[ronthai]

Un-installing will NOT delete any posts and such from the database, therefore it is safe to try

[ronthai]

it is gone as soon as a post is made in any forum under the category

[ronthai]

Did you try the repair tool?
under tools > forum in the WP menu

[ronthai]

Sounds like you have your forums on private or hidden.
You can check by editing your forums on the WP side

[ronthai]

With all due respect to the developers of bbPress and its plugins,

People, bbPress admins, should realize that bbPress is a plugin/add-on to WordPress and bbPress is ideal for adding a nice straight forward forum to your WP, what I am setting up now for myself for the first time next my WP.

I have extended experience with phpBB forum software.
Changes/addons like these is not what bbPress is intended for, in my humble opinion.
If you want all the extra’s and whistles, people should use phpBB, which also can be used next to WP. I believe WP has plugins for that and phpBB also supports it with MOD’s/plugins.

[ronthai]

Maybe this is the issue:
When I do css changes they show immediately in FireFox, but IE needs a hard refresh CTRL+F5

[ronthai]

Yes, you are right, they do move to the right. Guess was to busy with the numbering that I didn’t noticed that.

To change the background color of reply to reply posts add this to the bbpress.css
.bbp-threaded-replies div { background-color: #ccc ! important; }

Color #ccc is a little dark, but just change it to what you want

[ronthai]

I actually tried on my not open yet forum (still working on it), which will have guest posting also, but it counts the guest post just fine as voices and even shows the input name as last post.

[ronthai]

Try putting it as important:
display: hidden ! important;

[ronthai]

Exactly, that is what I mean with a major update, if code is added or changed in the templates or css.
If that happens I will need to go through all changed templates and apply the edits to the updated templates or css.

For css that is easy, just add css and if needed do ! important to override (works 95% of the time)

For templates it will be adding additions, mostly html, again to the updated templates

and then put that all again in the theme folder

[ronthai]

If you have all topics on your front page you have the setting done for this in the forum settings “Forum root should show”
Standard is to show the forums. Your setting is fine if you only have 1 forum, but if you have more it gets confusing for posters/users.

The search location is theme dependent, I guess, since mine is always at the top.
Which theme are you using?

[ronthai]

forgot to mention, to find any class (e.g. bbp-forum-title) you need for the css, you should look at the page source or use FireBug

[ronthai]

add to the bbpress.css
.bbp-forum-title { color: #E03700 ! important; }
You also put anything in there like font-size, font-weight, text-decoration

Note that when bbPress opdates all changes will be lost, UNLESS you follow these instructions:

You should have all your customizations as per this document
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[ronthai]

1. registering is for both
2. use a plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/register-plus-redux/

[ronthai]

Been thinking, to solve this, remove the always open reply form at the bottom and just have a general reply button/link (as all posts now have) go to a new page for posting/reply (with or without sidebars).

That way people are forced to click the reply link and all new replies are put at the bottom, after which admin edits have no positioning problems.

Just don’t know how to do that.

[ronthai]

Hi,

I do have a similar issue, probably related, maybe clears things up for testing.
I also have the .even class every where.

A new reply from a user/participant goes directly under the original first post/topic,
even when there are already replies made, which I guess happens when using the bottom reply form, since that is there to reply to the original post.
When the admin edits that reply it goes to the bottom.

When anybody (user or admin) uses the reply link in a post/reply the reply goes directly under the post replied to and stays there even after an admin edit.
Issue I have with that is it is not clear it was a reply to a reply, maybe should go to the right a bit or something or change backgroundcolor or add ‘REPLY TO: at the top of the reply.

[ronthai]

OOPS, miss read what the lady wanted. Here is the css for larger avatar and name removed.
It will show: topic title by avatar-image
You can not remove the word “by” with css, it comes from a core file.

.widget_display_topics .avatar { width: 30px ! important; height: 30px ! important; }
.widget_display_topics .bbp-author-name { display: none ! important; }

Just change the 30px size to anything you want.
Keep in mind that the core file has created already an avatar thumbnail of 14×14 and this will just resize that image, therefore will become somewhat unclear.

[ronthai]

All widgets (even if you use the same more then once) can be individually edited how they look.
From colors, headers, font type/size/color/shadow, widget background color/image,
you name it, it can be done, WITHOUT editing any core files.

How? Just use css.
For the ladies question, assuming she uses the bbPress “Recent Topics” widget, just add the following to the bbPress main ccs file (bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css):

.widget_display_topics .bbp-author-avatar { display: none ! important; }
This will remove the little avatar and leave it with:
topic title by posters name

You can find any widgets “css class or id (id can be used if the same widget is used more then once)” by viewing the source code of your page or using FireBug (firefox or chrome browsers, just get rid of IE all together)

You should also follow this, to avoid any updates from changing your edits:
You should have all your customizations as per this document
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[ronthai]

OK, Thanks, that seems to work perfectly.

Question: What happens when there is a major update, e.g. bbPress 3.0 that maybe has loads of template and css changes?