Hi,
I am volunteering on a not for profit site running wordpress 4.0.1, bbpress 2.5.4, s2member pro 141007

I have yet to be able to see any of the forums, topics etc as all I get is a 404 error. I have ready through the info about this issue and tried everything suggested, including the two plugins that are supposed to fix it to no avail.

I do have pretty links turned on, I do have a “Forums” page and have tried it with and without a shortcode to pull up the forums and it just shows the shortcode and never the forum. The only way I get get anything to show is to use the “ugly” link to the forums but none of the links work from
http://ontariodoulas.org/?post_type=forum

Any ideas on where to go from here? Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

ok,

1. what two plugins did you try that didn’t work?
2. have you been through https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/
3. Does it work if you disable s2member – just a test to see if it is a conflict
4. what permalink are you running – dashboard>settings>permalinks
5. What bbpress slugs are you running – dashboard>settings>forums

[@doulacare Participant 9 years, 11 months ago]

Sorry, I didn’t see the email that said I had a response to this!

I tried both the 404 fix plugins. I have also gone through the set up.

My permalinks are set up as “Post Name”

I am using “forum” for the root and all the others are the default

this is the only way I can get anything to show at all:
http://ontariodoulas.org/?post_type=forum

Also S2member is designed to work with bbPress, that is the only reason I haven’t tried another forum yet. lol

[@doulacare Participant 9 years, 11 months ago]

I just came across something. I have tried changing my permalinks back to default, saving and then back to post name again, but I have never tried it while it was on default. I just did, and they seem to work now…. The only issue is that I have so many links that are set for payments etc on the site member end that it would be very time consuming to go through them all and change them….

All the other threads I have read have said that to get around the issue with WP4 breaking the forums was to switch to post name.

[@doulacare Participant 9 years, 11 months ago]

This also doesn’t explain why this shortcode doesn’t work either http://ontariodoulas.org/forums/

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[@robin-w Moderator 9 years, 11 months ago]

I suspect that s2member is still having issues with bbpress – neither’s fault

presume you have seen

Not sure if this is at all relevant.

Would be worth going onto their support site to see if they can help