[minkuei]

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/

[Trent Adams]

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

[minkuei]

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.

[fel64]

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.

[minkuei]

I found out that most people’s bbpress has this code in index.php

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://yourdomain.com/style.css&#8221; 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.

[minkuei]

I have set my config.php

$bb->domain = ‘http://kaespace.com&#8217;;

$bb->path = ‘/bbpress/’;

I thought this is right setting.

[rimian]

Your path setting may be blank or something.

have a look in your config.php and check:

$bb->path

and

$bb->wp_siteurl

[minkuei]

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

[slozano]

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&#8221; 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&#8221; type=”text/css” />” and the themes previews are visible.

Any ideas how to fix this errors. Thanks.

[wittmania]

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.

[fel64]

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.

[fel64]

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.

[albert4000]

Hello, don’t mean to spam, as I just posted this into the technorati thread, but then read the post about strutting your press. Here’s what I’ve been working on:

http://www.informedbanking.com/resources/forums/

I still don’t link to it from the main page as I work out the kinks here and there. I think the CSS is a little wacky on IE (I’m on Mac Camino!).

Again, thanks for the great software.

[wmarcy]

Hey Trent, Don’t know if it matters to you, but it was bugging me <s>, the ‘Views’ section at the bottom of the front page was aligned to far left for my tastes, I added this into my style2.css file:

#viewdiv {

padding: 0 7px;

margin-bottom: 2px;

}

And it brought the ‘Views’ Section into alignment with the rest of the tables.

[wittmania]

This is my first attempt at a plugin, so be gentle!

This plugin allows you to display custom ads/messages anywhere on your site, including the front page, profile pages, forum pages, and even between posts.

The plugin randomly selects a file from a pre-determined directory, or you can specify a specific file to display. File types include .php, .html, .htm, or you can add custom file types as needed.

The files themselves can include links, images, PHP functions, and CSS stylization. You can customize the ads/messages however you want.

You can get the 0.1 version here:

http://blog.wittmania.com/bb-ads

PLEASE feel free to let me know if you find any bugs. I’m also extremely open to suggestions for future revisions, as my PHP skills are only slightly better than my bow hunting skills, which are pretty pathetic.

Enjoy!

[Trent Adams]

That is the intended placement for the forums here as well as the other wordpress forums. It can be changed though! I would just edit style.css for this portion:

/* Profile Page

=================================== */



#profile-menu {

}



#profile-menu li {

font-size: 1.1em;

background-color: #eee;

padding: 4px 7px;

display: inline;

border-top: 3px single #9e9e9e;

position: relative;

top: -10px;

}

All I did there was take out the positioning for profile-menu itself so it displays inline and then changed the border of the list items themselves to have a single border on top instead of the double. You can edit that more to get it to look the way you want as well.

That being said, I am leaving it as is because it is the closest to the ‘actual forum’ with the profile menu on the right hand side floating……but this will fix you up!

Trent

[thegunman]

Well none the less its a fantastic design and I know a bit about css so I will mess around with it and see if I can get that search button up an to the left.

[fel64]

Yo.

Open your folder containing all your bbPress stuff, including the config.php file. Make a new folder and call it my-templates, if it doesn’t exist yet! Open my-templates and make another new folder, and call it anything you like. This folder will house your forum’s theme.

Now go back to the main bb folder, and open bb-templates > kakumei. Copy the style.css file into the folder you created a minute ago.

Open style.css, and look for this (it’s right at the top):

body {

margin-bottom: 50px;

background: #fff;

font: 62.5% 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial;

}

Those are the fonts that will be used, in order from left to right (if someone doesn’t have, for example, Trebuchet MS they’ll then try to use Lucida Grande). The font they use here is Georgia.

Change that part to:

body {

margin-bottom: 50px;

background: #fff;

font: 62.5% Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;

}

Save it and put the my-templates folder and everything in it on your server in the main bb folder.

Now, open your forums, go to the admin panel, go to Presentation, and click on your theme’s name. Your forum should look the same as before, but with the new font.

