[linickx]

We all know that the AutoMattic guys use their own stuff, but after each site has been skinned with all their CSS magic, sometimes it’s hard to see… I thought we should savour the moment the wordpress.org forums ran with the default bbpress theme

[Trent Adams]

Good work tracking that down!

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

What really is strange for me is safari on Mac OS X shows the page correctly anyways. What a smart browser.

Why that link is like that and the rest of the content is showing up right is strange though.

Trent

[spencerp]

Viewing source I noticed this:

http:/forums.pfdebate.com/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css

You’re missing the second: / in the beginning of the URL:

http://forums.pfdebate.com/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css

Check the config.php file would be my guess..

spencerp

[macwise]

Hi all,

I am currently configuring BBPress for my site at http://www.babyquestions101.com’s forum, and by the looks of it it’s very promising.

I am trying to figure out if I can call a specific stylesheet for a specific page by making that call in the body page.

For instance, I know how to call multiple stylesheets through header.php. However, I would like to be able to specify a stylesheet through a page like forum.php, so that it dynamically tells header.php to call the stylesheet specific (or unique) to that page. I want this so that I can lean up my code, instead of calling everything in one css file.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

The only reason the replies argument is there is for CSS: a quick and dirty way of differentiating between topics you’re up to date on and those you’re not (via a:visited { … }).

We should probably make sure we always 301 redirect to the latest URL.

Oh, and PS: Posts do have their own URL. This one’s is

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/592?replies=6#post-3870

[sabutay]

I make a little modify now, to shown the current_page_item in the header. Just add a class to the < li > function, which belongs to the Forum. Like :

<li class="current_page_item"><a href="http://www.mainpage.com/forum">Forum</a

See in action:

http://www.ahumder.org

then click on forum, you will see that the background changes to white.

You are able to change the color in the style.css

[sabutay]

I’ve made a little modification, i add a tab-line in the header.php, just like the same as k2 theme.

You can see it here:

http://www.ahumder.org/forum

For modification, first put these lines in the style.css

/*- Main Menu in Header */

ul.menu {

margin: 0;

padding: 0;

position: absolute;

bottom: 0;

left: 20px;

width: 90%;

}

ul.menu li {

display: inline;

margin: 0;

}

ul.menu,

ul.menu li a {

padding: 5px 15px 6px;

}

ul.menu li a {

font-size: 1em;

color: white;

margin: 0;

}

ul.menu li a:hover {

background: #333;

color: #eee !important;

text-decoration: none;

}

ul.menu li.current_page_item a,

ul.menu li.current_page_item a:hover {

color: #333 !important;

background: white;

text-decoration: none;

}

.admintab {

position: absolute;

right: 0px;

}

* html .admintab { padding: 5px 15px 6px } /* IE hack */

a img,:link img,:visited img { border:none }

After that put these lines into header.php. But changes the href lines to your site.

<ul class="menu">

[linickx]

Elo,

Is there a way to group forums together; I’m thinking about if you tried to scale bbpress to a large forum (the largest I know) sorting through all those subjects/topics/forums to find the right place to post would be difficult.

Thoughts ?

EDIT: he, he, he, my long subject show’s a bug in the css ;o)

[mrpapasworld]

I have read the other thread and will watch this, but not sure it will do what I want… I understand this to be a view type thing…

I am looking for something else that would work for the forum and discussion views (maybe more too)… I have added icons next to the topics/forums… I would like to use diff icons to indicate whether there is a something new, unread for the user there… this is a common feature on other forum apps… kind of like the alternating row colors (even, odd, alt, etc) but read and unread…

might even be nice to extend for other possibilities too like sticky, locked, solved, etc…

For now, I am using the css visited technique mentioned by ardentfrost…

Thanks…

Mr Papa

[linickx]

Hi All,

I thought I’d share my crack at k2 for bbpress, just replace style.css with my one, it’s not perfect, but I think it’s a good start !

Download: http://www.linickx.com/files/k2-for-bbpress.v0-01.style.css

Demo: http://forum.linickx.co.uk/

Blog Post: http://www.linickx.com/blog/archives/253/k2-for-bbpress/

let me know what you think

[ear1grey]

Note: using id="current" in this way is dodgy because plugins have to generate content that co-operates with other plugins.

If another plugin also uses id="current" the page will not validate (because each ID (identity) should be unique).

