I’ve just performed a clean installation of WP 4.5.3 and installed Version 2.5.10 of bbPress plugin. I am currently using the Twenty Fourteen theme.

I installed bbPress by following the instructions here on bbPress.org:

1. I created an empty page named “Forums” using the default forum root slug heading (i.e., ‘forums’).
2. Then I added the empty Forums page to the site’s main menu.

The only trouble that I’m having so far is: The “Forums” menu item [in the Secondary, Left-hand menu] isn’t highlighted when viewing the Forums page. I’d begin digging around to see if I can fix the problem myself but – without knowing anything about the complexities of WordPress – I’m not even sure where to begin debugging this. Is the menu’s dynamic functionality driven directly by WordPress? By the Twenty Fourteen theme? Or by the bbPress plugin?

Could someone please tell me how this is achieved? Or maybe tell me how to fix this?

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

[@robin-w Moderator 9 years ago]

Just tested, and it works fine on twentyfourteen on my test site.

Any chance of a link to your site?

[@epretorious Participant 9 years ago]

Thanks, Robin:

The site is PracticalXenServer.org.

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

[@robin-w Moderator 9 years ago]

ok, I can’t see why that is happening from the tools side.

Can you let me know how that menu item is set up – eg is it a page, a url link etc

[@epretorious Participant 9 years ago]

Robin:

I installed bbPress by following the instructions here on bbPress.org:

1. I created an empty page named “Forums” using the default forum root slug heading (i.e., ‘forums’).
2. Then I added the empty “Forums” page to the site’s main menu.

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

[@robin-w Moderator 9 years ago]

ok, I can’t see why it isn’t working, although I still have the top menu as well as the side one in my test site.

How did you turn off the top menu in your setup? I can’t instantly see how to do that

[@netweb Keymaster 9 years ago]

Maybe this? https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2204

[@epretorious Participant 9 years ago]

Robin:

Originally: I hid the top primary menu by adding a bit of CSS to the child theme:

.primary-navigation {
        display: none;
}

…but I have since enabled the top primary menu.

HTH,
Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

[@22organic Participant 8 years, 10 months ago]

Thank