I understand that I have to create a sub-directory in plugins/bbpress/my-templates/, which will contain my template files. Also I understand that I only have to create specific custom pages where I need them, so on the very first page of my forums (i.e. http://www.followtheboat.com/forums/) I need to create a page called front-page.php. For example, I don’t want my page title to be ‘Forums’, I want it to be ‘Followtheboat Forums’.

Presumably before uploading any themes the forum is using a default theme and must be calling up a default page called front-page.php. I want to use that default front-page.php file so I can use it as a base and tweak it, but where is it? I thought it should be in bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten but it isn’t there.

Finally, the instructions say ‘Activating a theme is even easier. Just select it from you bbPress install’s Presentation Admin Panel’. What? Where? Do you mean ‘http://www.myblog.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress’, because it is not there.

[@anointed Participant 14 years ago]

Are you using the new plugin 2x vs. or the old vs?

[@demonboy Participant 14 years ago]

Hi anointed. I’m using 2.0.

[@anointed Participant 14 years ago]

I think those are the directions for the 1x system, not the 2x plugin.

Follow these instructions:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility

You don’t create subdirectories in the plugin folder etc.. It is now a totally compliant wordpress way of doing things now. Basically, you don’t ‘have to’ copy any files to your theme, but you can if you want to make changes to bbpress.

[@demonboy Participant 14 years ago]

Thanks for that, I’m following the procedure now. Cheers.