You could just say id="X8VQm2_current" but (a) it would look ugly and (b) regardless, you’re not changing the identity of the row, you’re just saying something about it, so using ID is still wrong.

The solution is easy: use class="current" instead and adjust your css so that instead of #current {} you use .current {}

The example I wrote for you before shows how to do it.

There is a painful habit of mis-using the id attribute among many theme designers and that makes it difficult to know what to do or why to do it

[Geezerjim]

I was having the same issue at Forums4Bauer I am using a modified version of the bbPress forum template. One thing I did was widen the whole thing, but to get rid of the hidden long names I made the following changes to the style.css file in my-templates:

#thread {

background: #eee;

list-style: none;

margin: 0 0 0 110px;

padding: 0;

}

#thread li {

padding: 1.5em 1.0em;

line-height: 1.5em;

height:100%;

}

#thread li ol, #thread li ul {

margin-left: 60px;

height:100%;

}

.threadauthor {

margin-left: -140px;

overflow: hidden;

position: absolute;

width: 100%;

}

I also added:

.threadpost {min-height:120px;}

Unfortunately that doesn’t work in IE. I’m looking for a way around a problem I’m having where short replies overlap. That’s not typically a problem, but I’m using my Graphic Display Ranks plugin, and images that are taller than some of the replies.

Hope this helps.

[chrishajer]

In style.css, can you do something like this:

.threadauthor {

margin-top: -20px;

margin-left: -110px;

/* overflow: hidden;*/

position: absolute;

width: 95px;

}

So, no more hidden overflow and move the threadauthor up 20px, which lets it bleed over to the right into the post area, but it doesn’t overwrite any text.

For the few instances where the author is too long, this might be a good solution. In my forum, less than 5% of the users have used a long name.

Another solution would be to make the font smaller or tighten up the font spacing, or even jigger the widths of the columns, but those are more major surgery for a simple display problem.

[gregory9885]

I can’t find for the life of me where to change how to get the thread author smaller. It keeps getting cut off, similar to a lot of thread’s in this forum. It might happen here if you look to the left. Does anyone know how to make either the thread post smaller or the thread author bigger? I see some place within the css, but every time I try to change something with the post author, then the post thread messes up, and vice versa. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

[bbolman]

Theme admin, removal of support/non-resolved/resolved deal, various bug fixes, time bug, forum deletion, added plugability, css fixes, various other things.

[davidbessler]

Is there a way to modify the Private Forums plugin to allow me to grant accss only to specific users? The way I see it, it doesn’t need to be that difficult. The strategy would be:

A list (array or whatever) is added to the top of the plugin as follows:

$allowed_users_for_forum_1 = ‘username1, username2, username3’

$allowed_users_for_forum_2 = ‘username1, username2, username3’

1) If a forum is not marked private, the forum is shown (just like the original plugin does now).

2) If a forum is marked private, before it is shown, a check is made against the above list.

– If there is no listing for that forum_id, then anyone registered could see it (Just like the original plugin does now).

– If there is a listing, the forum is only shown if the user is amongst the users listed for that forum_id.

This would be a useful solution until a roles-based forum access functionality comes around.

I tried messing with this myself, but think it is a bit out of my league right now (though I am trying to learn). Is there someone out there who could swing this?

[spencerp]

I like it, although at the bottom, “fueled with wordpress” that would be fueled with bbpress wouldn’t it?

Thanks Vaelrith. Yeah, It’s one of those “things” that I need to change up on theme. I’ll fix that up here soon.. Really, I need to fix up the blog theme’s footer too then..

this is a great looking theme, you’ve integrated it nicely with the blog Are you going to make it a public theme? It’s quite sexy ;p

Thanks skrimpy. Um, I might release it to the public then, however, at the moment it’s a slopped together type job though sigh. I basically copied/pasted the blog’s style.css informations right into the bbPress stylesheet.. and so forth.

When I get some more time here, hopefully soon, I’ll make a public release of the theme. As I’m sure others running the WordPress Gathering theme, might want to have it..

Thanks for the nice comments..

spencerp

[talgalili]

Hi mdawaffe – Great job !

I made the php file (called it as the .mo file name – which was bbpress_il_IL.php )

And once putting it in the languages directory, combined with the improved style.css files – it did the magic.

there are two points to make though:

1) when entering a thread – there is a sliding of the info part – in the begining of the thread. as shown here:

http://www.biostatistics.co.il/forums/topic.php?id=3&replies=1

2) It might be helpful, for less technofillik people as us – to make an option in the admin panel – weather to turn the “rtl” on or off.

