I’m trying to make my forum look uniform to the rest of my site with a dual sidebar of widgets. I’ve tried to follow the documentation for a bbPress specific sidebar and can’t get that to work either https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#26-creating-a-bbpress-specific-sidebar. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[@robin-w Moderator 7 years, 5 months ago]

looks like you’ve succeeded – do you still need help?

[@cobitts15 Participant 7 years, 5 months ago]

I tried using short code to call the forum and at first glance it works, but if you click on the test group and topics I made it goes back to full width.

Thanks for the reply

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years, 5 months ago]

ok, you’ll need to be using the right template – see

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

item 8

[@cobitts15 Participant 7 years, 5 months ago]

Okay so I copied the code from my page.php and made a bbpress.php

<?php get_header(); ?>
	<div class="content">
		<!-- Sidebar With Content Section-->
		<?php 
			$ultimate_kickoff_wrapper = 'container';
			$ultimate_kickoff_theme_option = get_option('ultimate_kickoff_admin_option', array());
			if(isset($ultimate_kickoff_theme_option['enable-boxed-style']) && $ultimate_kickoff_theme_option['enable-boxed-style'] == 'wide-style'){
				$ultimate_kickoff_wrapper = 'container-fluid';
			}else{
				$ultimate_kickoff_wrapper = 'container';
			}
			if( !empty($ultimate_kickoff_content_raw) ){ 
				echo '<div class="vc-wrapper '.esc_attr($ultimate_kickoff_wrapper).'">';
				while ( have_posts() ){ the_post();
					if( has_shortcode( get_the_content(), 'vc_row' ) ) {
						echo ultimate_kickoff_content_filter(get_the_content(), true); 
					}
				}
				echo '</div>';
				
				echo '<div class="pagebuilder-wrapper">';
				ultimate_kickoff_show_page_builder($ultimate_kickoff_content_raw);
				echo '</div>';
				
				
			}else{
				echo '<div class="'.esc_attr($ultimate_kickoff_wrapper).'">';
					$default['show-title'] = 'enable';
					$default['show-content'] = 'enable'; 
					echo ultimate_kickoff_get_default_content_item($default);
				echo '</div>';
			}
		
		?>
	</div><!-- content -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>

My theme options aren’t showing when I try to edit the forum.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years, 5 months ago]

hmm…. your theme is using lots of clever functions within the theme to do the page layout, which means I can’t say what you need to alter.

I’d suggest you contact your theme provider for help.

[@cobitts15 Participant 7 years, 5 months ago]

How can I manually call my sidebars that I’ve already made in the widget area?

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years, 5 months ago]

It’s all tied up with the theme’s page code

This all gets very code oriented, hence suggestion to go to theme provider

however if you’re a bit into code try

Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template