Rev. Voodoo

You want everyone to have their own blog?

Look this over:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Create_A_Network

That might be overkill for your needs, but I’m not sure what your needs are exactly. Everyone gets their own sort of WP site under yours with that setup….

Also, if you look a lot here: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search.php?q=buddypress

You can see there are BuddyPress plugins (I know plugin plugins is crazy)! – so you can take BuddyPress and add in a tonne of extended functionality like FaceBook style walls, etc. So you might be able to extend it to your needs

you need to post any sort of code in backtics to show up properly on the forums here – then it shows up in a fancy box like my example above

backtic is on the same key as the tilde…. the wiggly line, top left of your keyboard under Esc

The code you are posting is an actual link and will not work in the head section of your website, it is for making actual links in content of a webpage.

Ar eyou trying to link your pages to show ownership of the website? That’s what my code example is used for, I want to make sure we are speaking of the same thing

I do believe that code should have a bit more to it that goes in your head section…

for instance mine looks more like

<link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/+VoodooPressWP"/>

Or a custom taxonomy for the states would work as well… keeping your tags and categories free…

If you don’t need the tags for anything else, that’s the simplest route for sure!

You click it to edit your pages.

Only you can see it when you log in, we cannot.

Yeah @esmi, I tend to agree with you.

Only half my answer got posted (and twice somehow) – I’m having issues on the site right now woth posting it seems….

The child theme with just the minimum you need is the ideal and intended way to do it…. and it keeps the upgrades safe

Yup, a plugin. I make a special plugin for all my sites. Pretty much anything that could go in functions.php can go into a pluing

You need to see what it is you are overriding and do it appropriately… hook, filter, etc

Where are you trying to edit that permalink?

The overall permalink is generated by a few things in your settings. In your example you showed

Forums/forum/forum

That first ‘forums’ is generated by the forum root slug in your settings

The second ‘forum’ is generated by the forum slug in the single forum slug section of your settings

The final ‘forum’ in your example is probably a tag. Each of the settings is controlled in that setting menu and they all piece together to craft the various URL iterations

You can try resetting the permalinks (just visit the permalinks page and hit save) – sometimes that can refresh a borked transfer

If that doesn’t work, check to see what URL the site is attempting to go to when you press that comment button, sometimes something is amiss in there

Are you testing on a default theme with no plugins active?

Finally, is everything set up properly from the transfer? Various hosts have slightly different things that might be needed in a php.ini or .htaccess file. I’ve had strange results during transfers from such things.

It’s still there my friend, nobody has taken it away! ??

Are you just missing the edit button, or the entire bar?

Either way, my first suspicion would be a theme or plugin conflict – perhaps you are using one which hasn’t been fully tested with 3.8

Best bet is to deactivate them while testing

Does it even show up in your ‘installed plugins’ list?

hmmm… when I go through Plugins -> Add New and search/install bbPress and then activate it, I immediately get brought to a ‘Welcome to bbPress’ screen and several tabs added to my menu

1. There isn’t a tab immediately for bbPress

It shows up as Forums under settings

I think once it’s set up, you’ll get some top level tabs for the post types that are created

2. Empty your trash perhaps?

If you trash a post and make a new one with the same name, the old one still exists in the trash and a number gets appended to your new post

(I believe you’ll also run into that issue if you have pages, categories, etc with the same name)

Fantastic! Glad to help!