I’ve installed bbpress on my wordpress site. On every page I have a footer supplied by the theme which displays fine, except on all my forum pages. Here it just displays as text, starting with “[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” content_placement=”middle” etc, so all of the WPBakery markup is just showing as text. I can’t try another theme as twenty twenty doesn’t show the footer anyway!

Any idea what I can look at? According to WhatTheFile it’s just using my theme’s page.php file

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years ago]

is the site public and forum pages visible ?

[@rosbiffer Participant 5 years ago]

Website is at https://pilotstogether.org, try https://pilotstogether.org/forums for a forum display

(Thank you!)

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years ago]

which theme are you using?

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years ago]

and can you look at this

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

Items 3 and 8

[@rosbiffer Participant 5 years ago]

THeme is Charity FOundation from themeforest. I have looked at that but the forums are just using page.php – I don’t understand why it is displaying the VC footer as text.

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years ago]

so are you using a page with the [bbp-forum-index] in it ?

If not – that would be the next thing to try

[@rosbiffer Participant 5 years ago]

yes I am. But every forum page, and only the forum pages, displays the VC footer as text.

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years ago]

and that page is a bakery page – ie a page where the shortcode is in a bakery item ?

[@rosbiffer Participant 5 years ago]

yes

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years ago]

hmmm….not sure what to suggest next

sort of looks like wp-bakery want you to buy an add-on for bbpress shortcodes

bbPress Shortcodes

[@rosbiffer Participant 5 years ago]

I think that add-on is just for to enable you to more easily add bbp shortcodes rather than any sort of compatibility. I just don’t understand why, when it’s using the same template as other pages, it breaks the footer display..

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years ago]

the logic is that at this point it is simply seeing what is stored in the database, rather than using wp-bakery to interpret it.

Whilst I use WP-bakery on a couple of sites, none that use bbpress.

sorry not sure I can help further

[@rosbiffer Participant 5 years ago]

Is there some way that the theme doesn’t realise the bbp code has finished so doesn’t realise it’s into the footer? Really clutching at straws here

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years ago]

could be down to a failure to close a <div>

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