I have installed the plugin – and all appears good in that I have created a page and added the short code – and it the forum shows – however … thats where it all goes wrong clickiing on the forums or trying to paost asn I get blank screens
I hve tried to debug this with gemini ai and it said create a page for each short code – did that – didnt work – then said copy the index.php file and rename it bbpress.php and drop that in the theme directory – did that and.. guess what didnt work either – also added a bbpress template layout in the theme and that too doesnt allow me to engage with the forum – I have gone through permalinks and literlally going round in circles and not getting anywhere amy help oor suggestions would be welcome – thank you

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month ago]

This 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

[@webspaceunlimited Participant 1 month ago]

thank you Robin that has indeed made more sense that the google ai which I was asking for help earlier today 🙂 your plugin installed and I am now trying to work out how to appluy headers and footers inline with the rest of the site – but significantly the forum now looks and acts like a forum

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month ago]

Thanks, I am not a bbpress author, I just try and help out here

Having confirmed that this suggestion works, you might want to try Webmandesign’s solution, which I think might be better on header/footer

so go to this post

When Support Block Theme?

and you can find where to download a plugin.

If you do so, and activate, you’ll need to untick the solution in my plugin.

If his solution is indeed better, please let us know, he is about to release it as an official plugin, and if that all goes ok, I will point my users at his solution.

[@webspaceunlimited Participant 1 month ago]

thanks Tob, I have to say I feel quite stupid today . I am not a fan of wordpress and avoid it when I can so when I hit an issue with wordpress its always counter intuiative in how to fix it.

With your plug in the theme works perfectly BUT doesnt have the pages header or footer aor follow any of the page constraints that I would expect

With Webmasdesign the forums page displays as I would expect BUT as soon as I look at any content the headers andfooters disapear and only the forum is there

This suggests the error here is mine and I am missing something in the block theme

[@webspaceunlimited Participant 1 month ago]

Rob# please excuse typos – I have pretty bad arthritis and typing is not my friend

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month ago]

hey no problem, I will see if Webmandesign can help here

@webmandesign any thoughts?

[@webspaceunlimited Participant 1 month ago]

Thank you

[@webspaceunlimited Participant 4 weeks, 1 day ago]

Just thought you might be interested to know I posted the same question on the raft theme support and the response was to use with BBpress for block theme or bbstyle pack plugins and then:
—
Template Customization (Within the Site Editor):

With FSE, you’ll primarily work within the “Site Editor” (Appearance > Editor) to adjust your templates.
After installing the compatibility plugins, you may have new template options available, such as a “bbPress content” template.
Within the site editor you can customize the look and feel of your bbpress pages.
If you enable the block editor for bbpress post types, you can also edit those post types in the site editor.
—
So I look at the style editor and there is no block editor for bbpress post types

Am I missing something obvious here?

Sorry to be so slow on the uptake 🙂

[@webspaceunlimited Participant 4 weeks, 1 day ago]

okay I admit it I am stupid.. I found the template for the bbpress and edited on my headers and footers – thank you so much for the help and support

[@robin-w Moderator 4 weeks, 1 day ago]

ok, not having played with the BBpress for block theme which is what I suspect you are using :

what exactly did you add to the template, can you post before and after code for this please as it will help others

[@robin-w Moderator 4 weeks, 1 day ago]

ignore that – I’ve just taken a look and seen how to do it

[@webspaceunlimited Participant 4 weeks, 1 day ago]

thanks Robin for tall the help 🙂