Hi SMF masters, I have searched on this site about if any topic about SMF plugin/extension for WordPress CMS. I am considering to have a forum on my site but how the SMF looks native on my WordPress site? I mean the forum sessions would be showing the native WordPress elements too. Such as the main menu, sidebar, footer of the WordPress.
To go back to the original question. For anyone else finding this thread.
The file to edit is index.template.php in a new theme, based on chosen theme for the forum I added the WP header section after the body tag and the WP footer before the closing body tag. If you want side bars as well then you will need to add in a few floating divs to get the content to display where you want to see it.
I used 'static' html based on the WP page source code from the browser to add to the default theme. Tweak paths for any links and add a css file to your theme to fix any display and layout issues. Check for unique id definitions in the new SMF theme.
If you want to hide all things SMF then you will need to go deeper into the layout files for your SMF theme. The less you tweak the easier it will be to upgrade some time in the future.
For logins, the wp2smf bridge works fine. Disable registration in SMF to avoid any conflicts.
(I based my 2.0.14 upgrade on and older 1.1.x where there was a working smf2wp bridge so most users are already populated in the smf database tables. The wp and smf tables are in the same database.)