[mbenven]

Sorry to all aft you if this seems stupid but i really cannot figure it out. I would like to create my new forum with bbpress. I want to divide my forum in category and it has to look like my old one:

http://www.tractordev.com/italiano/forum/

How can i have forum with a category on top and the forum on the button like on my old one. So on the main page i can see al the category and all the forums in each?

Please help me and thank you in advance.

[Robin W]

go into Dashboard>forums

For each forum, you can set it as category, forum or forum with a parent – see top right of the edit page

So filo directo… and Prodotti… would be categories

Richieste… would then be a forum

[mbenven]

thank you for the reply Robin. I did what you told me but i gett this result:

http://www.tractordev.com/main/forums/

where ask tractor dev is a category where request and suggestion is a forum. I would like to have my forum visible from the main page under the category so i can create different category with different forums visible from the main page as you saw on the old one. If i put the forum under the parent category then it will not be visible on the main page.

Sorry if it seems stupid but there must be something I do not get.

[Robin W]

no, it’s a good question, and I’ll be back shortly !

[Robin W]

ok, try

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/alternate-bbpress-index-page/

This should give you most of what you want.

[mbenven]

That nailed, thank you very very much!!!!

[mbenven]

I have another little question, I have the sidebar on the side of my forum. I cannot find the page in my pages group where the forum is hosted. Ho can I reduce the space of the sidebar. Is there a way to do it?

Thank you again

[Robin W]

bbpress will use your standard page template.

see

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

for the order and which one to look for.

But it is styling that will determine the width.

look in your theme’s style.css for code something like

#sidebar
{
padding: 20px 0 10px 0;
margin-left: 545px;
width: 190px;
}

and you may need to play with the content

#content {
float: left;
width:500px;
}

If you just want it changed for bbpress pages, then try

#bbpress-forums.sidebar
{
padding: 20px 0 10px 0;
margin-left: 545px;
width: 190px;
}

may or may not work, css not my strong point !