To display a link to the Forum page in your menu, you should be able to add it in the Menu editor. To change the default forum role of new users, go into Settings->Forum, and change the Auto Role to the one you want.
Check out User Access Manager for point 1). For stripping back the menus & controlling access, check out the User Role Editor. You can strip user capabilities down to the bare essentials, and a lot of the items in the menu will disappear for them. For example, removing all *_themes privileges will hide the Appearance … Read more
Someone has already asked this question before about a forum like StackExchange for WordPress and the answers might be of some help to you. Open Source Forum for wordpress similar to stackexchange or stackoverflow
Okay, I manually commented out all instances of <?php get_sidebar)(); ?> in bbPress templates like so: <?php //get_sidebar)(); ?> Alternatively, you can simply remove the code as well. But I consider it a bad idea, in case you want to have sidebar in the future.
bbPress plugin: forum lists not showing in correct order? [closed]
Modified loop-single-forum.php to work inside of a sidebar Widget, not working on some site pages
There’s a way. First convert posts to topics and comments to replies with WordPress-to-bbpress-converter. This script is designed for BBpress 1: so you have to install first BBPress 1 and then use the script. After that you could use the official BBPress importer (from BBPress 1 to BBPress 2) located in Tools -> Forums -> … Read more
Ok, I figured it out In BuddyPress installation guide, it says I needed to delete “Forums” WordPress page so I did. Turn out that “Forums” page held on to mywebsite.com/forums permalink although it was already trashed. So I went into phpMyAdmin and change the slug of the page to forums1 and guid to mywebsite.com/forums1 (I’m … Read more
OK I got a quick Solution. I enable the plugin BBpress Moderation and change the following code in /wp-content/plugins/bbpressmoderation/bbpressmoderation.php FROM: /** * Before inserting a new topic/reply mark * this as ‘pending’ depending on settings * * @param array $data – new topic/reply data */ function pre_insert($data) { global $wpdb; if (@$data[‘post_status’]==’spam’) return $data; // … Read more
There is currently no way to search within a specific plugin’s support threads only and due to the complexity of WordPress’s existing network, this is not likely to be addressed any time soon. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-search-these-forums/ However, one can search among a particular plugin’s forum {topics} using a similar method to what @Milo posted above in the … Read more