bbPress integration

We don’t test our themes with any specific forum plugins – and thus can’t recommend any specific plugin – but we can help you make small CSS tweaks if needed.

Could you provide a link to your forum running Gazette so I can have a look at what the problem is?

Hello Kathryn,
I believe only small tweaks are needed. Kindly inform how can I privately share the links with you.

We only do public support here in the forums so if you’re able to provide a link here, folks would be glad to have a look to lend a hand. You can password-protect the page if you like and provide the password here.

See these two links:
https://blog.flo.plus/forums/
https://blog.flo.plus/forums/forum/menstruation/

The second one is fine, the first one has misplaced sidebar.

The forum archive (first link) seems to work better with the single page template than the archive template it’s currently falling back to.

Rather than fiddle with the CSS, you could try setting up a child theme and copying the single template there, naming it archive-forum.php

So here are the steps:

1. First, set up a child theme so your changes won’t be overwritten when you update the theme. If you’re new to child themes, you can explore these guides:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/01/create-customize-wordpress-child-theme/
https://vimeo.com/39023468

2. In your parent theme, make a copy of single.php and rename the copy archive-forum.php

3. Move this file into your child theme folder so it’s protected and won’t be lost the next time you update the theme.

What this should do is force bbPress to use archive-forum.php for displaying forum archives, instead of falling back to the theme’s general archive.php, which I learned here.

Let me know how it goes.

Didn’t help.
See this: https://blog.floplus.co/forums/
User id: kathryn
Pwd: kathryn123

Can you try removing the search widget from your sidebar and see what happens? When I remove it via my browser inspector the sidebar looks better.

Tried. Didn’t help. The sidebar is not aligned.

I’m not seeing any forum being output on that page at all – did you add any necessary bbPress code to the archive-forum.php template file? I’m not sure what’s required in order to do that, you’ll likely need to dig into the bbPress docs.

I’m afraid you might need to get someone more familiar with bbPress to lend a hand with this, as it’s getting a bit beyond the scope of support we can provide here. Perhaps someone in the bbPress Themes forum would be better placed to help: https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/templates/

Alright. I’ll post in on bbPress forum. Thanks.