the address:
http://192.168.0.5/wordpress/
When either logging in, or out, it duplicates the subfolder in the web address to this:
http://192.168.0.5/wordpress/wordpress/wp-admin/options-general.php?settings-updated=true
I have double checked the URIs in General settings, both are correctly set to http://192.168.0.5/wordpress/. All page navigation works fine.
I have confirmed that this is a plugin issue, because I disabled bbPress, and the login redirection works fine. There must be something wrong with the login redirection script that is duplicating the subfolders.
Any idea of whether this only affects localhost servers, or if it will prove to cause problems when hosted on a live site?
Thanks in advance
Hmm, that’s weird. Usually when that happens there is a plugin or theme causing it.
First temporarily switch the theme to TwentyTen (or Eleven) and activate bbP to see if that fixes it.
If not you have two other options to try and find the culprit. You can start deactivating plugins one by one or use WP_DEBUG to tell you where the problem is coming from (wasn’t sure if this is a live site or not).
{A note of my research work while trying to build a template for use with Thesis.}
So just for the record, if you want to have a full standalone theme which won’t use any of the default templates of bbPress then you need to have at least one template for each of the sections below. Should be about 10 templates if I did the math right.
//Single User Edit
'single-user-edit-' . $nicename . '.php', // Single User Edt nicename
'single-user-edit-' . $user_id . '.php', // Single User Edit ID
'single-user-edit.php', // Single User Edit
'user-edit.php', // User Edit
'user.php', // User
//Single User
'single-user-' . $nicename . '.php', // Single User nicename
'single-user-' . $user_id . '.php', // Single User ID
'single-user.php', // Single User
'user.php', // User
//Single View
'single-view-' . $view_id . '.php', // Single View ID
'view-' . $view_id . '.php', // View ID
'single-view.php', // Single View
'view.php', // View
//Single Forum Edit
'single-' . $post_type . '-edit.php', // Single Forum Edit
'single-' . $post_type . '.php', // Single Forum
//Single Forum
'single-' . bbp_get_forum_post_type() . '.php' // Single Forum
//Forum Archive
'archive-' . bbp_get_forum_post_type() . '.php' // Forum Archive
//Topic Merge
'single-' . $post_type . '-merge.php', // Topic Merge
//Topic Split
'single-' . $post_type . '-split.php', // Topic Split
//Topic Edit
'single-' . $post_type . '-edit.php', // Single Topic Edit
'single-' . $post_type . '.php', // Single Topic
//Single Topic
'single-' . bbp_get_topic_post_type() . '.php'
//Topic Archive
'archive-' . bbp_get_topic_post_type() . '.php' // Topic Archive
//Reply Edit
'single-' . $post_type . '-edit.php', // Single Reply Edit
'single-' . $post_type . '.php', // Single Reply
//Single reply
'single-' . bbp_get_reply_post_type() . '.php'
//Topic tag edit
'taxonomy-' . bbp_get_topic_tag_slug() . '-edit.php', // Single Topic Tag Edit slug
'taxonomy-' . bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id() . '-edit.php', // Single Topic Tag Edit ID
'taxonomy-' . bbp_get_topic_tag_slug() . '.php', // Single Topic Tag slug
'taxonomy-' . bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id() . '.php', // Single Topic Tag ID
//Topic tag
'taxonomy-' . bbp_get_topic_tag_slug() . '.php', // Single Topic Tag slug
'taxonomy-' . bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id() . '.php', // Single Topic Tag ID
I’m just doing this as a favor to a friend, but there’s some problems with adding bbpress. I have tried FTPing the files up and installing using the built-in wordpress installation process, to no avail. In both instances, adding BBpress makes the entire front page of the website blank. It’s a pretty frustrating process. Uninstalling fixes the problem with no information lost.
I should note that this is a multi-site install, and I’m trying to install it only on a single site within that network (the idea being to have only a single forum common to all the sub-sites).
John thanks for your reply!
Thank you for this awesome tutorial! 
if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'post_parent' => $postmeta["forum_id"] ) ) )
bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'topics' );
You see the part about $postmeta["forum_id"] you need to grab the post meta data with <?php $meta_values = get_post_meta($post_id, $key, $single); ?>
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_meta
Then once you have all the post meta data in an array you can grab the forum ID and put it in the arguments.
I’ve followed bbPress’ development off and on since it first came out (aww, when it was a wee thing). It’s made many, many functional improvements since (good job, everyone!), but it’s lacking in the documentation department, and documentation is what has always made WordPress so great and accessible. For bbPress to really become a part of WordPress, even just as a plugin, the documentation needs to be better.
After so many years in development, I expected there to be more documentation when I gave bbPress a try this time around. Instead, there was a lot of teeth grinding and guesswork on my part, mainly because there’s so much conflicting information about how things work, not to mention all the old information that’s no longer relevant. But I did figure it out (screenshot of my work to prove it!).
I know bbPress 2.1 is in development and (may be) coming out soon with many new bells and whistles in regard to themes, but I feel for anyone struggling to get the current version to work. As such, I wrote some documentation. Which may or may not be placed in the wrong location of the Codex because there were no instructions for it, either, that I could see. (Sorry, admins!)
bbPress is still geared to the web-savvy at the best of times, I’d say, so I didn’t try to go into minute detail with all my instructions; rather, I tried to make it clear what should be done for the current version. I hope it helps someone!
