Hello friendly webpeople,
So I’m fairly new to the website creating world (go me) and thanks to GoDaddy’s website builder, I actually have something pretty nice. One of the things I wanted to do was add a forum. Talking with the GD tech support people, they suggested getting wordpress (hosted through them) and then downloading the bbPress plugin, and easy-as-pie – NOW YOU HAVE A MESSAGE BOARD!

But that’s where they left me.

I’ve been trying for hours to figure out how you go from the dashboard, which is basically a blogger UI, to turning it into a message board. For years, I was an admin for a little board we all ran, but it was a YaBB board and everything I had to do, I did from the admin panel.

Is there a simple way to make this plugin look and behave like a message board?

Please help this poor little sheep.

Your pal,
Sam

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 11 months ago]

if you have WordPress all set up and also downloaded and activated bbPress.

then follow this article and see if it helps.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

if you want more explained articles on how to set up your forums

there is a step by step 5 part guide on how to setup bbPress

in codex.bbpress.org/

still have issues then please reply back