[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

Well its not actually a “button” , it won’t come with a 3-D look and other styles automatically based on how your theme styles a standard button , but I mean you could do that with CSS I think. I just created a link and just added padding , background and font color , and a :hover version to look like a nice flat button.

If you want a more button look you add gradients , or add the input type button parameter in css

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

<a href="http://yoursitename.com/new-topic/">New Topic</a>

this should work after you have done everything in

New Topic Button at top of topic, and Topic Creation on Separate Page

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

.content, #right-sidebar {
padding-top: 0 !important;
}

this should do it , you shouldnt make everything at the top super cozy though.

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

copy loop-forums.php in your child theme

then i think it should be placed above

<li class=”bbp-header”>

it wont be exactly like the button on the other site but it should you should get the gist of it.

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

Now i am think what the point of having this forum because Mostly Webmaster talks about code and customization and i have limited knowledge regarding that. i think i should abort this forum.

sorry about that,

but how did you get the actions button on each post if you didnt know much about code?
like how did you get a quote link in there??

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

for sidebar, also replace that .content code with 5px padding top with this

.content, #right-sidebar {
padding-top: 0 !important;
}

and

#right-sidebar {
float: right;
width: 28%;
padding: 0 0% 0%;
}

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

@cybarmitzvah

well you shouldnt use that code.

especially this

#post-entry article.post-single .post-content {
font-size: 1.25em;
margin-top: -85px;
padding-top: 0px;
line-height: 2.00em;
}

because if you go to your about page, there is text colliding with each other
and never go negative.

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

I’ve been looking for it, so if you find it, please let me know!

its probably a custom made plugin, using combined functionality of like 5 plugins i have seen on github.

Again, please let me know if you figure this out! I appreciate it!

well i know for sure they used the show lead topic on their site. but i dont feel like going into templates right now and fooling around with it just yet. So i will do this later today.

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

@chakelan you probably need to go to wordpress.org ‘s support to see whats up with your wordpress mail functions or something to.

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

it should have but i mean there is space created by different objects.

try this

#post-entry article.post-single .post-content {
font-size: 1.25em;
margin-top: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
line-height: 1.4875em;
}

if you want to lose more space try this

.container-wrap, footer .ftop {
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0 2% 0 2%;
width: 96%;
background-color: white;
}

after that there isnt any more you can delete.

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

@chakelan is the plugin causing your new problem??

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

I will say there is a bit of a gap now, between the forum, and the title of site/description, would you know how to make that smaller?

try this, but if you see some weird looking css throughout the rest of your site in that area remove it, Or try to find an alternative.

.content {
padding-top: 5px !important;
}

search forum and topic icons in bbpress search then go from there

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

they use , the bbpress shortcode for the new topic form.

[bbp-topic-form] – Display the ‘New Topic’ form where you can choose from a drop down menu the forum that this topic is to be associated with.

more shortcodes https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

create a page , lets say “new topic”

add that shortcode, and save

place an html link in loop-forums.php

the link should look like

<a href="http://sitename.com/new-topic/">New Topic</a>

style it with css with

a.bbp-new-topic-button {
background:#009375;
color:#fff;
}

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

1. http://www.highexistence.com/ should be an example of a great looking bbpress site

Examples

2. i want that Hethens Voting plugin that site has .

3. the reply form below topic post could be there because they are showing the lead topic, and then inserting the reply form after that. not sure i will look at it though.

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

saw your site , and see that you have an actions button on each post

i assume you are doing the same thing as my dropdown list for bbpress admin links, or that you took the code from my topic. I think its a great idea , and more help would be great.

As for your site , right now all i can see is that its doing the same thing as this sites support, but i guess if you can come up with some cool ideas and code or i guess some custom themes you could in the future be for bbpress as buddydev.com is for buddypress if you develop some features for bbpress users.

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

@kris35

i mean the login widget does come from bbpress so why not use it??

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

heres for sent from name

// Change the Mail Sent from NAME
add_filter( 'wp_mail_from_name', 'email_sent_from_name' );
function email_sent_from_name( $name )
{
    return 'YOUR COMPANY';
}

credit goes to jordan boston for both functions

https://gist.github.com/jordanboston

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

#1 try

li.cat-item-none {
display:none;
}

#2 if its the subforums??

a.bbp-forum-link {
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: bold;
}

#3 if you really wouldnt mind it being gone for all pages then

#post-entry article h1.post-title {
display: none;
}

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

you could output the bbpress statistics shortcode like this , its in that reply

How to make similar bbpress forum to QuicSprout one?

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

i found this code but i dont know if it helps

// wp_mail altered for bbPress (Mail sent from address)
add_filter( 'wp_mail_from', 'email_sent_from' );
function email_sent_from( $email )
{
    return 'noreply@sitename';
}

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

contact theme developer, other than that no idea.

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

if one registers to wordpress they also are capable of posting on forum topics.

all registration is around wordpress.

bbpress may come with a register shortcode to place on a page ,but all the information still goes to wordpress.

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

also another thing about topics with no replies

if you want you can feel free and try to find a solution to some of these topics.

official bbpress support dont always have to find a solution to a topic, even volunteers.

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

Hi Robin, so you don’t like feedback here? I seemed to have hit a sensitive nerve with you! I did try to make some positives as well as what I thought were honest concerns. I looked on the support forum and there were also other older threads with no replies, not just mine, If you can’t take feedback about what you do then I’m sorry to say you will never learn or grow. As for it been free, well I’m not going to go into a debate about that. But I believe there would be ways to make money out of this like here: http://www.packtpub.com/bbpress-complete-comprehensive-guide/book

bbpress is open source , i dont think the community is going to try to make money off of something thats open source, thats probably why there is no ads on this site too.

that book was just written by some guy thats not really affiliated with bbpress. Its like if i myself made a book of all that i know from reading all the documentation. (i dont work for bbpress, i am a volunteer )

topics with no replies, people are busy , there is like only 2 official people that check out this forum occasionly , robin and stephen

jjj might check out the forums though but he also works on wordpress core i think i am not sure.

Other than that the others are volunteers like myself , which i am helping out people because robin helped out me , idk i feel i got to repay them somehow haha

Your own layout looks promising, I hope it goes well.

im on the fence if i should put it on github or not, i feel like i dont want people jacking my forums style sometimes

As for examples

Just any thing that looks like a forum:

bbpress looks like a forum ,its just a really simple one.

which is great because not all people need extravagant features, but if they want they can add wordpress plugins, and also custom functions that you may find on this forum.

if we compare features in bbpress compared to other forum software there is not much of a difference.

All i can see that is different is shortcodes on bottom, which i showed a user how to do in a topic before. using bbpress forum statistics shortcode, and the do shortcode function.

forum icons, which is possible there is a function somewhere if you search this forum.

category and hierarchy layout , if you search the bbpress trac people have shared how to do this if users want that specific layout.

ip boards topic sorting you can create something similar using bbpress views in simple html links.

and the rest is just styling with css, in the documentation it explains… go to this https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/

[@robkk Moderator 12 years, 3 months ago]

but not too simple actually

css is actually the easiest in my opinion

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 2