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In reply to: Errors
One a day, lots every day?
Can you post your url?
In reply to: Can't access admin pagesOK, when I get a moment I’ll create a new site and try it from a blank canvass.
In reply to: Can't access admin pagesOK, try going into
Dashboard>users>
and edit the username you’re looking at
at the bottom there should be a setting for level of forum access. For full rights it should be keymaster.
Come back and let us know what it is set at, and if not keymaster change it to that and try again
In reply to: Can't access admin pagessuggest you uninstall bbpress and then re-install it.
Come back if that doesn’t work
In reply to: I need to enlarge some font-sizesI just took a look at my forum
On a single topic display, my css is from line 575
#content .entry-title { color: #000000; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0; }and when I view a topic title in a list of forums it is from line 475
#content, #content input, #content textarea { color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; }Have you tried either of those?
It is frustrating that I can’t directly see what you’re looking at 🙂
In reply to: Can't access admin pagesPrecisely what are you doing to get this message
example
Dashboard>settings>forums
and at what point do you get it?
In reply to: I need to enlarge some font-sizesok, would be worth a double check with firebug as to which css is being used.
is it definitely bbpress.css? and on what directory are you using it (ie is it the default directory or a copy you have made, and if the latter which directory have you put it in?
In reply to: Users Cannot View Own Repliesgreat – glad you’re sorted!
In reply to: Colors used in Topic list very hard to seegreat, glad you’re sorted !
In reply to: Installing & Activating A bbpress ThemeYes, and I totally agree, the documentation is woeful, unfortunately those that know the answers won’t update, and the rest of us work out bits that function, but are never sure whether these are the best ways.
Anyway onto your question.
bbPress is a plugin, and out of the box it works well with twentyten, and I understand twentyeleven.
Beyond that you’ll need to style it.
This consist of two elements :
Functionality
StylingFunctionality
I create a page called “forums”, and then put whatever forum text at the top followed by the forum shortcut
[bbp-forum-index]See http://www.gospbc.co.uk/forums/ for an example
Then loading a plugin called bbPress WP tweaks adds a forum sidebar to your widgets area.
I have loaded this with a login widget, forum list, recent topics and recent replies, as well as some other stuff from my website. See link about for what is in there.
This then gives you a basic forum area.
Then onto
styling
bbPress using the default bbpress.css as it style doc unless you tell it otherwiseYou can customise look and feel – fonts, colours, background quite easily by using one of two methods, knowing what to change is the hard part !
If you have an existing child theme, you can override the bbpress default for elements by adding them to your own child theme style.css BUT you need to put !important into them to prevent the bbpress plugin from loading later and overwriting them with the default
As an example if you wanted to change the font-size of the forums list you’d put the following into your css
#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li { font-size: 11px !important; }The alternate method, and perhaps better if you want to make lots of changes, is to copy the default bbpress.css from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css
to /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/css/you can then edit it there to your hearts content, and you don’t need the !important bit.
OK so how do I know what to edit?
You’ll need to get familiar with using something like firebug with firefox. This lets you examine sections of your website and see precisely what css element is styling it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdIk2PztcL0 gives the start of a tutorial on this
When I get a moment, I’ll start to add this to the bbpress documentation.
I only started with WordPress and bbPress in March, and am still learning the basics !
In reply to: HTLM editor?Not quite sure what you’re after?
Do you want more html or less?
are you not getting the same editor as you’ll be using to reply to this thread?
In reply to: Click topic to view answer below.Haven’t looked at them, but these two might help start you in the right direction
In reply to: I need to enlarge some font-sizesand that class is the one you tried to change, it is on line 166 of bbpress.css
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-title h3, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-title h3, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-title h3 { background: none; border: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1em; margin: 8px 0; padding: 0; text-transform: none; }In reply to: I need to enlarge some font-sizesOk, you can add the following to it
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-title h3, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-title h3, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-title h3 { font-size: 16px !important; }16px is what it is currently set to, just alter the 16px to whatever size you want
h3 by the way is “heading 3” there are a number of different heading sizes that bbpress sets and uses, that are separate from your main themes h3
In reply to: How to make bbPress use the same theme as WordPress?Great, glad you’re fixed
In reply to: help me pls.. I'm stuckok, all you’ve got is some bad code in your functions.php file
were you customising this file or another? or via the dashboard?
If you can, post line 344 of the functions.php in your reply, it can be as easy as a comma or semicolon missed.
In reply to: Users cannot see first post in each topicok, so apart from suggesting you re-install bbpress – I’m out of ideas !
In reply to: change forum sidebarGreat, really glad you’re fixed !
In reply to: Users cannot see first post in each topicok, lets try doing a repair on the forums to see if they’ve lost the relationship somewhere
Dashboard>tools>forumsI’d work my way down the first 6 – maybe one at a time to ensure you don’t get hours of spinning discs.
The code you provided to protect does have a section where it is working out whether to show a post, topic or reply, and the code for each is slightly different (starts at around line 40). I’m not good enough ton validate this code, but if you’re still stuck, always worth contacting the codes owner to see if they can help
In reply to: post count ?OK, all I can suggest is that you try
A re-install bbpress – it is possible it didn’t all download correctly and/or
Changing to a default theme (such as twentytwelve) to see if that fixes, if so, then contact your theme providerAfter that I’m out of ideas I’m afraid !
In reply to: change forum sidebarok, plan B !
Try this for me
Bbpress sidebar fix
Deactivate bbpress tweaks
Dashboard>plugins>bbpress tweaks>deactivateGo into widgets
Dashboard>appearance>widgetsAnd 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 them 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 sidebarIf that doesn’t work, come back I have a plan C !
In reply to: I need to enlarge some font-sizesok, do you have a child theme with css in it you can alter?
In reply to: How to make bbPress use the same theme as WordPress?There were some instructions here
https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/
But they are out of date
Your forum link didn’t work, but if you post again, I’ll take a quick look to see if teher are any quick and easy changes you could make
In reply to: I need to enlarge some font-sizesCan you post a link to your site and I’ll take a look for you
In reply to: Users cannot see first post in each topicAll first posts on an area are “topics” and the subsequent ones are replies, so it is correctly doing that.
These are called custom post types
User levels (eg admin) would/should not affect this
I suspect the issue is in your memberships plugin – even though you’ve tried. Do you anywhere define what is shown to users? if you can find the word “replies” anywhere then look for adding “topics” as well.
I’d suggest that you add a new user (yourself but under another name) and then play with the settings for both wordpress and bbpress. I presume you are aware that when you have created a user, if you go back into edit then you’ll see a bbpress role for each user. So play with both of those and see what displays topics and replies and then come back.
