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Hey Anointed.

Thanks for your nice reply and offer to help out if you’re able.

Here’s a list of what I find lacking as far as theming goes in my current them.

– the forum descriptions are missing, other than the first one.

– there’s no borders defining the layout of forums and sub-forums

– the styling of the avatars isn’t carried over from the main them

– indented comment threading (though this might be a shortcoming of bbPress itself)

– I’d personally like to get rid of that ‘Freshness’ column too. Reasoning: when you’re trying to get increased activity in a forum that has a lack, seeing a bold indicator that it’s slow has a tendency to keep people away (that’s just a marketing point of view)

– the fonts, Title styling, icons and shadows

– check out the same theme’s style for BuddyPress here – http://para.llel.us/themes/mingle-wp/groups/web-design/forum/

– you can see that’s simply beautiful.

– it’s a great pity there’s so much confusion around BuddyPress, bbPress and how it’s made out that they’re integrated with WordPress until you come to discovering there’s so much that isn’t transferred from WP into a plugin like bbPress.

Anyway, ideally it would have been fantastic if the theme creator had done bbPress as well as BuddyPress however that isn’t going to happen as he says it’s too much work. As a relative newbie to WordPress, I simply wasn’t aware there were these sorts of pitfalls – I naively thought theming was a global site thing [groan]

Thanks

Martin