You can try “bbPress WP tweaks” https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/ plugin for adding forum sidebar. There you can select which wrapper to use for bbPress and which sidebar of your theme replace with bbpress sidebar. Try different wrappers to find one with sidebar because some themes do not have sidebar on page.php, which is in most cases default wrapper for bbpress.
Hello, you can use bbPress wp Tweaks plugin for adding forum sidebar to your wordpress. Try different wrappers and add some widgets to bbpress sidebar to make it work. Plugin can be found on wordpress https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/
bbpress is worpdress plugin. you should copy bbpress folder to wp-contentplugins folder.
if you have problem installing wordpress plugin then read detailed instructions here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins
theme in main wp themes folder.
as basic integration you can duplicate your index.php file in your theme direcotry and name it bbpress.php. then make changes in that file. it is wrapper file that bbpress will use. bbpress checks for wrapper file in given order: ‘bbpress.php’, ‘forum.php’, ‘page.php’, ‘single.php’, ‘index.php’
If you want custom sidebar for bbpress pages then use “bbPress WP Tweaks” plugin from wordpress plugin repository.
bbpress checks for ‘bbpress.php’, ‘forum.php’, ‘page.php’, ‘single.php’, ‘index.php’ files in your theme directory. uses first file that exists in this order.
You can copy your index.php as bbpress.php and make changes on it.
