I have the Black Label wordpress theme on my site and as such it comes with a fullscreen background image option on every post and page. I bought this theme for this very reason. Now, when I plugged in bbpress, I had to use the shortcodes on the main forum page which was no problem but when I click on the forum or the topic links, I get sent to a page that instead of saying "edit page" in the admin bar, it says "Edit forum" or "Edit topic" and doesn't allow me to set the background image.

Now I looked into creating a default background image by changing some .css but this sets that image for ALL the pages, (page.php) and though it is overridden by the set background image in the theme, it isn't pleasing to my eye to have one background image when you open and a second or two later have another one pop up on top of it. So I trashed this option.

Did some research on how I can resolve this problem and found a previous thread here: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

Needless to say that it interested me that I could create my own wrapper and have the forums and topics open up in a special page and have a set background for that page alone that won't affect my other pages.

Well, this is the skinny of my situation. I hope I gave you enough info this time, sorry for not doing it from the get go. Can I do this? Where do I change the default wrapper to my new one? I'm imagining it's in the function sets. Or perhaps there is an even better solution to my situation. What do yo suggest Brandon?

Oh, and thanks for your time :)

Thanks in advance. Been working on this for a while with no luck.

However if you want to find functions you can look through the files located plugins/bbpress/includes, they are named and organised very well.

Thanks
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I've themed bbpress fine but can't find any template for the forum list page (when you click forums in the breadcrumbs) - i want it to look the same as my forum index.

Or i want to change the breadcrumbs so that the word forums points to the forum index (which i should in my opinion anyway)

Please help anyone!

It's still a Taglogic issue, as far as I see.

Anyways, looks like it is unlikely to get fixed in core.

I *think* 2.1 is supposed to be a bit better with catching the spam.

Your main problem, like you said, is allowing guest posts.

Do you have akismet enabled?

Also I would use something like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-recaptcha/

For my Relationships Forum, obviously people are more inclined to seek help when they're not obliged to leave their public identities.

So this plugin leaves all Topics and Replies in a Pending and unpublished state.

The issue with Spam posts are these Spammers are also pumping the Tag with URLs or other rubbish.

From a logic point of view, Pending and/or Unpublished Topics/Replies shouldn't affect anything for a Published Topic.

But they are. I'm seeing Published Topics losing already established Tags from unPublished and Awaiting Moderation Repies which, in my opinion, is a bbPress bug and certainly not a logical workflow.

Are themes allowed to "support" bbPress and other custom pages?

Not sure if that's what you are asking.

What are the issues you are having. People deleting/removing tags from threads?

Self policing is an open invitation to abuse the tagging system which is happening to me, at least.

It's the same as other theme frameworks such as Thematic, Hybrid, Canvas (WooThemes), and others.

Unfortunately it's not something you just dop in and activate to work with your current theme. Your theme has to be built on top of the framework.

A framework typically handles all of the complex functions such as dealing with the various layouts available.

This is why layout-specific control is not a good candidate for bbPress core. How a layout works and is controlled in TwentyEleven is not going to be the same as other themes - each work in their own way - so it's not really possible to control *all* of them with a simple option. This needs to be done on a theme-by-theme basis so the option can accommodate how the theme being used handles layouts.

What is Genesis Framework? Is it available as a WP plugin? Can I keep using my current theme and for bbPress also use Genesis Framework and bbPress Genesis Extend?

For example, bbPress 2.1 + Genesis Framework + bbPress Genesis Extend plugin allows exactly this.

It provides ton's of layout options for bbPress - you can inherit the site-wide Genesis layout, set your own site-wide layout just for bbPress, or set layouts on a per forum basis - like I said, tons of options.

Bottom line is using the Genesis Framework (or anything similar) it's really simply to provide this functionality as the foundation is already there.

Trying to tackle this - and have it work for all themes and use cases - within bbPress seems like a logistic nightmare.

Having dealt directly with tons of frameworks, I can say this with pretty good confidence :)

The author of the theme I use informs me that WP theme reviewers have recently instituted a new policy that any support for Custom Post Types does not belong in themes.

bbPress forum root, forums, topics and replies are custom post types.

It would be good to see in bbPress the ability to set the default layout (wrapper) for each of these.

Dropdown (like the one on Edit Page page), wherein the admin can select the layouts from among the active theme's layouts shall be ideal.

(I understand that if after this the admin decides to change the theme, (s)he will need to select the default layouts for bbPress custom posts again - just like (s)he needs to do so for normal pages and posts)

So, for instance, while the rest of my site may use 3-column (2-sidebar) layout, for forums, I may decide to go with a single-column layout.

http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1784

I'm going to submit this simple plugin to the wp.org repo. Once it's up I'll talk to @jjj and see if it warrants a sticky. :)

Regarding the missing tag, closing PHP tags (?>) isn't required (at the end of the file) and it's usually good practice to omit them. More info on that http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4410704/php-closing-tag

By the way I just tested the code and it's working great. It's missing a closing ?> tag.

Thanks!

bbPress will use bbpress.css from your theme folder.

So to recap:
1. Copy the master bbPress css file to your theme directory and rename it to bbpress.css.
2. Go to the plugin page in the admin. Activate bbPress Custom CSS File.
3. profit.

Or should we just use !important in our master css files?

the question i have is with the bbpress.css. Paul made a duplicate of bbpress.css plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/bbpress.

Obviously that's going to get zapped on an update of the plugin. Thats why Paul recommended creating something similar to a child theme--turning bbpress.css into bbpress_master.css then putting just his tweaked css in bbpress.css.

This lets him have a dedicated small css file, bbpress.css to retain during an update, but unfortunately he'll have to back it up himself.

So, my question is there some provision for the bbpress.css being read in the same way that bbpress.php is read in a theme folder? Or is there a better way to handle css modifcations? Maybe I am missing something.

Thanks again,