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bbPress without the sidebar?

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  • June 3, 2015 at 1:27 pm #25370
    vince
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    Hi,

    I’ve spent a good few hours trying to remove the sidebar from the bbPress forum I’ve added to my site. To cut a long story short, I have created a page with the URL “forumtest” and added the short code [bbp-forum-index] to it, then selected a template that doesn’t have a sidebar. That works a treat, however…

    * If I click on any of the forum links, the next page has the sidebar
    * If I change the url to forum, the sidebar returns
    * If I change the bbPress settings to make forumtest my default slug, the sidebar returns
    * If I change the default content layout in the theme options to something without a sidebar, it works fine, but of course that removes the sidebar from all the other pages

    I’ve also experimented with creating a child theme and creating a bbpress.php file, but I’m not sure what file I need to copy to make the sidebar disappear.

    Any help or pointers will be great.

    Thanks,

    Vince

    June 3, 2015 at 1:57 pm #25371
    vince
    Participant

    Hi again,

    I think I’ve cracked it, so here what I’ve done in case it helps anyone else,

    * Create a child theme with the bbpress.php file
    * Edit that bbspress.php file and add the contents of page.php from the Ultimate theme
    * In this new bbpress.php file, find the <?php…<?> code block containing do_action( ‘ultimate_main_container’ );
    * Delete this code block and in it’s place, add the contents of the file content-nosidebar.php from the Ultimate theme

    I preferred the elegance of the short code, and if the content-nosidebar.php ever changes in the main theme, I’m sure we’ll get out of date, but it’s finally working, so it’ll do for now.

    Thanks,

    Vince.

    June 3, 2015 at 2:03 pm #25372
    vince
    Participant

    Sorry, another update, I’ve found that using,

    get_template_part( ‘content’,’nosidebar’ );

    …instead of ripping off the contents of the template works just as well, so to edit above, we just need to replace do_action( ‘ultimate_main_container’ ); with get_template_part( ‘content’,’nosidebar’ );

    Phew,

    Vince

    PS, Great theme guys, keep up the good work

    June 9, 2015 at 5:00 am #25495
    Theme Horse Support Team
    Keymaster

    That’s great vince. We are sorry that we missed your topic.

    Thank you!

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