Reply To: I can't get my forum to functon at all.
ok try
Deactivate bbpress tweaks
Dashboard>plugins>bbpress tweaks>deactivate
Go into widgets
Dashboard>appearance>widgets
And look at the bottom of the left hand side. You’ll see an “inactive sidebar”, with your entries on
Below this is an “inactive widgets”
Drag all the entries from the inactive sidebar to the inactive widgets area.
This then allows wordpress to delete the sidebar
I normally log out and in again at this stage – probably not needed, but I’ve never bothered to check
Then basically reverse the above
Re-enable bbpress tweaks
You see the bbpress sidebar returns
Drag the entries back from the inactive widgets area to the sidebar
As soon as you’ve got the site vaguely going again, you need to STOP !!!! YES STOP!!!!!!!!!!
Then take a breath, and create a test site – you cannot continue to develop your site in live, and you need a child theme. So you’ll need to read.
https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/
Once you have a test site, you can change things there first and then when you are happy put it into live.