[Robin W]

yes it was supposed to change the color to black.

You can change it to whatever color you want

see

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp

and maybe use

http://colorcop.net/

to find the right color

Please don’t stop – keep improving that is what you are supposed to do, you’ve come a long way – learned how to create a test site, add functions and styles, but it requires effort ! Learning firebug will help you tailor your site’s styling. Adding color cop will let you choose colors – please keep working at getting a site that is what you want. 🙂

‘ I am afraid to mess with these things like firebug. 🙂 ‘ – 1. that is what the test site is for, 2. conquering fear is part of life’s journey, and surely this is only a very petty fear – work through it !

I’ll come back on registration when I get a moment.

[Robin W]

hmmm.. ok but we’re starting to need lots of extra code

ok so add

#bbpress-forums a {
color: #111111 !important ;
}

This will change the font throughout, and you can play with the colour.

If you want the topic and date to be different, we’re getting into some real css styling, which is beyond the purpose of the bbpress support forum, and perhaps you need to start to look at how to use firebug so you can see what you need to change eg

then you can style any forums part by preceding it with

#bbpress-forums as I’ve done above.

[Robin W]

to change the font (sorry I missed that) , change it to

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-title h3, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-title h3, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-title h3, #bbpress-forums a.bbp-forum-title, #bbpress-forums a.bbp-topic-permalink {
color: #666 !important;
font-family: ‘Open Sans’,Arial,sans-serif !important;
font-size: 16px !important;
}

[Robin W]

No 2 did not seem to work on the test so i did not add it live. I added it to the bottom of the style.css so I am unsure if that is the issue.

No 2 changed the font colour and size of the forum list – look at ‘prayer requests’ in you test and live sites to see the difference.

What else do you want to change?

[Robin W]

@marianne78 not quite sure what you are saying.

Can you detail
how many forums you have,
whether they are all private,
when the message appears (eg when not logged in),
whether you are using a forum page with bbp-index in it,
what settings you have for dashboard>settings>bbp private groups in forum visibility settings and general settings

Thanks

[Robin W]

Now, can you explain what registration process you would like eg

user does this
what user info you want
emails goes from..to…saying
Site manager does that…

etc. ie design your ideal process 🙂

[Robin W]

you’re welcome

[Robin W]

for no. 1, add this code to your functions file

//display last topic title in freshness for forums
function display_title ($anchor, $forum_id, $time_since, $link_url, $title, $active_id ) {
$anchor = '<ul><li><a href="' . esc_url( $link_url ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( $title ) . '">' . esc_html( $title) . '</a></li></ul><a href="' . esc_url( $link_url ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( $title ) . '">' . esc_html( $time_since ) . '</a>';
return $anchor ;
}
add_filter ('bbp_get_forum_freshness_link', 'display_title', 10, 6 );

Having coded it, I like the way it displays, and will be adding to the forums on one of the sites I support – one of the reasons I support this forum is that I learn and get ideas from others 🙂

[Robin W]

to your functions file see

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Robin W]

for no. 2

add

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-title h3, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-title h3, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-title h3, #bbpress-forums a.bbp-forum-title, #bbpress-forums a.bbp-topic-permalink {
  color: #666 !important;
  font-size: 16px !important;
}

to your style.css

[Robin W]

great – glad you’re fixed !

[Robin W]

great – glad you’re fixed !

[Robin W]

in the meantime, you can move it in your style.css

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[Robin W]

great, come back with your next query !

[Robin W]

Yes,

If you have a forum page ie a wordpress page that has [bbp-forum-index] in it, (ie you’ve use method 2 rather than method 1 in this link

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

then go into edit on your forum page

Switch to text from visual and put

Create a new topic before the [bbp-forum-index] to get it at the top or after it to put it at the bottom.

or you could use

[bbp-topic-form] after the [bbp-forum-index]

or

[bbp-topic-form forum_id=$forum_id] to display a single forum topic form.

Lots of possibilities.

If you don’t have a set wordpress forum page, then you can create one, see method 2 in the link above

[Robin W]

Great – thanks !

