Sorry to ask such a silly question, but I cannot seem to find info on them other than the http://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ page. I have an idea of what they are, I’m just not sure how exactly to use them. It explains on that page that I just insert them into my desired page, but does not elaborate on that. I was hoping to find an article somewhere that goes over them in detail, but have yet to find it. So, I’ve decided to make a noob post here the bbpress forums.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

@skisma

The shortcodes can be used on any wordpress page

so if fro instance you wanted a menu item that display the most recent 15 topics across all your forums, so that when people selected this menu item that what they saw, then you would

1. create a page – maybe called ‘latest topics’
2. put the shortcode into the content section in this case

[bbp-topic-index]

3. add that page to the menu

[@skisma Participant 10 years ago]

@robin-w Ahh ok I see, so basically they are only used for actual pages. That’s what I didn’t get before, I was wondering how I’d accomplish that using the shortcode for a widget. Now I understand this isn’t possible and shortcodes are only used for pages. Thanks man!

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

No problem!