I have both Group and Central forums activated. I created different group forums with topics. When I log in as the site admin I can see all forums and topics. When I login as a subscriber to the same page: http://localhost/mysite/forums/ the forum directory is empty and it says there are no topics. this happens even if the subscriber created himself the topics.

I added the slug -central to Central Forums. I am using WP3.3

I checked on the Web and found many people with the same problem with previous versions. I guess people who tried to help just logged in as the admin and could not reproduce the bug.

[@bollocks187 Member 13 years ago]

I think the “Fourms” code is buggy. I have an install with WP MU multisite and when I try and activate the Forums groups it says I don not have permissions. Works on my local machine but not on my hosted machine. it could be an access user permissions issue.

If you look at this sites “forums” it too suffers from lack of functionality and the BBpress authors developers cannot fix it or refuse to. This is an indication of bugs in the code.