It can certainly be done but requires a moderate level of PHP and WordPress knowledge. It won’t be easy to do if you are not familiar with WordPress and PHP.
I can’t tell you exactly what code to use because I don’t know you use case.
As I said each forum has it’s own CSS class, such as bbp-forum-4. You can use this sto style the various areas however you see fit.
Are you familiar with CSS? If not then there really isn’t going to be an easy way, unfortunately.
Every forum, topic, and reply has unique CSS identifiers applied to it. So this should be very easy to do if you are familiar with CSS. Just add the appropriate tweaks to your theme’s primary CSS file.
No there is no easy way to duplicate the plugin nor is that recommended at all – it would be nothing short of a nightmare to maintain.
Again, what you want to do is do-able. However you will have to get your hands dirty and do some research or hire a developer who can make the customizations for you.
If you want to customize some fields on one but not the other that’s going to require you to write a custom plugin and/or a custom theme. It’s certainly do-able but isn’t going to be done without some research and elbow grease.
You would want to show the fields and then add a conditional that shows/hides based on what page/forum you are viewing.
I have not personally tried that, so I’m not 100% sure. However I think you best bet is going to be using shortcodes to try and do this.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
This is totally possible, bit you need to piggy back off a better foundation.
For example, bbPress 2.1 + Genesis Framework + bbPress Genesis Extend plugin allows exactly this.
It provides ton’s of layout options for bbPress – you can inherit the site-wide Genesis layout, set your own site-wide layout just for bbPress, or set layouts on a per forum basis – like I said, tons of options.
Bottom line is using the Genesis Framework (or anything similar) it’s really simply to provide this functionality as the foundation is already there.
Trying to tackle this – and have it work for all themes and use cases – within bbPress seems like a logistic nightmare.
Having dealt directly with tons of frameworks, I can say this with pretty good confidence 
Closing this topic as it’s attracting bozos. Plenty of solid recommendations above
As OC2PS said, it’s definitely you there.
Unfortunately many themes out there filter the_content and do other weird (and not so correct) things that bbPress doesn’t/can’t take into account.
My recommendation would be to contact the theme author and alert him of the issues you are having.
Yep, that’s a some-what common issue.
In 2.1 table layouts have been ditched for the much preferred clean xhtml (lists, and what not) however some theme’s choke on it.
There are some wrappers in place (such as #bbpress-forums) you should be able to use to reset the styles that are needed,
This is a common problem and 95% of time it is due to your theme doing some weird voodoo that it shouldn’t be doing.
Best way to tell is switch your theme to TwentyEleven temporarily and see if that fixes the issue, if it does then your theme is modifying the query some where.
At the moment there is no easy way to unhook those sections, so you would you would need to edit your theme.
Ah ok, sorry, I’m only familiar with the plugin version of bbPress (2+).
If you edit the topic in the WordPress admin dashboard, you will see the topic ID in the URL.
For example http://wptrunk/wp-admin/post.php?post=6&action=edit where the topic ID would be 6,
Unfortunately there is no easy or out-of-the-box way to do that and would require custom coding in your theme and/or a custom plugin.
What version of bbPress are you running?
I doubt it’s 2+ because what your saying doesn’t make any sense – is it 1.x?
The easiest fix is to use the user widget bbPress provides in the sidebar, and when you are not logged in it will provide links to either Login or Register.
I’m not sure I understand. You said you wanted to:
“display the latest posts from different external blogs in my BBPress sidebar?”
1 – Go to Appearance > Widgets
2 – Drag RSS widget to the sidebar you are using with the forums
3 – Enter RSS URL
That should be all there is to it…
There is a filter in place you can use to tweak this, bbp_get_title_max_length
See bbp-core-options.php around line 370 or so.
Appears like you got this figured out (by the way your site looks)
There is no need to bump your thread the within the same day of posting it.
There is an RSS widget built into WordPress, so I’m not sure I understand the problem – you should be able to just use it.
It is certainly possible but would require a custom theme built from scratch – there really wouldn’t be an “easy” way to go about it.
There are several different things you can do.
I would recommend inserting this information by using hooks that bbPress put in place. Unfortunately there is no “master list” of the available hooks, so you have to dig in bbPress and find the best one. It’s very do-able but will take some trial and error.
Your other option would be to approach things like you are doing now. I would use bbPress conditionals instead of is_page(). Here are a few of the conditionals available:
bbp_is_single_forum()
bbp_is_single_topic()
bbp_is_topic_edit()
bbp_is_topic_merge()
bbp_is_topic_split()
bbp_is_single_reply()
bbp_is_reply_edit()
bbp_is_reply_edit()
bbp_is_single_view()
bbp_is_single_user_edit()
bbp_is_single_user()
bbp_is_user_home()
bbp_is_subscriptions()
bbp_is_favorites()
bbp_is_topics_created()
is_bbpress() (this is all of the above wrapped in one)
Unfortunately this is not a feature bbPress 2.x has at this time.
Hopefully someone will write a plugin in the future that adds this feature!
You don’t need to revert your permalink – you don’t need to even change them.
When you go to Settings > Permalinks, simply loading that page triggers permalinks to be flushed.
As to why it won’t work with pretty permalinks, it could be a combination of things really. Does *any* part of the forum work with pretty permalinks? Does the rest of your site work OK with pretty permalinks?
