Thanks for the help! I have a couple more questions if you wouldn’t mind… I fixed the problem with sidebar on the front page (although I can’t get it all the way to the top, any suggestions?), and I can’t seem to figure out how to fix the sidebar on the other pages (topics, forums, edit profile, etc)… I’ve looked all over the css the file and can’t figure it out…
Thanks again for all your help!
Most of the *seemless* integration is really done by creating a template in bbPress that looks the same as wordpress using the existing theme and modifying the CSS style sheet to be the same as your wordpress theme. There are people that have managed to get bbPress inside their wordpress theme, but I only know of those that have failed and will wait for them to tell you how they did it.
If you copy your /bb-templates/kakumei/ folder to your desktop and then play around with changing the theme. Most people edit the style.css, header.php, footer.php, front-page.php for starters. Then just create a new folder on your server root of /my-templates/ and then upload the files to a new folder /my-templates/mytheme/ or whatever. Then activate that theme in your admin area.
The way bbPress works is that it will use the files from your new template and the original theme files if it doesn’t exist. That way, if you make a drastic change to any file and you want to start over, just delete that file from your template folder and it will use the original again.
There are a few threads in this forum where people have gone further into detail, but that is how this site is created and others like mine with http://trentadams.ca and http://onvertigo.com looking the same even though they are on different servers.
Hope that helps.
Trent
I’ve got the header and footer to load correctly, but the sidebar is pushed to the bottom… I think this is a CSS problem… but what do I need to change to fix this?
Thanks!!!
http://forums.bozzysworld.com/
I don’t mind if you go into this, no. A topic with a username referenced as a bozo is asking for problems if that user is not indeed a spammer. Forums sometimes are not a ‘pretty’ place and this is definetely the case over at wordpress.com. Ultimately, it is mdawaffe, Matt or I that has to deal with the issues in these forums and we all look at the modlook tag, so it is easier for us to be alerted to these disucssions when we don’t have a chance to read “all” threads.
It seems that you and Sam were most likely 100% right that the user may be at fault here, but realize that if you are not right on this one it can cause someone hard feelings. Discussion is obviously a great thing and encouraged and closing the thread, while premature, is damage control. Clear as mud? 
Trent – I see you have fixed the problem. Thank you very much !
I will now go to build the forum, and will share with all of you once I made it work (and also, will share my Hebrew translation to the rest of the community)
Again, Trent, thank you very much
p.s: one small correction I made to the stylesheet, was to the header.
In the current configuration, The first letter of the name of the forums, is cut off.
So to fix it, I erased the line:
font-style: italic;
from the file style.css, in the “#header h1 { ” section, as seen here:
In style.css:
#header h1 {
font-family: Georgia;
/*font-style: italic;*/ <– this line
position: absolute;
display: block;
color: #444;
text-align: right;
letter-spacing: -1px;
right: 59px;
bottom: 31px;
}
I don’t know how to incorporate it into the trunk or to post a ticket, but I hope what I write will help…
Another small issue (which matters little to me, but is worth noting) :
When the mouse hovers around a header of (for example a forum name): in Firefox, you get the whole line to change color(as it should). in IE you deon’t get that effect.
Tal.
Hi fel64.
Sorry, I didn’t follow.
The site linked to in the ticket, is my forum. and it works under firefox, not under Internet Explorer (And there are many users using IE, so I can’t open the forum until it is compatible to both standards)
Tal.
Jim Lynch came to the rescue, here is what is necessary:
This code gos into the front-page.php file:
<table id="highest">
<tr>
<th>Highest Rating</th>
<th>Rating</th>
</tr>
<?php $topics=bb_top_topics();
foreach ($topics as $topic) : ?>
<tr<?php alt_class('forum'); ?>>
<td><a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a>
</td>
<td class="num"><div class="rating-holder"><?php bb_rating();?>
<span class="count"><?php bb_rating_count(); ?>
</span>
</div>
</td></tr>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</table>
Also very important not to forget to include “my-plugins/bb-ratings.css” in your template header file. That should look something like this:
<link rel='stylesheet' href='http://YOUR_PATH_TO_BBPRESS/my-plugins/bb-ratings.css' type='text/css' />
Trent, Another problem I am having (If these questions are getting to be annoying just let me know, I appreciate your time).
On my site http://www.wetworx.com/forums/ the search field is to the extreme left, while the submit button is is on the extreme right, and lower by about 100 pixels.
messing with the style.css doesn’t seem to have any effect (Kind of puzzling that one).
Any hints or pointers?
Thanks!
I do try to change it to kakumei, but it still not working.
I don’t think this is the problem.
I think it must something wrong with the setting,
It’s a simple case of a tiled (but large, so you can’t see it) background Trent. Here’s the CSS to do it.
#wrapper {
background:#202020 url(images/page_header_tile.png) repeat-x scroll 0px -25px;
}
That’s a really nice forum. I like your bold black/white/pink colour scheme
You seem to have renamed the kakumei directory which would be a problem. It should be named kakumei and nothing else I think.
Thx Trent so patience to help me out.
