[vince]

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

[vince]

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the elegance of the short code, and if the content-nosidebar.php ever changes in the main theme, I’m sure we’ll get out of date, but it’s finally working, so it’ll do for now.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

[vince]

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

[Theme Horse Support Team]

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

Thank you!

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