Isn’t there a way to open only one shortcode to be allowed or apply the jwplayer div attributes to my reply-content attributes. It is a shortcode issue. But merely because the shortcode calls the div
what if i called the div for every reply-content table then if a video was playing it would use the player that was called.
I’m also looking for another solution to use as a user interface and back end for a media sharing site. To completely replace this issue 
any suggestions? Im’m not leaving bbpress i like it a lot just it’s not working out for soundhampton.com I guess…. Can some one advise me on a solution please?
Thank you Key Master Wish I was the damn gate keeper cause then i would understand what’s going on here. lmao!!!!
Here is my issue at hand and then I guess I will have to decide whether or not to move forward. I am trying to make a media sharing site that is merely a “forum” of my site ( http://www.soundhampton.com/the_knowledge_forum ) to lead traffic back to my business site ( http://www.soundhampton.com ).
I was going to use bbpress for the forum side but the more I try and implement it the deeper I get into issues that take me months to figure out. Every issue I have been able to handle except this one.
John I totally under stand why shortcodes are not allowed. It makes complete sense. I read up on the security issue post you wrote about from day one of this media player issue and did not take your advice 
now…. here I am.
To be honest I kind of always knew that even if I did get the shortcodes to work. I would have to make changes in the future to secure my forums from shortcodes.
so, moving forward
Can you guys suggest a proper media sharing community plugin / addition to wordpress I can even point the URL to a different folder. Now Im just rambling.
I have no clue how to build a plugin
If you’re using the bbPress plugin for WordPress, it will put its data in the same database tables as your WordPress installation.
There is an “uninstaller” in development, but I suspect most people won’t ever want to completely destroy all of their data.
The only security concerns would be the ones you create, like allowing them to be Editors or Admins. The default user role prevents Subscribers from doing anything malicious.
Hi,
I am really looking forward to include bbPress in my WordPress site, but I have these questions that right now is stopping me from doing it: Is safe to install bbPress in the same database that WordPress is running on? There is a clean way to automatically uninstall bbPress in case something goes wrong? Is there any security concern letting visitors register right into WordPress?
Thanks,
Shortcodes are explicitly prevented from working inside of bbPress.
The reason is because Shortcodes do not care who uses them in what context. If you enable them, all shortcodes will work for all users. This allows all of the bbPress shortcodes to work, inside of bbPress, which enables normal users to embed forums inside of topics and replies. No good.
You’re on your own if you want to go down this road, but I wouldn’t suggest it. Shortcodes are transparent, and a poor experience for most users (since they are completely invisible in the UI.)
Instead, I’d recommend building something for bbPress 2.1 (still in development) and write a plugin to tap into the power of TinyMCE.
Clearly links that don’t function isn’t normal; if everyone had this issue, 200k other bbPress users wouldn’t be using bbPress. Sorry if bbPress didn’t do what you expected, but it’s working great for many others.
Overall, it sounds like your theme is the culprit, and that you don’t like the way it looks. That’s a design decision; one that you will need to solve on your own if you don’t like the default styling.
bbPress has never tried to be exactly like “all the other forum software.” The philosophy is to be the smallest and simplest to use, and I think it accomplishes that pretty well inside of WordPress. If it’s missing things you wanted or expected, you are free to build those things yourself.
Thanks for the feedback.
What version of bbPress/WordPress are you using?
Hi please help.
I’m using the latest bbpress plugin on a multisite.
If I go to the user profile page, eg. http://example.com/forum/users/username, there is an edit link next to the profile but only Super-Admins can click on this link and edit their profile from the frontend. If they are not super-admins then the page refreshes to the same page without offering the editing functions.
How can I allow subscribers etc to edit their profile page?
Thank you.
nope nothing man. I have longtail looking at this issue too, but something tells me they are going to blame bbpress which is crap but we know the way plugin developers are.(no offense to you at all Jared)
longtail was like have you tried disabling bbpress yet ?
*palm to face and shakes head*
I don’t think they get it….
such a weird issue, is there a way to just load the plugin in bbpress and make the plugin think it is wordpress?
It also has broken links, and will not let any users (including me, the administrator) view or add topics! I’ve spend a whole night, the following day, and the better part of the following evening trying to set up this software. It doesn’t “just work”, it doesn’t work at all. This is horribly broken right out of the box.
This isn’t an issue of “options”. Being able to post in a forum, or to read existing topics, isn’t “optional” in a bb, it’s the very core of what a bb is supposed to do, and 24 hours after starting this process, including spenting 3 hours since my last post googling for an answer and searching this forum, I have not been able to enable that most crucial functionality. All the forum pages do is give a topic count, but the topics are hidden, can’t be read or added to. Not a single solution I have found in those 3 hours has fixed it.
A forum that even an administrator can’t view or post to is the very heighth of “doesn’t work”. Add the default broken breadcrumb links, and that brings bbpress down to less than zero stars. And I am done wasting my time. I’m not risking putting this in front of my users. No further responses are necessary, I’m not giving a single second more of my attention to this unusably broken time-wasting trash.
Thank you for the link to other alternatives.
bbPress does “just work” – pretty well actually.
Unfortunately it doen’t just work to everyones’ specifications, for example splitting up the all the information like you are referring to.
bbPress is simple and lean. However part of that simplicity factor is it doesn’t have all the options out of the box like some of the other suites have.
You can do what you want by creating a custom theme. If you’re coding chops aren’t that big then there are tons other possible solutions that might fit your need better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software_(PHP)
