http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress Support Forums Tag: customization en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:19:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/advice-for-customization#post-21086 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:44:58 +0000 chrishajer 21086@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Yes, using those functions will bring the header and footer over. Whether or not they look like you want is up to you to decide. The functions will work, but your bbPress template needs to be setup to display the WordPress header/footer/sidebar properly. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/advice-for-customization#post-21082 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:03:08 +0000 AntonioP 21082@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Chrishajer, whats going on. I'm attempting to get my bbpress theme to look like my wordpress theme. I've done what you said above (my-templates folder with the kakumei theme). Now what do I need to do? Do I need to use wordpress functions (then get_header &#38; get footer)?</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>Antonio </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/advice-for-customization#post-21075 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:21:31 +0000 chrishajer 21075@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Also, before making changes to a stock template, you probably want to make a new directory called my-templates, then inside there a new directory called $whatever-you-want (maybe "forumtemplate" or "mytemplate" or "newlook"). Then inside that directory, copy over all the files and subdirectories from the bb-templates/kakumei/ directory. Now, in your new directory, edit the top of style.css to change the template name to something unique. Once you've done that, you can log in as keymaster, then select your new template, by name, since the screenshot will still look like kakumei since that's what you copied over. Select the new template and look at your site. It should look the same as it did before, because you didn't make any changes yet. </p> <p>Now, confine all your changes to these template files, and if you break something you can always fall back on the default kakumei, or compare to see where you went wrong. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/advice-for-customization#post-21074 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:17:27 +0000 chrishajer 21074@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>&gt; - adding a banner to bbpress like that of my WP<br /> Not sure what you mean there. If it's navigation you need, you probably want integration with WordPress so you can use the WordPress functions like get_header and get_sidebar. If you mean just a banner ad of some sort, you can just add that to the template file header.php</p> <p>&gt; - changing the logo (I know, this should be simple)<br /> It is. Just look in header.php for the header div, and style.css for the corresponding css.</p> <p>&gt; - containing bb within the main area of my WP pages<br /> Not so easy. It doesn't work well (or at all) in a WordPress page. It's not a plugin for WordPress, it's a standalone forum. If you want it to look like a WordPress page, you probably want integration as explained in item one above, or <a href="http://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/">here</a>.</p> <p>&gt; - adding a navigation button to return to my WP pages<br /> &gt; from bb<br /> Also easy, like changing the logo. You can do it in header.php if you want the link up top. Or you can edit another template file if you want the link somewhere else. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/advice-for-customization#post-21073 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:07:04 +0000 mzimmers 21073@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hmm...nobody wants to chime in on this. I suppose I should interpret that as a "don't mess with prosperity" signal? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/advice-for-customization#post-21051 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:08:20 +0000 mzimmers 21051@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hi –</p> <p>After a few false starts, I got the alpha version of bbPress installed and sharing user data with WP (yay!), so now, I'm thinking about making bbPress look more seamless.</p> <p>Specifically, I'm thinking of stuff like:<br /> - adding a banner to bbpress like that of my WP<br /> - changing the logo (I know, this should be simple)<br /> - containing bb within the main area of my WP pages<br /> - adding a navigation button to return to my WP pages from bb</p> <p>Reading through the sticky on the subject has me wondering whether I should bother to try to do any of this, or wait until the bb product is a bit more mature.</p> <p>Any sage words of advice on what I should and shouldn't try to tackle? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/customizing-gravatars#post-20618 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:28:39 +0000 Ipstenu 20618@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Okay, having tested it a bunch of different ways, I can't get it to work.</p> <p>I want to make my own image the 'default' for the non-gravatard people (which works fine on Wordpress).</p> <p>In Wordpress it's this:<br /> <code>&lt;?php echo get_avatar(get_comment_author_email(),50,&#39;http://www.foo.com/gravatar.png&#39;);?&gt;</code></p> <p>For bbpress we have this <code>post_author_avatar();</code> on post.php. Passing the URL into that, either on it's own or as $default doesn't work.</p> <p>Using <code>echo bb_get_avatar( bb_get_user_email(post_author()), 48, &#39;http://www.foo.com/gravatar.png&#39; );</code> didn't work.</p> <p>I'm gonna keep tossing stuff up against the wall for now. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/customizing-gravatars#post-20163 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:59:55 +0000 Ipstenu 20163@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>meitershaker - In theory, the principle that worked for <a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/2008/05/22/adding-new-default-gravatars-to-wordpress-26/">Adding default Gravatars to WP 2.6</a> should work for bbPress.</p> <p>Haven't tested it yet. