Ok, installing BP 1.5, then bbP 2 RC4. Using the default theme and everything’s playing nice!!!

I’ve made a page, in my page list, called Forums. She’s blank (understandably so).

So, before I go tearing things apart (I’m very familiar with WP, but am a n00b to BP and bbP) what is the best way to get the standard forums view on my forums page? Is it a matter of adding a few tags into my page.php template?

Thanks bros!

[@enderandrew Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

Personally, I disabled the Forums functionality within BudddyPress, and let bbpress use the Forums slug. Then I created a blank page called Forums within the plugin “Page Links To” that redirects to the Forums slug.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/

Or you could simply use the bbpress shortcodes on the page.

[@benallison Member 13 years, 3 months ago]

Oh, forum functionality in BP is disabled. It was disabled from the get go.

In my Forums setting for bbPress, it’s using the slug “forums.” And when I go to the page directly, I’m not getting a 404, so it is “there,” but nothing from the forums is showing up either.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 3 months ago]

Is there a physical WordPress page with the “forums” slug?

[@benallison Member 13 years, 3 months ago]

Yessir!

[@benallison Member 13 years, 3 months ago]

And, I can navigate directly to a sub-page under forums, and it works… just not the main forums page.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 3 months ago]

Either delete the physical WP page, or put the bbp-forum-index short-code in it. bbPress assumes if there is a page already where the slug is, that you are manually overriding it.

[@benallison Member 13 years, 3 months ago]

AMAZING!

Thanks man.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 3 months ago]

Yavelcome!