I recently discovered that WordPress.com’s Personal and Premium plans allow plugin installation, so I immediately paid and installed bbPress.

However, a similar forum plugin, WPFORO, works fine, but after installing bbPress, when I go to the actual forum page (myid.wpcomstaging.com/forums/forum/test/), it just displays a blank screen, with neither my blog’s theme nor the forums displayed.

Just in case, I tried disabling my browser’s ad blocker and changing my theme, but the results were the same!

I asked a question on the WordPress.com forums and was directed here. Has anyone else encountered a similar issue? What solutions have you found?

[@robin-w Moderator 2 hours, 59 minutes ago]

If you are using a block theme, then you will need to add theme support for bbpress.

so either

Install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>theme support

This plugin has lots of styling and functionality additions to bbpress

and/or use

Enable bbPress for Block Themes