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/customizing-gravatars#post-20135 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:49:17 +0000 citizenkeith 20135@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p><a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-widht-and-height-of-gravatars" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-widht-and-height-of-gravatars</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/customizing-gravatars#post-20124 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:43:41 +0000 meitershaker 20124@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>me, i want to display my own picture, if there is no personal gravatar picture to display :p</p> <p>for change the size, see at the css :p</p> <p>byeee </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/customizing-gravatars#post-20117 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:38:29 +0000 pinay007 20117@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I did a search for native gravatar threads, and I got nothing. The ones I found were about gravatar plugins, which I don't use. </p> <p>I want to change the size and style of the gravatar that is native to bbpress. I have 0.9.0.2. </p> <p>How do I do this? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wwwmastercleansecozaforum#post-18018 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:37:42 +0000 DJP 18018@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Ok Chris, it should be fixed.</p> <p>Thanks again for the heads up.</p> <p>:) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wwwmastercleansecozaforum#post-18013 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:17:54 +0000 DJP 18013@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Thanks for the feedback Chris. Looks like the footer is inheriting a parent CSS style or something.</p> <p>It looks fine on my mac in FF &#38; safari, and it looks fine in IE6 &#38; 7 on a pc.</p> <p>Will look into it &#38; repost the url for you to have a squizz.</p> <p>Cheers, and thanks again :) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wwwmastercleansecozaforum#post-17993 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:05:30 +0000 chrishajer 17993@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Very nice. The footer disclaimer in the forum is a bit small, even for small print. This is with FF3 on Windows XP. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wwwmastercleansecozaforum#post-17991 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:54:31 +0000 DJP 17991@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hi all</p> <p>After much tweaking &#38; relatively extensive style changes, I finally went live with my website.</p> <p>I needed to make bbpress fit in with the clean, simple style of the rest of the site &#38; to be completely honest, I think I did a great job. Please have a look at the forum as well as the rest of the site to get a feel of what I mean by 'fitting in'.</p> <p>Comments are most certainly welcome, good &#38; bad :)</p> <p><a href="http://www.mastercleanse.co.za/forum" rel="nofollow">http://www.mastercleanse.co.za/forum</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/add-a-page-to-my-template#post-12419 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:29:44 +0000 Ralev-dot-com 12419@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I'm using this method here: <a href="http://desbar.eu/" rel="nofollow">http://desbar.eu/</a><br /> check the ABOUT page, for example</p> <p>it works for me.</p> <p>Keep in mind there are a lot of ways to make a static page.<br /> 1. The most simple is to create some about.php file.<br /> It should looks like livibetter says:</p> <p>&lt;?php bb_get_header(); ?&gt;<br /> The static content here.<br /> &lt;?php bb_get_footer(); ?&gt;</p> <p>2. put this about.php in the root directory ( e.g. - the URL should be something like youbbPressSite.com/about.php )</p> <p>3. Then call this URL from somewhere ( e.g. - put a link in the Header.php )</p> <p>that's it.</p> <p>PS: I've just been curious about the method above (livibetter version) - that's why I used it :) looks smoother at first site. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/add-a-page-to-my-template#post-12355 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:20:00 +0000 vafaaaan 12355@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>... </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/add-a-page-to-my-template#post-11604 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:58:06 +0000 livibetter 11604@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hi,<br /> Here is a quick php for it(<em><strong>Use this method at your own risk</strong></em>), you need pretty permalink to use it.</p> <p>Save the following code in bbPress root folder as <code>page.php</code><br /> <pre><code>&lt;?php require_once(&#39;./bb-load.php&#39;); if (preg_match(&#39;/.*\/page\/(.*)/&#39;, $_SERVER[&#39;REQUEST_URI&#39;], $matches)) { $file = bb_slug_sanitize($matches[1]) . &#39;.php&#39;; if (file_exists(bb_get_active_theme_folder() . &quot;/static/$file&quot;)) { bb_load_template(&quot;static/&quot; . $file); exit(0); } } wp_redirect(bb_get_option(&#39;uri&#39;)); ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>Put your static pages in a <strong> new <code>static</code> folder</strong> under your template folder, they should looks like<br /> <pre><code>&lt;?php bb_get_header(); ?&gt; The static content here. &lt;?php bb_get_footer(); ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>Then you can access a static file. For example, access <code>test.php</code>(bb-templates/yourtemplate/static/test.php) at <a href="http://yoursite.com/bbpress/page/test" rel="nofollow">http://yoursite.com/bbpress/page/test</a></p> <p>Remember: <em><strong>Use this method at your own risk</strong></em> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/add-a-page-to-my-template#post-11600 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:11:37 +0000 kleini 11600@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hmmm... no replies yet? I have the same question, so I would appreciate a little help... :-) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/editing-plugin-files-for-plugin-browser-installed-plugins#post-11355 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:09:58 +0000 Jolaedana 11355@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I've reverted to the non plugin installed version (couldn't even delete the plugin via FTP program, I had to do it through the Plugin Manager interface.) and made my changes.</p> <p>For now, I'm just keeping the plugins I don't need to tweak installed through plugin manager- it cuts back on checking for updates at least, so thanks! I'm puzzled as to the cause, since it only seems to be the files created by your plugin effected. It may be something my host has done, I'm unsure. </p> <p>Thanks for the thoughts! