Reply To: Integration of BBpress into Themes

This particular forum is actually using a custom design, he’s not using a template. If you are able to look at the stylesheet of this site you’ll see that he added the customizations to the theme’s style.css to override the plugin’s css. So you would have to either do the same thing, or find a template that is minimalist or matches the design you want. The css from this site won’t show up the same as the theme you’re using since everything is completely different, so that’s why you’d have to create custom css to get the desired look you want.

I’d recommend doing a Google search for minimalist bbpress templates. There should be more out there at this point since a lot of people are using it now.