I am a newbie with WordPress and I have been using a custom menu widget placed at the top of all of my pages to keep a consistent header going. I am now trying to use bbPress and discovered I can create a page called “Forum” and use a page builder to place my menu widget above the forum shortcode widget to achieve the header.

However, when I select a forum/topic, it goes to a different page, one that is generated by bbPress and as such, doesn’t have a page builder design of which I can place a header.

It seems like the best solution would be to implement this header into all my pages through editing some php file somewhere but that is a bit beyond my technical ability. Is there a way to add widgets to ALL bbpress pages?

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years ago]

yes there is, but basically it needs you to know what your page template is called

see

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

item 8 for some more details

[@thepageman Participant 8 years ago]

Thanks Robin, I managed to add the menu at the top. Legitimately took me about 5 hours of work, googling and research but I figured it out and now know PHP so yay

A menu is now part of my child theme 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years ago]

great – the investment of time will pay back!