[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

[spencerp]

On the localhost, I have the blog at => http://localhost/

the forums at => http://localhost/forum/

I’m trying to implement the blog’s theme around the forums, but, some how when clicking in the Username or Password fields on the forum, it redirects me to the http://localhost/

I can’t even type a letter in there, just trying to put the cursor into it redirects me to the blog.. With Javascript disabled, it’s fine.. Is there any way to have the forum’s login classes, different from the WP one’s?

I’d like to add the forum css styles to my main theme style sheet, but.. not really sure what’s the best way at changing login classes sigh. I know some CSS stuff yes, just when it comes to classing forms, and stuff.. I’m not too great..

(I did for the most part, get the header, footer, sidebar from the blog’s main theme, around the forums.. It’s just some of the stuff is borking the login for the forums. The classes for the WP login stuff, is apparently doing it to the forums sigh.

The input fields are not “inline”.. they are on top of one another.. and the login button on the blog, is pushed to the far right.. rather then directly under the login field form.. )

Any suggestions, thoughts, fixes.. anything lol?

spencerp

[ardentfrost]

On my server I have a subdirectory called “forums” and the my- folders went into that directory. That’s the same directory I unzipped the bbpress files to. Other folders in that directory are bb-admin, bb-cache, bb-images, etc…

I put my link in the file front-page.php in my-templates (it’s initial home is bb-templates, you have to copy it over into my-templates and change it). I just stuck it under the “Views” section (you can see the result on http://www.rayd.org/forums/ but you have to login) or you can do what Spencer did and put it in your header so the link can be seen on every page (you can see that on http://spencerp.net/forums/ and you don’t even have to login). The only thing about putting it in the header is you need to surround it with div tags and using css to place it.

[ardentfrost]

If you follow the instructions then it won’t ruin your layout. The way I suggest doing it is to set the constraints in css and if they make a pic that is too large, it’ll just be cut off.

Feel free to try it out on my forums at http://www.rayd.org/forums

[spencerp]

UPDATE: I just wanted to fill everyone in on what I have just done..

1) I downloaded and installed the Themed Login and Registration plugin for WordPress.

2) Upload it, then activate it as normal.

OR, If you are running WordPress version 2.1-alpha3.. Before uploading and installing this plugin, open the themed-logreg.php file..

Find this line:

require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/registration-functions.php’);

Change it to this:

require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/registration.php’);

This is because in the 2.1-apha3 version, they just renamed some of the files in the wp-includes/ directory..

3) I made a page called: Where To

Since I have pretty permalinks on, the page’s location is here for example: domain.net/where-to/

In the Where To page’s Write Window, I added the following text/urls for example:

“If you are seeing this page, you now have the ability to access the following places with your username and password.

The <a href="wiki.yourdomain.net/">Codex</a>.

The <a href="yourdomain.net/forums/">Forums</a>.

The <a href="yourdomain.net/wp-admin/">Site Admin</a>. “

4) Under Plugins => Login Register Options =>

A) Under the: Uninstallation Options => I put check in box for: Toggle Complete Uninstall:

Under the: Redirect After Login: => I changed wp-admin/ to where-to/

If you have the normal setup for the permalinks, (for me on localhost this worked): /?page_id=11

Of course, change the actual number to your own..

C) Under the: Redirect After Logout: => I left this one at: wp-login.php

D) If you are using any other theme, then the “Gathering” theme, you might want to skip this section. And follow the directions for it, according to your theme’s layout!

Unless your sidebar call is like this.. in the index.php file:

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

Still in the Login Register Options, I left everything alone from there down TILL the part for the “Template Header Files: section..

D-1) Since I’m using the “Gathering” theme, the call for the sidebar, in the theme files is right after the header call.

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

D-2) In the Template Header Files: window, I made it like this:

header.php

sidebar.php

D-3) In the Template After Header HTML: window, I made it like this:

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<div id="maincontent">

D-4) In the Template Before Footer HTML: window, I made it like this:

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<!--index.php end-->

<!--include footer-->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

D-5) In the Template Footer Files: window, I made it like this: footer.php

E) Scroll down to the User Email Template: window. Since he uses variables for his stuff.. here is what I used for mine, and it works because I got the email after doing a test sign up.

Username: ##username##

Password: ##password##

You now have the ability to access any of the following locations with your username and password.

The Site Admin

##siteurl##/wp-admin/

The Forums

##siteurl##/forums/

The Codex

http://yourwiki.yourdomain.net

Please note: Of course… change the The Codex and Forums urls to whatever your’s is.. example: ##siteurl##/my-forums-folder-name/

And for Codex/Wiki: http://yourdomain.net/yourwiki or whatever..

