Hi All,

I own a web business and am now using bbpress 2.0 and buddypress together.

I’m a bit confused about the Forum; but for now can display the bbpress one.

However, I woudl rather have the buddypress forum; because it looks so much nicer in

it’s appearance (group forum).

But the problem is, with buddypress I cannot add new topic.

What is the matter, and how do I fix?

[@webowner Member 14 years ago]

I would much rather display the “Community forum through Buddy Press” which is located here –

http://buddy.focusonedesign.ca/community/#new-topic

But it WONT allow me to add new topic.

Why and how do we fix?

[@travishill Participant 14 years ago]

Looks like you still have both activated. You can use both, provided you change link settings for bbPress 2.0.

BuddyPress will claim the /forums/ permalink (and create a page). Try changing your Archive slugs in the bbPress Forums Settings Page (Settings > Forums) to something other than /forums/. /community/ is a good choice.

By doing so, you are effectively using both forum types (groups and site). The group forums will be through /forums/ and the site forums will be through /community/.

If you don’t want both forums types, deactivate the bbPress 2.0 plugin.

[@webowner Member 14 years ago]

Hi and thank you so much for the reply. Much appreciated.

I have taken your suggestion and have deactivated the bbpress plug-in.

So now I only have the community page set as a forum.

But still cannot add a new topic.

Any ideas?

[@travishill Participant 14 years ago]

Try setting up the group forums again through the BuddyPress Admin. Note though, that by effectively deactivating bbPress 2.0, the issue is now BuddyPress related, not bbPress 2.0.

Try re-installing (or using an existing install) of the Forums for Groups through BuddyPress.

I had this same issue not long ago, but unfortunately don’t remember the exact fix. I know I played with the group forum settings in the buddypress admin area and got it working as expected.

[@webowner Member 14 years ago]

Hello,

Thank you so much for your suggestions. I have done that, actually re-installed 3 times to no avail with “adding a new topic” in the forum (with just the BuddyPress installed).

Then, I deleted everything, set up a new domain, new database and did a clean installation alltogether – and this time it works . Thank heavens!

New link is: http://community.focusonedesign.ca

I will be working on it over the coming days, and hope all works well.

Thanks again