[alanchrishughes]

I don’t want to have anything to do with all the theme files mixed up with the plugin, there is just way to much going on there that I don’t want in my theme.

Is there anyway to just add two little files to your existing theme, one that lists (paginated) all threads, and then obviously the single thread page? I don’t want it to automatically add any links, breadcrumbs, post date, tags, or anything else. If I don’t add it myself, I don’t want it to be on the page, just the way WordPress itself works.

[alanchrishughes]

not possible?

[LabSecrets]

Sounds like what you want to do is use shortcodes, after installing the default bbPress plugin (or installing BuddyPress version).

You’ll still want (need) a little styling of the default twentyten template style to help it match your current theme, but otherwise the bbPress forums can be added to a page with just the shortcodes features you wish to display:

See shortcodes here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

We’ve done a little tutorial video that shows how this might work with your theme (forward to the “hybrid” option in the video, about mid-way)

http://labsecrets.com/2012/01/23/buddypress-and-bbpress-forums-made-easy/

Cheers!

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[Alexandru Vornicescu]

btw bbpress is very minimal in comparison to other forum platforms, you can easily use only CSS file to modify something without need to integrate all php files in the theme, or some of them.