Thanks @dozza and @robin-w
I went back and redid it. Worked. Much appreciated!
I also have the site on Cloudflare and have set up a rule to have certain pages bypass the Cloudflare cache.
The folks at Elegant Themes have suggested creating a template for search results, which I’ve not done yet, but we’ll see if that does anything.
And yep, tried the other suggestions in this thread.
I’m experiencing similar issues at https://www.brugmansia.us/community/, a Divi site. But even when I use one of the WordPress default themes (2023), I get similarly poorly formatted results at best. I agree with those suggesting this is primarily a bbPress issue, not a theme issue.
I have a better than layman’s grasp of code, but not much better. Have read multiple threads. Is there an easy way to resolve the “Private: Private:” issue? I’d prefer there to be no “private” at all even though the forum is in fact private.