Hi there! I’m trying to set up a bbPress forum on my WordPress staging site (not live yet, still currently hosted on the WordPress server). I installed bbPress version Version 2.6.9, not sure what WordPress version I’m using but I just set up the site in the past two months. I’m using the Twenty Twenty-Three theme.

I’ve done the initial bbPress setup steps (install and then create a forum and a topic), but I keep getting a blank page when I go to my /forums/ page or or my /jelp/ page (that’s the name of the forum). I’ve deactivated as many plugins as I can, and also cleared my cache, but still getting the same issue. I also went into WP-CONFIG and changed the memory limit to 256M.

I’ve started a WP DEBUG log, and I see this message: “PHP Deprecated: A deprecated web fonts array structure passed to wp_register_webfonts(). Variations must be grouped and keyed by their font family. in /wordpress/plugins/gutenberg/15.0.1/lib/experimental/class-wp-webfonts.php on line 160” — but I’m not sure what to do about it. I did deactivate Gutenberg just to see if it helps, but still nothing.

If it’s worth mentioning, I was also trying the ForumWP plugin previously and getting the same blank screen issue. I’ve since deactivated and deleted ForumWP.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you!

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 10 months ago]

Twenty Twenty-Three theme is one of the new FSE themes, so you need a fix to work with bbpress.
install

bbp style pack

once activated, navigate to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack, and you should see the first tab called ‘Theme Support’ – if you don’t see this, come back.

In that tab, select

Enable Theme Support

and save

The forums should then display

[@irwinlawinc Participant 1 year, 10 months ago]

Ahhh, thank you, Robin! BBP Style Pack worked perfectly for me. I look forward to trying out its other settings:) Thank you again for your quick response. Cheers!

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 10 months ago]

great – glad you are fuxed