The forum tab is not highlighted when the forum is displayed

[lightcapturer]

One of the coolest in BP 1.3, that it has support for bbpress plugin, including the bp-default theme. One of the lacking is on the navigation menu: the forum tab is not highlighted when the forum is displayed.

[DJPaul]

Woah, weird seeing me in the screenshot! Anyway.

I can't recreate this. How are you adding the bbPress forum into the menu? Are you using custom menus or not?

[lightcapturer]

;)

I'm just using a regular page and gave it a name same as the Forums Base slug. I'm not using custom menus because it doesn't works.

[lightcapturer]

The Discussion Forums on the BP Components I switch off also.

[DJPaul]

Though I can't recreate the error exactly the same as you, when I create a page called "forums", with bbPress and BuddyPress active/set up, WordPress just loads up the Page called "forums" (not bbPress). And, yes, the menu item isn't selected (class=current_page_item).

Tracing this back into wp_list_pages() -> $wp_query->get_queried_object_id(), $wp_queryquery_vars?post_type? is 'forum'. Because you are using the same URL name ("forums") as the registered root of one of bbPress' post types ("forum"). This then prevents the current_page_item class being set correctly.

Though this is unfortunate in this case, everything's working correctly. You'll either have to use a page slug other than "forums" for your page in the navigation, or use custom menus and create a ​http://.../forums/ link.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Moving closed ticket out of Awaiting Review.

[crzyhrse]

Thanks for this, same situation, just changed the slug to "discussions" and it highlights...

[crzyhrse]

Correction- changing slug highlighted tab, but disappeared the forums from the page...

Creating the custom menu item with the forum page link was the answer...