@robin-w
Thanks for persevering !…seems to be working now :

Thanks for all your help.
I’ll probably break it again when I fix ricsca2’s problem !! 🙂
Glad you are fixed !
Hi all, I have an answer: is there an option to have the topic created automatically as soon as I create the post? It seems working only when someone actually reply, but it could be useful to create the topic automatically if you want to keep the blog and the forum somehow synchronized. I would prefer to have topics without any reply, than only few topics.
@mc9625 what have you got set in
dashboard>settings>discussion>bbPress Topics for Posts Defaults>Create a new bbPress topic in… ?
In future updates it would be nice if you could add a little more text in the created treads.
@ricsca2 – I’m pretty sure it just uses the wordpress default excerpt length, which you can amend – see this for 3 methods
How to Change The Default Excerpt Length In WordPress
if this works, please post back so we know 🙂
@ricsca2 I’ve just released version 1.8.5 which should fix duplicate topics being created
I noticed something else that could be improved.
When users are not logged in, the comments part of bbpress is not very nice.
the comments part of bbpress is not very nice.
you are presuming that what your site shows is the same as everyone else’s – can you explain what you mean?
my test site shows what I would expect

in these two options it is not clear that they are comments.
above it should say “Write a comment”
and in the option “Follow this link to join the discussion” the link should be a prominent button.
for ‘Follow this link to join the discussion’ – you are welcome to style it as a button if you wish
go to
dashbaoard>settings>discussion and change
Follow this link to join the discussion
to
<div class="myButton">Follow this link to join the discussion</div>
you can then style a button, if you don’t know how go to
https://www.bestcssbuttongenerator.com/
can you automatically insert the “leave and comment” look?
Thanks
sorry, I don’t understand the question?