Hi

I am customizing BBpress with Elementor

i managed to add a theme builder template for bbpress with display conditions :
Forums > Forums
Forums > Forums by author

That’s all i can find as conditions on theme builder
so it applies to forums but not to :
– forum home
– topics
– profiles

i can’t figure out how to include those in the template
i tried the Any child of condition but i can’t find the forum homepage in the list
i can only set Any child of … and then add each forum one by one, which is not a good solution when a forum has plenty of forums

the easiest solution would be Any child of “Homepage forum”

Any help welcome thank you

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 1 month ago]

what theme are you using ?

[@deepblue5 Participant 3 years, 1 month ago]

i tried every theme, at the moment the default theme Twenty twenty one, makes no difference

if you have elementor you can try, i wonder why elementor doesn’t detect forum/ as a page

maybe because it is not a real page on a WP basis, forums and topics are, but homepage forum seems not to be (like profiles and search too)

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 1 month ago]

sorry I’m just a bbpress user who helps out here and I have limited time to try stuff.

you could look at

https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ item 3 method 2

[@deepblue5 Participant 3 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks a lot Robin thats exactly what i was looking for

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 1 month ago]

[@deepblue5 Participant 3 years, 1 month ago]

For those who have the same problem, here is the solution :

Here is how you can do it :

First you need elementor pro so that you can use theme builder

Then on theme builder you add conditions to your template for single post :

include :
Forums > Forums
Forums > Forums by author
and :
Any child of (to include topics too)

Then you exclude :

All pages
All posts

so that the template only applies to the forum

Then you create a page for your forum homepage and you paste : [bbp-forum-index]

on this page you have full control with elementor

the standard homepage is /forums/ so you just need to redirect /forums/ to this page (permanent redirect)

For some reason only profile pages and search pages are not included in this template, but not a real problem in my opinion

[@deepblue5 Participant 2 months, 2 weeks ago]

Hi

Addition to my previous message :

Best conditions on your forum Elementor template is :

to include forums :
include : Forums > Forums

to include topics :
include : Any child of parent category 1
include : Any child of parent category 2
…

most of the time a forum has 3 to 5 main parent categories, so it’s easy to apply conditions to include all topics

that’s all folks

[@deepblue5 Participant 2 months, 2 weeks ago]

Hi Robin, please change in my previous post “category” by “forum” to be more specific

so it gives :

to include topics :
include : Any child of parent forum 1
include : Any child of parent forum 2
…