I installed the site wide forums on Buddy Press and they don’t seem to be working. I can create a new forum, but only the name and description of the forum shows up with no way to add a topic. You can see the forums I created here:
http://diabeticclub.com/forums/forums/fitness/
http://diabeticclub.com/forums/forums/diabetic-testing-equipment/

Also, it seems to have created the forums under a directory of forums/forums instead of forums. I can manually set the menu to match, but this seems weird.

The main forum page that was created is at http://diabeticclub.com/forums/ and has the bb press short code but doesn’t seem to work any better.

I tried creating another test page at http://diabeticclub.com/test-forums/ and added the forum short code of [bbp-forum-index] and it seems to display the forum better but when I click on one of the forums to post, it goes back to the first links above.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Wordpress version 3.3.1
BuddyPress version 1.5.3.1
bbPress version 2.02

[@dcavins Keymaster 12 years, 10 months ago]

My working setup for a site-wide forum is:
Disable the BuddyPress Forum component altogether (BuddyPress>Components)
Install the bbPress plugin for WordPress.
Don’t create a “Forum” page within WordPress. If one exists, I got odd behavior, even if it was in Draft status. (Definitely don’t make a Forums page and add the bbPress shortcode.)
Enable bbPress plugin.
Create a new forum via the admin menu Forums > New Forum.
Go to the dashboard menu Settings > Permalinks and Save. (This flushes your permalinks.)

Now, when you go to your bbPress default slug, it should take over and build the page. If you have other forum-related weirdness, like “Please pick the group forum where you would like to post this topic” or “Can’t create topic”, check for the existence of bbconfig.php at the root of your web space. If it exists, open it and make sure that it has the correct database info entered in it. (The host, user and password should probably match what is entered in wp-config.php.)

[@ebusinesstutor Member 12 years, 10 months ago]

I tried this and now when I go to a new forum page at http://diabeticclub.com/forums/forums/diet/ it gives me a page not found error message.

There isn’t a bbconfig.php file in my root directory.

[@dcavins Keymaster 12 years, 10 months ago]

Is bbPress activated? (From the WP admin interface, can you see new buttons on your dashboard for forums, topics & replies?) Can you add a new forum?

What’s your “forums base” & “single slug” at Settings > Forums?

[@ebusinesstutor Member 12 years, 10 months ago]

Yes, it seems to be activated. From WPadmin, I can see Forums, All Forums and New Forums and I can create a new one. No Topics and Replies buttons though.

The forums base for bbPress is forums
The single slug is forums

It does say there may be a conflict with buddy press with these slugs, but the buddypress forum option is turned off.

Thanks,

Garland

[@ebusinesstutor Member 12 years, 10 months ago]

Any further ideas on this? Or should I try another forum instead of bbPress?