Josh

Not everyone wants a sidebar in bbPress but I wanted to add one to my forums. Here’s how you do it just in case you are wondering.

First, make your sidebar.php.

Next, go to bb-includes/template-function.php.

In there insert the following:

function bb_get_sidebar() {
global $bb, $bbdb, $forum, $forum_id, $topic, $bb_current_user;
if (file_exists( BBPATH . 'my-templates/sidebar.php') )
include( BBPATH . 'my-templates/sidebar.php');
else include( BBPATH . 'bb-templates/sidebar.php');
}

Then add it to your templates front-page.php and all the other template pages you want. That’s it. It might seem easy but to someone who doesn’t know php it took a few to figure it out.

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