Hey guys,

I’m having one issue that I can’t seem to figure out. I’ve looked everywhere but I can’t find anyone with the same issue. I’m using the Be Theme with bbPress, and my sidebar widgets (for the forum only) aren’t showing up. When I drag the widgets onto the Plugin | bbPress sidebar, I get an empty sidebar. When I put the widgets in the footer or on a different sidebar (like the blog or even the footer), they work fine. The people from Be Theme say bbpress is fully compatible with Be Theme so I’m a bit confused.

Additionally, I’ve tried deactivating all plugins besides bbpress and that didn’t help. I also ran the forum repairs and nothing happened. I still haven’t tried switching to the twentytwelve theme because I don’t want to lose all of my settings for my current theme.

Have any of you ever encountered this before? I figured I’d try here before trying on the Be Theme forums.

MY ACTIVATED PLUGINS (even though I said my plugins aren’t the cause of the issue)—————–

– Add Meta tags, All in one SEO pack, bbpress, bbpress report content, bbpress login register, contact form 7, duplicate post, force regenerate thumbnails, gd bbpress attachments, gd bbpress tools, google analytics, google xml sitemaps, jellyfish counter widget, jetpack, layerslider wp, mycred, newsletter, related posts thumbnails, slider revolution, user role editor, wordpress popular posts, wp smush, wp user avatar, wpbakery visual composer

bbpress v2.5.8 and the latest version of wordpress. Additionally, I’d rather not give my website name publicly, but I will give links to a mod if they need it.

Here is a screenshot of the site so you can see. There is a sidebar active (once I delete the widgets the sidebar goes away obviously).

Thanks in advance

[@sidebarissue Participant 8 years, 9 months ago]

Here’s the screenshot Problem

[@casiepa Moderator 8 years, 9 months ago]

Could you point me to that plugin for bbPress sidebar ?

Pascal.

[@sidebarissue Participant 8 years, 9 months ago]

Hi Pascal,

There’s no plugin. It’s just the standard sidebar that bbpress comes with. here’s a screenshot. On the right you see Plugin | bbPress and I have put a few widgets in there. Once I go to mysite.com/forums/, I get an empty sidebar.

[@casiepa Moderator 8 years, 9 months ago]

Ah ok,
Then please start from here: https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#26-creating-a-bbpress-specific-sidebar

Pascal.

[@sidebarissue Participant 8 years, 9 months ago]

thanks for the advice, i’ll get looking into this. But shouldn’t the pre-made sidebar ‘Plugin | bbPress’ be a working sidebar? I’m just confused about that.

Underneath the sidebar called ‘Plugin | bbPress’ it says “Main sidebar for bbpress pages that appears on the right. Leave it empty to use the full page layout”. I don’t really understand how your solution solves my problem of widgets that aren’t showing up.

[@casiepa Moderator 8 years, 9 months ago]

To be honest I have not seen that before. It does not seem standard bbPress to me.
I would guess this is coming from your theme or from a plugin.

Pascal.

[@robkk Moderator 8 years, 9 months ago]

@sidebarissue

The bbPress sidebar that you see having the issue, is from your theme. bbPress does not have code in it for a bbPress specific sidebar.

You haven’t checked and made sure to see if it was in your theme by switching/testing a default theme.

I still haven’t tried switching to the twentytwelve theme because I don’t want to lose all of my settings for my current theme.

You can try your current theme and a WordPress default theme in a local installation on your cpu to see where the sidebar is coming from.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/testing-your-bbpress-installation/creating-a-test-site/#local-installation