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/editing-plugin-files-for-plugin-browser-installed-plugins#post-11353 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:02:05 +0000 Jolaedana 11353@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>How odd... I don't have any problem editing ANY other files on my server- just the files your plugin installed. Really strange. </p> <p>I'm using an FTP program, not the command line- that may yield different results. I can't be root, that's for sure- on a shared host.</p> <p>I'll see what I can figure out- thanks Sam. that's what I needed to know. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/editing-plugin-files-for-plugin-browser-installed-plugins#post-11345 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:53:40 +0000 sambauers 11345@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Did the "you do not have permission" message occur on the command line? If the user you login as on the server doesn't own the files you will need to do the chmod-ing as root. If you don't have root access, then I have no idea how you edited the files in the first place.</p> <p>The plugin doesn't do any checking to determine whether the files are writable. It probably fails quite horribly if you have set PHP to write errors to the screen. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/editing-plugin-files-for-plugin-browser-installed-plugins#post-11344 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:16:48 +0000 Jolaedana 11344@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hi Sam! Thanks for the reply.</p> <p>I've already tried to chmod the files- I get a "you do not have permission to modify these files" on all the files, no matter what permission level I tried. I've got pretty extensive web experience, so that was the first thing I tried. </p> <p>I guess for now I'll go back to the non plugin install- I was just curious if there was something written into the Plugin Manager that caused the file permission settings to be locked. Seems odd that I can't even overwrite a .gif file!</p> <p>Thanks for the overview and clarification. :) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/editing-plugin-files-for-plugin-browser-installed-plugins#post-11343 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:01:10 +0000 sambauers 11343@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>The files and folders need to be writable by the webserver user. You may have changed the permissions when you edited the files that exist there already.</p> <p>The easiest approach (but insecure on shared hosting services) is to chmod the files.</p> <pre><code>chmod -R 777 bbpress-root/my-plugins</code></pre> <p>.<br /> Or you can change ownership on those files to the webserver user, usually "www" or "apache" depending on the setup.</p> <pre><code>chown -R www:www bbpress-root/my-plugins</code></pre> <p>.<br /> Remember that the upgrade facility of the plugin browser won't maintain your manual changes to the plugins. You will need to re-edit the new versions.</p> <p>Plugins that are installed normally will happily co-exist with those installed by the plugin-browser. Just keep them outside of the pb--xxxx folder structure. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/editing-plugin-files-for-plugin-browser-installed-plugins#post-11339 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:18:07 +0000 Jolaedana 11339@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hello all,</p> <p>I'm using the <a href="http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/57?replies=1">Plugin Browser</a> by SamBauers.</p> <p>I have a few plugins that I was using, and installed through this plugin (great stuff, btw) that I had modified the files on slightly. Main example here is the <a href="http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/43?replies=3">Page Links</a> plugin- I had changed the page icon graphic to be different colors. I would like to overwrite the file in the Plugin Browser installation of the file, however it tells me I don't have permissions to overwrite the file- or change permissions on the folder or files inside it.</p> <p>Is there an easy work around for this, or should I just go back to the non Plugin Browser version? :) Thanks! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/add-a-page-to-my-template#post-3487 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:43:09 +0000 blepoxp 3487@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>How would I go about adding a page with static informaiton to my template?</p> <p>I have the page 'purchase.php' and want to add it into my template. I thought I would just do an include, but then I realized I have nothing to include into. </p> <p>Then I thought I would just get header and get footer around my static info and link directly for it, but then the bb functions are being called correctly. </p> <p>What is the best way to include static information in the site in a manner where I can include a link to it? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/what-do-you-think-about-my-design-#post-2509 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:24:24 +0000 LordCoder 2509@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Is the SAFE_MODE on ? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/what-do-you-think-about-my-design-#post-1644 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:39:02 +0000 culturemark 1644@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Standard WordPress location:</p> <p>/wp-content/themes/blix/</p> <p>BBPress is located:</p> <p>/forum/</p> <p>BBPress template is:</p> <p>/forum/my-templates/ </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/what-do-you-think-about-my-design-#post-1642 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:47:48 +0000 LordCoder 1642@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>where's blix located ? on bbpress or wordpress templates folder ? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/what-do-you-think-about-my-design-#post-1639 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:41:29 +0000 culturemark 1639@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I think it's the built in functions in Blix, that causes the problems. Like this string in the header of Blix:</p> <p>&lt;?php require_once get_template_directory()."/BX_functions.php"; ?&gt;</p> <p>When BBPress uses that header it generates an error.</p> <p>It's my theory anyway. </p>