[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?

[stevenvugmailcom]

So I installed the latest version of bbpress 0.8.1 and wordpress 2.1.2. I followed the instructions on this website: http://www.bui4ever.com/web-itecture/how_to_integrate_wordpress_and_bbpress/

There are a few CSS problems which i’m sure i’ll be able to iron out but the worrying thing is when i try to post any information – a new tag, new post, new topic; I get the following error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/pjqkug/public_html/forum/config.php:3) in /home/pjqkug/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 275

Anyone think they can have a gander and help?

http://testteachtuition.com/forum/

username: test

password: test

cheers,

Steven

[peiqinglong]

A couple of things:

1) You didn’t configure the config.php file correctly and that’s why the site has no CSS: http://my-cool-forums.example.com/bb-admin/install.css should be http://rigelastronomy.com/bb-admin/install.css

2) You need to actually run the installer, much like WordPress

[peiqinglong]

The first problem is in your header, you have:

<php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>, it should be <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> and with the second import, I'm not sure why style.css is just floating around outside. It should be pointing to your forum so it should be: @import url(“/archas/ram/wordpress/forum/bb-templates/your themestyle.css”);`

The second problem is you have to edit EVERY file in the template. Make a new folder in bb-templates, call it whatever you want and copy all the files from kakumei theme except for images directory into your new folder and change all the files that have <bb_get header()> to <get_header()> and don’t forget the footer and sidebar.

The third problem is you need to style the bbpress stylesheet to match your theme…

[startribe]

Hey Community,

We are getting closer to the launch of our site, and we are still having trouble with our bbpress title lengths interfering with our wordpress layout.

You can see our bbpress forum locations spread through out the site.

http://208.109.218.158

Is there any way to put a limit on the length of titles so they don’t break our site? We are using the same setup as described above.

Any help would be appreciated, even if it means some sort of a temp css fix to hide overflow.

Thanks,

Orion

[spencerp]

Screw it, I just manually added in the straight URL path to the style.css file instead of worrying about it. It’s working on my live version, so it’s no biggie to just manually add the straight URL to the stylesheet for localhost… whee!

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://localhost/forum/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css&#8221; type=”text/css” />

I just hope they get this crap fixed soon though.. /Yes, I’m an impatient prick.. wheee! LmaoAOAOAO….

spencerp

[ghoulash]

Someone please tell me how I screwed this up: My forum won’t display using the proper style sheet. When viewing the page source, I see that in compiling the header, one of the slashes, between the domain and the path, is reversed:

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://www.ghoulash.comforums/my-templates/kakumei/style.css&#8221; type=”text/css” />

I’ve reviewed my config file and all of the relevant .php files, but I can’t find where the slash gets reversed. This is an issue in Firefox on Mac and IE in Windows. It’s not an issue in Safari on Mac, which forgives the reversed slash.

I’d appreciate any ideas or suggestions. Thanks.

[fel64]

Chris, lovely code, works straight away. Implemented in my forum, the button instantly disappears and double-posting is impossible. Thanks a lot!

If anyone else wants to implement this but is unsure how, go to your theme (or Kakumei?) and open post-form.php using Notepad.

Find the line that says:

<input type=”submit” id=”postformsub” name=”Submit” value=”<?php echo attribute_escape( __(‘Send Post »’) ); ?>” tabindex=”4″ />

and change it to

<input type=”submit” id=”postformsub” name=”Submit” value=”<?php echo attribute_escape( __(‘Send Post »’) ); ?>” tabindex=”4″ onclick=”this.style.display=’none’;” />

(Could someone please add the overflow: auto property for posts in this theme’s CSS? It’s incredibly inconvenient for code running over several lines.)

[spencerp]

Just a note, and it would be nice if this was FIXED in core soon please! I currently just did a fresh install of the TRUNK on localhost, and have the same problem as Kirkk here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/700?replies=36#post-4849

Stylesheet URL is this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://localhostforum/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css" type="text/css" />

That plugin Trent posted is applied, and is NOT working… Please, fix this issue soon guys.. And by the way, no, my localhost copy of the forums are still borked.. >_<

And course! My config.php file settings are right.. I’ve done this numerous of times before.. wheee! Even used the original config.php file from before, when it was installed before and working.. she still borked regardless sigh..

spencerp