[mysticalbatwoman]

I would like my bbpress forum to show up on my wordpress blog page called “forum”. I also would like the forum to have the same look as my blog (at least the top of it). I have bbpress loaded in a subdirectory of WP called “forum”. I’m new to html coding and would love step by step instructions from anyone who is patient with new students Thanks

[chrishajer]

Maybe this is relevant:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installing-bbpress-on-a-wordpress-website

What you are looking for is pretty common, but there’s not a super easy way to do it without designing a bbPress template to look like your theme.

An alternative is to install a forum plugin for WordPress, instead of bbPress.

Someone else recently asked the same question:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpresscom#post-16331

[mysticalbatwoman]

I guess I’ll try a forum plugin for WordPress. Do you happen to know any of the downfalls of doing such? I’ve just heard such great things about bbpress.

[chrishajer]

I think the forum plugins tend to be slow, but that’s just anecdotal.

bbPress is great, it will just require some work to make it look like your WordPress. It’s not as simple as just creating a page and BAM! bbPress looks like WordPress. You will need to create a new template for bbPress that looks like your WordPress blog, or find a bbPress template that matches what you’re using for WordPress.

[gerikg]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/make-bbpress-a-page-in-wordpress