Reply To: is it possible for me to recreate the forums?
Adam,
This is definitely be possible. There’s a fair bit of work involved, but I re-wrote most of the bbpress templates from the ground up for my new site using the bbpress functions included in the plugin as well as a few custom ones I wrote myself.
Just install bbpress, set it to theme compatibility settings, then take over the css and template files in your theme directory.
CSS goes in yourtheme/css
Base bbpress page types go in yourtheme directory (archive-forum, archive-topic, single-forum, single-topic, single-topic-edit, single-reply-edit, and single-user are the most important ones)
All the sub-templates (content, loops, forms, and pagination) goes in yourtheme/bbpress
Using this as a general guide you can rebuild bbpress from the ground up to suit your needs. Check out my bbpress enabled theme at http://tamrielfoundry.com
