Turns out to be some kind of permission error. I see this in the Chrome console. Will look into it further.

GET /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css?ver=2.5.3-5249 403 (Forbidden) localhost/:30
GET /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/js/editor.js?ver=2.5.3-5249 403 (Forbidden)

Hello,

I’ve installed bbPress 2.5.3 onto WP 3.9.1 but am not seeing any css stylesheets loaded for bbPress. Even when switching to the Twentyfourteen theme the forums are completely unstyled.

Has anyone come across this issue? Looking at resources in the chrome console I can see that bbpress.css is not being loaded.

[@neosnc Participant 11 years, 1 month ago]

Solved:

In Windows bbPress was reporting $content_dir with double slashes // (ie: c:/www/wordpres//) so the content_dir was not being properly string replaced with the content_url()

Solution:
Line 168 & 237 of template-functions.php added this to correct for double slashes:
$content_dir = str_replace( ‘//’, ‘/’, $content_dir );

[@netweb Keymaster 11 years, 1 month ago]

Apologies, this should be fixed for the next release of bbPress:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2518

[@neosnc Participant 11 years ago]

Hi Stephen,

I just updated to bbPress 2.5.4 and noticed the css load issue again. I’ve created a patch and my first trac ticket here!

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2613