[Robin W]

@zdev1 – yes thanks, I’ve responded to you on my plugin page.

Any testing help you can give me to resolve would be appreciated !

Let me know if you can help !

[Robin W]

ok try

Deactivate bbpress tweaks
Dashboard>plugins>bbpress tweaks>deactivate

Go into widgets
Dashboard>appearance>widgets

And look at the bottom of the left hand side. You’ll see an “inactive sidebar”, with your entries on
Below this is an “inactive widgets”
Drag all the entries from the inactive sidebar to the inactive widgets area.
This then allows wordpress to delete the sidebar
I normally log out and in again at this stage – probably not needed, but I’ve never bothered to check
Then basically reverse the above
Re-enable bbpress tweaks
You see the bbpress sidebar returns
Drag the entries back from the inactive widgets area to the sidebar

As soon as you’ve got the site vaguely going again, you need to STOP !!!! YES STOP!!!!!!!!!!

Then take a breath, and create a test site – you cannot continue to develop your site in live, and you need a child theme. So you’ll need to read.

Functions files and child themes – explained !

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

Once you have a test site, you can change things there first and then when you are happy put it into live.

[Robin W]

The problem is that there are so many themes out there, all of which do ‘clever’ things with layout that it is impossible to give a set of instructions.

However you are using a paid theme with support, so you need to refer to them.

You question should look like

I’ve just installed bbpress forum software, and I want to use this in a page with a sidebar. To do this I need to copy and rename a theme page template that has a sidebar – basically I need to rename it bbpress.php and put it in my themes folder.

Can you either let me know which template file in your theme has a sidebar, or where within an existing template (having copied and renamed it) I would put something like

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

[Robin W]

ok, put the css in your style.css.

then maybe try this code in your functions.php file

add_action( ‘bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details’, ‘mentionname_to_bbpress’ );
function mentionname_to_bbpress () {
 $user = get_userdata( bbp_get_reply_author_id() );
 if ( !empty( $user->user_nicename ) ) {
 $user_nicename = $user->user_nicename;
echo '<ul><li><font class=bbp-user-nicename>' ; 
echo “@”.$user_nicename.’</font></li></ul>’ ;
 }
 }

[Robin W]

ummm, yes it doesn’t make a difference.

So now I’m not sure if running my bit is causing the blank screen, or running a wp-query that large with any ‘post__in’ or ‘post__not_in’ causes an issue. I could prove that by breakimng the execution at that point, but am struggling to see how it breaks it. Another think time I feel ! I’ll come back when I’ve done that.

Or we could return to limiting the number displayed. ok so your pagination will be out, ie it’ll say ‘1-20 of 1550’ topics not ‘1-20 of 155000 topics’, but who does a topic list and goes beyond the first say 4 pages???

what do you think?

[Robin W]

no problem in deleting, but de-activate for a while first, then clean out when you’re sure you don’t need !

[Robin W]

I somehow suspect that what you’re calling the admin bar may well have been what login/logout was displaying.

was this admin bar at the top or bottom of you screen, and what did/does it display ?

Try adding them back one at a time and see if it comes back.

and next time don’t delete, just deactivate, then you can go back if needed 🙂

or note down exactly what you have taken away so that you can add it back !

[Robin W]

so is your admin bar missing for all users or just you?

was the admin bar present when the plugins were there, and was it present for all users or just you?

do you know the exact names of the plugins you were using?

[Robin W]

yes there’s lots to learn, my css is probably at your php level !

I found a way to have a search box that is persistent on every level of the bbPress forums. Now I have to get rid of the second search box that is at the top of the forums. I can’t find where that is in the code to remove it.

You could try just turning off the forum search

dashboard>settings>forums and look for allow forum wide search

Is there anyone that comes around regularly that would either donate the time for these couple of tweaks or let me pay them over time?

you can put an ad on wordpress jobs

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

just post it as a project and detail what you want

But I’d play with the css first, as I think much of what you want is stylable.