[bsilverop]

This seems to be working well for me now that the update has been rolled out to my site. I’ll continue testing but looks good so far. Thanks for all who were involved in investigating/fixing this problem!

[bsilverop]

@robin-w, I have FTP access but GoDaddy only gives read access to core files. This is their “Managed WordPress” account. It’s optimized for speed with a caching proxy designed for WordPress and is faster than a regular hosting account. One of the few drawbacks I suppose.

[bsilverop]

Thanks Stephen, I appreciate the feedback. All great suggestions. Unfortunately GoDaddy has made it clear that they will absolutely never update a core WordPress file, nor can they roll back an update even if I wanted to restore the DB on top of a rolled back version. I’ll have to wait for the next release or make my forums public in the mean time.

[bsilverop]

So does this change just get rolled in to the next version of WordPress? My hosting provider (GoDaddy) wont allow me to change this file as it is a “core” WordPress file, nor can they roll back without rolling the whole site back to the way it was before the update. They have no exception process that allows me to update the file, so I imagine that means I wont be able to fix this until the next version of WordPress is released?

[bsilverop]

That was my initial solution too once I noticed the problem. Then I got an email from a user who was having the same problem and sure enough it was broken again.

[bsilverop]

I was able to fix this by making my parent forum public. Not sure what caused this but I think that’s the way it was before the update.

[bsilverop]

Having the same issue here. I just enabled SMTP Postman to fix problems with mail being marked spam or not delivered at all. It works great, but now all bbPress emails that used to work fine are being sent to “noreply@mydomain.com”. I don’t mind a bounce email, but they’re not being delivered to the actual users. Just a single email is being generated with noreply@mydomain.com in the To field and nothing else.

[bsilverop]

This is what worked for me. I added it to my custom CSS:

.bbp-topic-voice-count {
visibility: hidden;
}

[bsilverop]

I can set up a wordpress.com account tomorrow with some paypal donate button if you really feel like donating to me.

I would like that, it’s the least I can do. Thanks again!

[bsilverop]

Thanks @robkk. This is looking good to me after making the changes. I tested on a few different screens here with different sizes and seems to be working well. I’m not sure why the @media screen commands weren’t working before, but suspect it had something to do with the order. This is what I ended up with for those looking to do something similar in the future. Thanks again, and if you accept donations please contact me or direct me to a place where I can contribute to all who helped here. Thanks again,

.site,
.site-header {
	max-width: 100%;
}

.bbpress-forums .col-2cl .main {
	background: none repeat-y right 0;
	padding-right: 0;
}

.site-content .entry-header,
.site-content .entry-content,
.site-content .entry-summary,
.site-content .entry-meta, 
.page-content {
	max-width: 100%;
}

.form-allowed-tags {
	display: none;
}

div.bbp-breadcrumb, 
div.bbp-topic-tags {
	font-size: inherit !important;
}

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-lead-topic, 
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topics, 
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-forums, 
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies, 
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-search-results {
	font-size: inherit !important;
}

#bbpress-forums {
	font-size: inherit !important;
}

.bbpress .hentry {
	margin: 0 auto 48px;
	max-width: 100%;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 1008px) {
	.bbpress .site-content {
		margin-right: 0;
		margin-left: 182px;
	}
}

@media screen and (min-width: 1080px) {
	.bbpress .site-content {
		margin-left: 222px;
	}
}

@media screen and (min-width: 1218px) {
	.bbpress .site-content .entry-content {
		margin-right: 0;
	}
}

@media screen and (min-width: 673px) {
	.bbpress .site-content {
		margin-right: 0;
	}
}

[bsilverop]

This is how it looks for me. You’re right, the left sidebar moves to the bottom if the screen is too small, but currently I see this:

[bsilverop]

Thanks so much again for looking at this. I just got done adding the CSS from your previous comment and it looked good to me (although it always has, it’s only on smaller monitors or screen sizes where it doesn’t I suppose). But then I added the last bit from your most recent comment and the forum page extends too far to the left in to the left sidebar. I’ve left it that way if you want to have a look, but perhaps that last piece is intended only if I want full width (without any sidebars at all)? Thanks again,

[bsilverop]

Thanks. I’m just using one .bbpress .site-content because I’m keeping the right sidebar. Whenever I use the @media screen piece, it just chops off what’s below it. But yes, it does seem like it’s needed. The first other person to test said that the title of the page is cut off just a little bit on the left side, where as on my end it seems like there’s plenty of space.

