Anyone have any ideas?

Same post is here…

http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/1-6-beta-forums-setup/

Anyone else confused by the 1.6 beta – forums setup ?

Using WP 3.4, BP 1.6 beta

I’m trying to get sitewide forums working.

In wp-admin: Settings-BuddyPress-Forums

I see buttons to install: Group Forums and SiteWide Forums.

I have installed SiteWide Forums and activated it.

So why does Settings-BuddyPress-Forums still have an install button ?

And do we really need a separate bbPress plugin for site-wide forums?

I can create a new forum in wp-admin

I created a page “…com/forums”

I’ve assigned it to Discussion Forums in bp-settings – Pages

If I go to that page, I get this

“The forums component has not been set up yet.”

And the Forums link does not show up in the main nav.

In Settings- Forum -Archive Slugs – Forums base is set to ‘forums’ shows this warning:

“Possible BuddyPress conflict: Forums page”

If I set it to ‘forumsbb’ – the warning goes away.

If I go to Forums in wp-admin and view the forum, it takes me to

“…com/forumsbb/forum//test-forum/”

But the Forums link is still not in the main nav.

And goes to /forums still gives me

“The forums component has not been set up yet.”

How to correct those issues ?

[@enderandrew Participant 12 years, 6 months ago]

Personally, I don’t turn on the Forums component in BuddyPress. I just use bbPress, which is a site-wide forum, but also allows for the group forums.

Technically the integration was pushed back a release, but it is working well for me.

[@shanebp Participant 12 years, 6 months ago]

fyi – BuddyPress has Codex page specifically for setting up Group and Sitewide Forums

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/