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‘The codex dosent work ‘

Can you explain a little more ?

Which tends to suggest that you are having the issue rather than that the codex doesn’t work !

css is loaded at various times, and changes can be overwritten by later loads.

Try putting ‘!important’ after a few to see if that helps, if so then apply to all. This tells the code not to apply later changes.

eg

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header {
 background: #eaeaea !important;
 }

You tried that code posted above ?