I followed your instructions. Permalinks are set to Default. When I go to the /forums/ url, I get a 404 error page.
First reset you permalinks by going to Settings > Permalinks. (after you activated bbP of course)
Once that is done try going to yoursite.com/forums/ (this is created for you, no page is needed)
Anyone out there?
I have deleted all my forums. Deactivated bbPress. Re-activated bbPress. Created a new formum. It is an Open, Public, Forum.
When I go to the home page, there is no item in the menu to take me to the forum.
What am I missing?
Anyone?
Adding…
add_filter( 'bbp_show_lead_topic', '__return_true' );
…to a custom plugin or your themes’ functions.php will separate the lead topic out from its replies.
As far as styling goes, opening up Firebug/Inspector and using the classes in the templates should be enough to get you by. Some extra classes were added in the development version of bbPress, which will hopefully be out in a few weeks.
Yes there is, I wrote a quick plugin for it.
Take the code from https://gist.github.com/1902067 and put it in a bbpress-css.php file inside your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Then go to your plugins page and activate the plugin.
It will use bbpress.css from your theme directory, so my suggestion would be to make a copy of bbPress’s CSS file and move it there as a starting point, then you can edit as needed.
Thanks Jaredatch and carminka,
You are addressing a similar thread which I just posted on. I’m cross-posting this
carminka because it could be useful for you:
Incorporating bbPress theme files, into a pre-existing theme.
jaredatch I haven’t had luck with overriding it in my theme’s css unless I use !important.
To ask the same question that I asked there, is there a way to get bbpress to use a bbpress.css in the theme folder instead of the plugin folder?
Really love bbpress… thanks
My last suggestion would be to deactivate all other plugins *except* bbPress. Then go and switch your theme to either TwentyTen or TwentyEleven.
This will at least eliminiate plugin/theme conflicts.
Just to make sure I would delete the bbPress plugin (you won’t lose any of the data that is there) directory and then reinstall it.
Sure, I used zBench
See how I modified it here: http://all4xs.net
I have cleared all the errors by disabling all plugins but BBPress. Nothing changed.
In my theme functions.php folder (called Boooster) I added the line
add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );
and now my bbpress posts appear but as regular blog posts and with no styles or bbpress layout. I’m getting closer … I think. Any more insight?
http://f6.com.au/forum/
Dosch, could you please share theme name? Im currently using WP Mimic, but it does not work with bbpress 2.x, so Im still running on 1.x version. 
I did not sucseeded searching alternative.
Hi everybody
I tried to separate title of subforums and these counters.
Unfortunatly bbp_list_forums() doesn’t take an arg like “show_title” to give the possibility to set in false.
So i fork the bbpress plugin to add this arg (i know it’s wrong).
Anyone know a troubleshooting smarter ?
Got it working!!
.bbPress #header {
background-image: url(images/mspace-header.png)!important;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
THANK YOU – YOU’RE a SUPERSTAR!!
It might be easier to use some of the bbPress body classes in addition to what you are using now.
For example you might be using a custom body class called ‘my-header-image’.
So if you wanted to use that on your bbpress portion of the site you would just add the bbpress body class to your css, such as
.my-header-image,
.bbPress {
background: url(myimage.jpg);
}
There are other body classes available from bbPress, but you get the picture
Unfortunately nothing changed, its probably “operator error” since I am pretty new to genesis and bbpress. Maybe I didnt explain myself properly either. 
Some of my site’s pages use a custom body class where I specify an alternate header. It seems like all the pages I set up in the bbpress forum and topic areas are missing the Genesis Layout Settings Metaboxes where I can specify the custom body class….
I dont know if I am making this more difficult than it is?? It seems all the deeper bbpress pages (except for the page showing the actual forum) are reverting to the default header and I would like to customize it to show the alternate one.
Thoughts??
This is a total guess and not tested, but you should be able to put something like this in your theme’s functions.php file
add_action( 'bbp_init', 'do_custom_body_classes' );
function do_custom_body_classes() {
add_filter( 'body_class', 'genesis_custom_body_class', 15 );
}
@johnny-rocket – The public/private/hidden forum bug might be the crux of the issue others were running into. I’ll be putting out a point release of bbPress today to address it.
You’ll want to clean up all those errors before most things will work normally. Doesn’t look like the issue is with bbPress anywhere (yet), according to your dump above.
For my website, running on Genesis framework using Minimum theme, I am using two diff custom body classes to define the header images of certain pages. The interior forum pages are only showing the default home page site header and I do not see where I can add my custom body class to those pages. Does anyone have a suggestion for how/where I can define/change the header images of the forum pages?? I would really appreciate it!
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A better way would be to edit it in the template or use the bbp_get_reply_author_avatar filter in place.
What you did will work fine, however keep in mind that when the next version of bbP comes out you will lose the edits you made to the plugin.
Already found it;
It’s in the plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-reply-template.php
change the ‘size’ => 80, to 40
You’ll want something like this. And it should go in your theme’s functions file.
add_action( 'bbp_ready', 'ja_login_detect' );
function ja_login_detect() {
include_once "/dap/dap-config.php";
if ( !Dap_Session::isLoggedIn() )
header( "Location: /dap/login.php" )
}
How do I change the avatar size in bbpress 2.0? It’s currently 80×80 and I want to change it to 60×60.
@jaredatch – no guest posting, just want a give the users a way to police the forums and alert me of abusive posts or other terms violations.
Thanks @daveshine. I’ll take a look at that if SPAM starts to get out of control. Right now, it looks like Akismet is handling things well enough.
wp-reportpost looks like it may do the trick. Thanks for the feedback.