[David Artiss]

I’ve just installed bbPress and have come across a bit of an issue. Hopefully it’s something I’ve done wrong rather than anything else 🙂

The forum will display fine – I’ve set up a default forum, topic, etc – except for the forum root page. That appears as blank.

I’ve kept everything as default so the root is ‘forums’. Here it is… http://artiss.co.uk/sandbox/forums/

Blank page. Not even a 404. No, I don’t have any posts or pages set up with the same name. I even changed this to another name and still got the same.

However, a direct link to the forum I set up works… http://artiss.co.uk/sandbox/forums/forum/test-forum/

Anybody have an idea what the problem is?

Thanks,
David.

[David Artiss]

No sooner had I posted then I found the cause – it’s my theme. Switched to another and it appears.

I suspect it’s to do with the fact that it’s not pointing to a physical page. Can I create a page as the root and use a shortcode to display the contents? When I’ve tried to change the root name to my page name it throws up an error.

David.

[Pascal Casier]

It should be sufficient to create a page at that permalink and add the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode in it.

Pascal.