It appears that woocommerce is a conflicting plugin. I disabled it and my forum works normally. What can I do to fix this problem and still use woocommerce?
The problem turned out to be a setting in the custom sidebars plugin. I had to set the custom sidebar to be shown on forum archives for it to show up on the forum homepage… also forums and topics for it to show there.
Thanks
I also tried all the “forum wrappers” in the ‘bbPress WP Tweaks’ and it didn’t work.