I have a blog with the Suffusion-theme on wich I just installed bbpress. I don’t need a fancy theme for bbpress.

* Created a new page for the forum (blablabla.com/Forum)

* Set up all the forums/subforum etc.

* Used the shortcode for showing the forum = [bbp-forum-index]

Things looks okey so far! Now I want to remove the sidebars from the forum (not the page, I know how to do that) and I have read a couple of tutorials but still don’t get it.

I don’t want to use a theme or childtheme, I want the forum to have the same coloring etc. as the Suffusion theme I use. So where do I remove the sidebars?

I have removed <?php get_sidebar(); ?> from:

* single-forum.php

* single-topic.php

* single-reply.php

as described in another thread in here. I changed this in mypage.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten

But I don’t use that theme. I use NO theme. So where do I remove the sidebars?

Please let me know what I’m doing wrong here!

[@per-carlen Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

Another thing; can I apply a theme on bbpress that doesn’t affect the rest of my blog? Like Suffusion for the blog, Twenty Ten for bbpress?

Thanks!

[@noerman Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

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I changed this in mypage.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten

But I don’t use that theme. I use NO theme. So where do I remove the sidebars?

Hi, AFAIK every bbPress usage always use ‘bbPress default theme’ located within …/wp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentyten folder (except you integrated it with your WordPress theme or you are using custom theme already).

So you are using ‘bbPress theme’ already and there are no sidebars within that default theme. Sidebars if from your WordPress theme, that you should edit.

Things looks okey so far! Now I want to remove the sidebars from the forum (not the page, I know how to do that) and I have read a couple of tutorials but still don’t get it.

Some theme have page template to display ‘full width page’, you must choose it. If your theme don’t have it try create it.

Here are sample of page using shortcode [bbp-forum-index]

-> http://themescommunity.com/forums-index/

I’m newbie too!

[@per-carlen Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

Thanks alot for helping me out!

I have removed <?php get_sidebar(); ?> in the .php’s within …/wp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentyten folder, but as you say, that’s not where I should be looking.

The thing is that I want to keep my sidebars on the rest of the blog so I don’t want to remove them in my wp-theme (Suffusion). Is there a way to remove the sidebars from the forum part of my blog, but keep them on the other pages?

Thanks again!

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[@noerman Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

I’m not using Suffusion theme, so I not really sure if Suffusion have full-width page template. Do they have it?

How about trying to create empty page or with some dummy content and publish it. Do the published page have sidebar?

If yes, try change page template to ‘full-width’. If you don’t have it, post here just maybe I can help you create it. I will find Suffusion theme later, it’s free isn’t it?

If no, then you should be okay. Just replace the dummy content with shortcode.

[@per-carlen Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

I’m not sure I’m getting you. If I’m creating a new page I can chose “No Sidebars” as template, which I have done for the page where I’ve put my bbpress shortcodes (myblog.com/forum) That page looks fine.

The problem is when I click on a topic or whatever on that page and gets taken to another page. Like myblog.com/forums/forum/topic/

Then the sidebars show up.

Did I just answer your question?

I really appreciate that you’re taking your time to answer me!

Please don’t give up on me yet

[@noerman Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

I’m not sure I’m getting you. If I’m creating a new page I can chose “No Sidebars” as template, which I have done for the page where I’ve put my bbpress shortcodes (myblog.com/forum) That page looks fine.

Yes, that what I meant and you already do that.

The problem is when I click on a topic or whatever on that page and gets taken to another page. Like myblog.com/forums/forum/topic/

Then the sidebars show up.

Its using another page template that I will describe later if you can provide me the content of “No Sidebars” page template. It will be modified to suit another template for use in bbPress.

Did I just answer your question?

I really appreciate that you’re taking your time to answer me!

Please don’t give up on me yet

For your notes, English was not my mother language. I’m Indonesian and I do love to help, since it took my two days to understand bbPress (and I still confused a lots) and able to start my own forum site. I browse this forum, since this is the only help available.

[@noerman Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

More explanation..

Your forums_index page is located at myblog.com/forum and displayed full-width or no sidebar. That is what you want and displays perfectly.