[Trent Adams]

It is done through CSS and blockquote. We don’t have it in the stylesheet here in these forums, but can be done easily. The image for the quote is here. Just download a copy of it to put in on your server. The CSS for that particular one would then be:

.post blockquote {background: url('/path-to-your-image/quote.gif') no-repeat;margin-left: 175px;padding:5px;border:1px solid #a3a3a3;}

Trent

[fel64]

There is no description of the stylesheet that I know of, but it’s fairly straightforward. Working on this should be identical to styling WP, only with different classes and ids. There is also no listing of template tags and other API functions, sorry.

Not sure what you want to do with the images, but some things can be done with CSS.

.post img {

property: details;

}

You can set things such as the border and the maximum size and the like. http://www.w3schools.com/css/

For incredibly fancy things with images you need swfIR, but that’s a flash thing and as such a) very annoying b) security risks? c) setup difficult.

Right now, by the way, you appear to be using Trent’s forum theme, which includes a (hardcoded?) link to his about page (second blue tab at the top).

You may also wish to re-count your forum’s posts (Admin > Site Management I think), as one of your forums has -1 posts.

[Arlo]

This is my migrated phpBB forum. It’s integrated with my main site rather tightly (UI-wise, not database), and I did a bit of modification to the post layout, making the best use of the narrow column I think. Other than that, just your usual CSS tweakage.

It’s not live yet, so I welcome feedback:

http://automatorworld.com/bbpress/

The plugins I’m using are:

Comment Quicktags

Front Page Topics

Post Notification

Page links

Quote

edit: Please feel free to register and test post, I would welcome the Q&A

[fel64]

No, it isn’t.

Stylesheets are what determines the look of a forum. These are the stylesheets the WP.com forums use:

http://wordpress.com/forums-theme/wpcom/forums.css

http://wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/h3/style.css?1169109548

http://wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/h3/hack.css

I do not think they would mind if you use them, as long as you give credit. You could ask someone.

Or, instead, you could start a new theme, edit your new style.css file and try to replicate what they have by try-and-error.

[fel64]

No images here, but you can see it on my forum. Here’s a thread: http://forums.loinhead.net/topic/the-purty-image-associator/page/2?replies=52

A little CSS styling applied to make them look flat, but I can easily share that. Otherwise they look like grey slightly bulging standard buttons.

[maker]

I installed the patch (had it installed for me)

Just to make sure:

1.The admin dashboard does not resemble the old one?

2. I can make and assign categories alright but I can’t see the category listing on the front page of the forum (like macwises site: http://www.babyquestions101.com) dividing the forums into groups.

Do you have to install the patch on a brand new installation?

patching file bb-templates/kakumei/style.css

Hunk #1 FAILED at 169.

Hunk #2 FAILED at 180.

2 out of 2 hunks FAILED — saving rejects to file bb-templates/kakumei/style.css.rej

patching file bb-templates/kakumei/category.php

patching file bb-templates/kakumei/topic.php

patching file bb-templates/kakumei/forum.php

patching file bb-templates/kakumei/front-page.php

Hunk #1 FAILED at 40.

Hunk #2 FAILED at 52.

Hunk #3 FAILED at 81.

3 out of 3 hunks FAILED — saving rejects to file bb-templates/kakumei/front-page.php.rej

patching file bb-includes/capabilities.php

patching file bb-includes/default-filters.php

patching file bb-includes/cache.php

patching file bb-includes/functions.php

patching file bb-includes/bozo.php

patching file bb-includes/template-functions.php

patching file bb-includes/db.php

patching file index.php

patching file rss.php

patching file category.php

patching file topic.php

patching file bb-settings.php

patching file bb-admin/bb-do-counts.php

patching file bb-admin/bb-category.php

patching file bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php

patching file bb-admin/content-forums.php

patching file bb-admin/content-categories.php

patching file bb-admin/admin-functions.php

patching file bb-admin/bb-forum.php

patching file bb-admin/upgrade-schema.php

patching file forum.php

[Null]

so how come search isn't enabled when you first install bb? It's obviously there - but you have to add it in? What about some css for the style sheet?

ardentfrost’s way is good enough, though you can’t use search-form.php anymore for normal use any more. They implemented search at this forum as well, so how did they do it?