[@trickyshot777 Member 12 years, 11 months ago]

Thanks for reminding me about using widgets! How nuts is that!… ‘paralysis-by-analysis’ and all that – I was just mesmerised by getting the forum to work, which it does now… incredible! Thanks dcavins and mercime!

Question for mercime: Perhaps the deactivation of Discussion Forums via Components tab should be mentioned in the Installation instructions for BuddyPress so bbPress would work and do its thing. I would never have known how to sort this out because I was on a hiding to nothing following the advice on the bbPress forum itself, which had me chasing my tail! Good thing you guys know what you’re talking about!

At https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/2/ I still don’t quite understand the following…
“Note: During the Installation Wizard, Forums will be associated with the “Forums” page. In some installations, you do not need to change anything. But if your sitewide forums won’t work, go to wp-admin BuddyPress > Pages and you’ll find the association and remove the Forums Page as the selected page.”
As far as I can see removing the Forums Page is not an option from the Pages tab (!) – only from the Components tab where Discussion Forums can be unchecked…mmmmm…

[@trickyshot777 Member 12 years, 11 months ago]

Everything has tidied itself up which is great… final dilemma… how can I have a page visible in my sidebar without creating a link-page to go there!? The Forum page exists via bbPress but there is nothing for the visitors to click on the Front-end… sorry if this is obvious!

[@trickyshot777 Member 12 years, 11 months ago]

Thank you very much for your advice and tips… absolutely brilliant!