Then I click the Update Options button..

F) In my Theme’s CSS File, I added the following CSS Style references:

#login {margin:0 auto 0 auto;width:250px;}

#login ul {margin:0;padding:0;}

#login ul li {display:inline;margin-left:10px;}

Everything seems to be working just fine! I hope this helps others..

http://spencerp.net/wp-login.php

http://spencerp.net/wp-register.php

After logging in, you should be taken to this page then:

http://spencerp.net/where-to/

Which of course.. can still be seen by everyone, either way. (But it’s not really made public either, because I don’t have the page itself, listed in the header nav bar, and sidebar nav section.)

However.. it’s not going to do much good to them, because if they aren’t registered and stuff.. they can’t access my blog’s wp-admin, forums or codex.. lmao!

Anyway, I just did TWO test signups.. and was able to login to my Codex, Forums, and the Blog’s wp-admin control panel.. whee!!

spencerp

[vaelrith]

I made a theme for my forums, and found it rather easy. It was mostly just all css, and a few changes to the front-page.php file.

http://zenhelix.us.to/forums/

I’m using a few plugins also:

• Allow Images
• bb-avatar
• bb-limit-latest-discussion
• bb-memberlist
• bb-postcount
• bb-privatemessage
• bb-signature – this one isn’t working for some reason, but i didn’t really look into it
• display-name
• forum-moderators – don’t know if this one is working either
• notification
• onlinelist

Thanks to all who made those

I’ll make the theme more user-friendly and remove the front-page.php changes so that it is more standard and release it to public whenever I change to a new theme. I don’t want other people to be using my theme at the same time I am

[chrishajer]

This has been covered in the forum before: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/439?replies=2

Seems like the problem is with the CSS:

#profile-menu {

list-style: none;

position: absolute;

right: 0;

}

The position:absolute and the right:0 cause it to be anchored all the way over on the right side of the screen. Not much that can be done with it on bbpress.org, but if you are using the same template, you can fix your own CSS.

[kensav]

After I installed and got into the first page I noticed there was no styles.

Seems every link points to: http://www.kensavage.com/forums/forums/

I figured I added a trailing slash or something but it seems ok. When I take the extra forums/ out of any link it works fine including the css. Any ideas?

My config file:

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// If your bbPress URL is http://bbpress.example.com/forums/ , the examples would be correct.

// Adjust the domain and path to suit your actual URL.

// Just the domain name; no directories or path. There should be no trailing slash here.

$bb->domain = ‘http://www.kensavage.com/forums’; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com’

// There should be both a leading and trailing slash here. ‘/’ is fine if the site is in root.

$bb->path = ‘/forums/’; // Example: ‘/forums/’

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Making IT in Massachusetts Forums’;

// This must be set before running the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘ken@kensavage.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = ‘true’;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = ’30’;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = ’60’;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = ‘-5’;

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BBLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ”);

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ‘false’;

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave the rest as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘ks_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.kensavage.com’; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.kensavage.com’; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash

/* Stop editing */

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

[Trent Adams]

Customization is really not bad once you get the hang of it. All the template files are in /bb-templates/ and the main ones you will most likely want to change will be:

header.php

footer.php

front-page.php

style.css

There are other ones, but with header.php you can put in your links to other parts of your site or anything else you want displayed on every page. This can include your images. Footer.php is where you will put in more information on closing your style tags you opened in header.php and your footer information. Front-page.php is where the meat of your forum is, whether you want to move around the hot tags or just want to add in a link to a plugin off the main page.

The real meat and potatoes of customization is done through CSS in style.css. That is where you can tweak where you want things placed and what colors you use. If someone knows CSS, you will find it not so bad!

Once you change a file, what you want to do is create a folder called /my-templates/ and add the edited files there. That way, if you make a mistake, you can delete the file off the server to fix it and bbPress will go back to using the one in /bb-templates/ until you upload to /my-templates/ again.

The future will have a system much like WordPress, a kind of drop and drag themes approach, but we have this for now!

The starting point would be to read:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/customization/

Trent

That should get you going. Once you understand changing around the stylesheet in style.php, it doesn’t seem so bad!

[Trent Adams]

I had to borrow a function from the great Alex King and his mobile edition for WP, but I have created a plugin that will allow mobile phones and other common mobile devices to access a page designed for them.

Download: BB-Mobile

All the directions are in the readme.txt file in the download file, so it should be quite self explanatory. It has 2 files and you need to edit your header.php file in your templates, but has no core changes.

NOTE: I don’t think the mobile CSS will validate and I need people to test this out to find any bugs and corrections, but it seems to work well enough for me.

If you need a demo, you can view my forum with a mobile:

http://forum.trentadams.ca

Trent