I am using forums.php as my custom template to modify bbpress. I copied content of archive-forum into it and modified it a bit. Thing is, the forum lists shows up as expected. But no topic or list of topics is shown on following the links. This is all I get.

Oh bother! No forums were found here!

Using the default page.php gives no problem.

Here’s the code for forums.php

<?php

/**
 * bbPress - Forum Archive
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

get_header(); ?>
<div id="main-content">
	<div id="millir-header-feat">
		<div class="container">
			<h1 class="entry-title"><?php bbp_forum_archive_title(); ?></h1>
		</div>
	</div>
	<div class="container">
	<div id="content-area" class="clearfix">
		<div id="left-area">
			<?php do_action( 'bbp_before_main_content' ); ?>

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_notices' ); ?>

			<div id="forum-front" class="bbp-forum-front">				
				<div class="entry-content">

					<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'content', 'archive-forum' ); ?>

				</div>
			</div><!-- #forum-front -->

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_after_main_content' ); ?>
		</div>
		<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
	</div>
	</div>	
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 4 months ago]

bbPress will use that forum.php file as a wrapper template for all of bbPress pages and that is most likely what the issue is.

I’d suggest if you need a wrapper template to work with your theme you copy the contents of your themes page.php to a file named bbpress.php.

Then copy any bbPress templates you want to customize to your themes folder.

See these for more info on copying bbPress templates and child themes:

Functions files and child themes – explained !

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[@millir Participant 10 years, 4 months ago]

Where to copy the files?

Should I copy the files in /mytheme/bbpress or in /mytheme/ itself? Currently, I have copied all files to /mytheme/bbpress and facing same issue.

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 4 months ago]

You copy the files to /mytheme/bbpress as stated in the links above.

You also should change your template as I suggested above, that is the primary cause of your issue I think.