[@jaredatch Member 14 years, 7 months ago]

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