[meowmethod]

Hi, I recently installed bbPress and BuddyPress to create a forum. Everything is looking great so far except the /forums page. It is not displaying correctly. I am using the Interface Theme (free WordPress theme) which supports both bbPress and BuddyPress. You can see the problem below:

http://www.meowmethod.com/forums

The forum topics ARE working, so my problem is only with the forums page.

http://www.meowmethod.com/forums/forum/test-forum/

Troubleshooting:
*** The problem goes away when I activated the 2014 WordPress Theme, but I don’t want to use that one. So I am inclined to believe that it might be a theme problem. ***
I don’t have a forums wordpress page created (problem occurs with one created). The problem persists with BuddyPress deactivated.

I would appreciate any opinions and advice !!
Thanks in advance 🙂

I am using WordPress Version 3.9.1
and the latest version of bbPress (installed today).

[Robin W]

Have you been through

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

[meowmethod]

Hey Robin, thanks for your reply

I followed step 8 exactly as they said. I renamed the following files to bbpress.php

content-rightsidebar.php – when I did this both the /forums and /forums/forum/test-forum/ became very distorted – as if no theme was present.

I tried the same with
page-template-blog-full-content.php
page-template-blog-image-large.php
page-template-blog-image-medium.php

Again /forums doesn’t display properly. And /forums/forum/test-forum/ works like usual.

Is there any way to completely skip the forums index? I don’t see why I would need multiple forums when I can have 1 main forum with different topics.

http://www.meowmethod.com/forums/ – does not work
http://www.meowmethod.com/forums/forum/test-forum/ – works

[Robin W]

Is there any way to completely skip the forums index? I don’t see why I would need multiple forums when I can have 1 main forum with different topics.

Yes you can skip the forum index, just create a page and put one of the shortcodes on it

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

In your case you’d use

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] – Display a single forums topics. eg. [bbp-single-forum id=32]

[meowmethod]

Thank you Robin,

In the case that I need multiple forums and the forums index page to display correctly in the future, do you think there’s another way to get it working?

[Robin W]

I’d suggest you contact the theme authors support site. If they are advertising it as bbpress compatibl;e they should be able to tell you.