In this video, we show you how to easily create three flavors of forums: BuddyPress Group Forums, bbPress Sitewide Forums, or a custom “hybrid” support forum with forums, topics, and tag cloud.
BuddyPress and bbPress Forums made easy!
bbPress, BuddyPress, LabZip, Public Posts, Quick Tips, Tutorial • 4 Comments
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This is a great tutorial but I’m having a problem. The website declines to show the new forum page I created. (this is on a test site on my computer) It does show all the other buddypress pages, so it’s something I’m doing wrong per your instructions.
I didn’t have a forums page set up to start with so my forum page is new and there is no forum page in the trash.
I’ve walked through the video a couple of times. The agf-group-forums page is set to public.
Hi Diane,
if you provide a url, it would be easy for us to have a look. Without knowing that, it sounds like you may have missed the step where you need to ensure that the “forum” slug is not already in use by the native buddypress group forums. This also means that you should check in the “trash” to ensure a page with the slug “forums” is not in there either.
This is a 403 forbidden page error. Since this is not a live site, I can’t show it to you. I’m using Instant Press just to test things before I crash my real sites. Finally learned! I didn’t create a forums page – I created a page with a different slug as you directed. This was a first time set up for the Buddypress pages.
Do you ever do any consulting that is not directly related to your product? I have an active site up with a theme I like but I am not too savvy on the buddypress, bbpress, wordpress combo. Does this solution above work with a multi-user site?
If you get a 404 or 403, then you should check your Permalinks are “saved”. This is a good idea after setting up BuddyPress or bbPress the first time
Go to Settings/Permalinks and click “save” one time.
We do consult yes, so feel free to call us at 312.344.3280 or skype “spencerforman” or email help@labsecrets.com
The solution above should work with multisite, but remember that (presently) there is only ONE BuddyPress and one bbPress installation involved in any multisite setup.