I installed bbpress on my wordpress site. It is a new site, I have no other plugins installed. It still have the default 2012 theme.

I can access the forum menus from the dashboard, and I’ve created a few forums. If I click “view” in the list of forums from the dashboard, I can see them.

However, when I go to see my web page, there is no option on the navigation menu for the forums. There is just “Home”, “Blog”, and one other page I already created.

How is one visiting the site supposed to find the forums?

I tried Simple Press briefly and it just created it’s own page and a menu link. I also tried Mingle, and for that I needed to create a page on the navigation menu for it before I did the install. What do I need to do for bbpress?

Thanks

[@netweb Keymaster 11 years, 10 months ago]

Open your WordPress admin dashboard and got to ‘Appearence’ -> ‘Menus’ (/wp-admin/nav-menus.php)

Add a link eg http://example.com/forums your menu and click save.

[@oneshortleg Participant 11 years, 10 months ago]

I’m not seeing that option on the Appearance > Menu section. There is no place to add a link. The only fill-able field is the name for creating a new menu. I tried creating one called “forums”, and added the forums to it, but it does not show up in the page menu at the top of the site.

Do I need to create a page for the forums first?

Perhaps I am not being clear about what I’m trying to do. I want there to be a link to the Forums page in the tabs that show up at the top of the page (I think this is called the “page menu?).

Thanks

[@netweb Keymaster 11 years, 10 months ago]

Here are some step by step instructions for what I mentioned above that hopefully will be a little clearer and the link you add would be http://example.com/forums where you replace example.com with your domain name.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_Screen#Custom_Links

[@oneshortleg Participant 11 years, 10 months ago]

Thanks, I finally got it! One question, though….

According to what you told me, my forum page should be located at http://example.com/forums

This did not work (I get a 404 error). Instead, it is http://example.com/?post_type=forum. I used this for the url in the custom menu, and it works.

Is this going to be a problem down the road?

I don’t know why it matters, but this is a typical WP install using an ftp client (uploaded WP from my computer to the server and did the quick install). As an experiment today, I used the simple-script feature from Bluehost (my host) to do a test WP install in another location. I installed bbpress on it and the forums page is where you said it would be (http://example.com/forums).

Any idea why my forums are at this other address?

Thanks

[@netweb Keymaster 11 years, 10 months ago]

Its your permalinks settings…. Check out how to set ‘pretty permalinks’ here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

[@oneshortleg Participant 11 years, 10 months ago]

Thanks, that was it! I changed the Permalink setting to day+name, and it all looks the way it should.