With the forums edit page I was able to create a category and forum for it.  But there was no way to add topics.  I looked in the documentation and the Topics & Posts area is "under construction."  There must be a way to add topics by way of the back end.  To do adds for the catalog and forum ribbons the plus icon works but for the latter only the subforum addition is there but no create topics options are presented.  Someone suggested that the Create Topic permission setting was off and I should go to Settings of the forum to switch it on.  But the only topic setting was to display only.

I learned that from wpForo Forum Dashboard-->Visit Forum to choose
the forum you want to add topics to. Then an Add Topic button appears
where a title and description can be created and published. But
when the user attempts to add a reply to the topic using
website.com/community/forum slug/topic slug, the program cannot be found.
All the wpForo files are present in the database from the transaction
but there are no programs loaded to process the data for replies.

Hi  @norcom41 

It seems there might be some confusion. Could you please provide more information and clarify the issue? Additionally, attaching screenshots could be helpful for our professionals to better understand the problem and offer appropriate assistance.

The forum exists and I was able to discover a way to add about ten topics.  Then I chose forum from the website using a test user and tried to add a reply.  It tried to execute a file using the ref to the topic and the URL used was in the community folder.  There is no such folder anywhere with that filename.  There are no such files in my system and it is just trying to load a page to be able to enter a reply for the topic selected.

On website page, "Forum" is a choice on the menu. When selected it navigates
to the forum display page to work with and a topic list is presented from which
one is selected. When chosen, a prompt saying "Please login" [for entering a reply]
requires a username and password. When provided it responds "Welcome Back!"
All these processes use stored data in the DB. But when the system tries to locate
the file to provide a reply entry page it "responds "Not Found." The URL displayed with
this actual test is www.biblebookletstore.com/community/jesus-saves/reb1-2Adam_sin.
There is no folder called "community" and it's interesting that an intermediate name
is the forum name and the slug is the topic name. But it can't locate the file it needs
to run from the URL it's constructed because it's "not found."