Hmm,
It looks as though most of the styles are coming from
/blog-wp-content/themes/bbpress-2012/style.css
It is also loading
/blog-wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/css/bbpress.css?ver=2.1
But, and this is the difference I think with bbpress.org and your site:
https://bbpress.org/blog-wp-content/themes/bbpress-2012/bbpress.css – doesn’t exist, so I am guessing it is getting all of the styles from style.css but because bbpress.css doesn’t exist it defaults back to the plugins bbpress.css
Just to make sure (and after taking a backup) I deleted my bbpress plugin folder.
re-downloaded it and re uploaded it.
So using my current theme and installing a fresh copy of bbpress my bbpress.css file loads from within my theme folder.
Your theme doesn’t happen to hard code a css path or anything does it? It could be a plugin loading in the css file or something, but not too sure apart from that, sorry!
P.s. I also used the bbpress-functions.php file from bbp-theme-compat
Oh, your looking at a different site lol, I haven’t updated that for a while.
I was looking at the new one I am currently working on: http://teamoverpowered.com/
Yea that one comes from the bbpress plugins folder.
In the screenshot you can’t see it (the path appears as a tooltip that disappears when I take a screenshot). If you do it in Firefox and hover over where it says bbpress.css, you’ll see the path to the plugins folder.
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This reply was modified 13 years, 10 months ago by
Clay.
that appears to come from the plugins default folder and not from your RainCloud theme.
I don’t see where it says it’s being loaded from at all. It could be bbpress.css located in your current theme.
Never ever modify or delete the files in the /plugins/bbpress folder, unless you’re fixing a bug and putting a patch up on trac. 🙂
Happy you were able to get it sorted! bbPress does some weird things with the login screen, and I’m going to look at making it behave better in 2.2.
I just checked on my site and in Firebugs net panel it does not show that it is loading bbpress from the plugin folder?
It shows that it is being loaded from my theme directory.
These steps may be incorrect but this is what I did.
1) I copied across bbp-theme-compat to my wordpress theme folder.
2) I deleted the bbp-theme-compat from the bbpress plugin (this was probably not the thing to do!).
Everything is working fine for me though?
Just another update. It seems that “Theme My Login” plugin was one of the issues also.
I copied across bbp-theme-compat to my wordpress theme folder and then bbpress automatically picked up my files.
Is your bbpress-functions.php file located inside your theme directory aswell?
John, I am back in. I went into my database>changed the theme to twentyten which allowed me to get back in. bbPress was not activated so I activated that. Selected the “mother” theme I was using and I am back up. Now I will trouble shoot the child theme to see the issues with that.
I thought this might help someone else.
If either your parent/child/current theme have /css/bbpress.css in it, > the theme-compat one shouldn’t be getting pulled in. If it does, and > it is, it’s a bug.
I’m not familiar enough with bbpress (just tried it for the first time today) to declare it’s a bug and not my fault. This is happening with a near-vanilla up-to-date WP install, however.
Crap.. you’re smart. Thanks for the fast reply too.
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This reply was modified 13 years, 10 months ago by
csk.
PaulieP – Sorry to hear you had a bad experience, and happy that you’re sticking with bbPress. Give Jared a shout. He’s active in the forums here, and very familiar with bbPress.
Bumping this to the top. Blake from DriveNet Consulting took on the project and produced absolutely nothing after over a month and a lot of apparent bluffing.
Who here has experience creating or modifying/adapting bbpress themes for the PLUGIN version of bbpress for WordPress?
Thanks
John, my site was running fine. The only thing I did was pdated bbPress and now the whole site is down. I am at a loss as to where to start looking. I am using a child theme.
Could be anything. Plugin conflict, theme issue, etc… Will need tons more information. I’d suggest reverting bbPress back to an old version if it’s critical to get your site back up immediately, and doing a bit of testing to figure out what the incompatibility is before updating.
If it’s a bbPress bug, clearly we want to fix it so no one has the same issue in the future.
That’s exactly what’s happening. I’m using the responsive theme. I have a responsive-child theme folder that includes the necessary information for me to use it and have responsive as the template, along with style.css that has some modifications to the responsive theme’s css. I then copied everything from …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten to the responsive-child folder and added the aforementioned line to bbpress-functions.php.
bbpress ignores .../responsive-child/css/bbpress.css and instead calls the one from the plugins folder.
John, my site was running fine. The only thing I did was pdated bbPress and now the whole site is down. I am at a loss as to where to start looking. I am using a child theme.
If either your parent/child/current theme have /css/bbpress.css in it, the theme-compat one shouldn’t be getting pulled in. If it does, and it is, it’s a bug.
It still calls the bbpress.css in the plugins folder. Is there a specific place that the add_theme_support line needs to go in bbpress-functions.php?
I did the following today:
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Install a fresh version of wordpress and bbpress plugin.
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Copy all files (except style.css) from …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten to my child theme folder
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Modify bbpress-functions.php to include add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );
bbpress is still using the bbpress.css file from wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/css
I’ve been tinkering with it for hours and I cannot get it to start using my child theme’s css files by default. They properties always are overwritten by the bbpress.css file in the plugins folder.
Ideas?
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This topic was modified 13 years, 10 months ago by Clay.
Cool.. I just learned about Child themes. Now I feel like a noob.. but thanks for clearing that up.
Thanks for the suggestion, but this is actually a really poor way to go this.
Never modify bbPress core files.
Instead, copy them from bbp-twentyten/bbpress and place them in a /bbpress folder in a child theme of your current theme. Then, modify the new copies.
If you want to get rid of the sidebar completely, then make a copy of bbp-twentyten in your /themes folder, remane the theme to something else, and start hacking the same way as above.
Again; Never modify bbPress core files.
Inside this file: http://www.geekandjock.com/wp-content/themes/parallelus-mingle/bbpress.css
Line 104.
#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
display: inline;
font-size: 11px;
}
You will need to change to:
#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
display: block;
font-size: 11px;
}
This is the one thing that keeps cropping up when I am on these forums, so once you have got yourself comfortable with this then the rest of the stuff I have done with my forum has been mostly CSS. there is some PHP because I wanted to try and make it a bit unique, but none of it touches the core.
Good luck!
