bbPres – no sidebar in Topics

Hey Bruno!

You can use the “Forum” widget area if you want to display certain widgets on all forum pages. If you want to display a certain sidebar on all forum pages you need to modify sidebar.php. Open up the file and replace

        if(!empty($the_id) && is_singular())
        {
            $custom_sidebar = get_post_meta($the_id, 'sidebar', true);
        }

with

        if(!empty($the_id) && is_singular())
        {
            $custom_sidebar = get_post_meta($the_id, 'sidebar', true);
        }
        else if(is_post_type_archive('forum') || is_singular(array('forum','topic','reply')))
        {
            $custom_sidebar = 'Forum';
        }

Replace “Forum” with your custom sidebar name if you don’t want to use the default “Forum” widget area for the sidebar.

Regards,
Peter

Hey!

But you completely deactivated the sidebar on these pages? BBPress normally will show a sidebar on the right (like here: http://kriesi.at/themes/enfold/forums/ ) you’re using a fullwidth page template at the moment. Maybe you modified a file to remove the sidebar (forum.php, etc.)?

Cheers!
Peter

Hey!

I don’t know if Kriesi used a plugin or some custom code. I’ll mark this topic for him.

Regards,
Peter

Hi:

I’m also interested in this topic.

Regards!

Hello,

i did the code changes but it still displays the sidebar only on the main forum view.

If i select a sub forum or a thread it will not get displayed anymore.

# Edit: Okay now it finally works. You have to activate both “Sidebar on Archive Pages” and “Sidebar on Single Post Pages” in the theme settings.

Thanks