Hi,

how do you start a new forum topic without being in the site admin??

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 5 months ago]

It’s at the end of the forum, unless your theme is having an issue (sometimes they do)

I add it to a forum sidebar – if you’re using a sidebar then come back and I’ll post how

[@debi_c Participant 10 years, 5 months ago]

nothing at the end of the forum (using Mantra) and I’m not using a sidebar… is there a way of putting a link somewhere on the forum page to let people start a new topic??

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 5 months ago]

Yes,

If you have a forum page ie a wordpress page that has [bbp-forum-index] in it, (ie you’ve use method 2 rather than method 1 in this link

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

then go into edit on your forum page

Switch to text from visual and put

Create a new topic before the [bbp-forum-index] to get it at the top or after it to put it at the bottom.

or you could use

[bbp-topic-form] after the [bbp-forum-index]

or

[bbp-topic-form forum_id=$forum_id] to display a single forum topic form.

Lots of possibilities.

If you don’t have a set wordpress forum page, then you can create one, see method 2 in the link above

[@debi_c Participant 10 years, 5 months ago]

Thank you Robin!!

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 5 months ago]

you’re welcome