Before you launch any forum, it's important to visit the bbPress settings page and check over the options to make sure they are according to your requirements.
By default, bbPress populates the options with the most common settings. However, it may not be suitable for all, so it's a worthwhile check to make.
To view this page, within the WordPress Administration Dashboard, head to the Forums options page, which is a subpage of Settings. It is not the Forums page you see in the sidebar. To make sure you are viewing the correct screen, you should check with the following screenshot:
This section is split into four subsections, Main Settings, which sets global settings to the forum, Per Page, which sets up the forum's display settings on the page, and Archive and Single Slugs, which sets up the forum's Pretty Permalinks, as discussed earlier in this chapter.