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I am looking for almost the same thing… I need to add “Forums” in the Navigation. As soon as I find out, I let you know.

To add Forums to the navigation menu, here’s a basic workaround:

Go to header.php and find the section where the rest of the navigation is (it should start with this code:

<ul id=”nav”>

Add the code below (customized for your site) along with the other navigation links:

<li><a href="URL of FORUM LOCATION" title="Forums">Forums</a></li>

This code needs to be between the <ul> and </ul> tags to work.

Also, remember that the navigation items are in a specific order, so put the link to the forums where you want them located. In other words, if you want the forums after the Home button, make space and put it there; if you want it after the Members button, make space and put it there. You can tell what each navigation does by the slug (e.g., BP_MEMBERS_SLUG is the Members button).

Fairly straightforward.

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But to get the forums to look as though they’re part of your BuddyPress, do you need to do something with the forums theme locally?

If I put a link into the navigation bar at the moment, it takes me to the bbPress installation which looks completely different to the BuddyPress installation.

This site (buddypress.org, I mean) seems either to have integrated the call to the forums or made the forums look like the BuddyPress theme.

Anyone able to give me some pointers?!

Thanks in advance for any clues…

Thank you very much indeed for that, Jeff. Sorry, I had searched before asking, honestly!

Aran-

You are correct. Andy has themed the BuddyPress forum theme to look just like the rest of BP.org.

At this time, he does not plan on releasing this theme. He wants to keep the bp.org brand distinctive. Imagine if many of the new BP installs used this theme. It might confuse people when coming to BP.org. BP.org needs to maintain a unique identity. It is, after all, the place where everyone else comes for guidance.

Of course, everyone is free to style their own theme.