I used the Step-by-Step Guide to set up BBPress and it still isn’t working for me. My forum displays the forum names in a weird chunk of text, not in the nice layout of a forum, please help.

My website is here: http://swakpack.org/forums/

WordPress version 4.2.2
bbPress: 2.5.7

And no, I admit this does not happen with the themes Twenty Twelve etc. the forums look perfect on those themes.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 7 months ago]

it is displaying like this because bbPress thinks your forums is a blog posts because of some code that should be only for blog posts.

create a bbpress.php file

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

if you need any more help with this reply back

[@ew4055 Participant 9 years, 6 months ago]

It tells me in the directions to install What the File and check what file I need to modify, but when I click on “What the File” nothing happens. It doesn’t give me any information about a file.

HELP?

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 6 months ago]

you need that information to know what file it is

hovering over “what the file” it says something like example.php , where example is the file you need to modify.

I will explain this more when I have a chance in the guide.

If you find that this guide is not helping you, if you have any ideas of improvements to the guide , or any information that might seem confusing to you , then please say exactly what because this guide is a very important guide for theme compatibility.

And if any more help with this reply back.

[@ew4055 Participant 9 years, 6 months ago]

Hi! I’ve included a screenshot. When I hover over What the File, nothing appears 🙂

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 6 months ago]

Since I see you are using Thesis , take a look at this topic for help.

bbPress 2.0 Thesis Compatibility

And also this direct link to the plugin

http://studio.kristarella.com/product/bbpress-box/