(another nice add on – would be to enable different “rtl” setup – on different forums on the same bbpress installation. Not that I need such a feature – but it might be worth keeping in mind)

Again, thanks a whole bunch !

After there is a solid release of a working style-rtl.css – I will gladly publish all the installation detail for the hebrew speaking community (and i believe all will be happy).

Tal.

[talgalili]

Hi mdawaffe – Thanks for the fast reply.

If I understand you correctly – what you offer is to paste all the content of style-rtl.css, into the file style.css (in the end of it).

Well, I just tried it, and seems that the style.css has some “design conflicts” in it (look at the forum header for example)…

you can see the results at:

http://www.biostatistics.co.il/forums/

Hope you (or someone else) could help ,

Tal.

[talgalili]

Hi people.

I wish to use the forum in the Hebrew language. And although there is a file in the installation called style-rtl.css, it does not work stand-alone (and I haven’t managed to implement it to the original style.css file)

In short – can some one prepare a working style.css file – for right to left writing forums ?!

Thanks,

Tal.

[spencerp]

I’m still in the process of doing things with it, so, if you find things quirky, please be patient…

Anyway, I tried to get the blog’s theme around the forums themselves. I used the blog’s imagery, blog’s style.css codes right in the original bbPress stylesheet.. and so forth. I also used the WordPress.org/support/ user profile layout basically..

Well, what you think?

http://spencerp.net/forums/

Be gentle!!

spencerp

[startribe]

here is a link to the phpinfo.php ::

http://ostardesign.com/forums/phpinfo.php

not sure if this helps… any how, I thought I would share a bit about my project.

ostardesign.com is a temporary url, this site is actually for a MMA publishing company. I was sold on wordpress after I read this article:

http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/july2006/articles/article6/

I then became a true believer after building my personal site with WP. For Victory Belt I decided to run with WP and was originally going to go with phpBB, then Vanilla, then considered punBB for a bit, then found out about the tight integration with bbPress. The WP community in conjunction with the bbPress community had a huge influence on my decision. I was then sold when I found out about the plugin that automatically creates forum posts (http://dev.mbzeus.net/), for then I realized that the integration and community would only get stronger.

I like how light and fast bbPress is, I would like to focus on the discussions and interaction with the community, and I feel these elements would be refreshing in comparison to the other clunky mma bbs out there. And once Dr. Riddoch over at An-Archos creates his media plugin for bbPress, we’ll be set.

Anyhow, for those interested mma is getting some pretty big traffic, and we are expecting a lot of traffic to our site, for we are releasing books by BJ Penn and Randy Couture in the near future. There is actually a special on MSNBC tonight that is a prime example to the influx of interest in MMA, trailer @:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wF4ib2Ws0E

I just wanted to share, and I am hoping to make bbPress our solution, for I know I am going a bit out on a limb with such new software, but I believe the tree is very strong.

Also, our look and feel is created, the site location is currently the category and back-end development. One of my designers just recently started working on the look and feel of the css… just an FYI.

Thanks again for the help,

I am going to call up my hosting service now,

All the Best,

Orion

[spencerp]

OH!! I just viewed the source. I have my theme’s #maincontent divs around the forum’s themselves.. I’ll have to adjust that CSS stuff accordingly then..

I guess all this Pepsi is helping, lmao!

spencerp

[spencerp]

Hahaha.. I’m used to it… Usually I talk to the wall, but he’s on vacation, so..

Dang! I just upgraded the “live” version of the bbPress (localhost copy) to .74, and that crappy IE6 display is still there!?!!?!?!? The forums are pushed all the way to the bottom.. Any thoughts people!?

http://localhost.spencerp.net/forum/

I could have sworn, I also applied the “fixes” in the blog’s theme CSS file too.. what the heck!?

*EDITED- Must have something to do with the blog theme’s H2’s, #Main, and stuff.. I’ll keep tinkering with her on the normal localhost copy.. But, if someone has an idea in the meantime, please share them!

spencerp

[Null]

Ah thumbs up, it also fixes a css bug but it isn’t this one: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/420?replies=8 Do I have to report this or is this also fixed?

Well can’t wait till the release (date??), keep up the good work!!!

Null