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davetropeano’s fix worked, although I had to dig a little to find out exactly what he was referring to.

You dont want to create a field but rather a row in the “bb_topicmeta” table.

I was able to check a working bbpress installation on Linux to verify the setting. I noticed that the bb_active_theme was set to use the full server path to the template folder. The below did the trick for me.

meta_id = next available number

topic_id = 0

meta_key = bb_active_theme

meta_value = /bbpress-path/bb-templates/theme-to-use/

Save that, cross your fingers and refresh your forum.