Sure, sorry, should’ve done that.
.bbp_dropdown {
font-size: 12px;
}
I added this at Appearance -> Customization -> Additional CSS. I’m using Astra Pro, but I think the location is the same for all/most themes.
Okay, took a little bit of messing around with caching and getting the class name right, but I managed to shrink the font to something readable.
Probably still a good idea to allow customization through the style pack UI if it’s not already available someplace.
BTW, another thought: the selects (i.e., dropdowns) are decorated with a css class called bbp_dropdown. Which would likely be a much better target for customization than the themes-based classes.
Do you know if bbp_dropdown can be customized through the style pack somewhere? If not, it might be a good capability to add.
Here’s a link to an image showing the problem:
https://arcabama-my.sharepoint.com/:i:/p/mark/EZfzqhgx5xRMusyrijDIZKsB3mSPnHOC5A4bnTAffVZARQ?e=PIgduh
But I think your comment about those css classes not being part of bbPress are an important clue.
They are probably defined in the theme rather than customizable through bbPress, so you suggested css additions should work. I’ll give it a try and let you know what happens.
Some further info, based on inspecting the page element…
It looks like the font size is defined in one of these classes:
ast-button
ast-custom-button
On my site, changing the font size to “8px” without the quotes does not change the font size. Interestingly, changing the color did update the color.
Based on further experimentation I think I see what’s happening: changing that particular font size parameter only affects the >>label<< for the dropdown, not the dropdown itself. Which is consistent with it being in the “1. Label” section :).
There doesn’t appear to be a way, through that configuration page, to change the font size of the dropdown.
Is the parameter maybe defined somewhere else?
Yes, but it also (according to the picture) should change the font for Topic Tags, Topic Type, Topic Status (State?) and the notify me checkbox text.
Sure: I’m tweaking setting #1 on Topic/Reply Form
Sorry, Robin, but it’s in a subscriber-only section of the site so there’s no easy way to do that.
If necessary, I could set up a dummy account for someone to use to access the forums area. But I wouldn’t want to post the credentials on this help forum.
If screenshots would be helpful I’m happy to provide them, although I don’t recall a way of uploading them to a comment/entry.
Okay, I figured it out: turns out the default forum home page uses whatever you’ve defined for Posts Archive, at least if you’re using Elementor, like I am.
So I updated my links to refer to the forums target, edited the Posts Archive template in Elementor to include the forum index short code, and everything appears to work.
I also changed the Elementor display conditions for the template and restricted it to just Forum Archive (or Forum Posts, I don’t remember offhand), just in case I want to define a different template for other Posts Archives later on.