But when you accessing a topic or reply it will show sidebar, it happen due each forum specific page is using specific ‘page template’ that belong to bbPress theme.

Here example:

myblog.com/forums – default forums will using ‘single-forum.php’ page template

myblog.com/forum – your custom page that you use now (in my case I create custom template ‘page-forum-home.php’ to show page without sidebar. On your case just using ‘No Sidebar’ template page)

But when you browse into (forum)

myblog.com/forums/forum/general/ – it will using ‘single-forum.php’ page template

When you browse more (topic)

myblog.com/forums/topic/rules-and-ethics/ – it will using ‘single-topic.php’ page template

And that also applies when you edit something or doing something else, it will use different page template that belong to bbPress theme.

How to solve this?

I want you to understand that your WordPress theme (not bbPress theme) have page templates, such as

page.php - default page

page-full.php - page to show full width or no sidebar

page-blog.php

page-contact.php

page-gallery.php

page-login.php

page-search.php

page-sitemap.php

page-template-portfolio.php

etc ... (the number varries and depend on each WP theme)

You need to copy page-full.php or whatever page to show full width or no sidebar content (html and php styles) and replace (about 75%) for your others bbpress theme.

That what I going to by owning your the content of “No Sidebars” page template of yours.

So your forum will display the same layout and styles.

[@per-carlen Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

Your english is fine dude! I’m from Sweden myself.

This is Suffusion’s template “no-sidebars.php”:

<?php

/**

* Template Name: No Sidebars

*

* @package Suffusion

* @subpackage Templates

*/



get_header();

?>



<div id="single-col">

<?php

suffusion_page_navigation();

suffusion_before_begin_content();

?>

<div id="content">



<?php

global $post;

if (have_posts()) {

while (have_posts()) {

the_post();

$original_post = $post;

?>

<div <?php post_class('fix'); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

<?php suffusion_after_begin_post(); ?>

<div class="entry-container fix">

<div class="entry fix">

<?php suffusion_content(); ?>

</div><!--/entry -->

<?php

// Due to the inclusion of Ad Hoc Widgets the global variable $post might have got changed. We will reset it to the original value.

$post = $original_post;

suffusion_after_content();

?>

</div><!-- .entry-container -->



<?php suffusion_before_end_post(); ?>

<?php comments_template(); ?>

</div><!--/post -->

<?php

}

}

?>

</div>

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

[@noerman Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

After I seeing above source code, I think that my previous method (that I would like to suggest you) won’t be working as suppose.

So I download the Suffusion theme, trying on my Xampp and found simple answer. You just need to deactivate ‘Sidebar Layout’ into 0 (Zero).

Go to your site at

yoursite.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=suffusion-options-manager&tab=theme-options-sidebars-and-widgets.php

You will have a sidebar layout options, try change the default views into 0 (Zero) or no sidebar at all. You can still manage others to have sidebar(s), just find another related options.

Default Views

The theme is set up with one sidebar (a two-column theme) by default. You could choose to have two sidebars (a three-column theme) or none if you want. Unless otherwise overridden in the subsequent options, this will be applied to your entire blog.

0 (Zero) -> choose this

1 (One)

2 (Two)

The save by clicking Save page ‘Sidebar Layout’

Suffusion is way to complex for code modification, and I hope above method working as suppose, since it work on my localhost.

Hit me if you still have trouble!

[@per-carlen Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

That got the forum looking like I want it, but my mainpage is not a “page” so I can’t find where to chose another template for it?

For the other pages I just chose a template with left and right sidebar and they looked as before.

So, just the startpage is messed up now Any ideas?

[@per-carlen Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

I just wasted an hour of experimenting with turning my homepage/blogpage into a static page, creating categories etc. Then I realised that the setting amount of sidebars on blogpage was just underneath the setting you just reffered to…..

Thanks again man! Things are just like I want them!

[@per-carlen Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

On last thing that I would like to know:

Is it possible to have one theme on the blog, pages etc. and another theme for the forum?

I might want to download a template for the forum but I don’t want the whole blog to use that theme.

[@per-carlen Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

Please look at this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/i-cant-find-bbpress-admin-panel-two-more-issues-help-really-needed

[@fntk8866 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

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