Actually, yes this is still problem. I didn’t fix it and i just copy the css file from http://kaespace.com/bbpress/my-templates/kakumei_i and put it in the “http://kaespace.com/bbpress/” directory.
When you visit my site, look at the source code and the css link shows
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”style.css” type=”text/css” />
I looks others fourm’s source code they have address like http://domain.com/my-templates/kakumei/style.css in the href.
So I am wonder, is it my config.php didn’t set it right or some other thing I have to do.
I do put the patch-to-URL.php in my-plugins folder
Your site shows up fine for me in Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera and Flock. Is is still a problem on your end?
Trent
I was try to fix the fourm this afternoon, so if you can’t access maybe is because I was worrking on it 
.
The Fourm address is right
http://kaespace.com/bbpress/
Have you taken a look at this thread? As well, http://kaespace.com/bbpress/ doesn’t show up for me at all. Is that the correct address? As for the link just having “style.css” in the address, it is because it is referenced off the theme folder and not the root directory. I can’t access your site, so what is your theme as well? The default one?
Trent
Actually I know I have to make my-templates folder and I do have it.
But before I put css file in the root, the forum don’t even read the default theme.
I do try to change it in admin panel, but somwhow it just don’t work.
You have to do it differently. To apply a css file, make a new folder in /bbpress/ called my-templates, open it, make a new folder for your “theme”, and put in your css file called style.css. Now go to the Admin Panel > Presentation and pick your theme.
Note that you can change the HTML output of files as well. If you do not have a file for a particular page (such as forum.php) bbpress will look for the default file (located in /bbpress/bb-templates/kakumei) and use that instead. If you wish to use a modified file, copy the default into your theme’s folder and change it there.
I found out that most people’s bbpress has this code in index.php
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://yourdomain.com/style.css” type=”text/css” />
however my index.php shows
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”style.css” type=”text/css” />
in the bbpress root there is no css file, so I think that’s why it didn;t work.
Can anyone told me how to fix it?
Right now I just dump my css file in the root so index can reads it.
I have set my config.php
$bb->domain = ‘http://kaespace.com’;
$bb->path = ‘/bbpress/’;
I thought this is right setting.
Your path setting may be blank or something.
have a look in your config.php and check:
$bb->path
and
$bb->wp_siteurl
I just setup my new forum.
Everything works fine, but the forum didn’t ready the CSS file.
This is how it loos now.
http://kaespace.com/bbpress/
I try to search the simlar topic in here and put the plugin but still didn’t work.
Can anyone tell me what’s go wrong? thx
I followed the discussion in “Updated to Desmond But Theme Not Working”, however the proposed solutions are not working for me.
I have a IIS 6.0, windows 2003 server, MySQL 5.x and PHP 5.0 installation. Both directories “my-templates/” and “my-plungins/” are in the bbpress root. The “patch-to-URL.php” plugin is inside the “my-plugins” folder.
When looking at the source code in Firefox 2.0 I get
“<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://129.82.32.135forums/my-templates/kakumei/style.css” type=”text/css” />” (notice the “” before forums) and inside the admin section for the forum the themes previews are not visible, tough their names and the options to select are present.
However when using IE 7.0 the source code I get
“<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://129.82.32.135/forums/bb-admin/style.css” type=”text/css” />” and the themes previews are visible.
Any ideas how to fix this errors. Thanks.
Screenshots here:
An ad between posts on a topic page:
http://www.wittmania.com/images/bb-ads-1.gif
An ad on the front page, text-only (w/ CSS):
http://www.wittmania.com/images/bb-ads-2.gif
An ad on a Forum page, with an image in it:
http://www.wittmania.com/images/bb-ads-3.gif
I don’t have it up and running on my own forum yet b/c I am still building the ads for it. I haven’t submitted it yet, but I’ll look into how to do that right away.
It’s got a lot more of a consistent feel to it now, which is very nice. But when you hover over links they still turn green, as do the rows in the thread listing.
Look for the a:hover item in your CSS file to change links when hovered, and look for something like tr:hover for the thread rows. I think the specific item for thread rows is
#latest tr:hover, #forumlist tr:hover, #favorites tr:hover
Just keep playing with it until you’re happy is the best advice.
Not sure what the DXX theme is, but if it’s the one you’re using on your site yeah it’s ultra-easy.
First of all, don’t try to force bb into the WP theme … that rarely works. Your best bet is to open (or make if it doesn’t exist) your my-templates folder and start a new theme by making a new folder (call it dxx or something). Go back up into your main bb folder, open bb-templates > kakumei and copy style.css, then paste it into your new my-templates > dxx folder.
Using CSS you can then modify how your page looks (not what’s on it though). The basic way to do css is like this:
html element {
property: something;
}
For example, the code to colour links red with NO underline is like this:
a {
color: red;
text-decoration: none;
}
To change the way your forum looks, you therefore open the copy of style.css you made and change properties like that. There’s much more info at http://www.w3schools.com/css/. That is all you need to know.
So for example, what you would do for your theme is make links blue and no underline, make the header green, change the background of the page and put a border on the main div element. Some knowledge of HTML will be helpful but you can also pick this up.
