Installing Group and Sitewide Forums
You can easily setup forum using bbPress from wp-admin backend with a few clicks. Depending of your requirements you can choose
1. Setup sitewide forums only
2. Setup group and sitewide forum
3. Setup group forums only
Here is some questions arise
Question: What is the difference between forums for groups and sitewide forums?
Answer:
Forums for groups
Give each individual group its own discussion forum. Choose this if you’d like to keep your members’ conversations separated into distinct areas. bbPress Forums for Groups in BuddyPress are fully integrated and attached to Groups. The Group Admin has to enable the forum feature in the Group’s admin panel first.
Features:
* Group Integration
* Member Profile Integration
* Activity Stream Integration
* Forum Plugins Available
* @ Mention Integration
Site wide forums
Your site will have forums that are not isolated to any specific group. Choose this if you’d like to have a central forum area for your members.
Features:
* Central Discussion Area
* Member Profile Integration
* Forum Plugins Available
* Activity Stream Integration
* @ Mention Integration
1. Setup Site wide forums only
Install and activate bbPress
Proceed to bbPress.org Codex to get started in creating your Sitewide Forums.
If you kept the default slug ‘forums’ in Settings => Forums you can create a new page via Pages => Add New. Add title ‘Forums’ and insert the forum index shortcode and/or other shortcode that you will find in the bbPress Codex. Then publish the page.
Add your new page ‘Forums’ in your custom menu via Appearance => Menus
I will describe rest of the steps in my next blog.
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