[Robin W]

ok you have css that does

.inner-page-content article.article-content ul li::before {
	content: "\f046";
	font-family: FontAwesome;
	color: #b6d91a;
	position: absolute;
	left: 0;
}

so if your theme has a custom css area, suggest you add the following

.inner-page-content article.article-content ul li::before {
	content: none !important;
	}

[Robin W]

I’d need a link to a live site, but doesn’t look like native bbpress.

[Robin W]

if you are savvy at working puzzles, then building a version of my template using your theme authors css classes should be quite doable.

If you care to send me the loop-forums.php from the theme I might be able to give you some clues, but I don’t have time to work a solution out in free time.

http://www.rewweb.co.uk

[Robin W]

As far as I can see your theme author has rewritten some (maybe all) of the theme templates, renaming all the bbpress css codes, to harmonise in with the theme, which effectively neuters my plugin.

It would take considerable effort to change all that to make the two work.

I think that is as far as I can help.

[Robin W]

sorry, Sunday evening and trying to finish the weekend – yes you want to rename loop-forums.php

then my alternate template should kick in

[Robin W]

looks like all of them !!

since the theme then renames all the style classes, then pretty much all the styling in my plugin won’t work, although the functionality changes still should.

But as a starter rename

content-archive-forum.php to

old-content-archive-forum.php

and hopefullt my alternate template will work, and then you can style that one

[Robin W]

ok, thanks – can you list the files in the bbpress folder ?

[Robin W]

So I am trying your bbp style pack, it looks like I have a lot of options I’d like to use. Is there some particular short code I’m supposed to use? I tried:
[bsp-display-forum-index forum= ‘46,50,52,54,56,59’]
And in the bbp style pack settings -> Forum Templates, I changed it to “Alternative Forum Template 1” but I dont see any changes. Am I using the wrong shortcode?

style pack will work against the standard forum code, so if you have a forum(s) displaying without style pack being activated, then it should work against that url with the changes

ok, that is my plugin, and I’ll try to get to a resolution

It may be as simple as closing and restarting your browser, so try this first !!

If that doesn’t work…

Style pack works with many/most sites, but it can fail due to a myriad of reasons, including (but no means limited to) site permissions, other plugins and most often site themes where the theme author has altered bbpress files.

My plugin uses two different techniques to make changes.

For some I change how bbpress sends information by changing or overwriting bbpress code, for some I change what is called css, which your browser uses to display information.

Therefore some changes may take effect, whilst others don’t seem to.

Additionally you may have :

1. ‘caching’ software that speeds up the download of your site, but may not recognise and immediately make changes from my plugin
Do you know if you are using caching software?
2. Site permissions issues – you site might (quite validly for it) not allow my plugin to write code to certain areas
Try
Dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>css location
check the activate box and set the location to
wp-content/uploads/
and save these changes

For the template, are you able to look at the site files to see if your theme has a directory called bbpress ?

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

[Robin W]

you will have a plugin in addition to bbpress that is doing file uploads, that plugin author should be able to help.

[Robin W]

And it doesn’t end up the same, not really. Everytime bbpress is updated now I have to hope 20 different authors of 20 different plugins also update their code in a timely manner, and if any of them decide to stop the project I now lose functionality.

not really here for a philosophical argument – that’s the way bbpress authors (which I am not) wrote it, and as free software they should be able to write what they want.

I just write some additional plugins which again I do for free and yes I have to update for free, and provide some support here for free.

[Robin W]

I just hate to have to rely on plugins

just a difference in philosophy – one big plugin or several smaller ones, it ends up much the same!

[Robin W]

bbPress – Mark as Read

[Robin W]

3. bbp private groups

Private groups

[Robin W]

bbpress is a lite forum which lets you add other plugins to add functionality. Therefore you can pick and choose what you want.

so

1. https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

dashboard>settinngs>bbp style pack>forum templates

2.

dashboard>settinngs>bbp style pack>other bbpress plugins will give you a useful list, including signature

bbPress – Mark as Read

more follows …

[Robin W]

correct place – I was guessing at whether the code will work, I’ll take a further look at it if I get a chance

[Robin W]

you will have space characters at the start or end of stuff. recheck your files, amn make sure that when copying/pasting you haven’t taken any characters through

usually Whitespace before <?php or after ?>

and on line 7

[Robin W]

great !

[Robin W]

this should work

add_filter ('bbp_before_get_user_subscribe_link_parse_args' , 'change_subscribe_link' ) ;

function change_subscribe_link ($args) {
 $args ['subscribe'] = '<img src="http://www.mysite.com/image1.jpg" />' ;
 $args ['subscribe'] = '<img src="http://www.mysite.com/image1.jpg" />' ;
 
 return $args ;
}

[Robin W]

my plugin should overwrite anything you have done within the bbpress plugins file.

but of you have amended templates and put these in your theme’s bbpress directory, then these will take preference, so have a look in your theme directory and see if you have any.

[Robin W]

so to clarify, this would be to let each user decide what order to put topics?

[Robin W]

suggest you try this in your functions file

add_filter ('bbp_convert_date', 'rew_convert_date', 10 , 3 ) ;

function rew_convert_date ($time, $d, $translate) {
$d = 'G' ;
$time = mysql2date( $d, $time, $translate );
return apply_filters( 'rew_convert_date', $time, $d, $translate );
}

may or may not work !

[Robin W]

whilst it is old, I believe it still works fine

bbPress Moderation

[Robin W]

my style pack has a template that groups forums by categories to achieve this layout

bbp style pack

dashboard>plugins>bbp style pack>forum templates

[Robin W]

can’t see that this is anything to do with bbpress – can you explain further

[Robin W]

just had a quick look at what was in the free version, and looks like the pro version may have what you want – it claims

Buddpress profile link integration (New in V1.0.4)
BBpress profile link integration (New in V1.0.4)
BBpress Online User Statistics (New in V1.0.5)

maybe worth looking at

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