This is all the custom CSS if it makes a difference:

.site,
.site-header {
	max-width: 100%;
}

.bbpress-forums .col-2cl .main {
	background: none repeat-y right 0;
	padding-right: 0;
}

.site-content .entry-header,
.site-content .entry-content,
.site-content .entry-summary,
.site-content .entry-meta, .page-content {
	max-width: 100%;
}

.form-allowed-tags {
	display: none;
}

div.bbp-breadcrumb, div.bbp-topic-tags {
	font-size: inherit !important;
}

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-lead-topic, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topics, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-forums, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-search-results {
	font-size: inherit !important;
}

#bbpress-forums {
	font-size: inherit !important;
	width: 100% !important;
}

.bbpress .site-content {
	margin-right: 0 !important;
	margin-left: 182px !important;
}

And this is it after I add the @media screen tag (notice it just cuts off the rest):

.site,
.site-header {
	max-width: 100%;
}

.bbpress-forums .col-2cl .main {
	background: none repeat-y right 0;
	padding-right: 0;
}

.site-content .entry-header,
.site-content .entry-content,
.site-content .entry-summary,
.site-content .entry-meta, .page-content {
	max-width: 100%;
}

.form-allowed-tags {
	display: none;
}

div.bbp-breadcrumb, div.bbp-topic-tags {
	font-size: inherit !important;
}

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-lead-topic, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topics, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-forums, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-search-results {
	font-size: inherit !important;
}

#bbpress-forums {
	font-size: inherit !important;
	width: 100% !important;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 1008px) {

[bsilverop]

I didn’t notice this before, but the problem seems to be that when I try and save anything with the @media statement, it ends up saving it like what’s shown below (notice the missing margin-right and margin-left) no matter how many times I fill in the missing lines and re-save. I suppose it’s an issue with the CSS plugin (JetPack Custom CSS), but from what I understand that file is stored in the database and generated dynamically and cannot be modified directly. So I’m not too sure how I can add this otherwise.

@media screen and (min-width: 1008px)
.bbpress .site-content {
	
}

[bsilverop]

Thanks, removing @media screen and (min-width: 1008px) and adding !important seems to have worked. The forum now resizes to fit the page if you go to a smaller screen size. I appreciate the help from both @robin-w and @robkk. I didn’t expect support like this, I really am grateful. Thanks again!

Solution:

1) Copy page.php and rename bbpress.php. Remove <?php get_sidebar( 'content' ); ?> as I want to extend beyond the content sidebar.

2) Add CSS:

#bbpress-forums {
	font-size: inherit !important;
	width: 100% !important;
}

.bbpress .site-content {
	margin-right: 0 !important;
	margin-left: 182px !important;
}

[bsilverop]

Thanks for the feedback. I added the @media screen CSS suggested above, but the forum width reverts back to the way it was before. But yes, you’re right. When I go to another screen size the forum size changes.

[bsilverop]

It did indeed muck up other areas of the site. But I combined the two you sent and this seems to work:

#bbpress-forums {
	width: 150% !important;
}

Can you see any reason why this wouldn’t be ideal? The only thing I’ve noticed so far is that when testing on a large monitor, the footer has a lot of empty space at the bottom (only on the forum pages). Otherwise it looks to be working ok on my laptop, I’m just concerned it might not for others. Thanks again!

[bsilverop]

Thanks for looking in to it on the server. I added what you suggested to the CSS but it seemed to have no impact. I’ve done some other CSS customizations to increase the font size, so I removed those to eliminate the possibility that some of my other changes are preventing this from working. But modifying the width did not change the behavior. Thanks again,

[bsilverop]

Sorry for that, I re-added the user and it’s working.

[bsilverop]

I created a temp user so you can see what this looks like. Here’s the link:

http://todaystechblog.com/

Log in as RobinW/RobinW and click the Forum on the left side of the page. The forums visibility are all set to Private.

Thanks for looking,

[bsilverop]

Thanks for the update. I have a file called full-width.php in wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/page-templates. And I apologize, I don’t think I was clear in my original post. I want the forum to extend the width of the page beyond the content sidebar on the right side of the page. I do want the left sidebar to remain.

I modified the copy of bbpress.php taken from page.php, and I removed

<?php get_sidebar( 'content' ); ?>

I was already hiding the content sidebar on forum pages, so the result there is the same. The forum is cut short where the content sidebar on the left normally appears.

I tested the full width page template on one of my pages to make sure it extends beyond the content sidebar on the right, and it does. I am hoping to get the forum to do the same. Thanks again,

[bsilverop]

Robin W, yes I am using twenty fourteen.

[bsilverop]

Hello. Thanks for sharing this information. I am new to WP, so not sure I’ve done this properly. I do have custom CSS and was able to add the CSS you suggested:

.bbpress .main {
background: none repeat-y right 0;
padding-right: 0px!important;
}

But it seemed to have no impact. I think I’m missing the part about creating the bbpress.php file. I made a copy of my page.php in my theme directory and renamed it to bbpress.php. Was that the appropriate step or have I missed something? Thanks!

[bsilverop]

Sorted out today.