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My second BBPress forum - very customised, new features, high profile

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    After the success with the Nissan Cube Owners Club forum (http://forum.cubeownersclub.co.uk/), when one of my clients asked about a forum I decided again to use BBPress.

    I run the website for a UK TV Nature Presenter called Kate Humble and wanted to use a forum that could be integrated with the rest of the site (which is in WordPress) and have the same look and feel. I think it's turned out pretty nicely and the new users are enjoying and participating.

    The URL is http://katehumble.com/forum

    It's running a very customised theme obviously, a new homepage and I've also removed the tags feature.
    I've installed a few plugins, modified a few too and I've also implemented the new Facebook "like" feature on the top of every topic. If I get time (and enough interest) maybe I'll try and implement this as a BBPress plugin.

    Because this time it lives in a sub folder instead of a sub domain, one of the technical hurdles I had to get round was the WordPress .htaccess file conflicting with it so all I had to do was put 1 line of code in the root .htaccess file telling it to ignore (and stop processing) everything in /forum.

    Let me know what you think :)

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Nice design! I like the way you show alternate avatar positions on topic page :)

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Thanks!

    Yeah I'm quite happy with how it turned out. It gives it more of a feeling that it's a conversation :)

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Very stylish. Compliments.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I never really liked the Nissan one when you linked ot it previously, but your new URL is really great, and very well done. Congratulations and thanks for sharing with us!

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Big fan of the alternating avatar 'conversation'...great idea. Should be default format for any board IMO.

    Is this mod easily done for a non-coder?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Thanks everyone!

    bforeste: it was very easy to do. Without sounding too technical, by default the forum includes an alternating "class" for each reply, all I did was use CSS to "float:right" instead of using the default "float:left" on each one. The existing html and css caters for this very well. :)

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    excellent kieranyo .. what version do u use ? 0.9 or 1.0.2 ?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    1.0.2

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    thx ... btw can u elaborate the exact steps to make alternate avatars ... ?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    by default the forum includes an alternating "class" for each reply, all I did was use CSS to "float:right" instead of using the default "float:left" on each one.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    What he said ^ ;)

    if you want to know exactly I can point you to the line of code.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I would love to know which line of code :)

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    #thread li.alt .threadauthor { float:right; }

    http://katehumble.com/forum/my-templates/katehumble/style.css
    Line: 476.

    Firebug is your best friend people.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    thanks! its so funny you mentioned firebug, I was going over your bbpress with the chrome devtools as you wrote me! Thanks for that though. I loved your new bbpress.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Thanks :)

    Firebug is much, much better than chrome devtools in my experience.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I like the Kate Humble design, but how did they get the 2-column layout?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Take a look at the CSS, it's all very basic stuff.

    Firebug will show you.

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