Hey guys

This is probably due to my theme, but the default install of the forum at the url /forums displays the forum on a page with the title “Archives” and the layout is broken, ugly, full width etc.

Following another suggestion on this forum, I created a forum holding page at the url /forum and used the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] to embed the forum in this page, and it looks great.

However, when any forum link is clicked, you’re taken to a page with the starting slug of /forums and the ugly layout again. How do I keep the forum within the nice page layout?

In the Settings I have:

Forum root: forums
Forum prefix: unchecked
Forum root should show: Forum Index
Single forum slugs / Forum: forum

If I change the forum root to /forum that overrides the custom page I set up and I’m back to the ugly layout again.

What’s the best way around this?

Many thanks in advance.

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 3 months ago]

this is a theme conflict issue, and you need to get your theme to recognise bbpress.

Not bbpress’s fault and not your theme’s fault, both just use wordpress

see

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

section 8 on trying to get them to work together