[petriknz]

In the editor I need to, at the very least remove the code button.

Is there any way to use the default WordPress Editor where users can see the visual results of their editing instead of the html markup text.

Users of the forum I’m creating are not HTML coders and the way this works will totally confuse them. Also switching it off in settings makes matters worse as then they are presented with an instruction box showing the HTML tags.

[Robkk]

to enable visual editor install this plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

to remove the code button use this
add it to your child themes functions.php or a functionality plugin.

add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'rkk_bbp_edit_quick_editor' );
function rkk_bbp_edit_quick_editor( $args = array() ) {
	$args['quicktags']         = array( 'buttons' => 'strong,em,link,block,del,img,ul,ol,li,close' );

   return $args;
}

[petriknz]

Thanks for that info but I’m a bit dubious about using a plugin that says

Compatible up to: 3.5.2
Last Updated: 2014-1-5

[Robkk]

it should still work no problem . since it bascially is using a filter that bbPress provides to activate the visual editor

but i mean if you do come across a problem with this very light plugin just uninstall it.